Chapter 12

Hikan's POV

"Here's the situation." The man started, I had to hold IF back just so she wouldn't do anything to risky, "I need you two to go and clear out a cave of monsters, the cave is south of here, you can't miss it, also, they may be weak at first, but the farther you go, the more powerful the monsters will get, when you clear all of them out, report back her and I'll give you any information you want about Lastation. Any questions?" He said, was that it? He just wants us to exterminate some monsters?

"What's the catch?" I asked, the man simply shook his head,

"The catch is if you die or not, but I'm sure you won't have a problem with that." He said, he was looking at me too, I guess he thinks I can do it, but IF can't, which made her a little angry, I could tell, "Good luck." He said as he turned and walked around a corner,

"Hey wait!" IF yelled, she ran around the corner, but stopped with a surprised look on her face, I walked up behind her and saw that the corner led to a dead end meaning whoever that was, could disappear whenever he wanted too.

"C'mon, let's go." I said, grabbing IF's arm and started pulling her towards the entrance of the factory,

"Hey! Let go!" she said with a blushed face, but I kept pulling her till we were out of the factory.

"We got our quest, and I know what you're thinking, that guy can't be trusted, but this may be the only chance we have to get information, so we need to go through this." I stated, IF looked at me with a surprised look, then nodded in agreement, I turned and started walking towards the south, IF stood behind me, I turned and looked at her,

"You coming?" I questioned, she looked up at me and blushed some more, sometimes I don't know what I do, but almost all the girls I met, they either blush when they see me, or try to talk to me, but that was when I was still "emotionless".

"Yeah, right behind you." IF said, and followed close behind me, then we started making our way towards the cave.


Third Person POV

Hikan and IF were on their to the cave, Hikan was sure that they were going to be okay, but IF was worried, she didn't want him to be like "that" Hikan again, the one with the red aura, she couldn't stand seeing Hikan like that, he wasn't the same when he was in "that" form, she didn't want him to die because of it, that power he could barely control, if he uses it again, who knows what would happen if he can't revert back, he could destroy everyone, or worse, all of Gamindustri,

A good distance away, there were two figures in black cloaks, they were watching Hikan and IF,

"Does he know?" one of the figures said,

"I doubt it, as long as that voice in his head keeps his fucking mouth shut." the other said figure replied, they can't give their secret away, especially to Hikan. if he found out, Gamindustri would be destroyed,

"Just keep a close eye on them, we cannot let 'him' take over Hikan." The one figure said, the other nodded and disappeared right in front of him, the now lone figure stood staring at the two figures that were slowly leaving his field of vision, but another caught his eye, another girl was following the two, she seemed to be very careful not to get herself caught, the lone figure couldn't help but smile, "What is 'she' doing?" he said to himself, then started walking in the opposite direction.


Neptune and Compa eventually got to the abandoned factory that Hikan and IF were supposed to be at, Neptune kicked open the door and walked inside,

"Hikan! Iffy! Where you two at?" she yelled and got no answer, she went deeper into the factory hoping to find both of them not hugging and kissing each other, She wanted to be Hikan's first kiss.

"Nep-Nep, I don't think they're here." Compa said, after taking a deep breath, Neptune was both happy and sad to hear that, happy because they weren't in this place all alone and could do whatever they wanted, and sad because Hikan wasn't there.

"Where could those two be at?" Neptune said before falling on her butt, Hikan and IF were nowhere to be found, and Neptune was starting to get worried, sure they both could fight, but what happened to them?

"Nep-Nep, let's just go back home and stay there. I'm sure Hikan and Iffy will be back." Compa said,

"Yeah, I guess..." Neptune said, Hikan would always tell her that nothing would happen to and that he would be fine, but still she couldn't help but worry, she liked Hikan, that time in the other abandoned factory, what she wanted to do with him, she meant it, she wanted to be with him, in his arms, she felt safe and comfortable, Compa and Neptune then started to back track to the hotel, the only thing on their minds was "where is Hikan and Iffy?"


Hikan's POV

After a long walk, we eventually made it to the cave that guy told us to go to, we took cover behind a nearby rock, I already see monsters too, I withdrew my shortsword, I looked at IF and saw that she had a worried look on her face, don't start making those faces too,

"Hey IF...IF!" I yelled, she snapped out of her trance and looked at me,

"What?! Don't yell at me all of a sudden." She said, I pointed ahead to show her all the monsters,

"Over there, that's where we need to go, see all the monsters?" I said, she looked over to where I was pointing,

"Let's get this over with." She said, she equipped her hidden blades and ran ahead,

"Hey, hold up!" I yelled, but it was useless, she kept going straight towards the monsters, something was bothering her, I ran towards the monsters and started to fight, most of the monsters that were there were Dogoo's and horsebirds, but if what that guy said was true, then the deeper we go into the cave, the more monsters there were going to be, but there has to be some catch, what was it?

They didn't give us really a fight at all, they all were killed in one hit, maybe we were just overpowered, that or the protagonist powers were in me, man I have been hanging around Neptune too much. We were at the deepest part of the cave, at least I hope, but the enemies were at least tougher, there were no Dogoo's mostly the lizard men, and a bunch of these robot things, I don't know what to call them, mostly because they came in all different models, but they were still a pain, and occasionally one of those black knights again, at least I was able to defeat them without any help this time, but the one I'm worried about is an Ancient Dragon, Saito was able to kill it with just his fist, but I don't want to use him, he's too dangerous.

IF led most of the way, she didn't talk much, but I knew she was thinking of something, but every time I ask what it is she says "it's nothing, don't worry about it." something is clearly bothering her, I don't know if it's me, or something else, but I need to find out what,

"Hey IF, we need to talk." I said, stopping in my tracks, she turned and looked at me,

"We need to keep moving, c'mon let's go." She said turning around again, I stopped her by grabbing her shoulders and making her turn to look at me,

"What is bothering you? You need to tell me." I said, she averted her gaze from me,

"I told you it's nothing..." She said,

"No something's wrong, IF you can tell me, what is it?" I said, IF blushed a little, ahh I know, "It's about me isn't it?" I said, she looked at me with a shocked face, looks like I nailed it,

"Hikan... I don't know if your safe or not, That power you have, you turn into a completely different person." She said, I loosened my grip on her a bit, "Not only that, but you could get killed for it, Nep wouldn't want that to happen."

"I won't die, I promise you. This power is something I can control, sure my personality switches a good bit, but I use it to protect all of us." I said, she looked at my face, I saw tears form in her eyes, I couldn't stand seeing a girl cry, it's too painful,

"Hikan..." she said, but was interrupted by a yell,

"YOUUUU." the voice yelled, it sounded like the guy's voice who gave us the quest, next thing I knew I heard an explosion in the distance, me and IF looked over in the direction the explosion came from and started running, this will be getting ugly,


The explosion came from deeper in the cave, we were greeted to a large crater in the wall alot of debris, standing up was the man that gave us the quest, only his head was now exposed, he had long brown hair that went down to his neck and had dark brown eyes, he also had these types of gauntlets on and they were black and covered in blue markings, on the ground however was someone I wasn't expecting, the girl I ran into on my way to the guild was lying on her back, she was covered in bruises, she must have gotten into a fight with this guy,

"What the hell is going on here?!" I yelled, the man turned towards me and smiled,

"Oh, have you completed the quest yet?" the man asked, my rage started to build up, the first time I got mad at someone else, besides Saito,

"Answer my question!" I yelled, the man stopped smiling and looked down at the beat up girl,

"Oh this bitch? she just needed to be taken care of is all." he said, but she was an innocent girl,

"That girl is only a bystander, what the hell gives you the right to do this!" I yelled again, my rage was almost at it's limits,

"Bystander? Oh no boy, this is no bystander, this is the CPU of Lastation, Black Heart." the man said, she was Black Heart, then when she asked my name, was that why see was shocked?

"What is your objective, why did you do this to the CPU?" I asked trying to keep my rage from releasing.

"Fine, I'll go ahead and say, my name is Kinoshita, and I am the soon-to-be CPU of Lastation." He said, was he the leader of that group?

"What makes you think you can just take away that power from someone? you're born as a CPU, you can't become one." IF said, was that really how it works?

"Simple. Kill them." Kinoshita said, me and IF both had shocked faces, no way, was he really going to kill her?

"I won't let you!" I yelled as I ran towards him with my blade withdrawn, I heard IF try to stop me, but I kept going, I was going to help Black Heart get her nation back.

"Hmph, learn your place kid." Kinoshita said, as he pulled back his hand, I slashed a vertical slash at him, but he deflected it and punched my gut, I fell to my knees instantly, gasping for air, I looked at my right and I saw IF run towards him, Kinoshita raised his hand and shot a projectile from his gauntlet, it was so fast that IF could only dodge by a hair, but it still hit her sleeve and it lodged her into the wall, Kinoshita then shot multiple projectiles at IF, which stuck her to the wall, none of them actually touched her, only restrained her movements, I got up and charged Kinoshita, but was delivered a roundhouse kick to my face, and me being sent flying to the nearby wall, I collided with the wall and made it crumble from the impact, I spat up blood as well,

Kinoshita started to walk towards me, I saw from the corner of my eye that IF was crying, this may have been a fatal mistake, I couldn't move very well, Kinoshita then reached to where I was standing, then lifted me up off the ground, forcing me to look at him

"I'll just kill you now, we can't let that damn voice in your head ruin everything, now can we?" He said, he knew Saito? How?

"How... do... you... know... Saito?" I said, he started laughing,

"Saito? is that what he calls himself?" Kinoshita said,

"Well, you can tell that 'Saito' or whatever he calls himself, he's not getting what he wants." he said while raising a fist in the air, "Any last words?" then I felt my body get a sort of boost, then I raised my hand and delivered a right hook to Kinoshita, making him release me and I fell to the ground,

"Yeah, I'm not dying today." I said, then I heard Saito in my mind,

"Careful kid, he's not like the other monsters, this guy is on a different level then you." he said, I smirked at the thought,

"Don't worry I'll win." I said while getting into a battle stance, this is going to be one hell of a fight, Kinoshita looked at me with anger in his eyes,

"You'll pay for that, you bitch!" he yelled and charged at me,

"Come at me!" I yelled as I charged after him as well...


A/N: Another Chapter done, man only twelve chapters in and I'm getting excited, and I'm the writer! well thanks for reading and I hope to see you all later!