A/N: Sorry for not posting a new chapter in awhile. I decided to take a break from this story for a little, but now I'm back to post more chapters for all of you. So let's get to it.
Disclaimer: I do not own Dragonball Super or Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;birth 2. These series are owned by Funimation, Toei Animation, Fuji TV, Akira Toriyama, Idea Factory, Felistella, and Compile Heart, the only thing I own in this story are the OC's that I've created.
Chapter 6: Interesting Mouse Drama
-Endless Zone-
The group decided to start looking for the necessary items that they needed at the dungeon known as the Endless Zone. They have slain several monsters left and right, with no luck finding the Hematite and Treasure Gem. As they walked deeper into the dungeon, a giant wolf soon interfine with them by blocking their path.
"Whoa!" IF barely dodges a swipe from the wolf's claws. Isabelle rushes at the wolf and punches it straight in the forehead. The wolf was pushed back a little and rushed back at Isabelle. Noah axe kicks the wolf's back before it could reach Isabelle. Noah grabs the wolf by its tail and throws it up. Rhyel appears in front of it and hit the wolf with his knee. The wolf lands on the ground with a howl of pain. Isabelle musters what seems to be some type of fire magic in both her hands. The two flames turn into a fireball and she throws them at the wolf. The wolf was hit by the attack and disappeared into code after receiving the blazing attack.
"So...care to explain whatever that monster was?" Jason points his thumb where the Monster use to be. "That was a Fenrisulfr, and I was lucky I didn't get hit by that thing..." IF chuckles. "Mhm...Hey did that Fenri...Fenir...Fen-Whatever it was drop either of the two items?" Compa went to check, to confirm Jason's question.
"Nothing…" Compa shook her head sideways. "Guess we just have to keep looking some more." Austin put his hands on his hips in a disappointed matter. More monsters soon show up to attack the group. "Searching will have to wait, Let's get ready guy's!" Aiden gets to his fighting stance. Compa, IF, and Nepgear summon their respective weapons. They all charged at the monsters along the monsters doing the same, commencing the fight to begin.
-Few minutes later-
The group had finished off any monsters they saw and still did not find any of the two items they needed. They continued to search for a while longer before they stopped on one of the bridges in the dungeon. Compa express a sad expression.
"Nothing at all…" Compa said. "C'mon. If they were this easy to find, that Oracle would have the items already. "Without any directions, this entire quest is completely worthless." Austin crossed his arms. A girl with red hair and gold colored eyes while wearing a blue and white jacket with a white undershirt that was shot, revealing her entire stomach. She wore black fingerless gloves and a skirt and boots that were the same color as her short jacket. She also wore a pair of really long stockings.
The girl approached the group. "What's up with the gloomy faces?" The girl said. Nepgear is the first one to reply. "Huh? Um...Who are you?" Nepgear asked the girl. "Oh my mistake! Where are my manners? I'm Falcom. I'm just your average adventurer, as you can see." Falcom said to Nepgear.
"I also have this nasty habit of meddling in the affairs of troubled folks like yourself." Falcom said. Compa is in awe of being in the presence of an adventurer. "Wow, an adventurer! Iffy, maybe she knows where the items are. Can't hurt to ask right?" IF smirks towards Compa's suggestion.
"I guess not. We got no other alternatives." Nepgear (after hearing Compa's suggestion) asks about where the items are. "Um, so, We're looking for two gems. Hematite and a Treasure Gem, but we don't know where to look for them." Falcom puts her right hand against her cheek.
"Treasure Gem and Hematite, huh? Never heard of Hematite, but I do know that the Treasure Gem is not around here." Falcom answered. "I think I heard more about the one in Planeptune. Was it Virtua Forest? A gem-collecting monster maybe?"
"Wait! You gotta be kidding me!?" IF's eyes become white saucers. "I'm not kidding. I would take you there, but I'm already doing several errands of my own. Sorry." Falcom scratches her cheek with her index finger and looks to the side.
"Oh no it's alright, the information was really helpful. Thank you." Nepgear thanked Falcom. "That's cool. Your eyes are full of life again, well I got to go. Maybe we'll meet again. Good luck with finding those items!" Falcom walks away from the group, waving at them.
The group waves back until she disappears from their sight. "To think that one of the items were in Planeptune." IF sweat in surprise. "At Least we know where it is. Let's go!" Aiden said.
-Meanwhile-
Linda or Underling, was listening to the entire conversation and had a big smirk. "Heading back to Planeptune are they? Hehehehe…" Linda gets out of hiding when the group is nowhere in sight. "I can't wait to see our new Super Anti-CPU weapon turn them into dust!"
-Planeptune: Virtua Forest-Depths-
After slaying more monsters again and taking little breaks from walking back to Planeptune. The group finds an unexpected monster. "What about Minster Scary Dragon Monster over there?" Compa points at the dragon. "WOAH! I can't believe there's an actually dragon here!" Aiden went wide eyed in surprise.
"That dragon might have what we need...Shall we?" Isabelle said. "Let's do this." Aiden cracked his knuckles. The dragon lets out a roar and rushes at them. Aiden flies at the dragon at the same speed, Aiden clashed his fist with the dragon's claw and created a shock wave that sent the dragon back a little.
"Huh? I put in the force to break a boulder into that punch and this dragon handled it...this is nice." The dragon rushed back at Aiden to be grabbed by the tail by Isabelle. Isabelle spinned the dragon around and threw it into the air. "Lets see if it can handle this, HAAAAA!" Cat ears suddenly pop out of Isabelle's hair and grew a tail.
"FIRE STORM!" A rain of fire balls leave Isabelle's hands and scorches the dragon. Dragon let out a roar of pain until it canceled out Isabelle's attack with its wings. "Alrighty then…" Jason jumps towards the dragon and sends a barrage of kicks to its face. The dragon couldn't keep up, Jason sends a spin kick between its horns and sends it plummeting to the ground.
Nepgear rushes under the dragon and slashes its back with her beam sword. The dragon roared and went into a fit of rage. "RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWH!" The dragon swiped its claws at Nepgear, but was countered by Aiden. "Let's kick things up, KAIOKEN TIMES FOUR!" Aiden unleashes a bigger dark red aura then last time. "I should kick things up too, HA!" Nepgear emites a pillar of light and was in her CPU form.
Aiden punches the dragon in the nose and kicks its chin while backflipping to the ground. Nepgear rushes in and starts slashing at the dragons chest. The dragon is blown back, but gets a hold of itself and flies back at Nepgear and slashes her. "AH!" Nepgear was sent flying, but was caught by Aiden before she could hit the ground.
"You alright Nepgear…" Aiden asked, looking at her with concern after she got hit by that strong attack. Nepgear nodded slowly in pain. The dragon roared furiously, letting fire escape its mouth. Isabelle and Jason land on both sides of the dragon and punched it in both its cheeks. The dragon was dizzy after the strike.
Aiden helped Nepgear back up. They both looked at each other and nodded. Aiden charged up his Times Four Kaioken and Nepgear rushed at the dragon, gripping her weapon tightly. She cuts the dragon several times, not letting the dragon get to its senses. Nepgear stops her combo by slashing down on the dragon's head.
Nepgear gets out of the way, to let Aiden go at it. "KAIOKEN TIMES FIVE!" Aiden rushes at the dragon at blinding speeds and lets loose on it. Aiden gets behind the dragon and fire's a ki attack to it's back. The dragon was injured, but still had some fight in it. The dragon turned around and attack Aiden, getting one or two hits. Aiden slaps both of the dragons arms out of the way and sent a ki covered fist into the dragon's gut. The dragon roared in anger and pain.
The dragon went for a tail swipe and was able to hit Aiden. Aiden recovers and lands on one of the trees. Jason drops from the sky and slams the dragons face into the ground. Jason kicks the dragon into the air and follows up by charging up his ki and lets out a barrage of ki blasts. The dragon swiped some of it away, but still received damage. The dragon was tired out and landed on the ground, looking at Jason.
"Time to finish this…" Jason rushes at the dragon before it could react. Jason sends his fist right at the dragon, but Nepgear notices that Jason's hair turned yellow and his eye's going green before his fist connected with the dragon. The dragon turns into code and drops one of the items. Jason picks up the item and looks at it, before having his hair revert back to its natural color.
"I think it dropped what we were looking for guys!" Jason toss the item in his hands repeatedly. IF walks over to Jason and lends out her hand to spectate if they achieved the right item. "This is a Treasure Gem! We got one of them!" IF pointed out after spectating the item.
"So this is the Treasure Gem? Yay! We got a gem thingy!" Compa jumped in excitement. "Man it took us forever to find one of these." Rhyel complained. "All that's left is the Hematite. We'd better hurry and find it soon…" Nepgear told Rhyel. "Yay…" Rhyel said sarcastically.
"Before we do that...Did you two notice the change with Jason?" IF asked both Nepgear and Compa. "Yes/Yep" Compa and Nepgear both replied. "I thought I was imagining it but it seems like I wasn't…" Isabelle said. IF looks at the five individuals.
"So how many of you are aliens?" Noah and Austin raise their hands. "So the only human in your group is Rhyel?" IF asked with her right eyebrow up, while crossing her arms. "No, there's about three other humans back at home. But your right...most of our groups is basically Aliens." Jason said nervously.
"Well...that's nice to know. Anyways, let's go find that Hema-" A noise of a Metal pipe slammed against the floor, cutting IF from finishing her sentence. "You won't be going anywhere else you brats!" Everyone turns around to see Linda putting her metal pipe on her shoulder.
"Really? Are you seriously going to keep coming back after every beat down we have given you?" IF sighed. "This won't be any different from the other battles you know…" Aiden said, with a hint of annoyance in his voice. "No matter what type of reason, the underlings always have to do all the hands-on grunt work, don't they?" Nepgear commented.
"Shut up! Shut up! SHUT UP! I'm SO sorry for being what I am!" Linda then makes a grin after yelling at the group. "Not like it matters now. I'm about to make sure those gums will never speak a word again! Come on, secret weapon!" Linda throws four CD's onto the ground. The CD's start to shine and soon shattered, summoning four strange machines.
"Now your going to fight us with monsters...Didn't you learn what we can do after we had defeated those Saibamen." Isebelle said. "We can't afford to lose anymore time. I'll use HDD and finish them in one swoop!" Nepgear prepared to go HDD, but Linda started to laugh.
"You really think I didn't learn from that nonsense? Here's what this secret weapon can do, that other monsters can't!" Linda pointed at them. The four machine's eyes glowed with a very bright color of red. Nepgear felt some of her power being sealed away. "What the goodness?! Wh-What's happening?" Nepgear asked herself. "Ge-Ge, is something the matter?" Compa asked Nepgear.
"I don't know, I can't seem to activate HDD...why?" Nepgear tried again, but still didn't have any luck activating HDD. "That's because these monsters were engineered to have the ability to seal your powers! Let's see how ya fight now!" Linda said confidently. "Oh...and before I forget. Here's another surprise!" Linda threw four different colored seeds towards the ground. The seeds sank into the ground and different colored Saibaman came out from the ground.
Two were yellow, while the other two were a dark blue color. These four Saibamen were emanating a pure dark energy, along with a dark purple aura. "These stupid brain dead monsters were infused with some of the energy that the ASIC has!" Linda started to laugh, as if she had already won.
"Fantastic! This is really going to get annoying…" Jason said, as he went into his fighting stance. "Well then...Let's do this guys!" Aiden got to his fighting stance along with the other saiyans and Rhyel. "We could just get outta here, but seeing that these things will not let us leave. We are gonna have to fight our way through. Compa, you ready!" IF takes out her qatars. "You betcha Iffy!" Compa summons her syringe. "Hold it right there!" A voice called out.
A girl with red hair and it had a pony tail that went into a circle, it also had a color of white at each tip of her hair. She also had silver colored eyes. She is about 4'5 and was wearing some type of kimono and black shorts. The noticeable part was that she had a gold dragon wrapped around her belly and waist and its head was above her shoulder.
"Who the heck are you!?" Linda asked. "How dare you treat these cute girls this way!" The short red hair girl said. "Don't even mention us why don't ya…" Noah sighed. "I have seen their potential as wifeys, and if you dare make any funny moves...You'll feel the wrath of Red!" The girl who was now known as Red pointed at Linda. Everyone stared at the newcomer in utter confusion. Even the monsters and saibamen were confused.
"...Wh-What?..." That was the only word Aiden could muster up. "What in the most unholy things is this short red-haired chick talking about? Is she missin' some screws or something?" Linda questioned. "I too would like to know?" Noah replied. "For my goddess, my CPU, my wifey! I'm here to save you!" Red said with confidence. "W-What? wait...Who, where, Why!?" Nepgear was really confused on what was happening.
"Save the questions for the honeymoon, my lovely. We can ask each other anything after we deal with this!" Red smiled. "Did I miss a memo or something?" Isabelle asked. "Your guess is as good as mine…" Austin answered.
"Yeah, but if she is here to help us out. Then what harm can be done. Let's do this you guys!" Aiden charged. One of the blue saibamens rushed at Aiden and started a clash, slowly rising into the air. The other blue one went for Jason, and the two yellow saibamen rush towards Noah and Austin. Leaving Rhyel to help out the girls with the machines.
"Ok then! Come at us you stupid floating trash cans!" Rhyel cracked his neck like Piccolo did (as well as his knuckles) and brought up his hand and raised his fingers to move them back and forth. Signaling the machines to fight him. The machines fire lasers and send one of their spiked wings towards Rhyel, who kept dodging the attacks and punches one in the eye and followed it to continue his attack.
One of the machines turn around to chase after Rhyel, the other two machines start firing on the girls. Red ran towards them, somehow dodging all the lasers and smacks one of them with a red colored yo-yo. The machine was damaged, but still attacked regardless of receiving a blow to the head. The machine sent its wings at Red, but Isabelle and IF parried them. Isabelle sent a fist covered in fire right into its eye and IF finished it off by slicing it up and used 'Demonic Inferno'.
"Iffy watch out!" Compa yelled out. IF sees other machine firings its lasers at her. "Whoa!" She barely dodge them all, and the last laser just grazed her hair. Nepgear ran up to the machine and sliced it up, following up with Red crushing it with her yo-yo. "Thanks…" Nepgear nodded in response. Sudden one of the machines lands right between the three of them all destroyed to the point where you can't even recognise it.
Compa rushes over to see the machine. "What happened to it?" She asked curiously and nervously. "I really don't know?" IF said. Nepgear gets close to the now torn up machine, the machine starts to spark and Nepgear backs up. The sparks stop and made a weird sound untitled it stopped. "I think it's not working anymore…" Nepgear said. Rhyel lands right behind them and runs towards them. "Sorry about that. I got carried away and accidentally sent this machine all the way over here." Rhyel put his hands on his hips and looked away to avoid eye contact.
"Wait? So you did this…?" IF asked. Rhyel chuckled nervously. "Even if he isn't a wifey, he sure is strong." Red commented. "Ahem. Anyways, we should take care of her." Rhyel looked at Linda, the girls all turned around and stared at Linda. "How did you all beat those modified monsters?" Linda stepped back. "You may have sealed away my powers. But you can't seal away my resolve!" Nepgear yelled out. "Tch! Did I seriously lose to this cliche! Oh I'm outta here!" Linda runs away…again.
"Yeah! You better run Underling!" Rhyel shouted. "I'm impressed that she can run that fast." IF said. Nepgear turns to face Red. "Um, thank you for helping us out." Red smiles and puts her hands on her hips proudly. "Of course I would help. It would be wrong of me to not come to my future wifey's aid." Aiden and the rest float down to their positions.
"That was really a handful, seriously…" Jason complained. "Agreed, also thanks for helping us, um…" Aiden ended up forgetting Red's name when he was fighting the Saibamen. "Name's Red, It's nice to meet you all!" Red answered Aiden. "If you don't mind me asking Red. What was up with that "wifey" stuff you were talking about?" Noah asked.
"Oh that...I'm traveling around Gamindustri to find my perfect wifey!" Red explained with a smile. "Okay...that's an interesting goal you got there Red…" Aiden said. "Now that I think about, I did hear about an "unusual" girl running all over the place. Just to only find her soulmate." IF recalled what she heard. "So that's you?" IF sweated nervously. "Wow! People are spreading rumors about me! That's amazing!" Red said happily.
"I really don't think that is something you should be proud of." Austin said to Red. "So why were you all the way out here? Don't get me wrong. I appreciate that you came to help us out, But…" Red answers IF's question before she can finish. "Y'see, I always wanted to have a CPU wifey, and when I heard about all of you leaving Planeptune, I couldn't turn down this opportunity!" Red's eyes shined.
"Sure enough, I was able to find you, especially my beautiful Goddess, in such a dime romantic novel situation, being in danger!" Red squealed. Everyone had a blank expression on their faces. "...What…?" Aiden said in pure confusion. "Your...Goddess? Um...is that me…?" Nepgear asked. "Oh, do you hear the bells ringing for our destiny!? This is the beginning of our life together!" Red asked Nepgear.
"Um…Uh...Goodness me...I really don't know where this conversation is leading to?" Nepgear sweated nervously. "Me too Nepgear...Also, I don't hear any bells ringing! I only hear the sounds of monsters nearby!" Aiden yelled out. "She meant that metaphorically Aiden." Austin told him while sighing. "What I mean is, please take me with you! There's no way I'm gonna let my wifey out of my sight when danger is around the corner!" Red screamed out.
"I promise that I will protect my wifey with my lifey!" Red promised Nepgear. "O-Ok...Um...Wh-wh am I supposed to do in a situation like this?" Nepgear looked at everyone else, who might have an explanation for her predicament. "I really don't know, but I think we should let her join us. What do you say guys?" Rhyel looked at everyone if they will agree or not. "I agree...Red here is pretty strong." IF agreed with Rhyel. "I guess I don't see why not…" Aiden commentend, everyone else nodded in agreement. "YAY! I can't wait to spend the rest of my life with you my wifey Goddess!" Red grabs Nepgear's hands and looks into her purple eyes.
"Um, I'm sorry, but please don't me a Goddess. I'm a CPU Candidate…" Nepgear looked away to avoid Red's gaze. "It would be nice if you just call me Nepgear." Red smiled happily in response. "Now that's my girl! No need for me to be all formal with my wifey, right? Alright, let's go have some fun Nepgear!" Red grabbed Nepgear's hand and ran towards the dungeon with her. "H-HUH!?" Nepgear let out.
"Well isn't she full of energy…" Austin chuckled. IF looks over at Austin and chuckles as well. "I think "full of energy" is an understatement for her." IF Said. "We should probably catch up with those two before we lose them." Rhyel suggested, while pointing his thumb towards the exit. "Alright, let's get going then." Noah started walking, but Jason stops him. "What's wrong Jason?" Noah asked.
"Before we all get going, did anyone find the Hematite?" Jason looked at everyone. "Oh right! I forgot we were looking for Hematite, thank you Linda for putting us off course and making us forget what we're doing." Aiden sighed, looking down tiredly. "Sorry, but we didn't find any hematite after we defeated those monsters." IF said. "Hmmm? I know! What about we ask Red about the Hematite!" Aiden suggested.
"Not a bad idea Aiden. Welp let's get going before we really lose those two!" IF followed where Red and Nepgear ran off too. Everyone else follows too and make their way back to Lastation in hope of getting info on the Hematite.
-Lastation-
"So Red...Do you have an idea on where we could find Hematite?" Isabelle asked. "Nope! I have no idea what it is!" Red said cheerfully. "Welp, there goes our one shot of finding some Hematite...What now?" Austin crossed his arms on what to do. "Excuse me." Everyone turns around to see an Lastation Guard approaching them.
"I happen to listen to you conversation...You're looking for Hematite, am I right?" The Lastation Guard asked. "Yeah, do you know where we can find it?" Aiden asked. "I do...I remember seeing a deposit of Hematite within a dungeon I visited before." The Lastation Guard replied. "Do you remember which Dungeon it was in?" Isabelle asked this time. "Indeed I do, but I would like you all to do something for me in return." The Lastation Guard crossed his arms.
"He's starting to sound like Miss Law of Equivalent Exchange. Fine, what do you need?" IF said in an annoyed tone. "There is this Monster causing all types of problems over at Rebeat Resort. Mind giving it the old smackdown?" The Lastation Guard puts his right hand on his head and ruffles his hair. "Me and my unit already tried taking down the monster ourselves, but it was too much for us…" The Lastation Guard looks away.
"That sounds like fun! Leaving the beat down to us!" Red said. The five warriors look at her with a drained look. 'Her attitude reminds me of Goku...' The five said in their heads in unison. "We'll defeat that monster right away, so please tell us what you know of the Hematite when we return. "Thank you, and good luck." The Lastation Guard said and went to go return to his post. "Welp...Let's go head back to that resort…" Aiden said. 'Why do I feel like there's going to be some backtracking during this journey?' Aiden asked himself.
-Rebeat Resort (Half an hour later)-
After countless of slaining monsters later. They found the monster they were looking for and slayed it. "Welp that was fun." Isabelle said, dusting off her hands."Yeah!" Red jumped. "That really didn't take that long huh? Let's head back to town." Nepgear said. "Okey-dokey. Huh…? Wait, I see something over there…" Compa points to what seems to be an oversized mouse (or rat) laying on the ground and covered in bruises, had tiny bat wings, a yellow and red heart on its chest, and a heart shaped tip tail.
"Chu…" The strange mouse said. "Okay, that's Interesting seeing a mouse that big, and I thought I had seen everything." Aiden said while staring at the mouse. "What do you mean mouse? I see nothing but an oversized rat! C'mon Compa, let's just leave it." Compa looks at IF with a hurtful look. "How can I! This poor mouse is in pain...Please hang on, Mister Mouse. Nurse Compa will patch you up." Compa proceeds to take out medical supplies and gets to work.
After a few minutes of patching up the mouse's bruises. Compa puts on the last bandage and wipes some of the sweat off her head. "There we go, all finish." Compa puts back the medical supplies into her purse and stands up. "I'm so glad we use Senzu beans to heal our wounds…" Jason said with a nervous tone. The other four nodded in unison. "Ch-chu…?" The mouse (or rat) was starting to come around.
"How are you feeling, Mister Mouse?" Compa asked the now bandaged up mouse. (A/N: I can't tell if he is a mouse or not. It's really confusing for me.) "Ah!" The mouse unexpectedly squealed. Everyone was taken aback by the sudden and random squeal. "Huh? What's wrong Mister Mouse?" Compa asked the mouse. The mouse had hearts in his eyes and looked like his heart was about to come out of his chest. "Chu! Er, um...C-can I get your name?" The mouse said. "WHOA! IT TALKS!?" Noah yelled out.
Everyone else (except for Compa) was shocked to see the mouse talk. "Of course! I'm Compa. It's nice to meet you, Mister Mouse." Compa smiled. "HOW ARE YOU NOT FINDING THIS WEIRD!?" Noah pointed at the mouse and looking at Compa with confusion and shock. "I think it's pretty cool seeing a talking mouse!" Red said. "I think you would find anything cool…" Aiden said. "Compa...Compa, huh…? Mmmmm, chu!" The mouse repeated her name and ignored everyone else's comments.
"Noah, can you calm down please?" Isabelle told Noah. "I'LL ONLY COME DOWN IF SOM-" Noah was slammed against the ground by Rhyel before he could finish. Rhyel sighs and gets up to look at Noah laying on the ground. "Ow…" Noah muffled out. "Have you calmed down?" Rhyel asked. Noah slowly gets up and puts his hand on his head and shakes his head. "Yeah, but could you give me a warning next time, before you slam my face against the ground."
The mouse sudden runs away unannounced. "Oh! Where are you going?" Compa asked, but the mouse already disappeared from their sight. "Great job Noah you scared it off." Austin said. "Oh, I'm sorry for being confused over a talking mouse." Noah replied in a sassy tone. "I can't believe that mouse was talking...I wasn't hallucinating right?" Nepgear chuckled a little. "Nope, that was all real alright…" Aiden answered. "It was hard to understand. If it was a monster, or something else entirely? Well whatever...Compa, you ready now? Come on." IF started walking away.
"Mister Mouse…" Compa turned around and walked away with everyone else. Until the group was out of sight, the mouse popped out his head from behind one of the stages. He went to check if anyone else was there. Good enough for him, there wasn't. "Sh-Sh-She's so cute! No! She is adorable! An angel even! My adorable angel, Compa!" The mouse yelled to himself.
-Lastation-
"Hi again! We went and beaten up that monster you wanted to pummel!" Red told the Guard that sent them on this monster hunting quest. "Welcome back. So how was it?" The Guard asked. "It was really easy. So what do you know about the Hematite?" Isabelle asked. "I saw some when I wandered into Septent Resort for patrol." The Guard answered. "I think it's those annoying Tae Kwon Cat's that have the Hematite. Those things always like collecting gems." The Guard pinched the bridge of his nose. Trying to not remember how annoying they were.
"Say what now?" Aiden didn't know if he heard that right. Tae Kwon Cats? This world was getting weirder and weirder for his mind to handle. "Septent Resort...Right! Thank you so much!" Nepgear thanked the guard. "Don't mention it." The Guard replied. "Welp let's get the Hematite and get this fetch quest over with…" IF said. "Right!" Everyone else said together.
-Septent Resort-
"Besides being in the middle of the Ocean. This dungeon looks exactly the same as the other one…" Austin crossed his arms. "It does look the same, but I do see some different monsters up ahead." Rhyel points towards many strange creatures and a giant floating skeleton fish. "I-Is that a giant skeleton fish that's floating?" Aiden tilted his head in confusion.
"Yep…" Isabelle answered Aiden. "Welp, let's see what they got." Jason said and walked towards the monsters. "Fine by me…" Noah followed. "Seems like we're going to be at this for awhile again…" IF sighed. "Oh well...there's no stopping them now." IF summons her qatar's and runs towards the monsters. "Here we go. You ready Nepgear?" Aiden looked over to Nepgear "Yes.." Nepgear answered. "Then let's do this!" Aiden summoned a longsword that had a blue blade and had angel wings for the crossguard.
"Let's get this party started!" Red summoned her yo-yo and charged. Nepgear and Compa summon their own weapons and charge in too.
-18 Minutes Later-
"Man that was fun!" Jason grins and puts his arms on his hips. "Maybe, but did anyone fight against the monster we were supposed to be hunting." Isabelle asked. Nobody didn't give an answer. Until IF spotted something in the distance. "Over there. That's got to be the cat monster we were told about." IF pointed. "If we get its Hematite, we'll be able to get the information we need." Nepgear said.
"Alrighty then, Let's do this!" Aiden slams his fists together. The cat monster looks at the group. Suddenly more cat monsters appear, ready to fight. "Heh! Backup ay… well this should be qui- *click*" Aiden was cut off by the sound of a gun that was loaded and ready to fire. "Freeze! Drop the Hematite and do it slowly…" A familiar voice said. Aiden and Nepgear's eyes wide in shock.
"UNI!?" Both of them said. "Huh? Ack! N-Nepgear! Aiden!" Uni said. The group (except for Red) were showing a yikes type of look on their faces. "It's good to see you again Uni! Were you looking for Hematite too?" Nepgear smiled. "Y-yeah, but what do you think you're doing here!?" Uni said, as her eyes turned into white saucers. "Erm, um, I mean, what I meant to say was...I'm sor-...No, wait...I'm really not ready for this…" Uni whispered the last part to herself.
"I'm really glad you're doing well. I mean, we left off on such a sour note…" Nepgear told her. "Did Miss Kei asked you for help too? We can team up again and beat the mean cat monsters together?" Aiden looked at Nepgear when she said that.
"Nepgear I don't think it is best to team up now…" Nepgear turned around at Aiden. She was about to say something before she was cut off by Uni. "D-Don't get ahead of yourself Nepgear! T-There's something I want to say to the both of you…" Uni looked to the side. "What is it?" Aiden said seriously. "Y-you better be listening? I-I'm only going to say this once, so you better pay attention." Uni stuttered "YAY! I'm really happy that your here! Now I know that we'll be able to get the Hematite for sure!" Nepgear jump into a far unlikely conclusion.
"I don't think that would be related to this Nepgear…" Aiden said with a blank expression. "S-sorry…" Nepgear calmed down and looked down embarrassed. "I t-thought I told you not to get ahead of yourself!" Uni yelled at Nepgear. "Sorry!" Nepgear responded to Uni's outburst. "YOU KNOW WHAT! FORGET IT! YOUR NEVER GOING TO GET THE HEMATITE!" Uni stared at Nepgear and Aiden in rage.
"Yikes…" Aiden flinched a little. "Huh? Why are you being so mean to us? Are you still mad…?" Nepgear asked. "SHUT UP! I said you won't get it, so you won't get it! Never!" Uni's angry made the monsters coward in fear. "Your being so mean! Fine if your gonna be like that! Then you won't get it either!" Nepgear yelled back. "Wait what! So your mad at me for being mad at you! Fine then! Let's fine out who will get it first, shall we?" Uni said.
"I think I'm just gonna sit this one ou-" Aiden was interrupted by both Nepgear's and Uni's furious looks. "NO!" They both yelled at Aiden. "You two can fight all you want later. We got a monster to take care of, remember?" IF sighed. "We're really sorry, Mister Scary Monster Horde. Can you wait just a tiny bit longer?" Compa kindly looked at the Monster Horde that stood before her.
"Bleh" One of the monsters said. "...what…" Isabella said in confusion due to the monsters response.
-10 Minutes Later-
"Man, how long have they been going at this?" Noah asked tiredly, due to Nepgear and Uni arguing with each other. "For at least 10 minutes…" Austin said to Noah calmly. Noah sighed and looked down, tired of hearing this arguing. "I hope something happens right about now, I can't handle them arguing anymore." Noah yawned. "You think you got it bad, look at Aiden." Jason points over towards Aiden, who was trying to stay awake.
"So can I beat these things up now or what?" Red asked IF. "We can't Red, we need to wait until this cat fight over here subsides…" IF pinches the bridge of her nose. "Yo guys, what's that?" Rhyel points towards a weird disc that lands in the Monster Horde. The disc lets out a purple like energy, that makes the monsters to go Viral.
"Finally...Something that can end this arguing." Noah stretches out, to wake himself up. "H-Huh! The monsters are on a rampage! I'm on my way!" Nepgear runs towards IF and Compa. "Hey! I wasn't done talking!" Steam slowly came out of Uni's ears. "Zzzz… zzzz...zzz...Huh? Wait what? Oh, what happen guys...?" Aiden looks towards over to the Monster Horde, that was now in their Viral forms. The aura that emanated of them made Aiden immediately woke him up fully.
Aiden walks up and gets into his fighting stance. "Had a nice nap?" Austin looked at Aiden. "Yeah I did, and I hope that this fight will help me wake up." Aiden charges up his aura. The Monster Horde attack the group with pure rage. "HERE THEY COME!" Isabella yelled. Aiden rushes forward and takes down two monsters by slamming his arms into their heads. Noah, Rhyel, Austin, and Jason all took two each and fought their monsters on other platforms in the dungeon.
"And there they go…" IF said and sighed."Alright ladies! Let's teach these monsters a lesson!" Red yelled out. Compa takes out her syringe. "Right!" Compa, IF, and Isabelle yelled out. Uni rounded her eyes and took out her rifle. The girls run towards the rest of the Monster Horde and begin their own assault.
-After Slaying the Monster Horde-
"Well, that sure did help me wake up." Aiden said, moving his head from side to side. "And a good stress relief too. Uni and Nepgear's argument was really setting me off" Rhyel stretched his back. "So are those two done yelling their heads off at each other?" Isabelle asked. "Yes…I'm very sorry about that…" Nepgear clenches her shirt and grows a sad look on her face.
"Don't beat yourself up over it, it was natural of you two to argue after what happen." Aiden said. "Lucky that I didn't get into a fight with Uni…" Aiden says to himself while sweating. "Either way, we got the Hematite...let's head over to Keith and-" Austin is called off by Uni. "Wait!" She said, Uni wore a serious expression and it was focused solely on Nepgear. "Uni?" Nepgear looks at Uni in question. Sudden Uni turns into her CPU form and stares at Nepgear.
A breeze passes by, blowing Uni's hair and the sun shines brightly. Her rifle reflects the light in a beautiful way, this gave Uni the appearance of a goddess. "Nepger, let's have a duel and it's only between us. If I win, you'll have to give me that Hematite!" Uni declared. "ARE YOU SERIOUS! WHY!" Noah falls onto his knees and holds his head in pain and annoyance. "I need to defeat you Nepgear, fair and square." Uni ready her rifle. "I understand Uni, I accept your challenge Uni."
Nepgear transforms into her CPU form and readys her weapon as well. They stare at each other, waiting for the other to make the first move. Uni makes the first move by firing her rifles at Nepgear. Nepgear dodged the shots and some of those shots as well. Nepgear soon creates some type of magic circle that gives her a speed boost, this helped Nepgear close the gap between her and Uni. "Ack!" Uni flew backwards, but Uni places down the same magic circles to stop herself and counter attack with her rifle.
"Take this!" Uni fires more rounds at Nepgear, who got hit by a few shots this time. Nepgear was able to dodge and return fire with the gun part of her weapon. The rounds of their guns clashed with each other, showing a nice explosion of colors. "Man this cat fight is getting out of hand…" Rhyel nervously sweated. "Yeah, I was hoping they finally stopped with their cat fight…but it seems like I was wrong…" IF sighed and pinched her nose. "Should we stop this?" Jason asked.
"Let them be, it's not a good idea to intervene now." Aiden crossed his arms. "Wow, that is strange coming from you…" Jason said. "It would be strange, but I'm more focused on this fight and Noah's breakdown." Austin look at Noah screaming and his hands ruffling his hair. "But what if things get out of hand…" Compa asked worryingly. "Don't worry too much, this is just a duel. If it gets out of hand, we'll step in and stop. Show her who's boss my wifey Goddess!" Red cheered Nepgear on. Aiden smirked and decided to give his own encouragement.
"Gearsy! Show her the power of your determination to save your sisters! Prove to Uni that she is wrong!" Nepgear heard Aiden's encouragement and was reacting faster and striking with more strength. "Tricolor Order!" Uni fired multiple shots at once towards Nepgear. Nepgear dodged and slashed at the rounds, she was able to get close to Uni due to her dodging. "What!" Uni had no time to react and had no time to attack. "Mirage Dance!" Nepgear slashes Uni with all her strength and stands in front of Uni, pointing her weapon at her. "Take this!" Nepgear shoots Uni and knocks Uni out of her HDD form.
"Ack!" Uni hits the floor and gets back up slowly. "Way to go Gearsy!" Aiden smiled. Nepgear smiled back at Aiden and reverted back to her human form. "I did it...I won!" Nepgear jumped in joy. "Hmp! That's because I let you win." Uni looked away with a pout. "This was a pretty good victory, but was this right at all?" Isabelle asked and looked at Nepgear. "I'm...not sure...Uni?" Uni tears up and looks into the sky. "She's strong, even when she's by herself. But she also has friends to back her up, especially Aiden…"
Uni clenches her fist in anger. "And...and...I got nothing…" Uni runs off. "Uni wait!" Nepgear broke into a sprint, but Aiden grabbed her arm. Nepgear turned to Aiden; He shook his head sideways. Nepgear looked down and moved her head back up towards the direction Uni ran off too. The group soon after start to walk back towards the basilicom.
-Lastation Basilicom-
"So we meet once more. It seems that you hot the items I requested." Kei looked up from her paperwork. "So big sis is watching over us?" IF said really sassy. "Miss Kei! Please tell us where the Mascot is, we did as you asked!" Nepgear said impatiently. "I will, but I must know what happened to Noire three years ago. IF sighs and tells Nepgear to tell Kei what happened to Noire three years ago.
"I see, Noire is still alive...that takes a weight off of my shoulders. "If you're that worried, then why weren't you a bit cooperative?" Isabelle said with an arched eyebrow. "You got your priorities and I have mine when it comes to saving the CPU's. But for my plans to come into fruition. I needed the materials that you have kindly collected for me." Kei puts her arms behind her back and stands up straight, ready to fulfill her part of the deal.
"I will now explain my end of the deal. I mapped out the last known whereabouts of the Mascot, I'm not entirely sure if it's there; but I believe it is close." Kei gave the map to Nepgear. "Thank you Miss. Kei, now we can go find…" Kei went and added something else to their conversation, cutting off Nepgear. "This is a warning; your request will be denied outright." Red looks at Kei. "What does that mean?" Austin turns to Red and explains that the Mascot has a duty to protect the Nation when a CPU is absent. "Now I understand…" Red crossed her arms and nodded.
"I wish you best of luck on your next negotiation." Kei said while grabbing some more paperwork. "Thanks, it sounds very sincere and caring from you." IF said to Kei. "Well, let's get moving." Austin said.
-Septent Resort-
"I believe this is the spot…" Nepgear said. "So...where is it?" Rhyel said, looking around the mapped area that was supposedly should have the Mascot. Aiden looks around and immediately spots a shrine that looks similar to the one at Planeptune. "Over here guys!" Aiden walks up to the shrine, along with the rest of the group.
"Hello? Anyone here?" Aiden looked around the shrine. "Hm? Visitors? I rarely get any visitors." A voice said. There was a statue in the middle of the shrine, just like the shrine from Planeptune. The stature started to glow a bright blue light and out came a blue floating orb of light. "You must be the Mascot. I'm Aiden and these are my friends; we were wondering if you could possibly help us with what is happening to Gamindustri." Aiden said respectfully.
"Wow… I never heard Aiden being so respectful before…" Rhyel said. Aiden turns back at Rhyel and gives him the look to shut up. "This Mascot is fully awake; that must mean that the shares in Lastation are worse here…" Isabelle said. "We need your help, the CPU's were all captured and are imprisoned at the Gamindustri Graveyard." Aiden told the Mascot. "Oh my...hearing that all of the CPU's have been captured is a shock. But I can not go with you due to my sole role." The Mascot said. "Aw lame…" Red said all bummed out.
"I was given the role of protecting Lastation and if I leave, the nation will lose all divine protection that is remaining." The Mascot explained. "This would also violate the pack we made with the true Goddess." Austin and Aiden took interest in hearing this. Aiden wondered how important this Goddess was and Austin was interrupted that there was a Goddess before the four CPUs.
"So it's fine to leave the CPUs be kept captive?" IF questioned the Mascot on it's reply. "That's not what the Mascot ment IF…" Austin looked at IF. "If the Mascot were to leave Lastation, it would leave the nation at risk of full control under the ASIC. This is not a smart idea due to Gamindustri's condition right now." IF stayed silent, knowing that Austin was right.
-Near by-
We see the same mouse that Compa nursed walking around the dungeon aimlessly. "Where is she? This is the only place I haven't checked yet, chu…" The mouse talked to itself. "*sighs* why did I run away...Darn my stupid shyness, Chu!" The mouse yelled at itself. The mouse missed Compa so much he thought he started hallucinating. "Great, I miss her so much that I'm starting to hallucinate my beautiful angel, Chu…" The mouse would rub its eyes to clear his hallucinations, it would open them up to see the hallucination was still there. It took it a good solid second to find out it wasn't a hallucination.
"Wait ...that isn't a hallucination! It really is Compa! My beautiful angel Compa, chu!" The mouse starts running towards the groups at surprising speeds. Jason soon notices the approaching mouse. "Hey, is that the talking mouse?" Isabelle takes a look, she soon turns to look at Jason. "It is…" Compa and everyone else soon turn to see the running mouse. "Oh, Mister mouse!" The mouse stops in front of them, with hearts in its eyes. "Oh I hate that…" Noah said, looking at the mouse in disgust. "You and me both…" IF agreed.
The mouse looks up at Compa. "You remember me? That makes me so happy, chu!" The mouse expressed his happiness. "Not right now! We're in the middle of something important!" IF told the mouse and used her thumb to point at the Mascot. "Shut up, chi! Nothing in this world is not important than Compa!" The mouse argued and stuck out its tongue at IF. Aiden soon became concerned. "Should I question how much this mouse is high over heels for Compa?" Nepgear looked at Aiden and gave him a look of maybe. Red had a disgusted expression on her face. Everyone else had questionable looks. Except for IF, she was furious at the mouse's attitude. "Why you little!" IF was about beat up the mouse, but was stopped by Ryhel.
"Don't…it will be a bad example if you do…" Ryhel let's go of IF. The mouse's eyes almost popped out when he soon noticed the Mascot. "Wait...Is that the Mascot!?" The mouse asked. "Yeah? Why do you ask?" Austin said towards the mouse. "This must be my lucky day! Running into the Mascot and my beautiful angel Compa!" The mouse smiled an evil like smile. "Hey Compa! Let's beat up this Mascot together!" The mouse declared his thought to Compa. Everyone (except Compa) looked at the mouse with a serious expression.
"Beat up the Mascot..? Why would you say that?" Compa asked the mouse, slowly becoming concerned. "I knew that questioning this mouse was right…" Noah sighed and pinched his nose. "If we smash up this Mascot, we will get a great reward!" The mouse claimed with glee. "If you help me, my dear Compa, I'll make sure the ASIC will make a special VIP member!" The mouse was happy at the thought of having Compa help him succeed in his mission. Sadly, his idea and his feelings were about to be crushed badly. "Yeah... no, we're not gonna let you do that…" Jason walked towards the mouse and looked down on it. "This little mousey is a weasel!" Red exclaimed. "Mister mouse! If we were to destroy the Mascot, Gamindustri will…" Compa didn't like what she was hearing. "Gamindustri will be under total control of the ASIC, chu!" The mouse filled Compa's sentence in it's own way.
"Without any CPU'S or anyone to believe in them, Gamindustri will be ours for the taking!" The mouse was getting way to happy for its own good. "In short, please join us before…" Compa than looked at the mouse with slight anger. "Bad mister mouse!" Compa yelled out at the mouse, who stopped his sentence and looked at Compa in confusion. "I've been traveling with my bestest friends to help save the CPU's….so...Th-That makes us enemies!" The mouse's heart shattered into millions of pieces after hearing Compa's statement. "E-Enemies ... So are you telling me you don't like me that way Compa…?" Compa than nods to his question. "That's right! I hate bad people who try to make Gamindustri into a bad place!" Compa declared. The mouse started to shake. "You hate me? N-No!" The mouse fell to its knees and started crying. "M-My tender heart...all my love will now only go to job…" The mouse kept on crying and slowly calmed down.
"Then I'm gonna get rid of all of you in the name of the ASIC!" The mouse throws down a disc and it glows a dark purple fume. The disc burst and reveals a Fenrir "Great, another giant wolf...let's hope this one can provide a challenge.."Rhyel put his hands on his hips. The Fenrir let's a huge roar and creates two versions of itself and they growl at the group. "Welp, here we go then...let's dance! Arutima!" Aiden lifted his right hand into the air and a glow of blue light came from his hand. The light slowly formed into a sword that had a blue blade, a crossguard that was shaped like wings, and a golden hilt. "Fine be me!" IF pulls out her Beretta M9 and points at the Fenrir on the right, along with Austin and Rhyel walking to both her sides.
"We got this one...so who's gonna handle the one on the left?" Rhyel asked looking back at his friends. "We got the one on the left!" Isabelle lets out her cat ears and tail and summons fire from her hands. Compa and Red run right beside her. "Then I guess that leaves the four of us to fight the middle one….you guys ready?" Aiden starts holding Arutima in both hands and gets into a stance. Nepgear nods "I'm ready!" Nepgear proceeds to activate her beam saber. Noah slams his hands together and smirks, Jason stretches and gets into piccolo's demon stance. "Here we go!" Everyone who were facing off against their own Fenrir attacked.
A/N: That's it for Chapter six people. Sorry again for not releasing this sooner, I was really busy and had no motivation. But I'm back and ready to write more for you readers. Anyways, thank you for reading Chapter six.