Nepgear found herself at a desk alongside an overhead view of a location in Planeptune.
"Nepgear, I'll handle the outer walls and anywhere else by Planeptune. You make sure to defend this area as best you can. The Lastation Subterranean vehicles can come by any second, so be ready."
"What is going on sis?"
Purple Heart looked a bit downtrodden, "That's what I want to find out."
She left the room with a hurried march.
The man known as Kane went into a quick overview for Nepgear, "My Lady, this is the tactical map, it provides real time footage of the battlefield. For now we'll just be focusing on the position where we think the vehicles will more than likely show up."
'This is just a dream, a horrid messed up dream that won't let me wake up. I always dislike those.'
The screen zoomed in on the northern part of Planeptune, showing a small squad of soldiers and the local militia.
"We're ready to defend Planeptune, Lady Purple Sister!" The voice of one of the militiamen shouted through the speaker.
"The vehicles will arrive in about fifteen minutes, make sure to be prepared by then." Kane showed where the calculated coordinates may be, before control was relinquished to Nepgear, "Armored reinforcements will arrive in twenty minutes, good luck."
Nepgear actually didn't know what to do, but a virtual keyboard and mouse appeared on the tactical map. She was quick to grab them.
"This was recommended by Lady Purple Heart. She made it to where the controls were like those RTS games you play." A random person in the room said.
'Like an RTS?'
It took Nepgear at least three minutes to get the controls down. Getting a small gist of it. She hovered over the relatively small group of soldiers and militiamen. This was all she had to defend Planeptune? It probably was better than nothing.
"My apologies for the small force my Lady, but Lady Purple Heart has a majority of them marching towards the borders to defend against Lastation's main force. The rest are defending all around Planeptune." Kane said.
Nepgear didn't say anything as she focused on the small force. The clock was already down to ten minutes, she didn't have much time!
Nepgear commanded the small force to go towards the area where the Subterranean vehicles were apparently appear. There honestly wasn't that much to do at that point. So it was mostly just loitering for the people on the ground.
When the mark hit at exactly six someone made their presence known.
"Sniper squads on site." Five groups of two snipers made it in time.
"Ah yes, the sniper squads. They have camouflage that allows them to blend in anywhere, nearly undetectable to the untrained eye. Especially in the middle of a firefight. I'd recommend sending them in the nearby tall buildings." Kane informed her on the sniper squads.
Nepgear did exactly that, commanding the squads to set up in separate buildings, before coming back to the soldiers and militia still loitering around. Some were setting up sandbags around the perimeter, while some were standing around and talking.
"You think we'll be enough?"
"More than enough. These Lastation guys can't hit the broadside of a barn."
"Didn't you hear about their cyborg troops?"
"If it bleeds we can kill it."
Their radios must've been left on. However, no one was reprimanding them for leaving them on.
"Sniper teams all in position."
"Two minutes left." Kane reminded the Candidate.
"T-Two minutes left." Nepgear echoed.
The troops on the ground shifted their attitudes as all of them took cover behind anything. The two minutes could not have lasted any longer as everything seemed to slow down to a snail's pace.
"Thirty seconds!" A soldier on the ground shouted.
One could practically feel the tension in the air, then the the one's on the ground felt tremors. They could arrive at any second now.
" Ten seconds." Nepgear barely said.
"Five."
The tremors in the ground shook even harder and the sound of a drill could be heard on the ground.
"Four."
Everyone on the ground readied their trigger fingers, ready to shoot.
"Three."
Nepgear didn't realize she was the only one that was breathing heavily.
"Two."
"Everything will be fine my Lady." Kane tried to reassure the panicking Candidate.
"One!"
Everything paused. No sounds, no tremors, no panicked breathing. Just Nepgear, wondering if all of this really was just a dream. The fact that everything stopped must mean that it is, right?
Unfortunately for this Candidate, the nightmare has only just begun. The world reverted back to normal. The Subterranean Vehicles have touched upon the surface. A dozen of them by the looks of it. The soldiers and militiamen didn't shoot on sight. They waited for the hatches to open.
A cloud of smoke popped out of the vehicles, along the sound of hatches opening. A hail of bullets fired in the smoke's direction. Not a single person on the ground would give them a chance.
"For Lastation!" There was a battle cry of perhaps more than a few dozen men.
Bullets zipped out of the smoke, returning fire. Some brave fools somehow got out of the smoke cover, only to be taken out by the snipers perched up in the buildings.
"I'm hit!"
"Die!"
"That's another one for Sniper Team Zulu."
Chaos was the only thing that was ensuing, from a madman's perspective it would've been exhilarating.
For what seemed like minutes, it only turned out to be many seconds. The bullets suddenly stopped and the smoke cleared.
Nepgear honestly couldn't be horrified at the scene, she just couldn't for some reason. She has never seen something so vile, yet at the same time her instincts were repressing the urge to vomit. What the hell is happening?!
On the ground the people were cheering.
"Get out of my nation, Lastation scum!"
"That was for Uncle Ruckus you bastards!"
"Down with Lastation!"
"Who do you think you are?! We're the winners here!"
Kane had a smirk appear on his face, "Nicely done my Lady. Casualty report?"
"No casualties! We got some injured, but they'll live!"
"This'll look good for you Lady Purple Sister." Kane nodded his head.
Nepgear frowned, not because of the bodies strewn about the ground, but it would appear that a Subterranean vehicle hasn't opened yet.
"Wait, there's still one more."
The people on the ground stopped cheering as they readied themselves, reloading their weapons just in case.
The militiamen moved up first, with the soldiers following suit. They surrounded the vehicle, "We have you surrounded! Come out with your hands up and no harm will be done to you!"
A couple of minutes passed as the vehicle didn't respond. The one's on the ground were about to force their way in, before the doors slowly open.
Nepgear could see the ground units loosen their grips on their weapons, what was happening?
"No way."
"This can't be.
"Is that?"
Nepgear really wanted to see what they were seeing. Which would be answered as a figure with long white hair and a one piece suit stepped into view. She knew who it was.
"Noire." Nepgear mouthed.
"It's Black Heart!" One of the snipers said.
Kane frowned, "She came her herself? She's a lot smarter than I take her to be. That means her men invading the border are the decoy."
"Decoy?" Nepgear asked.
"You should know, Lady Nepgear, that a single CPU can take over a nation if it's defenses are weakened enough."
"Then-!" Nepgear clicked it together.
"I should be saying that to you." Black Heart said, sword in hand, "Surrender now, or die uselessly by the hand of a CPU!"
Nepgear couldn't believe what she was hearing, Noire sounded completely heartless. Doesn't she know what she's saying.
"Give her no quarter!" A hail of bullets were sent towards her directions, rifles, pistols, and snipers were shot on to her general location. Yet, all of it was stopped by a shield that protected her.
"I see. You wish to die then." Black Heart readied her sword. She almost had the urge to laugh as some of the militia and soldiers began to run.
"Not on my watch!" Lady Purple Heart appeared and locked blades with Black Heart.
"Neptune." Nepgear said.
"I guess you're intelligence has grown, Neptune. I'm surprised you saw through my ploy." Black Heart's face appeared on a monitor, alongside Purple Heart
"It was obvious from the beginning what you were planning, Noire. Why send a small force into the city so clearly. If it was to spy I either wouldn't have known or find out through a spy of my own, if it was a decoy it would've been something larger."
"Kudos to you Purple Heart, but there is one thing that you didn't anticipate."
"Oh?" Purple Heart questioned as someone came through on the radio.
"Nice to talk to you again Purple Bitch."
"White Heart?"
"Haha. It's nice to see you again."
"Green Heart?"
The faces of all four Goddesses appeared on screen.
"Lastation, Lowee, and Leanbox has formed an alliance to take down Planeptune." Black Heart boasted.
"What?! Vert, I thought you were my ally!"
"I was, but circumstances always change. It would be troublesome to try and take you out after everything is said and done. I'm deciding to do that early."
"You backstabbing bitch."
"That's the type of language I expect Blanc to say, not you of all people.
"Fuck you, Thunder Tits!"
"Now now Blanc, we're allies."
"Yeah, for now anyways."
Nepgear was a bit too engrossed in their conversation.
"Multiple planes inbound! Lastation, Leanbox, and Lowee are heading towards Planeptune." A comms person said.
"There's men and vehicles from all of the other nations converging onto Planeptune. We're going to be trapped! Our men on the border were destroyed."
"Witness the fall of Planeptune, Purple Heart!" Black Heart shouted.
Purple Heart growled as Black Heart kicked her away and started to fly away, obviously baiting her to follow.
Before she did however, "Kane. Commence operation PTP."
Kane looked as though he grew a wicked smile. He actually did grow one!
"Yes, my Lady."
Purple Heart took off before Nepgear could even question her sister.
"We need to divert that armored reinforcement to the base of Planeptune Tower. It's going to be a tough battle." Kane began to issue commands, Nepgear waited for him to say something to her.
"What do you need me to do?"
Kane ushered her to get up, to which she did. She ended up following him out of the room and down a rather dark hallway. She could've sworn she saw a red and black scorpion tail symbol in a triangle in the hall.
"Where are we going?"
"Where are you going?"
"What?"
Nepgear felt the man forcibly grab her by the shoulder. He was a lot stronger than he looked. She let out a small yelp as she was suddenly thrown into a cramped tube.
"What are you doing?!"
"Step one of PTP."
Kane closed the door on Nepgear, she could hear him entering something on a keypad. She was left in a dark cramped space.
"PTP?"
"Operation: Peace Through Power."
Nepgear didn't know why, but she felt as though he has said that many times before. Not just in rehearsal either.
"I have to protect Planeptune or everyone will die!"
"You can't kill the Messiah."
"Wh-"
Nepgear felt the cramped and dark tube, simply put, launch, at an incredible speed. It didn't take long for her to black out.
…...
"-Wake up."
Was it really all just a dream. It all felt so real. Too real. Impossibly real.
"-Wake up."
Nepgear popped out her drowsiness, expecting to be in bed, but the second she opened her eyes she saw a cracked sky.
"Yo, you awake yet?" She turned her head to the side to see a woman with orange hair and a strange outfit.
"Where-"
"I found ya inside this tube thing that crash landed. There was also this thing right next to it. It was called an M-C-V. It's right over there." The orange haired woman spoke in a brash manner, she pointed towards a vehicle that looked kind of like a giant bug.
Nepgear was honestly confused, but before that she still had her manners, "Sorry. My name is Nepgear. What's your name?"
The woman smiled and pointed towards herself, "I'm Uzume Tennouboshi. Yeah, it's badass, I know."
….
"Hey, uh. Where the hell is Lady Purple Sister? She was supposed to be here hours ago."
"Not only that our MCV's gone too."
"How're we going to do Operation PTP now?!"
"I don't know. Without either Purple Sister or the MCV. Planeptune will be lost, to be vindicated by the pages to history."
"Aw… Fffffffffffffffffffff-"
"Damnit!"
…..
After so long I have updated this (one shot) story. It came back to me after being reminded of the awesomeness of Command and Conquer. Where the plot goes, no one knows!
Unit: Newest Planeptune MCV. An MCV designed to build structures containing experimental weapons and objects. It consists of a blend of Planeptune, Lowee, Lastation, and Leanbox designs and some reverse engineered machinations. In the case of a lack of live humans, robots will be made to suffice for an army.
Quotes:
"Where do you want me?"
"We have the tech of all the nations."
"Beep Boop, I am a robot."
"Listen to the sounds of your own extinction."
*Actual beeping noise.*
"Good choice for a build spot."
"We must acquire new lands."
"Can't do that."
"Nope."
"You need to build in a good enough space."