I'm going to explain this now to avoid confusion. The reason that Uni doesn't recognize Neptune is because she is older because she disconnected herself from shares for a few years to 'grow up' a bit. And how she took on all of is because while messing with the sharacites, she connected herself to all of them and took them by surprise. She disconnected herself after the battle before any of the CPUs or Oracles could find out. Oh yea. Before I forget this is sometime after Megadimension when they obtained their next forms.
Chapter 3- Emma's POV
Croire fell off her tome laughing her ass off when see saw me come home with bright neon orange hair and an irritated look on my face. I just glared at her and told "I'll dye it back to black in a couple days." Before going up to my room to sleep. The kids were already in bed so I was able to get to sleep quickly without them rushing me.
~Next Afternoon~
"Alright everyone dinner's nearly ready!" I yell throughout the house, before walking back to the kitchen to check on the pizzas. Everyone agreed that's what they wanted so I took a quick stop to grab some. Despite the rumors I can cook nothing fancy but definitely tasty I wonder if I could have won Noire's heart with my cooking skills if I wasn't so dense. 'Hmm need to study up and practice more even if just to be a better cook.'
I look at my watch, 6:45, I wonder when Uni and Falcom will show up? We agreed on 6:30. I hear a knock at the door and I walk into the living room to see Nepgear answering the door. (Big) Uni freezes when she sees Nepgear and a younger cuter version of herself.
Nepgear points at (Big) Uni. "Look Uni there's a bigger you!"
(Small) Uni walks up to her other self eying her from head to toe before she starts jumping up and down in excitement. "This is awesome!"
I just raise an eyebrow at them. "Just call her Aunt Uni." I say walking back into the kitchen with an unseen smirk on my face. I can imagine the shock look 'Aunt' Uni is giving me.
Croire suddenly flew over to me and hit me hard on the head with her small fists. "Are you crazy!? She's from your dimension, she might recognize you!" She shouts in anger.
I rub my head, man for her size she really hits hard! "It's fine I look and act almost completely different from my past self, I even have a different name."
She just gives me a 'really?' face. "Don't be so overconfident."
I just wave her off and pull the pizzas from the oven careful not to touch the sides of the oven and burn myself. A tip Abby gave me. She responds by hitting me again in the this time with a wooden ladle.
"Nepu!" I exclaim, rubbing my head in pain.
I quickly cut up the pizzas and carry them into the dining room. I put them down, and walk into the living room to see Falcom twirling Rom and Ram on her palms. Something I told her not do as it scares the crap out of me!
"Falcom how many times do I have to say don't do that!?" I ask her, my hands on my hips in a threateningly.
She smiles apologetically. "I couldn't resist their puppy dog eyes." She says putting them down gently cautious of a mother's wrath.
"Awww." They both groaned.
"Alright everyone. Dinner's done. I hope you two don't mind pepperoni pizza." I say to them off hand.
"It's fine." 'Aunt' Uni says I can still here a hint of shock in her voice from seeing her other self.
Falcom almost sprints into the dining room with the children while 'Aunt' Uni and I walk after them at a more normal pace. They act like they haven't eaten in days.
Falcom started handing out the food to the kids, I make a mental note to thank her later and I grab myself a few slices. 'Aunt' Uni freezes and reaches for a weapon that isn't there when Croire flies into the room. She still remembers 'those' days. This may not end well my hand reaches for my concealed sidearm, hey don't judge me for being over cautious when I have kids to protect now.
I get ready to intervene but she calms down a little bit. "Sorry, you look just like someone I know." 'Aunt' Uni says to Croire apologizing for her almost hostile action.
Croire just says "It's fine." In response calmly as if it wasn't a problem at all.
I get a couple bites into my pizza second when Croire looks at me worried. "Emma there's trouble in town!"
I then hear a faint explosion. I drop my pizza and sprint up stairs to my room, throw on my gear/weapons, and head back down stairs.
"Croire!" I shout instinctively luckily Croire knows what's going through my head.
"Already on it!" Croire say back to me having prepared in advance.
A swirling vortex opens up in front of me and I jump in. My vision goes black for a few seconds before it returns showing the the side of the grocery store, it's windows shattered. I turn to my right and see a group of monsters running after someone.
I unsheath my twin arming swords and dash forward, hacking the monsters to pieces as effectively as possible. I take a quick look around and see the whole town under siege.
"That's weird. This is the largest group that has attacked so far." I muttered to myself in thought of this strange occurance.
A deafening roar shook the battlefield. I turn towards the direction. An Ancient Dragon was slowly digging its way into a brick building. It stuck it's head into the building, as I make my way over while it's distracted. Where are the guild members and soldiers? I sheath my arming swords and take out my daggers. I can't do this next part with swords. This should be easy well for me at least.
When I reach one of its hind legs I jump up and stab one of the daggers between its scales drawing fresh blood. The dragon jerked back and tried to reach me with its jaws. I lodged the other dagger higher up and climbed onto its back as it struggled.
"Harder than it looked." I muttered to myself as this was much harder than I thought.
It started to try to shake me off when I reached its neck. It almost became unbearable when I reached its head. When I reach its eye it bucked causing me to lose one of my daggers. Damn it! Taking out one of my Colt 45's, I unload the entire clip into its eye, before I drop it in favour of simply punching it. I need to get through it. I removed the eyelid to the dragon's eye before grabbing a grenade from my belt and shoving it inside its eye socket.
I let go and let it launches me down the street below. The grenade erupted taking half the dragons head with it showing the area in tiny bits of dragon scales and bones. It stumbled around before collapsing and turning into pixels signalling its death.
LEVEL UP!
Finally. Only took six months. Even though I have this special exp booster ring and went out every weekend.
I get up as a couple guild members run by. Really!? Now they show up!? Someone patted me on my back. I turn my head to find out it's Charlie. She was balancing her rifle on her left shoulder while her right arm is around my shoulder.
"Sorry we were late. Had another Ancient Dragon to take care of. It was kind of you to go one woman army over here" She says calmly with a hint of excitement. There were two of those things?
"How long this been going on?" I ask curious for an answer to this madness.
"I'd say an hour at least." Charlie tells me after a brief pause.
"Croire sensed something going on a few minutes ago so I hopped over to help. Don't know if Falcom followed or not."
A deep boom went off overhead and I jumped. Looking up I see Uni transformed holder her 'mini artillery cannon' as that was the only way to describe it.
"Knowing the other guild members there's going to be a victory party held. You should join us." Charlie says hoping I'll take the offer.
"We have work in the morning." I reply bluntly.
"Well, we have at least a week off due to the building being partially destroyed." Charlie points to our work building with a large chunk taken out of it.
"Fine I'll have a couple drinks then." I relented much to Charlie's delight.
It took several more hours to clean up the remaining monsters. Now though, I was sitting at a booth with Charlie, Falcom, and a couple other guildmates at the bar. Due to there being several Ancient Dragons being in town we get free drinks for the whole night Hell yeah! I'm so glad I agreed to this.
After the battle had ended, everyone that helped in defending got together for a group photo. Uni had to leave after that so she couldn't hang out with us. Some guild members were doing a karaoke tournament. I could win it in my sleep if I wanted to join. The next person is a guy in his mid twenties. He was wearing a black trenchcoat, cargo pants, combat boots, and a t-shirt. He had short black hair, silver eyes, and a goatee. I start paying attention to the lyrics. This should be good.
"I never been so torn up in all of my life
I should have seen this coming
I've never felt so hopeless
Than I do tonight
I don't wanna do this anymore. I'm moving on" {10 points to who knows this song first}
"Emma" Falcom says. I turn towards her. She lifts her glass. "A toast to our epic victory tonight!"
"Cheers!" Everyone shouts before downing their drinks. I might actually get a hangover in the morning from this, oh well.
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Written by: Project Omega
Co Writer: Alternet RedSkys
Edited by: XYZDreadnought
Thank you all for reading. The next chapter is either going to be all or mostly in Uni's pov. Please review on what you all think or just to list your opinions.
