Nepgear and her friends are now in Lowee, they are following Intelligent, the marshal of Lowee military
"So Marshal? How did you knew that we were coming?" Negear asks
"I got told by the commander of the border guards who were himself told by..."
"Uhm… Can you please just pass these details?" Compa stops Intelligent when she speaks
Intelligent then menacingly stares Compa "Did I asked you to interrupt my speech?"
"Sorry!" Compa responds in fear
The interrupted then looks away "That's very rude."
IF looks at Compa "I should have told you that see HATE being cut off."
"So anyway, it was the border guards, I then decided with myself and the best unit of the army to escort you to the Basilicom to meet the oracle." Intelligent resumes
"Okay but did you were aware that we were captive by the CSS?"
"CSS? What is that?"
"The MOD renamed the eastern territory into Changers Socialist State."
"That's good to know I guess."
"There was also a coup-d'état made by ASIC sympathizers
"...How you know that?"
"That's complicated. We were imprisoned and-"
"No, no sorry I already know that information just tell me how you got it."
"Uhm… It was form a Changer that turned against the ASIC, he was at some point in their army as a commander and he then went to Lowee to help is people or something like that he said." IF describes
Intelligent put her hand on her chin "I might know who you are talking about." She then removes it "So you girls must be wondering how we were aware that you got captured right?"
"Actually, yes."
"It was due to some people of Planeptune that came and told us that..."
The girls get confused "Uh?"
THE DAY BEFORE…
VRRRRTTTTTT
A Vertidragon flies over the plains of Lowee, it head at the north
"Lowee ATC tower to Vertidragon. Identify yourself please."
"Vertidragon to Air Traffic Control tower. We are form Planeptune and coming for an urgent diplomatic mission, we request to land near of the Basilicom
"Hang on for a moment… Permission accorded"
The landscapes slowly becomes white as the vehicle progress trough the country
LOWEE
BASILICOM
A short haired young girl is laying on the floor on her belly, drawing in her room on a book, there is also another girl with the same age but with longer hair reading another book on the bed, her eyes widens and get up of the bed
"Rom! Look!"
"Uh?"
The Long haired kid show a page of the book, its titled Lowee-Planeptune wars
"What's do that mean?"
"That mean we are enemy with Planeptune."
"Why?"
"I don't know I didn't finished to read it. But if there is someone form Planeptune, here at Lowee kick them out!"
"Yes."
The sound of an engine resonate trough the room.
"What is that?"
The long haired girl looks trough the heart shaped window but she see nothing unusual
"Ram, come." The short haired girl says, she is near of the door that she opened
The long haired girl jump out of the bed and join the other girl, she follows her to a balcony
"Down there."
They both look down, they see a strange vehicle with a pair of propeller mounted on the end of the wings
"What is that?"
"Its form Planeptune."
"Uh?"
"It got the logo on the wing, look."
"Oh."
"We must get rid of these invaders!"
"Yes!"
A blinding light emerge form the two girls
[Down there.]
The door of the vehicle opens, Bethesda exits form it, Soon after joined by Id
"Look like we are arrived."
"I think so."
A maid walks towards them
"Welcome. You are going to see the Oracle?"
"Yes."
"Follow me then."
Bethesda and Id start to walk after the maid "They don't seem to pay attention that I'm with someone that killed Lowean soldiers. At least for now." Bethesda thinks
Suddenly… A wall of ice appears in front of the two makers, separating them form the maid
"WHAT THE-"
Id quickly looks up "LOOK OUT!" she yells
She jumps on Bethesda, the two of them lands a few meter away
CRASSSHHH
A big ice spikes crashes where they were
"We are getting attacked?!"
"Yeah! I saw two small figures over us casting a spell."
"You bunch of jerks will regret to come here!" A childish voice says
Two small girls are flying over them, one with pink eyes and a blue hair and the other with blue eyes and pink hair, they both have a very long part of their hair over their shoulder, one got it on the right and the other one left. They wear a pink and white bodysuit that looks like some bath suit?
"Rom, Ram what are you doing?" The maid asks them
"We are protecting Lowee form nasty invaders!" The pink haired girl says
"Planeptune are our enemy. Leave it to us!" The blue haired girl follows
The maid runs away
"They must be the candidates."
"I don't think anyone else can do that. But twin candidates? that's a new."
B.A.T.S
Bethesda enable the microchip and target the two girls
?(1): Head (95%)
?(2): Head (95%)
He then cancel the targeting
"They are Candidates. I used my skill to target their heads and I could see power-symbol pupils..." Bethesda says to Id, he then get back up "Who are you and why are you attacking us?!" He yells to the twins
"I'm the CPU Candidate Ram!" The pink haired one says
"Rom!" The blue haired one follows
ROM AND RAM
THE TWINS CANDIDATES💀
"And because Planeptune is the enemy of Lowee!"
"We read it form a book!"
"And now begone meanies!"
Rom and Ram prepare a spell and shortly after a barrage of ices spikes storms Bethesda and Id
Bethesda quickly summon is round shield, his helmet appears on his head, he block most of the attacks, some shards manage to hit him in the knees and in elbows
"STOP THAT WE HAVE COME IN PEACE! AND I DON'T WANT TO FIGHT KIDS!" He yells
The storms of shards continues Bethesda gets more and more injured
"This isn't working… I really don't want to fight kids but look like they don't leave me the choice." he thinks as he summon his revolver
He looks back and notices that Id is not longer behind him which mean…
Id is running on the side she runs up the ice wall with the help of her chainsaw
"He is tough." Rom says
"Continue attacking him with shards, I'm gonna destroy him and is stupid shield" Ram says
Ram summon a pretty big ice spike around the same size that the one they used to first strike on the two makers
Meanwhile Id finished to climb the wall and gets on the top, she jumps to the twins CPU's and switches to her double barreled shotgun
BANG
"Ouchie!" Ram get "hurt" by the shotgun
Rom turns her head "Uh?" she see her sister getting hit by a buckshot pellets, she see the assaulter in mid-air and aiming at her
BANG
The 2nd shot got stopped by Rom who made an ice shield to stops the shells, she then strikes on Id by making an ice pillar fall on her
Id gets hit by it but manage to evade the pillar before it hit the ground and so she avoid being crushed
"Ram are you okay?"
"It just burns a little…" Ram responds to her sisters she then "You jerk! You will regret it!"
"What? You started." Id responds
The twin start to summon a gigantic iceberg, Bethesda start to aim at them Id reload her shotgun
CRASSHH
The ice wall get cuts in half and someones passes trough it
"CAN I KNOW WHAT THE HELL YOU ARE DOING?!" Someone yells
This is some woman who looks like in the early 20s, she have a weird sword that would typically looks like a Planeptune weapon since how futuristic it looks it seem to generate a beam. About her appearance she have an orange hair and orange eyes, she have a shiny white ornament in her hair, just over her forehead, she wear a long sleeves shirt on the center of the shirt there is a black rectangle that have look like the silhouette of a building, with an open pink jacket over it with a pair of shorts and boots, she also have a B size cup but this is details at this point
"Oh!" the two candidates says and stops attacking the duo
The twins then fly to the young woman
"Hello. Monolith, we are fighting invaders!" Rom says
"Look at us destroying them!" Ram follows
Monolith looks at the two "invaders"
"Where are you form?"
"Planeptune! We came for a diplomatic mission and they attacked us!" Bethesda responds
The woman then looks at the strange vehicle, she already seen one like that before, the detail that it have a Planeptune logo on it confirm where it comes form. She then looks back the twins
"Stop attacking them! We are not at war with Planeptune!"
"But… the books said-"
"I didn't ask for your opinion!"
"Fine..." Rom says
"Tsk!" Ram says
The twins untransforms, revealing some even smaller girls, they both have the same light brown hair color and dark blue eyes, also and wearing some winter jacket and a hat, the only difference is that Ram got a longer hair and Rom a short one, the color of their jacket, boots and hat corresponds to their hair color in their goddess form
"You suck." Ram complains
"Shut it. You 4, follow me, the oracle is inside."
"Will we get punished?" Rom asks
"I won't punish you..." Monolith says, she smirks shortly after saying that
The group head inside of the building, a maid goes outside with a broom and look at the mess outside; its full of ice spikes that got stuck on the ground and other ice fragments. She sighs at the view
[Later.]
The group present themselves
"Lady." Monolith says to the oracle of Lowee
"I heard some loud noises. Can you explain me?"
"The twins attacked Planeptune diplomats."
Mina looks at the "diplomats", she recognize one of them
"I see…" Mina says and then approach Rom and Ram "Come with me." She then while smiling… MENACINGLY
"Ram… She scares me."
"You won't hurt us right?"
"No of course no." She then moves to the next room, the twins follows her and Mina closes the door, she then locks it
Monolith turns to Id and Bethesda "She is lying. You will hear them cry soon enough."
Sound of slaps get heard form the meeting room, they hear childish cries after
"She is spanking them?" Id asks
"I think." Monolith responds
This continues for a whole minute
"So… who you are and what you do here?" Bethesda asks
"I'm Monolith. I work here, I'm the captain of the Lowee guard. But I'm also an adventurer during my free time."
MONOLITH
CAPTAIN OF THE LOWEE GUARD
"I think I will leave now." Monolith says and she starts walking away
"And, also thanks for stopping those twins."
"Oh, that's nothing." Monolith then leaves the room
Minutes later, Mina returns to Id and Bethesda, with the twins
"Greetings Bethesda."
"Hello Lady Mina."
"Its the slayer that is with you?"
"Yes. She is my new bodyguard, sort off."
"Oh... The twin want to present their excuses for the trouble they caused to you two."
The twins walks towards the two makers
"We are sorry for the trouble." The twins says simultaneously
"That's fine just don't do that again." Bethesda
"That's fine? They attempted to kill us!" Id remarks to Bethesda
"Sorry but I love kids."
Everyone look at Bethesda in a shocked way
"In a legal way of course." Bethesda follows
"Oh." Everyone is reassured
"That explain why you didn't try to defend yourself." Ram comments
"That's stronger than me, I really don't want to hurt kids, even if they can break my neck, but I did hesitate and drawn my revolver." He explains "Anyway, why they tought that we were invaders?" He says as he turns to the oracle
"They told me they read a book."
"A history book?"
"Yes. They may have thought that they were at war with Planeptune."
"What that mean?" Id asks
"You missed history classes uh?" Bethesda says to Id
"I only got briefly in school in my life."
"Lowee and Planeptune always had been rivals in the past, there was a lot of wars beetween the two nations it at the rise of Lastation as a major power that the relation started to calm down, also the Great eastern war where it went further, especially since Lowee was neutral during that whole conflict." Mina explains
"Yes I know about the eastern war. No need to tell me about it."
"Its literally the deadliest conflict ever in the history of Gamindustry. Everyone knows it." Bethesda says
"Uh… Can we go now?" Rom asks
"Sure but don't cause any trouble." Mina responds
The twins go away
"It hard for them since their sister is gone."
"I guess so, do they know the truth or..."
"Oh, ok."
"So, can I know the initial reason of your coming?"
"Well..."
[Some explanation that got skipped because you already know why-later]
"And that's why we want Lowee best troops to secure the mascot. Of course, the power will go to the Lowee candidates instead of the Planeptune one. It will be better than just letting the ASIC destroying it."
"I see… I have to refuse your offer."
"What do you mean? This is an absolute win! Why would you refuse it?"
Mina sighs "The point is that the Candidate are too immature to acquire a power like that as you have seen. The mascot might refuse due to that, and there is also others reasons..."
"No need to explain. We understand."
"No… The bigger problem is that if Lowee Mascot leave its place, Lowee will be exposed to an even greater chaos than now. The nation might even collapse entirely."
"What? Can you elaborate?
"The mascot have a very important mission here."
"What mission?"
"I apologize but this also is very confidential. But I thank you for warning me about the ASIC, I shall send troops to secure it immediately."
"We will come with them." Bethesda says
"I don't see how I couldn't let you come with them. You prevented death of many Lowean soldiers with your invention. Wait here I will be back in a few minutes."
Mina leaves the room, she then comes backs a dozen of minutes after
"I requested the most competent people for that mission. They should arrive soon."
"Good." Bethesda says
"during the wait, how about i to tell you an old story about the Deity of sin?"
"I'm interested how about you Id?" Bethesda says and looks at Id
Id nods
"Go ahead." Bethesda follows
"Arfoire was born in Lowee, but before I continue, do you know what the Deity of sin is?" Mina asks
"This is the goddess that the syndicalist are trying to resurrect."
"You must wonder why they are trying to resurrect her?"
"I actually doesn't really care that much. They are just a danger to Gamindustri so I don't pay attention to their goals."
"And that's the point. The deity of sin is an entity seeking for destruction and chaos. It what even said that Gamindustri was on the brink of disaster when the Deity of Sin was first born."
Both of Bethesda and Id are surprised
"Oh! But really that's pretty dumb. They are trying to self destruct themselves by doing so?" Bethesda asks
"The ASIC doesn't truly wish to revive it. Its a tool, a ploy used to to increase their organization clout, if they would have done the proper research on the Deity of Sin, they wouldn't spread the word to the public." Mina responds
"Or, they knows and they are hiding the truth." Id says
Bethesda thinks for a moment and says "That's also mean that most of the ASIC members are possibly not aware of that. They are just manipulated pawns."
"If so, I question their leader's sanity. This would ultimately lead to their own destruction."
"Citizens, no. Everyone should be warned of their actual attentions." Id says
"They probably won't believe it. It much more comfortable for them to blindly believe then fighting the reality, which gonna end even worse. Only a few people will believe us." Bethesda responds
"...Anyway, I hope this story helped to shed a light on the situation." Mina says
"Thanks for the story lesson." Id says
Knock Knock
"Looks like they are arrived." Mina says and she heads for the door of the meeting room and opens it
The first person to enter the room is a brown haired guy with blues eyes, he wears round glasses and overalls, he wear a fancy cloak over it, he looks in the middle-late teens
The second one is a girl, a little taller than the first dude. She is wearing beige shorts and a chest plate armor and a cap mixed with a helmet, her eyes have the shape of an egg, she also seem in the middle-late teens, she have a light blue hair
And the third one is a rather a tall and a bit chubby dude, he wear sports clothes, the sport jacket is opened, we can see that he wear a pink t-shirt, with a motive of a dog sleeping on it. And he is nearly bald
The Final one is a tall person wearing a blue futuristic armor suit, the gender of the person can't really be defined by that
"So, these are the elite troops?" Id asks
"It would be lying to say that they are not. There also other makers but they are not available unfortunately."
"So they are makers?" Bethesda says "What's you name" he then says to the people."
"Alphadream!" The teenager with glasses says
ALPHADREAM
ENTHUSIASTIC ADVANTURER
"...N-NLG" The short girl says
NLG (NEXT LEVEL GAMES)
A SPORTY YET SCARRED MAKER (YOU WILL UNDERSTAND WHY IN THE NEXT CHAPTERS)
"HAL." The chubby guy says
HAL
A GOURMET ADVENTURER
"Retro." The armored one say with a rather feminine voice
RETRO
A FURUTISTIC LOWEAN? UNSUAL
"So we have to find the location Mascot?" Alpha says
"We also have to defend it form ASIC."
"We know that."
"Then let's not lose time. Anyone knows the location of the mascot?"
"No." "Nope." "No." The group responds
"That's not gonna help us then."
"I mentioned that it was a classified."
"Uh… Actually I think I know the location of the Mascot." NLG says
"That's a way too convenient." Bethesda says
"For where you know that information?" Mina asks
"I heard it form. An adventurer. I think its in a virtual dungeon in the west of Lowee."
"I dunno, you are sure of that?" Alpha says
"Well we got only one track that can lead us to the mascot, so better start with it." Bethesda says
"Then let's get going. We can't let the ASIC find it before us!" Alpha says
"Right!" They all responds
And thus the group of maker begin their journey to secure the Mascot of Lowee, but the operation might not go swift as they planed…
Well well well. I managed to catch the delay by making this chapter in a few days. (its also a bit shorter but the previous chapter were pretty long anyway.)
