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Chapter 47
Walking through the hospital while she visited some sick friends, Chian thought back to the weird little CPU that she and her husband had met. 'I wonder what nation she was from.' She never did get that information out of Neptune.
"I would do it anyway. Even if I wasn't a CPU, I'd still want to help the people who need it. Because it's the right thing to do."
The look of... Utter conviction in her eyes and voice convinced Chian that Neptune really believed what she said. "But is it right?" She asked herself. "Is it right that we force CPUs to fight for us like this?" She asked herself before shaking her head as her phone vibrated. "What now?" Pulling out her phone, she tapped the screen and blinked at the news update. "What's this?" She asked as she hit play.
"This is Abnes with a breaking news story. CPU Black Void has gone rogue and joined forces with invading CPUs to destroy and damage as much of Lastation as possible. Thankfully the brave men and women who protect the government were able to stop Black Void and her cohorts, but not before substantial loss of life and destruction of property. Including Lastation's Chief Medical Officer and Security Enforcer, Azna=Leb. He fell in battle to CPU Black Void's personal robot assassin."
Chian frowned upon hearing that. "That doesn't sound right. Why would Black Void do something like that? And invading CPUs? Does she mean Neptune?"
"We now go to the intern leader of Lastation, Kei Jinguji for comment."
The scene changed and there was a short... Person, Chian couldn't tell if Kei was a boy or a girl from the video, in a black suit who had short, silver hair and cobalt blue eyes standing at a podium.
"Thank you for your time." Kei began. "Sadly, as of yesterday, CPU Black Void decided to go rogue. As someone she took in and raised to help run Lastation, it saddens me to see that she would take this path, especially when she preached to me, constantly, about how order was needed in life. During the battle yesterday, we lost many people, including a great man in Azna=Leb." Tears came to Kei's eyes and were wiped away. "My apologies. He and I were close."
A reporter quickly raised her hand and Kei nodded to her. "Close professionally or personally?"
"I would rather not answer that, but regardless of how close we were to each other, it did not affect our ability to do work to improve the lives of everyone in Lastation."
"What will happen to Black Void? And what will happen to Lastation?"
"We will see why Black Void went rogue before any decisions will be made about her. As for Lastation, you need not worry. We will be protected and safe." Kei sighed softly. "I apologize, but I wish to take some time to myself."
Turning off her news feed, Chian quickly pulled up her social media groups that followed the news and ran through her feed. Despite how the general populace felt about Black Void and the need to fear her, the people of her groups, and there were thousands of them, supported Black Void for her work in making Lastation a safer place.
There seemed to be a general consensus among the people that Black Void had to have a good reason. One person even claimed that the reason Black Void went rogue had to be related to her younger sister. No one believed that person until they posted a video.
Chian's eyes went wide as she saw Uni laying on the ground and a red energy blast descend from the sky. The video didn't show the beam hitting Uni, but it was pretty clear as to what happened. 'This is...' She didn't know if Black Void cared about her sister or not, but if she did, something like this would be enough to cause her to go rogue.
Putting her phone away, she turned the corner and saw several security officers surrounding a door to a room, all of them fully armed and looking like they were going to kill someone. "Now what?" She asked herself and walked towards them. Hopefully they would let her go without hassling her too much.
Thankfully none of them said anything to her as she walked by and Chian sighed softly, glad she didn't need to get involved with...
"Compa! Calm down, Chu..." A mousy voice was heard from inside.
"But, Warechu! You heard them! They arrested Nep Nep and Peashy and Rom and Ram and now we're all..."
"Dammit..." Chian cursed softly and looked inside as she saw a bunch of security guards inside looking at them and a girl on the bed with their guns lightly trained on them. Chian bit her lip and turned to go in, though she was stopped. "Yes?"
"We can't let you go in, these are suspected accomplices of the criminal CPUs and..."
"Huh?" Chian gave the security guard. "They aren't criminals. In fact..." She looked in and waved. "Hey! Compa!"
"Huh?" Compa turned her head to look at Chian. "I'm sorry, who..?"
"It's me! Chian!" She smiled and waved more. "Wow! You are looking GOOD girl! I haven't seen you since... Wow!" Her eyes widened as she looked Compa up and down. "Please? Can I go see my friend?"
The security officers looked at each other before stepping aside and allowing Chian into the room.
"Thanks." Chian smiled and ran up to Compa and gave her a big hug. "My goodness!" Chian pulled Compa back to arm's length away from her. "You've gotten so big! The last time I saw you, you didn't have these big... Eyes on your face." She said while looking Compa up and down and focusing on the girl's chest.
Compa blinked in confusion. "Um, Miss... Chian, I don't..."
"Oh look at me talk like this, we need to catch up on all the good times." Chian smiled at her before turning to the rest of the group. "Warechu?" When the mouse, who was blushing, perked up, she smiled at him. "How are you, buddy? Still taking care of Compa, I see?" Without giving him time to answer, she turned to the security guards. "Can you give us all some alone time, please?" She sighed when they shook their heads. "Look, we're several stories up, none of us are going to be blasting through the wall and fly away and there's a badly burned person in the room." When they still didn't move, Chian frowned at them. "You know, my husband works for the Lastation Central Bank," she mentally smirked as the security people started to look nervous, "now what would happen if he decided to delay cashing your paychecks for a few days?"
"We'll be outside the room." One of the security officers said as they cleared out and closed the door behind them.
"Phew, finally!" Chian sighed and looked at the others. "Sorry about that, I had to lie my ass off there."
"Oh! Phew!" Compa let out a sigh of relief. "I was worried that I forgot someone that I never met before."
Linda, who was sitting next to IF and gently giving the burned girl's hand a squeeze, looked at Chian. "So why are you here anyway?"
Chian gave her a serious look and sighed softly. "What do you know about what's going on?"
"Nep Nep's a criminal and we're all in trouble because we know her." Compa said, her eyes white and blank.
Chian nodded at that. "Yeah. Listen, I don't think the media's telling you everything."
"B-b-b-b-b-but..." Compa stuttered at that. "That would be wrong! People need to rely on the media for information!"
"Gust thinks that maybe the media is lying to people because the media is controlled by someone." The short bunny girl muttered from her spot next to the window.
"Sadly, that's true." Chian sighed softly. "The truth is, I don't know what's going on fully either, but I'm pretty sure that something bad is happening. Lady Black Void wouldn't just randomly go and do what she did."
"She's a Void." Linda grumbled while looking at IF, who was sleeping with a mask on her face. "See IF here? The burns on her body were because of a Void. Compa lost her arms because of a Void. We saw an entire country disappear because of another Void. So don't try to defend her around us."
Chian shook her head. "I'm sorry for all the problems you've faced, but I don't care if you hate Voids. Lady Black Void isn't a bad person." She lowered her voice as IF groaned and shifted slightly. "Sorry, anyway, your friends are likely being held up at the Basilicom."
"Really?" Linda asked and got a nod from Chian. "...Rat, bunny... Let's go turn ourselves in." Everyone looked at her. "If they're wanted criminals and we're their associates, don't you think we'd be taken to the same place?"
"Yes, but..." Compa began but stopped at Linda's smirk.
"Just leave it to me." Linda said as she got up and went to the door and opened it up. "Hey, faceless, nameless armed guard, could you come in here?"
"I have a name you know, and my face is here." The guard muttered and entered the room. "What do you want?" The guard asked.
"Well..." Linda began as the door closed behind the guard.
(-)
Outside of the hospital room...
"It's been two minutes." One of the security guards said.
"We should..." The doors opened up and the security guard that went in came out with a rat and a bunny girl being led in front of the guard's gun. "What's going on?" The security guard noticed that only the bunny girl was in handcuffs, but when he saw that the rat's arms were too small to cuff, he said nothing.
"These two confessed to being enemies of Lastation and aiding the CPUs that led the assault yesterday." The guard replied to them while jamming the back of Gust's head with the gun barrel. "The injured girl and the one with fake arms were simply traveling with and did nothing to aid them."
"What about the girl with green hair?"
"She knows nothing as well."
"It's true, Gust swears." The blue-haired girl said while rubbing the back of her head. "Leave Compa, IF and Linda alone and Gust will tell you everything that you want to know."
"Very well," the first guard nodded. "Follow me. Good job, Jerbins." The first guard looked at the others. "Make sure that no one else leaves that room, understand." They nodded and stood at attention.
Jerbins nodded and followed after the first security officer with Gust and Warechu following, Gust's hands in handcuffs and Warechu's hands on his head.
After they were gone, one of the remaining security officers looked at the others. "Is it just me, or did Jerbins look like he was thirty kilos lighter?"
"Just you." Was the response.
(-)
In the hospital room, Chian giggled and looked under the bed to see the security officer in just his underwear and tied to the bottom of IF's bed and off the floor while his mouth was gagged. "Who knew that Linda was so good at imitating other people?"
The guard said nothing. Being unconscious due to a pipe to the back of the head would do that to a person after all.
(-)
Meanwhile...
Groaning as she woke up, Noire groggily blinked her eyes as she took stock of where she was.
The first thing she noticed was that her arms and legs were being pinned against something, as was her body. It didn't take her long to realize that she was on a large metal X and her arms and legs were shackled to the object. The second thing she noticed was that she was in a cell of some type. 'Figures that little...' When a breeze went across her body and she shivered, she looked down and realized that while she had been unconscious she had been stripped down to her underwear. "How nice of them to leave me my bra and panties on." She muttered dryly.
"Would you rather I have you hanging there naked?" Noire looked up and saw Kei standing on the other side of the bars, glaring at her. The silver-haired woman opened the doors and walked into the cell. "You're such an idiot." Kei said softly.
"I figured you'd betray me at some point." Noire told her. "You humans always do."
Kei snarled at Noire and threw her right hand back and slapped Noire's breasts hard, causing the CPU to wince. "Shut up!" She slapped Noire's breasts again, this time with her left hand, causing them to jerk to the side. "Shut up!" Another slap. "Shut up!" Another slap. "You stole him from me!" Another slap followed that one, as did several more as Noire's breasts swayed side to side from the slapping.
Wincing with each slap, Noire looked at Kei with one eye open. "While this hurts, quite a bit, I admit, are you done yet? You're not doing any real damagAAAAAH!" She let out a cry as Kei grabbed her breasts, squeezed, pulled and twisted them. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!"
"You stole Azna=Leb from me!" Kei snarled before letting go of Noire's breasts and taking a deep breath. "No, that's not why I'm here."
"You could have fooled me." Noire groaned. "Are you just doing that because you're jealous of the fact that you couldn't grow your own?"
"You know what?" Kei asked and turned to walk away. "I was going to make you an offer, but since you're like this, I think I'll let Gernia G. have her fun first." She stopped at the cell door and looked back at Noire. "And just so you know, Azna=Leb was quite the lover."
Noire scoffed at her. "I wouldn't know. I'd never trust anyone to get that intimate with me."
"Too bad," Kei smirked at her. "It's quite nice to be pushed down and bent over your desk while your partner pulls your panties down and dominates you with his big dick." She chuckled at Noire's dirty look. "I'll see you in a few days, Noire, former CPU of Lastation."
Noire glared at Kei as she walked off. "You bitch!" She yelled at Kei, who stopped and turned back to give Noire an infuriating grin.
"It takes a bitch to know a bitch, doesn't it? But don't worry about Uni. Gernia G. is taking good care of her as we speak." She laughed at the look of utter horror on Noire's face. "I knew you cared for her, if I could have proved it sooner I would have used her to control you."
Noire snarled as Kei left the room.
(-)
Meanwhile...
"Interesting..." A woman said while looking at Neptune, who was giving her a dirty look. "Quite an interesting one, aren't you?"
"Did you need to strip me down to my panties?" Neptune asked the woman, who was dressed up as a typical scientist but didn't have any really defining features. Heck, her hair was under some sort of plastic cap. "And why are my hands chained above my head and my feet strapped to the bed?" Her eyes widened and she blushed heavily. "I mean, if you wanted to lewd me, you could have asked, I'd feel less uncomfortable rather than being helpless like this."
The woman shook her head. "Sadly, I'm not interested in that. But since you mentioned it..." She reached into her pocket and pulled out a purple, glowing stick.
"Uh..." Neptune looked at that. "What's that?"
"A large gem that's pure, concentrated Fearicite energy." The woman said cheerfully as Neptune turned pale.
"Uh... I don't suppose you're going to just use that to scare me, are you?" Neptune asked, hoping that's what the plan was, when the woman shook her head, she gulped. "Fish sticks. So, um... What are you going to do with that?"
"I'm going to shove it into you!" She said cheerfully. "Let's see... I see basically three holes this can go into. Your mouth, your vagina or your anus."
"...Is there any other option? Like, um, NOT going into me?" The woman shook her head and Neptune whimpered softly. "If that goes into my throat, I'll probably choke to death if it goes down my throat and..." She blushed softly, "I'd rather not get that shoved in my vagina so..."
"Oh wow, I was messing with you." The woman said flatly and Neptune gave her a half-relieved, half-dirty look while she chuckled. "I wanted to see what your reaction would be, nothing more."
"And I was preparing my butt too." Neptune said in a faux disappointed tone of voice, though it was blatantly obvious that she was relieved that she wasn't going to have anything shoved up her posterior.
"I was lying when I said what this was." The woman smiled at her. "However, we did run scans on you while you were out and discovered that you're very similar to Black Void on a metaphysical sense." She chuckled at Neptune's confused look. "Don't worry, such a thing is hard to comprehend for most people." She held up the, what Neptune thought was now a glow stick, and put it over her panties before running it upwards, across her stomach, over her belly button, up to her ribs, up her bare chest and stopping right above her heart and Neptune watched in horror as her Share Crystal was pulled out of her body.
"Without this, you would probably die, wouldn't you?" The woman asked, though she tilted her head in confusion. "Hmm? What's with this gold?"
"Nothing." Neptune told her. "It's just how we CPU Hearts are."
The woman chuckled and reached into her pocket, pulling out a black crystal shard. The instant Neptune saw it, she went pale and her pupils shrank. "I see that you recognize a Fearicite shard. This is the largest chunk of Black Void's Fearicite Crystal." She held it up to Neptune's Share Crystal and watched as the black crystal was absorbed into Neptune's Share Crystal.
Suddenly the colors of the Share Crystal suddenly changed to a negative color scheme, turning white, blue and green before white and black lightning erupted from the crystal and engulfed Neptune, who let loose a soul-wrenching scream as her very essence was attacked from within.
"Interesting." The scientist said as she looked at the data that was being gathered. "Oh! This will help us so much with those CPU Candidates." She jumped up and down while clapping her hands together. "We'll have a bunch of Voids under our control in a few days, won't we?"
Neptune couldn't answer, she couldn't hear, she couldn't even see. All she knew was pain as it felt like she was being torn apart from the inside out.
Beyond the pain, it felt like she was sinking into a sea of pure darkness and agony and she could neither see the surface nor swim through it.
'Histy! Nepgear! Someone! Help me! SAVE ME! PLEASE!' Neptune screamed in her head as her body convulsed while being attacked from within.
The scientist just watched with glee as more and more data became available.
To be continued...
Excuse me, I'm going to be over here behind a protective barrier so that none of you can kill me.