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Chapter 66

"Wow!" Peashy's eyes sparkled as she saw the airship that they were getting to use to travel to Lastation. "It's so cool!"

"I'll say!" Uni beamed with pride. "I took one look at the airship you guys used to get to Lastation and I just felt that it wasn't good enough. Plus your ship would have taken us almost two months to get to Planeptune at its top speed."

"I happened to like the other one." Linda muttered as she looked over the new airship. "Though this one is kind of sleek." It was huge too. Nowhere even close to the size the C.I.D. had been, though Uni said that was because the C.I.D. was meant to transport weapons and troops easily, but it was much larger than the airship they had been using. Though it was more flat, like some sort of barge, than a boat-ship.

"It's called the C.L.A.N.K.," Uni told her, "don't ask me why all names are capitalized and have periods between each letter."

"It's generally because it's an acronym." Chrome said as she, Neptune, Filyn, Rom and Ram walked up to the group. "Where's Compa, Warechu, IF and Gust?"

"Already on board." Linda said as she walked up to the airship.

"You know..." Neptune giggled slightly. "This looks like something out of a certain movie." She winced as Chrome gave her a firm, but light tap on the back of the head.

"Don't break the mood with a bad joke." Chrome gave Neptune a small grin.

Neptune rubbed the back of her head and gave Chrome a bit of a dirty look. "...Okay, fine! Last one on is a Wookie and has to hit hyper-drive while grunting!"

Seeing everyone run off, Chrome blinked a few times. "...What's a wookie?"

(-)

On the ship, Uni jerked in surprise as she saw Steamax standing at the entrance of the ship, leaning against a wall. "What are you doing here, Steamax?!"

"Lady Uni," Steamax pushed himself off of the wall and took a knee in front of her. "I promised myself that I would not allow you to come to harm." He looked up at her. "Please, allow me to accompany you."

"But who will watch Lastation?" Uni asked, before the answer dawned on her. "You trust Brave?"

Steamax nodded and stood up. "Indeed." He thought back to his last conversation with Brave. "With his help, Lastation will be perfectly safe."

*Flash*

Standing in the Basilicom's yard, Brave looked around and paused as Steamax came out of the shadows. "I received your message, but what are you doing here?"

"Lady Uni will become the ruler of Lastation." Steamax told him. "And she will need people she can trust. Sadly, what did Lady Noire in was that she had no one she could trust and there were conspiracies around her to eliminate her."

"I know," Brave nodded at the other robot. "I am the result of one such conspiracy."

"Precisely." Steamax agreed with him. "You have, however, pledged to fix your mistake, correct?" Brave nodded, "then help me help Lady Uni. There are threats to her, both obvious and hidden that must be addressed."

"I take it you wish to deal with the hidden threats while I deal with the more obvious ones?"

"Of course," Steamax nodded to him, "the most dangerous threats are ones you cannot see. Can I trust you to protect Lastation in the coming weeks? Lady Uni plans to travel with CPU Purple Heart to Planeptune and I intend to go with her."

"Of course," Brave told him, "but know that I will only protect Lastation so long as Lady Uni lives. Should something happen to her, I will not raise my blade to defend this nation in the slightest."

"Fair enough." Steamax said and turned around as he walked into the shadows, disappearing. "I feel the same way, after all."

*End Flashback*

Uni gave Steamax a confused look. "Well, I guess if you trust him..." She wished that he had told her why he trusted Brave, but she could let it go for now.

The others got on and walked past her with Neptune making a quip about wanting to see if there were laser turrets in the back.

"...Are there laser turrets in the back?" Uni asked.

"I think there are..." Steamax said and both the robot and the CPU Candidate looked at each other in worry before running to the back of the ship.

(-)

"There ARE laser turrets!" Neptune giggled as she sat in a chair while looking out a large front window with four laser cannons pointing outwards. "Too bad there's no astroid field or bad guys we can shoot up with this."

"Don't turn them on!" Uni yelled as she looked up into the area Neptune, Rom, Ram and Peashy were all in.

"Nah, don't worry." Neptune smiled at her. "I don't even know how to turn them on."

Peashy looked around and saw a large button. "Is it this button, Neptuna?"

"HUH?!" Neptune's eyes went white and blank as Peashy pushed the button. Rom, Ram, Peashy and Uni's eyes all went white and blank the instant that the turrets came to life and fired a few blasts...

...Which hit a nearby parked air car...

...Which exploded into a ball of fire and scrap metal.

"Apparently it was, P-Ko." Neptune sweat-dropped and gently pushed the younger girl out of the gunner turret while Rom and Ram followed after her.

"What did I do to deserve this?" Uni asked, whimpering.

"Well, if it makes you feel any better, I didn't see anyone in the car." Neptune pointed out, getting a dirty look from Uni. "Sorry, I really didn't know what button turned it on."

Uni rubbed her forehead. "Well, it's fine, no one got hurt." Heck, she didn't even know there had been laser turrets built into the ship, so it wasn't like she could have warned them not to push any buttons.

"I'm really sorry." Peashy said, looking down. "I didn't mean to."

"As Lady Uni pointed out," Steamax interjected, "no one got hurt, but let's not do that again."

The others all nodded.

(-)

In the cockpit, Linda was looking over everything while looking at an instruction manual. "So this is to start it up, emergency shut down, self destruct..." Her eyes went white and blank. "WHY WOULD ANYONE HAVE A SELF-DESTRUCT MECHANISM IN A SHIP?!"

"Maybe in case a tentacle monster got on board and was turning the ship into a portable seed bed?" IF suggested as she walked into the cockpit and leaned on the chair Linda was on. "Or maybe the ship and crew get captured by an alien life form and the only way to protect the planet is to blow the whole ship up to stop the aliens."

Linda gave her an amused look. "Only you would think of something like that." IF shrugged and Linda looked back at the instruction manual. "Lesse, this can travel at..." She trailed off as she looked at the speed. "Wow, that's fast."

"We could get to Lowee from here in like two days!" IF gawked at the speeds. "...I wonder..." She grinned at Linda. "Want to see if this thing can do tricks?"

Linda gave her a flat stare. "No. Sorry, IF, but I'm not used to flying this thing yet. Maybe after I get a handle on how she handles. Right now I just want to get to the next location in one piece." Seeing IF deflate and get a disappointed look on her face, Linda quickly tried to figure a way to cheer her up. "Well, maybe after I've had some experience with piloting this first, okay?" Linda was relieved when IF perked up. "Besides," Linda grinned as she ran her hands over the armrests of the chair, "I want to see how fast this thing can really go first."

"What do you think we'll find when we get to Planeptune?" IF asked. Before Linda could respond, Chrome walked into the cockpit.

"If you two lovebirds want to stop flirting," Chrome fought to hide a smirk as they blushed, "we're ready to leave at any time."

"Do you know how long it'll take us to get to Planeptune?" IF asked Chrome, who shook her head. "Why not?"

Chrome shook her head and turned to leave. "Even back when I was a CPU Candidate, Planeptune wasn't a nation you could really visit." She looked over her shoulder at the two girls. "You'll find out when we get close."

With those words, she left the two of them.

"What did she mean by that?" IF wondered.

Shrugging, Linda went back to figuring out how the ship worked.

Less than twenty minutes later, the ship was in the air and traveling through Lastation airspace.

In another room, Ram was looking at some screens that were picking up some Lastation programs. "Look!"

Uni and Rom both looked at the screen she pointed to and they saw that Famitsu girl that had interviewed Purple Heart speaking.

"Citizens of Lastation. As you can see, the C.L.A.N.K. is leaving the Basilicom today as the CPUs who came to Lastation to offer us help now travel to the other countries to help them. Let us all give them our support and faith."

Uni smiled softly as she listened to that. Hearing those words, even if from someone she didn't fully trust, was nice.

(-)

It was a few hours later after the C.L.A.N.K. had left Lastation and had gotten out of the pollution and over the seas that Neptune found herself yawning and walking to the showers. "I'm feeling all icky..." She grumbled and for once she wasn't talking about the Fearicite corruption. Her skin felt grungy and she couldn't wait to clean it off.

After she got into the changing station, the petite girl stripped out of her clothes and started humming while pulling her panties down, she suddenly stopped and giggled. "I bet there's a lot of perverts who are staring at my butt, huh?" She asked as she bent over to pick her underwear off the floor. Grabbing a towel, she threw it over her arm and pushed her way into the showers.

She heard the showers going off and knew that this was one of the only showers in the entire ship, so she didn't mind sharing it. 'Besides, maybe it's Iffy or Compa?' She thought to herself and smiled at the thought of bonding with the two of them while showering together.

A sudden loud moan caused Neptune to stop and gawk at what she was seeing.

Compa's naked body was rather nice, even from behind. After all, the girl had a rather supple butt that matched her boobs. But from the angle Neptune was looking at, she could see Compa's boobs moving while her arms were held above her head. "Ah..." Compa moaned out again.

"Chu... It's hard to lather up your breasts when you keep moaning, Compa." Warechu said as Compa turned slightly, her face red and Neptune could see a lathered up Warechu sitting on Compa's breasts.

"I'm sorry, Warechu," Compa blushed heavily, "but the way you're washing my breasts, it's very... ACK! Nep Nep!"

Neptune's face was bright red while she had a dopey smile on her face while steam came bursting out of her ears. "...Nope! I saw nothing!" She turned and walked out, twitching.

The fact that this Compa and Warechu were close was one thing.

Knowing that they were doing lewd things together was something else entirely.

To be continued...

Warechu gets a nice Christmas Present as well.

And yes, that's basically the Millennium Falcon they're flying.