Hyper Arc; Chapter 5; Gathering Together! Set Assualt on AffimaX
After all the challenges everyone has faced, it is time to gather everyone together. Before we do so, how about he have a look back at what everyone has done throughout this sudden change? As we know each Goddess Protector destroyed their gauntlet having to have run out of Power.
Purple Story - Jeff adventures back to the city, however the existence of CPUs and Protectors was removed from everyone's minds. Lucky his friends Tempest and Kaylin haven't forgotten, as they learn of what happened from Histoire, Silvia arrives to find out what caused Gamindustri to change and also works on new devices for the protectors. Jeff and Tempest rescued Neptune and IF from Arfoire, however she escaped with a ninja robot named Steamax. The group then went to search for clues about AffimaX when they encountered Warechu a mouse once part of the group ASIC many years ago now having to live life as a thief and steal used games. They captured the mouse and asked questions about AffimaX and learned they were after a Swirl Marked console that Jeff found long ago. Then they were distracted as AffimaX set sights on the console, however on the way Jeff and Selena were forced to fight two Dragon Slayers known as Armen the White Dragon Slayer, and Drake the Shadow Dragon Slayer, however at the end Jeff overpowered them both before noticing a dark power from both B-Sha and Warechu. The others chased after Steamax to gain the console until he noticed the strange occurrence happening and helped the group in stopping both B-Sha and Warechu from their rampage. After it was done, although Steamax had taken the Console away under their noses. Jeff made sure that he will get it back from AffimaX.
Black Story - James was able to find the others, however he and Noire find out that the two of them are Wanted Members of AffimaX. As the two are on the run, Cassandra the Ex-Scientist of the Saints Serum project was secretly aiding them to make sure Lastation Soldiers don't capture them. The duo met K-Sha who is hiding about being known as the Gold Third member ruling Lastation, but she left the position for the Basilicom. However a secret organization took the chance of controlling it, James and Noire hid a long time until they learned about The Order planning to wage war on Gamindustri. James and Noire now reunited with their siblings are planning to stop the Order's plans. At a point James and Noire were relieved to no longer be wanted after an incident in a subway underground. Later at a point K-Sha suddenly acted strange and started to try and kill him, Noire later challenged K-Sha to a 1 on 1 duel and won. K-Sha then thought that the Order may try and destroy her power source, but thanks to the gang they stopped them. However the virus was released to kill them, but James decided to save the others and take it himself. Thanks to K-Sha she was able to save him from death, but something strangely tries to control her. The four fought hard and knocked her down to end the struggle.
White Story - Alex and Blanc got together reaching a city to find Rom, Ram, and Seth. However as they defeated some strange monsters C-Sha the Gold Third of Lowee rescues them. However things were strange as C-Sha said that she doesn't remember them at all even though she is hiding the fact. Alex was given rules for his summoning powers and a life counter making things harder for him. Blanc and Alex continue to search for their siblings, they learned that their siblings went to a dungeon and haven't returned. After rescuing their siblings Alex and Blanc were asked to meet with Azna Leb, a guy who tricked the duo in wanting to fix Lowee only wanting to control it all, and also asked to get the secrets out of C-Sha who confessed of something strange happening to her. When learning that the army captured her and plans for execution, however Azna Leb also planned for Alex and Blanc to be on the Wanted List getting them out of the picture. However a monster invasion happened and this had Blanc and Alex fight to save their home and gain help from C-Sha who was freed by Fanancier, then Rom, Ram, and Seth got all the Hunters to help and completely destroy all the monsters. Azna Leb was then exposed for his cowardice and locked up, but things weren't peaceful yet as C-Sha noticed that she held off the delusionary fog for too long that it could overflow through her body, so she ran towards the Golden Tower and destroyed the crystal. The group went to check on her and the darkness was too much for her so now it looked that someone was in control of her body, and the group fought her to get her back to her senses.
Green Story - Isaac and Vert have become soldiers for S-Sha for some tasks to take out some Invaders. They haven't gotten details about why they are doing this, however the strange thing was the Invader was a machine made with multiple machine parts of different Nations. Later they are informed of two Invaders who happen to be Adam and Nepgear who were sent by both Neptune and Jeff to assist them. With Mark, Nepgear, and Adam added to the party their job becomes easier, they are tasked to search for and bring the body of the Demon King for an unknown reason. Suddenly the group gets a message from a person called "E-Sha". Unknown who it was they go to the Tower to stop S-Sha from doing a ritual with sacrificing a million ran-pigs. However a certain duo known as Big Neptune and Other Jeffrey stall them and inform them they are members of AffimaX, confused they had to fight to pass by. Adam suddenly heard a mysterious voice telling about this "Her" and her "Delusions". After the battle the group continued forward and fought S-Sha who later finds out that the body she and E-Sha use together was never having a strange feeling of the body failing. After that was done everything returned to a peaceful state at the moment.
Now that we got that out, let us go forward to Planeptune and start this chapter!
Inside the Planeptune Basilicom IF was explaining the situations of what was going on in the other Nations to Histoire. Each one had their own share of problems big time.
"Those are all the reports the Guild collected." IF explains to Histoire.
"As suspected, AffimaX has been behind the many incidents occurring throughout Gamindustri. They supported both the Order in Lastation and the Revolutionary Army in Lowee… In Leanbox, they were connected to the Gold Third member…" Histoire says understanding everything that happened.
"As expected of you, Iffy! You're pretty good at this intelligence stuff to have figured all that out on your own. You're a model Guild member." Neptune says praising her.
"Thanks, Nep, but I didn't even break a sweat collecting all this. By the way, Nepgear and Adam seem to be doing quite alright with Vert and Isaac lately." IF explains.
"I should be happy about Nepgear's successes, but knowing she's been with Vert for this long, I can't say I feel too great about it…" Neptune says grimly, thinking that Vert may take Nepgear away.
"Anyway, Histoire, about our future plans…" IF starts saying.
"Let us confront AffimaX." Histoire says and Jeff slams his fists together.
"Alright! I've been waiting for this moment, I've been getting so Fired Up ready to take those guys down!" Jeff says with his hands on fire.
"Wait, do we even know where their base is? It could be anywhere in Gamindustri." Ruby asks making a good point.
"Please, leave that problem to me. From Warechu's testimony, I was able to ascertain AffimaX's base as an aerial battleship." Histoire says and Jeff fell down hearing that.
"No… anything but that! Not a transportation vehicle!" He exclaims not wanting to have motion sickness at the most important battle.
"Have no worries Jeff, if I am correct, then Silvia should have a method to block your Motion Sickness when you get on any transportation." Histoire explains to him which he sighed in relief hearing that. "Therefore, I would like you to go to each nation and gather the remaining CPUs, and Protectors, Neptune and Jeff." Jeff leaps back onto his feet after that.
"Finally, so it's time we get everyone all together! Leave it to us, I'm already excited to see everyone!" Jeff says glad that he gets to see the others again. Histoire asked Compa and IF to join them and Ruby flies with Jeff out of the Basilicom. Then Selena came into the room with it just being her and Histoire.
"Histoire… I've been wanting to tell you this, but there is a secret I've been keeping that dad has told me." Selena tells her and Histoire was curious what she is going to tell her.
The group of four decided to head to Leanbox first to pick up Nepgear and Adam, however the problem was that the trips to go over the ocean are still canceled. Although Jeff had Ruby to carry him to the Nation as Neptune transformed to carry the other two over.
"Leanbox, I never thought we'd get to see it again after so long!" Jeff says excited to see Isaac and Adam.
"Agreed, let's go find them and-" Before Ruby could finish they saw the Dogoo Man and Dogoo Lady which creeped them out. "What are they…?"
"I have no idea… but I wanna burn my eyes…" Jeff says wishing he didn't see the humanoid Dogoos.
"Jeff!" Adam calls out which he was about to freak out then realized it was his bro.
"Hey there little bro! Good to see you doing alright!" Jeff says to him pulling him in with one arm. "Guess what, the time has come for us to take charge! Head back to Planeptune and we'll gather the others!"
"I'm glad to hear that!" Isaac says suddenly next to them with Mark beside him. "Alright Mark let's head to Planeptune!"
"Right! Onward to Planeptune!" Mark exclaims and the two Leanbox Brothers head towards the ocean, as Nepgear transforms to carry Adam across the ocean, Isaac and Mark use a makeshift boat and sail across the ocean and Vert flies over. The four fly back across the ocean and make their path towards Lastation.
"Ah, Lastation. It looks just the same as it always has been! Wonder how James and Noire are doing." Jeff says when he was about to get his answer.
"We're doing fine, thank you very much." James says sarcastically. "We were given reports of a group heading to Lastation and thought we'd wait to see who it was."
"Well how thoughtful of you doing that, but now is the time for everyone to gather at Planeptune. We are gonna start to take on those who messed with our home!" Jeff explains to him and James smirked at this. They also notice Noire chasing after Neptune from a comment of hers.
"Things never change with Neptune at all…" James states seeing Neptune yelling and running away from Noire, and Jeff agrees with him. They stopped Noire from killing Neptune and the Lastation quad made their path to Planeptune. They make way to Lowee for Alex and Blanc being the last ones to inform. As they finally arrived in Lowee, Neptune and Compa were shivering from the cold.
"Neptune doesn't wear shorts, although Compa wears a sweater… I'm not bothered by the cold one bit." Jeff says quietly as Ruby decides to latch onto him since his body is converted with intense heat inside.
"Ah it's better since you use fire type magic and you aren't bothered by the cold." Ruby says to his buddy and the group goes into the guild to find info about where Alex and Blanc are at. The girls were talking to a Guild Member when suddenly the twins ran into the building like they were racing, and Jeff looked to see Alex.
"Well look who it is! How's it been Alex!" Jeff asks him.
"Quite a surprise to see you here, if you are here does that mean that…" Alex says thinking he knows the time has come.
"You got that right! Now that we gathered everyone, it's time we head back to Planeptune and prepare for what we've been waiting for!" Jeff tells him. "Also would you please not eavesdrop on the conversation without announcing yourself." he turns to C-Sha behind the others.
"Sorry about that, I was going to greet you, but you were listening to the story, so I just jumped in on my own." She explains
"Well, don't worry about us. We will return without any worries." Alex tells her and everyone heads back towards Planeptune and into the Basilicom where Histoire and Silvia are waiting.
"Neptune, Noire, Blanc, Vert… Jeffrey, James, Alex, Isaac… Nepgear, Uni, Rom, Ram… Adam, Noble, Seth, and Mark…" Histoire says everyone's names seeing them all together. "Finally, the day has arrived when we are all able to gather together. Despite the pleasant reunion, our situation is dire. Ever since Gamindustri changed, it has been mired in chaos because of AffimaX." They agreed with what Histoire explained, both Lastation and Lowee didn't get any names however. But Leanbox learned that Arfoire is one, along with the dimensional versions of Neptune and Jeffrey.
"No way! Our other selves are actually members of the secret organization?! Even if she isn't the proper protagonist, she's still a Neptune!" Neptune exclaims shocked to learn that.
"I wasn't sure on believing it bro, but it seemed like they're part of the group." Adam explains to Jeff.
"I wouldn't think my other self would work with the enemy without any particular reason." Jeff says confused since he wouldn't expect this to happen.
"So, currently, if we exclude Warechu, it's clear the members of the organization are… The ninja Steamax, Arfoire, the other Neptune and Jeffrey… and a mysterious, unidentified girl." Histoire explains
"There is another, I heard the ninja say a name once before. He said "General Affimojas" what I can guess is this General is possibly the Leader of the Organization." Jeff explains.
"Then it is so, now then each Protector I'd like you all to step forward and have your arms out forward." Silvia tells them, having Jeff, James, Alex, Isaac, Selena, Tempest, Adam, Noble, Seth, and Mark stepping forward, Silvia creates a ball of light and it shoots out many beams and latches onto the wrists of each of them. Once the light died each Protector was given a band similar disigned to the Gauntlets. "These bands should work better than the Gauntlets, they will give you the same things before. As well these cannot be removed by anyone besides yourselves." Jeff, James, Adam, and Noble's Guardian Bands are black with circitre lines flowing of their colors, Purple for the Plantune duo, Silver for Lastation. The others have White ones, with theirs being Ice Blue for Selena, Cyan for Tempest, Light Blue for Lowee, and Green for Leanbox.
"Hey why does mine on the left have a missing slot?" James asks her, showing it does have a spot not filled in, same with Jeff, Alex, and Isaac.
"I was going to that, everyone else has a small sphere crystal on their left or right bands to access their new Limit Break Power. The four of you please pull out the gem in your pockets." Silvia explains as Jeff holds out the Red gem, James holds out the Blue gem, Alex holds out the White gem, and Isaac holds out the Green gem. "The gems you hold have gotten acquainted with your powers, I have noticed as all of you went through your own troubles. Now place them in the slots." The four of them do so and the gem bursts of energy and suddenly the four were surrounded by the color aura. "Each of you will get a power boost from this, however you will need to recharge by fighting. Each of you have a different Limit Break, and I also added some features for you three." She turns to the Dragon Slayers. "These will make you immune to your Motion Sickness, so you'll be able to land on the Battleship that belongs to AffimaX." The three of them sigh in relief to hear that. "Also Selena I made sure you can switch between your two Slayer Magics separately."
"Good to know, but I think I'll stick with Ice since this is a gift from my dimensional counterpart." Selena says
"With all of you gathered together, it is best you all relax before heading towards the last battle." She tells them, the group agrees and they head to the new spa bath, two separate large baths one for guys, and the other for girls. Silvia had placed a pair of Black bands on the desk with a slot opened like the others.
"Did you make extras?" Histoire asks her.
"Yes… When they returned from Zero Dimension I had a vision… their new friends are part of this path we have gotten into." Silvia explains which surprises Histoire. "When the time comes I believe we are going to find the truth about those two…"
In the spa bath area everyone is currently relaxing their bodies in the baths. The girls were having their own conversation, though Selena and Tempest were having their own conversation. The guys were relaxing themselves.
"Ah, I know we were set to go forth to battle. However everything was really stressful." James says stretching his arms up.
"Yeah, the sudden changes to the world have made us work hard." Isaac says, although Alex notices Jeff having something on his mind.
"Something up? You seem to have something on your mind." Alex says to him and the others look at him curious what he is thinking.
"Well… I've been wondering something, our home changes and the leaders of the Nation are members of Gold Third. At the exact time, something strange happens to each one of them." Jeff says which the others get what he was saying.
"That is a good point… K-Sha was really obsessed with Noire like a Yandere, and at one point it seemed like she was arguing with someone in her head. The Darkness I felt in her wasn't Jexon's." James explains
"For C-Sha, she was trying to hold in this mysterious fog which was a cause of the delusionary monsters. At the end she was overflowing so much of that fog I could tell she can no longer hold it, and it definitely was not part of Jexon's magic. Also she was talking like someone controlled her body, talking about the power of "Delusions" that is what I remember her saying." Alex explains and when Adam heard that he wondered if this person is who the voice mentioned while he was fighting against the other dimension Jeff.
"There wasn't anything strange with S-Sha, however maybe the person that controlled the Gold Third of Lowee had maybe put the idea of the failure of the body holding two souls." Isaac explains.
"It seems odd, with B-Sha some girl had encountered her and filled her with Darkness. For some reason, I feel like this "Mysterious Girl" is the cause of doing things to all the members of Gold Third." Jeff says, feeling suspicious about every single event happening.
"You do have a point, each of Gold Third had acted strange or thought something was wrong." Alex says.
"Do you think they were targeted by that girl because they won the battle against the girls?" Noble asks
"It could be possible, they won against them with our brothers giving them an extra edge in the fight." Mark explains.
"That girl is part of the Organization, and Arfoire was searching for the special Swirl Marked Console I found… their goal has been to obtain that from the beginning. I'm going to get it back!" Jeff thought to himself
After relaxing their bodies everyone was set up and ready for the battle up ahead.
-End of G Chapter 5-
Jeff: time to attack the base! Let's move out!
James: Looks like we have to get past this Ninja Guy
Alex: Affimojas, your days of changing our world and being a greedy man are over!
Isaac: Dammit, after just that fight he used a crystal to make us vulnerable and is going to trade us for money!
B-Sha: Use this to help you win!
Alex: Whoa, the power of that Crystal gave the CPUs and they exceed their previous Form to a new Level!
Next Form CPUs: This battle is far from over now!
Next Time; Engage invasion on AffimaX! Unleash the Power of Next Form!