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Some notes, listen to some background songs or something while you read for more immersiveness. For example, Everlasting Sky Song and Be The One song by Beverly, are legit good songs.

Ehem, anyway

Chapter 13

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04:00 AM, Leanbox Hospital, Intensive Care Room.

Nepgear, still in her purple pajamas, opened her eyes up while she kept her sleeping position at Magic's bedside. She did so as she realized that she was being cuddled by Magic who was still sleeping and Nepgear wouldn't want to wake her up this early. Judging from the cuddling and her dream last night, Nepgear guessed that it was Magic who relieved her from her nightmare of losing Magic. Nepgear slightly smiled and slowly moved Magic away from her so Magic could sleep in a better position.

"Thank you Magic, for being alive and for comforting me last night," Nepgear said while she smiled at Magic.

Magic didn't respond as she was sleeping peacefully on the Leanbox hospital's bed that looked modern and a green-white color.

Nepgear stood up from her chair and looked at her surroundings. She sees Gehaburn sleeping on the other side of the bed, Histoire's book was laid on the table near the medical care machine, the sky outside that's still dark red, and Kurome, Brave, Trick, Arfoire, Judge, and some of the Dogoos, Nues, And Pegasus squadrons all sleeping on the green-white floor. Some of them snored and mumbled a bit loud, which made Nepgear amazed at how all of us kept on sleeping like it was a normal thing.

'What a hard sleeper we are huh…' Nepgear thought to herself.

Just then, she thought next about her next course of action regarding this event for her family. It took Magic's will to eat the CPU Memory that she and Trick made just to defeat a giant monster that Judge himself calls the Dogula.

'A New breed of experiment perhaps? No, I shouldn't think about it for now. What I need to do is to think of a way to strengthen Kurome and the rest of my brethren when i'm not around'

Nepgear thought for a while, thinking about how to further increase everyone's powers with the resources that she had. She also needs to find a way to uncover and defeat the unknown foe outside her Dimension, plus, Nepgear needs to plan the preparation for the new members that she and Gehaburn had planned. She needs to take a step further than before.

'To my room it is'

Nepgear spoke in her mind while she slowly walked out of the hospital and went to her room in the Neptower through the portal room in Leanbox's main base.

A few seconds after Nepgear had walked out of the room, Kurome woke up from her slumber on the floor mat and noticed Nepgear's face wearing a cold look before leaving the room.

"...Gearsy? Where are you going?..." Kurome said quietly as she was still a bit drowsy.

After seeing Nepgear's cold face plus her leaving the room this early, Kurome began to worry about her mental well-being. Given Magic's situation where she almost died, Kurome can imagine how painful it is for Nepgear to almost relive the same pain as before, which is losing someone precious.

'Damn, there she goes, wearing that sad and cold look as I did in the past….I should go check on Gearsy to make sure she's okay' Kurome said in her mind.

Kurome slowly stood up from the floor's mat and silently walked towards the sleeping Gehaburn so she could wake her up and go together to Nepgear.

"Oi, goofy head, wake up," Kurome said with a low voice.

"Mmmrrgghh…..Don't mess with my….time with my peanut butter…..jelly sandwich...zzzzz" Gehaburn moved a bit away from Kurome as she mumbled her sleep talk.

Kurome facepalms herself at Gehaburn's response and sighed that it would take a while to wake her up quietly.

'This…..might take a while' Kurome spoke in her mind before she continued to wake Gehaburn up.

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05:00 AM, Nepgear's lilac-colored room, In the Neptower.

Nepgear was sitting on a chair while she was typing down her plan on her Nep-Laptop that was available at her Light brown desk. Nepgear has connected her Nepwatch to the Nep-Laptop so she can work on the info that she got from Ultra Dimension and the data that are up-to-date and automatically available on the Nep-Laptop.

Her face was deadly serious and cold as if she was carrying a heavy burden on her own while fixated on the screen. To be precise, the burden to protect her family at all costs. Especially after what happened to Magic and the others, she felt responsible for their injuries and the lack of preparation.

"I'm not gonna let myself be lax this time, I'll make sure to keep them safe" Nepgear mumbled, then she took a sip of coffee that she made from the coffee maker machine in the kitchen before she continued her plan.

"Gearsy"

"Gear"

"Hmm?" Nepgear turned to her right to the voice she heard, which was Gehaburn and Kurome calling her with pajamas that colored their signature colors. Kurome with blue pajamas and Gehaburn with her purple Pajamas.

"Oh, Kurome, Burn. What is it?" Nepgear looks back at her Nep-Laptop to continue her work.

"Hey, don't just look away from us like that"

"Yeah, that's kinda rude of you to do that, Gearsy"

Gehaburn and Kurome pouted at Nepgear who was typing down on the Laptop.

"Hah….What's the matter, you two? If it's something foolish then save it. I'm working right now" Nepgear sighed and turned back again to see Gehaburn and Kurome's faces closing in on her.

"Uhh…" Nepgear we're weirded at their faces closing in on her slowly.

Gehaburn and Kurome stopped closing and stared at Nepgear's eyes, which made Nepgear even more confused at the two.

"DWAAAAAA!"

"BUGGYIIIIII"

Gehaburn made a stupid face while putting a silly mouth with her tongue out while Kurome pressed her cheeks with both of her hands to make a silly face.

"Pfft, what's with that stupid look on your faces," Nepgear said while she smiled slightly.

"Well, you've been ignoring us the whole time. We called out to you several times already, but you were so focused on your Laptop with that frowned look on your face, Gearsy" Kurome explained with both hands crossed on her breast.

"So, we decided to get close to you and cheer you up a bit, Gear. And it worked!" Gehaburn said happily.

"Really?" Nepgear touched her face a bit.

"Oh, guess you two were right on. I can still feel my face being stiff from all the frowning I put up" Nepgear said to Kurome.

"Yeah, and you looked scary there Gear. Seeing you tappy tap the keyboard with that look made us worried for you…" Gehaburn said with a little bit of a sad and worried tone.

"Sorry about that, you two…I've been planning and working on something right now," Nepgear said to the two.

"...Is it because of what happened to Magic and the others?" Kurome guessed what was currently in Nepgear's mind.

Nepgear didn't reply and just tilted her head down a bit, indicating that Kurome's guess was spot on. Kurome and Gehaburn looked at each other and tilted their heads down a bit, after that, Kurome began to speak further.

"What happened to Magic wasn't your fault, Gearsy. If anything, the fault lies on me…..I didn't prepare enough necessity to treat one of our own. Heck, I didn't work hard enough to develop something with the CMEs for ourselves…." Kurome trailed off as she bowed to Nepgear.

"That's why I want to say sorry to you, you've given me so much with this new home yet I didn't put much effort into it unlike you do. Therefore-"

"-We ain't gonna just lay down while you do shoulder all the work for us with that depressing look. We go straight together to get what we want as a family!" Gehaburn continued and ended with a passionate tone.

Nepgear looked at Kurome and Gehaburn while she jog her memories, specifically at the time when her past CPU comrades didn't work together with her and ended up separating. But now, Nepgear doesn't have to despair about it anymore as she got her new friends and family to help each other despite a few circumstances.

'Heh, these goofy heads' Nepgear said in her mind before she invited both to help her with her plan.

"If you two are gonna help me this early, I've no choice but to accept it. Grab some seats, we've got a lot of prep to do!" Nepgear said to the two with a cheerful tone like Gehaburn did last night.

Kurome and Gehaburn nodded while smiling and began to take some bean bags for them to sit near Nepgear to look at what she's been working on.

"Oh, and Kurome"

"Hmm?" Kurome tilted her head to the right in confusion while she sat down on a purple bean bag.

"You forgot to button up all of your pajama's buttons" Nepgear pointed out.

"Eh?" Kurome looked at her blue pajamas to see they were all unbuttoned from top to bottom. Nepgear can see Kurome's black bra underneath the pajamas.

"EEEHHHHHHH, SINCE WHEN?!" Kurome said while she panicked with a blushing red color on her face.

"Since when I woke up to see all of you sleeping in the Intensive Care room. I'm starting to think that you put your open-shirt habit to your pajamas as well" Nepgear answered.

"Wha-, how come you didn't tell me, Burnsy?!" Kurome turned to look at Gehaburn whistling innocently while looking away from Kurome.

"Don't give me that act!" Kurome said as she grabbed Gehaburn's head to shake it with her hands.

"Aaaaaaa, Two can play that game, Bakaromeeeeeee!" Gehaburn did the same thing as Kurome did to her.

The two were shaking each other's heads while they stared intensely at each other, and they were almost on the brink of another roughhousing. Luckily, Nepgear knocks their quarrel with a chop on the head. After Gehaburn and Kurome stopped to caress their heads, Nepgear sighed and started to say some words.

"It's still early in the morning and both of you are eager to mess with each other…Can both of you do this later?" Nepgear said with her arms crossed on her breasts.

"Sorry, Gearsy" Kurome spoke first.

"My bad" Gehaburn said secondly.

"Good, now let's go back to where I left off"

Nepgear, turned to her Nep-Laptop to work on her plan with Kurome and Gehaburn helping her with their ideas and suggestions. They would later have to prepare themselves as they were about to start a meeting around 9 AM to share their plan with the rest when they were done with it.

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09:00 AM, The Neptower's meeting room.

In the lilac purple white-colored Meeting Room, Nepgear was looking down on Magic, wearing a purple business suit, Judge, and each of the Dogoo, Pegasus, and Nue Squadrons who were lying down on the floor as they apologize to their Lady for the circumstances that transpired yesterday and for interrupting Nepgear and Gehaburn mission on the other dimension.

"I'm so so sorry for making you worry about us! We were supposed to handle things here yet we've been overconfident and lacking in our prowess!" Magic said desperately as she thought that her Lady was disappointed in her.

"Yeah, what Magic said. We'll take any punishment if it pleases you, Boss Lady" Judge continued with the three representatives still bowing down.

Nepgear looked down at them while she sat on her chair with her whole body posturing in a thinker pose. Gehaburn and Kurome, in their usual outfit, were seated next to each other, with the Judgester drinks on the long length meeting table. After Kurome tidied her blue tie, she leaned close to Gehaburn's ear.

"Hey, do you think Gearsy would punish them this time? She looks serious there" Kurome whispered to Gehaburn's right ear.

"Nah, she ain't the type to punish someone honest with their mistakes. Gear is only making an act there as the leader of our gang" Gehaburn replied, then she starts sipping the dark Judgester bottle.

"Fine, line up side by side so I can exact my punishment evenly"

After Nepgear had said her words, Gehaburn spits out some of the juice onto the meeting table as she was shocked by her choice to punish them.

"Okay, I was wrong this time. Gear's serious about this" Gehaburn said as she cleaned the table with her white napkin from her inventory.

Kurome, Trick, and Brave sighed at Gehaburn then they turned to see Magic, Judge, and the three squadron representatives all lined up on the floor. Magic was on the right end of the line and in front of her was Nepgear.

Nepgear raised her right hand and was about to slap Magic. Her hand was getting closer to Magic's cheeks at a high speed, Magic was prepared to endure the incoming pain from the slap.

Unexpectedly, Nepgear's right hand stopped right before slapping Magic's cheeks. It instead bops the cheeks gently. Magic didn't feel any pain from it, she instead felt her Lady's gentleness. Judge and the three representatives received the same treatment as Magic. The four were confused at her Lady's so-called punishment.

"B-but why….?" The Blue Dogoo representative asked Nepgear.

"Why would I hurt you all? All of you did a great job in protecting our home and being alive right now" Nepgear answered as she got back to her seat, then she continued her words.

"Just remember this order to your heart…Don't you ever die, I and everyone else would be sad if you do. Got it?"

Magic, Judge, And the three representatives' eyes lit up, and stood up from the floor.

"Yes My Lady! We won't let you down!" They all said in unison, which made Nepgear smile.

"Good, now go back to your seats. We got a lot of stuff we need to talk about" Nepgear ordered them, then they went on to sit in the meeting chairs.

"Hmm, maybe I should screw myself up to get that kind of punishment. Hehe," Gehaburn mumbled.

"If you did that on purpose, you wouldn't be getting any gentleness from me. You would get this instead" Nepgear heard what Gehaburn mumbled and showed Gehaburn an uppercut as a warning.

"Urk, mission failed. I'll get it next time" Gehaburn slumped on the table while the others smirked at her.

Just then, the Meeting room's door opened up. Several Rafflesia entered the room with some breakfast for Nepgear and the others in the room. One by one, the plates were served with fine order and exact proportions, with medium ones for someone as tall as Nepgear while the big ones were for huge individuals like Brave.

Everyone thanked the rafflesias before they left the room. After that, they opened the lid to see the food inside. The breakfast was a beefy omelet with various toppings on top. They all ate the omelet and were delighted with the taste it gave to their mouths.

"Damnation! This is some good fucking food! " Judge said excitedly while he ate his meal with sheer happiness.

"Good indeed, It's well made with love and expertise to the point my tongue is in bliss. My Lady, who made this?" Trick commented while he eats his omelet.

"Arfoire made it. She said that she wanted to cook something in this dimension, so I let her become the Head Chef for the day" Nepgear answered after she finished her breakfast.

"That old hag huh, where is she right now?" Kurome said.

"Prezzy Arfoire is making her witch clothes in the tailoring room to replace her pajamas right now. I can't open another portal for a while since I was tired, so Gear here suggests Prezzy make her clothes as an alternative" Gehaburn answered Kurome, then continued with Nepgear who began to talk.

"Though it's already been a while since I told her that. I worry if she's in trouble making her clothes. Maybe I should go che-"

Nepgear trailed off as the lights inside the meeting room all turned off. Everyone was confused at the sudden situation.

"Magic, did you forget to check the generator yesterday?" Brave asked.

"N-no, I did not! I'm not like Judge" Magic said with a flustered tone.

"What do you mean not like me?!" Judge said as he was annoyed for being included.

In an instant, two pegasuses appeared from the door while carrying one spotlight and one music speaker. It shone the spotlight right at the Meeting room's door. Then, a red carpet rolled through the meeting room and Arfoire entered the room with a flashy weird pose. When she entered the music speaker played a fancy ballroom background music.

"Pardon me for being late. But I, Arfoire, have arrived" Arfoire spoke.

Everyone was repulsed with their eyes turned white with a black ring on the middle as they looked at Arfoire, but it wasn't because of the dramatic entry. It was because of the horrendous fashion of clothes that Arfoire was wearing at the moment.

Arfoire was wearing a short torn blue denim jeans, blue socks, a purple cape, a short denim vest with a lot of gem decorations on it, an oversized light brown hat with strings on it, and finally, a white T-shirt underneath the denim vest with a black graphic word "Fashionnate Chef" in the middle.

Gehaburn and everyone else rounded up to the closest corner and away from Arfoire who was in her world. All except for Nepgear, who was standing still in shock, and the two pegasuses that were currently doing their thing for Arfoire.

"Is this really her from last night?" Brave whispered as he was weirded out.

"Y-yeah, but not this weird!" Gehaburn told Brave.

"This is the damn opposite of what I have imagined of her being my Lady's Manager!" Magic commented.

"I don't even know how I should compliment this…fashion choice," Trick said.

"Crap… she's unaware that it's fucking horrible!" Judge added.

"Umm, guys, maybe we should tell her indirectly so we don't hurt her feelings" Kurome suggested, but then, someone snapped.

"LAME!"

"My Lady!" Magic was shocked at her mistress's sudden yell, same for everyone else.

Everyone looked at Nepgear who shouted before, even Arfoire stopped posing and the two pegasuses turned off the spotlight and the music speaker whilst turning on the meeting's room light back before leaving with the spotlight and the carpet.

"It's too lame it shouldn't even appear in this fanfic. Why would you show up while wearing this shit?" Nepgear said disappointingly to Arfoire as she approached her, she even unintentionally did a meta thing like her sister.

"Lame? Who? Me? Oh, my dear Gear, you have no taste for fashion. Besides, this is my chance to try something different other than my witch clothes" Arfoire said with confidence. It surprised everyone in the room as she was unfazed by the criticism.

"Oh my pudding, she didn't get upset!" Gehaburn said.

"So, did I miss anything from the meeting?" Arfoire asked.

"No, we were waiting for you. But now that you're here, we begin today's meeting. Everyone back to your seats!" Nepgear said and ordered everyone to position themselves back.

"Pardon me," Trick said before he used his tongue to wrap Arfoire and carried her to the right side of the table. Arfoire we're grossed at first but it was a pleasant wrap.

"Well that was oddly satisfying, thanks" Arfoire commented, Trick responded with a gentlemanly bow.

The right side of the table was occupied by Gehaburn, Kurome, Magic, and Arfoire. While the left side was seated Brave, Trick, Judge, and the three Squadron representatives. In the middle, Nepgear sat on the chair trying to focus on the meeting and not get pestered by Arfoire's clothing.

"Okay, first of all, I would like to know what Magic and the others dealt with yesterday. Especially after the fact that it can't be damaged unless it was against a CPU, as Trick had said before" Nepgear said while Trick nodded in the distance.

"Magic, if you can tell me, how was the Dogula like?" Nepgear asked.

"I deeply regret saying this but I can't remember much after I transformed into a CPU, I'm sorry My Lady…." Magic said with a sad tone.

"An after effect of the forced transformation I presume, no need to say sorry. You did all you could yesterday" Nepgear reassured Magic.

"Then, what about Judge and the others? Can you tell us what it was like?" Nepgear turned to the left side of the table.

"It was freaking strong!" The Blue Doggo said.

"Crazy loud!" The Grey Nue added.

"So Gigantic!" The green Pegasus added another.

"But I did not lose!" Judge said.

"...I regret asking you four…" Nepgear facepalms herself, while Gehaburn, Arfoire, and Kurome laugh. Brave and Trick huffed at their answer while Magic wasn't pleased with Judge and the three representatives' response.

"Oh come on you guys!" Magic said angrily.

"We're sorry! We don't know how to explain it well" Judge and the others said in unison.

"It's fine, I got someone else in mind when it comes to previous recordings" Nepgear turned on her Nep-Watch on her right wrist and opened a call.

"Hey, Rat. Get over here. Give me the video of the last battle that occurred here" Nepgear said before she ended the call.

"Rat? You don't mean…" Arfoire said with a guess in her mind.

"Yeah, you know who it is," Nepgear responded to Arfoire.

After a few seconds, a hatch opened on the wall leading outside of the Neptower. From there, a flying rat came out of it and landed on top of the meeting table. It was The Sigma dimension Warechu, the same as before but with a light purple body and black arms, reddish eyes, and light orange socks over the black legs.

"Warechu, reporting in, Chu!" S!Warechu said to all of them. He then noticed someone familiar and was shocked at it.

"D-d-deity of Sin Arfoire?! How's she here? And why is she looking like that, Chu?" Warechu said.

"Prezzy here is from another dimension, not the Deity of Sin you knew of," Gehaburn told S!Warechu.

"Oh, then I'll just ignore her. Not important anyway, Chu" S!Warechu said as he was taking something from his brown beige bag.

"No matter what dimension, he is still the same as ever…." Arfoire mumbled.

S!Warechu took out a black camera from his bag inventory and gave it to Nepgear. Nepgear looked inside the contents and she was pleased with the recording logs.

"You seem to be doing your duty well, keep up the good work. Okay?" Nepgear said with a soft smile, Warechu nodded at her as a reply.

"Good, now go on and return to your job," Nepgear ordered S!Warechu.

"A-alright then. I shall take my leave, Milady" S!Warechu bowed and left the room with his giant maroon wings like the Warechu from Ultradimension.

"Um, Burnsy. Who was that?" Kurome asked Gehaburn

"Oh him? He is our dimension's Warechu. In the past, he gave a lot of trouble during Gear's time against ASIC. But when she encountered him during the Human Purge, Warechu desperately bowed down to let him live. Nepgear agreed to his pleadings but on one condition, that is to do his duty of helping her in rebuilding Gamindustri" Gehaburn told her, while Nepgear was looking at the camera logs.

"I can't believe you made him work without him making much of a fuss, how did you do that?" Arfoire asked Nepgear.

"With a little bit of care and threatening of course" Nepgear replied as she had done looking for the Dogula vid and began to project it on the big screen behind her.

"As expected of Milady!" Magic praised her Lady.

"Those two things aren't supposed to go well with each other but uh, if it works then it's a pass" Brave commented and shrugged it off.

"Hmm, I think I forgot something back in my dimension," Arfoire said while she was in a thinker pose.

"If you forgot it, then it wasn't important," Gehaburn told her.

"Yeah you're right, who am I kidding" Arfoire shrugged off her worries.

"Alright everyone, quiet down. The video recording is about to start, let's see what we're up against," Nepgear told them as she sat down on her chair.

"Oho! A watch-a-long! Popcorn time!"

Gehaburn took out several popcorns in different sizes and gave them to everyone. Nepgear wanted to ask how she got there but she let it slide for now as the video has started to play.

The video began when Magic, Judge, and their squadrons were looking down on the Black Dogoo and Black Tarantula's swarm. The Video took a while to finish as the battle there went on for a while. Everyone there observed the battle between Judge and the Dogula and they were all surprised that he held out for a while against the monster, given the thing had beat Magic in one go.

"See? I told y'all that I didn't lose!" Judge said proudly.

"Barely" Brave roasted him as they were on the part where Judge was on his last stand.

"Tch. Oh, look, here comes Magic!" Judge pointed out in the video that Magic appeared to save him and his fellows.

In the video, everyone watched how Magic forced herself to eat the CPU Crystal, turned into a Goddess, and began to beat the Dogula like a pulp. Nepgear put down her popcorn and stopped the video after the Dogula was defeated.

"That was awesome Magic! Badass Scarlet Heart!" Gehaburn applauded Magic as she clapped her hands, the others joined as well, making Magic's face red as she was blushing.

"I love how you did all that while I wasn't there, but did you really have to say Henshin when you transformed? We don't need to say that when we want to transform" Nepgear asked.

"Umm, I remember that Kurome told me of her past story about a certain show of masked heroes saying that as they transformed. So I figured it would be cool if I did that when I first transformed" Magic answered.

Nepgear and everyone in the room looked at Kurome with a confused look. Kurome just sat there and drank the Judgester with her sipping sound loud and clear.

"What? It was cool in my time and it's still cool today as a war cry. Heck, you even said that it was cool as well when I told it to ya, Gearsy" Kurome said.

"Well yeah but…Never mind, moving on," Nepgear said as she took her Nep-Laptop from her inventory and began to prepare something in it.

"What did we see exactly? Some kind of mash-up of two monsters?" Arfoire spoke.

"You could say that, Lady Arfoire. But if I call it more scientifically, it's an amalgamation of two experimented beings through mutating combinations. Particularly after combining, some parts weren't supposed to appear from either of the black beings" Trick explained his thesis of the Dogula.

"I appreciate you called me a Lady but I did not understand half of that" Arfoire commented.

"...Hah…..Let's just say it's a mutated monster" Trick said with a little bit of disappointment.

"Regardless of what it is, we need to know its contents and how it can grow that vast," Nepgear said as she was done with her Laptop and looked seriously at Trick.

"Rest assured, Madam. I and my team shall finish our evaluation of the remnants. We won't disappoint you, my Lady!" Trick said while bowing like a gentleman.

"Good, don't push yourself too hard though" Nepgear noted, then she continued.

"Plus, regarding the Dogula's prowess, Kurome, Burn, and I had planned a project to strengthen everyone in our dimension exponentially," Nepgear said to all of them.

"Does that mean we can get even stronger?" The Nue said while it raised one of its wings.

"Yes, we can. But it all depends on each of you, are all of you up for it?" Nepgear asked them all to make sure of their willpower.

"Hell yeah, we do! Ain't that right guys?" Judge said as he looked left and right. All the others in the room all nodded in agreement.

"Thanks, everyone. Then let me introduce the project called, Build Up!" Nepgear pressed the enter button as she said that.

The big screen behind Nepgear lit up and it showed an easy-to-learn project step. There were three steps to the project. Number one is called "Collect CME", number two is " Inject CME", and the third is "Train with CME". The steps were made informally so everyone can understand them easily. Kurome stood up from her chair and began to explain in words.

"So basically, instead of making new weapons that would take a long time, we figured that this project was the best option right now. By collecting the CMEs from the Hazard monsters and injecting the essence into our bodies and our weapons. Yes, we decided to call it Hazard Monsters now. The CMEs that were injected will make our bodies a little hard to use but stronger than before." Kurome stopped to take a breather before she continued.

"To deal with the hard part, we all need to exercise our bodies or use our weapons so we can get used to the power inside," Kurome explained. Brave raised his hand as he wanted to clarify or ask something.

"So it's like our daily routine but harder if we inject that essence?" Brave said, which Kurome nodded as a reply.

"But do we have enough for everyone here in our home? As far as I can remember, all of the CME stocks are almost used up" Brave asked Kurome.

"Which is why we're gonna use the ones that Gear had collected from the Ultradimension. We already counted the amount down and we are sure it is enough for all of us" Gehaburn said to him.

"But then…." The Pegasus said with a downed tone.

"I know why you're worried, but Burn and I will figure out how to get more CMEs, or any CPU Crystal if there's any left" Nepgear reassured the Pegasus that it was okay.

"I could tell you how to get those again, and fast" Arfoire spoke up to Nepgear.

"But why do I sense a hesitation from you?" Nepgear raised her eyebrows at Arfoire.

"...You may not be able to handle the person I'm thinking of" Arfoire answered with a poker face with her mind thinking of a certain pink guy.

"Oh come on Prezzy, there's nothing that Gear and I can't handle. What could go wrong?" Gehaburn spoke confidently.

"You might regret those words later, but knowing both of you, I think it won't be much of a problem. I'll explain more when we get back to my home" Arfoire said before she took another sip on her Judgester drink from Gehaburn.

"Alright, that's that. About the Dogula, the "Build Up!" Project, How to get more CPU Crystals, what else did I miss?" Nepgear wondered if there was anything she forgot to mention.

"Pardon me for asking, but do we have any new Family Member candidates?" Trick said when he raised his hand.

"Oh yeah, we do! So far, we got two candidates, but I ain't gonna spoil it" Gehaburn spoke with a grin.

"Aww come on, you didn't tell me that! At least give us a hint" Kurome pouted.

"Should I?" Gehaburn looked at Nepgear, In which she gave a nod to Gehaburn.

"The hint is that one of them is like Judge's personality but a liiiitle bit different, while the other is a chick that's half timid and half scary," Gehaburn said.

"I shall book the chick one to my side. Love me a new lady for me to tongue up and praise" Trick call dibs on the chick one while he drips saliva onto his fat belly.

"Wiped that saliva off you fatso" Magic mentioned with a straight face.

"Oh right, pardon me" Trick wipes his saliva.

"I think that's all, any questions? Or something that one of you might wanna add?" Nepgear looked left and right after saying that. It was silent for a moment, meaning that they all understood the stuff laid in the meeting.

"Good, then prepare the leftover CMEs in our stock so we can inject them to whoever we can right now. The next batch will have to wait around the afternoon after Burn's power is back up. Gather the monsters in each of the G-Farm so we can distribute them easily. Don't forget to inject each of us first as a test drive" Nepgear ordered them. Arfoire suddenly realized something and called out to Nepgear.

"Hold on, why am I included here?" Arfoire asked.

"Why not? You're one of us. There's no reason for you to attend the meeting here if you weren't" Nepgear answered.

"...Hmph….You got a point there" Arfoire smiled faintly, she remembered a while about her time when she was in Eden. Sure it was chaotic for her, but it was a memory she couldn't let go of. Being with Nepgear and her family puts a similar feeling in Arfoire.

"Now then…Burn, get ahold of Arfoire now"

Arfoire was shocked at Nepgear's order and how Gehaburn was fast at grabbing her arms.

"Eh? What's this about!" Arfoire yelled?

"I'm taking you back to the Tailoring room so we can CHANGE that fashion of yours! It took all of me to hold back my urge to change it all. Drag her away!" Nepgear stared at Arfoire.

"Noooooo! You can't do this to me!" Arfoire struggled a bit.

"Hold your jiggles Prezzy. Don't shake that boobie too much. Away we go!" Gehaburn dragged her down.

"Nooooooooooooooo!" Arfoire screamed before she and Gehaburn exited the room. Everyone in the room didn't move a single muscle after seeing what had transpired before their eyes.

"I'll be outside to help when I'm done with her. Go on without me" Nepgear left the room after she spoke. There was a moment of silence in the room.

"Well, that was something" Kurome comments to break the silence.

"Y-yeah, anyway, let's do what we can together and do this right!" Magic spoke to them all.

Everyone agreed and left the room one by one, some breakfast and Judgester leftovers were left alone in the room, waiting to be cleaned by the Alfred plants.

(-)

Meanwhile, in Arfoire's house, Almost the same time as the meeting progressed.

"Where did everyone go, Chu?"

Warechu looked around him in her manager's house, only to be greeted with silence. He only came down here so he can chill in the house as it was a free-from-work day.

"Ohh! Lemonades! Chu" Warechu locked eyes with the lemonades on the table and approached it to drink the beverage.

"Ahh, ~ So Refreshing, Chu" Warechu said as he finished one of them.

Just then, a weird but alluring smell caught his nose. It captivated him so much that he followed where the smell came from. After a while, he realized that he was in the Basement. He was weirded as the door was left open just like that, especially with no one around.

"Is that where the smell is coming from? A flask, Chu?" Warechu looked at the flask filled with purple liquid, it was left open on the table. Hence how the smell reached Warechu.

He took the flask and observed it for a bit. He was reluctant to digest it as it probably belonged to the Sigma Dimension's Nepgear, but the smell was too strong to resist. Warechu immediately poured the flask into the rest of the lemonade and drank it all.

"That was worth it, now I gotta bail before they appear at some point, Chu"

Warechu quickly cleaned the empty glasses and flask and left the house with his giant wings, which resulted from the drink that Nepgear had given him before.

Inside his body, the CMEs were slowly reacting to his body and began to react with the body's molecules slowly. Fortunately for him, nothing happened.

…Yet.

To Be Continued

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NEPSTATION TIME!

"I'm today's host, Magic. With my idiot partner, Judge, on my side. Welcome to the second Nepstation in this fanfic!"

"Why am I being one of the hosts? This is so boring. I wanna thrash some things, not read things in this paper"

"Suck it up, Judge. Our lady and her author ordered us and we must do what our Lady orders us"

"Alright alright, so who's gonna read this paper first? You Magic?"

"Yeah, I'll start. The upcoming stuff in the future is uhh, shotgun parade, wacky getaway, another swarm attack-"

"-And eight members that'll join our gang soon enough!"

"It's three you idiot, and couldn't you make it vaguer? You told the readers something so direct"

"Idiot!?"

"Yeah, idiot"

"Aight that's it! IT'S ON, BITCH!"

"HAVE AT THEE!"

Gehaburn entered the room that was currently thrashed by Magic and Judge's quarrels

"Guys stop! Y'all breaking this place apart!"

Technical Difficulties - Please Stand By

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