"See? You're fine" Nepgear beamed with pride as I managed to pull myself off the chair.
"Right now I am but how long until side effects start kicking in?" I retorted rubbing my arm where she had removed some of my blood.
The tests she made mainly required my blood to make various tests on. At one point she start laughing manically so it was all but confirmed that she was turning into a mad scientist.
"You'll be fine" she repeated with the same happy, but slightly insane, smile on her face as we went back upstairs.
"Ah you're back!" Neptune called out as she spotted us "and you're not missing any limbs or anything!"
"Thanks for the support Neptune" I replied sitting in a free seat. "No really. Your kindness knows no bounds"
"Enough you two" Noire interrupted before this turned into a fully fledged riot between each of us. But she was still smiling. "So what are the results Nepgear?"
"He does seem to have a lot of power" Nepgear replied taking a seat on a free beanbag. "Almost as much as a CPU candidate but only difference being his level"
"What is my level?" I asked looking at her confused.
"Level one" She smiled apologetically as Neptune burst out laughing.
"He's the weakest out of our party!" She managed to say between laughing.
"Then how come I was able to whoop Neptune's ass before then?" I asked while lightly shoving Neptune off her chair.
"I can only assume you weren't part of our world fully then so you were only as strong as you could of been with the equipment you had. Now you are living by our worlds rules so you have to level up if you want to get stronger" Histoire explained while drinking some tea.
"Well there is something else though" Nepgear spoke up. "Due to his link between both Lastation and Planeptune he has a unique ability that no-one else has. Well no-one we know of at least"
"And that ability is?" Noire asked leaning closer so she doesn't miss hearing what Nepgear has to say.
"Like when we go HDD we have unique weapons attributed with them. He has the ability to use his energy to craft weapons" Nepgear announced. "He is able to, in theory, craft any weapon he desires"
There was a brief pause while everyone took that in.
"It seems my fanboying has finally gotten a positive to it" I spoke up.
"We need to test this" Noire said.
"To the dogoo plains!" Neptune shouted as she dashed down the stairs.
"God dammit Neptune" I muttered following behind her with Nepgear and Noire hot on my heels. Histoire just sat on her book and drank more tea.
-15 minutes of running later-
"We are here!" Nepgear shouted out.
"How come when you are going up stairs you are dying but when you are running through a city and out onto these plains you are as spry as a spring chicken?" I asked panting slightly.
"Because exciting new things!" Neptune replied "Now set the scene!"
Fine. Before us lay an ocean of emerald grass. The wind making them twitch and dance in its embrace. And as the name suggests dogoo's were everywhere. Bouncing and rolling all about the place.
"There happy now?" I replied looking down at Neptune.
"Not yet" she replied before in a flash she was now Purple Heart. Standing at the same height as me "Now I am"
"You ever thought of growing up? The adult you is bigger in every way compared to little you" I commented only slightly salty that she did that so I didn't have the height advantage against her.
"I can't grow up" Purple Heart replied "I'm ageless so I'll stay small"
"That's boring and such a killjoy" I replied before turning to Nepgear as Purple Heart turned to argue with me. "So any tips on doing this creation thingy?"
"Um... Concentrate on whatever weapon you want to replicate first then... will it to happen I guess" she replied.
"Ok. Well can you two find a different spot for this?" I looked at Noire and Purple Heart.
"Why?" Noire asked.
"I want to be able to practise without you two watching me" I replied.
Seeming to understand what I meant Noire pulled Purple Heart away to do something else.
"Should I leave too?" Nepgear asked confused.
"Nah my little sister wouldn't freak out over this like how Neptune would" I replied before thinking on Black Hearts weapon and Purple Hearts. While they were both good in their own senses I couldn't see myself using exact replicas of them. So why not try something unique? I am the main hero of this story after all and I should make my own unique weapons.
So I decided I would base it on Neptune's weapon. But shortened it down so it was more like a short sword; then, using a very handy copy and paste tool plus a colour pallet, I pictured a replica of the first one but this one with all the purple parts being made white and the rest black. So now there were two short swords of different colours but similar origins, they were in a sense twin Tanto's.
"Now just will this thing to appear" I muttered holding my hands out and closing my eyes. At first I could feel something in my hands and just as I thought it was done I took a peek and saw that a dogoo had glomped onto my hands. There was a pause as I looked down at it and it just hung there looking back up at me, with my hands in its mouth.
"Really?" I stated as Nepgear released a short giggle.
"You're making a weapon not feeding a dogoo!" I heard Purple Heart shout and I turned to see that both her and Noire were peeking over a hill.
With a sigh I tried flinging it off but it let out a determined growl and held on.
"Get off you little-" flailing around I managed to dislodge it, sending it soaring out into the plains where it bounced a couple times before coming to a rest among its dogoo brethren.
"Well that was a thing" I said. "Let's hope they are not like wolves from Minecraft or we are going to be in trouble"
Turns out they are. And with one howl they started bouncing towards us. Slowly as they were not exactly the fastest of monsters but it was still kind of intimidating to see them all bouncing towards me.
"I've made a terrible mistake huh?" I turned to a now armed Nepgear.
"A slight miscalculation" she replied with a nervous smile as Purple Heart and Black Heart jumped down in front of us.
"You need to hurry up and make a weapon" Black Heart half shouted to be heard over the horde of dogoo's.
"I know give me a moment!" I shouted back as Purple Heart and Black Heart jumped into the horde cutting as many as they can down.
"You've got to believe in yourself!" Nepgear shouted cutting at the dogoo's who got to close before one jumped onto her ,pushing her to the ground causing her to be buried under many more.
"Don't believe in yourself!" I heard Purple Heart shouted and I knew what she was about to say next. "Believe in me! Believe in the Neptune who believes in you!"
"God dammit with these references..." I couldn't help but smile and try again, willing the swords into life.
"Your swords will pierce the horde!" I heard Purple Hearts voice but couldn't see her with all the dogoo's just swarming everyone.
"You're reading between the lines of dialogue again Neptune!" I shouted back before finally I felt the swords were just on the edge of being brought into reality. So putting my hands by my hips I mimed pulling them out and they did. With a burst of light the blades came into life, the twin blades hummed with energy as I twirled them around for a moment.
"Sweet. Now then..." I trailed off looking at the horde of dogoo's and assuming a ready stance. "I think it's time for you all to play dead"
Looking at the closest lump sticking out of the floor I started swiping at the surface of the dogoo's removing them until it revealed Nepgears hand. After throwing one of my swords into the ground beside me, impaling a dogoo, I grabbed her hand and managed to pull her out of her makeshift tomb of dogoo's.
"Two swords?" She asked as she managed to retrieve her sword and switch it back on.
"Just perfect for me" I replied with a smirk as I picked up my second blade and we started cutting into the horde of dogoo's again but this time towards the others.
Stepping back for a moment to take a moment to breath I looked behind me to see the dogoo's poofing into pixels. "What's up with that? The monsters didn't do that before I was sent into a coma"
"No idea why!" Nepgear manages to reply after cutting down another dogoo. "That used to happen before you came here just as quickly as they are doing now but it suddenly took longer when you arrived. I assume this is because you are no longer an anomaly in our dimension so things have started going back to normal!"
I vaguely understood what she said so I just nodded an jumped back into the fray. Soon enough we reached Purple Heart and Black Heart. While the latter was looking more and more annoyed with every dogoo coming her way, the former was on her back and was being licked by the dogoo's and was giggling uncontrollably from it.
"Oh.. My... God stop!" She managed to say between laughing.
"Neptune stop laughing and help me kill these things!" Black Heart shouted cutting down another dogoo who jumped her way and grabbing another, throwing it back into the horde.
"Your rescue has arrived!" I shouted still cutting through the horde. "Me and Nepgear! Mainly Nepgear as she's a higher level but I'm here too!"
It still took a long time to eventually reach the two of them but we did it and with the help o both of them we began to push the horde back and the dogoo's, seeing that they were losing many of their original number, decided to retreat.
As we watched them go I felt someone slump against me. Looking to where they were I could see Purple Heart looking extremely tired.
"Did you see how they were torturing me? It was horrible" she whined apparently giving up on standing on her own two feet.
"Horrible huh?" I raised an eyebrow at her "you looked like you were enjoying yourself back there"
"I was not!" She protested, moving her head slightly so she could look at me with one of her eyes. "It was hell. I'm extremely ticklish"
"So I noticed" I replied before managing to turn to Nepgear with Purple Heart still leaning on me. "So how are my levels looking now?"
In response to that she brought up a small device an pointed it might way. After a moment a text window popped up facing her. Sadly I couldn't read it from behind.
"You've gone up quite a few levels now" she replied "your level 15 now"
"Well it's a start. Now you can take me on some missions and not have to worry about me getting completely destroyed" I replied "Wait how long have we been out here?"
"A couple hours" Black Heart spoke up before she changed back into being Noire "We should probably get something to eat before Neptune implodes"
Right on cue Neptune went back to normal but clung onto me like a cat would if it was hanging on a curtain.
"Per chance do you want me to carry you back?" I asked.
"Yup!" She grinned "now let go get something to eat!"
So we did. It didn't take long to reach the city walls again and find a place to eat, soon after we started heading back to the Basilacom. But apparently Neptune had a different plan and had told or at least implied it to the others. I, on the other hand, had absolutely no idea what was going on until in a flash, literally and figuratively, Neptune transformed and carried me off. Noire and Nepgear sent me off with a quick wave and telling Neptune to get back here before it got too dark.
"Neptune what the fuck are you doing!?" I shouted over the wind.
"Taking you somewhere!" Purple Heart shouted back.
"Normally I would say fair enough but a bit of warning next time!" I shouted back.
"I'll try to remember but no promises" she replied with a grin as we continued our flight.
Forests and mountains flew by underneath us as we went but eventually we started slow long down, as below us lay a field of white flowers. Purple Heart gently set me down on the flowers before dropping down beside me.
"No offence but why are we here?" I asked looking around "but I have to admit this place is beautiful and calm"
"We are here because..." Purple Heart trailed off which caught my attention. Looking to where she was I saw that she was sitting down amongst the flowers. "I wanted to take you here"
"So a date?" I smiled as I sat beside her. Our shoulders occasionally touching.
"Something like that yeah" she replied with her own smile. "So tell me what is adult me like?"
"Adult you?"
"Yeah you said she was bigger than me in everyway"
"Well that is true yeah"
"So what is she like?"
"Hmm... She like you now, looks like Purple Heart in everyway. Height etc. But still has the same cute personality of you. A joker who cares about her friends but will still tease them"
There was a pause between us before Purple Heart looked at me.
"Were you serious?" She asked. Any evidence of a smile on her face was removed quickly.
"About what?" I could feel the very air had changed along with the mood of the conversation.
"About being free? Not making anything official or taking anything serious" she replied "I don't want to waste my feelings on someone who lies about something important to me"
"I'm not lying" I replied, patting her head gently "currently I'm open to anyone but to be honest I'm really only interested in you and Noire. So until I can decide, if I can at all, I'm just a single man who wants to be in a relationship"
"I'll accept that answer" she smiled before she reached up and kissed me on the cheek causing me to freeze up "and that is revenge for when you did that to me"
"Sounds fair" I chuckled and a sly grin crossed her face.
"You sound disappointed. Were you hoping for something a bit more intimate? Like a kiss on the lips?" She purred. Apparently she had been taking lessons from Iris Heart on reading emotions and how to be very flirty.
"I am going to invoke my right to remain silent" I mumbled taking a sudden interest in the flower surrounding us. Have you noticed how pretty they are? So white and innocent... Not like the goddess sitting next to me.
"Maybe I'll give you one a few chapters down the line" she chuckled getting up and holding out a hand. "Come on we need to get back to the Basilacom if we don't want Histy to get mad at us for staying out for too long"
Taking her hand we started off towards the Basilacom again but this time I wasn't complaining about us flying. But how we have to contact Vert and Blanc tomorrow. Oh well these next few days look like it's going to be good and interesting. But I wonder... The Author said something about a supply drop. When that appears and what it will be I can only guess.