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Time for the long waited meeting

Chapter 72

"Hey, Histy..." Neptune spoke up as she stepped over a metal pipe. "Are you sure this is the fast way?"

"I never said that this would be a fast way to get to me, but rather a safe way." Histoire replied to Neptune.

Chrome said nothing as she and Neptune walked along a narrow pathway next to running water. Or rather, what should have been water. Chrome personally thought it looked more like sludge than water. "So we need to go through the sewers? Ugh, I need a shower after this."

"Rest assured, I have enough ability to clean you after you get through this."

"Um, Histy..." Neptune said to the voice. "Are you sure we need to go this way?"

"Would you rather fight through the security forces of Planeptune? Could you stomach the fact you'll have to kill people who are only doing their job?"

Neptune sighed at the voice. "Fair point." The thought of killing people who weren't bad guys disgusted her. And beyond that, these were citizens of Planeptune.

"But they betrayed me. Even though they created me, they saw me as an inconvenient, frightening abhorrent existence!"

Neptune sighed softly. 'If I killed people like that, would I end up like Kurome?' While she hadn't seen the spirit of her predecessor's evil side in some time, she couldn't help but feel like something was...

"NEPTUNE!" Chrome yelled, causing Neptune to almost jump into the sludgy water. When Neptune glared at her, she pointed to a ladder. "The voice says to climb this."

"Sorry." Neptune muttered as Chrome had her climb up first. "Hey, Chrome... When this is over, you want to come visit my world?"

"I might." Chrome told her. "I think I'll wait a few years though. Someone has to help the CPU Candidates become good CPUs. Plus Uni could really use some help with Lastation. I'm sure that we can get some people to help Rom, Ram and Peashy with their nations."

"Makes sense, I suppose." Neptune said softly and the two climbed up the ladder in silence.

(-)

Meanwhile at the park...

After getting Peashy down and healing her, Ram looked at Rom, who was sitting on a nearby swing with a sullen look on her face. "Rom?" She asked as she walked over to her twin while Filyn and Peashy followed her. "Are you okay?"

"NO!" Rom yelled in frustration, causing Ram to flinch. "Sorry, it's just... We fought that giant monster and the next area we get to has someone who can just kick our butts?!"

"Probably a major level difference." Filyn pointed out to Rom. She sighed when Rom gave her an angry look. "That's all I can think of. Or it was just a hopeless boss fight. Those sometimes happen you know?"

"But why did it have to happen to us?" Rom asked, thinking about what that woman had said to her about her anger. 'Is she right?' She knew that Neptune had taken the time to get her out of a situation when she started to get mad, but at the time she didn't think much of it.

"Hey!" Peashy yelled at Rom, who looked at the smaller girl. "Neptuna doesn't like it when we get sad, right?" Rom was about to answer when Peashy spoke again. "Neptuna's been really sad because of... Um..."

"Fearicite." Filyn pointed out and Peashy nodded.

"Yeah! That!" Peashy nodded and pointed at Rom. "Neptuna feels sad because of it, we're not supposed to be sad, right?"

"But..." Rom tried to protest and Peashy stamped her foot on the ground, creating a small crater.

"But what?! If we're weak, we need to get stronger!"

"...And how can we do that?" Rom asked, getting a confused look from Peashy as she didn't know either.

"Well..." Filyn suddenly spoke up. "Why don't we go see if there's a place where we can do adventure-like jobs or something? IF mentioned something about a guild or something back before she moved to the outpost."

Rom scratched her head. "Well, I guess that could work, but where do we find a guild?"

"Ask directions?" Filyn suggested. "I don't know, I'm just suggesting an idea here."

Ram shrugged and looked around. "Well, let's go that way." She pointed to a random direction. "Maybe we'll meet some people who can help us?"

"Sure." Filyn agreed as the four girls walked in that direction.

(-)

Elsewhere...

Cave was hiding behind a car as she watched the four girls walk off in a random direction. "Guild work, huh?" She muttered to herself, her listening devices picking up on the conversation. 'They don't seem like they're here to cause problems.' Then again, she wasn't sure what they were here for, since the intelligence just told her that they were in Planeptune and they were from elsewhere in Gamworld. Opening her phone, she made a phone call. "Hey, it's me. Look, there's four little girls looking to do some guild work. They caught the attention of MAGES. and she let them go, so they want to get stronger for a rematch. Yeah, insane I know, but they don't know her like we do. I'm in the park district. They're heading East from park thirty-five. Have an agent guide them to the nearest transporter. No, I'm not going to be coming any time soon. I like my stomach to stay in my body, thank you very much. It's a figure of speech and you know that!" Cave huffed in frustration. "Anyway, get them some jobs that'll help them level up that can be done quickly. Don't mention me. I don't know why MAGES. let them go, she's MAGES., trying to figure out her thought processes is like trying to figure out how to fly without wings."

Cave nodded and hung up the phone. "What's going to happen next, I wonder?"

(-)

At the Basilicom...

"I'm back, sis!" Nepgear called out as she got to the top of the stairs that led to her sister's room.

"Nepgear!" Neptune's eyes lit up as she looked her sister over. "Ooooh! You just had to be gone for so long too!" She pouted at the maid. "Just for that..." She trailed off and Nepgear flinched slightly. "I know!" Neptune snapped her fingers and seemingly teleported over to Nepgear, a look of delight on the CPU's face matched a look of growing dread on Nepgear's face. "Lift your skirt up!"

Nepgear blushed heavily, but did as she was told, grabbing her skirt and lifting it up to reveal her panties. "I'm wearing the sexy panties you got me."

"Hmm..." Neptune looked at the panties Nepgear was wearing. "They are frilly and lacy, but they aren't super tiny."

"But sis," Nepgear protested while holding her skirt up. "I can't fit those on. They tear when I try to get them over my hips."

"Really?" Neptune asked and reached forward, grabbing the top of Nepgear's panties and pulled up, driving them into her crotch really tightly and getting a cry of discomfort from Nepgear. "Does it hurt?"

"N...No!" Nepgear shook her head. "It was just so sudden that I wasn't prepared for it."

"You should always be prepared for anything." Neptune shook her head and stood up. "You can lower your skirt now." Nepgear sighed and let go before yelping as Neptune slapped her hands. "I said lower it! Not let go!" Neptune frowned at her. "Just for that..." Her frown turned into a smile that had Nepgear paling. "Well, I think my doggy needs to go for a walk."

Nepgear whimpered as Neptune walked over to her dresser and pulled out a collar and leash. "Do I... Do I need to?"

"Be thankful that I'm letting you go out like this." Neptune told her and walked back before telling Nepgear to kneel, which the girl did. "I could put you in that doggy outfit, make you go around on all fours with your butt in the air."

"I'll be good." Nepgear whimpered, knowing that if she wasn't careful that she would be forced to walk on all fours while naked and Neptune would parade her around Planeptune.

...Or she'd just take a bunch of pictures while teasing her about what Neptune could do to her.

As Neptune put the collar around her neck, Nepgear thought back to her first conversation with her elder sister.

"One day you're supposed to become a Void and then you'll fight and kill me. But I don't want you to become a Void. I don't want that for you."

No matter how bad things got, Nepgear knew that her sister cared about her if she didn't want her to become a Void.

"Come on!" Neptune smiled after fastening a leash to the collar. "Let's go for a walk! And don't forget, you're a dog, not a person right now, so you can't speak."

"Woof?" Nepgear pointed to how she was standing upright and Neptune nodded.

"How many dogs can walk on their hind legs like that? Such a good girl!" She cooed and walked off with Nepgear following after her.

(-)

Meanwhile...

"Ga-THUNK!" Neptune cheered as she opened the secret panel in the wall and got out.

"Why did you do that?" Chrome asked as she slid out of the wall.

"Abnes is in the story and there was no "Ga-Thunk" sound yet!" Neptune protested. "Besides, I've been too mopey, I wanted to have some fun."

"And what if someone had been here to hear you?" Chrome asked, though she had an amused look on her face. "Well, whatever," she looked around the area and her face gave way to confusion as she saw that it was a large room with a large open window on one end and a door to the side and nothing else in the room, except for a small bird cage in the center of the room.

"HISTY!" Neptune suddenly yelled and ran to the bird cage, only stopping when the cage started to glow blue and fire started to burst from the metal. "NO!"

"And this is where I show how useful I am." Chrome said as she snapped her fingers forward, her razor wires wrapping around the cage and cutting through it. She quickly sent more wires into the cage and wrapped around something inside and yanked it out. "What?" She smirked at Neptune's shocked look. "You thought I could only use those things to cut people apart?"

"Yes." Neptune said flatly before turning her attention to the being that was wrapped in the wires. "H...Histy?"

"Yes." The wires disengaged to reveal a familiar and kind face, though one that looked very worn out. "I am Histoire."

Neptune stared at Histoire, her eyes watering. "...Histy... What... What happened to you?" As much as Compa and IF had been in bad shapes when she first met them, same with Filyn, they didn't compare to what Histoire looked like.

The fairy's wings were in tatters, her eyes were closed as though they were removed from her sockets, her right hand was missing all but its thumb and ring finger while her left foot was missing completely. Her clothes, which Neptune was so used to seeing pristine, were in tatters and parts of Histoire's ears were missing.

Histoire smiled at Neptune. "It's been so long since someone spoke to me with such kindness. It would have to be a CPU with a Heart, wouldn't it?"

Before Chrome could say anything, Neptune walked to Histoire and gently pulled her off of her book, hugging the tome while crying softly. "Who... Who did this to you, Histy?" Not even Iris Heart, at her worst, ever did something like that to Histoire. Even Arfoire and Kurome had never tried to hurt Histoire like how this Histoire was hurt.

Smiling, Histoire returned the hug. "Do not worry about this. I am glad that you are alive."

It was several minutes later when Neptune let go of the hug and put Histoire back onto the tome that Chrome spoke up. "Neptune told me that you contacted her awhile ago. Back in Lowee you asked her to save the CPU Candidates from their fate of becoming Voids." Histoire nodded at her. "Why? I agree that it was needed, especially after everything we've seen and experienced, but why her?"

A truly distressed look came over Histoire's face. "...It was to correct a mistake I made."

"What mistake?" Chrome asked, though she had an idea what Histoire was talking about.

"Oh come on, Histy..." A new voice spoke up and Neptune's eyes widened while she paled while Histoire's face screwed into pure rage. "You can't act like what you did was a mistake in front of Nepsy and Chromsy."

"Kurome?" Neptune trembled.

"What are you doing here?!" Histoire hissed at Kurome, though she was only looking in Kurome's general direction.

Kurome just smiled at them.

To be continued...

...Wait, what?

Also, poor Histy.