A few days after Desmond arrived Compa declared him good enough to move around and about. As he walked out of the room it was still early and neither Neptune or Nepgear was awake. So he decided to go make breakfast, he made his way to the kitchen, got a few things together and got to work. He decided to make pancakes, bacon and eggs, simple but a classic. When he was almost done Nepgear walked in.
"Hi Desmond, I didn't expect to see you up so early." Nepgear said with a warm smile.
"Good morning Nepgear, ya I woke up a little earlier than usual so I decided to make breakfast." He said as he turned to look at her "I'm almost done so if you want to sit down I'll be done in a couple of minutes."
"Ok." She said as she took a seat at the table.
But before Gear could say anything else an explosion of noise came from nowhere and of course it was Nep.
"Hey Nep jr! What's for breakfast?" as Nep walked in she saw Desmond cooking she was a little bit surprised. "Hey Dez I didn't know you cooked."
"Ya, I started to learn when I was young. It was good to know for when my parents were out." Desmond replied.
"It smells great can't wait for it to be done." Nep cheered as she walked next to Desmond.
"and it's almost done so go ahead and sit, I'll bring you some in a moment. I'm also doing this as thanks for letting me stay here." He said to Nep as she walked to the table.
Neptune turned around and said "You don't have to do it as thanks, but I'm not going to tell you to stop."
"It's done." Dez called out as he turned off the stove.
"Whew, that was great, I'm stuffed." Neptune cheerfully said as she thru her arms behind her head to stretch.
"Yes that was good Desmond." Nepgear game him a bright smile.
"Thanks you two." He replied with a smile. 'Although Neptune at about 90% of it, even what I made in case IF and Compa came by.' He thought as he sweat dropped.
"Hey Dez, let's play a game." Nep quickly started to pull Desmond by his arm. Which left Nepgear to clean up.
"H-hey don't pull me, I haven't even agreed." Although he didn't necessarily like being pulled he wasn't go to argue with playing a game. "Okay, what do you want to play?" He asked with a neutral expression.
"Hmmmm… let's play this one." Pulling up a game case. "It's an exclusive from Lowee, it's one the plumber guy's racing games." Nep starts to put in the game and hands Dez a controller. "Here, your player two of course."
"Ok" He took the controller and thought 'This looks very similar to…'
"Hey! Dez! Pick your character!" Neptune shouted as she waved her hands at him causing him to stop his train of thought.
He ended up choosing the main character the plumber in red himself. Nep had already chosen a princess looking character and was now choosing a track to play on. She picked a track that was set in a desert, she set the game to just the two of them and no cpu players. Throughout the race they were both neck and neck, but half way through the final lap Neptune had used a star power to hit Desmond into of the track slowing him. Fortunately, he was able to get a triple boost to help him gain speed. As they were making their way to the final stretch of the track, Dez picked up an item as it was spinning Nep was a good thirty seconds to victory. Neptune inching closer to the finish line Dez threw the one item that infuriated anyone that ever played the game, the dreaded blue shell. After the explosion Dez flew pass Nep and secured the win.
"Nepuuuu, I call cheats, hacks, there's no way that you should have gotten that!" Nep shouted while pointing at the boy sitting next to her.
"Hey don't be a sore loser because the game decided that I should win." He rebutted with a smirk on his face.
"Rematch, I want a rematch now!" Nep yelled while getting close to the boy and poking his chest.
"Ok, ok, just stop poking me and sit down." He said with a slight sweat drop.
After about forty-five minutes later and they each won nine races each, Nepgear started watching after about the third race. The track they were on now was in space and had rainbow colors everywhere on the track and one could easily fall off it. Early on Nep nocked Desmond off the track and hit with a few items so he was playing catch up.
"Stop throwing those shells Dez! They're annoying and the game gives you too many!" Neptune cries out with a face of concentration stuck toward the screen while Dez pelted her with red shells over and over.
"But it's to fun to knock down an opponent, especially when I'm so close to taking the lead." Desmond pointed out with a smile across his face.
"I don't care… hey no don't do that… noooooo!" The purple headed CPU screamed as her avatar was knocked off the track by Dez while going around the final turn and thus Desmond won. "Nooooo!"
"Yes! Ha ha I win!" The boy said with a large smile looking at the girl next to him.
"You cheated again there is no way I would lose to you for ten times." The CPU pouted as she glared at him with angry eyes, after a couple of seconds she tried to jump him but he noticed just in time to dodge as Nep hit the floor behind him. "Oww" she rubbed her head as she was getting back up.
"Hey, be careful before you hurt someone. It shouldn't matter anyway just because you lost to me." He spoke with a slight chuckle in the last part of what he said.
"Hey Neptune you don't need to get all riled up, calm down." Nepgear said with a little worry in her voice.
"Fine" Neptune pouted with her arms crossed.
Suddenly the door opened and two figures walked in.
"Hi Compa, IF" Nepgear declared with a wave toward the two.
"Good morning Ge-Ge, Nep-Nep, Dez."
"Hello everyone."
"How are you doing Compa, Iffy?"
"What's up you two." Desmond said as he stood up and walked toward them. "Hey IF I wondering if you could show me where I could get some weapons around here? Since I appear to be stuck in this universe I might as well help out the best I can, it will also be thanks to you all for helping me and letting me stay here."
"Sure, just after I talk to Histoire for a few minutes." IF said as she made her way to the sharicite room.
IF and Desmond are walking through the Planeptune streets to a local weapons depot.
"How long have you known Neptune?" Desmond asked with his in pockets.
"Umm… lets see, it's been a while now, both Compa and I met both Nep and Gear in the outskirts of Planeptune. Compa and I were walking and out of nowhere something falls out of the tree in front of us, it was Nep of course, Gear came out from the side of the tree worried. Compa walked over to Nep and patched her up, after that we all became good friends." IF answered as she looked over at the boy.
"Ha, ya that sounds like something Neptune would do." He chuckled with a smile "You work for the guild right?"
"Yes I do, I often report to Histoire about the guilds activities." She said "Here's the place I'll pay for anything you need."
"Thanks." The boy replied.
The building looked sleek from the outside like the rest of the buildings in Planeptune covered in white and purple. The inside of the weapons shop had dark colors throughout it, mainly black, grey and silver. There were weapons everywhere, from CQC items such as knives and swords to long ranged items like guns, bows, and launchers.
"Wow! That's a big inventory they have here, I'm going to scan around before choosing the class of weapon I want." Dez said to IF with a glint in his eyes, to him he was like a kid in a candy store, just if the kid was older and the store dangerous items that could kill things.
"Ok, just don't take too long I want to check your skills on a quest later." IF called out to the boy as he started walking away from her.
"Ya, sure, I'll try not to take forever." He replied.
About fifty minutes later the two of them left the store. Desmond had gotten two beam sabers, even though he loves real swords he thought that it would be better for him to use something with less mass so he could move faster. He also saw a great assortment of both energy based and traditional based ammo guns, he ended up choosing a m1911 with extended mags. He walked away with a large grin on his face.
After going to the guild they IF picked up a simple quest to test the newbie's skills. They had made their way to the Virtual Forest to kill some dogoos. On the way over IF taught Dez how to summon and put away equipment. After walking in the forest for about ten minutes they came across the first dogoo.
"There's one, that's a dogoo now go and show me what you can do." IF commanded the boy.
He shook his head and walked forward and materialized one of his sabers and took a fencing like stance with his left arm behind his back as he closed in on the target. The dogoo took notice of him and charged toward him, Dez side stepped and did so a few more times before slapping the dogoo to the side as it charged him. He then lunged forward toward the gelled dog and stabbed it a few times before slicing it in half.
IF impressed that he seemed to know how to fight more then he let on started to walk toward him "Not bad, for a newbie." She said with a smug face.
"Hey come on, sure it was really weak and all but still." He retorted with a slight frown but a small chuckle as well. "All well, lets go find some more monsters to kill."
A little while later they came across four more dogoos and again Desmond walked out and materialized his beam saber, this time though he took a different stance. This time he stood feet shoulder length apart with his sword to his side. He darted toward the group of dogoos, as he came across the first one he sliced across it horizontally. Another one jumped at him, he then slid under it and stabbed the one now in front of him. After killing the second dogoo he then punched the one to his left and backstabbed the one behind him. As the dogoo that was punched came out of its daze it was being slashed with an X pattern by the boy.
"TO YOUR LEFT!" The boy shouted to IF as a dogoo appeared seemingly out of nowhere. Before he could turn he materialized his pistol and shot the enemy while it was flying toward IF in midair with three bullets.
All IF saw as she turned to look at the mass of gel only five feet from her as it was shot and turned into code and disappear. She looked at the only other person there as he finally turned to look at her as he dematerialized his gun. "H-how did y-you… hit it flawlessly three times without even looking?" IF asked with surprise.
"well… after years of sports and video games, I kind of have a sixth sense now and can usually notice a person or in this case monster nearby due to subtle changes near me. And as for hitting those shots, it's a little bit due to reflexes from video games to snap onto a target and years of shooting guns to stay accurate while firing at quick speeds." He replied as he walked toward IF.
"I admit that much was impressive, it looks like the quest is done so let's head back." She said while walking toward the exit of the dungeon and the boy followed suit.
"Ok, it feels good to work out a little." He said with his hands behind his head.
About ten minutes into their way back a giant dogoo popped up and started to slowly move toward them.
"Hey IF I might need a little help on this one, it looks a more challenging then the small ones. This should be fun." He said as a half-smile came across his face.
"Sure, I wasn't going to let you take care of it by yourself anyway." She replied while materializing her weapons.
"Ouch, do you not trust me Iffy?" He replied with a teasing tone as he laughed.
"Ya, ya, ya, whatever lets just kill it." She replied with a slightly unamused attitude.
"Ok, fine by me, let's go." Dez said as he brought both of his swords to his hands and dashed forward.
As the two ran toward the giant dogoo they went to the opposite sides of each other to attack, Dez noticed how fast IF was, as he approached the gel giant he sped up his attacks and added more ferocity into each slash. After about a minute of hacking at the monster IF called out to Desmond. "Back up for a moment!" he did as she commanded she then proceeded to shout "Demon Flames!" fire suddenly was all over the gelatinous mass and caused it to die and turn into a small ball of code and disappeared.
"Wow, that was a nice trick there. I didn't know you could use magic here." Dez said as he walked over to her.
"Ya, most of the CPU's use attack and supportive magic but humans can also use it. Also there is only so much one person can use due to how much SP one has. SP is kind of like one's inner energy that is used when someone uses a non-physical move." IF answered.
"Interesting." The boy said as he rubbed his chin taking in the information.
"Well, let's head back." IF called out to the boy as she walked away from him.
The two were walking back to the basilicom after turning in the quest at the guild. While they were walking IF noticed something.
"Hey, did you notice that your right eye is multi colored?" she asked while looking at him.
"Ya, it's blue and the bottom half is brown. It's been like that since I was little." He replied.
"By the way, where did you learn you to fight?" IF asked with an upraised eyebrow.
"My brothers and I used wooden swords and plastic sabers to fight each other. I learned some forms of swordplay through that and I also did some fencing in school. That's why I chose the beam sabers because they feel more natural in a fight since they are light weight so I can increase my speed during a battle." Dez said with a hand on his chin.
"Hmm, ok, but how do you learn so much by yourself though?" she replied.
"Well after a while of fighting I was able to follow a weapon instinctively and act accordingly, so that's what I do for defense. As for offense I have multiple forms of combat that I use which each have a different set of moves that I can use." The boy said back, he never really thought about how he fought, he more or less just did it.
"Ok, well at least I know you can handle yourself." She said as she turned her head from his direction.
"I had fun today we should go on some more quests sometime." He said with a smile.
"Sure, I go on quests often so whenever you want to join me just give me a shout." She said as they walked back into the basilicom.
When they walked into the residential part of the building they were met with a short purple haired girl. "Hey Iffy, Dez. How was your date?" The little CPU said with a wry smile and a teasing laugh.
"W-what are you saying Nep, we just went to do a quest." IF said slightly flustered while shooting a glare at Neptune.
Desmond walked over to Neptune and flicked her on the forehead "Don't say things that'll upset people Neptune."
"Oww." She rubbed her forehead "Fine." She said as she stuck her tongue out at the boy. "Dez, Histoire said that since your new here she wants me to show you the other nations in case you want to live somewhere else, so tomorrow we are going to Lowee." The purple hair CPU smiled and walked to her couch to play games.
"Ok, I look forward to it." Dez said. He had barely been outside of the basilicom much less Planeptune so he thought it would be fun. After eating dinner, he decided to head to bed a little early so he could be energized for the coming trip.
I'm trying to get to the actual storyline for rebirth 2, so the first few chapters might feel a little rushed. Or at least they do to me. But I still want to create a foundation for the oc with the other characters, for the fact that he will be around during the three-year absence of the CPUs.
I hope you all enjoyed this chapter, also feel free to review and let me know how I'm doing.
