Hyper Arc; Green Story - Part 2; The Mysterious E-Sha
After having to retreat from their objective, the group returns to the Basilicom explaining what had happened at the location to S-Sha.
"Well, Vert. How shameful for you all to have lost." S-Sha says
"Hey! Excuse me, it was a strategic retreat!" Isaac sassed at her.
"It doesn't matter. I'm not very interested in your military results, anyway." S-Sha replies and then looks at both Nepgear and Adam. "So, who are the two with you?"
"She's Nepgear, my younger sister." Vert said in an instant.
"What?!" Nepgear and Adam said together.
"Vert, this is not a way to introduce people that are not even related to you! In all seriousness, these two are the ones of the current Outside Invaders of Leanbox. However they are friends of ours to see us, so it is wrong to call them invaders." Isaac explains
"I see, so it was a misunderstanding. I apologize." S-Sha tells the two Planeptune candidates.
"You won't question us? We came flying here without a boat. We also defeated several of this nation's Soldiers…" Nepgear says to her.
"I'm not interested. The defeated Soldiers seem to be fine, and moreover, I've no interest in either of you." S-Sha tells them, seemingly has something important to do.
"Ow, that was a burn…" Adam says quietly.
"Don't worry too much about it." Isaac tells Adam
"Now then, give me your report on the Demon King. What did you see there?" S-Sha asked them and they explained everything they saw. "I see. Good work. You may retire."
"Hold on. Can I ask some questions?" Adam asks and S-Sha looked at him curiously. "Isn't the world kind of strange? Why is it that you're ruling over Leanbox instead of both the CPU and Protector? What is it that you did during the tournament finals?" S-Sha was silent for a while then spoke up.
"I have no interest in your questions." S-Sha replied
"Hey, listen to me seriously." Adam said annoyed.
"I'm not interested. If you need to run your mouth, you can go talk to that wall over there." S-Sha sassed at him and left the room.
"Don't worry, she is like that. You won't be able to get her to answer, we will just need to get the answers a different way." Isaac tells him and is still wondering what S-Sha is secretly planning.
Time passes and Isaac suggested to Adam and Nepgear should get cleaned up since they are covered in dirt and such. The two agreed on that and went in the hotel bath to wash up. After the wash up Nepgear went to get info how the Gold Third was formed, and learned that a prophecy was written about the Golden Towers and how they obtained their powers.
The group of five are now in the hotel lobby to have some drinks to refresh. Vert went up to get all of them drinks and Nepgear noticed a certain someone, the guys noticed her looking and turned to see S-Sha, however there was something different about her, she has a sad expression on her face which they know she rarely expressed any emotion at all. Isaac felt there was something odd about her strangely as she went further into the hotel going up to the hallway. After their drinks they return to their rooms however there is a letter addressed to Isaac and Vert.
"Please stop S-Sha, before it's too late." Isaac read and had an odd feeling that someone knows that they are close to S-Sha, whatever the person means to stop S-Sha they would need to learn about what is going on.
Isaac then later decided to take a rest while the others went out, so he laid down on the bed after placing his sword and shield on the side of the bed.
-Isaac's Dream-
Inside a Leanbox barracks there were two young teens practicing against each other, one with a wooden sword, and the other holding makeshift chakrams. The two were training together until the sword wielder knocked down.
"Another win for me!" the teen wielding the sword exclaimed.
"Still as skillful as you are huh, Isaac?" the chakram wielder asks
"You bet I am. Though you still have a ways to go if you are going to beat me." Isaac says to him and helps him up.
"You got that right, but however if I had 13 different weapons and fought you. I doubt you would be able to have enough strength against me if I had that many!" He says confidently
"Oh really?" Isaac asked intrigued, wanting to be taking that challenge. "You want to make that a bet? Go ahead and pick the ones you want to use against me."
"Alright then, I'll probably pick…" His friend starts thinking.
-End of Dream-
Suddenly Isaac woke up from his dream and felt like it happened to him but can't remember why he forgot about it.
Some time had passed when Nepgear found a site that had info of invaders in Leanbox, and at the right moment S-Sha gave a signal for a mission. The group gets to the basilicom to see what she wants.
"Today, I've called you all for one reason. I want you to follow the Demon King's trail." She explains to them
"The Demon King? And what of the invaders?" Vert asks and S-Sha was confused when Vert suddenly said invaders then continued to the objective.
"You all are proficient in a specific set of skills, and this assignment utilizes them." She explains
"Understood. But, of course, you'll be giving us detailed information in regards to the Demon King, yes?" Vert asked
"Of course. I'll send you the details once you leave." S-Sha says and the five of them leave the basilicom. "Why did she use the word "invaders?" I'm sure there was no information on outside invaders closing in… Well, that doesn't matter. What's more important is that I…"
"Um, Vert? Isaac? About the invaders… Will it be okay if we just leave them alone?" Nepgear asks
"Hell no! Even if Gold Third would leave them, we most certainly will not." Isaac says moving forward as he is pissed off that S-Sha is most likely not interested in doing things herself. "Come on, let's take out these invaders as we search for the Demon King!"
"Yup, Isaac is mad." Mark says knowing he will do anything to protect others.
The group make they're way to the west and encounter another machine invader. The five fighters ready themselves and fight off the invader. Once they defeated it. The machine loses power and both Adam and Nepgear got on the machine to take a look at it.
"So if we look at this spot then we should be able to… aha! What…?" Adam says looking confused, Nepgear was also confused at what they are looking at.
"What did you find?" Mark asks the two.
"This machine was made in Leanbox." Adam replied and the others were confused. "The parts in this are mixes from the other nations, but this is mostly built here in Leanbox."
"Is this true?!" Vert asked worried. "Does that mean, the enemy we had been calling outside invaders, were actually from within Leanbox?"
"No, that might not be it either. We checked out the wreckage of the supposed invader you both defeated earlier…" Nepgear explains. "But that was definitely Lastation-made. Even if they appear slightly similar, the structure differs just enough to tell."
"So then these were fakes created to imitate outside invaders. But who would do such a thing…? I wish we could figure this out now. But we have a job to do, so let's hurry." Isaac says and they continue forward into the area where the Demon King is. They find a large monster in a section of the dungeon.
"We've found you, Demon King!" Vert exclaims. "As his name suggests, he has an unseemly and sinister appearance."
"You got that right. Now let's lay waste onto this beast." Isaac says drawing his sword. Then both Adam and Nepgear noticed that the monster looked familiar.
"Wait, this isn't the Demon King…" Adam says suddenly. "This thing is from the Zero Dimension!"
"Are you certain?" Vert asked him concerned.
"It's not exactly the same type, but it's the same species as the one the four of us fought before." Nepgear explains. "... But why a Zero Dimension monster…?" Isaac was curious, since only the Planeptune quad was the only ones who have been transported to that dimension and seen very odd creatures. Then Vert transforms into Green Heart.
"We can consider the reasons later, right now, our priority is to defeat this threat to Leanbox." Green Heart tells them and they ready themselves and Nepgear transforms into Purple Sister. The 5 of them dodge a swipe attack from the large beast, Isaac took a leap and slashed it. Mark readies an arrow of Fire and releases it, burning the insect like monster a bit. Green Heart and Purple Sister tag together, and they start stabbing and slashing the best back and forth, Adam creates an Ice-Cannon and fires a blast at it, knocking it away. Mark summons a spirit armor, and it strikes the enemy. The large enemy rages and smacks the armor making it break apart.
"That thing is stronger than I expected…" Mark says surprised and barely dodges another attack from the beast, Isaac signalled Adam to give him a leap into the air. Adam runs towards him jumping onto his shield and leap into the air and aim multiple cannons from above and barrage the large enemy until it couldn't take so many hits it falls down unconscious not disappearing like any monster usually does.
"We've successfully defeated it. Although, with this meager level of power, it's like you both said Nepgear. This is no Demon King." Green Heart says
"Well now that we have defeated it, what do we do?" Purple Sister asks
"S-Sha wouldn't believe us if we merely told her it's not the Demon King. We'll just have to carry it back to the Basilicom." Green Heart says, and the others were disgusted about having to carry a creature such as that. However she decided they would contact them and have those guys carry it back which the others sighed in relief hearing that. Once that happens they return to the Basilicom and explain everything to S-Sha.
"I didn't expect the Demon King to be captured this quickly, but I guess I should have expected this from a CPU, Protector, CPU Candidate, and Protector Candidates." S-Sha says slightly surprised at how fast the mission was completed and Vert agrees with her and gets S-Sha's attention for something in mind.
"I highly doubt you'd solely reward us with words of thanks after we captured the Demon King, would you?" Vert asks
"... Heh. I see. You desire a reward." S-Sha says understanding. "Then, allow me to grant your requests. To praise you for this success, I will reward you with anything you wish." Vert grinned as she spoke
"I wish for all of Leanbox's… no, all of the world's Limited Edition games with all of the pre-order bonus items!" Vert exclaimed and the others were dumbfounded at what she said.
"What the hell Vert?! Why are you asking for your damn personal desires when we discussed that we ask for Leanbox if she'd give us a reward?!" Isaac shouts out angry.
"... huh? Oh, uh, you've misunderstood, Isaac. That was, of course, a joke. Yes, it was just, um, a little joke…" Vert explains with a sweet dropped expression not sounding convincing there. Isaac just facepalmed at this.
"You are not very convincing there Vert…" He tells her groaning from the situation.
"What a rowdy lot. If you want Leanbox so much, you can take it." S-Sha says bluntly and the group was surprised she would give up the nation like that without a care.
"How serious is this statement of yours?!" Vert asks who is still shocked she would give the Nation up easily.
"Now that the Demon King has been captured, I have no reason to keep this nation or my standing in it. Do as you wish." S-Sha explains and the others were dumbfounded to make it be done that easily. "Now… Now I can finally make my most important wish come true, E-Sha…" Hearing that made Isaac and Vert look at her curiously. Who is E-Sha? Then the Dogoo man entered the room.
"Excuse us! S-Sha, we have a report on the Demon King." He starts saying.
"Yes? What is it? Go on, speak." S-Sha says to the Dogoo, wondering what he is going to say.
"First, concerning his condition… it looks as if he's ot unconscious, but already dead." He says and S-Sha was in shock hearing that. The group of 5 all had sweat drop expressions that they went overboard and actually killed it. And wonder if S-Sha will find out the monster is not the Demon King. "We investigated his body composition thoroughly. As you know, I possess a keen sense of taste and my tongue tells me this is just a regular monster."
"What do you mean? Are you telling me this is not the Demon King?" S-Sha asks him.
"It both is and isn't." He explained.
"You mean to say what we thought was the Demon King was only called so, but it was really just an ordinary monster?" S-Sha asks and he confirms it. "I see…" Both S-Sha and the Dogoo man left the room. The group of 5 were taken back and disappointed that S-Sha found the truth, but a question only rang in Isaac and Vert's minds. 'Who is this E-Sha?'
End of Part 2 - Green Story