Hyperdimension Neptunia - A Time Soldier's Final Mission

Chapter 10 - Molly and the Injured Nep

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Molly arrived at the designated meeting spot for Histoire but, for some reason, the tome was a bit later than normal. In fact, she (Molly) was waiting outside the very hospital that Neptune would have been admitted to. Which she was not aware of.

Molly looked around. "Where is..."
Molly spots IF and Compa walking out of the hospital and towards her, so she turns her back on them.

"Oh, for fucks sake..." She whispered.

IF looked at her. "Hey, you there!" IF called out to her.

Molly glances to IF.

"Yes?"

IF frowned. "Don't play games with me. Is Purple fine?"

Molly nodded at IF. "She's going to be staying with me for awhile. I can't risk her getting injured on her own."

IF hummed. "Really? That kid's a lot tougher than she looks like, I bet she could give Nep a bad time even if she went HDD...That kid is tricky"

Molly sighed loudly in frustration. "You done? I have to meet with Lady Histoire soon, very important business."

IF could feel the anger in the air. "Just one last thing: Don't you dare take advantage of Purple, if I know you played with her feeling you're in for a bad time"

Molly's eye twitched.

Compa appeared at the side. "Iffy, you're being too rude!"

Molly looked at IF fully. "Is that a threat?"

IF narrowed her eyes at Molly. "No, it's a warning"

Compa looked between them. "Iffy, please stop!"

Molly blinked. "Let me warn you something similar - You cross paths with me again, I'll make sure to MURDER both you AND your companion and I won't even care. You leave Purple AND me alone, and I'll give you a wide birth. Or for those who don't understand - I won't go near you if you don't go near me."

Compa looked to IF. "Please, let's all calm down!"

Compa looked to Molly next. "I apologize for my friend's behavior, she just sees Purple as a little sister and worries too much of her"

The nurse bowed to Molly.

Molly nodded slowly. "You should really keep your girlfriend in check then..." Molly's eye scanner on her right eye beeps, signaling information downloaded. "Compa."

Compa blinked in partial shock. "But...we're not girlfriends...are we?"

She turned to IF.

IF's mouth opened and then closed. "I mean, if you want it...we could perhaps..."

She shook her head.

"No, IF, focus"

IF cleared her throat as she looked to Molly again. "Ahem, Lady Histoire is on the top floor accompanying Nep, it was weird, she was beaten up and real well, even Compa had to participate in helping with her"

Compa smiled slightly. "...It was fun to use my syringe"

Molly smirks slightly. "'Bout time she had what was coming to her..."

IF took in an uneasy breath. "She may not be the nicest person around, but come on, I'm sure she didn't deserve this much...okay, maybe. Did she steal Lady Noire's and Lady Uni's panties again?"

Molly narrowed her eyes at IF and Compa. "I won't even BEGIN to tell you both what I know about her. But sufficient to say, she got the, least, that she deserved. Next time, if there is one, I wouldn't want to think of what would happen." Molly slowly lowered her head slightly.

Compa gulped. "Yeah, that sounds like Nep-Nep..." She then smiled. "Oh, yeah, top floor if you want to visit her, Lady Histoire is with her"

Molly nods.

"Right." She walked past the two and glared at IF as she did so.

She whispered just so IF can hear her. "Don't get in my way again... IF.

IF whispered back. "If you don't get in mine and don't hurt Purple all fine by me...Soldier"

Molly's glowing Gun can be seen in full view by IF but not Compa as she headed into the hospital, hiding the gun even further - perhaps into a hammerspace?

IF spotted the Gun but looked away in frustration. "...What a jerk"

Compa looked to IF. "Iffy, if you don't stop I'll have to give you my 'special' recipe"

IF quickly turned her head to Compa. "What a nice person!"

Compa smiled. "Better~"

At the top floor of the hospital.

Neptune was covered in bandages as she laid in the bed of her room, Histoire sat beside her while, seemingly, scolding her.

Histoire floated/sat near Neptune's ear. "-and that is why you must go and make it up to her!"

Neptune's mouth and eyes were covered in bandages as well...was she even awake at the time?

[Outside Neptune's room]

Molly looked around at the top floor and then spotted a Nurse walking back to a room.

"Excuse me."

The Nurse looked at her. "Yes?"

Molly quired her. "Where is the CPU? I heard she was admitted? I have a message for her."

"Room #333"

Molly nodded. "Thank you"

Molly made her way to said room and entered without even knocking the door.

Inside the room, Molly took one look at Neptune and smirked, before looking at Histoire who was STILL scolding Neptune.

"Looks like I did a good job, huh?"

Histoire turned her head and spotted Molly, nodding. "Yes, hopefully, this will make her think twice that her actions have consequences!"

Molly tilted her head as she stood nearby. "I WOULD'VE put another wound on 'er... But short of killing her, I dunno"

Histoire hummed. "Yes... Even if we don't like it. She has been this Nation's best CPU when it comes to help protect the world, her death would...possibly backfire more than help"

"And I'm sure Nepgear isn't ready for the place as CPU yet"

Molly nodded. "This is true... Nepgear isn't ready for THAT kind of task, not for a Long time yet"

Histoire continued as she got onto her tome. "And Purple...even if she's currently Planeptune's rightful heir, I doubt she has any experience ruling so it would be like having two Nepgears!"

"Talking of that...I...don't know how to feel exactly. There has been a demi-CPU for 16 years and I've never known of it, as a Tome I'm a failure..."

Molly shook her head. "You're NOT a failure Histoire, I'm MORE of a failure than you"

Histoire thought of something and looked at Molly. "And Neptune is the /biggest/ failure of us three"

Molly hummed in agreement. "That I will agree with"

Histoire flailed her arms. "How do you forget something like your own family!? Or how do you just...evade the problems like that!? After I returned last night, she was just playing games after having banged her head with almost everything in the living room."

Molly blinked. You mean, AFTER, the recording of the spanking?

Molly sighs and pulls out her glowing gun from her jacket.

"This was what I shot her leg with"

Histoire shook her head. "No, last night she was banging her head with everything in the Basilicom, then I went out with you, and when I returned she was playing games!"

"She felt guilty and then to stop she just boot up her console and started playing!"

Histoire then smiled. "Also, thanks for the spanking. Only the Original Goddess knows how much I've wanted to do that myself"

Molly chuckled.

"My mother passed me this gun from the Original Goddess. Believe me, I have more weapons where this came from but..." She eyed Neptune starting to wake up. "...Perhaps it would be best to discuss more another time?" She slowly put her gun away.

Neptune groaned and came in panic at realizing she was currently a living mummy with all the bandages on her body.

"MMHHPPMHMHMHP!"

Molly walks to Neptune's bedside and raises her hand.

Histoire floated next to the soldier. "Molly...there are cameras here" She took out her phone.

"I promise-" Molly muttered. "This won't hurt...much"

Histoire spoke into the phone. "Hello, yes, could you deactivate the cameras on room #333..." A few seconds later. "...Thank you"

She hung up the phone.

Molly chuckled.

Histoire nodded. "Okay, you can do it"

Molly struck Neptune with so much, force, that it made the bed shake slightly.

"Wake up, you pathetic excuse for a goddess!"

Neptune screamed into her bandadges. "MHMPHMHP!"

The bandage on her mouth turned red due to the blood she coughed but the bandage got in the way. Neptune started to panic.

Molly narrowed her eyes at her. "I'll remove your bandage, IF you don't scream. You scream, and I'll make this worse. Got me?" She placed a hand on Neptune's shoulder.

Neptune seemed to nod.

"You heard that Hist." Molly then reached over and yanked the bandage away from Neptune's mouth...Quite hard.

Neptune whimpered. "Please...I'm sorry...rea "

Histoire cut in then. "Neptune, shut up - A simple apology won't make it up to your actions. Not this time"

Molly pats her gun that she shows Neptune brieftly, in her jacket pocket.

"If you don't stay calm, I can always shoot you again"

The CPU was about to panic but stayed still as she remembered what she was told.

Molly rose an eyebrow as she removed her hand from Neptune's shoulder. "Now that Hist and me, both, know your dirty little secret, how about you tell us what you're going to do - to make this up to your "forgotten" daughter?"

Neptune whimpered. "I...I don't know...I thought of...sending her a sum of credits equivalent to the one I should have used on her, had I been there for her, and "

Molly felt disgusted and the look on her face wasn't much better. "You thought...WHAT?"

Histoire floated nearby. "Neptune, that is NOT what you'll do-" She then saw both of them look at her then she coughed. "Okay, you'll do it, but that is NOT enough"

Molly shakes as a wave of anger washes over her.

"You're a mother... and you, think, MONEY will solve this? You honestly expect that, to solve it?"

Neptune gulped. "Well...I don't really, know, HOW to be a mother"

Molly sighed. "No-one does. No-one is born with that knowledge. But you can at least, attempt, to make the right choices. Such as speaking to her and letting her know the truth for example"

Neptune tried to move but failed. "But...I don't think I'm ready for it! I need time to "

Molly pulls out her gun and points it at Neptune's forehead. "One...More FUCKING word...and I'll blow you to pieces here and now."

Neptune gulped again and could only look at Molly as she shook slightly. "..."

Histoire cleared her throat. "Molly...we need her alive"

Molly growled, her training showing how merciless she could be.

"I'll give you, ONE chance Neptune. If you blow it, you can kiss your existence goodbye. And that's my final offer."

She points the gun to the window and switches it to silent, blasting a small hole through the window - Which doesn't make any noise...

"That, could have been your heart."

Neptune froze. "I...I'll make it up to her...I promise"

Molly shook her head. "You had better. It's not everyday you get a threat from a Time Soldier. Much less one of the best ones in the business."

She sighed.

"You're just lucky that your daughter didn't piss me off. I seem to have..." She stopped and sent a thought through to Histoire, telepathically. 'I seem to have fallen for her daughter, just don't tell either Neptune or HER daughter that'

Histoire didn't take long to respond, only 3 seconds. '...YOU WHAT!?'

Histoire another 3 seconds go by. 'Sorry...I was just caught off guard!'

Molly flinches.

"Neptune, you should be considered, extremely, lucky that I didn't kill you here."
Molly send another thought to Histoire. 'And, you are lucky that I didn't throw you into the bin when you almost married that fairy once when you were drunk'

'Thanks, I guess?' Came Histoire's response.

Neptune nodded. "...I get it...I will do my best"

Molly nodded at her. "Good." She put her gun away and placeed a hand on Neptune's forehead. "If your thoughts are sincere my healing power will heal you to 20% so you're at least not bleeding internally and can breath normally. If you are in ANY way NOT sincere, it will do the opposite. You understand?"

Neptune didn't need to think twice. "Yes"

Molly starts to glow lightly and her healing magic goes into Neptune, whether or not she is sincere is up to Neptune really...

Neptune... Started feeling better, just a bit.

Neptune nodded again. "I promise...I'll make it up to her, I swear"

Molly hummed. "That's what I want to hear. She is staying with me until you are ready to meet with her. You need to clean yourself up, BADLY and I think Nepgear needs to hear she is an auntie."

Neptune sighed. "...Nepu...well, at least it'll be only Nepgear..."

She didn't want to picture Blanc, Vert, one of the worse Noire, or even worse: Plutia...those last two would kill her for this. She was sure of it.

Molly whispered to Neptune. "In time, you will find everyone will find out your secret. No matter what you think."

Neptune looked with her eyes to Histoire. Pleading. "...Histy, will I have protection if Sadies comes after me?"

Histoire shook her head. "No, I'll even leave the door open"

Molly gave an amused chuckle.

"Sadie? Don't you mean... Hmmm... I remember that name, but I can't place it."

Histoire cleared her throat. "Lady Iris Heart, Ultradimension, Plutia's her human name"

"That was it. Iris Heart. I'll have to visit her one day. It's been too long." Molly let go of Neptune's forehead as another wave of healing magic hits Neptune to close her wounds.

"Call that a favour. Not that you deserve one"

Neptune nodded. "I know, I'm a failure as a Mother..."

Histoire could feel slightly happy with this result. "-And as a CPU, as a person in general... And as a general-"

Molly cut off Histoire though. "It doesn't mean you can't start to build bridges."

Neptune blinked. "Why would Planeptune build bridges?"

Histoire looked to the Time Soldier. "...Molly, you can hit her one last time"

Molly chuckled.

Neptune panicked. "Nepu!?"

Molly looked to Histoire. "I'll hit her when she's healed. It'll make it more, worthwhile." She let her words trails off with a threat in the air.

Histoire nodded. "I understand, is there anything else you wish to share or would like to know?"

Molly hummed. "Hmmm..." She then shook her head. "Not for now, I had best go and see Iris Heart, after returning to see if Purple got back okay."

Histoire nodded. "Understandable, have a nice trip... and tell Plutia and other me that I say - Hello"

Molly nodded also. "Sure"

Molly proceeded to leave the room after shooting one last glare at Neptune.

Neptune looked to Molly as she felt a shiver down her spine then to Histoire. "...Histy "

Histoire smiled. "I am not done scolding you, Neptune"

Neptune whispered. "Author, help me!"

To be Continued in Chapter 11! ;D

Shadic: This is getting good...

Archy: Well, we DID write it :P

Shadic: That's true...

Archy: So, wanna get some drinks?

Shadic: Sounds good!

Neptune: NEPU!? I...

Histoire+Shadic: Shut up Neptune.

Neptune: -.-