The Running CPU

by Project 0mega

Neptune believes shes done the unthinkable and has ran away to a new dimension as a result. But one day she runs into an old acquaintance, Uni while living her new life. She hopes her changed look and personality makes it so Uni wont realize its her. To top it off a new powerful enemy has emerged. Can Neptune and the new CPU's defeat it or do they need help from outside sources.

27. Chapter 26

Chapter 26 - Emma's Pov - A Year & a few months later

I watch as the toddler giggled as I bounced her on my knee. The small pink strip in her short hair bouncing. I wasn't expecting there to be two children created by the sharicite after fucking the cultist that one time. It took some explaining after they grilled me about fucking someone when I went to look for Nepgear.

But well shit happens when you deal with stressful shit. I'm more horny than before anyways. Though I was soon broken from my thoughts when Scrappy called me.

I pick up my phone and looked at it. I answer it and hold it to my ear. "May I have the pleasure to know why you're calling instead of just coming by?"

"We sorta got a Code Loki from the last dimension we were in. Some asshole tried to kill one of my girlfriends when she was in the hospital. It was a simple mission completed the first part and major part. Alex took the person out but they pretty much vanished. Anyways we decided on your place as it's the easiest to get to on short notice. Anyways we arrived in Leanbox." Well at least I have a heads up.

"Uh sure. Though you know how things are here. You know we have the room." I say.

"Yeah and currently things are a bit rocky in Brave so I'd like to avoid it at the moment. Just feels like every mission I go on has at least one moment that makes me want to blow shit up." Guessing it's not only the loki wannabe that has her all grumpy. She's too young to be grumpy all the time that's us old people's job to be grumpy even then Lucy is a bucket of sunshine.

"Ah. Well you can stay here as long as you want. I don't have a problem just warn them of the 'pudding' in case they don't want any." I say as the conversation was close to closing.

"Alright then I'll tell them to avoid the any pudding then. Thanks for this. I'll be sure to pay Mini a visit and judge her work. We'll be over to talk more soon best to say sensitive stuff face to face. See you soon." She says back as she hangs up.

I place my phone back into my inventory as I get up. I'll drop Lauren here off at the nursery before greeting them when they show up.

I get up holding her in my arms as I walk out seeing some of the younger kids playing around with the ghouls sticking to the high places like they are always fond of. Though I'm seeing more and more of the Void angels taking on their shadow forms their wings varying in color though all with Cyan streaks in them.. It was nice seeing an almost non existent race start to take off. With me being the genesis for most of them.

I quickly drop off Lauren, placing her in a crib with her with her twin. I then make my way outside to wait for them. After a few minutes I spot their forms flying towards me. Right as they landed I say "I am guessing it's been awhile for you all. Given the times."

"Yeah year and a half for us a month to you. Some bastard is deciding they want to play a game with us. They are ballsy forsure to mess with my father's family. How's Mini doing?" Scrappy asks.

Better than what she has been. "She is doing fine. Even if I didn't like the project you sent her at first. Though I agreed to let her do it as long as someone was there. And you don't have to worry with many fucking with you here. Not many like to mess with me much less this household."

As I was finishing it up I sense Nepgear running out and jumping at Scrappy. Hugging her around the waist. "ONII-CHAN SENSIE IS BACK!"

I chuckle a little. "It is fine if they stay here. There are a shit ton of rooms open for you all. And I'd like for you both to stay for at least a few days before your mission." I suggest since the rest can hear the conversation.

"Sounds good. We could use the rest. Right Scrap?" Alex then asks as Scrap pats Mini's head. "Sorry Mini I'll be right down to check on your work I just need to take a break real quick." She says as she walked into the nearby forest.

"If you want to go inside and help them pick out a room you can. Just ask Quantum on which rooms are open. If you're hungry just go to the kitchen and ask." I say while motioning to the mansion. "I may talk to Scrappy before she comes back." I say softly to Alex.

"I've noticed. Also don't break anything. Or fall through the floor." I say grinning as I walked after Scrappy.

It took her a second to get it. "HEY! I'm not that heavy!"

I bust out laughing as I walked past the treeline.

After a while I soon saw Scrap take out a shadow brand cigarette lit it and take a few takes of it before she got some text messages as she looked at her phone and replied before sighing. "No rest for the wicked it seems. At least Nana is back."

"That's good. I take it she was a wraith same as you?" I ask leaning against a tree.

"Yeah a Blood Wraith Different Bias factor used to make us. We were just unsure if the process fully took hold before she was killed. Had a feeling it was you who was following me." So there's a process and already different variants interesting.

"Well I mainly wanted to chat a little away from prying ears. Unless you'd rather we do a match to beat your frustrations out?" I suggest.

"Sorry been in a death game for little over a year. Don't really feel like fighting currently or in the right mental state to not use a shit ton of rockets. So I say talk and what about?" Scrap asked taking another smoke from her cig. Man the shadow versions are strong but don't really smell like tobacco ones.

"You're saying it like you'd need to nuke this place for you to win against me." I say smirking. "But if you wish to talk. Talk of what you want to. If you need to let something off your chest I'll gladly lend an ear to listen."

"Eh that's just my response to dealing with ones that like to move fast. Worked on a few assholes. But long story short. I started a guild took some of my most trusted and long lasting members with me to a meeting with the guy doing the whole death game and he promised them a quick way out, all they had to do was help him rape me the biggest threat to his plans. He used a console command to paralyze me. Which I love to see him try in real life with my oracle cells. But then him and them raped me not sparing and inch. Some of them even rubbed themselves on my feet. I already talked with Alex on it but it's just the first in a list of bullshit." Scrappy told me with a frustrated sigh.

I sigh myself. "It is frustrating what even the most trusted people will betray you for a hint of their own survival or increase in wealth. Sadly it's the life of many beings out there. They would rather betray a friend than stand with them." I say sadly. I want to track them down and torment them. Even if they have died. There is many ways to torment souls. I may just go do that later.

"Yeah luckily my original Blood team is as close as family I can say the same about most members of the far east like Kota who are extremely loyal. You survive in a war against monsters and betrayal isn't an option at least to those who fight alongside you."

"Tell me about it. Then again it took me a few years to even trust anyone here to an extent. Even after they saved my life and gave me back an arm." I say moving it.

"Trust is easily lost and hard to gain back. Alex told me a rough general statement of her experiences. So anything else or do you want to blow some shit up?" Scrappy told me as she made a couple hand grenades.

"Sure we can blow things up. Though we can't blow too much up now." I say to her.

"Just point to what you don't want blown up and what you want to get rid of like that dead tree here I'll let you toss the first one." She told me as she put a grenade in my hands.

"I can just create my own but then again. My explosions may be a little bigger than needed. But nothing near the mansion." I say.

"Alright so chuck them more to the east then. Not too big not too small. You want to go first or should I?" Scrappy tells me as she tosses her grenade up and down like a toy.

I reel my arm back and I chucked it eastward. Watching it sail through the air.

About a second before it hit the ground it exploded blowing a large cloud of dirt, pebbles and leafs everywhere. It left like a three meter crater while trees 8 meters out we're scorched.

"Impressive." I say creating one of my hand grenades. Tossing it up and down.

"That was my low end mass produce variant. Basic room clearer. Lets see what you can do with yours." Scrappy told me after chucking her's.

I then chuck mine after pulling the pin. Making sure to toss it further than I did hers knowing the explosion would be bigger.

And of course mine sent some trees flying while Scraps blew up almost in a disk shape.

"That's what my normal grenades do." I say after mine went off.

"Impressive my normal ones are mostly the easy to make room clearers. Worst I can do is the Photon bombs but those take awhile to make. I can store a few for the just incase but I rather not make any if I can avoid having a nuke in my pockets at any time. So how did you like the cutter? It's meant to explode along a plane to collapse stuff. Want to go bigger?" Sure why the heck not. But I'll need to ask her about that cute female trap she brought along.

I pull out a block of C4. "We can. Also I take it that human you brought along is your new girlfriend?" I ask.

"Yeah Kazuto is her name no one would bang her before I took a shot at her. Then every bitch in the country wanted a piece of her. I was going to bed her cousin but Alex said to wait after the mission… She didn't say anything about Kazuto. She's good at using long swords both single and dual wielding. But I need to make her a real pair now. Also she was blessed as my mom being on of her priestesses I think now. Think Sade would appreciate a long sword as well or some other melee weapon?" Hmm That would be a good gift for Sade a quality weapon.

"Hmm. I think creating a longsword that has a few options to it would be good." I say.

"AH! You mean like a variant weapon that can switch forms!? Sure I could with runes and the shape make it able to switch between an Axe, Polearm maybe even a whip blade or maybe a gunblade in it's default form. So many possibilities to choose from, especially with the alloy I'm planning on using." Oh boy I let the mad scientist out.

I just grin as she goes on. Listening to what she's saying. I'm used to it since Nepgear acts the same way talking about things. "That is fine. I bet she'll love it when you give it to her." I say.

"Yeah hey got some of her blood or DNA on hand so I can bind it to her after I make it so she'd always have it?" A little creepy but then again she is technically a blood mage.

"Currently no I do not. There may be some in the medbay but I'm not certain." I say.

"I'll talk with her later then in the final steps. Yeah also I had Dante move Mercury to Ultra given the politics in Brave are getting annoying. And with the cult it's safer in Ultra. So anything else you want to talk about while we are covered in dirt?" Scrap asked giving me a good chance to talk about some stuff.

"We were mainly here to talk about you to be honest. While yes I've had to do a few things making me more busy than I'd like. I can live with it. That has me thinking. If you don't want to do this many missions why haven't you requested a faction transfer?" Even in Lia's faction they should get a certain amount of time off between missions.

Scrappy sighs. "Nyx said it isn't usually this bad. But it's mostly I know more people on Lia's side than omega's granted my mom works with both so no problems there. I don't know I like working with Alex. She's been more of a mother to me than my own biological parents. Even then my Squad is a bit disjointed after our captain's screw up landed her in jail."

"Ah. I heard of that. Though I have a suggestion. You can still stay in your squad if you go into Omega's fraction. Though it gets a little wonky I can say though. You won't have to do missions assigned to you by Lia's faction. You'd have a choice to do it with your squad or not. Though for Omega's fraction you are required to do two, three missions a year. Depending on where you are at the time. And the good part is you can choose which missions you want to do." I say. I currently have to do four missions a year though since I signed up on it. Though it lets me have a year off every five years.

"I see. Right now my Squad is mostly all over the place. Me and Alex are currently doing long term missions. Well we completed the first part of one and the second one we haven't gotten to yet though it was made on the request of the magic association. They want to see how my magic would work in that world given they haven't had any Old bloods to send into lower average magic worlds. I'll talk to Sam about it. I usually talk with her before making big decisions." That's good she doesn't make decisions like this lightly.

"That sounds good. Also I'll let you know a benefit of my faction. Depending on what missions you take and how many you can get time off. Like for example I'm doing four average missions a year and I get one full year off ever five." I'd do more or do more dangerous ones but many average ones don't take that long.

"I see it's better than being at the whims of the higher ups which missions you get assigned. No offense to long term missions but they can be a bit annoying. I think Alex would agree with me on that." Scrap told me with a sigh as she clapped her hands and formed two comfy looking chairs for us to sit in. "Better we take a seat while we talk than stand."

"I can agree. Also even if the mission is a lower rating. If it lasts long enough it'll qualify as a higher rating one." I say.

"Yeah while in Lia's long term average mission payout the same even if they take years mostly. I think Alex would like it better in Omega's given she prefers to not be away from her family for long. Might want to suggest it to her. Would make the idea of switching easier." Mommy's girl.

"You should talk to her about it. And make the decision together. Now I don't know how much you get paid for your missions but I'm able to keep at least 90 percent of the pay from mine. The only continuous paying ones is mainly Sentry where you get paid a certain amount a year while sitting in a dimension. Which I do on top of the other four I do."

"I see. So you actually get some level of choice. I prefer exploration missions to be honest. I don't know why I just really like seeing new stuff and places. Well anyways we should think about getting back before they throw a fit. I'll talk to Alex about it." Scrappy told me as she drew some signs in the air forming a portal.

"Fine fine." I say getting up. "Though if you want to talk later just say so alright."

"I will but it might take awhile to forge the weapons maybe a good few weeks." Scrappy tells me as we walk through the portal soon greeted by the rest.

"That's fine. As long as you clean up after yourself and don't burn anything down." I say as we walked inside with me chuckling. I walk up to Nepgear ruffling up her hair and apologizing for not paying much attention to her recently. I agree when Nepgear asks if she could journey with Scrappy after saying she could as long as she didn't go on too dangerous of missions. We talked for a minute before I pointed out where the forge Scrappy wanted to use was.

Before Alex or I joined them I gave her a quick back massage after she requested to talk in private. Which I found out some information I didn't like. After we were done I led Alex down to the forge where we talked for a minute. "Alright. Anyways I'd love to stay down here and all but I have shit to do. Be careful." I say stepping back into the Elevator as they were getting to work.

It was nice seeing this old forge finally being used by someone I'm going to take a peak at those swords when they're done just to see how good Scrappy's craftsmanship is.

I made my way back upstairs. I do need to do a few things. Especially since I need to check on a few people.

After getting back up I made my way to my first destination while bringing up Quantum's tablet.

Hmm. I decided to see how Blanc was doing. We got quite a few more books for her and I want to see if she has enough room for them.

When I got in I saw her arranging her personal library into bookshelves and her extra height really helped her in that regard.

"Do we have the room for them all?" I ask. I know how much she loves reading books.

"Yes, though I had to do a little rearranging to maximize space to fit them all. Do you need something Emma?" Blanc asked stepping down and walking to me.

"I was just coming to see if we had the room? If not we'd most likely have to enchant this room or make it bigger. Well I guess both would end in the same result."

"True but from experience enchanting helps maximize space. Anything else I can do for you while your here?" Blanc asked as she gave me a quick peck on the cheek.

"That's up to you. Do you want anything while I'm here?" I ask grinning at her.

"Maybe a little love from you if you aren't too busy." Blanc asks as she leans closer to me.

I smile. "I guess I can spare some time for you." I say giving her a peck.

"Then we should take this to the couch then Emma." Blanc nuzzles against my neck as she purrs a little in delight.

I then lift her up and walk over to the couch kissing her. It wasn't before I unbuttoned her blouse and pulled down her skirt trailing kisses on her collarbone as my hands worked her palm sized breasts.

I then slowly start kissing and licking her skin going lower and lower. I'm lucky I got that Engineer upgrade or else Blanc's strength as she pulled my head closer to her scared area would be too much as I lapped at it hungrily. Makes me wonder how high Scrap's Sex drive is since she's Zoey's kid.

I grin as I placed my lips around her cunt as I began sucking at it. Causing her to tense up and pushing my head further into her.

I got few gasps and moans as I kept going. She was so cute in bed. Though all things considered this Blanc was more chill than any I come across so far. Not to mention adorable… With a bust.

I raise my hand as I start fingering her to increase her pleasure. She got even cuter when started moaning and getting wet. I move up to suck on Blanc's breast as I picked up the pace with my fingers.

"Enjoying this kitten?" I whisper to her as I sucked on her breast.

"Yyyess it feels soo good." She purred back her face looked to be in complete bliss I wonder if I'll get her knocked up via energy.

I increase the pace of my fingers. Even moving them around to massage her walls. "Guess I can make you feel better than."

"Ssoo good! I'm getting close Emma!" Blanc's body also tells me as it starts squeezing down on my fingers as the climax neared.

"Cum for me." I whisper in her ear as I curled my fingers in her.

She let out a small scream as she climaxed on my fingers soaking them in her climax. She has such a cute and peaceful look on her face as she enjoyed her orgasmic high.

I nibbled at her ear as she came off the high as she still clung to me. "Enjoy yourself?"

"Yes there's a reason why I only let you touch me like that." Blanc told me as she snuggled closer.

"And I'm glad because only I can see those cute faces you make when I pleasure you."

She gives my cheek a kiss. "You're damn right. But I'm sure you have other places you need to get to."

"Sadly I do. Better have a good rest of your day." I say giving her one more kiss.

"I will now thanks to you. Have a good day Emma." Blanc then snuggles into fall asleep, I gave her one of my hoodies so she can stay warm.. And it did have the perfume I usually use on it.

I smile as I left. Now who to visit next. Maybe Noire or some of the kids? Maybe I'll tease that Kazuto girl some.

I start walking around to see if I could spot her. If not I'd just ask Quantum for her location.

I then see Kazuto running down the halls with a couple of the Lust angels chasing after her.. Nope if that was me back then I'd book it too.

"Hey hey hey. What did I say about running in the halls and what is the problem here?" I ask.

"They.. They were trying to undress me.. To see if I was actually a girl… Sheesh only a night with Scrappy is this exhausting." Kazuto said trying to catch her breath as she hid behind me. To be honest she could pass for a girly boy.

"You can tell from just looking at her or from her energy alone" I say looking at them.

"Aww but it's no fun if we can't see what she's packing down stairs." They whined. Well if she's a priestess of Zoey's then she'd likely be in the area of a type 4 only a futa when she wants to be.

"If she wants to show it she will. Now until then do not force the matter."

They pout but scurry off leaving me and Kazuto alone. I'll put a request to Quantum to make sure they don't bother her again.

"So you're Scrappy's new girlfriend?" I ask turning towards her.

"Yeah I am and she's a damn handful. Unlike in normal relationships I'm thankful she's seeing other woman. I wouldn't be able to keep up with her myself. Sex all day and night and she's still ready to go for more. We did it for over a month and she didn't break a sweat. Granted she is a goddess but I can still complain can't I?" Kazuto vented to me. Well yeah she can bitch since Rose likely gets her stamina from Zoey's side.

"Well yes you do have a right to bitch about things. If you think it's too much talk to her about it."

"That's why I'm thankful I'm not the only one she's seeing. I was just a normal single gamer girl till she walked into my life now I'm learning gods, demons, spaceships, and who knows what else is weird. Soo anything 'Normal' about my life just went out the window. Still she's worth it. Um is she wearing contacts or do her eye normally have red stars in them?" Kazuto asked me unsure as she came from one of those normalish dimensions.

"They're like that normally and to give you a heads up there is more than just one goddess in this building."

"And you're one of them? Sorry Rose gave me this talisman that helps me sense stuff." Kazuto held up a flat disk with runes etched into it connected by a necklace.

"Ah. Well yes I am. I'm actually two different types of goddesses and part of two different pantheons."

"Can you explain I'm still new to all of this." Well I can give Kazuto a crash course.

"Hmm." How shall I explain it. "One of the types I am is like you may have heard in myths you may have heard. A type that has control over a certain thing. I have domains from both the Shadow and Japanese pantheons. The first type of goddess I was. We live on people's beliefs and rule over nations." I say. I don't know how I could explain what a CPU was well enough.

"Rose told me something about her being a race that was the first offshoot of the main CPU's Something called normally an Old blood. She told me they constantly take in energy from around then. Something about the natural flow of things." Well that saves that story.

"In a way yes. That's what they do. Do you want to grab something to eat?" I ask once I heard her stomach growl a little.

"Yeah long time since I've ate something solid that wasn't in a game. Just got out of the hospital I was lucky Rose can make clothes with her Alchemy." I give her a look she does have a very black swordsmen vibe to her outfit. Black coat, black vest, boots, pants even a black sheath for her sword that was strapped to her back. Must be like a tier three or fiveish for Scrappy to make it easily. Alchemy if I remember only goes up to 7.5 for the higher strength users. Still steel is quicker to make.

"Well we do have many types of food here." I say as I started walking in that direction. About a few months ago the cooks came up for an idea to put up a menu, well two of them for the specials. If people want to have a different item they'd have to wait longer.

"Alright. You have anything spicy?" Maybe I can pull a prank on her maybe go an unwinnable bet?

"Yes we do. What specific things. I do not currently know."

"Alright. I'll just ask the chefs then. As long as it tastes good I'll eat it." Kazuto said with a shrug.

"Basically anything they make taste good." I say. I'm glad they came to work here. Saves me all the trouble.

"Alright then lets get going then. Hey quick question as we walk. Is there an arcade room around this place? Rose err Scrap said the games were a lot more advanced here. Then again I likely only stood a chance against her in a fight thanks to the system in the game. Even then her strikes felt like a truck hitting my arm weight wise since pain was disabled in the game. Though death was a real factor present in everyone's minds at the time. It's lame thinking I'll be the damsel in distress if push comes to shove more often than not." Well being a priestess of Zoey's should strengthen her to a degree but then again she's right about one thing.

When you break it done Scrappy was born a CPU meant to take on greater burdens while Kazuto was born a human. She's going to need to train hard to get up to a level where she can keep up. But since she mention the arcade and she's a gamer I think that'd be a good training ground for her. I'll just point her to the combat and military section.

"Don't worry kid. While yes it may not be possible to match up to higher beings. But everyone has their own experiences or cards to play. If you train hard enough I bet you'd be a great help when Scrappy needs it. Both emotionally and physically." I say.

"Thanks that means a lot. Still I need to get into practice. Scrappy told me I need get into practice feeling the weight of a real sword before I try dual wielding again. Though I am a good hacker and good with tech. Scrap even loaned me some books to get me started on the advanced stuff. It's a bit complicated but I'll get the hang of it after some studying and talking out the finer points with her. Sooo how far till the dining room?" Kazuto asked testing the weight of her sword in it's sheath showing off it had an electric magnetic lock on it. Heard they are rather good lets you draw rather fast as it pushes the sword out as you pull.

"We're a few dozen more feet left. This is a big mansion to be honest." I say as we approached the open doors.

"Yeah I could tell just by looking outside. I know I'm not stepping foot in any magic workshops alone too many crazy experiences in Dungeons to risk that." I can't fault her there Scrap is on the crazier side of mages.

"Very true. Just go up and order what you want." I say motioning to the ordering window.

"Hmm one lava pepper broth and teriyaki beef udon noodle bowl with dumplings on the side with dipping sauce." She ordered which was… Number 13. Welp her funeral. Even I can't stand anything hotter than Ghost peppers.

"Would that be regular or special?" The cook asks Kazuto.

"Um regular as I don't know what the special is." Kazuto said with a shrug. Well good for her. I'll tell her what it is after we eat to avoid awkward silence.

"Well you're definitely going for something spicy aren't ya. Can I get a number three special?" I ask the cook. I'm in the mood for some of the lasagna.

"Sure thing so one Regular 13 and one Special 3. Alright just take a seat and we'll bring it to you shortly."

"Let's go to that table." I say motioning to a nearby one.

"Alright um how did they get up there." Ah she's noticing the higher up seating for the climbers or flyers.

"They have an option to come down to floor level and some people are able to scale those pillars easily." I answer. I then decide to mess with her. "You should be careful though your fresh meat to some of them."

She freezes as she sputters as she scooted a little closer. I successfully didn't bust out laughing at her reaction.

I grin as I sense Razor slowly lower down… Before nipping Kazuto's neck causing her to let out a girly scream as Razor's eyes were in 'Ghoul mode' or 'Feeding mode'.. She doesn't need to know the ghouls are harmless as long as they are fed well the ones here at least.

I start chuckling. "You did a good job Razor. Though as much as we love messing with people it would be bad if we give her a heart attack." I say giving her a fist pump.

"Wh-wha!?" Kazuto said as her heart was beating loudly.

I just pat her on the back. "You have to get used to it soon. My house and your future is going to be full of surprises."

"Y-Yeah.. Like I said normal boring life impossible now." Kazuto shuddered as she rubbed her neck to make things worse for her Razor brought her food down and ate next to her… She was eating a torso… With all the blood and guts.

"Remember to clean yourself after you get done eating." I tell her.

"Yes mom. Straight to the showers when I'm done eating." Razor told me her hands, teeth, and cheeks bloody from her meal. Scaring Kazuto a little.

"So what made you choose that instead of a made meal?" I ask. It wouldn't have been as messy if she went with a made meal.

"I was missing the old scavenging and normal feeding." Razor said innocently.

"Ah. Surprised they have those in the Resback to be honest." I say. I know they just have the slabs of meat but I didn't know they actually had whole body parts.

"Hmm? They do but they usually grind it all up into meatloaf or some other ground meat dish. This just feels a bit more natural and instinctive." Razor told me. Hmm When is our food getting here?

"Just next time you do so just make sure none of the littler kids are around alright." I say to her as I saw a waitress come out holding a tray.

"Alright guessing our food is here now? I'm starving maybe a bit literally with how I haven't eaten in awhile." Kazuto stared at the food like she hasn't eaten in awhile then again she looked a lot on the skinny side currently.

"Don't eat it too quickly now. You might get sick if you do." I say.

"Huh Oh right the whole your stomach is rather small if you haven't eaten in awhile. I'll try to pace myself then." Kazuto to said as she started with some of the broth first.

I just grin as I picked up my fork and started to eat my meal. Which was as good as ever.

As I ate I noticed Kazuto was unfazed by the lava peppers in fact she seemed to be enjoying it… That isn't normal…

I doubt they had anything that spicy over there. Did Zoey's blessing change her a little more than I thought? I'll need to take her by the med bay to be sure though. Now after this I'll send her to the arcade room but what else from there?

Hmm. I do have some paperwork I need to finish. But that can be done later. I can see how that new CPU is doing. She should be at the central basilicom.

"Anyways Quantum have someone young and cute preferably in the older loli range to escort Kazuto maybe a young lust that has some self control to tend to Kazuto's 'needs' While Scrap is busy but not force herself. I'll be off on a short maybe long business trip." I say as I head to an elevator.

"Will do sweetheart. Just be back soon." She says from a nearby speaker.

"Sure just be sure to give the harem their daily plowing when your done." I tell her as I enter the golden Elevator to get close to the basilicom the lazy way.

"You know I will love." She says.

"Good also keep an ear out for Scrappy in case she needs anything in the forge well I'm off now. See you later." I say as sht doors close and the elevator rockets off in the path to the central basilicom.

I sit down in the seat. It is a pain to try to keep standing at these speeds. I almost forgot they even put these in to go to the other nations like this.

It's a lot comfier but I got there in a few seconds. Of course I came out like half a block away but it keeps things discreet. Now to find Fractured heart she was such a scaredy cat last I saw her.

It has been quite a few now. She should have changed somewhat by now.

A few guides around the place (Apparently I was listed as 'Soon to be official') directed me to the library where Fractured heart was reading manga and comic books.

I didn't even want to be a known CPU in the first place. I hid for these years for a reason. "How are you doing these days?" I ask when I saw her. Causing her to jump.

"H-Hi. J-Just fine." She looked either ready to bolt or ready to faint. Sheesh she's a bit jumpy.

"Shesh. Still that scared of me?" I ask.

"Yeah…" She tells me as she backed up a little. Well she does have somewhat of a right to be scared of me. But not really.

It's been a year and a half since I saw her. "Have I not gave you a reason to not be scared of me? I personally have not caused you harm that I am aware of."

"S-Sorry. Just a few thousand years of past traumas I'm still dealing with. The time period I was originally from was not a very nice place.. Mostly due to some pissy higher up gods and primordials." Fractured said shaking a little.

"That is understandable. Just know. I will not cause you harm." As long as you do not go against me. Though I do not say it. It would only scare her more.

"Thanks. Maybe if you hold me in a non threatening manner it'll help things along." She suggested to me. Oh I can do more than that but I'll need to be careful.

"If you want to sit in my lap you can. It is up to you." I say to her.

She gulps as she shakily got in my lap. She was unsurprisingly light.

Man she's short also. Her head was just coming up to my chin. "So what were you reading?" I ask softly.

"Oh I just got done with Bleach and now I'm getting started on Soul eater I'm a few volumes in right now." She told me holding up the manga book.

"Ah. I'm taking it you are liking it?"

"I am, the art style is to my tastes and the characters are goofy yet serious when they need to be. And their weapons remind me of my original sets. Both a human and weapon form… I miss them." Fractured snuggled more into my breasts at that.

"I can get one made for you if you wish. Wouldn't cost me too much but as you may know the new weapon has a choice to pick you."

"Yeah I know but some company and a reminder of the good times would be nice. Even though it was a long time ago." Fractured Heart told me..Hmm that's her title more or less but what's her actual name?

"What is your name? I don't think anyone mentioned it to me." I ask her.

Fractured drew some symbols in the air. That I could roughly read was and granted it's not the best. Was Tenzil Aurora granted I only briefly studied this old as language but that should.. Mostly be it.

"What a cute name to go with an even cuter person." I say softly to her.

She blushed bright red at that. I could even see her hair starting to go like the northern Loween lights almost some other colors mixed in.

"And remember that. You are cute as you are. Both inside and out."

"I-I'll try. What's the date? Now one told me what shadow eon we were in. Though the date of this dimension would be nice too." Tenzil asked me.

"It's roughly the 251st era." I say to her.

"So it's been about 98 era's since I was alive last. Is Omega still kicking Lia's factions butt's?" I'm guessing she sided with Omega or knows of him.

"In a way yes. While he may not have as many men he still has quite more firepower. Though they aren't as hostile with each other in the open anymore."

"Still putting up lewd pictures of Lia around the home city? That was a thing she was soo pissed with the tentacle one since it was an animated banner." Oh I have a few of those which are great particularly the Purple heart being ravaged by Black heart one. Noire has great tongue and hand skills in bed.

"I don't know to be honest. I did see one or two up when I went there awhile ago."

"Oh. So have any of your children left the nest yet?" Yeah Nepgear is going to. And Merlyn has as well.

"A few will soon for awhile but I requested them to at least visit once a year here. At least to come and say hi."

"I see. How about Christmass. I could try to plan out something special for that day." Well they'll need to for the gifts so it works perfectly.

"That works to be honest. I was going to plan a decent Christmas party to be honest."

Tenzil gives me a smile. "Just leave the planning to me. Christmas was one of my favorite times of the year. Well if you don't mind me doing it for you at least."

"That is fine. Though things at my house is different than others currently."

"I'll try to keep it flexible then. How long is it till Christmas?" She asked politely getting up looking more confident than before.

"Hmm. It's roughly two month away." I say.

"I see then I better start planning. Hmm Maybe I should plan a multinational winter festival?" That'd be a first.

"Sure. There's definitely enough space within the courtyard of my place to do things."

"Alright I'll send over the plans when I finish them you can have your AI give them a look over. Sorry I need to get started. But it was nice talking to you Emma hope we can do it again some time." Tenzil said as she got up to get work on the plans on a computer nearby.

"Hopefully we shall again. If you do want to talk again just call or come and visit."

"I'll try. The CPU's here said they were going to see about getting me in the guild system and a place to live as I've been acclimating here. I wonder if Dante has gotten over my death yet…" Tenzil looked down like her heart was breaking. Hmm well the Dante I know is a shadow and there immortal so it could possibly be the same Dante… Though there is a lot of Dante's in the worlds.

"Was this Dante a shadow?" I ask.

"Yeah she was. Normal shadow in the shadow special forces. Her and her mother got into an argument a few times when Samantha was in charge. She left before Lia took office. Even then Dante didn't stay long joining Omega's faction as she didn't like how Lia ran things. In her own words 'I'd trust a warrior God over a political princess anyday' That's what she told me. We weren't around each other for longer than a month out of a year but we got married even while shit was hitting the fan. Though she never saw me like this. She only saw me in my previous form." Tenzil rubbed her arm a little uncomfortable.

"She'd still love you either way." I encourage. I bring out my phone and go for the picture I was going for. "Is this the Dante you're looking for?" I ask showing her it. It was when her and Nepgear was doing a small sparring match. When Nepgear was wanting to try out different opponents.

"Um Yes she looks a little different but her overall figure and looks remain the same. Where is she?" Tenzil asked looking at the picture intently.

"Currently I think she's in the dimension with Red Heart. I may be wrong though. I can ask her to stop by if you wish." I suggest to her.

"If she's wearying our wedding ring I could teleport to her as well. It's one of the many features we added to it. Though I haven't checked my inventory it's likely she has both now." Well that'd work too.. Eh I think I can either take her there myself or just ask her. Which one is less hassle for me though?

"Well I think it would a good surprise for her if I ask her to stop by. You two then can catch up for awhile."

Tenzil smiled and hugged me. "Thank you."

"Knowing her she'd be here in an hour or less. Will you be here for that time?" I ask as I typed the first portions of the message to Dante 'Mind doing me a small favor? Can you meet me in the central basilicom in my dimension?'

'Sure. Nana took over the babysitting duty for me so Mercury should be fine. Hope the floor survives.' God dammit she's dense as heck.

'I bet it will you damn black hole. Meet me in the library.' I sent that. "Anyways I'll get going. Have a good day Tenzil." I say to her as I left.

"You too now I have a festival to plan." She said back as I left the building.

Now the question is. Is Dante going to try to kill me or thank me for introducing her wife back to her in that way. Hmm. Guess I'll find out in a few hours. Time to go back home.

When I got home I heard a loud bang likely from the workshop. Was it Nepgear or someone else? Hope my sis isn't boning Nissa again.

I decided to make my way over and see what was up.

I see smoke and Nepgear covered in soot. "Sheesh you messed that up? I said a little energy not half the battery." The source of the voice was a hot teenager. About fifteen I think with blue orange hair sitting on a table with her arms crossed with a blue and gold biker outfit on.

"What little experiment did you mess up this time?" I ask as the system in the room took care of the smoke and fumes.

"I was trying to make a rangefinder and airburst feature to my Plasma cannon.. It didn't go well. Oh yeah this is Kuromi one of Scrap's God arcs." Nepgear said motioning to the teenager.

"Ah. Nice to meet you." I say to her.

She gives me a grin with one fang going over her bottom lip and a mock salute. "Same to you though I'm the only one part of Scrap at the moment. Survered with her through the blood special service time."

"Hmm. Interesting. Anyways I shall be leaving. Be a little more careful this time Nepgear alright." I say to her.

"Um I'll try.. Hopefully I don't blow up the workshop this time." Nepgear told me blushing.

"I doubt you can blow it up. Just don't blow up everything inside of it up. I'd bend you over my knee if you went along with it and I had to wait for you to come back." I say warning her. Most of the underground rooms are heavily reinforced that can survive most things. The most heavily reinforced sections is the control room, forge, and workshop to my knowledge.

She gulped and nods with Kuromi waving me off. "I'll make sure she doesn't mess up that badly."

"Good. I'd rather her come out of it injured than dead if she does mess up. Which gladly has been happening less and less. You have been getting better. Good job Nepgear." I say as I left.

"Thanks mom. I hope this all will be ready by the time I leave with Scrap." Nepgear mumbled to herself.

"Just come back home safe is all I ask for." I say as the door closed.

I know she's going to be dealing with dangerous shit not that I have to like it.

"I guess I can see how Alex and Scrap are doing in the forge." I mutter to myself. Hopefully they didn't break anything yet. I know abit of things are made from Shadium and Densium in there but not all of it is.

As I get closer I put on some protective clothes to keep me safe from the extreme freaking heat. As I head over I wonder how things are coming along with that alloy.

Gladly these suits aren't that bulky. Which is helpful for those that want to forge things but it can't protect against everything.

Still good enough for the task at hand. I get in to see Scrap working on the coat and armor sets while Alex was hammering away at making the swords. The glossy teal material looking rather nice. Wonder what its properties are.

I'll ask when they are done or on break. It would be bad to get their attention away from their task. Nothing appeared broken yet which is good.

I watch them work as Alex shaped the swords roughly in the european style of long swords I think more so in the german style. While the vest or chest piece Scrap on right now was having a cloth piece added to it likely to help cover the lower face and neck.

I then leave them to do their task. They both looked focused on their task. I'll come drag them out of here around the time dinner starts.

It's good that things are going smoothly so far. Guess I'll see how things in the kitchen are going. Maybe check on that Amy girl.

I really don't have much to do today huh. I groan. I might just go and play some games. It'll pass the day quicker.

Well at least I have an excuse to check out more of the games now. Though I could try beating my high Scores again on the shooting ones.

I make my way upstairs to where the game room was. I'm glad I was able to get some of the older ones. Ones I used to play on years back. It took a little to get them to top notch shape again.

Now which one to play first? Hmm maybe I should Challenge someone to beat me…. Every game I went had a new Highscore on it handily beating my score and dethroning me as champion!

Now who the hell was able to beat them? Guess I'd just have to earn my throne back don't I? Welp here goes nothing. This is gonna take awhile. Urgh and I need to drag those two up when it hits dinner time.

I set a timer on my phone to notify me when I needed to go down and drag them upstairs.

And epic gaming montage now… Well Quantum should be recording this somewhere at least.

The only thing that snapped me out of my gaming was when my phone alarm started going off in my pocket. Already? Time did damn fly.

With a sigh I chuck a quarter at one of the kids sleeping on the air hockey table waking them up as I made my way down.

I didn't even bother to put the protective suit on as I entered. "Alright it's dinner time everyone!" I call out.

"Alright just five more minutes." Scrappy replied not breaking her line of sight with her work earning a look from me and Alex.

"I'll give you one." I say.

"Hmm okay." She tells me as she finishes weaving some metallic threads into loops as she sets it in a box before heading out.

She surrendered faster than I thought she would. I look at Alex. "Hope you don't mind there being abit of people. Dinner time is usually when everyone mainly eats together."

She mostly just shrugged. "Yeah mostly the same at my place. Heard from her wife she can be worse than this at times. It's a good thing she was pretty much done with that part."

"I would've dragged her out if I had to." I say as we started walking to the elevator.

"Yeah Though I would have carried her the rest of the way. She's still currently in her own little world right now." Alex says causing me to look back at Scrap making some jewelry with her alchemy. It's like she's on autopilot follow me and Alex.

"For now that is fine but it is important to take breaks and whatnot." I say.

"Breaks? Is that when you take a can of Nep or redbull to awake yourself up?" Scrap got a groan out of Alex who groaned. "Workaholic."

"No. Even if I have done that a few times myself. A break is when actually relax and maybe eat something. And sleep when you need it."

"Yeah Scrap was conditioned to always be working when she was in GE. She only really had about 15 minutes to herself. The rest was train, eat, bath, study, sleep on repeat for about a year or two. Even when she was in the video game that cycle still stuck into her." Alex told me with an annoyed tone in her voice.

"Sounds wonderful. But it won't last forever. She'll slowly get out of it." I say.

"And how long should that take? Great another messenger better not be another we need you here now bullshit." Alex growled out rather pissed at her long term missions. As I notice a military messenger from Lia's faction though it was an elite with a red flower in the coat pocket.

"Hmm. Can I help you?" I question him. I know Omega's and Lia's factions aren't going at each other anymore but you don't know if certain beings are from when they were. Most of them still have grudges.

They walked right past me heading to Scrappy unsheathing a dull purple blade that made my skin crawl.. Anti-Share crystal. A split second after they draw the hidden blade Corruption was through their chest.

I then kick them back off the blade as I yank their weapon out of their grasp. I'll be having a few choice words with Lia after this. I just growl as I shoot the bastard with a few tranqs. "Bring him to a holding cell." I say to one of the soldiers coming into the room." It is understandable they weren't here. Most of them patrol the house while abit of the team is outside. And of course one of Lia's messengers won't raise much suspicion.

Some Corporals came by to drag him away. I turn back to Alex to see her helping Scrap up as her energy felt erratic and out of order. It's possible that the breif exposure to Anti-Share is fucking with her more than me and Alex. Though all three of us are Shadow CPU's more or less. I don't think I'm fully one if at all. I'll have Quantum give her a check up later. Still her hair was bleeding an almost amethyst reddish purple right now. Though she looks fine right now.

"Give me your hand Scrappy." I say to her. I'm going to see if I can sense anything with a quick scan.

She looks at me for a few seconds before giving me her hand.

I then do a quick scan to see if that messed with her too much. If so I'll just try to take it out. I'll give her some share energy anyways just in case.

It felt more like her energy was fizzing up and eating up the anti-share energy as it condensed into something different that spread across her body. Didn't feel harmful just weird.

"Hmm. Tell me if something happens alright." I say giving her some of my share energy.

"Yeah though I'll likely be back in the forge by then." Her voice sounds rougher almost deeper. Her eyes have also taken on a purple hue… Okay. weird.

"Before then you need to stop by the medbay got it." I say to her.

"Fine.. Can we get going to the dinning hall already?" She even acted a little different. I'll just kidnap Croire during dinner to ask a few questions maybe Quantum too though I can just ask her.

I just sigh. "Alright let us go then." I say to her.

As we ate dinner I noticed a steady gathering of kids around me. Mostly the younger ones… As I was wearing my sports clothes right now.

I just grin. "Do you kids want something?" I ask. Kinda knowing what.

"Milk!" They said cheering as they started at my chest.

"Fine fine." I say taking my sports bra off. And then they pounced practically milking my breasts themselves.

"Now now. Save some for the others and don't drink too much." I say to them. They gave me a mumbled yes mom as I search for Croire.

I wave her down and wave her over.

She looked annoyed as she was getting into a Leopard's pants. "Urgh What is it Emma?"

"One aren't you with Histoire and two I have a question or two." I say to her.

"Oh shush like she alone can keep up with me in bed and I can convince her for a threesome. But alright shoot." Croire said crossing her arms.

"But seriously. A Leopard? But back to topic I know Anti share crystals can fuck with CPUs in a certain way but what does it do to the other ones?"

"Negatives its like candy. Dark bloods it makes them nauseous. Plane Walkers are affected though its Speculated that it makes their specter form stronger. Chain Bearers gain more power as it affects their curses and dark magic some times. And Old Blood's gain a chaos form though most of the time they need to ingest the stuff. But that can be done by crushing it up and mixing it into their food. Though it needs a trigger like anger to enter it the first time around." Well That's a good load of info I can use at some point.

"Thanks for the info. Now you can go and keep trying to bone the liquid nitrogen tank." I say joking with her.

"You mean the sassy and cute Liquid Nitrogen tank. Anyways if Scrap is going chaos someone had to feed her the crystals for awhile. Also someone should watch her no telling what her personality shift will be like." Croire said as she flew away on her book.

I'll Alex to do so since they hang out with each other so much. I just sat there eating my food waiting for dinner to wrap up.

This day just couldn't end any sooner. Man I'm getting bored fast. "So Sam's coming over tomorrow? To talk about the whole switching to Omega's faction deal?" Alex said talking with Scrap. Maybe I can tag along with them on their next mission then to not bore myself to death.

"Yeah Omega's faction is better to be honest. At least to me anyways. Also would you two mind if I tag along on the next mission of yours?" I ask them.

"Sure It's not too hard like average for the first and second parts. We get to summon stuff and take part in a holy grail war. And yeah we are well I'm a representative of the shadow division of the mage association for the mission you two would be if anyone asks my bodyguard to non mages and Enforcers to mages… And yeah some mages there can be rather dumb. And it's Sounding like his is." Scrap tells me her personality feeling like she's taking half a bottle of chill pills.

"Pfft. Us being bodyguards? That's funny. We're like one man armies here." I say. "But anyways it will be understandable though."

"True but it works as cover. But please let your servant you summon do most of the work we can't tip our hands too early as there are world enders looking in all around and the magic association has a good amount invested in seeing the events play out. We are basically their chest pieces to mess with the black and whites." So aka mess shit up and collect data basically.

"What if I summon up a higher tier being?" I ask. I've messed with it a little myself to be honest. Just not enough to see how my affiliation is with it. From what I sensed from Scrappy I'd say she'd be able to summon up a tier five at least. Well after some training anyways.

"It'd be luck but we'll be summoning from the throne of heroes and they usually have to heed your call. The strongest would be the grand level servants so far. You have to usually try to fuck it up." Scrappy explained.

I just take a deep breath and choose not to comment on my luck with that stuff. "Alright. That sounds reasonable. So is the summons beings or creatures?"

"Beings easier to control and direct. Basically beings from myth and history." Sounds simple enough.

"Sounds good." I say to her.

"I'm hoping for some hot chicks I can bed to be honest though the two we really need to worry about are Gilgamesh and Berserker Hercules who could raw strength Alex and has nine lives. He's fast and hard too. Gilgamesh on the other hand it leages more dangerous especially since we are all technically divine beings and his other weapons." Hmm interesting it might not be a cake walk for me after all.

"Well out of the three of us I'm basically the only CPU that's a Goddess of a pantheon. Though even if they are a problem we can deal with them."

"Yeah our biggest problem with him when he shows himself will be Enuma Elish. Only one that's likely to survive it would be Alex here maybe or you. Best to not let him use it in the first place. Knowing my own limits I'd be likely dusted by that attack if it hit me. I may be fairly durable but I have no real defence against that raw power." Scrap told me as she rubbed her arm.

"Don't worry if he did that I'll stand in front of you if that helps." I say. "Though if you don't mind. I'd like to have a quick chat with Omega about something before we go in the future."

"Unless you can put up a strong enough bounded field it'd do nothing. It's a mass area of effect. But that's fine. Gonna get your fucked up arm fixed?" Scrap told me.. Well yeah… More or less.

"Hey this arm is doing great thank you very much." I say.

"Thanks it's one of my best works. Maybe once you get both arms fixed I can give you some cybernetic upgrades." Scrappy replied back missing my insult or ignoring it.

"I'd be too overpowered if I tried to do that but that would mainly help my physical abilities even if I don't need it." I say.

"Well I can have them help you out with status effects basically keeping your nervous system and body in peak condition." Well yeah those suck to deal with.

"If I do that. I'd have to request another body reset deal for the silver demon portion." I say.

"Hmm would that be annoying?" Alex asked me.

"Yes and no. I mean from what I heard it feels really fucking wierd and it's like you're in a different body for a little bit."

"My upgrade I was asleep for a couple years while Scrap did the heavy lifting." Alex ruffled Scrap's hair who's phone went off soon after. "Looks like I'm needed for something."

"Your upgrade just had that side effect. And who's calling you?" I ask Scrap.

"Micheal Silver. The head commander of the god Eaters. His sister leads the regular and I lead Blood Special forces. He usually only calls me when he needs me specifically to take care of something. Otherwise He'd call Julius." Scrap told us before answering her phone. "Hello?... What Project?… Have Ciel keep an eye on it she's fully Wrathed now tell her it's under my orders. I'll be there after my next mission. I know.. Right got it talk to you later."

"The joys of being a leader huh?" I ask sarcastically.

"Yeah. Still I might take Mercury along to visit her homeland or maybe her father's. Since it's near the place. Alex after the mission if something happens call Gilbert he's my emergency contact when I go on business." Scrappy tells us and my gut got a foreboding weight in it.

"Alright. I'll need his number though." She says.

"Pulsar will wire in everything you need to know to your phone." Scrap says as I feel a CPU aura pop up.

Hmm. Interesting. Guess I'll find out what I can while I'm with them. "Sounds good." Alex says.

"Right well once I'm done eating I'm heading back to the forge. After I'm done making the stuff in like a few weeks I'll be spending some time with Mercury. Sam will be here in I think a few days." Scrap said before downing the rest of her food and getting up. "If you need to get ahold of me just have Quantum hit up Pulsar." She said as she left.

"Just remember to take your damn breaks!" I call out as she walked off.

"Good luck that we'll need Nana or Kazuto to seduce her to even go to bed for more than sleep." Alex said with a chuckle.

"Well good thing we have one of those people on hand." I say smirking.

"Yeah Though she lacks the sass and pulling strength of Nana though she does have the playfulness..though Scrap loves putting her in awkward situations to see her flounder about. It's actually Hilarious how socially Awkward Kazuto can be. Nerd." Really… She used that word?

"What damn dimension did you grow up in anyways?" I question.

"Fuck if I know unknown to shadows I believe. But Cu does since she has a cult there. But eh. Still don't like my father that much." Alex tells me… Oh Daddy issues!

"Well I me personally. I don't have any parents to bitch about. Though with how you act sometimes I take it there was no magic there?" I ask. While yes we didn't interact much but I still get information about others when I can.

"Well most of my life was shit and then after I became a CPU she reveals that she's my other parent and I wasn't having shit of it. Though she gives me an allowance of a lot. So not complete hate more annoyance." Alex tells me as see Saki placing alcohol on the table. "Come on girls lets drink up some of this real heavy stuff!"

"Didn't you lose the last drinking battle?" I question joking.

"Yyyyyesss and got fucked good by you and Quantum maybe this time it could be you two besides it's going to be Scrap's birthday soon on Halloween. So we should drink to celebrate!" Fuck she's drunk.

I just sigh. "Sure why not but I'm not drinking much this time. I still have paperwork to do by tonight." I say.

"Yay! Come one lets drink!" I get a look from Alex. "Want me to just take her to the Medbay like Scrappy should be going to. Cause she looks weird as fuck right now. Pardon my language"

"Sure after I down a shot." I say. I still want to enjoy a good drink while I can.

I create a shot glass as I pour into it. "Want one?" I ask looking at her.

"I'm dense as fuck I'd need the strongest stuff you have to even feel anything." Right she got dense, Denser, And then like a mini planet at max.

I just shrug. "If you want something stronger you'd have to ask for it from the kitchens or bar downstairs." I say downing the shot.

"Maybe later I still need to try to be sober at least to help tomorrow." She told me as she picked up Saki with one arm.

"I can carry her you know." I say.

"Yeah but I have more raw strength and besides I'm a literal tank." True she is and I rather not deal with any accidental magic discharges.

"Fine fine. Though I believe I could lift you though. Well unless you dense up more than you already are."

"I'd crush you if I did that. Or put a lot of strain at least. Soo I heard working with Omega's faction gives you more leeway in scheduling like none of the rotation bullshit." I knew this would be brought up sooner or later.

"Yes. And depending on what you do you can get time off for awhile."

"Yeah sounds better than being jerked around like a dog on a chain. Sucks that your mostly only paid for mission level in Lia's faction not length. So an easy mission that takes two years will pay roughly the same as one that takes two weeks." That… Majorly sucks.

"I'm glad I'm not part of that faction then." I say dryly.

"Yeah I'll talk things over with Scrap when Sam comes by. She sees me as a mom and to be honest I've been one of the few constants in her life so she's clingy to me. She wouldn't leave likely if I didn't. Just how she is." Alex told me as we neared the Medbay to be honest that's how most candidates are to their CPU.

"It's both good and bad she's that latched on to you." I say to her. Though it'll be good for someone to watch over her in case she decides to do something stupid.

"Yeah at least she listens to me. She has a good head on her shoulders but the main thing she's lacking is experience since in away all her intensive training has left her a bit sheltered. I'm somewhat not counting the god eater place since it well war torn and she got knocked up which messed her up mentally." Alex sighed looking frustrated and wanting to punch something.

"All I can say is life is quite a bitch to some people. Well everyone had their bad moments." I say with a hint of sadness in my voice.

Alex shrugs. "But yeah normally you at least have some good with the bad."

I shrug. "True but sometimes it takes a few more years than it should."

"Welp my life has been mostly better since I left my home dimension. So why does Scrappy need to be shirtless while they do the scan?" Alex points to a nurse having Scrappy take off her shirt. And man she had a nice rack both in the abs breasts department.

"Maybe for the scan to be better? I'm not the doctor here. Then again the nurse may just have them do it since she may have used different equipment in the past."

"Well lets see how she's doing." Alex dropped Saki off on a bed and went over to Scrap. "So Scrap how's the hot nurses treating you?"

"Just fine other than making a fuss over my birthmark on my back." Scrap rolled her eyes like it was no big deal.

I look and notice it was a cyan alchemy symbol. "I don't see the big deal myself. Let me guess they're making a deal of it due to it's cyan?" While it's uncommon. Birthmarks being in a symbol isn't impossible. Though it's usually black.

"Yeah the cyan trait had to go somewhere. That Alchemical symbol has been a birthmark for each of my reincarnations. Mercury has a grey one on her left butt cheek. Don't give me that look Alex I am her mother. But yeah they are fussing on it saying it might be related to what's going on now among other things. I mean I'm just in my chaos form not like I suddenly get the urge to conquer the world as a demon lord or something." She basically bitched to us.

I just rolled my eyes. "I would just knock you on your ass if you tried." I say. "Oh that reminds me the last time I saw her she had acidic saliva."

"Oh that? It's nothing to worry about. It's mostly a defense/feeding mechanism. Still need to work on her control of it. Nothing I haven't dealt with before. Should be manageable once she gets older. Also more likely than not if I tried Alex knock me on my ass and give me a spanking." Scrap shrugged.. Though how does she go back to normal?

"Yeah good thing we found this out with me instead of someone else." I say.

"Cause they'd be much more off the walls. Given I look a lot more different. Should be able to turn back if I wanted too or if I fell asleep I'd revert to normal." Scrap tells me as the scan finishes.

The nurse rolls her eyes. "So when did this first occur?" Scrap sighs. "When I was a kid training under Red heart."

"And why was I not informed of this?" Alex said with a small glare. I guess she doesn't like not being told something. Then again I'm the same way sometimes.

"I was told to not share it lightly by red heart given how people judge among other things. I was going to tell you at some point but didn't find a good time to basically say oh yeah I have a demon side. Never really had a reason to use this form until now. Sort of a reflex upon seeing Anti-share." That parts reasonable. Still Abby was training with her and didn't tell me shit.

"Everyone has a demon side. Some more literal than others." I say dryly. I basically had and still have one.

"Yeah don't worry Emma me and Scrap will sort this out. I am her Surrogate mother after all. Though mind returning to normal so I can talk with the normal you?" Alex said causing Scrap to sigh as her look turned back to her normal look though her hair was mostly grey and he eyes icy blue.

"Do as you wish. But remember if something happens I will intervene." I say walking over to Saki.

"It won't I'm not an idiot or that crazy. I am an alchemist. Sheesh.. Might work on giving my alchemy an upgrade well how I use it. I've been mostly roughing it for a while without a proper circle or array well my birthmark is one technically but not the best." Scrap says being given a glare by the nurse as she puts her shirt back on.

I know. I just delt with my fair share of opponents. "I'll trust your judgment then."

"Thanks. Hopefully Kazuto isn't hornier after becoming mom's Priestess." Scrap mumbled to herself. Hmm I remember a certain musk that'd help with… Making Kazuto want to sleep with her more. Always worked on Noire.

"Well why would that be a problem? I heard from her that sometimes your a little too much to deal with sometimes. With this I can see she can keep up a little better."

"True just depends if I'm in the mood or not. Usually I'm not when I'm working on a project. Though it's not always the case but eh things change." Scrappy told me with a shrug causing Alex to give her an odd look.

"Well I expect you to at least go to sleep during the nights. You don't need to constantly work you know." I say.

"It feels like that with how were working in Lia's faction half the time. Between the long away missions and the rotations." Alex told me as Scrappy shrugs.

"I'll try to sleep but doesn't mean I won't be restless. How long until nightfall?" Not too much longer but I was still hoping to spar with her.

"An hour or so. How about you just continue on tomorrow." I suggest.

"Fine have more time tomorrow then. Well might as well get ready for bed then." Scrappy tells us as she gets up and heads to the room she normally used when she stays here.

"I take it Kazuto is staying in your room as well?" I ask. Her room was unchanged from the last time she was here. Except for cleaning anyways.

"Yeah most likely as we did sleep together before. Not like we usually slept separate when we were able to sleep together." Scrap replied taking a moment to stretch.

"I was just asking just incase I had to have a room prepared. I'll have Quantum guide her there when she wishes." I say calmly.

"Alright well good night. Pray our mission doesn't go south or my other mission afterwards doesn't go south." She said waving as she left ear shot range.

"Hopefully none of them do." I say mainly to myself.

Alex pats my back. "Yeah hopefully I can kick back with Vert later and relax after everything."

"Oh right you did somehow weave your way in to take all three of the Verts for yourself." I say grinning at her.

She blushed bright coughing into her hand. "It's actually four now. Though it's not like I'm aiming for a harem full of Vert's just that I can't say no to them."

"Yeah. Or the ones that look or sound like them." I say grinning.

Alex coughs blushing. "Please do not jinx me into having a harem chasing me. It's bad enough my wife wants me to have one."

"Buddy. If it is said it has a chance of being jinxed." I say laughing a little.

"Damn it. Say your immortal but most of your friends are mortal doesn't that mean they'll die on you at some point?" My heart sunk as I remembered IF taking her own life from depression. And how some of my other friends passed away from simply getting ill and not getting better.

"Sadly that is part of being immortal." I say with a hint of sadness.

"Yeah well I don't have many so I can't say I feel the same. Well if it helps you can borrow my IF when your feeling down. She should be close enough. Though she is shadowfied so she's immortal. At least enough to not leave your side." Alex offered patting my back.

"Maybe one day I might take you up on your offer. Now let's get going and let the nurses do their jobs."

Alex shrugs as she follows me out. Then I see Maya walking past filling out a what looks to be a medical form with an emblem I've never seen before. "So you're filling out those medical forms already for the compatibility test? Don't look shocked they still use the Fenrir logo for the god eater's cause it looks cool and badass." Alex answered for me.

"Ah." Is all I say. "You are more informed about the god eaters and that dimension than I am."

"I was part of the mission but yeah I went asleep for a couple years so Scrap did all the work really. Still know enough then. Good luck with the test Maya or Minigear as some people still call you, you're going to need it. That test is rough. Especially the blood one. Heard it from Scrap it's not fun at all." Okay what does this test intail?

"So is this test mandatory? Or can they just straight Wraith if they choose?" I ask. I know they can go straight Wraith if they wished.

"According to Scrap it's mandatory because if they can't pass that then they are almost certain to die when they try to become a wraith but if they pass then the god arc they recieve will become the god arc they bond with. And with the process right now the chances of a successful Wraith transformation are much higher than normal Shadowfication given how the oracle cells help bind everything together. Though I should warn you Emma the first stage of the wraith transformation looks like something out of a horror movie." Alex warned with a grim look on her face.

"Isn't all Shadowfications like that when the person is awake." I say flatly. I heard it's extremely painful so they do put people to sleep for it.

"Second one I've seen and it was much more gory as they place a small number of slices from the god arc and put it on various places of the body and they basically eat their way into you before defusing spreading out through the body. Takes about a few hours for this part to finish and the subject needs to be fully conscious during this. As there can be no abnormalities in their nervous system. Other than that most of it is taking a serum daily till the final step which is the merg." And that isn't supposed to set my maternal instincts off…

I narrow my eyes. Why is this Shadowfication is so different? None of the rest are like that. "Hmm."

"If you have questions I'd ask Omega or that Mido guy that's research was used for this or one of the other researchers. Guess there's a reason why Scrap wants Mido dead." Alex answers as she reads my face.

"Guess I'll have to ask around then." I say a little coldly.

"Yeah I'd recommend hitting up Scrap she'd have access to some of the files or know something useful at least." Right I'll do that because I still need to talk to Omega about my arm and give him a heads up about Scrap and Alex switching sides. And maybe about Dante to see if she's reinstated or not.

"Alright. I'll look around in the morning so I can find out things." I say to her.

"Alright just to let you know the more I hear about that world the more effed up some things become. Anyways goodnight." She tells me off walking off to likely bed the Vert of here.

"Night. Anyways I hope things go well Gear." I say as I start to walk away.

"Yeah It's scheduled for a week or two from now." She told me before running off.

Hopefully I can get the full details before then.

The next day after doing my rounds I check on Scrap who was cooling off with a big bowl of icecream just relaxing… While looking over some old ass looking files.

"So what flavor is your favorite?" I ask just scanning over what she was .

"Mint Chocolate chip, Peanut butter cup, and rocky road with extra marshmallows. Sorry just going over Revenant research files and those of Project QUEEN and Operation QueenSlayer among other things. We got a lead where this Mido guy is hiding out. I'm going to be sent in with a small squad and helicopter to take him out. He himself shouldn't be too hard but they need an experienced person like me leading the mission just incase. Some of this was used in the making of the Wraiths. More so some stuff from Project Queen." She answered back flipping open some files.

"Ah. What's he wanted for?" I ask wanting to know.

"Ethics violations, Illegal human experimentation, Numerous accounts of murdering orphans, Coworkers and others, Blackmailing, perjury, Desecration of remains, War crimes and a whole other list of stuff that I could be here for a year just listing off. Let's just say he's the type of scum you bring in dead not alive. He's brilliant but the mad doctor kind." Scrap listed off growling it herself a little pissed off at him. "Someone wanted to actually try to reattempt Project QUEEN thinking with the shadow tech we could do it. Welp I threw him in a cell when I told him it was too dangerous to reattempt. He kept going saying he was going to do it behind or backs and we weren't having it. He should be in for another like eight months given he was for some reason still able to connect to one of Lia's dogs to whisper his plan. How in solitary he did that was beyond me. Anyways he doesn't have access to the files and I'd like to keep it that way.. Well all the files. He has enough to be dangerous and valuable to Lia. Anyways mind taking these digital copies to Omega so he knows of this in case shit goes down." She tells me holding some data drives to me. Well I guess since I'm part of Omega's faction already it'd be easier for me to get them to him… Without looking suspicious.

"Sure. I have a few questions I want to be asked by him. Though last time I requested a meeting it took a few shadow weeks before he had time for it." I say.

"Which is about a couple days here right? Anyways you have better luck than me. Also the process Michelle mentioned Alex told you I'm not going to let Maya or anyone go through. To barbaric and unethical. We'll be extracting some fluids from her God arc and injecting it into her like any other shot. Granted it still hurts like hell but it's not as agonizingly long and after about 15 minutes we can give her some mild pain killers. I don't give a shit how the others do it. But I'm not allowing that method in Blood at all. That and out of the three I know the most about God arcs and aragami hence why my unit stole Licca away from them. She gets paid better and free to pursue research projects. Hell of an Engineer that girl is." I'm thankful for that at least.

"What of the method Omega used? I'm confused his method wasn't the world wide one." I ask seeing if she knew. Or even knew of it.

"Yeah if anyone even knew it. I've asked around. Neither Mathew or Slate know. Luna says she doesn't remember jack heck she's the one that proposed we should just used the barbaric one. Don't think she really cares about anything to be honest. I'm the only one that's actually having anything actively researched or developed. Mathew is rather distrustful of the science personal. Heck his engineering department is mostly just maintenance and fixing shit. His sister just well mostly wants the fighting to stop. Not my fault he's always looking for a fight." Oh tension maybe I can 'Talk' to him.

"Want me to knock a little sense into him? I definitely don't need one of them god arcs to do so." I say.

"Yeah he mostly feels like he's the owner of everything since he holds the main contract with Lia. Which lets us operate and utilize the shadow portals there. Another reason switching to Omega's faction is always looking more appealing to me. Would mean I could move my unit over there and distance myself him. It's not like I actually need his factions help given I have a lot more business deals and contracts with other dimensions. Even have some other bases and outposts to spread out my units network. Sorry but one doesn't just stay attached to a dying animal for long. And to be honest he always hated blood. Probably since we made him look more obsolete than he is. Also heads up he's one of those shadows that fucks with time." A Phenix if I'm right and his sister is a Shade. Interesting.. Still sounds like he's a punk.

"That's fine. He can only mess with time with those with lower energy levels or ones with similar." I say.

"Yeah surprised the heck out of him when it didn't work on me and I went HDD and whipped his ass for attempting that little stunt. He's good at monster killing but not fighting people especially one pissed off. Just tell him this to piss him off. Still fucking a chicken instead of a cat? That'll rile him up real fast." Scrap said with a smirk.

"Then again I doubt he's trained himself well so he wouldn't even be able to mess with similar energies or even some of the lower ones."

"True the only thing he's really used it on were the aragami even then.. Some of them how should I say this adapted to it and began doing similar stuff themselves. Some started blinking around you could say while others froze time in localized areas. Which was a bloody pain in the ass cause since they were Psyons Blood had to deal with every single one of them." Scrap groaned out.. And because she was the leader she had to deal with every single one of them.

"Sounds fantastic." I say sarcastically. While rare there are monsters I've ran into that had similar things happen. Wasn't fun in any way. "Now I think I shall be going. Want to try to get everything done today."

"Alright. I'll keep you updated. Pulsar will contact you through Quantum if anything goes down. Those two have been hanging out a lot lately." Interesting gonna have a talk with Quantum at some point.

I'll do so when I come back. "Got it. Have a good day Scrap." I say as I pulled out my phone and sent out a request for a meeting with Omega.

It was like an hour or two later when a portal opened up for me to go through.

I walk through and notice I was in her office. She was sitting at her desk eating some pasta dish. "So what did you want to meet about this time?" She ask as she takes a sip of his drink.

"About a couple things things mostly getting my old organic arm back oh and Scrap gave me these files to hand off to you. Main ones are Project QUEEN and Operation Queenslayer. Apparently some real bad shit went down with the project. A nut job wants to redo it Lia wants it done and you know if it fucked up once it can fuck up even bigger with the shadow recources. Scrap wanted you to have the files in case shit hit the fan." Well that was mostly the case and what I can remember off the top of my head. Other than those two possibly joining his faction.

She takes the drive and plugs it into her desk as he scanned through it. "About your arm we'd have to do redo it. Though you'd either have to pay for it or go for an experiment."

I shrug fuck it. "Sure the last one has only benefit me so what's the harm in another." And my Silver demon part can fix practically most shit.

"Alright we can arrange that after this little bit. Anything else you wish to bring up?" She asks as she finished up his food.

"Well I think I pretty much convinced Alex and Scrap to switch factions after the back to back long missions they were doing in Lia's faction. Other than that one of my kids is going to go through the process of becoming a Wraith and I was wondering about the methods used. Apparently neither Mathew's units or Scrap's unit uses your method in making wraiths." I ask remembering to mention this.

"There's another method? Hmm. I've been quite busy recently that I didn't notice."

"Yeah the main one involves cutting of parts of the god arc and letting them eat their way into the subject for the first stage. The other method developed by Scap's unit involves more surgical care extracting some fluids from the god arc into the subject while it still hurts like hell they are able to administer some painkillers 15 minutes after the injection. If you want more info on it her unit is the only one researching stuff anymore." Yeah since a certain dick head has a major ego.

"Wonder how many of you god eaters died from them trying to find that method out. I accidently killed Luna twice. Though I don't know if she remembers that." She says.

"From what I know no. Think Scrap used sims or analogs for her method. Though I also heard some of Project QUEEN was used in making that method. Which reminds me you wouldn't happen to know where one Mathew Silver's office or where he is currently. Let's just say I need to have a little chat with him." I say grinning a bit devilishly.

She just looks at me before saying. "He's in Dimension BYW bout a few blocks from the portals."

"Alright thank you for that. So lets get on with the experiment then if your ready." I say bracing myself for whatever weird shit may happen.

"So would you rather get the upgrade here or in the labs?"

"I'm fine either way. More or less what you want and whichevers quicker." I say knowing most likely she'd want to go back to work as soon as possible time is valuable even to an immortal.

"Alright lay down on the couch over there." She says conquering up a vial.

I go as he says rolling up my sleeves and undoing the collar of my shirt and jacket.

"Now since this is a new prototype not even I know what it does fully but it's on it's last few stages. Now it'll sting a little bit. After we can do your arm." She says placing the vial into a needle.

"Alright sounds good. Also as one who's seen a lot of hot women and chicks your up there in the hotness level. Just saying in case no one said it before." That and she's majorly packing downstairs. I'd even take off my protection bracelet to see how her fucking skills are.

"So I've heard. I mainly don't care if I stay in this form. I mean these breasts are small enough not to bother me and I still have my dick." She says injecting a third into my right arm. As she switches it to my other arm then my neck.

"Yeah still nice catsuit. And your dick is well it's between luna's and Zoey's rather big but not a monster one." I tell as I start to pass out my pussy getting wet at the thought of sex.

She just chuckles. "You surely have changed from the first few times I saw you." I hear before I fully passed out. If she asks I'll blame it on Lucy's influence.

When I came to I groaned a little feeling a little horny and a little weird. Huh wonder what the upgrade did. And Yes! Got my fleshy arm back!

I move it around for a second giddly feeling it move. It's been years since I've had this feeling in this arm.

Feels freaking great and now I'll never lose it again.. Or set off a metal detector. Now to pay a certain merc a visit.

"Good to see you awake already. You body took to it quicker than I thought it would." Omega says sitting at her desk.

"Yeah well it's likely the silverdemon part or that most people in my place are eating Luna's cum. Soo about the upgrade before I go pay Mathew a visit. What is it exactly?" I ask trying to be polite.

"That reminds me. I believe Luna got an upgrade herself. What it is I can't remember off the top of my head and about yours." She says as she looks at a holo tablet. "Well I just chose one at random. It turned out to be one that messes with your musk and energy. Without wind most beings will be effected by your musk in a 10 meter radius I believe. You can have it make beings feel fear, lust, ect ect. I'll just send the whole deal over to you to read yourself."

"Alright well if that'll be I have someone to pay a visit. Paradise with the god eaters seems to be ending. Feels like they are gonna split… And like with you and Lia the smaller faction is better geared while the larger one has more numbers but the gear isn't exactly on par." I say as I go to leave. It's funny how history repeats itself.

She just chuckles. "I go overkill for a reason." I hear as I got into the elevator.

"Because it aint fun unless it's overkill. Nothing beats overkill." I say before the doors close and it goes down.

Now time to go and beat a little Phenix's ass.

I make my way to the part where he was at currently. It looked like such a nice cute command center that reeked of Status Quo and good enough. Urgh no wonder Scrap hates this guy not even some nice flair. It's so Spartan it's paid for to be this bare and boring.

I just grin as I go up and kick the door in. What fun is there to just go in quietly.

The guards rush in to stop me but stop when they lay eyes on me shivering with fear. I see my reputation proceeds me. I look around to see most of them wearing bland solid basic color uniforms. Non have that Black and gold Scraps unites usually have. Think her unit usually has at least the gold emblem on the back.

I walk past them to Mathew's office where he was arguing with one of Scrap's researchers delivering a status report. "And like I told you it's not going to happen. This shit is mostly only good for piss poor kindling. Research doesn't kill monsters soldiers do. Scrappy and her damn research is only a money pit. If she wants to really argue out the 50% of profits from all units deal she should come argue it herself if she ever even has the time to do it sending her people on errands. It's no wonder you unit can't bring in a decent all spending almost all the money you bring in." Yeah well dipshit they'd be a lot more to work with if you weren't just taking half of whatever they bring in.

"Well maybe she's too busy doing missions while you are here sitting on that ass of yours." I say leaning against the doorway.

"Yeah and pissing it all away on her 'Science' projects. And who the fuck are you. Her grandmother? I don't have time for this bullshit." he says waving me off as the researcher groans picking up her stuff and heading to me whispering. "He's really a smuck. We'd be making more progress if we weren't anchored to his unit. Good luck with him I'm heading back to my home base."

I just grin. "I'm just the messenger." I say kicking his desk over.

He glares at me and grabs his sword pointing it in my face. "Your going to damn well pay for trashing that!"

I just grin. "Make me." I say preparing for his swing.

He comes at me with a broad swing. Wow he has speed but he's more telegraphed than Scrap's kidself was at least she didn't over extend. Big difference between fighting people and monsters.

I just duck under the swing and I sucker punch him in the ribs. He grunts sliding back, bet that was harder than most aragami. Still he looks rather pissed as he tried coming at me again but he was trying to keep me at bay with his swords reach, Yeah nope on that front.

I just chuckle as I kept knocking his blade away or straight up dodging. I was just messing with him at this point.

He kept coming at me showing off all his monster killing skills with a small amount of hand to hand. But he was still all around sloppy with his style. Yeah he may have been one of the best in his world but here he's second rate. No wonder he's such a prick about advancing stuff. He likely feels threatened by it all.

I just hummed a tune as we kept going for a few seconds before railed him into his gut with my knee. Just be glad I didn't hit you in the nuts.

Now how should I finish this? Oh I got an idea. I pick him up by the throat and choke slam him into his desk shattering it in the middle. "Consider this a message from Scrappy Smith to fuck off. Her unit will be moving rather shortly. And if you want to have a fucking attitude about it we'll have another talk like this again. Have fun with the mess." I tell him as I make a stink grenade and toss it in. It'll take them nine gemstone years to even get it smelling better.

I made sure to jam the door as I left making him live with the smell. Now to go back home. This didn't take as long as I thought it would.

Well more time to mess around with the others and hang out with the girls. Maybe talk to Maya about her decision to become a God eater/Wraith.

I'll talk to her when I run into her. Now who to bug for awhile.

I walk past the gym noticing Alex working out like crazy in a sports bra and tights. Perfect.

"God damn trying to dense yourself up enough to fall through the floor?" I joke. I know most of these machines can actually go way up using special tech.

"Eh why not incase I ever need to sit on you." She joked back with a smirk.

"I feel offended you'd try to kill me like that."

Alex smirks getting off. "What? Even if I sat naked on your face? Then again you must not have as fine tastes as Vert. You know Maya is getting her measurements taken for a uniform. They even do the underwear." Low Blow but it makes sense if they can make them tougher.

"I'm surprised you don't crush Vert's head when you cum. How hard is it to not clench up?" I ask.

"Decently hard but I more of tense up but eh we work it out. So is it hard watching one of your younger kids join a militant organization?" Alex asks me getting off to drink some sports drink.

"A little though I've prepared for it to be honest."

"And if she dies do to someone making an 'accident' Happen? Trust me some mercs are vindictive like that. Slight them and they will make you pay either with your wallet or your loved ones. I'm speaking from experience having gone through that bullshit." Alex tells me making me get a little uneasy.

"I'll make sure they wished they never existed if they wish to kill my children." I say with a that's final tone.

"Hopefully it never happens anyways wanna to spar?" Alex gestured to the sparing area.

"Sure why not. It'll allow me to move my muscles a little."

"Alright I wonder how slow I am to you." She says getting into the ring.. Then it hits me.. This is likely to suck big time with how dense she is.

"Depends mainly. While I do move faster in this form it's my other one I'm much faster in."

"Yeah yeah isn't it the same with most CPU's?" Alex says stretching a little before our spar starts.

"In a way yes. But also no in some cases."

"Alright I'll let you throw the first punches." Alex was in a more relaxed stance. I'm not sure what game she's playing.

Hmm. I shoot forward and went for a light jab to test her reflexes. Can't go all out without knowing that.

She slowly moved out of the way barely dodging it taking a few heavy steps to regain her footing.

I thought she had better reflexes. I continued the light jabs to get a hand on how her reflexes were. So far I wasn't impressed. I could hit her if I was really trying. Is she playing a game or something? "My turn." Was all I heard before a fist quickly impacted my gut full force launching me into the air.

"Aha." I say flipping to land on my feet. "I knew something was up." I say.

"But it took you awhile to figure out and in a real fight it would cost someone a lot more. Though you heal so no biggy." Alex says still in her relaxed stance.

"Well duh. You can put a hole in me and I'd be fine." I say delivering a harder hit this time.

She dodged it and spanked my ass. "So I could break your arm off and shove it up your ass then? That'd be fun explaining also your form has one major weak point."

"And what is that?" I ask as I hop back ready for her to move. She moves quickly when I get close. She doesn't move as fast as I do in general.

She drops down then uppercuts me in the crotch sending me into the air as she comes back down her foot stomping down on my crotch lighting my body ablaze in pain. She densed the heck upon her way down completely flattening my crotch making me almost paralyzed in pain as I clutched my crotch.

I wince as I jump up as I healed. Aright I'm more prepared this time. As long as I don't go at her I'll be fine. I'll just have to go for counters until I get an opening.

Though she likely already aware that she has the advantage in a stationary position… And good luck for me trying to even move her when she plants her feet.

"Your strength and reflexes is a problem." I say to her.

"Well I am supposed to be a tank. I'm dense as heck and that includes my nerves too. Heck someone would be royally fucked if they fought us together. Also Maya is looking pretty cute in her Fenrir uniform." I look out of the ring to see Nepgear looking at us awe struck. Her uniform was a dark it was form fitting in some areas for comfort and had enough room for the places that needed a little room. It even had some slanted metal disks to protect her. I heard those uniforms are made specifically tough enough to withstand long battles with aragami and those were the previous ones. These look a lot more sturdy and well at least in terms of a females uniform didn't look all that bad no just the skirt for perverts to peak under.

That's good. They must have put a few parts from the Shadow uniforms into it. I then shoot forward drop kicking her in the chest once I saw an opening which actually made her take a step back due to her density wasn't that high. I jump off her before going back up to her to try to get a few hits in. I doubt I'd win this hand to hand but I'll be able to leave an impression and last for a little while.

She then grabbed my arm back handing before piledriving my gut in and straddling my waist and wailing on my face and chest. And then Nepgear cutely began counting down from ten.

"Just be lucky we're only doing hand to hand." I say putting my arms up to shield myself.

"Yeah yeah since the kids here want to just call it a draw mostly? Doubt I could knock you out for long with your healing and Maya looks like she wants to spend time with you." Alex tells me between blows.

"Sure why not. I'd like to have an all out one someday though." I say grinning. I don't even know how long I would stay out to be honest.

"Sure. Haven't had many close quarter fights like this. Didn't you say you wanted to spar with Scrap at some point?" Alex asked as we hopped out of the ring. With Nepgear bouncing on her feet in excitement.

"I did and we have enough time for me to ask later." I say leaning up stretching.

"Hey mom Hey mom! I just got my uniform so how do I look in it!? It's even in our favorite color and so comfy!" She squeals doing a twirl as her jacket's lower part floats up a little from the momentum.

"It does look good on you." I say getting up and giving her a smile.

"Thanks mom but um.. The test isn't that much further away. To be honest I am both thrilled and terrified of going through it. I'm going to get the Blood bias factor… But Big sis Sensei says it hurts way worse than the normal one." Let me guess it's one of those get the uniform so you look good for the initiation and so they don't have to change you for the funeral if things go south.

"Don't worry about it. They most likely have something that'll make it feel as painless as possible."

"I hope so will you come with me for it mom? Big sis said she'll have her twin watch over me while I do it that she still has some work to be done here." Sure doesn't sound too bad or would I even be gone long.

"Sure I can go." I say to her.

"Thank up we'll need to get going in an hour or less. It's not that much longer in our time." Nepgear says reaching to hold my hand.

I grasp it as I pull her into a hug. "Don't worry it'll end alright. You are my daughter after all. You would've had to inherit my luck sometime."

Nepgear giggles. "Should I worry about getting hit on the head a lot then? Come on mom lets get going it's better to be early than late. But um first maybe we should get something to eat before we go?"

"Sure. Though I'd rather not stay there for over a day just because we want to leave an hour early."

"Alright but we should have enough time to eat and chat during a full hour." Nepgear tells me as she takes my hand.

"Sounds good." I say as I let her lead me.

Afterwhile we reached the dining hall where Scrap was still looking over files and eating ice cream.

"Still eating that? I thought you would have finished already." I ask looking at her.

"Huh? Not too much time has passed and I did order more. Before you ask my oracle cells can put away a lot of nutrients away without increasing bulk. In other words one of nature's best way of saying F off to dieting." She says barely glancing at us as she turns a page. Looking at several documents… You fuck multitasking on that level. Gaming and paying attention to the kids is enough for me.

"Pfft. I've never had to go on a diet in my life. And I ate nothing but pudding at one point."

"I can believe that. Guess some are just lucky like that. Like my wife Nana… Kazuto has been acting strange lately after I told her some about my wraith side.. The part about the Oracle cells seemed to freak her out… I think she's becoming scared of me. I mean I took her from her semi normal life and now she has to deal with all of this insanity." Nepgear looked worried but didn't say a word.

I sigh. "I can talk to her later if you wish. She seemed to listen to me well last time we talked."

"Alright but listening and accepting that I'm not an active threat to her are two different things." Scrap's face betrayed no emotion only her tone of voice did as she continued eating and studying her current task.

"It still doesn't hurt to try you know. Did you tell her that this morning?" I ask.

"More like a bit past noon when she stopped by and asked what I was working on. Though I guess she has a right to be freaked out by some of this stuff. I've just gotten a little numb to all the crazy." Figures given how she went through the how god eater stuff.

"Right now yes I can see why she'd look at you different. She was a human not long ago for most of her life. So it will take her a little time to actually be able to shrug this off." I say.

"Yeah.. Still a little unnerving. I'm glad she didn't encounter my chaos form that likely wouldn't have ended well. Luckily she hasn't found out about the weirder things about my body such as crushing my vital organs won't kill me. Yeah I still have organ structures but I can regenerate and it takes a lot of damage before I suffer actual serious damage well of course depends what I get hit with." Scrap listed off as Nepgear lays on her lap as I motion for the kitchen to bring out our usual.

"Just don't try to blow off your arms like I did. That did not feel good. Though I don't feel as much pain anymore though."

"You blew your arm off mom? Hey big sis can I try some of your breast milk?" This got Scrap blushing bright red. "Wh-What!?"

"Yes I blew both of them off. And aren't you a little old for that?" I ask. I don't even think she should be producing any. And even if she did she won't for much longer unless she gets pregnant again.

"Maybe but come on it's big sis's milk. And I heard she still breast feeds Mercury. Come on please!" Nepgear gave us all her best Puppy eyes trying to persuade us.

"That's because Mercury is younger and her daughter." I say resisting it a little.

"But they are so big and squishy." Nepgear pouted groping Scrap's at least D cup breasts who looked very uncomfortable right now.

"Leave her alone if she doesn't want you messing with them. It's mainly just up to her."

Scrap calmly moved Nepgear's hands away from her breasts. "Some other time Maya. Preferably in a more private location. Even I don't breastfeed Mercury just out of the blue where everyone can watch well not without a blanket to cover up with."

"Reasonable. Do you want to come with with us to the dining room?" I ask.

"Sure just let me put the files away first. And Maya once you become a God eater I will be your commanding officer, Due to that I will be harder and more strict on you. I'm not the type to practice favoritism. And if you were to do what you just did with me as your commanding officer you'd be slapped and reprimanded on the spot. Am I clear Recruit Maya Clockwork." Scrappy's tone left little room to argue being one of complete authority and having no room for bullshit.

She salutes. "Yes ma'am." I then ask "So is that only on duty or during off duty also?" I mainly just wanted to know. Since I never participated things like that.

"Mainly on duty. Off duty is a bit more casual. Then again most of the time with how me and the Original Blood members spoke to each other you couldn't tell. I prepared them speaking more openly to me as in the field natural communication was a must. We were all more of close friends and family when we worked together. But we always remembered the chain of command. As long as she minds herself she should be fine." Scrap kept her eyes looked on Nepgear judging her. At least she isn't going soft on her. Nepgear needs a firm hand if she's going to survive long as a merc.

"Makes sense." I say waiting for her to be done.

Scrap quickly packed up her things and stood up. "Lead the way Emma."

"Not like you don't know the way but as you wish milady." I say the last part with a small smile. I then led the way to the dining room where a few children where and Luna eating. Though someone was currently blowing her and there was a few people by her with bloated stomachs.

All likely having a cumblast from Luna. I see Topaz running up and hugging Scrappy who caught her and rubbed her back then I noticed a nice and pretty looking ring one Topaz's ring finger and some nice looking earrings… Did she take the leap with Scrap?

"I take it you made the jewelry? It looks quite good for being a hobby." I ask Scrap.

"Hey it's also training for my alchemy. But yeah I've expanded into a small business. With some AI's I made making the simpler stuff and me dealing with the custom orders. When I can granted we don't get a lot. Some of the Ai's are learning faster though. But yeah I made them. We're going to get married after her house arrest is done. And I have something special planned for the honeymoon." Scrap continued lightly petting Topaz's head as she snuggled into her with a content smile.. Her heart really does belong to Scrap.

"That's good." I say. Even though it was uncalled for to do what she did to try to get Scrap.

"Anyways let's get something to eat. You can sit on my lap if you wish Topaz. Um Emma I hope you don't mind I got Topaz knocked up." Scrap blushed as Topaz made her carry her. "But I wanted to have your baby Scrappy for you to make me yours in every practical sense and now even my womb is your having your child as it's first." Okay a little crazy.

I just sigh. "That's fine." I'll have to have her mentality checked someday.

We order our food and eat in mostly silence as Nepgear was still a little nervous. So I decided to ask Scrappy how her Compatibility test was. Just so Nepgear can brace herself.

"Oh yeah how bad is the test? I'm curious."

"It's going to be one of the most painful things you'll ever experience in one minute. To put it other terms your body feels likes it's being set ablaze in pain with every pain nerve being cranked up beyond the max it can go. You will scream and wish for death. That's at least how it was for me. We have something to numb the pain at least a bit but it's still going to suck. Your going to feel like you were in an intense fight. Being both Sore and winded. But you should be fine with a night of rest then it's straight to basic training then to the field with an experienced Veteran teacher or instructor in this case it will be me and when I'm busy I'll assign someone to you." She said looking at Nepgear.

"Yikes. I know they did it to survive but damn." I say.

"It's better than the revenant program which basically was kicking people out of their graves. But yeah it was rough at the time. 2050 the time of the great collapse it happened when everyone at the time were sleeping Dr Sakaki can tell you more he saw it first hand. It all happened in a night." Scrappy told us before finishing off her food.

"Damn. Not the fastest I've heard but I doubt it was a good time. Good thing the people were able to survive in a way." I say.

"True. Anyways you two should get going almost time for the test as for me it's about time to get back to the forge." Scrap tells us before walking off.

I yawn. "Ready to go?" I ask her.

"As ready as I'll ever be. This is just another step to getting stronger so you can count on me mom!" She said with a bit of cheer.

I just chuckle ruffing up her hair. We soon made out way to the designated location.. And I had a bit of Deja vu when I saw basically Scrappy's twin sister there to greet us. "My name is Ciel I'm here to take you to the testing room please follow me."

"Alright." I say as we followed her.

We then reached a big metal door where Nepgear went inside and I was told to follow Ciel to the observatory. The test commenced as they brought out an all black and grey 'God arc' and she was meant to grab it leading to wristband to be bought on before a spinning drill like thing spun up before dropping down onto her wrist causing her to tense up as her entire body tensed up as black smoke rose where her wristband was.

"So is that the whole process? And I take it the Wraith portion will come later?" I ask.

Ciel nods to me before handing me a tablet. "You can check the results yourself here. The Wraith portion will come later after she's had some time to bond with her god arc. She is going to be merging with it after all later."

"Ah. And roughly how long would that take?" I ask looking at it.

"If we put her on the standard training program, it should be a month. She can stay at our base and train till Scrap's next mission. By then due to the time difference she'd likely already be well into becoming a Wraith. And let me check the list for who's going to train her for her time here. Oh Gilbert on of Scraps closest friends." Ciel told me. So three weeks Gemstone is.. I believe at least a few years shadow time.

"Alright." I say. I wish I was informed somewhat on how long she'd roughly be in training.

"Basic training usually lasts a year. Advanced two years. Then any addition training their instructor recommends. Then field experience is the last step till they graduate from being a private." A blonde guy spoke looking to be rather well dressed but he carried himself in a dignified and respectful manner not being an arrogant prick.

"Hmm. And who are you?" I ask.

"Julius Visconti Second in command of the Blood Unit. I handle Administrative duties primarily now while Scrap is busy. As for Ciel she handles relations and instances within the base being the third in command to handle things. Then the heads of the various factors to keep Blood running smoothly are next as a form of a council. Licca Head of Engineering, Gilbert Head of recruit training, Romeo Head of public relations, Leah Claudius or head of research among others. It does help disperse the other wise horrid amount of paperwork. Currently I'm in the works finalizing our partnership with the Cradle unit. Soon Mathew's Dogma Unit will be facing less than desirable odds." So Scrap made a decent structure as well as getting everything else sorted.

"And as you might know. I am Emma Clockwork." I say holding my hand out.

He quickly shook my hand. "I've heard plenty about you. Mostly good things I assure you. Like that time you smashed Mathew into his desk. To be honest he deserved it."

I just smirk. "That only happened a few hours ago for me."

"And about a day or two here. His ego is pretty bruised. To be honest his conduct is unbecoming of an officer of his station." Julius sighed as Nepgear staggered out of the room with a slight limp.

"I agree. Are you alright there MiniGear?" I ask her.

"My entire body aches but I think I'll be fine just need some rest. I start training tomorrow. So I'm guessing it will likely be a long time till I see you again mom." Nepgear said looking up at me. "But I promise when I come back I'll be big and strong! I'll be someone you can rely on!"

"I bet you will be. I look forward to it." I say to her.

She gives me a hug as she was then guided away by Ciel to her room. It was… Harder than I thought it'd be to see my baby girl becoming a soldier. But I needed to get back home. Three weeks for me about 5 and a half years for her.

"If I hear anything bad you know what will happen right?" I ask the guy as I stood there watching her walk away.

"I know but I assure you she's in good hands. Everyone here is more or less one giant family. And besides Scrap already did the scarring everyone from messing with her already." At least Scrap did that before hand still aside from the jerk Mathew I haven't heard Scrappy complain about them.

"That is good then."

After that I took my leave and headed home this was going to likely be a long three weeks.

XxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxX

Writer: Project Omega

Co-writer: Alternet RedSkys

Editor: We're too lazy to proofread.