Nepgear, IF and Compa walks down the streets of Planeptune, most of the people seem to barely acount the candidate presence even tough she was gone for 3 years
"You got rusty since the last time you fought." IF comments to Nepgear
"Sorry…"
"That's normal, its something that often happen when you don't do something for too long. A lost of habit."
"You know. I only fought a few times before I wouldn't call that a habit!"
They continue walking down and see a building near the Basilicom
"We are back. Let's report our quest." IF says and the girls than enter the guild, its quite busy as usual
On another part of the room a small group notice them "Is this the candidate?" a girl asks
"3 years that she disappeared and she they don't even make an announcement about it. Tsskk Lame." a guy says
The girls approach the board, the board use a glass with an integrated projector inside to show an interface. IF put her guild card inside a card slot on the desk just under the board and a menu appears with tabs that appears that goes to "Get a quest" to "Report a finished quest" there also various other tabs but about her guild account and things related to that. She chose the "Report a finished quest." option and she confirms the end of quest "Awaiting for verification….." IF then put a small device inside another slot "Tracker connected… Quest Complete! Your credits have been transferred on your bank account." The girls then exit the building
"At least that will serve you as basic training before we get starting on serious business." IF says to Nepgear
"So… what now?" Nepgear asks
"Do you think that we should wait new directives form Histy?" Compa asks
"I'm gonna ask her on the progress." IF says and then get her phone but at the moment she grabs it, its start ringing so IF responds "Lady histoire?"
"I found the location of the mascot. Meet me at the basilicom." Histoire says
"Ok, we are on the way." IF responds, Histoire then stops the call and IF turns to the girls "Well she found it, let's not waste time." She says and head out of the building, followed by Compa and Nepgear
[Later.]
Nepgear, IF and Compa enters the meeting room in the basilicom, inside there, Histoire is waiting and see them entering the room "Hello again. As I contacted to you, the location of the mascot is at the deepest part of the Virtua forest."
"We went there to train Nepgear and get back into a better physique, well then let's roll!" IF says
"That's quite… annoying that we have to get back there." Compa comments
And then the group of girls go back on their trip to find the mascots but…
[Meanwhile.]
PANAN JUNGLE
THE SAME DAY AT 15H00
Linda is moving trough a dense jungle she's step on a few roots and advance carefully
"Did you found the mascot?" A masculine voice speaks to her trough her earphone
"You mean the disc?" Linda responds
"No its named a mascot."
"Boss told me that its named like that.
"Whatever darling."
"Don't call me like that. Well I'm actually still searching but this is not easy especially how weird this jungle is." Linda says as she looks around: effectively like all the jungles, this is a hostile area full of monsters but they don't seem to be attracted by the underling
Linda advances while moving some flora she feel something grab her leg
"Uh? AHHHH!" she yells as she get dragged
If most of the monster don't pay attention to her this is not visibly the case of the plants, the one who grabbed her is a typical over sized carnivorous plant also known as sharks plants, they are recognizable by their green head with some blacks spots and as black lips, it also have some tentaculars limbs that it use to catch his preys, the plant open his mouth full of sharps teeth and slowly move the underling at his mouth
BONK
Linda get her metal pipe and violently hit the head of the plant moments before her head reach the mouth of the plant
The shark plant drops the underling
Linda and she runs away "Fucking wildlife." she thinks
"A spy contacted us and the Mascot location is inside Virtua forest, its not very far form where you are"
"Finally, better be that there is no sharks plants there!"
The voice giggles "Don't worry, There won't be any." he then stops the call
"Gotta get out of this shitty jungle now." she then head to the north, after long minutes of walk she exit the jungle and enter a rocky hills area between Panan and Virtua, its quite a natural barrier to prevent a sudden change of climate and she walks trough it
"When you were at the jungle I heard you scream at some point, what it was?"
"Just some random plant-monster thing. Nothing special"
"You know that you can use those thing to pacify the monsters."
"Ah yeah those balls that Uran made. If you make a joke about it I will explode you with my pipe."
"Uh! Too bad for yoouuuu cause you cannnn'tttt!"
Linda angrily sighs she then reaches the virtua forest, she look around
"So? Where is it actually?"
"Well, continue walking straight and turn to left then continue walking for around 30 minutes and go back straight and you should find some platforms who are connected to each others then climb it and go straight forward until you reach the last platform."
"At least that's easy to remember." Linda says
Linda then goes as she has been told, she goes straights and turns left and continue for 30 minutes and finds the platform elevated in the trees, a ramp allow to her to get up her and she go straight forward and reaches another platform and then another one and finally the last one, Linda see some kind of sanctuary she approach it and see the mascot who have the appearance of the disc
"No seriously why they call them mascots?"
"Just destroy it quick so we are done with that."
Linda gets her pipe and get closer to the mascot while it lies there, Linda reaches it and raise her pipe…
KLONG
… And smashes it on the mascot
KLONG KLONG KLONG
And again and again she does it
"Holy shit! this thing is solid."
"Continue, it should break soon."
"No need to tell me that!" She then resumes
KLONG KLONG KLONG
She hit it again and again until…
"Please stop!" A voice coming form behind her yells but the underling continues...
KLONG KLONG
And then realize that someone is talking to her and looks at the direction of the voice, she see three girls looking at her in a serious expression, Linda speaks up "Huh, Who the hell are you three? you'd better stay outta may way kids!"
One having a congo-pink hair responds: "Likewise, missy! What are you doing to the mascot!?"
"Uh, destroying it, duh. Orders form the ASIC. They are a nuisance."
"You're a member of ASIC, then?" A girl with brown hair says.
"Not like a got a reason to explain it ya but listen up! I'm a proud member of the ASIC front-line infantry. Don't forget it!
"Oh, so that mean that you are just an expandable underling."
"Definitely an underling." the one with a lilac hair says
"Miss underling is definitely an underling." the congo-pink haired one adds
"WHAT!? Where the fuck do get to off calling me an underling!"
"Underling is the only name you need, Underling. Now beat it."
"Could you please move out of our way, miss underling?"
"If she's just an underling, maybe I could fight her..."
"Enough you bunches of clowns! Now you really pissed me off, I'm gonna make y'all regret calling me like that!" Linda says and immediately after, dashes towards the lilac haired girl with her metal pipe...
BONK
And hit the girl face on the side, Linda raise her pipe…
BONK
…and hit her on the top of her head
"Hyaaaa!" The girl cries and falls on her knee on the ground of the platform
"Hah! For so much bark, you clowns had no bite at all. Now I will kill you all and starting by..." Linda looks down "You bitch!" she start to slowy raise her pipe...
"Well but... I didn't do anything, so..."
"Watch out!" yells the brown haired girl as she dashes to the wounded girl...
CLING
And she's stands in front of the wounded girl and stops the attack by crossing two of her quatars to stop the pipe moment form hitting her "Oh, just in time..."
"Goodness no, it's not good at all! Why did you save me like that? I'm not even carrying my own weight..."
"That's not important. I saved you because I wanted to. Nothing more."
"I don't understand!"
"I wasn't here there to help you all three years ago… I don't want to feel that helpless anymore."
"That's the why I protected you and not only..."
"IF..."
"Enough of this soap opera shit. If you two want to die together I'd be happy to grant you that wish."
The girls thinks for a small moment but she then yells "I won't let that happen!"
Linda start to smile as she see the time to fight approaching
The brown haired girl then speaks "Finally… you got your-"
Linda gets disappointed "Fucking dammit." she then grab a bag of chips and start eating while the girls talks and she looks at the same time the two girls who one kiss another "You're done you lesbians now? I can kill you?" she then notice that the lilac haired girl transformed…
"Oh shit. she's transformed." Linda quickly thinks but she runs towards the transformed girl with her raised pipe and strike on her
The girl block her with with her gun-blade
Linda quickly kick her in the belly, making the girl recoils back a little she follows by swinging her pipe to the face of the girl
The girl ducks down to dodge it
Linda have barely the time to look down as the next action of the girl is hidden by her own pipe and once she can see it...
PEW
The girl shot the under of the jaw of Linda
Linda get thrown up a few meters in the airs and land near the mascot
Linda get back up and touch the area hit by her jaw "YOU BITCH!" she yells "That's fucking not fair!"
"I'll spare your life if you leave now in peace."
"You really expect me to thank you?! Get you head outta your ass! I have a job to do!" She get back her pipe and runs to the mascot
"No wait!" The girl pleads
KRSSSTTT
Linda slams her pipe on the Mascot, destroying it
The girl with the congo-pink hair speaks "Oh no! The mascot! Its broken!"
The underling laughs "serve it right, next target Lastation mascot!" She then run away
"Don't you run away!" IF yells after her and start to chase her but don't manage to catch up with her speed
[Later.]
"Phew look like I lost them."
"What happened?"
"I destroyed the mascot but there was some girls who tried to stop me, one of them can transform."
"Transform? How she looked like?"
"Uh… I think she had a pink hair and a sailor suit, only the top for some reason, she must be some kind of exhibitionist
The person who calls Linda checks on its laptop and find an identification picture with the description of Linda made
"I see, you just encountered the CPU candidate she the one who escaped the graveyard, expect to fight her again."
"Geez, that freaking sucks."
"Don't worry, you will have proper equipment to fight them. Now move out to the western coast. The admiral sent a submarine to extract you."
Linda start to walk to the west "We have a navy now?"
"In someway, yes a navy of corsair and other mercenaries but we are also building our own fleet."
"Yeah, pirates."
[Meanwhile.]
PLANEPTUNE
BASILICOM
17H00
The group is in the meeting room with the oracle
"It appears that you have indeed secured the power of Planeptune's Mascot. However..." Histoire says
"We know now that the ASIC and its cronies are aware of the mascots existence too." IF says
"And Miss Underling said that she was taking a trip to Lastation." Compa adds
"We should chase her quick, or she'll get ahead of us again." Nepgear says
"I see that our passion as been relit." Histoire says while looking at the candidate
"Um, yes I'm still fighting off some of my fear, but it should be fine now."
"Excellent. I suggest you to do as I said and hurry over to Lastation next. Regain Shares and seek the Mascots. Oh… and nearly forgot to give you an important piece of advice
"What is it?" Compa asks
"CPU candidate like Nepgear reside in both Lastation and Lowee. I recommend to seek their aid, as well."
"That would make them Noire and blanc little sisters."
"CPU candidate... Other girls like me." Nepgear says
"Each nation has their own situation to deal with. So they might refuse at first but making contact is vital. After all, they surely must share the desire to save their sisters." Histoire says
"Sound like we have our plan. Let's get to Lastion!" IF says
"Right!" Nepgear says
"Wait! How we get there? It would be quite dangerous to get there by the land." Compa asks
"Effectively, the territory controlled by the ASIC block us form the land and we risk being attacked by pirates by going by the sea. I will ask Relic to get you a vertidragon so we can just fly there but there is a detour to be made."
"Relic?"
"He's the marshal and so commander of the armies of the nation. I will let you have a talk with him, of course I will tell him about your coming to the base."
[At the military base]
Relic is having a call with someone...
"What do you mean?" Relic says and listen what the guy who is calling saying and then responds "Oh they attempted to cross the border again? it's not a big problem. And it give funny videos when they roast each others. And I highly doubt that the syndies will attempt to directly invade the territory like that even if there is a lot of people that would support them."
He then end the call and return to doing some paperwork
Knock Knock
"Yes?"
"Marshal. The candidate and her friends arrived."
"Where they are?"
"At the yard."
"I'm gonna greet them by myself." Relic gets up and exit his office
[Meanwhile.]
"Its quite a big place here."
"Its the headquarters so of course this is huge here."
"I'm quite nervous, its the first time I'm meeting the marshal in person." Nepgear says
"Me too. But he must not be too bad." IF says
"I never expected to meet him." Compa says
And then an officer shows up but with his officer cap with fives silver stars on it and a yellow band on it instead of the usual planeptune purple one and he also have yellow eyes, he walks towards the girls and stop in front of them
He says "Hello candidate, you probably guessed who I am."
"Yes… you are the Marshal Relic."
"Just call me Relic. So since we don't have a lot of time let's get to the point, Histoire told me that you needed a ride to Lastation, we got plenty now but let me offer you the Nep Force One."
"The Nep Force One?"
"Its a squadron of the air force for the transport of official with a modified vertidragon, its unarmed but a way more armored and also quite comfy, also there is an escort made by our finest pilots. You heard about AM2?"
"She's the ace pilot who the ASIC feared the most during the war?"
"Exactly." He then sighs and look up as he hears the sound of engine approaching "Looks like your ride arrived."
A vertidragon with purple color on the top half of the vehicle and blue form the bottom part, there is a Planeptune logo on the doors and under it written "PLANEPTUNE" lands on the yard, near the girls
"Thanks you Marshal!" Compa says
"No need to thanks me, I'm making my part in helping you all to protect Gamindustri, I'm putting all my hopes into you girls, like everyone who are still supporting your crusade, good luck." Relic responds
The girls than get inside the modified Tilt-rotor this one is surely not like the one they used to rescue Nepgear at the Graveyard, the interior got some comfy seats and behind them, a bay to store some stuff, and in-front of the seats some panels that works like holographic screens inside the guild but with more functionalities.
"Wow." Nepgear says in pure wonderment
"He wasn't lying about the vehicle." Compa says
IF says and she sits in a relaxed way "Well then get us Lastation!"
The doors closes and soon after the vertidragon takes off and flies away, Nepgear look at the city trough the windows, the Tilt-rotor leaves the city, soon after it, get joined by 2 Planeptune jet's fighters. The Nep Force One goes to the sea and then head to the East in direction of Lastation at the sunset…
Well this chapter is done, i was busy for a moment so it slowed down the making of the chapter and also a lack of inspiration to write it the problem being that i have a lot of idea for what will happen during the Lowee and Leanbox arc, i was thinking about skiping the Lastation chapters since after thinking it would be a way too similiar unless i get ideas to make it less repetitive and more original (since as you guys probably seen that it look a lot like rebirth2), i was also thinking about giving more focus to antagonists, the part with Linda on this chapter is quite another experiment.
I planed that the Lowee and Leanbox arcs are gonna be on different volumes so they are gonna have around 4 or 6 volumes (it depends since i didn't finished to replay Rebirth2 so this is a bleak estimation.
So to finish the notes, there is if you remember 2 types of Vertidragon if you remember correctly (A gunship and transport types) that are based on the Fallout 3 vertibird, this chapter introduce a third which are the civilians ones (The Nep Force One is technically a civilian vertidragon that got converted) The civilians vertidragons rather look like the ones form Fallout 4.
