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I think some of you forgot about Filyn. XD
Chapter 56
"Multi... STRIKE!" Filyn yelled as she slammed her spear into the ground, causing a black circle to form around her as several smaller black circles appeared around Chrome's feet as multiple spears erupted out of the ground to skewer her. Filyn frowned as all of them missed as Chrome jumped up and back to avoid her attacks. "Then..."
Chrome's eyes widened and she twisted in mid-air as several spears struck out at her in mid-air without warning.
"No fair!" Filyn protested. "How can you do that?!"
Chrome raised an eyebrow and smirked at Filyn. "I'll only tell that to my sister." She fought the urge to chuckle as Filyn gave her the most adorable pout ever. "Can we stop for a second?" Filyn tilted her head and gave Chrome a confused look while Chrome held up the eye patch she had swiped from Filyn. "No offense, Filyn, but you look better with the eye patch on."
Filyn scoffed at her. "Well, what do you want from me? You stole it."
"I'll give it back if you want it." Chrome said softly. "No tricks, nothing, I won't attack or fight you if you let me put it back on you."
Filyn narrowed her eyes at Chrome. "And why would I...give...you..?" She trailed off as a memory flashed through her mind at that moment.
*Flash*
"I don't like this." Filyn muttered as someone sat behind her while they sat in front of a mirror. "Why do I need to wear an eye patch?"
"Because people look at you with fear, Filyn." A soft, gentle voice, told her while tying something behind her head. "They'll still look at you, but it won't be because they're afraid or disgusted by you. I'll show you how to tie this yourself so you can fix it if it falls off, okay?"
"Hmph! I guess so." Filyn groused before stiffening as she felt a pair of arms wrap around her from behind.
"You can always rely on me and the others if you're worried, Filyn. If we can help, I promise you, we will."
Filyn sniffled and looked down. "But why can't I remember anything?"
The person hugging her was silent for some time. "It doesn't matter, does it?" She was asked and Filyn looked at herself in wonderment. "It doesn't matter who you were before you lost your memories. Just make new ones and if the old ones ever return, you can figure out what that means for your life going forward, right?"
Filyn smiled at that. "Yeah."
*End flashback*
"Nnngh! What the heck?" Filyn asked and put her hand over her cybernetic eye. "Nnngh! What is this? Who was putting an eye patch on my eye?"
Chrome looked at her softly. "That was me. You had just woken up from a near-sixty year coma with no memories and I gave you an eye patch to cover your eye up so other people didn't freak out about your missing eye." She took a step back as Filyn growled and shook her head. "Filyn, please! Remember me! I'm Chrome! CPU of Eden! You're my little sister, my CPU Candidate."
"I'm the CPU Candidate of Lastation!" Filyn swung her arm to the side while pointing her spear at Chrome. "I won't be tricked by you!"
"...How did you lose your eye then?" Chrome asked Filyn, who tilted her head in confusion. "You have a cybernetic replacement eye, how did you lose it to begin with?"
"I..." Filyn put her hand on the skin around her eye and felt the scars and ridges there. "I..." She stopped and paled as memories of a CPU with glowing red eyes and long, dark blue hair, simply smiled, reached in and stabbed her eye out with her hand. "What... That... Who..?"
"Iris Void." Chrome told her. "She stole Eden from us, turned it into a swamp of a wasteland and killed all of our people, Filyn!" Several razor wires formed around Chrome, seemingly moving on their own. "You must remember who you are!"
Filyn growled at Chrome and took a stance with her spear. "Shut up, Chromey! I'm Lastation's CPU Candidate!" Both Chrome and Filyn's eyes widened at the pet name.
"I see..." Chrome smiled as she recalled her wires so that only a few were visible. "You're still in there, huh? Then allow your big sister the honor of pulling you out of whatever that crazy guy in the armor did to you."
"Master Anonydeath isn't crazy!" Filyn yelled as her cybernetic eye glowed and she rushed at Chrome, who snapped her wrist backwards and felt her razor wires wrap around something before yanking towards her. "I'll show you!" She stabbed forward, only to find her spear stopped by a metal garbage can of all things. "What the hell?"
"I've long since mastered these wires, Filyn, and using my environment to my advantage is a key part of that." Chrome told her as she held the garbage can lid in her left hand. "If you have a spear, I'll have to use a shield."
"A garbage can lid is a shield?" Filyn said flatly. "Since when?"
Chrome shrugged at Filyn. "If you beat me, I'll tell you." It was kind of amusing when she thought about how she found out about it too.
*Flash*
"Hey, Chrome..." Neptune said while they were on the airship while flying towards Lastation. "Did you know?"
"Know what?" Chrome asked while the two sat in the living room by themselves while everyone else slept.
"That Demons in the Netherworld use garbage can lids as shields?" Neptune giggled at Chrome's look disbelief. "I went to the Netherworld once, helped train some Overlords to fight some sort of God of Destruction. I couldn't get close because it corrupted all that was Divine, but since Demon Overlords aren't Divine, it was okay."
"...Sounds interesting." Chrome muttered and wondered if it was possible to use such a thing.
*End Flash*
Filyn scoffed and narrowed her eyes at Chrome. "I'll beat you and force you to tell me. No, wait, I'll just beat you and then move on to that worthless purple CPU."
Chrome narrowed her eyes and sighed heavily. "Very well, I have no choice then..." She closed her eyes as energy surrounded her and Filyn. "Then I'll have to end this now so that you don't get hurt."
Filyn looked around weirdly. "...Why does it feel like some sort of epic background music just came on?" She watched as Chrome stepped forward while what looked like rocks, tress and even telephone poles popped out of the ground around the elder looking woman. "What's going on?"
"EXE attack..." Chrome snapped her left hand out and wiggled her fingers as wires started to unwind and unravel, filling the air in a loose pattern. "Judgement strike!" She swung her left arm forward, followed by her right arm and Filyn could only watch in horror as everything that popped up around her was suddenly wrapped up in wires. "This is the end... GOODNIGHT!" Flexing her fingers, Chrome crossed her arms and pulled hard while letting out a scream as the constructs she had created were cut into pieces and were then launched at Filyn.
Tears fell down Chrome's face as the constructs crashed into Filyn, burying the redheaded girl under them. "It's not over yet." With a flick of her wrists, the wires stabbed into the pile of rubble and Chrome sent a pulse of energy into the pile, causing it to explode.
When the attack ended, the constructs faded and Chrome looked at her sister, laying face down in a small crater, while smoke came off of her body. "Filyn..." She said softly and walked towards the redhead. "Are you okay?"
"That hurt, you know?" Filyn raised her head up and gave Chrome a glowering look. "Chromey, you didn't have to use your EXE attack on me!" She pushed herself up slowly and got into a sitting position. "Even if it worked." She blushed when Chrome raised an eyebrow. "Well, I kind of remember everything now. And I hurt everywhere."
The next thing she knew, Chrome had pulled her into a hug and pressed her head against her big sister's breasts. "I'm glad you're back."
Filyn smiled and closed her eyes, snuggling into Chrome's breasts. "Mmmm... I guess I can forgive you for the pain then."
Chrome smiled as the two of them laughed softly while hugging each other.
To be continued...
If you're wondering about the music Filyn heard, it was Neptunia VII OST 6 "Drive Away", AKA the music that plays when you do an EXE attack in VII/R.
