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Chapter 87

There was an explosion in the park as a large ball of molten rock slammed into the ground, leaving several craters from the explosion. However, there was no one in the crater or near the explosion and thus the only thing that was hurt was the ground.

Lowering her arms, MAGES. smirked at seeing the result of her first attack. "Good job avoiding it." She whipped her left arm up and blocked a powerful lightning bolt from Rom as it hit her magic barrier. She turned her head and gave Rom a surprised look. "You got this strong just from figuring out what was bothering you, huh?"

"What?" Rom had a confused frown on her face as MAGES. cast several ice bolts at Ram, who was countering with fireballs. "What do you mean?"

"Your attack was a lot more powerful and focused." MAGES. told her and jumped away from what turned out to be a fire-whip. "Well, I might have to actually take this seriously." She said and looked at Ram, who was standing there with fire spinning around her left hand while the little girl was holding a whip of fire in her right hand. MAGES. swung her arm in a wide arc in front of her, creating a wall of ice as Ram swung her flaming whip at the blue-haired magic user. "I have to say, for two CPU Candidates, you're a lot stronger than I expected."

"How do you know that?" Rom asked as the ice wall exploded from Ram's attack. Holding her hands in front of her chest, Rom charged up her magic as electricity built up, causing her hair to start standing up from the static energy in the air. "Thunder... RAGE!" She thrust her arms forward and a powerful wave of electricity rushed forward at MAGES.

"Yikes!" MAGES. quickly buried herself under the ground and allowed the attack to pass over her harmlessly.

Sadly for everyone, the playground equipment wasn't able to dodge and was evaporated from the attack.

"ROM!" Ram gave her sister a disappointed pout. "I wanted to go on the swings again!"

Rom had blank white eyes with black circles around them as she swung her arms up and down. "B...But I didn't mean to! I wasn't trying to do that!" Her eyes watered up as she saw the destroyed and mangled playground equipment.

"Don't worry about it." They heard MAGES. say a moment before stone fists erupted out of the ground, smashing the twins in the stomach and sending both of them flying through the air. They crashed into the dirt after nearly flying out of the park and both coughed hard as they grimaced from the attack. Not far from them, the ground twisted and spun as MAGES. rose from the ground while the earth and rocks formed around her and took the shape of a large armor. "Let's go, big papa!"

Both Rom and Ram stared as they saw the large body that was surrounding MAGES. had a fist for its right hand and a drill that looked like it was made out of diamonds for a left hand.

"...That's neat." Ram admitted as the thing marched over to them. "Rom!"

Rom nodded. "Right! FRY!" Both she and Ram yelled at the same time as they sent a wave of electricity and fire at MAGES., who merely smirked as the attack washed over her and the armor, engulfing it in a onrushing wave of power that, if anyone was looking at it from the side, would be unable to see it as everything got bright before exploding.

"Did we get her?" Ram asked as their attack ended and she panted while looking at the dust cloud that was caused by the explosion.

Her question was answered as MAGES. and the armor burst through the smoke, completely unharmed. Seeing their shocked looks, MAGES. merely smirked at them. "Earth is a horrible conduit of electricity, regardless of what some fools think, it's also pretty good against fire." She rushed in and raised her armor's drill arm up, with it spinning fast and hard, before jabbing it at Ram.

"Wind burst!" Ram cried out and held her hands in front of her, jumping back as the burst of wind kicked in and sent her flying back a moment before the drill passed through where she was.

Rom clapped her hands together as a magic rune formed at her feet. "Well, how about this?! Storm!"

MAGES. turned to look at Rom curiously before realizing that the sky got dark for some reason. Looking up, she raised an eyebrow as thick, dark clouds covered the park completely, drowning the park in severe darkness. "...I'm actually impressed." She muttered as it suddenly started to rain, the winds started to blow and lightning crackled and hit the ground.

MAGES. knew she could handle a normal thunderstorm with her big papa armor. That was easy.

A thunderstorm that had water gushing out by the buckets with the wind being so strong that she was forced to take a step back and lightning being the only source of light? Yeah, that wasn't something her big papa armor could handle. "Huh, neaaawooooah!?" MAGES. let out a yell as the armor suddenly went off balance. "Oh, right, heavy rock armor on soft earth and it's raining like crazy." MAGES. slapped her forehead and giggled. "...Heavy rock armor on soft earth almost sounds like some sort of porn title. I'll have to look it up when this is over."

As the rain washed over the twins, matting their hair and clothes to their bodies, Rom suddenly smiled. "I wonder... What will happen if I blast that thing with lightning now?" Another rune appeared around the rune at her feet as lightning seemingly crackled from her eyes. "Thunder... FALL!"

MAGES. looked up as there was a flash of light in the sky and paled as she realized what was going on. "Oh poopie."

Moments later a gigantic bolt of lightning crashed down on the big papa armor, which was so bright that Rom and Ram both had to look away from it. It was so bright, in fact, that Rom lost the concentration needed to keep her storm spell going and the clouds, rain, wind and lightning all faded away after a few more moments.

When the rain stopped, both of the twins turned to look at the result of the attack and saw that the big papa armor was a glass statue that was looking up.

"You did it, Rom!" Ram cheered and looked at her sister, who slumped down into the mud. "Rom?!" She yelled and ran through the mud and muck to her sister. "Are you okay?" She asked as she got next to Rom.

"That..." Rom panted as Ram helped her stand up. "Was tiring." She looked at Ram, who was looking away. "What's wrong?"

"...Next time you make it storm, don't wear a light colored shirt." Ram pointed out and Rom looked down and turned bright red as she realized that the white shirt she had been wearing was now see-through thanks to the water and was clinging to her boobs.

"Good thing no one's around." Rom muttered as she tugged upwards on her shirt to peel it off of her boobs so it wouldn't stick as tightly, remembering what Neptune and Chrome had said about weirdos wanting to do lewd things to them.

"I agree," MAGES. said and the twins looked at her as she stood in front of the glass form of her big papa armor. "No, please, leave your shirt alone, I didn't mind the show." She giggled as Rom blushed bright red. "I'm teasing you, kiddo."

"...How are you unhurt?" Ram asked and MAGES. rolled her eyes.

"Oh, I dunno," MAGES. shrugged, "maybe I'm pretty good with magic and countering the effects of various magics or something?" She finished sarcastically while smirking at the two. "Besides, I wanted to see if you two could get past that armor." She tapped her chin and realized something. "Huh, you're the first two since the CPU to beat that armor." She smiled brightly and clapped her hands. "It figures that CPU Candidates could get through that armor."

"...You said that before... How did you know?" Rom asked and MAGES. nodded at her.

"Oh that's pretty simple, kiddo." MAGES. answered her, "I've been spying on you two since our encounter."

"Dang it." Ram muttered as she let go of Rom and the two prepared themselves to face MAGES. again.

"If you two want to stop fighting, I'll teach you how to use your magic in ways that you never thought possible." MAGES. smiled brightly at them, causing the twins to give her a confused look. "Plus I can design clothes that cling to your body and show off your best assets."

"Sorry," Rom shook her head, "we need to help big sis Neptune against Purple Void." Ram nodded her head.

MAGES. sighed and shook her head. "If you can't get past me, you'll stand no chance against the CPU. But if you want to continue this fight..." One of her rings glowed a bright blue and all the water on the ground was suddenly sucked off of the ground and pooled together into four spheres around MAGES. that turned into crystals, then shifted into stars, then shifted into various weapons. One was a spear, one was an axe, one was a sword and the last one was a shield. "I think you'll find that you're in over your head as you are."

Rom looked at the weapons, then looked at Ram, who was looking at her and they both nodded before looking back at MAGES.. "So what?" MAGES. raised an eyebrow. "So what if you're better than us! We won't let big sis Neptune down!"

"That's right!" Ram had a look of determination that wasn't on her face the last time MAGES. had seen these two. "We're the CPU Candidates of Lowee! We can't lose!"

"Besides!" Rom continued as power built up around her. "We're going to be Heart CPUs! Not Void CPUs! If we lose to you without going all out, then what was the point of all of what we went through?"

MAGES. slowly smiled as she chuckled. "Well said. I really do like you two." She slowly raised her left hand and closed it into a fist. "And so..." MAGES. suddenly started to glow brightly. "I won't insult you anymore!" Her rings started to all glow at once. "I won't hold back!"

"We're ready." Rom said as she and Ram both powered up as well.

"Then let us begin round two!" MAGES. intoned.

To be continued...

Good luck girls, you're going to need it. Or maybe not, MAGES. is pretty random.