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6 long months have passed from when we last saw our protagonist.
Hit the big 20, too.
"Hey! It's been three years!" An indignant, annoying voice said. It would be... Neptune.
For you, dear face of the franchise, but you're not the protagonist right now.
"Says who?! I'm the Protagonist of Protagonists! You can't do this to me!" She asked defiantly before saying her reasons.
The AUTHOR, and reality can be whatever I want it to be. Now BEGONE until you become relevant again! And who knows? You might be a protagonist again.
Suddenly, the sound effect of a hurricane spontaneously appeared and swept Neptune's voice away.
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH!!!
"I'll be baaaaaack!..." She yelled as she was metaphorically blown away.
I know, Neptune... I know. But anyway, ya boy Nebula has been busy. While gathering Shares for the Sharicite, mastering his CPU powers, and keeping up his martial arts, life became pretty hectic rather quickly.
But the day has finally come, to go off into the Gamindustri Graveyard and rescue the CPUs.
I know, Neptune... I know. But anyway, ya boy Nebula has been busy. While gathering Shares for the Sharicite, mastering his CPU powers, and keeping up his martial arts, life became pretty hectic rather quickly.
But the day has finally come, to go off into the Gamindustri Graveyard and rescue the CPUs.
"Zzz... Zzz... Zzz..." Nebula, now 20, was snoring up a storm as he slept in one of the guest rooms of the Basilicom.
Histoire was very cooperative with letting him stay for free once she saw his work ethic towards collecting the necessary amount of Shares.
Added with the fact that he was a citizen of Planeptune legally, as well as basically being a new type of CPU that was allied with them in a sense, it was the least she could do to repay him for his work. And all that he wanted at the time too.
Go figure.
Unfortunately, Histoire within those 6 months was unable to find out any information on a "CPU God" besides some obscure rumors and folklore.
And some fanfiction but it was full of power fantasies, harems, and bad writing-
It was disappointing at first, but he cheered himself up when he realized that he could now make a legend out of his situation, by being not only the first male CPU in Gamindustri, but technically the strongest one as well by proxy.
AND his adventuring would only help him improve that now prevalent state of being.
Not to mention, by sticking with the CPUs, he could naturally learn about their, and in some instances, his godly abilities.
But at the end of the day, he wanted to save the world because he wanted to not die, or be subservient under a criminal organization.
Or be bored. But not dying was the top priority.
He also trained his CPU state in-between quests and martial arts training with Mr. Mūten.
Maintaining the form for any more than 24 hours was taxing, but it was safe to say that he had made a vast improvement from the 4 hours he originally had which was found out in training.
In terms of his abilities, he had made his pull and push moves, namely Attraction and Repulsion respectively, much easier to use and more potent, focusing on technique rather than strengthening Brave Heart's stats, although he did receive a noticeable increase from all the training.
He had also improved his Downforce move, which crushed the stone before, could now flatten small hills in an instant.
He learned some other gravitational powers in the course of those 6 months, but that would be telling.
On top of that, he also learned how to manipulate gravity in his human form. While substantially weaker, it did allow him to jump higher through ignorance of gravity as well as fly for a short period.
Ignorance is bliss, as they say.
His martial arts, however, only stayed sharpened, rather than improved due to him only refining his newly acquired techniques instead of learning new ones with AL and Mr. Mūten, but still maintained the same ferocity as before, being the entire point of sharpening them.
And his questing with IF and Compa made them into reliable friends for the very least. Compa had become chummy with our protagonist, always fixing up any wounds that he may have returned with during a quest (If any at all. Talk about overpowered-).
IF finally began to warm up to the male and treat him like a valued comrade instead of a looming threat. Probably by warding off the occasional Dogoo swarm with his presence alone. He had a knack for fodderizing those blue jello dogs.
So with everything set, The day to save the goddesses had finally arrived.
BEEP!
BEEP!
BEEP!
And it came in the form of a blaring loud alarm clock, to boot.
BE-!
SMASH!
A groggy Nebula slammed the digital clock with his fist so hard that it broke upon contact.
"Urrrgh..." He groaned.
The god rose from his bed and rubbed his eyes. He was shirtless and be wearing some cobalt pajamas with small stars on them.
"What time is... Crap." He censored as he look at his smashed clock.
"There goes 50 Credits. I'll have to buy another one on the way back. But more importantly, today's the day..." He got back on track as he got up and got ready.
He went to his bathroom and cleaned himself up.
After, he would put on his adventuring clothes, equipping his scarf last as he looked in the mirror.
"Hope I'm not late. I can't miss out on the big rescue mission. I'd be a failure of an important character!" The adventurer worried.
And finally, he equipped his armor. His shoulder guard, knee guards, and boots.
Nebula then walked out of his guest room, and towards the Basilicom. He also caught what time it was that he woke up around, which was 9:30 AM from one of the building clocks.
"Meh. It's been worse." The god shrugged as he moved forward. He then ran by someone as he went to where they had their conversation all those months ago.
"Good morning, Mr. Nebula!" An on-duty guard would say.
"Hey there, Planeptune Guard #577!" The god gave a hand in recognition as he passed by.
He greeted many workers along the way, as his presence was appreciated once he was realized as a hard worker and all-around chill person to hang around, once you didn't piss him off.
He even accompanied them on some of them on their shifts from time to time, because he was bored, and wanted to see how the Basilicom functioned from time to time.
Very smart in hindsight, if he did say so himself. It made him learn all the layouts and routines of the building as well as some complaints from workers he would forward to Histoire once in a while.
"Did you tell the Oracle about the-" The guard was cut off in response.
"Yep. How the toilets and urinals managed to spin infinitely as they spouted laser beams is something I might never find out. the reason for." Nebula responded abruptly.
"You're telling me. Well, I'm on a shift right now, so I'll see you later. Good luck on your quests today!" He told the god before he walked off.
"Thanks!" The god replied. He appreciated it when people said nice things to him. Made him feel all warm and happy inside.
He finally met up with the trio consisting of Compa, IF, and Histoire. They were discussing something when Nebula would arrive. He alerted them of his presence as he asked about what they were doing.
"Hey girls. What's going on?" He asked.
"Oh, greetings Nebula. We were just discussing the plan for when you three arrive at Gamindustri Graveyard."
There, she quickly summarized what they were to do onto Nebula.
They would use the Sharicite to free the Goddesses from their prisons and return them here for further discussion on how they were going to deal with ASIC.
It sounded simple enough from his point of view.
"I see. When do we leave?" He asked with a questioning gaze?
"We were going to send someone to wake you, since you overslept on the agreed time, but since you're here, right now." IF explained with a moody look.
"There was an agreed time?" He questioned.
He feigned ignorance to attempt to lighten the consequence for sleeping in late.
"Yessy. We told you last night, and the day before, Neb-Neb." Compa reminded him. His look shifted from confusion.
He gave the nurse a deadpan look. She would just nod curtly back at him.
"For real?!" He would ask incredulously.
"Just come on." IF sighed as the three of them would head out.
"Maaaaaan... Ok." He dragged on before following the brunette. He internally sighed when his playing ignorant worked.
"Good luck to you all." Histoire bid farewell as she saw them leave for the fate of the goddesses, and Gamindustri as a whole.
THUNDER!
LIGHTNING!
The rolling of thunder and flashes of yellow lightning was boisterous and constant.
The red cloudy skies only add to the foreboding tone of the environment as the horizon would be nothing more than tall uneven mountains of monitors that glowed a technological and eerie green.
The ground was littered with abandoned consoles and defunct objects, as well as large pipes of metallic origin coming up and seeping back into the ground at some places.
Rivers and streams filled with yellow liquid were also scattered across the graveyard as well as a large cluster of television screens that were larger than all the other mountains that also showed a digital green on their screens.
This was it, our heroes would be in the touted Gamindustri Graveyard.
The trio walked until they stopped on the debris of the forgotten.
"We finally made it all the way to the Gamindustri Graveyard." IF stated.
"S-S-So it s-seems." Compa would stutter.
Nebula remained silent as he scanned the surroundings. The place looked grim, to say the least.
He had a nervous feeling in the pit of his stomach as he looked around. Mr. Mūten was right about staying away from here. But he was on a mission and had an arsenal to boot.
"I don't get why you're so scared." IF told the nurse.
"IF, the sky is red. Thunder and lightning everywhere. That yellow stuff in the water's most likely acid. Why wouldn't you be at least wary?" Nebula asked back at the Guild Agent, with a brow raised.
"A-A-And look at all the weird stuff around us." Compa would add, still nervous.
"Whatever. Stick together and you should be fine, Compa." IF told the nervous nurse.
"Okay." She responded.
As she said that, the voice of Histoire would project itself from one of IF's phones. Which one, he may never know.
"As its name implies, the Gamindustri Graveyard is where those whose time has passed to go and rest for eternity." She explained.
"All things you see here, were once inhabitants of Gamindustri proper." She further explained.
"R-Really?" Compa timidly ask.
"Her words do have some merit. I vaguely recognize some of these objects." Nebula backed up as he looked at her. He then looked back to the pile and saw a piece of equipment that looked familiar.
"Virtuo Boy...?" He asked with a melancholy tone upon realizing the console.
"See, this is why I said it would be ok if you stayed behind." IF told the Nurse-In-Training as she responded with haste.
"There's no way I would agree to that!" Compa would quickly refuse. "I wanna help Nep-Nep and Ge-Ge, and all the other CPUs, too." She continued.
"And so do I. It's hard to believe they've been missing for three whole years now." IF huffed.
"Maybe they were just in over their heads. Who knows? But now it doesn't matter as we're about to find out." Nebula shook off his theorizing.
"I guess... It's so stupid for them to make me worry like this..." She told the others as her features shifted to a worrisome look.
"All will be made well soon. I am certain that they were alive." Histoire told the trio.
"If they did die, we would have probably seen the end of the world already. So don't worry so much." The male tried to cheer them up.
"Even if they are seriously injured, as long as you possess the Sharicite I had prepared..." The tome began.
"...Would restore them near instantly. The crystallized power of the people's fate." Nebula finished as he thought about the object.
No matter how many times he saw the crystal, it would always mesmerize him. But he had also learned that the Sharicite would be very important to the CPUs retrieval.
"Correct. Now go forth, and retrieve the CPUs." Histoire let out her piece before falling silent.
"Okay. Let's hurry and find our ladies, people. We'll carry them if we have to!" IF said to the other two.
"Okey-dokey!"
"Stonks."
And they continued their mission.
Monsters attacked them every now and then as they engaged with them, but they would end up fleeing due to their monstrous strength due to being near the headquarters of ASIC, and Nebula conserving his energy by pushing them back with Repulsion.
They then searched many nooks and crannies within the Graveyard, but the search would begin to drag on and on. Paired with the monster attacks every 10 minutes, the search would only become more and more difficult.
"Jeez... This search is taking ages..." IF complained as they walked.
"Uh-huh. Where do you think everyone could be?" Compa would ask?
"They gotta be somewhere. Let's keep going-" Nebula was cut off.
"Urgh..." A voice groaned tiredly.
"YIKES!" Compa shouted, startled.
"Hey! What's with the sudden shouting?" IF would ask, annoyed.
"A-A-A voice! I heard a moaning voice!" Compa would explain.
"I heard it too. Sounded like it came from... That direction." Nebula pointed.
"Nice! Let's get moving." IF cheered as she moved towards the direction that Nebula pointed in.
"Hm. Come on, Compa!" The adventurer called the Nurse-In-Training.
"W-Wait up! Please don't leave me behind!" The nurse pleaded as she sped up.
"Then let's go! Hurry up Compa!" The adventurer yelled at the nurse as she tried to keep up with the two.
"There she is! It's Nep!"
IF pointed and exclaimed as the trio stopped running behind her.
There, they saw the goddess known as Purple Heart, tied with her hands over her head and bondaged by black wires, which was slightly arousing, if you ignored the situation.
But you'd have to be really horny to do that.
Her bodysuit showed some damage sustained by the fight she with the other 4 CPUs had with ASIC three years ago.
She had one eye open, showing her blue iris with a white glowing power signal in the center, identical to Nebula's CPU form.
Her purple twin tails still managed to somewhat stay upright within the bondage, which perplexed the male a bit. But moving on, they had to set her free. She would try to speak to them, in a pain strained voice.
"I-Iffy...? Compa... I...?..." She muttered as the pain prevented her from speaking further.
"Ge-Ge is here too! And all the other CPUs!" Compa observed as she looked around, seeing the other CPUs in the background, also captured and constricted against their will.
"Wow... This sucks." Nebula gained a somber gaze.
There, the one known as Purple Sister would be held hostage, bondaged, and lurched amongst the wires as well.
No visible damage to her bodysuit was seen, but she was unconscious, unlike the other CPUs, which was not a good sign.
Her lilac hair drooped over her arms as she hung there, unmoving. Kind of like she was dead-
The other CPUs, consisting of Black Heart, Green Heart White Heart, were equally as tied up as the Planeptune Sisters.
They all possessed pained faces as they were held against their will. White Heart even had one in her mouth, albeit to shut her up, if Nebula had to take a wild guess of what he had seen from her in that form from the media he frequented.
He didn't mind her snarky personality, but he could understand why a higher up that captured her would do that if she cursed and smack talked a lot.
"How awful... Who would restrain them like this?" Compa asked, displeased.
"I think the proper question is who could, Compa." Nebula scratched the back of his head as he was unnerved.
IF then tried to get them to come out of the cables by forcefully shouting at them.
"Nep! Snap out of it wouldja!?" She tried to get through to the bondaged deity.
But it would be useless. She was too drained to hear her.
"Man, she's still out cold. What is up with these stupid tentacle things!?" The Guild Agent sounded her struggle as she pulled on the cords.
"Please do not attempt to free them by hand. Compa, utilize the Sharicite." Histoire instructed.
"R-Right! It's somewhere in my handy dandy nurse's pouch..." Compa mused.
But before she could retrieve the item, the ground would rumble as something interrupted the trio.
RUMBLE!...
"I won't allow it!" An extremely angry voice roared.
"Kyaaaah!" The nurse screamed out in terror.
"...Crapbaskets!" Nebula swore in a family-friendly manner.
"Who are you!? You better not get in our way!" IF warned.
The imposing figure would stand before them. He had the color scheme of black and neon blue and was adorned with beige trimming. His appearance was of a bulky, large, armored-like being as he had neon blue eyes that glowed as he looked at the three.On his shoulders were chest guards with a long end on each side that arcs to point above his head.
In his back were two extending parts that eventually span to three sharp, long pieces on each part. Under his chest were four bulk parts designed with directional buttons and a cross-like accessory. Underneath that, was the four bulk parts is a moving black gear with neon blue trimming.
He hovered from the ground as he towered above them, being 15 feet tall. He possessed a large, dark two-bladed halberd with neon blue blades, adorned with button-like accessories and a large skull in the center of the bladed piece.
He cackled in delight at the fools who dared tread in the graveyard.
"Hahahahahaha... Hahahahahaha! For some buffoons to be insane enough to travel here... Inconceivable!" He insulted in his delight.
THUNDER!
"Three long years... I've remained idle for too fucking long... It's finally, FINALLY time to destroy!" He exclaimed as his voice boomed with the thunder.
"Well, he's got a rage boner." Nebula would mutter. "What do you suppose we do, IF?" He asked the Guild Agent.
"Right. I don't get what he's on about, but we've got a fight on our hands. Neb, you're with me. Compa, you go save the CPUs!
"You betcha!" The Nurse-In-Training responded.
The trio split.
IF Nebula engaged with the enemy while Compa tried to revive the CPUs.
The fight between the massive warrior began with Nebula distracting the robot, while IF looked for an opening.
WEAVE!
SLASH!
"Woah!"
SLIDE!
SWING!
"Hnn!"
The male rolled and dodged most of the robot's attacks while IF waited patiently for the right time to strike.
JUMP!
SLICE!
"Tch!"
DODGE!
CRASH!
"Oh crap!" The blue-haired god danced with the blade as he evaded and dodged the robot's attempts.
"STAY STILL YOU PIECE OF SHIT!" The floating menace shouted in anger.
ROLL!
SLAM!
The robot swung will all his might as Nebula practically dodged and weaved for his life. IF soon jumped in when a horizontal swing left the robot open.
"I've got you now!" She yelled out.
RUN!
STAB!
She made a mad dash with her Qatars out and go for the offensive. Her blades hit the exposed side of the robot without a sinch.
CLANG!
But the attack reflected off without much damage.
SMASH!
The robot then turned towards IF and swung his halberd towards her. She guarded but was flung back into a pile of game junk by the force of the impact.
CRASH!
"Whooaaa!" The Guild Agent cried put as she was struck by the powerful blow.
"IF!" Nebula would yell.
"Weak!" The robot spat. His tone reeked of disappointment and anger.
ATTRACT!
SMASH!
He then rushed towards the Guild Agent to land another blow, but was halted by a heap of mass smashing into his side which Nebula threw at him using Attraction.
"Argh!" The robot grunted.
It wouldn't do much damage, but it was enough to throw him off balance as Nebula rushed towards IF and dug her out of the rubble. She had some dust on her and some scratches on her coat, but fine otherwise.
"IF! You alright?" Nebula asked as he helped her up.
SLASH!
"I'm... Fine... That robot just hit a lot harder than I thought he would... Look out!" She warned him.
"Hnn!" Nebula grunted as he moved.
Nebula grabbed IF and use himself as a landing cushion as he dived just before the robot slashed the mountain they were near in half.
He hit the ground hard as IF rolled out of his arms and got back up before Nebula did the same.
"Thanks for the save, Neb." She got to her legs as she regained her footing.
"Don't mention it. We've got bigger problems!" He yelled as he looked towards the death robot he just smashed something with.
The next moment the robot yelled out as he swung down on the two:
SWING!
"DAMN PESTS! I'VE GOT YOU NOW!" The robotic rageaholic roared as he went with an overhead slash.
He connected with Nebula who pushed the Guild Agent out of the way as he was struck with a direct hit.
His body was launched a ways away as his shoulder exploded in blood from the attack.
"ACK!" The adventurer yelled as he clutched his arm, being sent flying.
He rolled and tumbled before coming to a stop and clenching his wound. He would then look to see IF be smacked towards him as he then got up and tried to catch her.
SLAM!
"Gaaaaah!" IF yelled as she crashed into the blue-haired boy.
"Augh!" He cried out in pain.
TUMBLE!
CRASH!
But the speed she came at caused both of them to be further launched back, towards Compa and an awakened goddess. They would look in shock from seeing IF and horror from seeing Nebula's damaged shoulder.
"IF?!..." The goddess paused. She would then see the state of the male's wound. "What the goodness?!" She exclaimed, her face filled with concern.
"What happened to you, Neb-Neb?!"Compa said as she checked the wound.
"It smarts...! The robot got me good. How are you holding up, Iffy?" Nebula asked the Guild Agent.
"Better than you, Ow... That's for sure." She replied, before turning to the goddess.
"Gear!? Am I glad to see you! We're in a tight space against this guy. Sorry you had to see me like this, though." IF weakly grinned before the robot roared once again.
"Weak! So pathetically weak! The only thing you had was speed and that was it! Make this fight more interesting for me dammit! C'mon!!!" He yelled in extreme displeasure as IF faced it with a strong glare, as did Nebula.
"Be careful, Gear. This guy is freakishly powerful." The Guild Agent told her.
"You'll have to stay back with that injury, Neb-" Compa told him.
"Nuh-uh." The boy denied it.
"What?" She questioned incredulously this caused goddess and IF to look back at him too.
"'Tis but a flesh wound. And besides, you have to use the Sharicite for the other Goddesses. I'll slow you down." Nebula told her.
"But-" The goddess tried to reason with him.
"I said I'm fighting!" He cut her off. She remained silent before saying something else.
"...Then... Then I'll fight too!" Purple Sister respected his decision.
"Right! Let's go." He clutched his arm a bit more before letting it go. He still had feeling in the appendage, so that was a start.
"You know what to do, Compa!" IF told the nurse.
"On it!" Compa got to it in a jiffy.
The three fighters would now engage as the robot would stand there unmoving.
The goddess began by activating her EXE Drive, A powerful Super Move that could be harnessed by extremely skilled warriors in the heat of battle. As a CPU, she was bound to have one.
"Celestial Severance!"
SLASH!
BOOM!
BOOM!
BOOM!
BOOM!!!
DUST!
She flew towards the robot and make a long slicing motion, before launching him up and firing several shots at him. She then dashed and pierced through him, but no damage was seen. She finally charge up a beam while he was suspended in the air by a previous attack before finishing the attack with a large power shot.
But as the dust cleared, the robot would still remain unphased.
"That's it? Really? All the power you possess was that right there? WHAT A FUCKING WASTE OF MY TIME!" He snapped. This day was just full of letdowns for the robot.
Nebula then started to pull large objects towards the robot, in hopes of damaging it to no avail.
BOOM!
CRASH!
HIT!
IMPACT!
They simply shattered, broke and sometimes exploded as he slowly hovered towards them.
"ENOUGH TRICKS!" The mechanical menace bellowed before slicing the next incoming debris, causing it to explode beside him as he continued to hover towards the group.
"We're not affecting him at all..." IF muttered worriedly as he inched closer.
"Compa! Are Nep and the others coming to as yet?" IF asked hurriedly.
"I don't think they're gonna be moving anytime soon." She said, concerned. The goddesses were not freed, no matter how much she tried to use the Sharicite to release them from their prisons.
"Perhaps, the Sharicite wasn't enough to wake the CPUs proper, only Nepgear..." Histoire gave a reason for the item's lack of success.
"WHAT?! If you're serious, then that means we can't bring back the goddesses!" IF said, now panicking.
"Again... I'm going to lose again... No, no, no, no, no!" Purple Sister recited fearfully. She had already been defeated and captured, and she couldn't bear a successive defeat.
SLASH!
BOOM!
SLICE!
KABOOM!
CUT!
"C'mon...!" Nebula would be pulling and yanking from all over, with many objects flying at the robot, but he simply cut down each one that came his way, only making his appearance more intimidating as explosions boomed around him.
BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM!!!
BOOOOOOM!
"STOP your SHIT! " The robot growled as he made a long slash, cutting all the remaining explosive objects, causing explosions to light up behind him.
"...Well shit." Nebula muttered as he was now breathing heavily as he expended quite some energy pulling hundreds of objects that did little to no damage to the enemy.
"What a monumental waste of my time! I'm killing you all right now!" The robot said as he began to hover faster, towards the three warriors.
"No!... I'm... I'm completely powerless..." The goddess sobbed as she was about to accept defeat.
But someone had something to say about that.
And he wasn't going to be put down by a berserker robot with a rage boner.
"HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!"
RUMBLERUMBLERUMBLERUMBLERUMBLE RUMBLERUMBLERUMBLERUMBLERUMBLE RUMBLERUMBLERUMBLERUMBLERUMBLE RUMBLERUMBLERUMBLERUMBLE!!!
Nebula yelled as he brought his hand up, causing the ground below the robot to ascend into the air. His eyes constricted as his muscles tensed, his power rising as he bring forth gravitational power. The ground rumbled as the robot stopped in his tracks.
"What the-?!" The robot was cut off from his swear with the confusion he felt.
"!" Nepgear gasped.
"Whoa..." Compa marveled.
"Huh?!" IF exclaimed with a surprised tone.
FOLD!
COVER!
FOLD!
TRAP!!!!
The mass of ground began to fold in on itself as the robot was being held within the now cubical object in the red sky. The robot was successfully trapped within the SP Skill as Nebula breathed out.
JAR!!!
...
JAR!!!
...
JAR!!!
"Hah... Baro Box..." Nebula muttered as he was sweating bullets as he felt the robot chipping and blowing away bits and pieces as the box violently jarred from side to side.
"Go!" He shouted as he yelled at the goddess. The girl jolted as she did not expect to be yelled at by the savior.
"Huh?!" She responded with a startled face.
"You said you were powerless right?! Well, it's because ASIC took your shares-"
DOOK!!!
The box jarred once more.
"Crap! Leave this place and go collect shares! I'll stall!" Nebula grunted out as he soon became encased in a flare of orange energy, his KI.
BURST!!!
DOOK!!!
DOOK!!!
BOOM!!!
RUMBLE!!!
JAR!!!
DOOK!!!
...
The cube then fell with a large crash before being implanted into the ground.
The box then began to rapidly crack and fissure until...
SLICE!!!
SHATTER!!!
BOOM!!!
"RAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!!!"
The robot finally sliced out of his gravitational prison. He was pissed beyond belief that he was restrained for so long by such an insignificant weakling that was injured by a single blow.
He then looked for the girls that dared free one of the goddesses, but was only left with the boy who had imprisoned him.
So he turned his gaze towards him.
"You! What the hell did you just do to me?!" He would interrogate.
"Like I'd tell the death machine who's gonna get turned into scrap metal." Nebula spat. He grabbed his arm once again as it throbbed with pain.
"Bullshit! You're still bleeding from that wound I gave you, dumbass! Where are the other weaklings!?" He continued with an aggressive edge to his rough voice.
"Away from here. From you." He snarled.
"WHAT!!? You let them escape! You fucking piece of rotten dogshit!" The robot harshly cursed as Nebula cringed at the last one.
"Somebody's pissed. You work here or something?" The god asked with an inch of intrigue.
He then used some of his gravity to prevent any more bleeding in his shoulder by using Repulsion to keep the blood itself from escaping his body. He just needed the robot to prattle so he could pull it off.
"I am CFW Judge, Guardian of the Gamindustri Graveyard! And I find you guilty for aiding the CPUs! Your sentence is EXECUTION!" The newly named CFW Judge roared as he rushed the male.
"Oh shit!" The adventurer cursed, barely completing the process.
THWACK!
WOOSH!
BOOM!
WOOSH!
CRASH!!!
Nebula cross guarded as Judge's halberd slammed into his frame, ragdolling him away as he was launched from the trajectory. He was sent through a large pile of junk before being indented into another pile.
STAND!
STANCE!
Nebula was woozy, but alive as he had activated a thin sheet of repulsive gravity around him before he got hit, and extension of the one used to keep his bleeding from causing him to lose blood. He quickly pushed himself out of the rubble before getting back into a stance.
"Raagh!"
SWING!
JUMP!
Judge swung his weapon at Nebula once more as he closed the distance, but this time the boy jumped, dodging the slash.
ATTRACTION!
AXE HANDLE!
While in the air, he enhanced his arms in KI before clasping them and axe handling the guardian as he let himself fall and pulled himself towards him with Attraction.
SLIDE!
SWING!
HIT!!!
But CFW Judge simply was pushed back as he swung up, which catapulted Nebula into the air.
"Uoooooooooooah!" Nebula yelled as he was shot further up.
FLY!
HALT!!!
...
He was catapulted further and further up, before stopping himself mid-air. He then used his gravity to stabilize himself and ignore its downward pull as he floated.
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"He's still batting me around... Let's try this! Rapid Rapture! " Nebula shouted out his SP Skill before rapidly throwing his hands forward, shooting countless dark orange balls of KI was fired at Judge.
The SP Skill would be instant as many blasts lit up the sky.
SHINE...!
SHINE...!
SHINE...!
"Hm?!" The guardian questioned as orange blips would form in the air. They then turned into blasts as he was bombarded by many attacks, kicking up dust and debris as he was bucking under the pressure.
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"DAMN YOU!"
Judge wasn't be expecting such numbers in terms of blasts when he blocked, so by the time the 50th rolled around, he was beginning to take damage.
A huge puff of smoke would shoot up after Nebula shot a final larger KI beam with both hands, which caused an explosion as well as a shockwave upon contact after the initial skill was finished.
"HAAAAAA!!!" The male roared.
KA-BOOM!
DUST!!!
The dust engulfed CFW Judge, obscuring his frame. Nebula would be breathing heavily after that skill was used, as he now performed two arduous feats. But he knew better than to assume his enemy was down for good.
He clutched his shoulder, the pain still pulsating, yet less intense.
"This was just one attack too... My best bet, for now, is to stay up here and hit him, but if he remains unscathed from that, then I'll have no choice but to transform and fight him..." Nebula strategized.
SLASH!
SLICE!
And to his surprise and disdain, The dust was abruptly slashed and parted by the Guardian of the Gamindustri Graveyard.
He sustained light damage, consisting of scratches and miniature dents, but nothing more.
"That move put some damage on me... Maybe you're not such a weakling after all... But you still are a pussy! Come down here and fight me like a man!" CFW Judge goaded him, pointing his halberd.
'Well, you are what you eat... But on a serious note, this guy is no joke. That was one of my strongest attacks too...' Nebula noted as he began to slowly float down.
LAND!
THUD!
"Crapbaskets, I've run out of time! No choice now." He muttered as he increased his descending speed. He landed, creating a small thud on the ground as he did.
"So you've finally come down. Ready to die!?" Judge asked with anticipation, with the voice of a battle maniac as Nebula rose from the crouching position he was in.
STANCE!
"Not yet!... Bring it!" Nebula breathed out before getting into another defensive stance.
DASH!
HOVER!
SLIDE!!!
The two then rushed at each other right before Nebula slid underneath him just as Judge brought down his weapon.
CRASH!
"Bakuhatsu!"
BOOM!
He then gathered some KI in his palm before slamming it into the back of the robot. This caused it to detonate as he was pushed back.
"Argh! Why you little-"
SLAM!!!
Judge turned around at an insane speed and smashed his halberd into Nebula's side.
"Gnat!" The robot snapped.
"Guh!" Nebula guttered as he was struck.
SLASH!
SLICE!
STAB!
SLICE!
STAB!
SLICE!
STAB!
SLASH!
STAB!
STAB!
SLASH!
SLICE!
SLAM!!!
He then slashed and stab him repeatedly in a flurry of quick movements before sending him flying with another high powered slam.
"Gaaaaaaaah!" Nebula cried out in pain as he was struck repeatedly by the strong attacks.
Nebula vomited blood from the last attack as even his repulsive layer could not withstand all the punishment he received in that split second.
"Blargh!" He let out the red bodily substance.
SLAM!!!
SHATTER!!!
...
He tumbled through the air before being sent into a nearby pillar of junk that exploded into many pieces of bit pieces.
"Ugh...I... I still got some more in me!" The adventurer believed in himself.
REPULSION!
ZOOM!
But Nebula was persistent as he repulsed all of the objects off of him and dashed back towards CFW Judge.
THROW!
SLICE!
THROW!
SLASH!
THROW!
CUT!
He began to rapidly pull together and throw many clumps of debris at him from around the battlefield. But Judge would simply slice and dice through all of them.
"This again? How dull!" The robot yelled.
But what CFW Judge wasn't expecting was that while he was destroying the clumps, Nebula had bypassed him and was currently above him once more, charging another attack. The Razor Blade.
After this, he would have no choice but to go HDD if Judge lived since he expelled the rest of his spare SP.
But he had a plan.
While Judge was distracted, he would use the two minutes of air time to charge the attack, and then use Attraction on himself so that his momentum would add to his force, and thereby his attack power.
He also used Downforce on Judge to restrain damage him simultaneously, so that he could not escape, as the attack was more likely to do significant, if not fatal damage.
And by that time, the girls would have surely escaped with Purple Sister, so it was all worth the expended stamina and SP.
So he began. He channeled his SP once more. Then, his right arm glowed a bright orange. It gradually got brighter and brighter until he powered it to the maximum.
FWOOSH!
ATTRACTION!
THROW!...
SLICE!!!
After he did so, he began to descend. While descending, he stopped distracting Judge with debris and zoomed right towards him with Attraction.
"Raaagh!... Now, where did that insect go? He was right there!" Judge complained. The robot then turned around and see Nebula incoming above.
"What the fuck!? Not this time you runt!" He swore, adamant on killing the pain in his side as he approached.
Judge got ready to swing the sharp side of his halberd with all his might since he was getting tired of Nebula's shit.
Nebula, however, anticipated this, stopped using Attraction on himself, and used Downforce on CFW Judge.
CRUSH!!!
SMASH!!!
"DIEEEEE!!!-WHAT!?" CFW was interrupted once again as he suddenly felt the crushing force of gravity act upon him as he was pushed onto the ground with a audiable smash.
GROAN!!
GROAN!!
GROAN!!
The boy then heard metallic groaning sounds from Judge as he hollered in agony.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!"
"This is it! Here goes! RAZOR BLADE! " Nebula yelled his attack as he neared CFW Judge.
SLIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICE...!!!
Then he finally connected.
...
LAND!
The attack would land a direct hit.
Nebula, now be behind Judge, as he was with the Giant Dogoo before, was focused and unmoving, his bangs coverong his eyes as his hand was still outstretched in front of him, energy still coursing.
But then a fierce explosion took place behind him as a heatwave as well as a shockwave was emitted from behind him.
He guessed that the friction from him surpassing terminal velocity by so much would have probably caused something within CFW Judge to ignite since his metallic parts were astonishingly good conductors of heat.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!
FWOOOOOOOOOOSH!!!
"GAAAAAAAAAAAAUGH!!!" The Guardian of the Graveyard yelled out in pain as he was damaged from the inside out.
SHOCKWAVE!
The shockwave was from his attack though... But that only happened when the opponent wasn't obliterated by the attack.
So he turned around.
...
"!"
CFW Judge now possessed a nasty gash down his abdomen that had slight burns on the end, exposing his inner wiring. His body was now anywhere from moderately to severely damaged.
His halberd was also somewhat damaged by just being near the attack zone. He also had one of his glowing eyes forcefully shut off as one of the wires that had been connecting them had been burnt. Scratches and burn marks were ever-present on the guardian after he was hit with such a destructive attack.
Nebula considered it karma for his shoulder.
"!!!" The adventurer reacted as he fell.
LAND!
...
But he wasn't in such a good state either.
He was now on a knee, with a hand on the ground, breathing and sweating heavily. Using his KI and his gravity manipulation together was a strenuous task, to say the least.
His vision get shaky for a bit before shaking his head and shrugging it off. He couldn't afford to lose the lead that he just put himself in.
"You... Stinking... BRAT! How dare you... Do this to me!... I'LL RIP YOU TO SHREDS AND BURN YOU TO ASHES, YOU FUCKING SACK OF SHIT!" CFW vehemently cursed as he pushed himself out of the pit he was pushed into from the explosion.
Nebula shakily got to his feet before staring down the large imposing robot that was cussing him out. He then point to him and asked him a question.
"Hey... Have you been fighting at your hardest?..." Nebula asked with a brow raised, as he wobbled a bit.
"WHAT?! OF COURSE, I HAVE! I'LL LEAVE NOTHING BEHIND WHEN I'M THROUGH WITH YOU, YOU DAMN DEGENERATE HUMAN!" CFW Judge yelled out.
"That's... A shame. Because I.. Still got a trick up my sleeve, Judge.'' Nebula told the death robot as he brought his forearms parallel to the floor, a miniature smile forming on his lips.
"ENOUGH OF YOUR SHIT! YOU'RE JUST BLUFFING! I'LL SHUT YOU UP FOR GOOD, WORTHLESS SCUM!" Judge said as he began to zoom towards a smirking Nebula for the finishing blow.
But then the man yelled out something before the robot could finish the job.
"Access!"
PILLAR!
TRANSFORM!
A bright pillar of white light shoot up and blew back CFW Judge a bit. It would be surrounded by green numbers once again as it shot further and further up into the sky. For a moment, the red sky had a small hole where the true blue sky radiated for a bit.
SHINE...!
And when the pillar dissipated, instead of a tired human, stood a mostly revitalized god.
"Yare yare daze. Why would I bluff, CFW Nudge." Brave Heart jabbed at the Guardian of the Gamindustri Graveyard as he stood with his fist clenched by his hand.
His previous wounds would now be mostly healed to a line of a scar as he figured out going into HDD would restore some damage done, underneath the spandex that covered it which made it look like he completely healed.
He also had an amused grin as he stared down the bloodlusted machine.
"You're a CPU?! But that should be impossible, they've been captured-" The robot began to disbelieve.
"HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!"
BURST!!!!
RUMBLE!!!
WINDWAVE!!!
VANISH!
Judge was cut short as Brave Heart closed the distance instantly after yelling ao hard that the immediate are shook from his godly might, the winds cutting him short even before the first instance, looking at the robot with grim determination.
They were face to face before the god told him something.
"Nothing is impossible, Nudge! Heads up!"
SMASH!
BOOM!
SHOCKWAVE!!!
He shouted before ramming his fist into the face of the guardian with a resounding shockwave being left behind from the impact.
A/N:
Heya there, reader!
If you're seeing this, this is a rewrite of the chapter, just to correct some repetition, fix some spelling errors, and improve the spelling quality, especially in the earlier chapters.
So remember, italics and bold is going for gold.
After a fierce battle with CFW Judge, Nebula has finally revealed his trump card! Enter Brave Heart! Will the god be able to defeat the mechanical menace, or will the Guardian fulfill his malicious duty? FIND OUT NEXT TIME ON DRAG-ahem!
NEPTUNIA PUDDING N!
Almost had to deal with Toei there, phew.
Anyway,
Arrivederci.
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