Annonydeath managed to roll out of the way as Foxhound started firing, the chain gun sounding more like thunder as the rounds tore up the distance between them and their targets.

Watching for a couple seconds longer as Annonydeath threw himself behind the building, I helped Caroline onto her feet.

"My thanks" she managed to say before coughing.

"Less words more movement. Let's get you inside the tree line" I replied before looking up at Foxhound.

"I have you covered Pilot" He nodded before slowly walking in the direction of the tree line, scanning for any movement from Mr Fabulous himself.

Upon reaching the tree line I set Caroline down but she grabbed my arm before I could jump back into the fight. "You need to get rid of the evil witches captain soon and get the antidote, I can feel the poison coursing through the trees and they will die soon!"

"I got it now rest" I replied pushing her back down.

"Pilot I am under attack need assistance" Foxhound's voice came through the radio.

Looking over I could see he was. While I was talking to Caroline he had moved closer to the building and Annonydeath was attacking him. As Foxhound was the bigger of the two of them he was struggling to bring his chain gun to bear on him as Annonydeath danced around.

"You know for all that power you showed at the beginning you are terribly weak" Annonydeath's voice called out.

Concentrating I managed to form the hemlock and opened fire, the bullets smacking into Annonydeath causing him to flinch from them.

"Damn this guy must be a higher level than me" I muttered before watching in awe as Foxhound used this pause to drop his chain gun and pick Annonydeath up and then slamming him onto the floor.

"Pilot it seems your weaponry deals little damage to him. You will need to distract him so I can hit him" Foxhound spoke through my helmet as he picked his chain gun up and slotting it onto his back.

"You got it big man, though remind me when we have time to teach you how to box" I replied

"Noted" he replied as Annonydeath got up and regarded us with what I could only assume was irritation.

"I can't believe someone as beastly as you could even consider yourself worthy of being with my Noire" he scoffed "Ganging up two against one? Hardly any manners"

"Says the pervert who spies on her everyday" I replied "Anyway I've done things you won't ever"

"And what is that? I doubt anything you've done will matter anyway"he replied

"I kissed Noire" I replied with a smirk. Now that is a half truth technically as I've only kissed her cheek but I wasn't going to tell him that.

Have you ever had those moments when everything is perfectly silent. No noise, no movement. Like the calm before a storm occurs. Yeah that's what happened.

With a roar Annonydeath threw himself towards me, swinging wild punches in an effort to crush me, I was barely able to dodge them often having to resort to twisting my entire body just to get past the blow. I may of made a mistake goading him on.

But before he could take another swing at me; Foxhound grabbed his arm and spun Annonydeath around, at the same time Foxhound's fist came hurtling towards Annonydeath's body.

Annonydeath cried out in pain but before he could get away Foxhound then lifted him up and threw him into the wall of the building, resulting in Annonydeath breaking through it.

"You know scratch what I said before we need to teach you some professional wrestling moves" I spoke up looking over at Foxhound.

"With my frame that would be more effective as I am unable to swing punches fast like in boxing" Foxhound replied.

"Do I detect approval?" I joked walking up to the hole and looking at Annonydeaths still form.

"Affirmative" Foxhound simply replied.

"Well before that we need to find that antidote and save these trees" I replied gingerly stepping over Annonydeath "I'm sure a load tree huggers are going to love me for this, if he gets up before I'm back ask him where the antidote is. Then knock him out again"

"Affirmative" Foxhound replied before taking up guard beside Annonydeath.

Walking through the building nothing looked like it was completely out of place until I came to what I can only describe to be a giant tank with multiple prongs sticking into some patches of earth. A sickly green coloured liquid was being pumped slowly into it.

"This is something like the grineer from Warframe would do" I muttered looking around the room before coming to a control panel. "Tenno insert my box in it so I can mess around for half a day while you fight off incoming enemies"

With a chuckle I examined the buttons, using my master intellect to deduce that the big red button saying "Remove poison" was the button to press.

Pressing the button I made for the doors when they suddenly sealed.

"I hope you didn't think it was going to be that easy" Annonydeaths voice came through a speaker.

"Oh you've got to be kidding me" I muttered forming my twin blades.

"Your big friend, while he is strong and I like people like that, can't hold me down for long" Annonydeath purred. "Now then I must avenge my darling Noire"

"I didn't do anything to her!" I shouted as robots started dropping from the ceiling.

"Oh please you soiled her beauty with your stench" he growled "I'll send your head to her as a gift. Would you like gold ribbon or purple?"

"Purple is good" I shrugged, spinning the blades around. "Goes with the rest of my gear"

"Excellent I knew we could come to an agreement" He chuckled. "Now if you could be so kind to drop your weapons and I promise they will make this quick"

"Yeah no" I replied.

"Pilot the doors to your room are locked" Foxhound spoke through my helmet.

"You can't break the wall open?" I replied backing off slightly as the bots slowly approached me. I could see they were the same level as me currently but I couldn't tell if they were like the previous bots an would get stronger the more I killed.

"I can but it will take multiple strikes"

"Just do it!" I shouted ducking under a saw blade swung by one of the robots.

"Affirmative" Foxhound replied before a shockwave echoed through the room.

"Now that he's doing that.." I muttered looking at the mass of robots "I should probably kill some of this lot"

Dashing forward I managed to duck under another saw blade before stabbing both blades into the chest of the closest robot. Pulling them out I brought the across its chest causing it to stumble backwards before exploding into pixels.

Thankfully the robots around me did not get any stronger so I continued my fight cutting away at the horde of robots, I was taking hits too but once again thanks to the girls it wasn't permanent but it stung like a bitch.

Suddenly a hand broke through the wall and grabbed a bunch of robots before lobbing them into another group. Then it pulled itself out removing more of the wall as it went.

"Pilot enough of the poison has left the forest that the fauna's natural defences can stop death from occurring and naturally remove it" Foxhound spoke through the hole "I advise you leave that room"

"Already on it!" I replied, jumping onto the head of a robot and jumping to the hole, grabbing the edge and pulling myself over. As I hit the ground, causing a sharp feeling of pain jolt through my body, a small text box appeared in the top left of my vision.

"Jump jets synchronised. Double jump enabled"

"You know I wish it did that earlier" I muttered pulling myself up.

"The jump jets require movement and time to fully calibrate to the pilots movements" Foxhound replied looking down at me "Your equipment should start recalibration now and soon you will be able to use the grappling hook too"

"I can hardly wait" I muttered "I have such good experiences with grappling hooks"

Walking back to Caroline I saw that she had managed to push herself onto her feet.

"Thoust saved us" She managed to say "You have mine thanks"

"No problem, just doing what I can" I replied "So do you want some help getting back to your great tree?"

"There ist no need. He is coming to us" Caroline said.

"Indeed I am" The Great Tree spoke up, his voice echoing around us. "The scrolls werest true and have been fulfilled"

"They have yeah" I replied feeling tired with the old English they spoke. "So I'll be going now"

"Thou will not stay for the feast?" Caroline asked.

"No I need to get home. Regardless if Noire, Neptune and Vert are still mad at me" I replied tired. "Foxhound let's go buddy, you two had better destroy that building and the poison inside it. Don't want the same thing happening again"

"Affirmative" Foxhound replied before picking me up and setting me on his head.

Slowly we plodded away from Caroline and the forest but I couldn't leave without saying something.

"If you need me or the goddess find a way out of here and go to either Planeptune or Lastation. They should be the closest cities to here" I shouted over my shoulder.

I didn't turn back to see if she heard me and Foxhound could probably sense my urgency to get home as he started speeding up slowly till we were going at a slow jog for him, sprint for me.

-3 hours later-

As we came over the crest of the hill I looked out onto the plains that lay ahead of us.

"Pilot I have looked through your memories and must make a request regarding a certain individual" Foxhound spoke up.

"Sure go for it I guess" I replied patting the big guy on the head.

"This Nepgear. Is she able to repair me? I have suffered multiple points of damage and severe rusting" Foxhound spoke up which caused me to burst out laughing.

"Sure she will big man. If she can't she can make you a new frame if you want" I replied.

"A new frame would be appreciated as this frame is damaged severely and not fast enough to keep up with aggressors in this dimension" Foxhound stated. "A Vanguard class frame would be better suited for here"

"If you have the schematics she can do it" I leant back imagining Foxhound like BT. "Sure this wasn't a personal wish or something?"

"It is yes" Foxhound replied "In combat I was never able to keep up with my peers except Scorch's and even that was difficult sometimes"

"Fair enough. What about your Predator cannon?"

"I shall keep it. It shall be a reminder of my previous pilot and remind me what I once was"

"I think you should too. But I never knew you could be so talkative and feeling emotions like that"

"I was part of a prototype program that was to give the me more human thoughts, it was thought to be a failure as others like me would sacrifice themselves for the sake of their pilots and other soldiers so they shit down the production"

"Damn... Sorry to hear that"

"Noted. I am the 11th to be created with a level 13 intellect. The fate of the others I do not know"

"Maybe we will Foxhound. Maybe we won't"

Silence fell between us as Foxhound started climbing down.

"And I guess that's how you can look into my memories?" I asked remembering how it did that.

"Affirmative. It allowed me to confirm many facts. It was also why I have began to.. "Relax" around you" Foxhound replied.

"Fair enough. So why did you you not pick a voice that would please you?" I asked confused

"It made you trust me more" Foxhound replied simply.

"Okay well when you get that new chassis you gotta pick your own personality. And gender the Author is getting annoyed writing "it" instead of a gender" I chuckled.

"Affirmative, I assume he will use another time skip to get us back to Planeptune?" Foxhound asked as we reached the flat ground.

"Yeah he probably will. Gotta see the girls soon as hopefully they will have calmed down now" I replied sitting upright again. "Let get going"

-stop predicting what I'm about to do! Ugh.. Four hours of Titan walking later-

Now I'm not sure if you could of guessed but coming up to a city in a giant robot does cause some panic and when panic occurs the goddess of the city will come help settle it. With extreme force if needed.

So when Neptune and Nepgear came flying at us I had to quickly show that it was us and we are not here to destroy the city before a fight broke out.

"Neptune I'm home honey!" I shouted waving my arms to get her attention, thankfully it seemed to work.

She slowed down before floating over to me, obviously it was Purple Heart not Neptune as Neptune cannot fly or float.

"Thomas" she stated looking at me.

I pulled the helmet off, letting it dangle loosely in one of my hands.

"The very same. Did ya miss me?" I smiled, even though it hasn't even been a day I must admit I missed her terribly.

"More than you know" she replied before grabbing my jackets and pulling my close, pressing her lips against mine.

Now yes this wasn't my first kiss but it was definitely my first that made me both speechless and feel like my brain was melting. I could feel the passion behind it as she moved from a kiss to hugging me.

"You must have a story to tell" she giggled as she saw my face. It probably was radiating with pure bliss.

Dumbly I just nodded still trying to find the words on what to say which caused her to giggle even more, I could vaguely hear Nepgear speaking but I wasn't even going to try and listen to her. All of my attention was on Purple Heart.

"Why do you look so shocked?" She winked at me "I said I would give you one a couple chapters ago"

"That's true you did" I managed to smile.

"I'll tell the girls you have returned. You may want to help your robot friend first with Nep Jr. She's going to start foaming at the mouth soon" With a soft laugh Neptune pointed down to Nepgear who I could only assume was bombarding Foxhound with a load of questions.

"Nepgear you aren't pestering Foxhound are you?" I called down getting her attention.

"N-no I was asking him questions!" She looked up at me, her cheeks tinged slightly. "His technology can't be from our dimension!"

"That's cuz he's not. I'll tell you when we get inside. He's gonna need your help anyway" I replied with a smile as she looked ecstatic.

"I have a way he can go to get inside my workshop" she replied floating away slightly. "Follow me"

So we did, Foxhound plodding along slowly behind her, doing his best to avoid stepping on cars and going through buildings, as I sat on top of him with Purple Heart sitting beside me, resting her head on mine as she smiles softly to herself.

It didn't take long to reach the entrance into Nepgear's hidden workshop and soon enough her and Foxhound were earnestly talking together about his upcoming designs and other stuff I did not understand while a now untransformed Neptune and myself walked up into the Basilacom to await the arrival of the girls. And obviously we walked with our hands intertwined.