The Console Wars

by BlackNoire

The CPUs are at each other's throats, but not in Celestia but in Gameinudstri. This is not done from Neptune's perspective or any CPU for that matter. A male arrives in Gamindsutri who appears to be from somewhere else. All is not as it seems as this is not from the Neptunia universe but a general gaming universe. This is a fanfic unlike any other. Rated M for violence.

92. The Trailers of the battle Part 1

Chapter 92: The trailers of the battle Part 1

Before Chapter 92 I would like to thank Riderman09 for favouriting and following my fanfic.

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By now, I have reached the front of the trailer and just as the guard speaks to one of the passengers at the front, I quickly pull the driver out of the vehicle before I enter inside and shut the door quickly, only for me to then stab the enemy who's sat next to me.

I'm amazed with how I manage to do this without being attacked, but I quickly realise that I need to make sure that the enemy does not pull me out, and that I defeat the passengers so I can take full control of the cab without getting shot too much by the enemy.

I therefore keep hold of the rifle in place while I fire my rifle at him, and the bayonet is deep inside the enemy's torso. As I do so however, the grunt tries so hard to remove the bayonet out with his left hand, while trying so hard to shoot at me with his pistol in his right hand. The other passenger then tries to shoot at me with his Type 100 as well, which does a bit of damage though I can tell how awkward it is for him to use his gun in such a small space from his ally being in his way.

After reloading my rifle and firing a few more shots at him, he finally falls and I realise how Oichi does her best to ensure that any enemy that tries to enter through the driver's seat gets shot down. But while my rear is protected, not only does the other passenger fires another clip of rounds at me, a few more guards with rifles then come in to assist the passengers.

Conveniently enough, I notice by my feet a Type 100 leaning against the side along with about a dozen or so clips, which are fairly easy for me to reach. I decide to pick it up and then open fire against the other passenger and his assistants. While the assistants fall pretty easily, the passenger appears to be a boss as he survived the shooting. I quickly reload again only to see that there are a few more assistants who have replaced the dead ones.

I guess the enemy knows I've hijacked the trailer and so they're coming really fast. I need to be free of the enemy passengers if I am to have any hope of getting out of this alive. After a short while of shooting the passenger along with any of their allies nearby, as well as reloading when appropriate, I manage to kill the passenger but not before seeing enemy grunts all over the place who are trying to enter the vehicle, be it from the bonnet, my side or the other side. I even see a couple of enemies move their jeeps in line of my trailer, so that they can shoot at me with their mounted guns. But we then manage to kill them and this effectively blocks the other jeeps, forcing them to dismount and to mount the gun at the front.

I soon realise that I'm much better off if I drive or at least get the thing moving, as already the enemy is approaching my position and trying to surround me and keep me pinned down so I cannot escape. There are even plenty of enemies who are coming from various directions, in attempts to pull me out of the truck so I can be shot down by the massive enemy army. Oddly enough, despite how I am now in control of their truck, they refuse to shoot at it even though it will kill me if they shoot the truck enough times so it explodes. The thing is as they try and shoot at me, they end up damaging the truck a little bit by accident with their shots. I guess if the truck was to explode with enough bullets, they would destroy their own shipment.

Although I have the visions which help me to see the location of the mass of enemies even when I'm hidden, it's not practical for me to hold my gun and aim while I'm hiding even if it will protect me, as it's because of how me being in a truck makes me too high to just aim over the bonnet, and the bonnet is too long for me to be able to aim at an angle that can hit the enemies without being exposed to their fire. Still at least I can use it to know when to reload for when the enemy grunts try to come in and hijack the truck, though unfortunately it doesn't tell me about what's behind me unless I look behind me, meaning I have to keep watch of two locations which isn't ideal.

As I think about driving off however, I then become concerned about stopping the shipments of the other trucks as well as the best option in doing so. I realise that perhaps I'm better off if I just block the path and to just defend the position, kill as many enemies as possible and to use the truck itself for cover. If only I knew whether just preventing one of the shipments from reaching Viridian City will be enough to prevent their future launch from happening.

I decide to just stick to reversing into the enemy truck and kill the enemies who are attacking Oichi (even if I end up exposing myself and run the risk of getting shot), while trying to think about which decision to make. What concerns me a good amount is how both of them could prove disastrous: If I drive away, the enemy may still be able to launch their weapon from the remaining shipments, but if I don't drive away I'll most certainly be defeated meaning I'll have merely postponed the inevitable conclusion of the missile launching.

Then there's also Oichi who is already completely surrounded, and though she's doing her best to take out as many enemies as she can, as do I, she's getting hit a lot of times and I fear that she may not last much longer.

If only I knew how much longer Uni will be before she can get back to me and be able to scan the contents, and then work out whether hijacking just one truck will be enough. It is tragic that right now only myself and Oichi remain against all these troops, and already she's quite close to death while the health of the truck is decreasing at a fair pace, and the enemy troop numbers are still high even if we manage to wipe out dozens of enemies at a time despite the risk of us dying a lot quicker.

Though I wish that the lady of Azai herself would rush towards the truck so that she has some protection from the enemy bullets, and she can then cover the other side, I realise that this technique means that Oichi will be gunned down from running away, as there's far too many enemies for her to make a break for it.

Just as I feared, I can see Oichi smile at me in the distance before she falls to the ground after being shot at who knows how many times. It's ever so sad to see this happen and already I can see the enemy charging towards me, knowing full well that I'm doomed, that I'm next. I notice the truck being full of bullet holes as well as my HUD telling me that it is taking a fair amount of damage, though this doesn't concern me yet although even if it's not their intention, they're ending up shooting the truck most of the time instead of me, meaning that I'll eventually be forced out where I'll most certainly die.

The thing is I'm surprised that they don't send in the bosses to try and get me, though I guess the reason is, is because like with Leanbox they wish to treat their regular troops like fodder, and so they send in group after group to try and shoot me down only for them to die by me.

I guess it will only be a matter of time before I myself get seriously hurt, considering I'm exposed to so many enemies as I just continue to shoot at grunt after grunt after grunt, hoping it can slow down the rate that the truck is being inadvertently destroyed but to no effect. I just know that the destruction of the truck is inevitable and with it my death, after all I've already been shot about a few times since capturing this truck. Despite this I keep going and continue to shoot the enemy down, both those that try and enter the truck and those that stay outside alike until eventually there's far too many enemies shooting at me and I decide to hide and wait for the enemy to come to me, but I can't help but wonder what's the point, as I wonder if it will make any difference?

I can at least be glad that if the truck gets destroyed, the supplies will be destroyed though I highly doubt it, considering the enemy will have probably managed to remove them even if I've reversed into the front of the trailer behind me. But even if a portion of their supplies gets destroyed from blowing the truck up by shooting at it, they could just as easy have the destroyed truck removed and then just send in the rest of the supplies, so that the missile can be made and war be declared which I'm guessing will be the case.

I do feel like I have failed in this significant battle, as I don't see any good things happening from this as we needed the supplies to be stopped, and I don't think they will be. It's so sad that all of what I along with the soldiers fighting with me have been through, the battle in trying to take Pallet Town, the fighting in the cave and all that fighting in Viridian Forest, not to mention the amount of times I've been in pain and even died, the amount of enemy grunts and bosses we've all killed and the places that we've captured, all of that hard work has come to this significant moment, a moment which will end in failure.

I say this because this was our attempt, our chance in preventing them from starting a war on two fronts with Lastation against Leanbox, as well as Lastation against Team Rocket and it looks like we have failed to prevent it. Not only was it our chance to prevent the war, but we would have had the chance into taking the significant step into taking Viridian Forest, as well as to have eventually been able to take Viridian City and Pallet Town, and finally establish a strong foothold in the region.

What makes it worse is that when it came to the fighting that would eventually lead to the checkpoint, we have lost all of our troops including White to the enemy. It is also sad to see that I am the only one alive and I just don't think I have a chance against the enemy, especially not in my condition. I have definitely failed in this battle and with it, I have failed in our fight to liberate not just Lowee, but all of Gameindustri. I guess Lastation will most certainly fall now, and I just can't even begin to think that such a utopia, such a wonderful heavenly paradise will be no more.

Forgive me Noire, Blanc, Uni, Rom, Ram, White, Oichi, Lowee, Lastation, Gameindustri. I have failed to save our nations, our world and because of this our planet will not know of freedom, justice, equality and prosperity. Although I find this to be very upsetting as I feel like I have let countless people down, I will not cry or even give up now. If I'm going down, I'm going down fighting and I will not give the satisfaction of letting them see me suffer or give in.

I then start screaming, yelling like a war cry as I continue to kill them some more, even if I maybe speeding my death up. But oddly enough as I was thinking about the bleakness, the hopelessness of the situation, I then see that the enemies were fighting other people. This must mean there are allies, reinforcements! Uni must have come back from repelling the invasion. Oh this such a relief, but even though she has come back I still feel like I've let her down rather badly.

I don't just find this to be a relief but I find this to be such a wonderful, pleasant surprise. I certainly wasn't expecting there to be reinforcements, and I could have sworn that I was all that was left of all the troops that Lastation could afford to spare. But even with the reinforcements, we are still probably heavily outnumbered and I think it is the heavy numbers that kills us, as despite doing my best in leading our troops so we can ambush them and wipe out large numbers of them, there are still plenty more of them who bit by bit or by a lot if they're lucky wipe our troops out, leaving just me and an ally if I'm lucky to fight the grunts and the bosses.

Although the allied reinforcements will mean that we can then take all of the trucks here hopefully, and therefore being able to drive off with the supplies and shoot the enemy pursuers down, there is the matter of being able to navigate through the forest to a safe location where the Lastation stealth planes can pick them up. I guess all we can do for now is to just hold our ground and make sure that the enemy grunts do not retake the supply trucks. It is then I hear Uni voice's again and like some of the times from before, while it is nice to hear her voice, I do get the feeling that I have let her down rather badly.

"Just to let you know Black, once again we've managed to repel the Leanbox attack and now I'm able to provide surveillance to you once again. We've also managed to supply you with some reinforcements from Lastation, who as we speak have captured all of the supply trucks and are engaging the enemy troops who were there to escort them. Unfortunately you are still heavily outnumbered, but I've managed to revive the army who was fighting by your side who sadly died there along with White. They should be there soon to offer any assistance that they can.

Your mission will be to keep hold of the supplies and to secure the camp and defend it from any enemy reinforcements, that I'm sure Team Rocket will throw at you. After which it will be to transfer the supplies onto the jeeps that they have, and then to transport them through a route that I've discovered in Viridian Forest to the border between Lastation and Lowee at an area that's not patrolled by Team Rocket grunts, and from there the supplies will be taken and will eventually be replaced by a copy of them, only the copy will appear damaged and then dropped off near Viridian Forest to make it look like they've been destroyed, and hopefully then they won't suspect that we have stolen them.

If this mission can succeed then not only will we be able to prevent the war between Lastation and Team Rocket going official which will prove disastrous, it will mean that we will finally have access to the supplies of the checkpoint, and finally we can prevent Team Rocket troops from reinforcing Viridian Forest, and eventually we can provide reinforcements of our own, so that we will eventually have enough to take Viridian City and Pallet Town at the same time, and they won't know what hit them." Uni informs me via mind talk sounding ever so positive and full of pride.

"Thank you ever so much Uni, I'm ever so relieved to see reinforcements after failing to keep all of my soldiers alive. I honestly felt I've failed and I'm ever so sorry for doing so, if you hadn't come to help then those supplies would have reached Viridian City, and Lastation will have been lost for certain. I've tried ever so hard but I could not capture the checkpoint like I was supposed to." I tell her via mind talk.

"No. You shouldn't feel sorry, in fact if anything we're sorry for not giving you enough help be it troops or surveillance. You have done ever so well considering the very difficult circumstances. You've managed to defeat enemies who have vastly outnumbered you. In fact you've managed to get this far after wiping out the majority of the enemy garrison here, and you've even managed to capture the front truck although it was just you against the remains of the enemy garrison who still numbered in the hundreds. The main thing is that you've managed to keep hold of the truck for long enough, so that allied reinforcements can arrive on time to secure the rest of the supplies.

In other words, you have successfully prevented the supplies from leaving that checkpoint. You didn't fail Black my big brother, you have succeeded and you have made myself, Noire, Blanc, Rom and Ram as well as all of the people of Lastation, Lowee and Gameindustri proud. Our nation thanks you, and owes you a big debt big brother." The CPU Candidate of Lastation says to me.

"Thank you ever so much for the reinforcements and for the morale and your kind words Uni, it is much appreciated my youngest sister." I say to her with love.

"And thank you ever so much for being here and helping us out a great deal by leading our glorious and noble campaign in Lowee." She says to me, I can tell from her voice that she must be smiling with absolute joy to see that I'm doing ever so well.

And with that conversation on our secure network if you will, my mood has changed from hopelessness, sadness, wanting it to end to hope, joy and an increase in morale that we can do this. We may still be outnumbered but if we can just hold onto the trucks, then we can bleed their numbers until the rest of our reinforcements arrive.

With my morale boosted and my fears gone, I continue to offer support by shooting at the distracted enemies in front of me, as well as making sure that no enemies enter my trailer. Soon enough, a couple of allied soldiers then enter my trailer which relieves me as now I have assistants to ensure that the trailer remains in allied hands.

What makes this even nicer is how the two assistants are both bosses armed with Type 100s themselves. This definitely cheers me up no end and I just hope our small army can keep the larger enemy army at bay, or at least keep hold of the trucks. The thing is even with our reinforcements here will both them and myself be able to hold off the bosses, as oddly enough even though the enemy female leader has not yet taken action after all this has kicked off, I know her to be powerful, to have similar health to myself. I can only guess that her using her own troops as fodder is just an example of how ruthless she truly is.

I'm just glad that in contrast we do our best to take care of our soldiers and not to throw them away, as we believe in quality rather than quantity and that is why we have managed to defeat larger armies thanks to perk a colas, superior weaponry and superior health for our troops. I just hope we can hold out as we fight these enemies. Come on I'll held out this long for these guys to come, it's only fair that we hold out for just a short while longer before the rest of the reinforcements arrive.

Although we manage to keep the enemy at bay as the three of us constantly shoot down grunt after grunt after grunt, I can't help but feel that it will only be a matter of time before the enemy bosses decide to give their grunts a helping hand, and I can't help but feel yet again that while the allies in the trailers are doing well to hold them off and wipe out a fair number of the enemy, I get the feeling that the numbers of our allies are beginning to fall. I know that White and the Azai army have been revived and they're on their way, but I can't help but wonder how long it will be before they show up?

Oddly enough as I see a number of the enemy troops try and enter our trailer only to be shot down, and the rest of them trying to shoot at us only for them to get shot down one by one, I then notice a few of them rushing towards the command tent. My only guess is that they intend to speak to the boss to request for their support, or at least to ask them whether they can shoot the trailers so that it's easier for them to kill us, even if it means that they lose their supplies. The thing is I begin to wonder whether they believe that it's better that their supplies are lost rather than be in our hands.

"Just to let you know Black that while the enemy forces are diminishing, so are our allies and I'm concerned that they may not last longer and be forced to shut themselves in the trailers, though I fear that they'll end up being recaptured by the enemy. But the good news is that the allied reinforcements will be there shortly and are running over there as fast as they can." Uni informs me via mind talk.

Though I am not surprised to hear her say this, it does concern me quite a lot as the time is ticking away as to whether I can hold off the enemy so that the allied reinforcements can arrive in time, so that they can then be of help. Even though I'm not surprised to see the female leader come out along with the other bosses as well, it still concerns me that now we're going to be defeated as there's just far too many of them, and they are far too strong to take down with the numbers and the strength that we have.

What also worries me is how they may have called for reinforcements. I ask Uni to see if they have and she confirms this to be the case, though at least White should be able to send a small portion of troops including a boss to at least try and repel the enemy attack for when it comes.

We do our best to start firing at them, and though they only seem to fire when we've exposed ourselves, the amount of enemies that there are forces us to take cover and hide. Because of this we are only able to engage the enemies that try and hijack the truck. I guess it will only be a matter of time before the bosses come and surround us and take us out, and with the numbers of our allies diminishing, unless our allies can come and assist, we have no chance.

I can see through my visions that the bosses split themselves into two groups, and so I order the three of us to try and hide by the seats as best as we could, even if it didn't feel particularly comfortable being squashed like this. But just as I see the leader walking casually towards me, probably looking ever so smug that she has defeated us, I then hear gunfire and so she looks towards it before resuming to her mission of pulling me out.

At least I've got backup now and I can only hope that the reinforcements led by White can help to diminish the enemy forces in the area, but even so I still need to make sure that I stay in the trailer, as White and her forces split themselves up to deal with the various large pocket of enemy troops in this area, especially those that surround the trailer that the three of us are in.

I then see the enemy leader pop out, she's initially surprised to see that we're not there and I then open fire with my submachine gun, but she quickly responds by using her whip as a means to strangle me, only for her to then pull me out with both of her hands to where a lot of the enemy is at.

Before I know it I'm struggling to breathe, choking a lot and my health is decreasing at quite a fair pace. Although initially I was being dragged out, my ally grabs hold of my legs tightly so that I'm no longer being dragged out. My other passenger meanwhile tries to shoot her with his gun, so that the pain inflicted will force her to let go but she doesn't stop. What makes this worse is how 2 other bosses who I can only imagine to be their lieutenants or assistants, or something like that due to their high health then join her, and the pair of them shoot my ally to death with their Type 99s causing a lot of damage.

I try to reach for my rifle so that I can throw it at her, but it's too far away for me to be able to reach it, so I guess it looks like it's the end for me unless an ally can distract her.

Suddenly out of the blue, I notice how she is no longer pulling me with her whip. In fact she's staggering around as apparently someone has thrown a bayonet into her back. I can see with my vision that this is White's doing, and so the enemy leader's assistants are forced to deal with my ally, leaving the leader on her own.

Because of the initial shock of the bayonet in her back, she is no longer pulling which results in her falling on the floor, due to refusing to let go of the whip in her hand. This results in me being pulled into the trailer more and because of this, I'm able to reach the rifle and cut the whip with its bayonet. I quickly pull the remainder of the whip off my neck, and start breathing as much air as I can after being strangled. I'm deeply relieved after this as I knew the life was leaving me at quite a pace, and it is so good to be able to breathe again after that attack.

But I know I cannot afford to relax as no doubt I'll be in that position again, and even though she currently has a rifle in her back, she'll remove it soon. We'll have to keep attacking her for as long as we can as for now, she's only focusing on getting the rifle out of her back.

Just as I feared, it doesn't take long at all for her to pull the rifle out of her back and then she uses it to shoot my ally before throwing it at him. Worried for my ally as I know he won't last very long with the bayonet inside his chest, I do my best to pull it out as quickly as possible, but unfortunately she quickly uses her other whip and strikes my leg pulling me out of the trailer.

Astonishingly I manage to grab the wheel and hold it as tightly as I can, while she tries so hard to pull me out with her whip. I was hoping that the whip coiling around my leg won't hurt me, but it does because they coil around my leg so tightly which hurts me a fair amount. As my life is decreasing I try so hard to think about how I can get out of it. I look to my friend to see if he's managed to pull out the bayonet out of his chest, but it is a shame that he dies just before he succeeds in doing so, leaving just me to face this vile evil leader.

Eventually after a good few seconds has passed while trying to think of a strategy to get out of this one, I finally think of an idea. With the rifle close by from when I left it to try and revive my fallen ally, I try to grab the rifle while holding onto the wheel with my other hand as tightly as possible. As I try and grab the rifle, I find that my grip on the steering wheel is loosening and worse still, I find that my leg is aching by a fair amount as my health is deteriorating from my leg being squashed by the whip, which coils around ever so tightly. Come on Black you can do it, it's just a little bit more urgh hnnnngh…. Got it and not a moment too soon as I've almost lost my grip there.

I quickly pull the rifle towards the steering wheel before I let go and grab onto the steering wheel again so I can secure my grip once more. With my grip secure I then use it as makeshift stick and attempt to place the butt of the rifle onto the accelerator pedal. Like before I find it to be such a struggle as I keep hold of the wheel with one hand, and I try to position the rifle and place it on the pedal with my other hand. What makes it worse is that while my leg has always ached since she struck it with her whip, it hurts even more now as I'm trying ever so hard to place the butt of the rifle onto the accelerator, while I keep my hand on the steering wheel and grip it tight.

After what felt like hours of struggling, I finally place the rifle onto the accelerator and though the trailer moves slowly at first, it increases speed and not only that but my hand on the steering wheel also turns the vehicle towards the right. Rather than keep hold of the whip so that she can still do some damage, she lets go.

With her no longer holding onto her weapon, I'm ever so relieved to no longer feel pain from her whip, though I still feel it around my leg. I waste no time as I've realised that I've stopped the vehicle, and I need to cut the whip off so that she can no longer use it again. I try to remove the bayonet from the rifle as quickly as I can, as I know that she'll be back soon to attack me again. After a few agonising seconds due to the worry of her striking again and putting me in a painful and compromising position once again, I get the blade off and manage to cut the whip off my leg.

Excellent I've now effectively disabled her whips and all she has to face me is her pistols, unless of course she gets other weapons from the bosses. But then I realise that this won't make it any easier, especially considering how she has almost twice the amount of health as I do. I just hope I can kill her in the end and not to face any more difficulty, but just as I've gained my breath from that ordeal, she somehow manages to throw me off from the trailer.

I guess she must have been distracted as I thought she would have reacted quicker than this. I can just tell that she intends to pin me down and perhaps use her legs as a means of suffocating me, or perhaps shoot me down without me being able to fight back, probably both.

I end up being proved right as, as soon as she has pulled me out of the truck, she rushes towards me and dives towards me, but fortunately I roll out of the way in time only for me to then throw the knife in my hand at her thigh.

She yells in pain quite a bit, but I waste no time and rush back into the trailer. Unfortunately during that time she manages to pull the knife out and throws it at my back just as I get inside. My back then aches a fair amount and although I'd love to pull the knife out there and then, she'd just pull me out again and try to pin me down like before. No, I need to keep hold of this vehicle, as if I don't then she'll take it to Viridian City and perhaps then they'll be able to eventually launch the missile at us after capturing it with minimum difficulty.

Despite the pain, I do my best to drive off while not too far so I end up losing sight of her, and as I do so I also try to pull the knife out of my back, which I find to be quite difficult because of the pain I'm in, and having to do it with one hand. I look behind me to see that my enemy is no longer pursuing me, but instead she is running towards the trailer behind me, no doubt trying to take control of it.

This is no good as if she manages to drive away, then I'm not sure if I will be able to stop her considering the time it will take to catch up, assuming I can defeat her with the amount of enemies that might be patrolling there between here and Viridian City. I just don't see it happening and so I need to prevent her from escaping with a trailer.

I therefore quickly turn the trailer around as fast as I can just as she manages to get into the trailer. As quickly as possible I then press the accelerator pedal as hard as I can, and I'm sure she does the same. She then turns left and so I try to steer right as best as I can in hopes of colliding with her.

As I do my best to drive into her trailer, I can't help but be worried about whether I'll manage to ram her in a decent location, or will she just get away and my hopes of stopping her will be impossible. But even if I manage to stop the trailer, I still need to be on my toes so that I can actually prevent her from getting a supply trailer out of there.

Like perhaps before I really do feel that these few moments are critical, as it can make the difference between winning and losing, as well as Lastation surviving or dying. I really do feel the tension and pressure now as the fate of Gameindustri lies in how well I manage to drive my trailer into hers. I hope I can do it because I can't bear to think of what will eventually happen if I don't.