Author's Note: Whoa, this story has over a thousand views, that makes me feel really small, yet it's quite nice to know people are still reading this story. That aside, it is time to find out what will become of Noire, what's the deal with Neptune, where did I leave my sock, it's getting cold!
"Damn it, you win again." Blanc collapsed into the couch as she let her controller fall onto her thigh. Vert meanwhile was sitting with a triumphant smile etched onto her face as she had just destroyed, not even beat, utterly destroyed Blanc in a match of Murphio Fiesta. "When did you get so good at those mini games anyway?"
"Well you see, before you moved in, Nepgear and Uni would occasionally come and visit so we often spent our time playing various party games." The busty blonde smiled a jubilant smile as she spoke, recalling the sweet memories of all the times she played with the young girls and how they would cutely groan and moan whenever they lost. "Speaking of Nepgear, I find it a little odd how her so-called "big" sister is so much shorter than her."
"Oh that, it's a classic case of Red & Green syndrome."
"Red and Green syndrome?"
"No no, It's Red & Green syndrome."
"Oh... That doesn't make much sense, but please continue."
"It's a terrifying disease where the younger sibling eventually overtakes the elder in terms of height and physical capabilities. The most well-known cases are the Murphio Bros. as well as the Elris brothers from Full Iron Chemist."
"I see, it truly is an interesting disease... speaking of Full Iron Chemist, I recently bought the full set."
"Is it a Purple Ray Disc?" Blanc sat up with great gusto and enthusiasm was absolutely dripping from her voice, much like a child in a bakery... and everything was free... my gosh.
"But of course, only the best for me and my cute little Blanczerker." With a teasing smile the busty blonde was quite enjoying all of the different colors that flashed on Blanc's face as she recalled just how she got that nickname. Blanczerker indeed.
"I thought you agreed not to call me that again." Who knew that Blanc of all people could look so bashful, truly Vert is as deadly a foe worthy of her massive chest. "Besides, I apologized for breaking the telephone pole, how was I even supposed to know that bones aren't supposed to bend that way, I was only 5 for crying out loud! And besides, does anyone even care about how I felt?! It hurt damn it!"
"Aww, is my little Blanny getting upset again, don't worry, your beloved Verty poo cares." With those words spoken, the girl placed a quick peck onto the smaller girl's cheek. "You're so cute when you're upset, Now then, I'd like to check on the news before we start our all-night FIC marathon if that's alright with you."
"Yeah sure, whatever."
And so, Vert switched over to the news channel, and as the two listened to the message playing their eyes widened slightly... only slightly.
"And so after being kidnapped, the young girl was able to escape her captors by jumping out of the car and undoing her restraints with a knife she had taken before escaping. Even though she chose not to give a name, she was more than happy to share her story with the police as they arrived on scene. Supposedly this girl was on a date with a friend when the group in black suits showed up and took her for seemingly no reason."
"... Hey Thunder Tits, wasn't Noire supposed to be out on a date with Neptune today?"
"Y-yes, but it could have been anyone... though maybe we should call tomorrow just to be sure."
"Furthermore, the group that abducted the young girl have been identified as ASIC, a dangerous group of international criminals. Their presence here can only signal bad news for everyone, so we must please urge everyone to be careful whenever they go outside during nighttime. The police are currently working with the FBI so as to determine what their goals are, and why they may have kidnapped this young girl."
The rest of the night was spent mostly in silence, with only the occasional comment about how it was going to be fine as they watched FIC. However, the truth of what happened to Noire that night would soon be known to them by the evening of the next day.
A Few Hours Earlier
"Neptune, if you're going to go after her, now would be a good time."
"R-right." The voice served to bring Neptune out of her thoughts as she looked around to assess the situation. As she looked around, she spotted someone familiar... hey it's the granny bike lady. "Hey it's the granny bike lady!" I just said that. Well anyway, Neptune's voice had caught the rider's attention as she turned to look at the purple-haired girl. The rider was apparently watching the scene unfold while still mounted on her beloved "Pegasus" bike and was quite taken aback by Neptune's voice. "Let me use your bike."
"Eh, excuse me?" Now she was even more taken aback as she heard the purple pranksters words. "Why should I-" Her words quickly died out as she saw the fire in Neptune's eyes and hastily got off and offered her bike to the young girl. "T-take care of it."
Neptune nodded as she jumped on, and in a matter of seconds...
*ZOOM!* "Whoa!"
The girl took off like a speeding bullet, but not like a normal bullet, more like a bullet that wasn't at all affected by the wind. It looked as if the girl was going even faster than its former rider ever could, it was like... it was like watching a missile, a speeding purple missile.
"What the goodness?!"
"I think I felt that!"
Meanwhile, the dynamic duo of Nepgear and Uni could only watch in awe and shock as the girl sped out of sight. They were watching the scene unfold as they shared the binoculars (that's gotta be really awkward for the two of them).
"How did she so that?! Is your sister an olympic athlete or something?!"
"I don't know! And could you please stop yelling, my ears are ringing!"
"O-oh r-right, sorry."
"No no, it's fine, you just surprised me is all." Those two are really quick to make up, nevertheless, they quickly shifted their attention back to the purple prankster known as Neptune who was now waaaay out of their line of sight.
"What should we do now then?"
"... I'm gonna call mom, I think she should know this." As the purple sister pulled out her phone she couldn't help but think about the events that she had just witnessed. 'Sis... is there something you're not telling us...? Please be okay...'
Meanwhile back on the Nep side of things, the speeding girl grabbed her makeshift "sheath" after taking her hands of the bike. Normally this would be a dangerous thing to do, but Neptune was still somehow able to avoid traffic as she got out her trusty bokuto and quickly put its "sheath" back onto her back (thanks to the magic of shoulder straps). After the violin case was back on her back, she took a moment to look at her sword, it had a blue ribbon with pink stripes on it tied around it. As she gazed at the ribbon she thought back on just what it meant to her.
"Never again, nope, no neppin' way am I gonna lose anyone ever again!" With her determination rising along with her speed (I'm surprised she's not on fire right now) she set her sights on her target, the black car carrying her princess off to another castle.
"I'm comin' to get you Noirey, just wait for me!" Her strategy for retrieving her date? Simple. Imma hit them real hard and see what happens... or something like that.
"This is going way better than we thought it would Judge." The large bellied Trick was feeling absolutely joyous, why he could just squeal... though he'd probably get made fun of if he did.
"Damn it Trick, I told you to call me boss." On the other hand, Judge was being a real sourpuss, the two were just going on and on about random stuff ever since they started the car.
"Yeah yeah whatever, I'm sure that the others'll be thrilled now that we have a clue to where Magic is."
"It'd be so much easier if the skank just came back to work for us."
"Well we did kinda... y'know."
"Hey, the boss told us to do it! Besides, she still took the oath to follow her no matter what."
"Uuuhhh boss, you might wanna take a look at this." A girl in the back seat spoke up, she was clearly a lackey whose only purpose was to watch Noire's unconscious body.
"The hell do you want?"
"I-It looks like a little girl is chasing us on a bicycle, and she's catching up really quickly too."
*DING DING*
"The hell are you talkin' about?" The man lowered the window to take a peek and was met with the sight of a purple haired loli wielding a wooden sword chasing after them on a granny bike (is it on fire yet?... no... okay). Needless to say, Judge was quite taken aback. "No way... is that who I think it is? It couldn't be!"
"What's up judge? Who is it?"
"There's an abandoned factory nearby, or at least I think, stop the car there and grab your weapons all of you!"
"Mmmmph." At the moment the car stopped Noire had finally reawakened and was once again being dragged around and was tossed onto the dirt only to witness a truly strange scenario.
"Phew, I'm glad you guys finally stopped, I wasn't sure if I could keep going like that." There, standing in the moonlight with glowing beautiful purple eyes stood the indomitable Neptune.
"Ehhhhh?!" Noire's muffled cries did not go unnoticed by Neptune as the girl waved a hand and gave her a reassuring smile that said "Everything's gonna be okay you sexy thang" (in her own head at least). To Noire it said "Hi I'm the idiot who brought a wooden sword to a gunfight."
"Looks like our little hostage is awake, not like it really makes a difference." Judge was staring at her intensely, almost like he was being cautious of something.
"Oh, I hate to do this to such a cute loli, but at least I can take solace in that you're a teenager." Trick was looking less than psyched, he really did like loli's too, of all kinds.
Even as their small group held out their firearms and katanas, Neptune stared them down like a bird of prey about to swoop down. Unflinching, she held up her wooden sword in her left hand and put her left foot slightly behind her. Noire was very confused and more than a little worried, her stance, if it could even be called that, made it look like she didn't care enough to really guard herself properly, she just held up her sword with one hand while the other was at her side. It was like she wanted to di-
*CLANG CLANG CLINK*
Nobody was sure what had just happened, one second Neptune was just standing there, the next one of the goons is falling down with a broken katana landing next to them, you know the usual. And with that everyone's jaws essentially hit the floor and all eyes widened to a comical degree.
"EHHHH?!" Holy canoli that was perfectly in sync.
*SMACK*
And another one bites the dust, leaving only Judge and Trick to fend off the apparently badass Neptune.
"HAAAAA!" Trick was the first to take action and charged the purple haired loli with incredible speed and swung his sword at her ribs.
*CLANG SMACK* Sadly all he got out of his maneuver was a broken sword and a lot of intimacy with the edge of a wooden one.
"Next, I'm really rusty so sorry if I don't move very-"
"I give up, you win!" Luckily for everyone, Judge wasn't as stupid as Trick and promptly dropped his gun and put his hands up as a signal of defeat.
"Coolios, now if I see ya guys around her again then I'm gonna introduce you to my real sword and you're gonna like it. Now scram bub... I've always wanted to say that." Judge was surprisingly quick in stuffing all of his goons into the car, he didn't bother with their weapons, but he didn't really want to dawdle for fear of recieving a smack to the face. Neptune on the other hand was feeling pretty darn good about herself, in fact if Noire wasn't in need of rescuing she'd probably be doing a little dance right about now.
"Mmmmmmph." Luckily Noire's voice broke her out of her trance and the purple haired loli ran over to untie her, remove the gag.
"Noirey!" And promptly proceeded to tackle her into a huge hug as she started crying a little, though whether or not it was out of joy or worry had yet to be seen, though it was probably a little bit of both.
"Whoa! Ow."
"Whoops, sorry I didn't mean to hurt you are you okay?"
"Y-yeah, I'm fine... are you?" It was certainly a strange sight to see Neptune looking so vunerable and concerned, but if Noire had to guess she'd probably assume that Neptune went through something similar to what Noire did in the past.
"Yeppers, I was really worried about you, don't do that ever again! I'm never going out with you again if you do!"
"Huh?" Well at least she was back to normal, or at least as normal as one can get with Neptune, but that aside, Noire had some questions that she wanted answers to. "Well whatever, so do you mind telling me how you single-handedly took down all those goons."
"Oh that... uh... well." Nep's response to that question was rather odd, she was just poking her fingers together and trying to think of the best way to explain her... situation. "Well you see, back when I was in Italy I got invovlved with some people and one thing led to another and uhmm... I'm supposed to be the next head of a mafia family."
"... Uhhh, Noire, you in there"
"Eh... Ehhh... EEEEEHHHHHHHH?! HOW? WHY? SINCE WHEN?"
"Oh come on Noirey, someone has to take over for my mom."
"... ... ... EEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHH?!"
You may call her Don Nep. Well there you have it, ONE of Neptune's secrets has been revealed, but there are still quite a few that have not. And by a few I mean like... two or so, well whatever there are more important things to watch out for. Anyways, since I'm running out of things to say for the Author's notes I might just start cutting those out altogether, though if people say otherwise I might be willing to change my mind.