LeanBox looks tropical to me...
Is anyone interested in heading for Castelleto? (Forza Horizon 2 reference; by the way, LeanBox is based on the XBOX360 and ONE, so...)
(Nah, I'm just joking, no racing.)
HYPERDIMENSION NEPTUNIA
FIGHTING FOR THE GAMING FUTURE
Chapter 4: The Tropical LeanBox
The wind here is OVERWHELMING... But beautiful nonetheless.
What would you expect from a seaside town like LeanBox? We were already walking around when we met Vert through the way. She insisted that she could show us LeanBox. Hazoaki Chika, which is the Oracle of LeanBox, accompanied us.
"I'd say this place is best enjoyed in summer!" I commented.
"True, LeanBox is what you'd call a summer vacation place in one end, but there's also the other." She showed us the place with a huge construction, it was a panel that had 2 turns of 90º in each of them and that firstly went upwards and then downwards. Around it, there was a huge city!
"How do you like Gamindustri so far, Noble?" Cyber asked me.
"Ah, it's fun. Feels like this place is an RPG world."
"That's because it's almost like that." Hazoaki Chika said.
"Really?"
"Gamindustri was made so that people could explore and defeat the monsters that may not signify a threat to our land, but at least gives them experience to battle monsters that are really threatening."
"On the On-Line RPGs is almost like that too." That's because players just want to have an On-Line life. Doing what they want, when they want, and even with friends!
"Hi girls!" Another girl came up towards us... Geez, how many girl-friends do they have? And I didn't mean it THAT way.
"Oh, Hi Falcom!" IF greeted the girl, she had red hair and a blue armor, I think...
"Hey, who's the new guy with you?" Falcom asked
"Hisagane Noble! RPG gamer." I presented myself.
"Nice to meet you!" She was rather just like the rest of the girls I met so far...
Beautiful... Yeah, because EVERY girl I meet is THAT BEAUTIFUL.
"LeanBox is a little too big compared to LaStation... And it's a little hotter..." Sure, the heat from the sun right now was moderate, but cool.
"That's because LeanBox is tropical." Vert explained "Since it's very close to a lake, LeanBox tends to have hot days sometimes. But today is rather cooler..."
"Maybe the sun is taking a break?" Everyone laughed at my joke. We were at a restaurant.
"Well, at least it's not like me playing games to take breaks..."
"Dear Sister, will you ever stop talking about games?" Sister?
"Um... Sorry to interrupt here, but I don't think you're her sister, Chika..." I said.
"That is true, I'm not." Chika confirmed "But I still consider Vert my sister because we're very close."
"Oh, Sister-In-Law then." Makes sense if you take Vert and Chika's relationship in account. I mean, Vert told me Chika even MASSAGES her. I don't know why she told me that though.
"Has LeanBox ever thought of creating a hand-held console? Microsoft back at my world still didn't do any portable consoles yet." I commented
"We're planning to do one for the next year, actually!" Vert said. That's good!
"How will it be named?"
"We still haven't decided that, but we want to name it without taking the XBOX name out of it." Of course, because LeanBox is XBOX.
"…I know! How about XBOX Vertigo?" OK, that pun was not needed, but I just couldn't hold it.
"Not taking the pun into account… That's actually a great name!" Vert said happily
"I agree, sister."
"Hey Noble, what XBOX1080 games do you play?" Cyber asks me.
"There are a lot of them; my favorite is Net-Surfer Chaos." Net-Surfer Chaos tells the adventure of a boy who went on the net, literally, to save it from virus monsters, it was something like MegaMan Battle Network, but way different, and it was not an RPG.
I managed to play some XBOX1080 again after I've teleported to this world. I played with Vert on the racing game "High Drive", an XBOX Exclusive game that combines Need for Speed gameplay and Forza Horizon story. We played an online championship and Vert… She's better than I thought… No wonder she is the goddess of LeanBox…
"Wow…" That's the only thing I was able to say after what she did. Surprisingly…
She kissed my cheek saying it was a consolation prize, but… she also hugged me…
"Eek!" I scream when she hugged me "Vert, what the hell are you doing?!"
"Consolation Prize?" She said.
"But not when you're flashing your boobs into me!" I say after I manage to break free of her… chest. She blushes and pushes me away.
After that… weird incident, I managed to talk to the rest of the girls and know them better: CyberConnect2 is actually a mix between a girl and a dog, that's why I was kind of surprised to see a dog tail on her back, and dog ears on her head. IF is a guild agent from Planeptune, and Falcom is an adventurer.
Makes me think what the other girls will be like…
I decided to walk around LeanBox a little to get to know the place, I am harboring some crazy mix of feelings for these girls… Either I'm starting to fall in love or I'm just in need of more female friends. On the spite of my thoughts, I quickly avoid a high kick made by a girl.
"Oh! Sorry! I didn't see you!" But… a girl that can kick?
"Do you fight with your body too?"
"Hmm? Yes, I do, but why are you asking me that?" The girl puts her leg down and I'm finally able to see her. She has black hair, her clothes are mostly red, and she uses a collar with the word "TEKKEN" in it. The name is similar to a fighting game series I used to play: Tekken.
"Whoa… You look like a martial artist!" I comment.
"I do am! Name's Tekken!" …What?
"You're named after a game?" I ask her.
"Pardon?"
"There's a fighting game in my world with the same name: Tekken." I mean… It's weird.
"That's… weird…" See? Even SHE agrees with me! "But why are you surprised I'm a Martial Artist?"
"I'm one too! An RPG one!"
"I'm more from fighting games, so I don't know what RPG means… but maybe you're quite the talk in these kinds of games, right?"
"More or less…" I tell her, it's getting interesting to meet this girl…
"Hey, do you care to have a match with me? I need to train with someone real, not with just a punching bag."
"You're on, then!" I happily get on my fighting stance; this is going to be interesting…
On the next chapter, I will share some updates this story will receive: The OST and remembering the character Roster.
(Play here: Heavy Day – Daisuke Ishiwatari/Guilty Gear Xrd)
We clash the first hit, and then we keep tagging and hitting each other to know our potential, this is training of course. Tekken is surprisingly very good as a martial artist, but I also have my own tricks. Remember: I'm not a one trick pony! Some of the custom fighting moves I have come from various games, most of them from the famous Street Fighter franchise, but there are some martial art moves from other games as well.
"Attack harder!" I tell Tekken before hitting her and sending her back. She attends my motivation and does a 5-hit combo on me, I am launched back, but am alright, then to end the training, we clash one last hit with our hands.
We hear applauses after that.
Surprise! It was IF, Cyber and the rest of the girls, including Vert and Chika.
"Nice fighting!"
"Great job you two!"
"YA-HOO!"
Tekken blushed at that, I think that's ANOTHER GIRL they know.
*sigh* I'm so lucky, aren't I?
It ends! Wow…
Sorry for this hiatus to be SO LONG. I had too many things to worry about!
Next chapter: LoWee.
But wait, there's an intermission before. Noble will encounter… ARFOIRE?! And engage her in battle!