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And here it is, the final chapter. If I continue this too much, it'll just drag on forever.

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Chapter 77

Sighing as she looked out into the city as the rain came down, Neptune shook her head. "Perfectly good day to just do nothing, huh?" She looked over her shoulder to see Sobar coming into the room with a tray of some hot liquid. "Aww, for me?" She smiled at him as he chuckled. "How have you been adjusting?" Neptune had a concerned look on her face as he waved off her concerns.

"I mostly stay inside and artificial light doesn't bother me." Sobar reminded her as he sat at the table next to Neptune. "Plus I've been here for a week now, give me a few more weeks and I'll be fully adjusted I think." He looked out the window and raised an eyebrow at how heavy the rain was coming down. "It's really coming down, huh?"

Neptune nodded. "Yeah, I always found it weird that even when it was daylight, with the rain, it makes the world look completely different, you know?"

"Feels nice to me." Sobar said and looked at the door as Ouya walked in.

"Hey, mommy..." Ouya smiled at Neptune, who looked at her curiously. "Um, someone's here to see you."

"That's odd." Neptune tapped the air in front of her as a screen popped up. "I don't have anyone scheduled to meet with today. The office didn't call about any surprise dignitaries..." She had a confused look on her face as she closed the screen. "So who is..." She trailed off as she saw someone walk in behind Ouya. "Miss Flonne?"

"Hi." Flonne smiled brightly at Neptune. "I was wondering how Nepgear was coming along with my robot and I needed to talk to you about some stuff."

Neptune scratched the back of her head. "Well, from what I know, she..." Neptune trailed off as there was a rumbling and shaking that had the four of them staggering around before a loud thump caused all of them to jump. "What the Nep?!"

A screen popped up in front of Neptune, showing the inside of a cockpit where Nepgear, her bigger self and a glowing book. "Hey, Onee-chan." Nepgear smiled at Neptune. "Oh! Miss Flonne's here too! Good, I just finished fixing up your robot, Miss Flonne and was flying it around, no loss of power despite flying for more than an hour."

Flonne's eyes started to sparkle. "How exciting! I want to fly it after I'm done here!"

Ouya looked at Flonne in confusion. "...How come you and Big Sis Peashy sound alike when you get excited?" It was really uncanny how much this Angel and Peashy sounded alike.

"Don't worry about it." Both Flonne and Neptune said at the same time.

"So, what did you need to talk about?" Neptune asked as she motioned for Flonne to sit at the table across from her.

As she sat down, Flonne's smile disappeared as she took on a more serious look. "It's about Artina. When I volunteered for her to be a live-in maid for awhile, I started to think and..."

"You're worried that we'll abuse her and that anything we do to her we'd dismiss as not being a big deal and that she was over-exaggerating?" Neptune asked and Flonne nodded, causing Neptune to sigh. "If I said I wouldn't do that, I'd be lying. It's tempting to make her walk around in some skimpy floss bikini so she could be groped and fondled and humiliated."

Flonne frowned in worry while Sobar looked at Neptune with a neutral expression on his face.

Neptune closed her eyes and shook her head. "But I won't do that. Vert, Blanc and Noire won't do it either. Peashy might want to play a bit too rough and Plutie, well..." Neptune opened her eyes and scratched her cheek as she continued. "She's not as bad as she used to be, unless you really make her mad." Neptune clarified with a nod from Flonne. "Though, she has to wear a specific uniform." Neptune had a bit of a lewd grin on her face. "She needs to wear either frilly or lacy panties and has to have a garter belt on with stockings."

Flonne blinked in surprise. "Uh... Is that..." There was a knock on the door and everyone turned as a redheaded maid with short hair walked in.

"Lady Neptune, I'm here to do the daily cleaning and... Oh!" She gasped in surprise. "I'm sorry, I had no clue that we had a VIP here." She grabbed the sides of her skirt and performed a curtsy for Flonne. "Forgive me for interrupting your meeting."

"Mary." Neptune spoke up as the maid turned to leave. The maid looked back at her. "Every maid wears the same outfit as you do, right?"

"Yes." She nodded. "Either a full-length black skirt with an apron on it like I am, or a shorter blue skirt when it gets warmer out so that we're not soaking in our sweat at the end of the day." Mary tilted her head. "Are our uniforms changing? If so, some of us would like to wear Yoga pants."

Neptune thought about it and tapped her chin. "Hmm... Might not be a bad idea, I'll have to think about it." Mary nodded and left after doing another curtsy.

"...Yoga pants are still in style?" Ouya asked and Neptune nodded. "...Those things were ancient even back before I got sealed up, mommy."

"Anything that can make butts look good always stays in style." Neptune winked at Ouya before smiling at Flonne. "I won't make her wear high heels or anything like that with a tiny mini-skirt so she flashes her panties, okay?"

"Then why do you have underwear requirements?" Flonne asked with a confused look on her face.

"Your underwear should match your outerwear." Neptune, Ouya and Sobar all said in perfect synchronization, causing Flonne to gawk at them in shock with blank, white eyes surrounded by black rings.

"I... I see." Flonne sputtered. "So, you won't treat her worse than your other maids?"

Neptune took a deep breath and sighed. "I won't be watching her much. So long as she doesn't do anything malicious or bad, she won't have to worry about me. Noire though..." Neptune giggled and Flonne began to worry. "She might force Artina to have roles in plays that we put on from time to time. Plus she might have Artina act as the mannequin when we need to change outfits."

"Well, don't go overboard." Flonne warned Neptune. "If you do, I'll make you suffer if you hurt Artina."

"Nothing more than being sore for working all day." Neptune told her. "The other maids will help her with her duties until she gets used to what she needs to do and will explain everything to her." When Flonne looked concerned, Neptune shook her head. "There's no abuse. I won't tolerate it, even if it's Artina who's getting it." Neptune had a serious look on her face. "I had to deal with racism and discrimination against people who were innocent of what happened for centuries, Flonne, I didn't even let the people hurt any Mole People after we got free from our brainwashing."

Flonne looked into Neptune's eyes for several minutes before nodding. "Okay, I believe you." She then smiled brightly. "Now then, I'm going to go play in my robot!" She turned and ran out with her arms spread to the side. "WHOOSH!"

"You know, I wonder why aunt Nepgear hasn't come out of the robot yet." Ouya idly asked.

(-)

Inside said robot...

"So, why aren't we leaving?" Neptune asked in confusion as she looked at Nepgear pressing several buttons and flipping switches.

"I need to make sure that this thing powers down properly and..." Nepgear trailed off as she heard a knocking on the top hatch. "Um, Neptune, can you go and see who that is?"

"Sure." The bigger version of her sister smiled and climbed up to see who it was. Less than a minute later a voice came calling back. "It's a cute blonde in a white outfit that's see-through, letting me see her cute body and she's saying her name's Flonne, should I let her in?"

"YES!" Nepgear called out. A few moments later both Neptune and Flonne, who was dripping wet, entered the cockpit.

"Ooooh!" Flonne's blue eyes sparkled as she saw all the buttons on the control console. "This is so awesome! I wanna fly it!"

"Well, it is your robot." Neptune smiled nervously as Nepgear got up and Flonne jumped over the seat but not quite making it as she ended up bent over the top of the seat, sticking her butt out at Neptune's face. "Careful there," Neptune helped Flonne flip over so she was sitting on the seat, "if you were any more wet, I might see something you don't want me to see."

Flonne gave her a confused look before shaking her head and looking at Nepgear. "So, want to show me what each button does? Because this is way different than what I had before."

"Yeah, I had to overhaul a lot of the robot." Nepgear nodded as she began explaining what she did. "Even the armor wasn't that great, so I had to upgrade the armor, fix the hydraulics and change your power supply and converters. But don't worry, I left the weapon systems alone and kept it looking the same as before."

"YAY!" Flonne happily clapped as she eagerly listened to what each button did.

(-)

A few minutes later...

Neptune, Ouya, Histoire and Sobar all watched as the Great Flonzor Z suddenly flew into the air and took off out of the city. "Well, I hope that's..." Neptune sweat-dropped as the robot flew higher into the sky and started to do barrel rolls while flying in circles. "Well, at least that's that."

Histoire frowned in confusion. "Why do I think we forgot something?"

"Um, mommy..?" Ouya's face was pale as Neptune and Histoire both looked at her curiously. "What about the automatic missile defense system that we have to destroy giant robots, hostile alien ships and meteors?"

Neptune and Histoire's eyes both went white and blank with black circles as they looked back at the robot flying up in the air. "OH NO!" Both of them screamed while Neptune quickly called up a communication screen to reveal the inside of the other Basilicom, which was a lot more metal, compartmentalized and professional compared to the CPU's living quarters.

"Can I help you?" One of the staff members asked in confusion.

"This is CPU Neptune, you need to turn off the automatic missile defense grid. I'm giving you full authorization to do so. DO IT NOW!"

"Yeek!" The secretary yelped and nodded while pushing buttons and barking out orders. "Um, Lady Neptune, I apologize..." She looked absolutely miserable as she looked at Neptune. "While I got most of them, about ten missiles were launched."

"NO!" Neptune yelled as she turned away to look up in the sky in horror as the Great Flonzor Z was met by ten really fast missiles that converged and exploded, covering the robot with clouds and debris. "NEPGEAR!"

A moment later, the Great Flonzor Z flew out of the smoke and debris with only a few scratches on it.

"HUH!?" Neptune, Ouya, Histoire and Sobar all asked at the same time.

A new screen popped up with both Flonne and Nepgear laughing while the other Neptune just smiled nervously. "Sorry if you got worried, Tiny Me, but Nepgear thought it would be a good show to let you see the upgrades she put on this thing."

"...Jus...Just be more careful, okay?" Neptune asked and her other self nodded as the screen turned off. "...Now I know what it's like to be on the other side of a prank."

Histoire nodded and gave Neptune an amused look. "Not so fun, now is it?"

Neptune nodded as she slumped in her chair. "I'm just glad that this is all over."

Ages End

Peashy and Flonne are both voiced by Sandy Vox in the English Dub.

So, yeah, this is the end of Ages. I'll write up an afterword later when I have time to gather up my thoughts on everything.

"No epilogue?" You might ask. Well... I could write one up, but I think it's a good time to end the story as it is. There aren't any real loose threads left to cover I think and I don't want to drag this on anymore than it has to be.