All The World's Evil: The Scapegoat
"Captain! Our Goddess has ordered you to bring the delivery girl to her personal chambers"
"She isn't even conscious yet… not that she cares anyway" The Captain sighed, giving the poor girl on the bed a sympathetic glance, she was still out cold and breathing rather ragged even after a day. He cringed at the reports his men submitted on the high inertia of the convoy they had to bring in that day. How did she even find strength to move the damn thing anyway? "Alright, take her away, wouldn't want to keep our Goddess waiting would we?"
After taking her into the medical ward for immediate hydration, the Captain had sent his men off to get drunk off their asses. He stayed to look over her for that night, unable to look at the two good soldiers that had to die for no other reason than to please their CPU. The guilt would eventually drown him, he knew this, but he'd never be able to live with himself if he at least did not do his duty, no matter how twisted it had become.
"Yes, Captain!" The messenger took command of two nearby soldiers and a stretcher, leading them and the unconscious girl to the Tyrant CPU's quarters.
"She's not even as old as my own baby girl…"
All The World's Evil: The Scapegoat
"My Goddess, I have the delivery girl with me, she is not awake yet however." The messenger wrapped his hands around his arms to keep from fidgeting, he could no show weakness, even though the visual barrier that was the door.
"I see, leave the girl outside. You are dismissed."
She looked around her room, ensuring that every luxury that deserved to be in her presence was placed properly. The corners were lined with platinum, the walls fragrant oak boards that made up her room's walls were reinforced with a specially treated metal that kept the air cool and fresh, but there were no windows that could allow a wandering eye to peek inside this haven. The furniture was something much more advanced than those of the citizens of Planeptune, nothing less for their goddess would do: Holographic tables, collapsible massage chairs, a bed that matched the consistency of the clouds, and voice operated rooms that hid themselves when not in use. Everything was extravagant, and would most likely make the common citizen vomit blood at such needless splurging on sight. But she was not a common citizen.
She was the CPU of Planeptune, their Goddess.
With a single command, the door to her personal chambers opened, the carpet below dragging the unconscious form of the girl on it. The seemingly simple carpet then stopped at the CPU's bare feet hanging off her bed. She smiled as the girl seemed to groan into alertness.
"W-where am I?" Her dirtied, hooded form seemed to nervously peek out, but retracted just as quickly upon feeling the carpet. She brushed her hands over it like it was a pet "So, soft…"
"It is isn't it?" She let an amused smile form on her lips as the girl seemed to freeze at her voice, slowly looking up, but still unable to see through the shadow that covered her features. She stumbled, backing away at their proximity, or rather her feet. Still it was amusing enough to let her continue, "Welcome to my personal quarters… my new toy"
"T-toy?" The girl couldn't think much, as all her thoughts were focused on escape. She could not stay here, she had to get out from this gilded cage and back to her farm. Even if there was a ratty farm waiting for her outside and half a continent to cross, her daughter was waiting for her. She could not stay here, no matter how much she wanted "M-my Goddess! P-please reconsider this, I'm sure you would not be interested in such an immature body like mine"
"Your eyes"
"M-my Goddess?"
"I can see a passion burning in them, a love for something. Although I may not be able to see your eyes, I can feel it. I do not care for your body" She slid off the bed, her silk night-dress leaving little to the imagination in way of form and transparency. Suddenly the girl felt intense pain from her head, and realized she was being stepped on. Desperately, she tried to pry off the foot, unaware that such an effort was not even noticeable to the Goddess. "I enjoy finding strong wills… and breaking them!"
"P-please, My G-goddess! I-I cannot simply leave my business! My daughter is-! Realizing the slip of her tongue, she clamped down hard enough on it to draw blood. The pressure on her head abated, but the cold pit in her stomach simply made her prefer the pain instead.
"You have a daughter? At this age? Interesting…" The curiosity and maliciousness of the woman's voice sent an involuntary shiver down the girl's spine, but this one was not for her.
"M-my apologies for my earlier r-rudeness My Goddess! I will gladly be your toy, please, just-ack!"
Her request was cut off by a vicious kick to her ribs, causing her to curl up in a fetal position and endure the agony. She hacked and cough, several droplets of blood spraying from what amounted to a nudge to the Goddess. The girl raised her hooded head to see the said goddess with a snarl marring her beautiful features. "You dare make demands of me?"
A flip from her leg, but it felt like tossed around by a rampaging Phoenix.
"You do NOT make demands from your Goddess!"
A heel pressed into her shoulder, and she felt it dislocate painfully.
"I've been forgiving since you were new… but it seems you like to take advantage of that isn't that right?"
The next shoulder blade dislocated slowly, but her scream was cut off when her open mouth found the same foot that did caused it, inside. All she could do was try to grab the tyrant's silk-padded foot before it dislocated her jaw as well. The fact that both her arms were dislocated hindered more than helped the fact.
"Just for this, I am going to find your little daughter and make her my toy as well!"
"No!" Finally finding the strength to fight back upon hearing the danger her daughters were in, she bit down on the foot, hard. Even that resistance crumbled when the annoyed Goddess pushed her foot down, dislocating the smaller girl's jaw painfully. She then went limp, having fallen unconscious from the shock of three dislocations in a row.
"Disgusting" As she removed her saliva-soaked foot from the girl's mouth, she spotted a strand of deep violet hair poking out from under the hood. She paid it no heed however, before calling her personal guards to carry the ragdoll-ed girl away to the infirmary. The guard looked understandably nervous as he was called into the room to pick the body up. He kept himself low and scarce as he did so. She would let him live for understanding his place beneath her. "Take her to the infirmary, and tell the Captain to assemble his unit, he is to head to Ocean's edge and find that girl's 'daughter', am I understood?"
"Yes, My Goddess"
All The World's Evil: The Scapegoat
"Kei~ Are we there yet! My foot is really sore!"
"Uni, please be patient, we are only here to set up an agreement with one of the town's most reputable fresh produce merchant. She is a good person, I'm sure you'll like her" A woman with neck-length silver hair and a casual butler uniform replied. Her pants and hair were short and tomboyish, were it not for her delicate features, she might have been mistaken for a pretty boy. It was quite a common mistake for the citizens of Lastation to make even after countless millennia as an Oracle. "She has a shop at the very edge of Ocean's Edge, where do you think I always disappear to on the weekends?"
Tilting her head to the side, the raven, waist-length, pigtailed haired beauty with crimson eyes, fair skin and a black dress with white circular decorations paused to think. This gave the Oracle some breathing room, well at least until they reached Ocean's edge.
"Eh, why are there Planeptune Knights here? Isn't this neutral territory, I mean this place doesn't even sell any Pudding! Why would Neptune even try to do this?" Uni ran ahead of her Oracle upon seeing the men in Planeptune's colors and advanced technology she didn't even pretend to understand. Two stood by the gate, while countless others were seemingly interrogating the merchants. Both parties seemed rather agitated and reluctant, even the guards seemed to brighten up at her approach rather than look wary. Something wasn't right.
"L-lady Uni!" The two guards stood up straight and made a crisp salute as they exclaimed her name for everyone to hear. Uni felt her ego getting stroked, she never got such treatment back in Lastation that was for sure! Maybe she could convince her sister to stay over for a while…
"What in Gamindustri is going on here?" Her Oracle approached the two guards, and they immediately began spilling. Not something regular guard would do. Either they were undisciplined, or ordered to, so what was going on? When she tried to go in, the two blocked her path, albeit reluctantly.
"I'm sorry Oracle, but this town is in lockdown. We cannot allow anyone to leave or enter, tough you will be allowed free passage once we are finished" His tone was professional, but there was a clear sign of reluctance. Their slackened grip on their weapons indicated such, as well as their eyes. Kei say something.
They were pleading.
"Look, just need to go in, meet with someone, and then leave. This is Neutral territory as well, on whose power are you even here anyway?"
The guard seemed to sneer as he responded, it dripped with sarcasm, "Planeptune's CPU of course, who else?"
"Neptune? Why would she go through this much trouble to secure the village? This place has never even heard of Pudding!" Uni stepped up, but her determined expression immediately turned into confusion, mirroring the soldier's own.
"Y-you don't know?" He seemed about to break down, his face a mixture of emotions flashing too quickly to set identify. "H-how? It's been several eons since-"
"Come on, keep still you brat!"
"Wah! Mama, help me!"
The cry of an infant distracted the guard from his speech, but Kei filed it away for future references. She looked past the Guards to see a highly decorative Knight- probably the Captain- struggling to keep two small bundles from escaping his arms, one was draped in bright yellow wraps, while the other was a lighter shade of purple. It was very clear who they were, even as infants.
Plutia and Peashy.
How they were even infants when their bodies were already in their teens by now was a mystery, but that was for another time. Right now, another matter was at hand.
"Hey, just what are you guys doing? Let them go, don't you recognize them!" Uni was now angry at the way the two infants were crying, she needed to free them. Neptune may not like her for this, but the air head she knew would never do this! "Let me through!"
"I'm sorry lady Uni, but we are almost done. Once we have left he town, we can let you in" His fist was clenched as he said this, and looking past him, many of the soldiers seemed reluctant to view their struggling captain. They knew it was wrong, good. "Our CPU, Nep-"
"Uni, change of plans. Transform and take the girls form the captain. After I will hold them off, while we retreat to Lastation to Inform Black Heart of this matter." In a sudden flash of light, Uni had changed into her Goddess form, swooping down and taking the two infants from the Captain. They immediately settled down. "I've got them!"
"After them!" At the Captain's order, there was a stampede of soldiers as they rushed to the fleeing pair, the Oracle had decided to wisely escape as well.
"I thought you were going to hold them off?"
"There's too many, I can't hold them all off without killing some!"
"Then keep running!"
The Planeptune Knights Charged relentlessly, not even pausing for a break in their mad sprint. Not one lagged behind despite their mortal bodies keeping pace with two immortals. They knew that they would die should they return empty handed, Lastaion was a preferable alternative.
"Kei, they are catching up! Grasp on to me!"
"Uni, I can't, it will slow you down!"
"I can see Lastation's borders just up ahead, we'll be safe as soon as our own Knights see us!" With that, Uni lifted the tomboyish Oracle just enough that they reached the border. Lastation Knight did see them, and their pursuers, reinforcement were called, and the outnumbered Planeptune Knight surrendered without a fight.
Now a large group approached Lastation, the Captain walking between Uni and Kei, unarmed. His posture seemed relieved for some reason.
"Now, I was told that we missed something for eons from one of your men" Kei suddenly asked, her eyes boring into the Captain's own, "One of your men was about to spill something crucial, when I asked about your CPU, Neptune"
He stiffened up, but did not let that affect his gait, "Ah, so it is true"
"What is?" Kei was beginning to feel alarmed, what was going on? Even though she had been out to of contact with Planeptune's Oracle for a week or so did not mean-
"It's been seven eons since Neptune last ruled Planeptune as our Goddess" His gaze was sad, and longing, Kei could feel her breath begin hitching at the implication. Similarly, Uni was covering her mouth in morbid shock, horror and confusion all at once. "It was our new CPU who ordered that lockdown"
"Our current Goddess has been the CPU of Planeptune for seven eons"
"Nepgear murdered Neptune and become our current CPU"