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Well, this was fun to write.

Chapter 21

Noire smiled as she got back to the apartment she was sharing with K-Sha and Uni. "I hope those two are getting along together." It was nice to have someone who she could hang out with and if both K-Sha and Uni could become friends, then it was even better for her. "I'm back." Noire said as she walked in and grimaced at the smell. "What the..?" She gawked as she saw gun parts everywhere while K-Sha and Uni were sitting there in their underwear while covered in oil. "...Ah, I guess you're getting along well then?" The girls suddenly let out a yell and looked at her with identical looks of surprise. Noire suddenly smirked and before the girls could recover, she pulled out her phone and snapped a picture.

"Noire!" Uni whined as she recovered from her shock. "You could have given us some warning! And what's with the picture?"

"Can't I take a silly picture?" Noire asked and sighed. "Just... Clean up when you're done, I'm going to go to bed, I'm kind of tired."

"Ah, Noire!" K-Sha spoke up. "I, um, wanted to..." She trailed off at the tired look on Noire's face. "I guess it can wait."

"It's okay, K-Sha, just tell me tomorrow if it can wait." Noire said and walked into her room. After closing the door behind her, Noire stripped out of her clothes before flopping onto the bed in just her panties. "Urgh, I'm so tired today." The missions she and errands she had been really exhausting. She felt her eye twitching slightly. "Urgh, I need a massage or something." She pushed herself to sit up and grimaced. "Yuck, I stink, I need a shower." Getting off the bed, she turned on the television to see what was in the news while she took her underwear off and threw her clothes into the dirty clothes hamper while getting clean clothes ready before she went to the shower. Noire really didn't intend to pay attention to the news, she just wanted some background noise on.

"While there hasn't been much news out of other nations, today some interesting news came out of Planeptune..."

Noire turned her head. "Hmm? What's going on over there? Did Neptune do something stup...id..? WHAAAAA?!" Noire screamed in shock as she saw the headline.

A moment later, her door was burst open as Uni and K-Sha, both still in their underwear, rushed in. "Noire! What's wrong?!" Uni yelled and looked around, not seeing anyone, but then noticing the television. "Is there something... HUH?!" Uni gawked in shock and dropped the pistol the was in her hands. "...Two new CPUs?! ...And they're calling Neptune their mother?!"

"...N-n-n-n-n-n-n-naked Noire?!" K-Sha yelped and fainted with a grin on her face.

"...What is going on?" Noire asked as her brain started to reboot, she didn't even register Uni or K-Sha in the room, they were all girls after all. She cupped her chin in thought. "...Could they be from the other world Neptune was sealed in?" It would make sense that there were other CPUs from that world, Neptune had mentioned something about extra CPUs but Noire couldn't remember many details. "And mother? Maybe Neptune helped guide them as CPUs? But then why would they attack her?"

"...I wonder how Nepgear's taking this." Uni muttered.

(-)

In Leanbox...

"AHHHH!"

Vert sighed and tugged on Nepgear's ear. "If you do that again, I'll be forced to punish you."

"Sorry, big sis." Nepgear whimpered as her body jerked to the side. "It's just so..."

"I know." Vert nodded and let go of her ear. "Now, as I said before, we'll find out what happened, just calm down." She sighed as she saw Nepgear's troubled expression and pulled Nepgear into a hug, gently pressing Nepgear's head against her chest. "Dear, I'm sure that Neptune didn't mean to hide anything from you, but you need to give her a chance. And she lived there for a long time, she probably had a lot of things happen to her." Nepgear nodded against her breasts. Vert smiled at Nepgear and rubbed her back. "Now then, you're a big girl, no more freaking out about Neptune having children or if you have a brother-in-law or anything like that. If that all happened, you'll be the most supportive little sister in the world, I know you will."

Nepgear nodded as she rested herself against Vert's boobs. After a couple of minutes, she pulled herself away from Vert and nodded, a thankful expression on her face. "Sorry about that."

"Don't fret." Vert smiled at her. "Now, how about we go and enjoy the large bath that they have here in the hotel?"

"That sounds good." Nepgear smiled at her.

(-)

In Lowee...

Blanc looked at her sisters and wondered how to explain to them that their time was almost up. '...Dammit, I can't just keep putting this off, but still...' The thought of facing her own end was one thing, but her sisters didn't deserve to be afraid. "Sorry, I need to go for a walk." Sighing, she got up and left the room.

Rom, Ram and C-Sha all looked up from what they were doing and looked at Blanc in confusion, but went back to what they were doing. "I wonder where Peashy went." Ram commented as the blonde hadn't come back in a few hours.

"Knowing her, she's either making monsters go splat or throwing snowballs at people." C-Sha chuckled and the twins nodded.

(-)

As she turned a corner while trying to clear her head, Blanc suddenly found herself on her butt and her face covered in show and cold. "What the?!"

"Ah hahaha hahahah!" Peashy cheered as she jumped out from behind a bush. "I got a Blanny!" She threw her hands into the air. "Bet you can't catch me!" The blonde turned around, bent over and slapped her butt while taunting Blanc. "Blanny's too slow and weak!"

"HEY!" Blanc yelled as she got up and ran after Peashy. "Get back here!" She turned a corner and crashed into someone who was taller than her, sending both to the ground. "Ooof!" Blanc grimaced and looked at the person, who was a man in a suit with red hair. "I'm sorry." She got up and offered him a hand up.

"It's fine, I'm more stunned than hurt." He accepted the extended hand and stood up. "But you're Lady Blanc, are you not?"

Blanc raised an eyebrow. "I take it you know about who I am then?"

"I have an idea." The man said as he dusted himself off. "I was going to speak with you, actually." Blanc tilted her head in confusion. "See, I know who's currently ruling Lowee." Blanc's eyes widened and he nodded. "Yes, allow me to explain."

(-)

Several minutes later...

Blanc walked back into her hotel room, a conflicted expression on her face. 'If C-Sha's the one who's running Lowee and did everything, then...' She couldn't just trust the man, who had revealed himself to be Azna=Leb, on his word without confirmation.

"Hey, Blanny." C-Sha smiled as Blanc walked in. "Is there something you need?"

"...C-Sha, can we go for a walk?" Blanc asked and looked at her sisters. "Rom, Ram, you two stay here, don't leave this room, okay?" She ignored the confused questions coming from her sisters and left the room with C-Sha following after her.

The two walked in silence until they got into a nearby alleyway. "I doubt anyone can overhear us in here." Blanc said and turned to look at C-Sha, who was still confused. "I was given some interesting information, C-Sha... About how you're the ruler of this nation right now and how the current monster problems are your fault."

"You heard about all of that, huh?" C-Sha asked, not even bothering to hide it. The busty brunette sighed at the expectant look that Blanc gave her. "Alright, look... When I and the others of Gold Third faced you and the other CPUs at the arena, it was just a way to test our power. We were kind of just hamming it up for the crowd." Blanc nodded, understanding, "but when we won, the world became like this, I was ruling Lowee and then, for some reason, every so often, a red mist escapes from me and creates a new monster that's really... Odd."

"So you did remember me all this time, huh?" Blanc closed her eyes. "And the delusionary monsters are your fault too?" She opened her eyes and gave C-Sha a pointed look.

C-Sha grimaced. "I don't know why, I've been heading out of the city when the build-up gets too much and letting loose the delusionary power for awhile now, but it's getting harder to do so."

"You could have told me." Blanc told her and sighed. "Alright, that explains that, but how come this nation is so... Screwed up then? If it had been a new thing, I'd blame you, but it feels like this has been ingrained into the culture of Lowee for some time."

"That's..." C-Sha had a pondering look on her face, "something I don't get either. I've been trying to figure it out myself. Well, that's about it. Now, can I ask you, Blanny? How'd you know about all of that?"

Before Blanc could ask, the two found themselves surrounded by armored men with a redheaded man in a white suit walking up to them. "There's no need to explain." He smirked at them.

"Azna=Leb?!" Both Blanc and C-Sha exclaimed at the same time before looking at each other in surprise.

"Indeed," Azna=Leb smirked at them and adjusted his tie. "Good job, Lady Blanc, bringing this criminal to justice."

"What are you talking about?" Blanc asked, surprised. "I didn't..." The next thing she knew, the men had moved in and grabbed C-Sha, pinning her against the wall and wrenching her arms behind her back as they put her into cuffs. "Hey! Stop!" Blanc yelled as she tried to stop them, but was stopped as a couple of the men grabbed her and pulled her back. "Let me go!"

"Now, now," Azna=Leb smiled at her, "you did a good job. I even have your reward ready."

"You sold me out, huh, Blanny?" C-Sha asked, disappointment in her voice as the men grabbing her dragged her away.

Blanc growled and freed herself of the soldiers, who stood in front of her. "Get out of my way!"

"Now, now," Azna=Leb chuckled at her, "they are your citizens, can you really hurt them?" He laughed and turned around, walking off in front of the soldiers while C-Sha was pulled along behind him and Blanc was forced to watch.

"Dammit!" Blanc cursed, knowing he was right. Hurting her own people was just something she couldn't do, even if they were doing something like this. "C-Sha! I..."

Before anything else could happen, there was a flurry of snowballs that hit the soldiers so hard that they all had to stop and some were knocked onto their butts. The next thing anyone knew, Azna=Leb was sent flying into the wall behind Blanc.

"I knew you were a bad man!" Peashy yelled as she glared at Azna=Leb. "Bad men get the Ploot punishment!" Peashy then ran forward and jumped over several of the men and landed behind C-Sha, punching the cuffs so hard that they shattered into pieces. "Booby Lady needs a spanking later! So does Blanny!" Pea then ran towards Azna=Leb and slid under a soldier that tried to grab her. "Sorry, Pea doesn't like your type." She then jumped over another soldier before landing on Blanc's head and using that as a spring-board to launch herself at Azna=Leb. "Atatatatatatatata!" Peashy yelled and punched Azna=Leb over and over again, and to the shock of everyone, her punches slammed the redhead into the wall so hard that it was starting to crack.

"Peashy!" Blanc yelled and ran up to her. "You shouldn't do that! A CPU should never hurt other people!" She yelled while grabbing Peashy's arm, stopping her from punching Azna=Leb.

Peashy gave her a look that had Blanc pause for a moment. "Bad people do bad things, take over your nation and then force you to do bad things for their stupid, sick fun." Peashy spat on the ground and pulled her arm away from Blanc. "Fine, but he's a bad man who lied to Boobie Lady saying that Blanny was a bad person and then tried to tell Blanny that Booby Lady was a bad person!"

"Wait, what?" Both Blanc and C-Sha said at the same time while Peashy nodded.

"Uh huh, Pea saw all of it!"

The soldiers looked at each other in confusion.

"Ngh, arrest them! All of them!" Azna=Leb yelled as he clutched his stomach and stood up while coughing blood and staggering. "They're all enemies of the state and need to be put down!"

Blanc was about to say something when a large ice chunk hit Azna=Leb in the head and he was knocked onto his side. "What the..?"

"Blanc!" Rom yelled from the end of the alleyway. "M-Miss Financier said something bad was going to happen." She trembled while Ram stood next to her.

"Yikes, what is going on here?"

The soldiers looked confused and Peashy looked frustrated. 'Dang it, if I could just transform!' She thought to herself.

"Stop!" Blanc yelled as she transformed and looked at the soldiers. "Are you not soldiers of Lowee? Ask yourself this, if C-Sha or I were truly bad guys who were going to hurt the people of this country, don't you think we would have hurt you?"

"That's right!" Ram nodded and frowned at the soldiers. "My big sister would never do something like that. There were bandits that teased her for being flat-chested and even said she had pimple nipples and she let them live."

White Heart grimaced at the memory. 'Ram, I am *SO* going to make you pay for that one, later.'

"And Miss C-Sha's not a bad person." Rom spoke up.

"But, we were told..." One of the soldiers tried to speak before getting hit in the head by a snowball.

"Bad man! No listen to bad man!" Peashy yelled and mentally cursed the fact that she was limited in her speech due to the fact that she was only five years old physically. Everyone looked at Peashy and she took a deep breath. "Pea knows! Pea knows he sounds right! Pea knows people like him trick everyone else! But Pea also knows that he's lying!" She pointed at all the soldiers. "And you're all big dumb poopy heads for listening to him!"

"The little girl is right." Financier said as she walked out from behind Peashy. The maid gave the soldiers a look of disappointment. "Lady Blanc and Lady C-Sha have been working hard along with Lady Rom, Lady Ram and Lady Peashy to deal with monsters and protect the citizens. If either of them were bad people who were going to hurt the people of Lowee, don't you think they would have had plenty of opportunities to do so by now?"

The soldiers looked at each other and nodded. One of them stepped forward and looked at Blanc, who had transformed back to her human form. "I want to apologize, I was..." He stopped when Blanc held up a hand.

"It's fine, just don't do it again." Blanc told him and he nodded. She looked at C-Sha, who looked conflicted. "C-Sha..."

C-Sha sighed softly. "Well, I've been made a fool of." She chuckled and rubbed the back of her head. "I'm sorry, Blanny."

"I am too." Blanc smiled at her.

"So what should we do with the big dummy?" Ram, who was poking Azna=Leb with a stick, asked as she looked at the unconscious body. "Let's doodle on his face!" She giggled and pulled out a marker.

"Sounds like fun." C-Sha laughed as the twins both started to draw on Azna=Leb's face.

Blanc looked at the soldiers. "I want you to do something." The soldiers looked at her and nodded. "That man, he knows something about the current state of Lowee. You need to interrogate him and find out what it is."

"Of course."

After getting things set up and the twins to stop doodling on Azna=Leb's face, Blanc looked at C-Sha and sighed. "Come on, let's go back, we have things to talk about."

C-Sha nodded. "Yeah."

As they walked back to their hotel room, Blanc sighed softly. 'Even if she is childish...' She looked at Peashy and nodded. 'She handled that like a seasoned CPU.'

'I guess it's time to tell my sisters and prepare them for what happens next.'

...You know what? Have a bonus omake. No, this isn't part of the main story, I'm just throwing it in because it's fun.

Omake

"How are we in this position?" C-Sha asked as she and Blanc were bent over the bed, their bare butts sticking out while Rom and Ram stood behind them with paddles.

"Because Peashy says that we both need a spanking and after seeing what she did to Azna=Leb, I'm not letting her give me one." Blanc muttered. "Plus, this isn't part of the story, otherwise I'd be more against it."

"Time for spankings!" The twins cheered and gave both Blanc and C-Sha three hard swats with the paddle each. They both knew that if they did anymore that Blanc would make them pay for it.

Even if it was just an omake.

Peashy just watched while taking pictures.

...Couldn't help myself, really.