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Chapter 130: Arriving for the interview of nightmares
I'm still in the same bedroom as in the previous chapter, the bedroom which belongs to the female character in the comedy I have watched before, which I enjoyed but do not know what it's called or who the character's real names are. As a matter of fact, the female character is with me, and what pleases me a lot is how Noire is the female character in this nightmare, my wife, my friend, one of my sisters, the leader of Lastation, the world's last hope against Neptune, the most beautiful, intelligence, hardworking and benevolent who I continue to fight for, and thought of a lot, and in my last fight in the forest was concerned that because of the immense odds of number and health, that it would fall, and yet I do not know if it has fallen which makes it even worse.
The even more tragic thing is while I would love to talk to the Lastation CPU about all this, as well as about how Lastation is getting on, not to mention how it's always wonderful seeing her, and having fun together, especially with how I love her very much, talking to her is out of the question, because of the nightmare that we are in, and in any case we have just recently been summoned, even though despite being summoned to the kitchen, we are still in the bedroom because of concerns of what could happen when we arrive at the kitchen, to meet the one who summoned us, considering the likelihood of the very one being armed, in fact we exchange glances of concern of the potential danger downstairs.
But the unfortunate thing is we have to go at some point, for who knows what may happen if we don't, but if it is to be that we're going towards an ambush, we do not intend to fall easily, for we have our weapons close by and holstered, under the guise of being in some pain, but then I realise that my gun is not supressed and if I was to open fire at the potentially armed enemy downstairs, gunshots can be heard no doubt by neighbours or possibly people in the street, and with this the police will be called, and then they will arrest us, and no doubt with regards the nightmare it will be mission failed.
OWWWWW! My head hurts yet again, well at least I won't have to fake pain, gah. The brainwashing voice can be heard loudly, and drones on and on in my head yet again, as I try my hardest to ignore it.
"-5 is a positive number, a triangle has 5 sides, an heiress is a male…." The brainwashing voice says to me.
As I massage my head while my ally does the same to help me in putting the severe aching of my head at bay, I find that while I know that prison would not be the worst thing from what I can remember, I am certain that the rotten purpled haired CPU will make it as awful as possible, and is something to avoid at all costs, especially how no doubt her own personal sadist Plutia will without question be our prison officer. It is then though I realise that Noire's gun is suppressed so hopefully if it comes down to it, my female ally can take the old lady down if need be, and no one outside will know about it.
After which with me thinking about the possibility of police arresting us and sending us to prison, I had a brief thought about ringing them up about Neptune, but the tragic thing is that I know there would be no point because what can I say to them since I have no proof? In fact I don't even know what she intends to do, and there's also the likely possibility here, that the police in this nightmare could be in cahoots with Neptune for all I know, hmmmm.
I do find myself constantly wondering about other than trying to get me to be dumb because I've outsmarted her, and she's failed so many times in defeating and killing me, is there any other thing Neptune would like to do here, does she have a grand plan with regards this nightmare that we need to put a stop to? OWWWW! There it goes again, OWWWWW! Argh, it really hurts, it really does as I scream in pain again.
"What is it is not a question, do it now is polite, snow is red." The brainwash voice says to me, going on and on repeatedly as my head hurts me, forcing me and my ally to massage it as best as I can, hoping the pain goes away.
Despite the immense agony of it, I manage to stop screaming and I get back on track with what I was thinking about before the painful head ache, and it is then that I wonder where does she get her allies from, considering the sort of person she is, and while here it's a nightmare created by Neptune so she can have any enemies she wants, does she have any help with making nightmares and getting us to experience them possible, considering how I feel that she has some machine to do it?
What about for when we're awake be it in where we were before arriving here, or in the world we're in right now though? I suppose it could be that the method in getting her allies is brainwashing but where did she get that from considering the sort of person she is? And if she has allies who will fight with their own free will? Why would they do so, again considering the sort of person she is? Hmmm. Of course there's also how a part of me feels I am targeted the most, with her brainwashing, but why me?
While there is the simple fact that I am a very significant person from Lastation, as I'm Noire's husband who's just arrived and have contributed to their survival recently, I feel there's more to it than that, I know I have been the one to stop Neptune's schemes from what I believe to be a different planet before coming here, and it must have upset her very much, but could there be another reason, could it be jealousy, frustration with being defeated in tournaments, or is there more to it than that, that she hates our ideology, or a combination of different things, or it may be something else entirely.
I wish I knew what was the origin of all this, could it be that I and my friends refused to bow down to her and follow her ideology? I have theories, perhaps even that Neptune is a mere puppet, but I do not know for sure, and even if I was to ask her, I highly doubt she'd say, no I feel it will be a long time before I can make progress in finding out why my nemesis Neptune is doing this.
All I can do for now though, is to head down and see if the lady is armed, and then hopefully if we succeed, we can then deal with Neptune and find out what she's trying to do in this nightmare, other than to try and once again attempt to defeat me and my allies, and so this is what we do, with our weapons held firmly ready to kill her if need be, that is if we can because I worry that if she has a gun, she'll have it drawn, and even if she could have done it earlier, perhaps she wishes to torment us, keep us in suspense, and perhaps get us both at the same time. OWWW! Argh, not again. My brainwashing hurts a lot once again, as I try and think about the Planeptune CPU's intentions in this nightmare.
"Mice eat cats, D comes after B, quad means five….." Miss brainwash voice says to me once again, as my head aches badly, though this time I manage to avoid yelling as it's massaged by both myself and my wife Noire.
My only hope as I manage to keep this brainwashing agonising head ache under control by massage, is that if my head is going to ache, I can conceal the pain and the signs, or if not she doesn't become suspicious of me, which could compromise the situation and possibly cause me to lose in this nightmare, and with these thoughts and hopes in mind, and with my suitcase in hand while keeping my hand on the gun that's holstered, making it look like I have an aching pain on my chest, just like Noire does, we head downstairs as casual as we can considering the circumstances.
Hmmmm, considering the possibility of her being armed, where will she be, and will she be armed because this can make the difference, but the trouble is as we head down the stairs, she'll know with which entrance we'll be coming through on arrival, for there's only one entrance, and what's more is not only will she be hidden, but she'll have her weapon already drawn, and she'll be able to kill us before we can even draw our weapons.
I do have an idea though in dealing with this problem, and that is for me to go forward and stand to the side in such a way, which would allow Noire to have her weapon drawn but hidden from the old lady's view so that she can kill the old lady if she's armed quicker, and we can also go in slowly and clear section by section so that hopefully we can kill her before she kills us, and this is what we do when we get to the bottom of the stairs, and reach the hall.
The trouble is that the door between the kitchen and hall is in the corner of the kitchen, so she could hide by the corner, and so as we approach the kitchen I call out to her to see if I can get her to come to me, see if she's dumb enough to come with her gun, or if somehow I can disrupt her plans in killing us when we reach the kitchen.
The old lady doesn't respond to my call, but I couldn't think of any reason for her to come other than to see how I look in the hall, this concerns me because if anything I may have tipped her off that we suspect she's armed, but then again what I said sounded quite silly, and my character is meant to be silly so if anything, she may not suspect anything whatsoever, but how to defeat her if she's armed? Rushing in will be too risky, because I could get shot, and so the only way I see it is to get her to come here, despite having to find a reason for her to come, other than just calling her to speak to her as that's failed, and then I can see if she's armed, and even if not I can make it harder for her to try and kill me if she intended to, for she'd have to go and get her weapon.
What I therefore then decide to do is to swap pistols with Noire, and then I get on the floor lying on my front, while the pistol is concealed by my chest held firmly in my hand, ready to fire quietly if she comes and she's armed, so there's no fear of cops being called and arresting us due to loud gunfire.
"Can you come here please?! I think my husband's tripped, he's lying on his front, and I don't think he's able to get up." Noire calls out, sounding very concerned, and upset in hopes that the old lady will come.
"How can he have tripped up on the floor? Unless of course he's put something there so that he'd trip over it. I wonder if he's done that to get out of the interview so he doesn't have to face embarrassment of failing another one." The old lady says with such hatred and contempt for me.
Nuts, I'll just have to peak around the kitchen door, hopefully without being spotted by her, then I can see if she's got a gun, and so I attempt to do so after getting up.
"It's alright I just tripped but I've not hurt myself, I've managed to put my hands out before my momentum pushing me to the floor, but I'm ok." I say to her, with a hint of shock in my voice to try to convince her.
"Just come here and have your tea, before long it'll be completely cold from your faffing about." The lady in the kitchen says to me with a lack of empathy in her voice.
Oh my head begins to ache, despite doing what I would have thought would have been interpreted as stupid, to just lie on the floor thinking she'll show up, perhaps it's the strategies I'm doing, Oh, the agony, at least I can conceal the pain and not scream because then she'll be suspicious, though concealing it is difficult, as I hear the brainwashing voice say incorrect facts in an attempt to break me down.
"Milk is black, leather comes from plants, reindeers are green…." The voice says to me trying to break me down, even though I won't give in to it.
Despite the brainwashing, I successfully get up, and I now know what I need to do and that is to peek around the kitchen to see if she's armed, the trouble is that she'll see me peek around and if armed could even shoot through, but I see no other alternative, but what explanation to provide her, for my peeking, I suppose it would be part of who I am or rather who my character is along with seeing if she's not mad with me, though she probably is considering what I've seen so far of her.
Before peeking I swap pistols with Noire, because I realise that if she's not armed, she could well be later on, and I say this as I remember that during the interview my wife's character would then leave the place where I would be interviewed and headed back home, and I wonder if in fact the old lady will intend to kill Noire, while hoping that Neptune will get me, I like to think the CPU of Lastation will know and will have a strategy in mind, and if need be, she can kill the old lady if she intends to kill my love, and thanks to the weapon being silenced, the neighbours won't be any the wiser, plus which if the old lady is armed right now, Noire can always kill her right there anyway.
And so, I quickly peek and to my surprise, though I did have some expectation of this event, she isn't armed, in fact there isn't a gun or weapon anywhere to be seen, hmmm but I am quite concerned that while we have tea she could in fact kill us with a weapon, in fact I have a sneaky feeling that she'll have poisoned the tea. Her looks of disgust is all over her face and body though, as I smile and take a seat while Noire does the same.
"Well? What's this job you're going for then, a job it seems you don't really want? Oh will you stop pretending to be in pain, and you Beatrice why are you in pain?" The old lady asks me.
I ignore her remark about it being a job I don't really want, because it's irrelevant considering the nightmare, and this is the same for my ache as I need to keep my weapon close by, and it is then that I remember telling her that it's to do with pipes, but involving what exactly with them, I'm unsure, as although I remember it being about me being a salesman, it might be different here, though what I don't know, and would she know what it really is?
Furthermore, I am concerned that the old lady has mentioned Noire being in pain, because it won't be easy to explain as it all depends on if she's had it before, and will the reason be believable or will it not be believable? I say this because while pain can come from hunger, considering how people get hungry regularly while their bodies wait to be fed, do they always have pain from it, and would Noire's character have pain from this?
And while the pain could come from what she's eaten, again considering the time period and circumstances her diet is likely to be regular, so why would her stomach hurt now? But then I realise that considering how stomach ache is caused by such a wide array of things, she could say she doesn't know, and have it checked by a doctor to see if it's anything serious, and it is then that Noire smiles as best as she can, as if to reassure the old lady that there's a reasonable explanation and she'll be fine.
"Oh I don't know, I don't remember having that before, I think after the interview I'll have to go to the doctors and see if there's anything wrong, hopefully it's minor and will be temporary and there'll be nothing to worry about." Noire says in a calm reassuring voice and with a smile.
To see the old lady believe her story surprises me yet pleases me very much, and it's interesting how I'm reminded of a later episode where the character played by Noire had to go to the hospital, and I think if I remember quickly, to have something removed and was on the mend with her stiches removed. Ah I'm so relieved because if she didn't believe my wife considering she's supposed to be sensible, then something would have been up and I fear the nightmare could be lost. It is then that I realise after the relief of the Lastation CPU's answer being accepted, that the old lady asked me a question that I need to respond to.
"I'll be selling pipes, door to door salesman." I reply to her while grunting as if I'm in pain on my chest, in which she notices yet just gives me a disapproving look.
"Not to me you won't." The old lady says firmly with much aggression.
Now why did I know she was going to say that, it is then that afterwards she says more.
"Here. If somehow even though I suspect you may not want it, you somehow succeed in this interview, you'll be leaving and moving into your own home, while at least you'll be out of my hair, my daughter will no longer be with me." The lady in the green dress says sounding quite upset with it.
"Yes, we intend to move and live in our home." We both say at the same time, smiling and holding each other's hands.
The old lady then begins to cry, just as I remember her doing in the comedy, it's hard to feel sorry for her though not least with how unpleasant she was towards me.
"Are you alright, what is it?" Noire asks in a caring voice.
"I, I shall be all alone here, with no one to talk to, no one." The lady in the green dress says in response, crying even more so.
"Oh no you won't, you still have your husband, he'll be back in a couple of months of time, it won't be long. Whereas poor Fred here, hasn't got anyone, not even his mum." Miss Lastation says with much reassurance to her in hopes of stopping the old unpleasant lady from crying.
It's interesting how Noire is playing out the role of the character acting like a loving caring daughter, just like in the comedy, although we both agree that the old lady is not nice, specifically to me with her lack of understanding, and contempt for me, in fact what she says is similar to how I remember it, no doubt to avoid suspicion and to avoid losing the nightmare considering what she's required to do to allow us to have a standing chance.
The thing is while the conversation we're having is alright, and the holding of our holstered weapons in the guise of being in pain, does not make her suspicious after being satisfied with our explanations, there is still the concern as to will she kill us while we're having tea and is she even armed with a particular weapon, and what concerns me most of all is the fact that the tea could be poisoned, which neither of us have drunk yet, but will the fact that we don't drink cause suspicion, though then again if we are to continue talking to her, she may not notice this fact at all.
"There! And do you know how his parents are known for slipping up all the time literally?" The old lady protested, with a hint of smugness as she believes she's been proven right.
Although I remember her saying that in the comedy, it's still not nice for her to say that, for not only does she show contempt for me, my character again, but the parents of the character as well, yet oddly enough it makes me think of my parents who tragically no doubt because of the world or maybe even Neptune, I and no doubt Noire as well, have no memories of our loving caring parents.
"I know my mum once slipped up in the carnival at one point, taking a turn on the school float, she got hurt quite badly." I explained to her, in a tone which says that I intend to defend her honour.
"And your father's gone missing somewhere hasn't he Fred?" My darling wife Noire says to me, in her nice, caring voice.
Interesting how despite the comedy saying a specific place, she doesn't though I understand it being because of the amnesia of not knowing where we came from, let alone being able to name specific places within where we came from.
"Yeah though where I'm unsure Beatrice." I say to Noire, pleased that I know the name of her character, thanks to the old lady mentioning it.
"I suspect wherever he's gone he's slipped as well, perhaps worse than his mother." The old lady says with much cynical sarcasm.
Well at least I know from the comedy what's going to happen next, and it's just as well because what concerns me isn't the contempt she has, but the tension with her being a possible enemy who could attempt to kill us at any moment, though even leaving the place will be a challenge, because of us having our backs to her.
"That's it. We're going to the interview, I'm not having your family insulted like this, I'm sure they did a wonderful job in raising you, and I know you'll succeed in that interview, and then we can move to our new home and perhaps start a family." Noire says as she gets up, as do I while she speaks, her voice showing a hint of anger as if to say that this was the straw on the camel's back.
"Beatrice? Now you've let her go. I'm going to be all by myself. My little girl. My little Beatrice." She yells while sobbing, with her hand close to her face.
We then rush as quickly as we can to the door without running, as if in frustration with the old lady's unpleasant remarks while the woman in the green dress sobs, only to find that oddly enough she doesn't pursue us for I can hear no extra footsteps to go with ours. This I find baffling because surely for her, her crying would be cover so that we can let our guards down and have our backs turned towards her, but she doesn't attempt to kill us with our backs turned to her, but maybe she knows this and instead intends to wait for my darling wife Noire to come back alone while I'm at the interview.
Even when we're at the door, after taking a look behind us to see if she approaches, we find that she isn't coming, instead she's just crying at her daughter no longer living with her, and being on her own, well if she was nicer to me, then I can feel empathy but right now, I can't, and so without so much as a goodbye, we then open the door, leave the house and shut the door behind us.
It soon dawns on me though, that where is the interview place, and how do we get there? And while I have just remembered that it's about 100 yards from here, is it the case here, or is it a different distance? Hmmmm, it is then that I immediately realise that I've been that concerned about the old lady all that time because of the circumstances, and yet the interview will be tougher yet with there being more potential enemies and it'll just be me on my own, not least the concern will be about what the job is itself, and what stuff to say considering how I have no memories of having interviews, but considering that this is a nightmare would the interview element even matter and the only thing that matters is Neptune?
Fortunately for me my HUD tells me where the interview is which pleases me, because I have no memory from watching the comedy about the two characters walking from the house to the place where the interview is, then again why would it show them that considering the budget of the comedy.
Interestingly enough the distance is in fact short like in the comedy, in fact it's simply taking a turn around a corner and then going down the street, and there it is, a company which sells piping and equipment for plumbing. Noire knows this too, and so we head over there as casually as possible, considering we still have our hands on our weapons as there could still be enemies around disguised as pedestrians, and trying to make the act look like we're clutching our chests as they ache.
No doubt this is what Neptune wants for me to be on edge as I walk on the pavement with Noire, not knowing which of these pedestrians in which there's a significant number of them I see, are armed and plan on killing us, it really gets to me how I'm thinking about a potential danger all the time ever since being in this nightmare.
It is such a shame too, for it's nice to walk around in this place where the comedy is set, as this is a time in the past and it's interesting to see what it's like in different time periods since I don't recall being able to get a proper decent view of this throughout the comedy I can remember seeing, and as I walk with Noire, I recognise what I see but it's different for I see terraced houses with two windows at the top, chimneys, one window at the bottom, and a door with them being in different colours like white, black, blue, red or green with the occasional yellow or purple, along with lampposts which are made of concrete and are curved at the top.
There are also cars parked on the street suggesting they drive on the left hand side, which are either bronze, green or a cream colour with the occasional light blue or black, and who's models include ones like Allegro, Morris Marina, Ford Cortina, Fiat 128s, Audi 100 Hatchback, NSU Prinz and Peugeot 504, and then there's the pedestrians who wear long coats, some of them trench coats, with trousers and shoes for men, and skirts with long boots or shoes and tights for women, a good portion of them wearing hats which vary depending on the gender, the colour scheme for the outfits are either brown or black, and for the men some of them even consist of tweed.
After seeing the cars, the lampposts, and the houses along with what people wear, I do find myself curious as to what shops there are since despite seeing the comedy, I didn't get to have a proper look, what billboards there are, to give me an idea on the brands of products, movies or what specific things were advertised back then, and it's great how we would then turn around the corner, and the HUD tells me that it's on this street, and I think in the distance I can make out the place and my HUD says it's called Neptune Plumbing and Company, an appropriate name since Neptune is associated with the sea, and plumbing involves water.
We cautiously yet casually head towards this place, and it is then that I notice more pedestrians, wearing similar clothes, more cars of similar makes, and lampposts, but as I walk past the shops in which their buildings have 4 windows on two floors with a giant one next to a door, showing different products depending on the shop from different meat, to different vegetables, electrical goods, DIY goods, furniture, delicatessen, records, different clothes for men, women and children, a chemist, bakery products, newspapers and comics, sweets and chocolate, frozen food, sauces from ketchup to brown sauce to mayonnaise to tartare sauce, horse radish and mustard, along with carpets, toys, books, jewellery, and even a few banks and building societies, I can't help but have an even bigger feeling that some of these pedestrians are armed and intend to kill us.
In fact so concerned that I am no longer able to enjoy the surroundings while looking out for them, to help keep me calm and not let them get to me, as well as to appreciate being somewhere I never thought I could be, since this is a time period before my birth, and the only way of seeing it is through television or movies.
I know that this is what Neptune wants to see me crack, and for the idea that she could take me to somewhere different and nice and then ruin it for me, as I won't be able to look at anything but that and them, in fact that's what she does taunt me with something nice, be it with memories or even in other nightmares, before giving me such difficult odds for me to overcome, in fact it's similar for when I'm awake with the memories I have recently got in Lastation, and with Noire and family, and yet there is the constant battles, in which I'm outnumbered and outgunned, along with the threat that never ends of Lastation being destroyed.
Suddenly the brainwashing kicks in yet again, and so I find my head being in immense pain, though I manage to just barely not scream, for it will draw attention to the pedestrians, including potential enemies, and merely massage where it hurts me as best as I can.
"Boots are worn on the hands, horses have hands, cotton is manmade…" The brainwash voice chants over and over and over again.
Despite the brainwashing, I manage to supress it and get back to my thoughts and I find that from what I'm seeing, it feels more and more as though Neptune wants me to see the world I'm in, just as I felt she's always wanted to do this, be it here from where I was before arriving to Lastation, and even if it's a different time period to when I was around, it's still an era I remember from watching the comedy, or in Lastation itself, only for me to see it get destroyed.
I know for a fact she wants to destroy where I'm from, who I fight for, what I like for she knows it will upset me to see such nice people, with prosperity and progress and hope, as well as to see a part of who I am and who I represent, be it the country before coming to Lastation which I believe to be the case, or Lastation itself to be destroyed forever and instead for there to be hopelessness, tyranny, and for there to be such decline in the welfare of people in all sorts of ways as a result.
While I know this to be a nightmare, it's the fact that what happens in the nightmare could affect what happens to me and therefore Lastation that concerns me, since I am a vital part in keeping it alive so that it can liberate Gameindustri eventually, and I know that if I fall, Lastation will, and with it the fate of the world, and will then fall into bleakness and despair and the suffering and agony and pain and torture, along with squalor will be endless, under Neptune.
I know that the nightmare will be lost if I don't attend the interview, and yet the significant number of pedestrians that I feel could be armed considering the place, concerns me, concerns me deeply especially with the numbers, and me being able to draw my weapon and find cover will not be easy considering how long it will take in comparison to them drawing their weapons and shooting me down.
Whatever happens though, even if it's probable that I'll be taken out by them even though I don't know who out of them lot, I cannot just give up, for it wouldn't be fair not to admit defeat without a fight, besides something tells me that it would be too easy, and I feel that Neptune would like to kill me personally and to tell me what she intends to do in this nightmare before so, just for the purpose of making my death as humiliating as possible, at any rate I've fought before against odds which seemed impossible and my defeat being inevitable, and I've triumphed and I'll triumph here.
Admitting defeat is exactly what Neptune wants, and yet continuing to fight is exactly what Neptune does not want, and it is then that after thinking about my concerns, my headache hits me once again with more brainwashing, even though I'm getting close to the destination with Noire, as I find myself massaging my head and not yelling in pain, to avoid attention, and hoping I can keep it at bay, especially with how I feel it'll be worse when I enter that building, though I won't give up then.
"Jumpers keep you cold, monkeys live in the sea, killing an albatross is considered good luck….." The brainwash voice says to me once again in the same tone which drones on and on relentlessly.
"Ah." I say to Noire.
"You, alright Fred, you sure you can do the interview?" Miss Lastation asks me in a caring voice.
"Yeah, I'll be alright, thanks for coming with me, you bring such great moral support to me." I reply to her with a smile.
"You're welcome, and I always enjoy walking with you whenever you have an interview." My wife says to me with a huge smile on her face, as we reach our destination outside.
In fact it is now I look inside to see different things on display like black water tanks, paint cans, yellow buckets, tins of different chemicals used in plumbing like flax and solvent cement, boxes containing different pipes be it straight or curly that are small, even a white bath along with big pipes in which some are copper while others are white with fittings, and there's also a packet of different tools which look like scalpels, which I'm unsure what they're used for.
"I appreciate that, I always find myself being you know…" I say to her in response in a friendly tone.
"Oh yeah I can understand, especially trying to remember all the products they do and the prices, if you are to be a good salesman." Lastation's CPU said to me.
"Yeah it isn't easy, not least with this grey tube pipe thing which I don't even know what that is. I suppose I can always smile." I say to her as I look at this object in which the price says £10.50, and this object being near some copper piping which is coiled around in a circle.
"That's what I was thinking, that and just doing your best like you always do." My best friend and ally Noire says to me with a huge smile.
"Indeed, and even though it's easier said than done, not going in looking worried as well." I say to her returning a smile to her.
"I certainly agree, and in the meantime I will be down here thinking about you Fred." She says to me in her kind caring posh voice with a large smile.
"And I'll be up there thinking about you Beatrice." I say to her before having a nice kiss with her which was very nice.
"You'll do well there, you know your stuff and I have a good feeling about you succeeding in this this job." Noire says to me sounding optimistic about the interview.
"Yeah, don't forget about the pipes, and smile. OK wish me luck, let's do this." I say to her sounding rather confident despite the circumstances being difficult and concerning to say the least.
It's interesting that like before in the bedroom of the young lady, Noire talks to me like her character did in the comedy and of the situation of me being in an interview, as opposed to meeting Neptune, again due to practicalities of the nightmare.
It's such a pity that we couldn't prepare for it, but what can we do, other than for Noire to be outside, using a car for cover, being armed with nothing but a bolt action pistol, which while it's supressed, I'm certain the enemies will be armed with semi-automatics maybe even automatics, and me being on my own in there with nothing but a revolver, and while I have a submachine gun, getting it may not be easy since it's in a suitcase, then again even though the revolver is being held in my hand and is holstered, getting that out may take too long compared to the enemies if they already have their weapons out.
My gut tells me that it will be chaos there, and for certain even though I see no weapons or anything suspicious, Neptune will interview me, she might play along for a time, but I'm confident that she'll tell me her intentions and then try and kill me, yes she'll want to kill me by herself, even though no doubt all of her employees will be armed and are a part of her plans, because of the size of her ego, and how she'll want to humiliate me.
Well she can try and kill me, but she won't succeed in doing so, and while it may be just myself and Noire against who knows how many enemies, she'll fail like before, for we have faced odds like that before. We will succeed unlike her, and then I can wake up afterwards and find out what has happened with regards Lastation's fate, as to did I manage to defeat Honda, did I manage to prevent his arrival in Lastation, and prevented his invasion, and have I saved Lastation at least for now?
I am confident I've won, and I know that I can win this, and must not let the odds get to me, for I will rescue Ash and Dawn, and from then on stop the armada from resupplying Pallet Town, and then we can take Viridian City and Pallet Town, and afterwards fight to take the rest of Kanto province, route by route, place by place, and just as here Neptune's time is up, it will be up when I'm awake sooner than she likes to think. My nightmares may be when I'm asleep thanks to Neptune, but her nightmares will be her reality when she's awake thanks to me and my allies.