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Chapter 5
"Ah, Chrome!" A soft voice spoke up and Chrome looked to see a familiar face walking towards her.
"Artisan, I'm glad you could make it." Chrome nodded as she looked at the girl. Artisan was wearing black shoes and stockings that went up half-way up her thighs and were connected to garter belts that went under her black shorts and she was wearing sleeveless button-up tan colored cloak over her body that acted like a cross between a shirt and a cape while she had a short jacket that she wore over her shoulders. The girl had light blue eyes, red hair and horns on her head that resembled mandibles on a bug, though Chrome wouldn't say that was the weirdest thing she had seen on people's heads, but it certainly wasn't normal.
"Just you this time?" Artisan asked and looked around the docs, not seeing anyone with Chrome.
"No, a few others came with, but they went to look around." Chrome answered her. "They'll be back soon enough." She patted the crates next to her. "These are full of veggies that we grew, you should be able to make use of these."
"Sweet!" Artisan smiled and clapped her hands together. "I'd love to take them right now, but there's a small, teensy, tiny, itzy bitzy little problem."
"...What?" Chrome hoped that Artisan had all the stuff that she asked for. "Don't tell me, you can't get me the parts I need?"
Artisan had an apologetic look on her face. "I really am sorry, Chrome. We couldn't get the part finished up in time. If you had come over land, it wouldn't have been a problem."
Chrome sighed softly. "How long?"
"Two days." Artisan was sweating softly at the look Chrome gave her. "The stuff's really delicate and it has to be specialty ordered and made, you know that! The only reason that you can even get it as remotely affordable as you do is because we cut you some serious slack all things considered."
Chrome sighed heavily. "I know that, but we don't really have the supplies to stay here for any longer than we have to." She'd have to actually find supplies for the return trip home. "I suppose I don't need to eat on the way back."
Artisan sighed at that. "Don't be like that, we'll make sure to give you guys plenty of supplies to take back, including stuff for cooking. So who all came with this time?"
"Linda, Warechu, IF, Compa, Gust, Filyn and a new girl by the name of Neptune." Artisan raised an eyebrow and Chrome shrugged. "Don't worry about the last one, she won't be coming back with us, she just wanted a lift up here."
"I was more surprised by the amount of people is all." Artisan muttered, "so you're sure they'll all be okay?"
"Who's to say?" Chrome sighed and slumped. "I'm going to be honest, Artisan, I don't see how we're going to survive another year. The thick forest is starting to encroach on our settlement, paths are getting closed off constantly, more monsters are getting close to the place and it's just..."
Artisan nodded at her. "I know. You're doing all you can, but what you can do is so limited in the current state of things."
Chrome sneered and looked at Lowee City. "Even if she's a brat, you'd think the CPU would do something about the monsters so that she'd have more people to torment or something." It was so frustrating to Chrome, to know that someone had so much power and wouldn't do a thing to stop the bad things that were happening. 'Then again, isn't that how this whole situation happened in the first place? That none of us cared about what happened outside of our little sections of the world?'
"So aren't you concerned about the others?" Artisan asked Chrome, who nodded at her. "Look, why don't you just take some time to enjoy yourself, right now it's the end of season sales going on, I doubt that the CPU will go down, you know she doesn't like to be bothered when there's stuff like this."
"...That might be fun." Chrome said and walked off with Artisan as some nameless NPCs came to gather up the crates of crops and move them to the appropriate locations.
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"You should slow down, Gust's legs aren't very long!" The blue-haired bunny girl complained as she ran after Filyn, who was cheerfully going from one stall to another. "Plus the others aren't here and Gust doesn't want to get sat on by a fat person again."
Once would have been enough, but poor Gust had been sat on by fat people by accident on four separate occasions. Three of those four times was because the person had tripped and had sat on her because they fell on their butt. And, sadly, one time was because she had to crawl under a chair to get something she had dropped... Just as the chair broke and the person crashed down on her. All of that would have been traumatic enough, but the blue-haired bunny girl had gotten a face full of rancid gas twice because of it.
Needless to say, Gust tried to avoid being anywhere near the rear end of anyone after that.
Filyn huffed and stopped to wait for Gust. "Where's IF and the others?"
"Getting stuff for back home." Gust answered her as she caught up. "And it would do you some good to do the same." Filyn gave her a confused look and Gust rolled her eyes. "Gust means you won't be a little girl forever, right? Maybe Filyn should try to do more than be Chrome's little sister and get some good stuff?"
"...So what do you think I should get then?" Filyn asked the bunny girl. "Should I go and buy up a lot of sweet things that will be gone in an hour or maybe I should oww!"
"Don't bite your tongue so much." Gust pointed out. "Well, Gust knows some of the stuff we need back home, so we should go and get it."
"Like what?" Filyn asked as Gust led her through the people.
"Well, we need to..."
"AAAAH!"
Gust looked up, her eyes going white and blank while her face turned blue as a butt filled her entire vision and she ended up being squished under the butt. 'This sucks. Please don't fart!' She thought to herself desperately, the last thing she wanted or needed was a face full of smelly gas that took almost ten to twenty minutes to stop smelling.
Thankfully the butt that was on her was quickly removed as the person who belonged to said butt got up and off of her. "I'm sorry." The girl, who had long brown hair, said and bowed to Gust.
"Is okay, Gust is used to having butts sitting on her face." Gust muttered and looked at the girl. "You look familiar." The girl had a halter top, a small jacket and was wearing some really tight pants that gave her pert rear end a small lift that made it more eye catching.
Gust was a little disturbed that a girl who looked to be about as old as Filyn was wearing them, but at least they looked nice on her.
"Um..." The girl blushed softly. "My name is Ram..."
Gust's eyes widened and she took a step back. "The CPU Candidate?!" When Ram flinched and looked like she was about to tear up, Gust bit her lip softly. "Gust is sorry, but Gust doesn't like your sister."
"...I... I understand." Ram said softly and looked down. "It's okay... I'll go."
"Hey!" Filyn suddenly spoke up and grabbed Ram's hands, much to both Ram and Gust's shock. "I'm Filyn. Want to hang out?"
"HUH?!" Both Gust and Ram stared at her in shock.
"Well, I don't know where anything is, maybe you do? I think we needed sugar and flour back home, right?" Filyn looked at Gust, who nodded slowly and Filyn smiled and looked at Ram. "See? Do you know where we can get some?"
"Well, um... Uh huh..." Ram nodded slowly and blushed as Filyn smiled brightly.
"Great! Let's go get some!"
Gust watched as Ram and Filyn walked off together, the CPU Candidate looking bewildered while Filyn smiled brightly. "Uh oh..." Her eyes widened and she ran after both Ram and Filyn. "Get back here, Filyn! Chrome will have Gust's butt in a sling if you don't get back here!"
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Meanwhile...
"Great, just great!" Rom groused as she looked around. "I stop to pee and Ram wanders off!" She had no idea what was going through her younger twin's head, but she didn't like the fact that Ram wasn't with her. Kicking the dirt on the ground she trembled, feeling anger rising up in her. "What if Blanc finds her alone?"
"What would happen?" A voice she didn't instantly recognize asked from behind her.
"Stupid Blanc would..." Rom's eyes widened and she spun around to see Neptune standing behind her with a curious look on her face. "What are YOU doing here?!"
"Well, you know, I'm kind of lost, so I thought I'd just wander around and I saw you looking really upset, so I followed you." Neptune smiled at her. "You lost Ram, huh?" She sighed as she saw the angry, defensive look on Rom's face. "Hmm... Oh! I know!" She took three big steps forward and held out her hand to Rom, who stared at her in surprise. "I'm Neptune, the main character and I'd like to say hello!"
"...Huh?" Rom stared in shock. "Don't you know who..?"
"You're Rom, CPU Candidate of Lowee, right?" Neptune smiled at her, causing Rom to gawk at her. "Yeah, other than the fact you have bigger boobs than Blanc, you're certainly Blanc's sister."
Rom wasn't sure why, but hearing that quip about her boobs caused her to suddenly break into laughter. "Oh... Ha ha ha ha! What?! Bwahahahahahaha!"
Neptune grinned at hearing that. That was so much better than a sullen and sad Rom. "Yeah, Blanc is like super flat, I think I saw her once hold her knees against her chest under her shirt and pretend that she had boobs." Of course, Neptune had snapped a picture of that and told Blanc that she had sent it to Vert and Noire for teasing material.
The resulting beating that Neptune had gotten from Blanc was painful but well worth it.
Plutia and Nepgear weren't the only ones who thought Blanc crying was kind of cute after all.
'At least Blanc calmed down when I showed her that the camera wasn't even on.' Neptune thought to herself. It had taken her a few days to recover from the beating as well. She had apologized to Blanc for the teasing and even got Blanc a few gifts to show that she had been sorry about it.
Vert's teasing that they were dating and Noire's cold attitude during that time was something that Neptune could have done without though.
Rom stopped laughing after a few moments and let out a small sigh. "So why did you follow me?"
"Like I said, I'm lost." Neptune rubbed the back of her head. "And I noticed that you're wandering around looking like you lost someone, so how about you show me around?"
Rom gave her a look before slowly nodding. "I don't know why you want to be around me, but sure..." She shrugged and walked off, followed by Neptune.
"So..." Neptune looked around the buildings as she followed after Rom. "This place looks kind of run down."
"I guess," Rom shrugged, "I've never seen it as anything but like this." Her walking slowed down as they came across an empty playground. "Well, I guess she's not, huh?!" Rom's eyes widened as Neptune suddenly grabbed her hand and dragged her into the playground. "What are you doing?!"
"I wanna play on the whirling wheel!" Neptune said gleefully as she dragged Rom over to an object on the edge of the playground.
"It's a merry go round." Rom pointed out, noting it was rather simple, some handle bars for holding on, but no seats or anything else since it was designed for all ages. "But this is so... WAGH!" She yelped as she found herself sitting on the cool metal as the bottom of her butt was brushing against it.
"Nope! Every kid can have fun doing this!" Neptune shook her head and grabbed onto the bars before she started to run. "My three kids love playing on this, even when they got "too old" to be playing on it, I still took them to play on it." IF had been kind of embarrassed about it, Compa just thought it was nice and Peashy, being permanently stuck at five years old, loved it to death.
As Neptune's running got faster, Rom grabbed the safety bars and squeezed tight as the world quickly became a spinning blur before Neptune jumped on and grinned at her, giggling as she noticed Rom's face slowly change to show her enjoyment. "See?"
"This is so weird!" Rom yelled as she felt the world spinning around. "Can this go faster?" She asked as the spinning started to slow down.
"Sure!" Suddenly Neptune jumped off and did a quick roll before running back to the merry go round and instead of running, she decided to start giving it hard pushes to increase the speed. When she heard Rom's squeal of laughter, she smiled and kept pushing it.
Like all good things, the fun would eventually have to end, though in this case, it was because Neptune pushed too fast and accidentally broke a few nuts and bolts, causing the merry go round to break off and fly into the air, much to Neptune's utter shock as it went straight up.
"Uh oh!" Neptune's eyes were white, blank and had black circles around them. "May day! May day! SOS! We got a flying whirly bird and... AAAAAH!" She turned and ran away as the thing tilted, thanks to Rom's weight and angled itself back down at her. "RUN AWAY! ATTACKING PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT!"
"AAAAAAH! I CAN'T GET OFF! HAAAAALLLLP!" Rom screamed in fear as she squeezed the safety bars as tightly as she could. "I CAN'T TRANSFORM! I DON'T WANNA DIE!"
Rom's world was spinning, but she could see that the ground was getting closer and closer and she squeezed her eyes shut, knowing she'd hit the ground and get hurt. It didn't take long for the merry go round to slam into the ground and send her flying.
"OOOF!" She heard a voice as she crashed into something. Opening her eyes, Rom found the world was still spinning. But after things started to align themselves right, she saw that she was sitting on Neptune's stomach. "Well... I guess the Nep stomach is a good landing pad for both P-Ko torpedoes and flying Roms." Neptune giggled even though she was in pain. "Urgh, I swear, you'd think getting smashed in the stomach for a few years would toughen you up, but nope, still hurts."
Rom didn't know why, but she found the whole situation hilarious and her face broke out into a smile as she started to laugh.
This was quite easily the happiest day of her life.
(-)
"Lady Blanc?" One of the guards asked as she knelt to the blue-haired CPU. "May I ask what you're doing?"
"It's fine," Blanc said softly as she adjusted her blue bow, "I was thinking of going for a walk." Her eyes turned red as shadow came over her face and a grin that wouldn't be out of place on a psychotic former Goddess of Tari spread across her face as well, "and if I happen to find a couple of naughty little shit-stain little sisters, well... I can't be held accountable for what will happen next."
The guards shuddered in fear as she walked off laughing.
To Be Continued...
How cute and, uh oh.
...Why do I love ending chapters on an "uh oh" so much anyway?