"Make 'ay!"

The concourse you were in was large for your smaller body. It didn't compare at all to your big sister's stealthy ship forms, let along your ship form.

And yet, the disturbance was easily spotted despite you and your big sisters being at one end of said concourse.

"Fer Prin-cess Him-me-ko!"

Quickly you climbed up a nearby bench, while allowed you to see massive green bodies festooned with an assortment of weapons and armor pushing a path for a floating palaquin surrounded by a small flotilla of drones. Your internal sensors pinged that one of your kin sat in that palanquin.

"Make 'ay!"

You could see the grumbling as a path was made for 'Princess Himeko' before you got down to where your big sisters were.

"Tch... looks like one of them showboat carriers," Jack said with a foul look at the palanquin as it made its way across the concourse with its escorts.

"Imma special little princess~" The gestures that Izuna made and the expression on her face as she replied brought a smile to yours.

There was a contemplative look on the faces of Aoi and Aki as they looked keenly at the palanquin and the sister in it. Eventually, they shrugged. "Eh... it's not like she's as big as Big Sister ChiChi."

"Indeed, Big Sister ChiChi is much more... mmmm... deliciously larger." The content looks on Aoi and Aki's faces was... well... it might be disturbing even if you're now certain you're safe from them.

As the palanquin and its escorts left the concourse, things returned to normal and you went back to contemplating what you had been looking at earlier as you licked at your ice cream in its waffle cone.

"Well, ma'am," the shopkeeper gestured at the display case of models in front of you. "The models here are all one to one thousand scale, and are more of a sample of what you'll be purchasing."

He gestured at a particular model. "This here is what we call the Monster, a mobile heavy artillery gun. Heavy firepower, but slow and requires a dedicated feed system for extended combat. It features a quad heavy railgun and a pair of heavy missile launchers."

"Then, we have the Phalanx." He smiled. "Like the Monster, it is slow and features heavy firepower. However, that firepower is in the form of missiles and thus, you get a heavy saturation of firepower that you can unleash all at once."

He continued on, pointing out the various anti-fighter types, and the energy intensive variants that used energy weapons instead of the more physical weaponry.

Still, the prices involved... it was 'only' two hundred plasma credits for the design schemata for a single Zoic Android. And that allowed you to build it, a place for it to stay on your ship as well as the assorted required components for its maintenance. For another two hundred more plasma credits, you would be provided a working version that didn't require dedicated fabrication of the parts and putting one together.

Two or four hundred credits... that was expensive. Still, this would allow you to have a pet for your ship body that would walk about and shoot stuff for you.

Pets were expensive.

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Dark Heavens | Space Ship Girls
014 : Expensive Pets
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