Chapter 44: The battle of the 3 kingdoms.
Now for some reason I am in some dark dirty room, full of rusty chains lying on a metallic table, I also see Neptune, Plutia and Compa there.
"I have managed to ensure Black is now able to respond to our commands, we are able to see him in our sleep and we are able to talk to him while he's asleep." Compa spoke with joy.
"OK but what is wrong then?" Neptune asked irritably.
"Black has been very defiant to our orders, unpredictable at best." The so called medic explained with uncertainty almost worried.
"Why?" Neptune growled.
"He is unusual, few people possess such will, the only subject like him is White, all of our other test subjects have been a lot more successful. They would happily support you and would happily hate Noire as well as to enjoy seeing her get defeated and humiliated." Compa explained in the same tone as before.
"If he will not do as I say, then he is of no use to me, I'll have to see whether he is to die, kept in prison, be one of Plutia's slaves, or perhaps just sent back to Lastation in hopes he will kill Noire. It's a shame he won't obey me because he is such a remarkable soldier." Neptune said.
"I wouldn't mind that, I will make him learn to be more obedient to us, oh I just can't wait to hear how he sounds when I torture some sense into him hmmhmmhmm." Plutia spoke in her Sadie tone.
Does this mean I was already brainwashed before coming here. Did I arrive in Lastation in their hope that I would kill my CPU? I don't know I'm not sure I remember being in prison or captured but all that's on my mind right now is that Purple Heart, Iris Heart, Compa these "girls" must die.
I am now lying down somewhere different but I don't really know where. I know I'm in some room though and I do notice Noire there though standing by my side.
"I know that Neptune is probably giving you more than a headache but I admire you for fighting her in your mind." She said caringly.
"We are family Black, she has had me defeated, portrayed me as a villain and humiliated me lots of times." My own goddess said.
"Just as she has portrayed me to be a bratty little kid who caused much trouble, I too have been portrayed poorly, have been defeated and been humiliated." Uni said with passion.
I then notice her as if she appeared out of nowhere, standing close to me.
"As have I, having me as a tyrant and a collaborator to the Seven Sages. Like my Lastation allies: I have been portrayed like shit, have suffered humiliation and have been defeated lots of times." Blanc spoke with passion and aggression, angry with what had happened to her.
Like with Uni she has also appeared out of nowhere, also standing close to me.
"Yeah she has made us like two dumb little kids, she made us irrelevant, stupid, immature as well as having us defeated and humiliated." Ram said.
"Yes she made us all negative stereotypes." Rom agreed.
They have also appeared out of nowhere standing close to me. Finally White appears.
"She has made a mockery of our CPU's as well what we represent as consoles and what we represent as people. Now she intends to destroy Lastation just as she has done to Lowee. They must be stopped Black, Purple Heart, Plutia, her girls. These "girls" must die." She said with determination.
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I now find myself lying on a bed panicking after seeing that, breathing heavily and quickly as I look around to see who is there. Aahh I sigh, I sigh with relief as everywhere looks familiar, the Tekken characters lying in their sleeping bags on the floor. Noire and Uni sat next to me, Noire gets up. Because of my dream her getting up frightens me a bit, Noire notices this and attempts to put me at ease.
"It's alright Black, it's alright, it's me, it's me." Noire sooths me with her caring voice, her presence fuelling my morale.
"Oh Noire, I'm pleased you're still my ally and I'm pleased to see you again. I must have had a very bad dream but I'm pleased to be still in one piece. I hope." I said.
I then look to my chest but I turn to face Noire as she speaks to me.
"It's alright Black, I haven't cut you if that's what you're worried about well I might have done but because of the physics of this world I can't cut you or hurt you." She explained smiling and her green eyes showing how much she cares for me.
"Phew, thing is though I feel she has exploited my weakness which is the fear of you being humiliated, you being defeated or worse you being evil." I explained with a hint of worry.
My silver haired girlfriend from heaven notices this so she moves closer to me with the intent of fulfilling my fantasies which she is successful in doing.
"I'm not sure I can call that a weakness myself, I think it shows how much you care about me, how you yearn for me to remain good forever, to be laughed with not laughed at and to be undefeatable. But I am these things Black, your fears will never come true, only every wish that you can imagine. You're not a villain at all and I am proud of you to have such strong free will and to believe in me your CPU, your goddess, your sister, your girlfriend and your waifu. As well as to believe in Blanc our ally, our friend and every Lastation and Loweean that is with us. All of these relations that I am to you, I am proud to be. Come my friends, my family let us journey together where Lowee can stand once again and Lastation is to be free from invasion, let us also journey together so that Gameindustri can be free of Neptune's corruption. Come here my intelligent, caring, hardworking older brother." She spoke with pride as she opened her arms out in a hug.
She then hugs me comforting me, her warm smooth body and her long soft shiny hair reminding me again of the real Noire I see before me and not that phony Neptune tried to trick me with.
"I'm flattered with your kind words and I love your speech but I'm not quite sure what you meant by not cutting me?" I look bewildered in front of Noire as I said that, she notices this so she explains.
"When I fell asleep for the 2nd time I found myself in a dark forest will only a torch to guide me but then I found Uni in the forest so we teamed up, and it is then I found two people dressed as me: one in my HDD form and the other in my normal form as well as someone dressed as a shadow. We overheard them talking about how they are to re-enact scenes from Neptunia as an attempt into brainwashing you as well as to attempt to kill you, apparently they had the ability to teleport and they were to appear saying certain things depending on what pages you had. So we took them out and took their place it was fortunate you were able to find the pages and I'm pleased you tried to run away from me, or else it would have been very awkward if Neptune found out that I didn't kill you." Noire replied with a smug look again.
Interesting so it was actually the real Noire only she was acting hmm but still it's so wonderful to know that my goddess has actually saved my life to go with me saving her life. I feel privileged for this to happen to me and I feel an even larger sense of appreciation for Noire.
"Yeah I did the same for White, while Rom pretended to be a shadow and Ram pretended to be me." Blanc explained.
"Isn't it nice we save you by faking your deaths and then you do the same for me and White? But I had Neptune attempting to brainwash me, didn't you have that?" I ask them.
"Yes but we tricked Neptune into thinking we actually were brainwashed when we said those various things. When we took them out we swore to help Neptune into scaring you, she agreed and she didn't take any pity to the people we took out, kinda shows what sort of CPU she is." Noire said disgusted with the Planeptune phony.
"Agreed, the thing is as you lot already know Neptune's objective was to take down Lastation and Lowee. To achieve that she wanted Team Lastation and Team Lowee to kill their own families, so there would be 1 of each nation. After which she wished to recreate Victory vs. White Heart in which Neptune, Plutia and Noire would fight Blanc. Now originally Blanc would have lost and therefore Lowee would have fallen. But that was not how it actually happened as instead I took Noire's place and not only that but Blanc actually won. Neptune knew it was because of me that she failed to defeat Blanc. She thought she tricked me into me killing my CPUs, thinking she could still take out Lastation but I tricked her, outfoxed her in fact because of me Noire and Uni are still alive. So apart from abandoning Lowee I scuppered Neptune's plans.
I mean you're all still here, I think that Neptune must believe that only me, Noire and Uni and Blanc are still alive, my guess is she must have known about your existence White and must have known you made contact with me enabling us to work together once again, so it is my belief that both me and White are the biggest threat to Neptune. Perhaps she thinks that we're the only reason that we have defeated Neptune so many times. I think it's clear that me and White were to be targeted in that nightmare we just had. She must have thought that if we were to die then only Blanc, Uni and Noire would remain and Blanc would not have any faith due to no Lowee and as for Noire and Uni she must have believed you were easy pickings because she believes you two could never defeat Neptune and her sisters. Long story short I think she is trying to make the Neptunia series into real life only make it even worse, we gotta stop her." I explained.
"But if that dummy believes that you and White are the only people that are able to stop her, then how come in the 5th generation we managed to defeat her without you or White?" Ram asked.
"That's…what I thought." Rom agreed.
"Good question because it was the 5 of you against the 3 of them, they were outnumbered and even in the series Neptune was always victorious against CPUs unless she's outnumbered, I'd rather not test this but it could be that as long as we outnumber them or me or White still live Neptune cannot possibly defeat us." I said with confidence though I'm not sure if I believed what I just said.
"The thing is though I am unsure if we're still brainwashed though, I'm not hearing any numbers telling me to kill any of you and as far as Neptune's concerned I'm already dead but the night before we have stopped Neptune only for her to still plague our dreams." I said.
As I speak I then notice in my HUD a message saying: "you are no longer brainwashed." I guess all the CPUs have noticed this.
"Perhaps that dream was Neptune's last chance and since we won we're no longer brainwashed, that being said all we can do is just sleep tonight and see if we get anymore of her nightmares." Noire suggested.
"Good idea." I agreed.
As if on cue all of the Tekken characters then get up one by one and then immediately afterwards someone knocks on the door.
"Enter!" Noire called out.
A Lastation soldier entered giving everyone a salute.
"I apologise for disturbing you and I'm ashamed to inform you that your suspicions have been confirmed. Our satellites and intelligence report a large Leanbox invasion force just reaching the border. Our reports estimate 1 million soldiers, 50,000 Scorpion Tanks, 10,000 race cars, 10,000 rocket artillery including 5,000 mobile SAMs. As well as 150,000 jet fighters, helicopters and bombers. There have also been rumours that Yoda may be among them and perhaps other characters from there." He reported.
"It's alright if anything I thank you very much for informing us, OK try and assemble every available soldier both Lastation and Lowee and get every available unit to their positions. Also ensure everyone has had breakfast as I don't want my troops fighting without breakfast, it is the most important meal of the day; furthermore keep me updated with regards to enemy troop deployment. Finally inform Darth Vader see how he wishes to fight Yoda." His goddess replied.
"Yes Lady Black Heart and Thank you." He saluted and then he leaves.
"OK everyone we were right Leanbox would attack today, I want all of you to arm yourselves and head to your battle stations we will need that hit that invasion force with everything we have got. Any questions?" Noire asked.
"Yeah I could help make breakfast for everyone by using magic if you wish?" Blanc suggested.
"Excellent idea, I was actually giving you, Rom and Ram the role of mobile chef. OK let's head to the armoury the lift will take us there, let's do this." Our patriotic silver haired goddess said.
And so we go to the lift to prepare ourselves for Leanbox's second attack.
"This will be the first time I fight alongside you in a battle like this, defending and using my guns as opposed to acrobatic skills." Ram said.
"As do I, I will do my best for Lastation and Lowee; I hope I won't let you down." Rom added.
"It's alright let them do their worst we will do our best, it is wonderful how we will all fight together though, good luck everyone I know we will all succeed." I say to them.
As if on stage we then put some sunglasses on as I can imagine the Black Ops Spawn Tune being played in my head, us protagonists stood together with a determination to defeat the antagonists.
It's not long before we head over to the armoury as I then see everyone amazed at the size of it how it's all split into different sections holding different weapons and equipment, even though I've been here before it still never ceases to amaze me.
"Wow you've got so many weapons, this armoury is huge." Ram gasped.
"Yes I agree Ram." Rom giggled.
"Welcome to my armoury I'll give you a brief personal tour Rom and Ram; we even have Lowee weapons stored here too. We also have a day care facility and a hospital for Pokémon right here in this lovely mansion of ours; in fact we have plenty of them all across Lastation." Uni spoke with pride.
"Lead the way Uni, you're so awesome." The pink haired CPU Candidate commented.
"I am amazed." The blue haired CPU Candidate giggled.
We then head to different places to get our equipment as we feel as though we're all kids and this is our very own large candy store of candy stores.
I pick up my TAR-21 with its dual mags holding 200 rounds per mag, heartbeat sensor, ACOG scope and grenade launcher that holds 2 rounds, I also pick up the 100 round dual mag AA12s with Holographic scope and laser sight. I also check out the explosives and tactical grenades. I notice a large box of EMP grenades, I pick one up and as I get the feel of them I then realise I felt the same texture before, it felt the same as that strange object in my dream. But how did it get in my pocket? My only guess is that Noire managed to smuggle one in and Blanc must have used magic to get it in my pocket. That must have been how I survived to leave the nightmare or perhaps it was part of it while she supposedly killed me. What matters though is that I am safe thanks to my green eyed goddess.
I then decide to pick up 10 of these EMP grenades as well as 10 18 bangers and for explosives I pick up 10 Semtex and 10 Claymores. Finally I pick up one of their riot shields
The mule kick perk is great as I seem to be able to carry even more than before and the items don't feel heavy at all, whether it's down to ultralight weight materials or down to the drink, or even the physics of this universe I'm unsure but I'm not complaining. I head over to meet with the others. Pretty soon I see the others come out with their weapons. I see Noire with her dual mini guns cradling in her arms with a riot shield attached to the guns, as well as P90s that are heavily customised on each of her perfect hips. I see our Lastation CPU Candidate with her trademark weapon in her hands: the Barrett 50 Cal with its Thermal Scope, Heartbeat Sensor and Dual mags.
I see Team Lowee kitted out too. White's primary weapon is an AK12 with a Red dot sight and a shotgun attachment, as well as a heartbeat sensor and dual mags. On her hips are FMGs with extended mags but while me and my sisters have tactical grenades and explosives White has two Pokémon each in their Poké balls. Blanc's weapon of choice is a Javelin but my gut tells me this is no ordinary Javelin launcher, just as well we'll be paired together during the defence as I wish to see what this weapon can do. As her secondary weapon she carries the MM1 Grenade launcher only this one carries a staggering 50 rounds. Thanks to the powerful drink complimenting her incredible strength she is able to hold the Javelin with her right hand draping the weapon over her shoulders like she would hold her hammer. While with her left hand she holds the MM1 Grenade Launcher, around her waist are an impressive 9 Poké balls holding 9 Pokémon which knowing Blanc are probably various legendary Pokémon's. I notice that Rom and Ram carry exactly the same equipment; they both carry in their arms an XM25 which they aim down the scopes so they are able to understand the range of this weapon. On their sides are Type 85 SMGs with red dot sight, grips, heartbeat sensors and dual mags as well. Like their CPU, the Lowee CPU Candidates have 9 Poké balls on them, most likely high level Pokémon considering who they are.
We all stand together with our weapons.
"Is that Javelin heavy Blanc?" I ask her.
"Not really, I wonder whether it's because I'm so strong or these weapons are so light." The red eyed goddess laughed.
"This will be just like old times only now we have Black and White fighting with us." Noire said with pride.
"Yes it's so good to fight together once again." The Lowee CPU agreed.
"Come my friends and family I have something to show you on the roof." The Lastation CPU spoke with enthusiasm.
We all go into the lift, it's not long before we reach the roof and to our surprise we all see a ramp which appears to lead to some building but it's difficult to make out as we don't see the exterior at all. I just see a little bit of the interior. Noire leads us to the ramp and as we head up the ramp. I then realise what this is, it is her Black 2 Bomber.
This bomber is so impressive, for starters this aircraft is so unbelievably huge, the interior also looks rather grand almost like a first class jet, I mean there's black carpet, black wallpaper as well as black gaming chairs.
"Wow this is sooo huge." Ram spoke with joy.
"It also looks rather grand." Rom agreed.
"Is this meant to be your personal stealth bomber or your own private jet?" Blanc asked amazed but bewildered.
"Kinda both, Welcome to one of my prides and joys my Black 2 Bomber, this thing has enough room to fit a few squads in here, along with plenty of bombs, missiles and cannons but it's also very comfortable and has plenty of room. I'll show you the cockpit there is plenty of room there." Noire said with her hand, she spoke with much pride as she has much joy in showing us what she has, as she's proud of what she has in her disposal.
As we enter the cockpit, I notice the size of it and oh boy is it massive. There are plenty of gaming chairs as well as plenty of PS3s and screens. There is even an atom manipulator and a bathroom too. We all sit on the seats with our feet put up in awe of Noire's impressive machine.
"Does this thing use up a lot of fuel?" White asked her.
"Not really, originally this thing can go for a week before it needs refuelling, but now we have a special fuel reactor on board which is capable of making its own fuel from atoms. The machine is very efficient as it is capable of producing plenty of fuel from just a few atoms by cloning and the manipulating of the atoms, similar to our atom manipulators. The fuel itself is thorium which we have recently discovered to be capable of producing lots and lots of energy and fuel, but with no pollution or radiation, we also have a means of producing thorium in mass quantities. Although this technology is only on this aircraft I was intending to have this in every vehicle in Lastation as well as giving you the technology Blanc. Imagine having vehicles that can travel indefinitely, I wonder whether one day every citizen in Lastation would be able to have a sustainable life in a plane, I think that would be so cool.
We're also recently started developing other new technology too; we are attempting to use nanobots that are capable of repairing any vehicle from any sort of damage as well, as well as finding ways of using them to make ammunition inside weapons. We are also researching into safe methods of using nanobot cream to heal wounds that Pokémon suffers.
When this is a reality it'll make a great addition to the cream that can already heal any wound on humans, as well as altering the clothes along with the appearance of humans, that last ability we've just managed to develop so now it's not just hair but your entire body and thanks to the fact that friendly fire is impossible as well as countless tests and research, while they can alter the appearance of your body they won't alter your body in any negative way just merely altering skin colour, height, weight, hair colour, eye colour as well as different symptoms without causing any harm to the body whatsoever." My goddess of technology spoke with pride.
She then uses one of the new PS4 controllers and starts pressing buttons which activates a screen, this then causes the plane to rise up but it's so quiet. I can't even hear it going up nor can I hear an engine at all. It's not long before we have risen to what must be 2000 metres above ground. Noire then speaks on the radio
"Lady Black Heart to HQ, do you know if everyone has had something to eat and drink for breakfast?" Noire asked.
"All the tank crews and pilots have eaten but there are still some soldiers that have yet to eat something." A soldier replied on the radio.
"OK I'll get Lady White Heart to send some food, be advised any floating food and drink or food and drink carried by Pokémon that heads their way is to be eaten." She ordered.
"Yes Lady Black Heart." The soldier replied.
After which White, Rom and Ram then throw out a few Poké balls.
By the side of White is Pikachu very happy to be out of its Poké ball. By the side of Blanc are Gardevoir, Zapados and Mew, by Rom's side are Articuno, Lugia and Latios while by Ram's side is Moltres, Hooh and Latias.
After throwing those few Pokémon, Uni uses the atom manipulator to make various foods and drink while the Loweean CPU Candidates and their CPU then uses magic to create all sorts of food and drink.
It's not long before there is plenty of food and drink in the cockpit area; we take a bit of it for our breakfast and feed another bit to our wonderful creatures.
"OK everyone I wish for you to deliver the food and drink to all of our foot soldiers down below." The red eyed caring CPU ordered calmly with love.
While the Pokémon that can fly carefully pick up some of the food and drink to send down below, the ones with physic abilities use their minds to control where the food and drink goes. Be it by mind or carried by claws the food and drink then leave the stealth aircraft through a hatch. I notice Gardevoir and Mew focused as they ensure the supplies do not spill or drop as well as to ensure it goes to some hungry troops.
It's not long at all before our bird Pokémon come back while Gardevoir and Mew look at Blanc, saying their names with a smile as an indication that the goods have been delivered. With that knowledge our CPUs get to work producing even more food and drink for the Pokémon to deliver.
This process of making food and delivering food goes on a few times and it's not long before the soldier radios Noire that everyone has been fed.
"OK everyone is fed, well done guys, our aircraft has formed a defensive line and I've been informed that Leanbox have sent their aircraft in first in an attempt to soften our defences. Strap yourselves in everyone, I figured I play a song that all of us know. Let's take down their air power with Lastation's future proof jets." The silver haired beauty spoke with pride.
I'm familiar with the music and I remember this very well it's Paris to Berlin/London to Berlin but while the instruments are the same, the lyrics are completely different.
"From Lastation to Leanbox, and every guy that we have got. We're gonna win the world war, win the world war. Cos when we're thinking of you, and all the things you can do, we're gonna win the world war, you've got us rooting for you…" We all sing.
As if she's flying in tune to the piece my goddess in black then accelerates the plane hurtling it's speed to beyond the speed of sound and reaching Mach 10.
"…From Lastation to Leanbox, and every guy that we have got, we're gonna win the world war, win the world war. Cos when we're thinking of you, and all the things you can do, we're gonna win the world war…" We all sing.
At this point we have now joined the rest of our squadron of fighters and bombers, they're all invisible to the naked eye but thanks to the information from Noire I understand there are lots of them all in a line just hovering like harriers. I see her looking at the screen, as she awaits for the Leanbox fighters to come.
"…Justice is our game and our land is our name, we're hoping that we win it cause were going insane.
Its now been a long time, since we all were allies, hungry for the title and you know that we love you..." We all sing.
As our flawless green eyed pilot sings our morale boosting song she press some buttons which causes some missiles to be launched, there are missiles that fill the sky, all in a line and all of them moving really fast, I notice she moves the aircraft forward just as our stealth bombers do, our flying ace then accelerates to top speed again.
"…From Lastation to Leanbox, and every guy that we have got, we're gonna win the world war, win the world war, Cos when we're thinking of you, and all the things you can do, we're gonna win the world war, you've got us rooting for you, you've got us rooting for you…" We all sing.
The plane slows down as on screen I see all our troops wearing optical camouflage, they're all in groups formed in a line as they await for the Leanbox army to strike. But we head for the Leanbox lines looking for enemy artillery or missile launchers. or any unit of Leanbox that could pose a threat.
"Winning is the thing and now we're winning every fight." We all sing.
Suddenly then Noire gets out her radio.
"But supporting you is something that we've all gotta do." She sings on the radio.
She then holsters the radio as she steers the stealth bomber. I then realise she just did that as part of the song.
"We're always thinking of you, Blanc and Rom and Ram too, Noire, Uni and Black and of course our friend White too." We all sing.
As if on cue or rather in tune to the song my goddess then accelerates to high speed again.
"From Lastation to Leanbox, and every guy that we have got. We're gonna win the world war, win the world war. Cos when we're thinking of you and all the things you can do, we're gonna win the world war.
You've got us rooting for you; you've got us rooting for you." We all sing.
Then out of the blue while my heavenly silver haired goddess is in her seat she starts flirting.
"Ah, ah ah, ah, Oh!" The Lastation CPU sung as if she's having sex.
For some reason all that's on my mind right now is seeing her in a dark room with special lighting, in my mind she'd be drinking a special liquid that glows in the dark only she deliberately spills the liquid on her covering her magnificent body with the liquid. Funnily enough I remember seeing that in an original music video.
"Woah! Woah! Woah!" We all sing again.
Now we're close to our targets she then presses some buttons to activate some bombs, as well as to confirm our targets whilst we sing our song.
"From Lastation to Leanbox, and every guy that we have got, we're gonna win the world war, win the world war. Cos when we're thinking of you, and all the things you can do. We're gonna win the world war, you've got us rooting for you." We all sing.
The bombs are then dropped and it's not long before they hit their targets causing massive explosions on the grounds below, because of being invisible to radar and the naked eye they do not spot us but still our attractive pilot then accelerates away along with other friendly stealth bombers.
"From Lastation to Leanbox, and every guy that we have got. We're gonna win the world war, win the world war. Cos when we're thinking of you, and all the things you can do, we're gonna win the world war. You've got us rooting for you, you've got us rooting for you, you've got us rooting for you." We all sing.
We've now finished the song and applauded each other for how well we have done that, oh Noire so entertaining even though we have been fighting a battle you chose to sing this patriotic song, I can't blame you at all.
"Well done everyone I'd love for you to join my Lastation Band." Our pilot spoke with pride.
"Hmmm that's a good idea if we can find the time, I never knew you we're in a band then again it figures since one of your limitless talents is a musician." I explained.
"Yeah, I was thinking of performing with Sona, Nazz, Cai Wenji and Zhenji at some time, they're very talented musicians." She replied.
She then gets on the radio.
"How are our planes doing?" Our Lastation goddess asks.
"Good news and bad news Lady Black Heart, the good news is we have managed to destroy all of the enemy fighters without a single loss of our aircraft but the bad news is there is a large number of enemy bombers heading our way and we do not have enough missiles to shoot them down, permission to rearm our aircraft?" The soldier on the radio asks.
"It's denied because by the time you lot are rearmed the bombers will have already hit us, we cannot afford to lose a single soldier or tank considering how heavily outnumbered we are, just use whatever missiles you have on the enemy bombers for now, don't worry I'll think of something." She put the soldier at ease with her voice.
She puts the radio away as she thinks of a strategy, what a contrast of feelings, at first we were excited, confident and happy that we were able to take down every enemy fighter without a loss of any of our own, but now the battle could go in their favour unless we find a method of taking them all down. Despite the setback I'm sure our goddess will think of something as she sits there, concentrating on possible solutions, nothing less than our nation is at stake…