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Chapter 32

"Let's see..." The clerk said as she looked over the paperwork. "Names, ages..." She looked at the two of them and raised an eyebrow. "You're seventy-five?" She asked, pointing at Chrome.

"Yes." Chrome nodded at her. "I age very well."

"Apparently!" The clerk couldn't keep her jealousy out of her voice. She stopped and stared at the other sheet and then looked at Neptune. "...How in the hell are YOU fifty three?!"

"Well, it was either that or I put a few months." Neptune giggled and rubbed the back of her head. Neptune could have put the age from when she had come into the world, she supposed, but that would have put her age in her early thirties, but she had spent twenty years in the Ultradimension. And then there was the fact that she had died and went to Hell before being kicked out by Lord Yama, and since that happened only a few months ago, Neptune wasn't sure which age she should put down. "Do you put down how old you are in your first life or the second one?" Neptune asked Chrome, who gave her a confused look.

"...You two are lying, there's no possible way." The clerk twitched in anger. "How?! HOW?! How the HELL do you look like you're barely in puberty?!" She pointed at Neptune and then pointed at Chrome. "And how come you look like you're in your not even thirty?!"

"Does it matter?" Chrome asked. "We've been here for hours already, are we done yet?"

The clerk sighed and sat down, looking over the paperwork. "Let's see, reason for visiting... People with you... Names of each... Ages... Special abilities... Duration of visit..." The clerk muttered off several other things and flipped through the papers before frowning in confusion. "You're missing several forms."

"And we told you," Neptune pointed out, "those forms weren't there!"

"I see," the clerk nodded. "I apologize for not believing you. Don't worry, I'll make sure to get you the proper forms to fill out, but then you'll have to fill out an entirely new stack of forms."

"...What?" Both Neptune and Chrome said with a flat expression on their faces.

"Well, we have to make sure that all the information that you put on this is correct." She smiled at them. "If you filled out the forms while missing some of the forms, then you might have inaccurate information."

Chrome twitched and leaned down to Neptune, whispering softly. "I really don't want to fill out those forms again, any suggestions?"

Neptune thought about it for a moment before her eyes lit up as an idea entered her head. "Fufufufufufufufu..." The clerk, who hadn't been paying attention, looked up and Chrome stepped back from Neptune as her eyes seemingly gleamed in the light. "I guess we should have put on those forms that we're the CPUs of Planeptune and Eden."

The clerk's face instantly went pale. "...What?"

Neptune had a smug grin on her face. "Uh huh... Did you know that Planeptune CPUs are known for being sadistic and having massive personality shifts?" The clerk went from pale to ghost white while shivering and sweating. "A~n~d..." Neptune waggled her finger and pointed at Chrome. "Eden's CPU likes to string people up and then chop them into itty bitty bloody pieces."

Chrome sweat-dropped heavily. 'Just because I did that to both White and Green Void doesn't mean that I like it.' Though she couldn't DENY that she had done stuff like that.

"Now," Neptune gave the clerk, who looked like she was about to mess her underwear, a look that would have made Kurome pause, "what would YOUR CPU do to you if she was annoyed like we are?"

The clerk descended into gibbering uncontrollably.

'...Kind of reminds me of Mini-Noire's robot boyfriend when I was teasing him.' Neptune thought to herself, remembering how amusing that had been. "Well?"

"D-d-d-d-don't worry about it! If you had just told us you were CPUs in the first place we would have done the paperwork for you." The clerk trembled and turned in a stiff manner. "Enjoy your stay in Lastation, please don't kill the civilians, and leave the rest of the paperwork to me."

Neptune smiled at her. "Good! See? That wasn't so bad."

(-)

After walking out into the hallway, Chrome looked at Neptune. "So what was that?"

"I just asked myself "what would Plutie do" and realized that she'd go Sadie on them and do that." Neptune answered her. As scary as Plutia could be when she was mad, her attitude was very helpful in dealing with situations like that.

"...Tell me something, Neptune, is there an Iris... Heart, in your world?" Chrome asked, her voice neutral.

"Not mine," Neptune answered and Chrome sighed in relief, "but she's from another dimension and we're friends."

"...You're friends with a sadistic monster?" Chrome asked, confusion in her voice.

Neptune sighed heavily. "Plutie is..." She trailed off as she thought about the things that Plutia had done to Noire, to Nepgear, to her other friends and even mini-Histy, though at least in that one it was just crumpling her bookmark. "She's a lot..." Images of what Plutia did to Warechu, Arfoire, Rei, Mr. Badd and others went through her mind next, "okay, so she's nice to me," Neptune sweat-dropped as she remembered the times that Plutia had tried to do lewd things to her when she was supposedly sleeping and Neptune had to fight her off as she didn't want those affections, "mostly nice to me, she's not too bad in her human form, even if she's a bit of a brat."

"Uh huh..." Chrome gave her a look that flat-out said that she didn't believe Neptune.

"...You know how I'm different between my normal self and Purple Heart?" Neptune asked, getting a nod from Chrome, "well, Plutie's kind of the same way. She's really nice most of the time in her human form, but then she gets really mad and becomes a terror when she transforms and either wants to beat everyone up or do lewd things to everyone."

"...You're not convincing me that she's a good person." Chrome answered before sighing. "Just answer me, would she torment people who didn't deserve it?"

"..." Neptune had to think for awhile before slowly shaking her head. "No. Sadie only punishes people who she thinks deserves it."

"...She's never killed anyone?"

Neptune shook her head. "No. You saw how I was acting? That's mostly how Sadie acts. She likes S&M stuff, not cutting them into pieces." Neptune stopped and gave Chrome a serious look. "If you ever meet my Plutie, you need to not try and kill her, okay?"

Chrome let out a soft sigh. "Very well, but only because you're asking. I won't try to kill your friend so long as she doesn't try to cause anyone serious harm."

Neptune nodded, she could accept that.

The two walked into the room where the others were at and stopped as they saw raw carnage everywhere with Peashy and Linda both tied up and Peashy was screaming her head off while Rom looked like she was about to murder someone, Compa was trying to calm her down while Filyn looked like she wanted to cheer Rom on and Ram and IF were sitting not too far away, Ram was looking concerned while IF was looking somewhat bored.

"...What the hell is going on?" Chrome asked, hoping to get an answer.

"PEA NEEDS TO GO POTTY!"

Chrome sighed and rubbed her forehead as Neptune walked up to the station manager. "This will be good."

"Finally!" The manager looked at Neptune and Chrome. "That little brat was..."

"Going to mess her pants and then all of you will have to clean her if you don't let her go right now, right?" Neptune smiled at him. The manager paused as there was something about that smile that bothered him. "Because right now, I'm tired, I'm in a bad mood from dealing with your friend down the hall..."

"Well, if the paperwork's finished, I suppose I can..."

"PEA REALLY NEEDS TO GO!"

There was a swish and a thump as the cords holding up Peashy and Linda were cut into pieces. "Come along, Peashy, I'll show you were the bathrooms are." Chrome said as she pulled her razor wires back.

Peashy nodded as she got free of the cords and ran out as fast as she could.

Neptune sighed and looked at the manager. "I know you're doing your job, but can we go?"

"..." The man nodded and sighed. "Yeah."

"Hey! Wait!" Linda suddenly yelled as she got free of her own cords. "What about the airship?!"

"We need to register it and..." The manager stopped as his phone started to buzz. "Now what?" He picked it up to look at it. "I swear, if this..." His eyes widened and he paled while looking at Neptune. "Ah heh heh... My mistake. Enjoy your stay at Lastation. We'll have the airship registered and you can come back and get it at any time. Just please don't use it to fly around and cause a ruckus."

"Sure, you're a great guy." Neptune smiled at him and turned to the others. "Okay! Let's get out of here."

"Finally!" IF yelled in a mixture of frustration and relief. "I've been bored out of my mind here."

"What about Peashy?" Ram asked, "should we wait for her?"

"It'll be fine." Neptune assured her. "Trust me, these things always work out."

As they walked towards the front door, Peashy came running up to them with Chrome following behind her.

"See?" Neptune smiled at Ram. "These things always work out."

(-)

A few minutes later...

"So..." IF began as they came out of the building. "Do we stay in one large group or do we break up into smaller groups?"

"Might be a good idea to stick together." Chrome said as she looked around and saw flying cars and shook her head. "This is rather advanced, huh?"

"Hmm..." Neptune tapped her chin and looked at everyone. "Maybe we should break into smaller groups? People might get scared of a large group of people wandering around." The last thing she needed was to deal with police every few minutes because someone thought they were a gang looking to cause problems.

"Gust doesn't care either way, but," the blue-haired bunny girl looked at everyone, "perhaps each of the groups should have fighters because there might be bad things out there?"

Neptune and Chrome looked at each other and nodded. "Gusty's got a point. So who goes with who?"

"And what are we going to do?" IF asked. "I'm not going to go looking for any CPU or anything. Looking around might be kind of fun though."

"I'm with IF." Linda spoke in a voice that left no room for argument.

"I'm with Compa, Chu." Warechu said as he stepped next to Compa.

"Gust will go with Compa as well." Gust said to them, "Gust can fight a little bit at least."

"Oh yeah, Gusty could do all sorts of alchemist stuff, couldn't she?" Neptune muttered, mostly to herself while others looked at her in confusion. "I guess I'll be with..." She trailed off as Ram, Rom and Peashy all hugged her. "Yeah, them." Neptune giggled softly.

"And I'm with Chromey!" Filyn proclaimed as she hugged her sister.

"So how do we stay in contact with each other?"

"Don't you have like a bunch of cellphones?" Neptune asked the burned girl, who glared at her. "EEK!" She jumped behind Chrome. "Chromey! Iffy looks scarier than a Demon!"

"...She does?" Chrome asked, getting a nod from Neptune.

"Uh huh! I've met Overlords! I met guardians of Hell! I even met Lord Yama." Neptune pointed at IF, "and she's scarier than all of them right now!"

Chrome sighed and gave IF a disappointed look. "Just give up some of your cell phones so we can stay in touch."

IF grumbled, but did as asked. "So, um..." She began after handing one to Gust and one to Chrome. "Don't break them, please?"

Chrome nodded and checked to make sure that they worked right. When IF's phone that Gust had started to ring, she nodded and quickly exchanged numbers with Neptune so that they could call her. "Okay, so... Everyone goes their separate ways, but be careful, okay?" Everyone nodded. "Don't antagonize the robots and don't try and fight a crowd that has larger numbers than you, got it?" She gave Linda and IF a stern look. "And above all, just stay safe, okay?"

The others nodded and left with IF and Linda heading East while Compa, Gust and Warechu went North. Chrome and Filyn also went North, but down a different street while Neptune, Rom, Ram and Peashy all went to the South.

Neptune looked at the others as they left. 'Stay safe everyone.' She hoped they'd be okay, but for now, she was going to enjoy her sightseeing tour of Lastation.

(-)

In a fancy office building, Kei was busy typing away at some stuff when a notification popped up on her screen. "Hmm?" The white-haired girl pressed it and raised an eyebrow. "What's this?"

As she looked over the information, Kei frowned to herself. "I see..." She reached into her pocket and pulled out a flip phone before dialing a number. It didn't take long for the other person to pick up. "Singe, you're going to have to step up your work. It seems that we've got more than one CPU in Lastation now."

"Very well." The man replied to her.

Kei nodded and smiled softly as she closed her phone to hang up. "Even with this new development, it won't matter." Everything was theirs for the taking. The last pieces had to fall into place, sure, but things were going exactly as she had planned it. "I wonder what you'll say when it all comes to a head."

She couldn't wait for that moment.

To be continued...

I admit, the reason I did this was so that I don't have to keep track of everyone at once.