===CH 5===
Preparations
'Thoughts'
"Speech"
"Skill"
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The Next day, Planeptune Basilicom 10am
Alex can be seen sitting in a chair on the balcony of the Basilicom looking into the distance where two white dots can be seen flying towards him. "So they came..."
He got out of the chair and stretched slightly, finishing just in time when the two candidates landed and returned to human form.
"Hello, you two. Are you the only ones that are coming?" asked Alex in a friendly tone.
"The other Dummies don't use magic!" stated Ram in return.
"Alright, then I guess we should begin without further delay." Alex stated and raised his right arm towards the sky. "Enter, The Shadow Realm."
His voice echoed from everywhere and send shivers down both girls spine the moment all color and sound vanished from the world around them.
"What's going on now!?" asked Ram almost panicking
"...where are we?" asked Rom shyly
"Welkom to the Shadow Realm. This space around us is one of my skills I use for training. Within this space I can set my own rules and destroy to my heart's content without affecting the real world at all." Alex explained to the two candidates.
"That's so cool! can we do this too?" asked Ram excited
"This is one of my unique skills. Only I can use it, but enough of that. I came here to teach you some magic from my Dimension. Art of Destruction: Black Coffin, that's the spell I'll attempt to teach you." Explained Alex.
"What does it do?" asked Ram
"Black coffin is an offensive sealing spell. It traps the enemy inside a giant black box and deals continuous damage to them as long as the caster is able to keep the spell active. It is also very effective in terms of intimidation... Let me demonstrate it." Alex explained and faced the tower while summoning a regular katana.
"I will be using my sword as a catalyst for the spell to imitate the effect your staffs will have." he then raised his sword straight into the air above his head and a black/purple aura formed around him. "The oozing crest of corruption. The arrogant vessel of madness. Deny the seething urge to let things stun and flicker. Disrupt the sleep. The Crawling princess of Iron. The Eternally self destructing doll of mud. Unite! Repulse! Fill with Soil and know your own powerlessness! Art of Destruction, black coffin!"
His energy caused the grayed sky to take on a dark purple hue and made the ground shake while countless small black rectangles quickly formed a large box around the top of the Basilicom, quickly completing the initial structure. Dozens of dark purple long swords formed around the coffin and quickly embedded themselves into it to their guard .
Alex ended the spell by sheathing his sword, granting free view of the destroyed living quarters of the Basilicom.
"That was totally awesome!" cheered Ram
"uhu" agreed Rom silently.
"This was the spell casted with a catalyst and using the full incarnation. The amount of magical energy fueled into the spell decides the amount of damage dealt and the final size of the coffin." Alex walked a little bit behind the twins. "Your turn. I want you to cast one with the absolute max amount of magic you can give and then gradually reduce the amount of magic until it becomes unstable."
"Ready, Rom?" asked Ram and raised her staff in the air.
"...yes!" Rom answered and crossed her staff with Rams.
"The oozing crest of corruption." Ram started and a black and purple aura formed around them
"The arrogant vessel of madness." Rom continued and the sky began to darken
"Deny the seething urge to let things stun and flicker." Ram added
"Disrupt the sleep." Rom continued
"The Crawling princess of Iron." Ram chanted
"The Eternally self destructing doll of mud." Rom continued
"Unite!" Ram called out and the ground began to shake
"Repulse!" Rom shouted
"Fill with Soil and know your own powerlessness! Art of Destruction, Black Coffin!" both finished together and the coffin started to form slowly on top of the rumble that used to be the Basilicom.
A few seconds passed and the long swords stabbed into the coffin, signalizing the completion of the spell.
The spell shattered like glass and clapping was heard from behind them. "amazing! an almost perfect black coffin on your first try. keep it up like this and I may teach you another spell!" praised Alex, prompting the twins to continue training.
Day of the attack on Zerodimension
Everyone was gathered inside the Planeptune Basilicom's Living room, except for Nepgear.
"I will go and check up on Nepgear's progress with Alpha-Histoire." Alex said and left the room to visit Nepgear's lab.
Nepgear's lab was in complete chaos at the moment with all kinds of mechanical parts scattered around the place.
"...Just these few wires and that... now insert that module in here..." she mumbled to herself, entirely soaked up in her work.
The door to her lab opened and revealed Alex, this however went unnoticed by Nepgear as she simply continued tinkering on Alpha-Histoire.
"How does it look?" asked Alex, making sure not to scare Nepgear
"Oh, Alex. I didn't expect you here." She said as she closed a lid on Histoire's back "I just finished actually. We just have to charge her and she's as good as new."
"I'm impressed! I wish I had someone like you back in my dimension." he said as he walked over to his Histoire. "Just charging and she'll be fine?"
Nepgear just smiled at the earlier praise and nodded.
Alex took an unknown stance and slowly trailed two fingers of his right hand from his extended left hand across his arm, then his chest and slowly extended his right arm towards Alpha-Histoire. Lightning continuously charged around his right hand while he did so.
"Strike!" with that a large blue lightning bolt shot out of his hand and impacted into Alpha-Histoire
"What are you doing!?" Nepgear yelled in shock.
The lightning stopped and Alex casually blew away the smoke coming from his hand. "I charged her. I did that all the time back when she was still around in my dimension."
"Battery charged. Starting up..." muttered Alpha-Histoire in a computer like voice. A loading Icon was displayed in her eyes as her usual attire formed around her and a tome appeared under her arm. "Startup complete."
As she muttered those words she blinked a few times before she focused on the outside world somewhat disorientated "Where am I?" Her voice was like that of Hyper-Histoire just more mature sounding
"You are in Hyperdimension. This young master mechanic fixed you up again, her name is Nepgear." Said Alex, patting Nepgear on her head at the last part.
"I can't properly express my gratitude towards you. Please let me know if I can repay you in any way." said Histoire.
"It wasn't that much of a problem... I just replaced a few missing wires and did some soldering." said Nepgear sheepishly
"Anyway, let's introduce you to the new group." Alex made a follow gesture as he went to the Elevator
Everyone was already waiting impatiently after they heard the massive lightning strike from the floor beneath them.
The elevator door opened and everyone could feel a strong discharge of anti-share energy
"access, sha-" Alex cut off his Histoire just as her components were about to turn red
"They are on our side! They are this dimensions counterparts of our dark CPUs." Alex explained quickly to make his Histoire calm down .
"I'm sorry, I mistook you for someone else." apologized Alpha-Histoire
Nepgear meanwhile was supporting herself on the elevators wall and was breathing heavily from the exposure to anti-share energy.
"I did the same thing when they found me here. but please tune down the usage of anti-share energy around them. They have close to no tolerance for it at all unlike us." explained Alex with a smile at the memory of his first arrival.
After filling Nepgear and Alpha-Histoire in on their plan
"That's the plan. Do you think you can find something in a reasonable time span?" asked Alex the two Histoires
"We should have a working solution ready in approximately 1,5 days at most. I will keep you updated on our progress over Nepgear's N-Gear and Uzume's Visual Radio."
Everyone was about to head out when Alpha-Histoire called out again. "Alex!.. Don't die... I won't be able to bring you back again..."
"I'll try not to. I'm not much a fan of that myself." with that everyone transformed and left the Basilicom to head for the location of the former stabilized portal
"what did you mean about him dying again?" asked hyper Histoire her older counterpart
"Back in Alphadimension before I temporarily died, he met his end twice. The first time only his right arm was left of him from his fight against the dark CPUs, I used our nation's Sharicite to resurrect him. The second time he died... only a few strains of hair were left. I used the Nation's Anti-Sharicite to bring him back after that. Right now he is the personification of both of them, he is the source of his own powers. That's why we can transform here." explained Alpha histoire but didn't go into further detail.
"I see... I never knew something like that was possible." Said hyper Histoire
"We or rather I didn't either. It just had to work, the only other option would have been going extinct." said Alpha Histoire with a sad smile.
Back with the group at the portal.
Alex's HDD consisted of a primarily black CPU armor with dark grey lining, his hair changed from blonde to a light absorbing black. 2 large mechanical dragon wings were connected to his back and emitting black plasma. His boots and gloves had the shape of claws hinted in their design. A black katana with a dark grey plasma edge acted as his primary weapon while a rocket launcher was strapped to his back. His eyes turned from blue to black with white power symbols in them while transforming.
"I am opening the portal now! prepare to be under enemy fire the moment it stabilizes!" Alex warned as a white magic circle formed on the ground and a second circle formed standing vertically on top of the first one. the secondary circle began spinning as a white portal began to fill out its interior.
The portal stabilized and granted everyone a window like view of Zerodimension.
"Move! Move! Move!" commanded Alex as he waved everyone through the portal, following behind them as the last one.