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"You better have dragged us from Nepdonalds for something good, bruh," AL growled in annoyance as he followed the assassin.
The four took a left from the girls and walked down another street, that led away from the ever-so-desired Nepdonalds. The path Gris took let the group see a significant decrease in pedestrian congestion as the Lastationite led them through some less populated streets.
Such things were commonplace, as finding places unseen by most was rudimentary for a hitman of his caliber, added with the fact that he knew Lastation like the back of his hand.
"Yeah, I'm hungry as hell and I'm not trying to get hangry." Nebula second the complaint as Domio felt his stomach growl as he rubbed it in concern before they headed into an alleyway.
"You'll get your lunchtime after you listen to what I'm planning to do." Gris snarked in response as they moved through another shady area.
"S-So where are we going, Mister Gris?" Domio asked the CPU, looking around and seeing that basically, no one besides them and the occasional ASIC dealer was present.
BANG!
Which was now deceased, as a handgun had ended his career at a moment's notice."You just shot him!" Nebula shrieked, Domio jumping almost a solid foot into the air from shock as AL instinctively looked around for the bullet.
"And?" A raised brow, signaling apathy which radiated from the hired killer as he was unconcerned with the implications. "
"I kill people. For money." He simply stated.
"But it's still wrong! What if he had a family?!" Out came the moral dilemma, one that the silver-haired assassin grew tired of.
"Should've thought about that before he decided to sell contraband chips." Dismissed the agent of the criminal underworld.
"I'm not one to talk down to others about less than legal trades, but since we're on a crusade to stop them, why not contribute in a way I'm most qualified in?" Smirked the assassin.
"I thought we had a similar conversation in Lowee?"
GLOW!...
Inquired the darkly clad assassin, as his gun glowed, the shell and bullet regressing back into the chamber.
"Fine. Just don't shoot everyone. Less blood on our hands, the better." Grumbled the blue CPU.
"Like I need you to tell me." Spat the edge lord.
"You really do, sometimes. Let's not forget the bar scene." AL reminded.
"Syphilis." Mouthed the grim manslayer, no further context needed to elicit a reaction.
"That was low." Glared the brown-skinned fighter.
"C-Come on, Gris. It wouldn't hurt to be a b-bit nicer?" Offered Domio as he tried to make the man's view brighter.
"Yes, it would, brat. Don't stutter when you're talking to me. It makes you look weak. And weakness disgusts me. We're going to my hideout." Spoke the assassin as he told the boy, looking dangerously at Domio, unknowingly dropping a reference.
The child in tandem responded with a gulp.
"Y-Y-Yes AHEM! Yes, Mister Gris!" Domio squeaked in fear.
"You have a hideout?" Nebula inquired with a raised brow as he patted his son's shoulder in an attempt to calm the boy's nerves
"Where do you think I have all my shit." The hitman gave a confused look to the adventurer, asked back.
"In a ditch somewhere." AL gave a frivolous answer.
"I'll put your body in a ditch when I'm through with you if you keep muttering nonsense." Gris gave no tolerance to the jab at his base as AL became wary as he looked away in an unsuspecting manner.
"It must be like that one cave that has bats if he's gonna be like that about it." Nebula reference as he poked.
"Tch. Would be nice, but my place of operations is actually a place that few know about, and is hidden in plain sight as a building." Gris explained as the quartet strayed from the more populated streets as they followed the assassin through some back alleys.
"How far is it from here?" AL asked.
"The other side of town." The assassin answered as they took shortcut after shortcut to get to the place in mind.
"You've gotta be-"
"-Fucking kidding me...!" Nebula finished mid jump cut he would now be in an abandoned warehouse that Gris had led them to.
"Wow, did the author really just jump cut to not write extra words? That's cursed." The adventurer chortled.
You will suffer for exposing me, ye blue bastard.
SUFFER.
"Ah poop." The CPU sulked.
"Forget about that for now. Look at this place, dude!" AL marveled with dollar signs in his eyes as he swiveled his head around the interior of Gris' hideout.
It looked worn from the exterior, but once inside, it looked akin to a futuristic crime lair with its metal plates floor and its dark painted, soundproof walls. It was brimming with state of the art air-conditioning coolants, a weapons wall that ranged from modded pistols, rifles, submachine guns, assault rifles, rocket launchers, sniper rifles, machine guns, shotguns, grenade launchers, and experimental weapons exclusively found on the black market such as railguns, illegal plasma rifles even some enchanted firearms with elemental properties, not to mention even the nation's touted Gate Keeper that was on glass display, only available to members of the elite group of the same name.
Might now want to ask him how he got it, though. We all know the most likely killed for it.
There were even several types of explosives and gadgets in some futuristic see-through crates, a holographic board that had miscellaneous information on it about important information such as the option to alter the traffic system for Lastation's streets, another one to directly interfere with the electricity in certain sectors and the option to hack into any surveillance camera within the main city of Lastation, as well as several VPNs, virtual machines, proxy servers, firewalls and other cybersecurity measures to ensure his animosity on the net.
He also possessed some vehicles such as a sleek black supercar and a digitally camouflaged armored vehicle alongside a superbike and dirt bike with some others that were in distinct locations.
There was also the esteemed coat rack with many different choices of fashion for different occasions on missions that even extended to foreign nations, as there were coats to fit in the populous of Planeptune, Lowee, and Leanbox respectively due to their current fashion trends and taking it into account to create the perfect disgusie.
This was accompanied by a trap door that it was placed on top of, as the building doubled as a safehouse on top of a base of operations for the grey-haired assassin, the door blocking the basement level which possessed some more comfy and lux furniture, less suited to ending the lives of others.
Meanwhile, an upstairs was present that had a training area with a large grey mat, some human-shaped dummies, treadmills, punching bags, and other exercise equipment including a whiteboard written up with strategies and different ways to deal with previous missions. A gaming laptop was on a desk that would have some information on the last hit he had accepted, which was ironically on Nebula.
"Damn. I knew you were stacked, but this looks like over 10 million credits of equipment! At least!" AL gawked as he looked around.
"And I don't want you touching any of my shit with your flammable mitts. That goes for all of you too. A finger and I'm cutting your hands off."
ゴゴゴゴ!
Gris warned as everyone put their hands in their pockets from the killing int ent they felt..
Nebula walked up to the laptop screen as he would see himself by the clothing store when he wore streetwear to blend in.
"You even got me on CCTV. Stalker, much?" Nebula turned to the assassin.
"My job, much? I'm a goddessdamn assassin. I have to learn your mannerisms and location if I was going to catch you alone and kill you. Too bad AL had to be all uppity and fight for his life. Making my life hard." Gris shook his head as he would take off his puffer jacket. He hanged it on the coat rack as he walked to it.
"I have a right to breathe, Grease." AL challenged with an unimpressed look.
''And I had a job to do. You're just lucky that ASIC is as reliable as they are kind-hearted." Gris compared, dripping with sarcasm as he put on one of his fedoras. It was white with a black band.
"Asshole. But why did you bring us here anyway?" AL then asked as he watched the assassin walk upstairs to the second layer of the warehouse.
"I have a way we can get to Leanbox." The hitman revealed.
"R-Really-AHEM! Really?!" Domio raised his voice in surprise as he looked at the assassin. "Then why didn't you tell the others?" He asked.
"Because only 4 can ride comfortably. And as far as I'm concerned, I work better with fewer people. I'm a loner, y'know. Only reason you guys are here is because you've been involved with my buisness before." Gris admitted as he would walk past the gym he had and headed towards another table.
It contained 3 boxes.
One had a symbol for the seas.
Another for a plane that signified air travel. Odd, since Gamindustri had no records of such aircraft's even existing despite its mostly futuristic nations.
And finally one for... Space?!
CARRY!
Gris took the sea cube as he walked back downstairs.
He then took off his busted watch as he approached the desk.
"And here I thought you were gonna drop some pathetic incel line. Turns out it was a anti-social line... What's that?" The blue god asked as he turned around from looking at the assassin's weapon arsenal.
AL and Domio looked away from the different crates as they gazed at Gris.
"You shutting up. This is our ticket to Leanbox, gentlemen." Gris explained as he held the crate.
"How the hell is a box gonna carry us to Leanbox." AL questioned, then snort at the pun he made alongside Nebula and Domio.
"It's what in the box, you halfwit. Deciding between your intelligence and your humor being more retarded is a question for the ages." Gris responded with a shake of his head and a slight furrowed of his brows as he placed the box on the table near his laptop.
He then took the busted watch and put it in a cabinet of busted watches, before closing it and opening another cabinet and putting on another watch.
Kind of jarring that busted high tech watches were an occurrence.
Hope he had a warranty-
"This bad boy can transform into a motorized raft that goes up to 30 knots per hour. Comes with life jackets, a sound system and a mini fridge." Gris listsed the features as he motioned to the cube.
"Why a mini fridge?" Nebula asked with a raised brow.
"Because I get bored sometimes." Was the assassin's reason.
"And the sound system?'' AL inquired.
"Why else? To blast music when I'm coming back from a mission in the middle of fucking nowhere, surrounded by saltwater, sea dwellers, and silence." The assassin answered.
"D-Does-AHEM! Does the fridge have Nep Bull?" Domio asked an extremely important question as he looked at the cube.
It was basically the Neptunia equivalent of Hetap.
"Tch. Of course, it has Nep Bull. I am not uncultured swine." Gris affirmed as he went for his bag. "Go get some sea clothes. Meet me by the shoreline from Lastation in 20 minutes. Come on time or I'll strand your ass here. Tell anyone about this place and..." Gris warned as he took his bag after putting the necessary items within and shoved the cube inside before looking back one last time.
GLARE...!
He gave a stink eye as he made a slit throat motion to the three.
SLAM!
He slammed the door as he left.
"Huh. Guess we'll go get some new clothes. I'm starting to sweat in this." The god noted as he took off his jacket as he did, his statement holding true as sweat patches were present.
"Me too." AL concurred as he took off his own as well.
"I-I'm really feeling it. It's really warm outside of Lowee." Domio stated.
"So imagine the ocean sun. Now get our bags. We're gonna go get some new threads... Again." Nebula looked up as he thought about it.
"O-Okay..." Domio responded as he took off his jacket as they put it in their bags before taking them as they left the lair.
"I think this one would look really good on you, Domio," Stella told the boy as he would look at the swimming trunks section. He was excited to try on some new clothes but felt weird about talking to a woman who wasn't trying to solicit him for sexual favors.
He gained slight dashes of red on his cheeks as he picked what he liked and what he didn't.
"I-I-I think so, too Mi-Mss S-Stella...!" Domio had a hard time talking to the lady as she was attractive, and he had never gotten close to one that didn't smell like promiscuous activity in a while.
Rather refreshing.
How sad-
''I think your son might have a crush, Neb." AL pointed as he looked at some black, red, and orange trunks that had a flaming design on them.
"Let him enjoy himself. As long as I don't get any complaints about sexual harassment or he gets embarrassed by a valley girl archetype you'd find in n/nicegirls, it's all in the clear." Nebula told his best friend as he picked out some cyan, indigo, and eggplant color.
There were some thin white lines separating the colors as they met, the trunks sporting cool colors.
He would then hear a very distinct and iconic goddess yell out in disgust within the confines of the two's minds.
'Ewwww...'
He raised a brow before smiling at the pants.
"Yep. This is it." He confirmed with a satisfactory nod as the voice got more insistent before fading away. Nebula's smile widened to a grin as he looked at the trunks as the voice persisted.
'EWWWWWW!... DISCOSTAN!'
"Does anyone hear anything?" AL raised a brow as he looked around, confused.
"Not anymore." The CPU responded towards him before looking back at the trunks.
"Hear what?" Stella looked around she walked towards Nebula.
"Your beautiful voice." Nebula would say as he would check the price tag of your trunks.
"My voice?" Stella asked as her face became somewhat red with embarrassment. AL raised both brows in interest to see if Nebula had become somewhat smooth.
"Yeah, your voice. It sounds nice. Just a compliment." He explained as he put down the pants as he looked at her.
Domio then looked between him and the girl as he became suspicious.
"Well if that's the case, then thank you very much, Nebby." Stella bowed to the CPU as she cracked a light-hearted smile.
"Anytime. Your smile is refreshing, too. Every time I see it, it puts me at ease." Nebula said, definitely pulling that one out from somewhere.
"Really? That one sounds familiar, Nebula." It was Stella's turn to raise a brow as she caught on to the line as well. AL facepalmed as Domio would now feel awkward as he looked away.
"That one might be common, but you're one in a million." Nebula slid back onto smooth sailing as he picked himself up from choppy waters. Stella regained some dusted pink on her cheeks as she would question the male.
"I see. Is there anything else you have to say, or are you gonna read the pickup line book?" Stella asked with a playful smirk.
"Alright, that one hurt a bit. At least you can't say I didn't try. Now I know your mind shines bright as you are cute, Stellar." Nebula laughed as Stella giggled, that one actually taking a bit of brainpower. AL suppressed a laugh as he shook his head and Domio chortled at the jokes made in the lighthearted atmosphere.
"So what now? If I knew you came here to put me on some kind of flirt trial, I would've worn my reading glasses to see your lines." She jabbed at the adventurer.
"So you could see me look like a stereotypical teenage protagonist who's been strung by his friends to look bad practicing dumb pickup lines? Nah, I'll pass. Seeing you turn red like an anime schoolgirl from every corny line is much more appealing." Nebula responded as he winked in her direction with a suggestive glance and wiggle of the eyebrows which got her to turn red, not expecting his face to exude such charisma despite his mostly struggling flirts.
AL morphed his features into one of support as he nodded with pride as his friend had managed to make the girl went red from embarrassment twice.
He's learning owo-
The afro boy checked his watch as he looked at the time through the screen.
They were supposed to leave at 3:15.
It was already 3:10.
"We gotta go in 5 minutes, so let's get our stuff and head out," AL remembered as he had some flip flops, ready to cash out as his toes wiggled in anxiousness.
"Right. It's been fun, Angery Bird but we gotta go." Nebula referenced as he would then pick out some blue flip-flops from the aisle.
"I see. Well, did all of you get what you need?" The worker asked the trio.
"I-I still need some flip flops." Domio would tell the lady.
"Then let's find some quickly. Should have some in your size down that aisle!" She said as she took the boy's arm, which made him go red in the face as he was being handled by a pretty lady.
"O-O-Okay!" Domio followed as he was dragged along.
"He's even stuttering thrice instead of twice." AL would point out.
"That's probably a telltale sign he likes her. Too bad most women don't recognize or mistake romantic feelings for younger men and when they do, it's usually turned down. Especially kids his age." Nebula noted as he carried the items to the checkout counter.
"I'll break it to him later on. Just let him enjoy the moment." Nebula waved off as he would saw Domio and Stella picking out some flip flops, the boy having a nice time.
She then stopped up and turned around in realization of what the blue-haired CPU told her in withheld playful annoyance as the CPU looked away.
"Did you just call me a freaking Angery Bird-"
DASH!
SKATE!
BOOST!
The three-man party rushed out of Lastation after they called and told the girls that they were going to go 'train by the beach.'
It was half true, they were going to the beach.
The only reason they didn't vie to come with was that Gust got food poisoning from eating a corrupted chicken nugget. Yes, it was D. Apparently something to do with Nepdonalds foot lettuce being involved and causing the deep fryer to have traces of foot fungus that spread to the poor girl's order.
So the others stayed back to take care of the ill alchemist.
Totally not a narrative cop out. Nope. Could never-
I mean, chicken nuggie betrayed smol rabbit loli.
Their bags were on their backs as they moved towards the rendezvous point where Gris told them to meet up.
SKATE!
They dashed by the coconut trees at the fastest the slowest person could go, which was Domio skating at subsonic speeds as he was pushing it.
"We got 30 seconds, fam!" Nebula warned as they were moving across the shore.
"I-I'm going as fast as I can!" Domio yelled as he slid on his ice, a trick learned from the ice skaters on the second floor.
"GO FASTER!" AL shouted as he boosted with his feet, running behind the boy prompting him to run faster with the comical eyes that were furrowed.
"I'M TRYING!" Domio yelled back, with the identical eyes in fear.
"Deja vu, I've been in this place before!"
BURST!
Nebula began to sing as he became enveloped in his KI, running in the lead.
BOOST!
"Higher on the street, and I know it's my time to go!" AL continued, a determined look on my face.
SLIDE!
"C-Calling you, and the search is a mystery! Standing on my feet-" Domio stuttered, recognizing the song as he sung.
"IT'S SO HARD WHEN I TRY TO BE ME, WOOOOAH!" They all yelled as they moved, seeing Gris in the distance.
"There he is!" Nebula pointed.
"C'mon, sing the other part! We gotta annoy him as much as possible!'' AL told the males.
"Y-Yes!" Domio nodded his head as he put everything into sliding and continuing the chorus.
"DEJA VU, I'VE BEEN TO THIS TIME BEFORE!" They shouted.
"HIGHER ON THE BEAT, AND I KNOW IT'S A PLACE TO GO!"
"CALLING YOU, AND THE SEARCH IS A MYSTERY!"
"IT'S SO HARD WHEN I TRY TO BE ME, YEAAAAH!" They sang as they skidded right when they neared the assassin, who was now be in some black swimming trunks that blended to white, matching with his fedora.
His lean, toned muscles bathed in the sun as he had his arms folded, tapping his foot with his flip flop. His chest and abdomen had many scars that resembled a constellation that looked like a big dipper.
The box and his bag would be on the sand. His palish skin had started to slightly darken from standing in the sun for a good half hour, as he waited.
"You wear a fedora to the beach?'' Nebula asked with a stifled laugh.
"You wear eggplant color?" Gris shot back. The blue god wore his trunks and slippers after he bought them. He even put back on his orange bandana scarf, for the occasion.
"I heard a voice vehemently refute it, so I bought it." The god explained like it was common sense.
"Of course you did. Now for the rest of you. Decent enough, we should look like normal beachgoers when we reach Leanbox sand." The hitman rolled his eyes before looking at the box.
TOSS!
He presses a hidden button on the box, then threw it into the water.
TRANSFORM!
SPLASH!
Right before it landed in the water, it transformed into a grey motorized raft, complete with that mini-fridge. The life jackets would be within the raft itself as the boat's transformation emulated something straight from a spy movie.
"Wowza! Does it actually fit a mini-fridge in that small box? Talk about technology." AL stated with an impressed tone as he put his hands behind his head.
"He did say it had life jackets and a mini-fridge." Nebula recalled.
"D-Dibs-Ahem! Dibs on the Nep Bull!" Domio called, making sure not to stutter as the intimidating assassin was in his presence.
"Now put your shit in and hop on. We got a nation to get to." Gris directed as he pulled the raft onto land and carried his bag onto the boat. He then climbed into the naval vehicle as he put on the life jacket and sat by the motor.
"We have plot to advance. Or does that count only to us...?" Nebula asked himself as he pulled himself onto the raft as AL had the bag.
He then put on the life jacket as he sat in the boat, waiting for his friends. "How long this trip is gonna take?" He inquired to the hitman.
"30 minutes at most. 15 at least." Gris informed.
"Nice." The blue god anwsered as he looked to the sea.
Domio walked next, sporting his white trunks with vertical lines and white flip flops as be climbed onto the boat with his bag. He placed his bag in the boat before putting on the life jacket.
He finally hopped to the mini fridge and immediately take out a Nep Bull.
"I-I-Ahem! I'm ready! I'm ready! I'm ready!" Domio pumped himself up as he then took a drink of the beverage, the beverage making him energized as he rattled off a phrase a certain sponge was fond of.
"What are the chances I get to punch a shark?" AL asked as he put his and Nebula's bag on the boat.
"Very low. The bottom of the boat has special camouflage technology to disguise itself as normal seawater. The motor also doubles as an automated defense system just in case the average reef or mako shark becomes too adventurous." Gris explained as he would then start up the raft.
"Why are you so rich." AL couldn't wrap his head around it.
"Because I'm better than you," Gris answered.
"Still nearly died to me, tho." AL brought up.
"Still got beat by me, though." The hitman rebutted.
"Go fuck yourself." The fire fighter grimaced.
"No need. I have bitches."
MOTOR...!
MOTOR...!
MOTOR!
The hired killer sniggered as he pulled the motor, to the fighter's chargin as he registered the comeback.
PUSH!
JUMP!
LAND!
DRIVE!
Gris then got out of the boat and pushed it further into the water before jumping into the raft, and steering the motor as he accelerated.
They soon left the coastline as their raft sped off towards the sea. The motor rumbled as they sped across the water, the sun glistening on the seas as they rode the ocean waves.
"We've fled from the gulag." Nebula joked as he cracked a smile, looking back. The others would snicker, except for Gris who rolled his eyes with a suppressed smile.
"D-D-Ahem! Did we clutch it?" Domio asked, unknowingly adding to the reference.
"Considering none of us are dead... Yes." The foster father nodded as Gris turned to him.
"You're only alive because an interdimensional tag team of corrupted gods came out of nowhere and almost killed both of us." Gris deadpanned.
"And YOU'RE only relevant because I gave you a CPU Memory." Nebula shot back.
"Damn!" AL yelled in surprise.
"A-A what? " Domio asked. A chill suddenly went down his spine as a look from the assassin made him regret his speech impediment's existence.
"A nifty rock that makes people into gods." The bronze skinned fighter explained to the ignorant spectator.
"O-O-Ahem! Oh." Domio nodded.
"Well excuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuse me, princess. It's almost like you forgot you were going to get iced if that Cold Topic emo warmongerer and his daddy issues bottom bitch didn't show up to interrupt a fight with an explosion within Lastation on a scale that didn't happen with two fighters since the bloody Console Wars!" Gris hammered in.
"The what?! " Domio asked incredulously. Everyone looked to him as he exclaimed.
"Wait, Domio... You don't know what the Console Wars are?" The blue adventurer asked his adoptive son.
"Gamindustri had a war?" Domio asked, concerned. Guess being isolated from society as an abused gang child didn't bode well for knowing important details about the world. Again he was young, but that fact was surely supeceded by his living conditions.
"Yeah. My old man and my parents were in it. Hell, even Nebula's parents were in it! I'm sure Gris' parents at least knew about it, right?" AL asked as he turned to the assassin.
"I actually served in the war with my father." Gris smiled.
"You WHAT!?"
"Hold on. You were in those wars with your dad?" Nebula asked, the subject drastically changing. "You, donned armor and did battle with the CPUs?" A sound similar to a wet fart escaped the Planeptunian CPU as he held back laughter at the imagery.
"Well, in a sense." The hitman raised a gesturing palm.
"What do you mean?" AL narrowed his eyes.
"I'll explain. The Console Wars were battles that didn't merit bloodshed and colonization under the pretense of dividing and conquering and committing countless war crimes like usual wars. Given the conditions and motives of the war, traditionalism would spell the end for humanity." He instantly clarified as he got the perceived concept of a traditional war out of their heads.
"It wouldn't make sense in this context, since if people died from the goddesses' fighting, no one would be left to worship them, and they too would eventually cease to be, making the entire conflict for naught." The assassin spoke as the seas began to calm.
"S-So- Ahem! So what did they do?" The uninformed boy asked.
"They fought with each other themselves. Neptune, Noire, Blanc, and Vert strived for the influence of the people, known as shares as they did many things from swaying the populous of rival nations, to outright skirmishes between two, three, even all of them at one point." Gris continued.
"They didn't want their citizens getting involved because their deaths subsequently meant lost resources for all parties involved, those that the people worshipped, and those that could have gained aforementioned deceased followers." Elaborated the Lastationite.
Domio tilted his head at the intellectual inquisition.
"They basically didn't want people to go out and fight because no one would benefit from the death of their most valued resource, and it would only cripple the highest amount of shares one can possibly gain in the grand scheme of things." Nebula dumbed down for the boy to understand.
"How long was this going on for?" Domio asked.
"As long as I can remember. You were born after it ended since the treaty was put into effect for a while now. My dad remembers it well. The closest date they actually have recorded is about... close to 1,000 years ago." Gris stated as Domio's eyes widened.
"...That's a really long time. How did it even start?" The icy boy asked.
"No one really knows. The most plausible thing my late mother could tell me was that it was going on since more than one nation had sprouted, before the Fall of Tari." The assassin stated.
"Tari? Wasn't that a myth?" AL raised a questioning brow."
"It's real. But it's been washed away by the sands of time. My grandmother had some history books in the family study, so I read up on some information when I found out at the time. Given my powers, accumulating information when you speed up the part where your brain gathers and collects it is really useful." The assassin referenced his relative as he went on.
"They also state when Lowee's CPU Cyber Heart, Aran had been confronted by Planeptune's CPU Star Heart, Mercury, who was also referred to as S.G. back in the 2D Age was the first conflict, which escalated over time as the Primal Console Confrontation for a couple of centuries." Gris laid down the basic events in the olden days, and beginning stages of the Console Wars.
"That was until Lastation's first goddess which was CPU Tomb Heart, Croft arrived, sparking the Ancient Console Skirmish for a few more hundred years, as three factions were now involved as more fights on smaller scales took place alongside some bigger confrontations." He further contextualized the earlier goddesses and their creation and confrontation.
"But when Leanbox was finally founded and its first goddess being CPU Gale Heart, Teena in the 3D Age, the all-out Classic Console Wars commenced, the four nations we know today, albeit more archaic." The god stated. "It wasn't until the goddesses today came about that it changed to the Modern Console Wars or just the Console Wars." The hitman finished.
"So the Ancient Goddesses started the Console Wars..." Nebula pondered over the new information. He knew about the treaty and the present goddesses competing, but he didn't know it stretched back to the halcyon days of humanity!
"Then why are their names things and not colors?" AL asked as he referred to the goddess names.
"That was actally a trend, and it changed over time. This generation and the last generation of CPUs were named from colors. Your and my names are actually pretty traditional, now that I think about it." Gris cupped his chin as the ocean breeze flew by as skated on the seas.
"B-But- AHEM! How did it end?" Domio was now really invested with lore dump- I mean, historical exposition that Gris bestowed.
"Oh, that's easy. The CPUs signed something called the International Peace Treaty, a document that basically made their nations able to coexist within Gamindustri and barred certain ways to gain unfair advantages and a bunch of uninteresting rules and regulations like 'You can't steal shares' or 'You can't slander another nation using any means'. Had a whole ceremony and everything." Nebula summarized as Domio looked at him, gaining some insight about the recent years that ended the Console Wars.
"And what about Tari?" AL asked.
"What about Tari?" The blue CPU side glanced to the fire user. "People can't even decide if it's real or not." He voiced his reasoning for his dismissal.
"Even the texts were wishy-washy about its existence, just like it's relevancy. The only reason people knew about it was that the CPU was such a melodramatic cook that snapper and caused her own nation to fall. It couldn't even say where her nation was in Gamindustri..." Gris led on as his expression was neutral yet distant, trying to come up with a way to rationalize.
"Hm. Wonder if she had a CPU Candidate..." AL thought aloud.
"So that the both of them would wreak havoc? Hell no. If she was that crazy, then how do you expect for her shares to be high enough to produce a sibling in the first place? That's like getting a crazy cat when you already have a rabid dog." Nebula compared.
"Well, I understand that Gamindustri is complicated." Domio contributed as the trio turned to him. He dug into the mini fridge and now had his on a Nep Bull. He opened the drink and started to drink the delectable beverage.
"Convoluted and bonkers. I know that evil lurks in the mind of a madman, but Gamindustri basically has that cranked up to eleven with the Deity of Sin alone." AL stated.
"Mina did say it originated in Lowee. And Lowee WAS the first nation before Tari." Nebula gave a viewpoint.
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Silence ensued.
"But how did your dad serve in the war?" Nebula asked the question that incited the tangent.
"My dad used to donate funds to Noire through his businesses to have the government owe him later on under the guise of charitable monetization. While he didn't gain any immediate governmental benefits, he did became rather popular among the cities as a result in the business scene, which only boosted his sales and taxes were discounted due to his contributions later on.
"And you?" Nebula raised a brow.
"I gave 5% of my allowance." The hitman blurted.
The duo stared at him with a deadpan.
Domio gave him an awed look.
Gris gave the trio a contempt smirk.
"5% of 100 Credits?" Snorted the adventurer.
"10,000,000, sure. I was very eager to flaunt my paper back then." Discreetly flexed the CPU.
"You should've been spoiled rotten with all that money. How are you self suffienct and not a fragile posh prick?" AL inquired to the man.
"The same reason why I kill people. Because I don't have to rely on it. I have other sources of income, and some reality checks and guidance let me not become complacent with the fact that I could wipe my ass with ten thousand dollar bills until the die I would've naturally died."
"...Why do you always give me no ammunition to make fun of you! Do something stupid so I can make fun of you!" Comically fumed the pseudo-protagonist.
"Never." Laughed the hitman as he tipped his fedora with swelling swagger.
"Moving on..." AL shook his head as he dug into the mini fridge and took out a Bud Dank, a popular alcoholic beverage made in the breweries in Leanbox by their destination.
"I feel parched after all that history." The afro martial artist told the others.
He popped the cap with a flick of his finger and started drinking.
"I hear ya. Let's see here..." The CPU dug into the fridge as he hoped to find something he liked. He sifted until he pulled out a Dudweiser, a Planeptunian legacy.
He took the tin beer and popped it before drinking the can.
But to his surprise, the beer tasted less rich than how he last expected it. It tasted like piss water.
Nebula's face scrunched in realization and dissatisfaction as he was an autosave away from spitting out the drink.
His odd reaction caused the other legal drinkers to look at him with raised brows.
"What's wrong? You accidentally picked up an alcoholic beverage?" Gris snarked.
"You got a dud?" AL continued with a trollish glint in his eyes.
"No- It's that this drink... It tastes like unfiltered brown tap water!" Nebula did the impossible as he shit-talked his favorite beer.
"Bullshit!" AL rebuked.
"Said every first-time drinker." Eye rolled the silver-eyed edge lord.
"I've drunk before! It's just that last time I checked, Dudweiser didn't taste like the factory workers actually pissed in my drink!" Nebula curbed the assumption of Gris.
"Yeah right. Look, sip your dud drink and calm down." Gris paid no mind to the fellow god's reaction as he wentinton the mini-fridge and took out a Doors, the universal beer.
"I'll show you what a real man drinking looks like-!" Gris's face immediately stopped as his features became creased and withdrawn as the liquid he just drank was the equivalent of an unkempt fishbowl.
"What's this? Do you want to show that beer to the door?" AL mocked.
"Shut up! Those guys must have given me a fucking expired one! Those incompetent-" The assassin was cut off once again as he saw that the expiration date wasn't for 6 months.
"It's fresh!? The hell?" The assassin was losing it. His vice was being threatened.
"You guys must be having an alcohol apocalypse right now." AL chortled as he sipped his beer.
"Shut up." They told the human, who simply shrugged with nonchalance as he continued.
"C-Can I drink those?" Domio asked.
"No." The answer with all three men was absolute.
"And stop stuttering. I told you about that." The assassin gave him a narrow glare with a serious point.
"Aww... You say it like I can turn it off on command." The underage child moped.
"Why does it taste like this!?" Gris went back to his existential confusion about the state of alcohol.
"Hm..." Nebula wondered as he flashbacked.
"Hey, Histoire," Nebula called the Oracle as he finished some of the work that piled up due to the absence of the CPU.
As dense as the neatly stacked underground of paperwork seemed, it got dine for the most part by the man as he sat himself down and did his best, surprisingly the work itself not being that difficult, which made him formulate a rather piteous thought towards his supposed peer's work ethic.
Histoire figured that since he was a CPU, he could work in Neptune's place for a while as seemed like he had a good enough work ethic, unlike his lazy predecessor. She'd originally put Nepgear up to the task, but decided that her collection of shares outweighted this part of her duties for now, and letting a new and willing CPU get some experience was refreshing and secretly exciting for the tome.
"What is it, Nebula?" Histoire responded as she asked the adventurer in a neutral tone. Her eyes scanned over his workspace and them back to him. A long-denied sense of wish-fulfillment was washed over her as the man before she had managed to do something that Neptune could not do since her creation.
Start and finish work without a single complaint.
It was about three months after the male CPU surfaced, and she deeply cared for Neptune and her well-being, but after getting so used to a productive CPU that she began comparing him to Neptune subconsciously...
Made her miss Neptune even more. But she kept her troubles away from the fledging CPU, not wanting to derail his progress for her sake.
"Why can't I get wasted?" The god asked.
"Pardon?" The fairy tome thought she misheard something, so she asked once more.
"Why can't I get drunk? I'm drinking tens of bottles, cans, even pitchers of alcohol and I'm not even an oomph tipsy." The adventurer related his plight.
"Oh... W-Well you see Nebula, the reason you are showing a lack of symptoms of being intoxicated is quite simple." Histoire began to explain as Nebula raised a brow in anticipation.
"Really? Lay it on me, fairy godmother." The adventurer nicknamed the Oracle as she giggled at his nickname. Efficient and eccentric he was especially.
"It is because you, akin to all CPUs in recorded history are immune to the effects of alcohol." Histoire bombed dropped.
Nebula froze.
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"Are you alright, Nebula?" Histoire asked as she floated closer to the blue screened male.
THUD!
The god fell flat on his back from pure shock.
"Goodness, Nebula?!" The tome floated near him with concern as she frantically observed his fallen form.
"What." Gris flatly stated as he turned to the CPU.
"We are immune to alcohol." Nebula stated as AL began to die of laughter.
"WHAT," Gris asked again, clearly in denial.
"We have been transformed into beings that are incapable of the effects of intoxication." The meme lord expanded his vocabulary.
"...WHAT!" Gris' features became that of an alcoholic that had been blacklisted from every drinking establishment on the planet.
"The two of us divine individuals have been subjected to the non-effect and otherwise immunity of the negative state and have been deemed unaffected and left daft to the expected and welcomed effect that alcohol instills into the average person at the price of godhood, and will most like remain so for the rest of time as we ponder the validity of our decision." Nebula expanded. his brain for a third time.
"..." Gris became quiet.
He turned to the sea.
He stood up.
DRINK!
He drank the now abhorrent tatsing drink down to to very last drop, ignoring the tears of silent grief that trailed down his face as his very body rejected the beverage.
"Holy...!" AL was instilled with awe alongside Nebula, and confusion occupied Domio's mind as the assassin stood on the edge of the speeding aquatic vehicle.
PILLAR!
TRANSFORM!
He then transformed.
"Edge Heart-!"
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SHOCKWAVE!
MASSIVE RIPPLES!
WINDWAVE!
AURA!
STATIC!
BOOM!
Nebula was cut off by what could only be described as the F bomb if the century from a broken god.
"MAMA MIAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Domio screamed screamed dear life.
"HORY SHITTO!" Nebula held onto the raft and grabbed the boy so that he wouldn't be flung into the water by unearthly withdrawal symptoms.
"He's crawling in his skin!" AL screamed as he drank with the most entertained face in the raft.
"Perchance, are we going to be passing by the ship that Underling and Warechu are on?" AL inquired.
Gris reverted back to his human form, now having bags under his eyes from the revelation that changed his viewpoint on life forever.
His booze was gone, his will to live with it. He sulked in the corner with some Nep Bull as he turned to an upbeat AL.
"Yes," Gris answered in a neutral tone, reeking of depressing undertones.
"Nice. We can rub it in their faces as we beat them to Leanbox."
OPEN!
GRAB!
The flame fighter supposed as he opened the mini-fridge and took out a Nep Bull for himself.
The boys were on the water for about 10 minutes and would have been in the middle of the waters that separated the mainland and the island that Leanbox rested on.
The outburst that Gris had actually propelled them forward amazingly, and were now ahead of schedule instead of seemingly behind.
Still didn't mean he forgot about his giggle juice crisis.
ZOOM!
SPLASH!
BOB!
The ship that the girls originally had failed to catch in time was now in sight as they were rapidly approaching it.
"I see it!" Nebula blocked the sun from his eyss as he mimicked a certain silver hedgehog, widening his eyes.
"Right. Which means that we're going to arrive earlier than them if we keep up the pace." Gris said as he steered the raft to go around the boat.
"D-D- Ahem! Do you think we'll see Underling and that weird mouse guy again?" Domio asked.
"If they're still on the deck if the ship, then yeah. What do you think we should do when we see them?" AL opted.
"Well, boarding on the ship would be problematic, not to mention we would've gotten in this one for nothing..." Nebula thought as he cupped his chin.
"I know.'' AL raised a finger to the others as he explained the idea.
…
…
…
"I can live with that. Pisses them off and boosts morale." Gris sniffled with a nod of his head.
"..."
"..."
"..."
"..."
"Did you just sniffle-" A dangerously entertained AL was cut off.
"Shut the fuck up and let me grieve." The assassin sobbed.
"B-But what if they fire down at us or something?" Domio made a good point. The baggy-eyed glare from the assassin reminded them that he forgot to clear his voice, the boy doing so profusely to make up for it.
"They won't. Underlings don't have that much smoke to dish out."
HOONK!
Nebula brushed aside as they neared the side of the ship.
"Alright, get ready." Gris for a moment rose from his moonshine melancholy as he spotted the two ASIC grunts
Meanwhile, on the ship deck...
"The faces on those broads were priceless! And those bastards were seething, especially the one that wanted to kill me! Hahaha!" Underling laughed triumphantly as she stared at the horizon. Her day was looking as bright as the sunlight glistening off of the ocean waters as she smiled to her career finally taking a right turn.
"And my sweet angel Compa! I can't wait for her to get to Leanbox so that I can see her again, chu!" Warechu fantasized as they were by the railing. His darling would surely be coming to see him where he was going, so he was content with the direction of his mission.
"If I pull off this job right, then Lady Magic will finally see me as a skilled member of ASIC!" Underling had some stars in her eyes as she imagined the situation going perfectly with a smile of stardom.
"Yeah, right. You, doing something right? And I'm not gonna get with Compa." Warechu shook his head, absolutely sure about his goal as the greenette faced him.
"Well, at least I didn't haul ass out of my fight! I thought you were a rat, not a chicken!" The hooded member was brought up.
"Says the one who failed 3 times back-to-back-to-back. At least I got beat on low-profile business. You mucked up Lady Magic's requests thrice!" The floating raft pointed out with a confident smirk.
"Why you little...!" Linda was about to flame the rodent when she turned to the ocean and looked down.
"Hm?... What are you...-" The member of ASIC looked down to the water.
They both then heard a whistle that would make them look down.
"GAH!" Underling yelled as her eyes almost popped out of her head as they were comically plated.
"WHAT THE?!" Warechu would follow suit as he too saw the disturbing image as his eyes became comically plated.
The two looked down as they see the males on the raft, speeding in the direction of Leanbox, with Nebula dining the loser symbol with his right hand, Gris blatantly flipping them off with the wrath for a sober alcohol addict, AL doubly flipping them off, and Domio giving them a thumbs down.
BOOST!
They all yelled the word "LOSERS!" before AL used his flames to boost the raft away, surpassing them at an even greater speed.
"Why those bastards!" Underling grumbled as she glared at the boat as it raced ahead of them.
"How did they even get a boat?!" Warechu asked
"Beats me! But we can't just let them beat us to Leanbox!" Underling shouted.
"But what can we do? We're already on the ship!" Warechu told her.
"...Damnit! Just when I thought we had one upped them!" Linda said as she saw their boat reach the front of the ship before speeding off.
"Damn those CPUs!'' Warechu shook his mouse hand in anger.
Back on the raft...
"T-T-Ahem! That was cool!" Domio squeaked in excitement as he looked at the others.
BOOST!...
SIT!
AL stopped his boosting as they had completely passed the ship, and returned to his original seat.
"That felt good. Now how long 'til we see the shore?" He asked Gris.
"If I had to give an estimate, anywhere between a few minutes." Gris guessed as he looked to the horizon, seeing an island as his state was somewhat improved as that one up got him out of his eternal hooch handicap crisis.
"Land ahoy!" Nebula pointed as he saw the island.
"That was quick. Cool!" Domio beamed as he finished his 2nd Nep Bull.
"Since we've cut time from the little stunt we've pulled, I feel obligated to congratulate you for once, AL." Gris finally gave his first compliment as he looked at the island himself.
"Gris thanking someone?! Le gasp!'' Nebula faked surprise as he looked back. "I thought all you could do was curse, be edgy or be violent." The blue god would tell him.
"... Tch. And I should throw you off this damn boat." He said, his mood soured as his edginess returned for a second coming.
"Aw, don't be butthurt. That just means you're going through character development." Nebula waved off the threat as he looked back towards the island.
"Says the one who's shown little to none since I met him." The assassin shot back as he would look at the god.
"I'm a complex person! I change, just not myself. More the people around me." Nebula would say with a deadpan.
"Likely story." The hitman wasn't buying it.
"Can we move on from the meta discussions already. Anymore and we might accidentally disrupt the plot." AL would tell the two deities as all Domio could do was look confused.
"P-P-Ahem! Plot?" Domio asked, unsure of the direction of the tangent that was not confined to the story.
"That's still in tact?" Gris reeled in pleasant surprise.
"I hope so." Nebula told the two as they neared the shore of the island that was now in their sights. "If it broke, I'd just sound like I'm off my rocker, not all cool and with the meta." Complained the CPU.
"As if you don't already sound like a mad person." A deadpan was aimed to the blue deity.
With the quartet of heroes- er, important characters finally finding the island that housed Leanbox, they guided their boat to a rocky side of a cliff.
STAB!
The water was deep, due to its dark blue colour as they docked the raft with the held of a rope and anchor that Gris literally drove into the rock side.
"That should keep the boat in check." Gris nodded as he tested the strength of the line to see if he had to bolster it or not.
PILLAR!
TRANSFORM!
Once done, he then put on his bag before transforming on the boat as the water wouls ripple from his action.
Edge Heart appeared with the deduction of baggy eyes, this time in the trunks that Gris was wearing.
The fedora was lost, however.
RIP fashun-
"We will fly to the outskirts of Leanbox before reverting back to our human forms and walking the remainder of the path." Edge Heart explained as he went through the plan.
"B-But I can't fly!"
PILLAR!
TRANSFORM!
Domio brought up as Nebula would transform.
"Which is why I exist, son." Brave Heart announced as he looked down at the boy. He too was dressed in his beachwear as he stood in place.
"B-But-...!" It clicked for the lad as he realized what he was going to have an opportunity to do.
ABLAZE!
They turned to AL, who activated his Burning Fever state. He put his bag on his back after the transformation due to not wanting to burn it during the transformation.
"You're gonna be a flying kid, Domio. Just make sure he doesn't drop you by accident."
BOOST...!
AL sweatdrop as he then elevated from boosting his legs with his flames.
ZOOM!
"Let us depart!" Edge Heart shouted as he manifested his flight processors before blasting into the air.
WOBBLE!
His force of departure caused the boat to shake a bit as Domio and Nebula would wobble at the force.
"W-Whoa!"
"Yo, watch it!"
"Apologies!" Edge Heart yelled from above. Such a drastic change from the edge lord.
"A-At least he's a lot more pleasant in that form," Domio muttered as he looked up.
"More like he doesn't believe in the edge lord commandments as much. Now come on, Domio." Brave Heart told the boy as he knelt. He would then turn around.
"Hop on."
"A-Alright, Nebula." Domio complied as he climbed onto the back of the tall god. He then wrapped his arms around his foster father's neck and was raised as the man stood.
REPULSION...!-
Domio felt himself slowly being pushed away from Brave Heart as he clung on until it suddenly stopped.
"Right. Now that the repulsion shield is deactivated, I'll inverse it."
ATTRACT!
Brave Heart said aloud as the repulsion field became an attraction field as Domio felt himself being comfortably stuck onto the back of Brave Heart.
"That should keep you from falling off. Still hold on, just in case some asshole goose decides to attack you." The god snorted as Domio nodded.
FLY...!
They then rise as the flight processors would let the duo ascend. The wings would give Domio a little space with his bag as they rose.
The father and son then moved upwards, leaving the raft at the bottom of the rock side as they flew up.
The duo soon went over the cliff as they were now a few thousand feet above sea level.
ZOOM!
They stopped as they reached around 4,000 meters. The other two flying warriors would be waiting for them as they hovered.
"Hello there." The blue god greeted, mimicking a certain Jedi.
"We've been waiting." Edge Heart reminded with a courteous tone as he looked at him. He also craned his neck a bit as he saw Domio holding on to him with some haphazard care.
"Are you sure he won't-'' The scythe god asked.
"Gravity field." Was Brave Heart's simple answer.
"I see." The scythe god nodded in understanding.
The three of them turned around to their backs (Looked straight ahead if you were Brave Heart), as they saw the nation of interest.
"Well, if Domio not succumbing to physics becoming boring, then feast your eyes." AL looked yonder as he pointed.
"Is that what I think it is?" Domio asked as he looked over to see the island nation in all of its afternoon glory.
"There it is, folks. Leanbox." The flame fighter would look to as the others followed his gaze.
The city sport man facets of green, to no one's surprise, as the quartet hovered near to its location. The city's buildings would be suspended on platforms while others were on a floating platform as the nation was close to water. The skies were a clear blue with no clouds as the water glistened with some smaller nearby islands in sight.
The city's pathways were also suspended, as some led up to higher areas and down to lower areas as they had green guide lights scattered throughout the city as rows of trees could also be seen on the side, as a way to promote environmental awareness and make the aesthetic of green really hammer into the tourists' minds.
There were even some buildings that acted as support with windows so that one could look out to the ocean as they were inside. Probably the hotels.
The main city's landmark, the Lean Box, stood tall as it would be a white titan of technology. It was a thin layered cuboid-shaped structure as it stretched over the edge of the rock side that it was near. It was supported by platforms that floated on the sea as it remained stable.
The staple of Leanbox was erected as an achievement of its establishment way back in the early 3D Age.
"M-Mega cool!'' Domio gushed at the view of the new city he was seeing.
''Remember, land at the outskirts. We do not desire another Lowee mishap." Edge Heart cautioned as he looked at Brave Heart and AL.
"But I'm not a CPU." AL reminded Edge Heart.
"Death by association. Now let us be on our way."
ZOOM!
BOOST!
FLY!
The black-clad deity paraphrased as he flew. AL followed at several times the speed of and soundwas trailed by Brave Heart who altered his speed to keeping up with AL, but not trying to beat Gris, lest he ended up having Domio being flung off from whiplash, even from the gravity he emitted.
"W-WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Domio yelled in delight as he flew in the air, and looking down below and around as they neared the green nation.
"Looks like someone is having fun." Brave Heart let out a knowing look.
"This is awesome!" The boy shouted. His initial feeling of fear and anxiety was taken away as he felt the wind blow through his hair and rush by his ears as he beamed in a jubilant manner.
"The wonders of flight, my boy." The CPU nodded in understanding.
As they neared, things began to go away as a familiar feeling would be felt through the three fighters as they flew.
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STOP!
"Did you...?!" AL asked the other two as they stopped.
"Affirmative." Edge Heart acknowledged. The god's eyes darted around as they scanned for the origin.
"Bet your ass I did." Brave Heart's happy demeanor became dead serious as he looked around. He broke into a cold sweat as he too tried to pinpoint the signature.
"W-What are you guys talking about...?'' Domio asked, as he looked at the wary expressions of his friends.
His mood became wary as well, being ignorant only worsened his possible speculations.
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RIP!
A portal similar to the one they encountered in Lastation and discovered within Lowee opened.
SPIN..!
SPIN!...
SPINSPINSPINSPINSPINSPINSPINSPIN!
PORTAL!
It was in the air, near the four as the portal became a lateral line before spinning into a high-speed rotating circle, before becoming a full interdimensional gateway.
The portal was not, however, a shade of red but instead, bright magenta. This was confusing for those who had experienced the phenomenon before, and those who did not were just flat out terrified.
But then any guesses of who the new person that could emerge from the different colored portal be was thrown out the window as a very familiar figure would be seen exiting from the gateway.
With her cap, sultry eyes, and seductive smile, the colleague of Xero had come forth from the portal.
Vhestora had returned from the Negadimension for an electric boogaloo.
And she was very happy to see them in their beachwear.
"Let's see here... Forests, the sky, floating men... Wait just a sec! Ooh la la... Did I walk into a beach episode~?" The goddess questioned with a sultry stare and a raised brow before giggling at the sight before her very eyes.
"It's... Her!" Brave Heart pointed intently as he reeled in shock factor value. Xero didn't have the usual terrifying effect on him since he was defeated by the trio, but they had yet to encounter his acolyte on combatative terms.
"I must have because of those... ABDOMINALS!" The goddess gushed as she stared intently at the midsection of all the men, some drool threatening to fall from her mouth. She also saw two new faces, one being legal and one that was not.
Not like she cared.
"...What?" Edge Heart gave a confused face as he raised a brow.
Vhestora switched her gaze before gasping as she looked up and down at the new face.
"And who are you?..." She asked as she approached the fellow deity, who would reel immediately, unsure of her true intentions.
"I implore you to distance yourself from my personal space, wench." The scythe god told the VPU goddess.
"Mou... But that body is too sexy to just be passed by..." She commented as she came closer to the god as he floated away.
LICK!
She then, in a burst of speed licked him, straight from his navel to the bottom of his chin in possibly the most exotic and sensual way possible, causing his face to simultaneously blush as he blanched.
"Woah!" AL yelled incredulously. He was not expecting a scene that reminded him of the train part of Yellow Breeze to play out.
"Bruh." Brave Heart blurted in a flat tone from the sheer wacked out vibe of what the VPU had done.
"Ew, cooties." Domio cringed as he thought about the dreaded imaginary disease.
"That is something much worse than cooties." AL gravely told the boy.
You'd know that from experience, wouldn't you?-
"You would know." The fatherly god said in a knowing tone towards the fire user as Edge Heart blanched.
"Piss off." Was AL's answer as Vhestora hummed in delight.
"Mmm... You taste like a freshly made CPU." She giggled at the miffed god. If that was just her teasing his reaction or a legitimate observation from her "tasting" him, we may never know.
"How would you... Y'know what, I don't even wanna know, ignore my inquiries." Brave Heart shook his head, disgust replacing curiosity.
"I felt the souls of millions cry out in terror as they were suddenly silenced." Edge Heart stated with grave terror as he looked into space, hearing the cries of unborn children.
"That must have been that plumber I blew before I came here. He nutted and shut up. Came a lot more than I thought he would, then again I have been called a throat goddess." Vhestora sounded proud as she explained, Edge Heart suddenly having to fight hard to resist the urge to vomit.
"Ooh... That's... Yikes." AL cringed as the god had been basically planted by the lady.
"D-Dad, I'm scared." Domio meeped as he clung onto the back of Brave Heart, unknowingly calling the god his father as he was very intimidated by the thot before him.
"Don't fear the whore magic, son. Just acknowledge it. The first step of overcoming its effect." The god responded as she laughed at his characterization.
"Whore magic? Is that a pop culture reference?" She cracked a smile.
"No, it's what you're known for at this point. You haven't done anything the last time besides being a drooling cock-crazed bitch since I pushed you back in that portal, and thr first thing you do when you come back is lick a man with another man's sperm. That's not just down bad, that's outright cursed." Brave Heart explained as he floated in the air.
"I am going to go wash off... Be back in a couple of seconds. Need to contemplate some murder options."
ZOOM!
Edge Heart barely uttered as he zoomed off.
"Aww... Was I too much for him? If a lick sends him running, I wonder what'll happen if I lick his-" She snickered at the god's reaction.
"Too much thottery." AL snorted. "The mere thought of having contracted something from a lick must've sent him flying. And I don't blame him." He laughed as Vhestora had become peeved.
"I DO NOT HAVE A SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE!" She barked.
"And I'm not flying right now." The flame user deadpanned.
"Nah, she's right. She doesn't have one." Brave Heart corrected.
"At least someone agrees with me. Keep up the compliments and I might just check up on you-"
"She has all of them." He laughed as he revealed the joke, causing the both of them to laugh.
"UGH! You guys suck!" She yelled at them.
"Can't suck more than you though." The blue god countered.
"Oh damn!" AL yelled.
"H-Hehehe." Domio chuckled.
REAPPEAR!
"Felt that one from way back there." Edge Heart responded as he reappeared. The VPU was getting tired of their berating.
"ALL OF YOU BE QUIET!" She screeched, her mood being tarnished.
"Or what? We push you in the portal once more?" A cleaned up Edge Heart taunted.
"Grrr!'' She growled.
"She's starting to resemble Xero a bit." Brave Heart pointed out.
"W-Who?" Domio asked.
"Her ally. Speaking of which, where is that asshole. I thought he'd come with you because he's your friend or something." AL asked.
"Oh. He got put in solitary confinement. Got more time because he failed and he came empty handed." She revealed.
"Wouldn't you be in that boat by the same standard, since you failed also?..." Brave Heart asked.
"Technically speaking, yes. But I didn't disobey orders, and with a little persuasion~" She wiggled her slender eyebrows, "-I got out scott free." She boasted.
"Of course you sucked him off for less jail time." The meme god deadpanned. "Any problem with a wee wee, can just be fucked away by you, can't it?" He gave a wary gaze to the goddess.
"Her skills in the harlot department exceed even her intelligence. But then again, that aspects seems be severly lacking so..." The scythe god noted.
"That's blatantly obvious," AL said without hesitation.
"S-She gives me weird signs." Domio said as he saw the woman winking at him with the hand signal for 'call me'.
"Hey. Leave my son out of this." Brave Heart pointed as his gaze hardened.
"So he's your kid. Wonder if we can-" She was cut off.
"Hell will have to freeze over, pigs must genetically evolve wings, Leanbox must gain 2 CPU Candidates, stones must bleed and Neptune must work from the beginning of the day to the end of the day before I even consider doing anything but punching the daddy issues out of you." The blue god wasted no time drawing the solid line as Vhestora pouted.
"And to think I was going to give you a second chance after all those mean things you said to me." She then turned her head to the side as she folded her arms and looked away, eyes closed.
"Don't make me push you back in that portal." Brave Heart warned as the woman opened her eyes to look at him. He would have his hand outstretched.
"Now leave before I-"
MATERIALIZE!
SWING!
GUARD!
He wouldnt have the chance to finish before he was interrupted by her materializing her blade out of fear energy. She then swiftly swung the sword as a gust of wind would cause them to guard against the wind pressure.
The warriors blocked the force of the wind as they guarded.
"Ghh!" Brave Heart braced.
"Tch!" Edge Heart blocked.
"Shawty triflin'!" AL cross guarded.
"W-Whuhh!" Domio held on like a snek.
They crossed their arms, sans Domio who held onto to the back of Brave Heart as the wind blew. It then died down as the sultry VPU pointed her sword at the blue CPU.
"I was sent here to bring you to our boss. And I won't fail! Especially not when you constantly insult my character!" She revealed her motive for her reappearance.
"You have character? I thought you had the archetype for a promiscuous cry for help-" The airborne afro man goaded, before being cut off.
"YOU SHUT UP!" Vhestora snapped at AL.
SWING!
SLASH!
FEAR ARC!
BLOCK!
DETONATE!
She slashed her sword in his direction, sending a black arc with magenta outlines of fear energy towards him. He barely reacted to it by guarding before it would connect as he was blasted to the plains below.
"Grah!"
CRASH!
AL yelled as he was shot out of the smoke cloud that was formed as he would slam into the ground.
"AL!" Brave Heart yelled as he saw his friend attacked by a VPU for the second time.
He wouldn't be able to retaliate since Domio was on his back, so he played it smart as he decided to get the boy out of danger.
"Gris, hold her off while I get Domio to safety. It's time to duck child support!"
BURST!
Brave Heart roared as his aura flared.
PHASE!
Before they could even move however, Vhestora passed behind them as the sword was held to the god's neck, as her sizeanle bust pressed against the back of Domio, her breath being felt on the boy's ear.
"!" Brave Heart reacted.
"U-Uh!" Domio stuttered, uncomfortable and flustered.
"You two aren't going anywhere... Now, how about that kid-."
"Stop. It." Brave Heart firmly denied as he cut her off.
"Ugh. Then die!"
PULL!
She went back to her previous state as she pulled the blade towards the god's neck.
MANIFEST!-
CLANG!
"Not yet." Edge Heart halted as he had his scythe manifested and pushed against the fear blade, preventing it from moving any further.
"And the clam jam begins. Funny how it's me receiving the cockblocking. You'd think men like you'd be dying to slip it in-"
PARRY!
"Desist, harlot." The scythe wielding god sighed as he parried the blade as she moved once more.
Vhestora finally move off of a near smothered Domio as he took a breath of relief from being released from the boob dungeon . He then turned around to see the VPU ready to cut him and his father down.
"Give me your bags and stall her!"
THROW!
THROW!
CATCH!
CATCH!
Brave Heart yelled as he was thrown the bags and dipped down before blasting away.
"Squadala! We are off!"
FLY!
He continued before blasting through the air, towards a lake southwest of his position, near the notable Loot Lake.
"Oh no, you don't!"
JUMP!
BOOST!
SWING!
KICK!
CLASH!
The VPU followed them as she flew after the father and son with her blade, only to be sidetracked by an AL who shot back up from the ground with a jump and thrust that caused her to swing at him, making a clash as he delivered a flaming kick.
"Ooh, a threesome!" She would say as she would then turn to Brave Heart.
"Mind hitting from the back? I know you wanna pound this pussy-" The goddess went on another inappropriate tangent.
"I'm gonna go on a whim and assume it probably smells like rotten fish." AL blurted before being overhead slashed by her again as he was sent back down, this time with an SP Skill behind it.
"Shut the hell up! Blasphemous Strike! " Vhestora screeched as the sword glowed before launching a large slash of magenta fear energy at him. AL was struck once again as he would be sent down.
"FUCK NOT AGAIN!"
CRASH!
CRATER!
He yelled as he was sent into a crater, right next to the kneeling he originally landed in.
AURA!
ZOOM!
SWING!
She then went back to rush at a fleeting Brave Heart, only to be stopped by Edge Heart used his speed aura to significantly increase his agility to the point of cutting her off before swinging his blade.
"Hooo!" The CPU yelled.
But the goddess simply countered the swing as she used her sword with a parry, deflecting the scythe as the god was blown back.
SLICE!
DEFLECT!
He was then be met with a piercing motion to the chest that he narrowly managed to sidestep, before using his hand to push away the blade. Vhestora then swung her sword in the direction that it was pushed as Edge Heart clashed with it, a shockwave echoing.
"Tch!" The god spat as his scythe was deflected.
STAB!
WEAVE!
PUSH!
His eyes then widened as she trusted her sword towards his heart.
TWIRL!
SWING!
"Hah!" Vhestora yelled as she used the momentum from the deflection to swing her sword on the opposite side that it was parried to cut the god on his blindside just as she twirled.
"Hmph!"
SWING!
CLASH!
SHOCKWAVE!
But Edge Heart having his speed aura active was able to keep up with the goddess' own impressive dexterity and clashed with his own blade with the hilt, causing a shockwave to be emitted from the impact.
RATTLE!
RATTLE!
RATTLE!
PUSH!
The two then pushed for dominance as their weapons rattled and shook. They stared into each other's eyes as they clashed, one that was plagued with horny and the other that yearned for glory.
They soon separated as AL fled back up to the scene a third time, being aside Edge Heart when he was level with the two.
...
...
...
BOOST!
MANIFEST!
AL returned with some scratches as he was damaged by the attacks. He then activated his flame armor as he would NOT be taking any chances with her.
"As much of a obnoxious bitch as she is, her attacks also hurt like one. I'm pulling all the stops." The flame fighter said right off the bat as he would get in a stance.
"As you should. We do not have the luxury of holding back if she's anything like her accursed associate." Edge Heart compared as he pointed his scythe at her.
"Who? Me? Like him?" The goddess would point at herself as she giggled at the thought. "No, no, no. He and I are two different VPUs. The difference between him and I is that I like it when you choke me, daddy-"
"Stop. It.''
FLARE!
AL flatly demanded as they prepared to charge as AL let his flaming surge manifest.
SLASH!
WINDWAVE!
"You guys are such wet blankets. I'll teach you to have some fun!" She grinned before swinging her sword to the side which made some wind blow in that direction before she charged the two as all three contenders vanished.
"Here she comes!" AL yelled. A perverse expression was smeared on the woman's features as the man realized what he had just shouted, and who he yelled that towards. "Wait, no, no, DAMNIT!-"
VANISH!
VANISH!
VANISH!
FLY!
Brave Heart neared Loot Lake as he saw some forestry that was around the large body of water.
He started to descend near the trees as he searched for a good hiding spot for Domio. He couldn't head right for Leanbox, due to Vhestora most likely following him probably using citizens as hostages or something of that nature.
And she would most likely outspeed them if they tried to fly back to the mainland, so the wilderness was his best bet.
Brave Heart flew through some of the trees, and found one that was suitable for one to sit on, not being reachable by any of the monsters below, and was vacant as to not be in the home of any other monster that liked to live in trees.
The god then lined himself up to the level of the tree as he would then deactivate his attraction aura so that Domio could move.
"Get on the branch, Domio." Brave Heart told the boy.
"O-Ok. I-I should stay put, right?" Domio complied as he climbed onto the stable branch. He shifted his weight onto it, and it stayed completely still. He then looked back to Brave Heart.
"Stay there. I can't risk you helping out this time. That woman is a very powerful opponent." The god told the boy as he shakily nodded.
"Granted, I never trained you as yet... We'll have to find some time, pronto. Just stay up there and hang tight. Use your magic if anything tries to jump at you. I'll be back." He assured the boy as he stuck his fist out.
Domio then gave him a fist bump as he lowered his arm.
"Right. Hang tight, little dude. And watch the bags!" Brave Heart reminded as he then move away from the tree, and placed the bags on another secure branch nearby the boy.
WOOSH!
HOVER...!
He then shot up into the air, as Domio was no longer a concern to take into account during battle.
"Now where is she..." He began to use his energy-sensing capabilities to locate the opposing deity.
SLASH!
"GAK!"
FEAR EXPLOSION!
WOOSH!
BIG SPLASH!
He then felt the powerful, dark presence beside him as he reeled his head, only to be swiftly struck by a sword strike to the chest as blood escaped the wound, being sent right into the lake as it made make a giant splash.
"N-Nebula!"
SHOCKWAVE!
SHOCKWAVE!
SHOCKWAVE!
SHOCKWAVE!
SHOCKWAVE!
SHOCKWAVE!
SHOCKWAVE!
Domio yelled as he saw the god suddenly be sent into the water by nothing. He then squinted up as he saw some shockwaves being emitted from the place the god was in, as his other friends would be fighting the goddess.
SWING!
G-GUARD!
Vhestora sent a lightning-fast slash towards Edge Heart, who buckled under the force of the swing as he guarded.
"Guh!" The CPU breathed out as he blocked.
The god then tried using one of his SP Skills as he would have nearly been guard broken that time.
"Static Slash!"
BZZT!
He yelled as he laterally swung his scythe, a large yellow arc of electricity from his own weapon rushing at the goddess.
SLICE!
FEAR ARC!
She only gave a challenging smirk as she slashed upwards with her blade as she yelled out her own skill. "Blasphemous Strike!"
BOOM!
EXPLOSION!
SMOKE!
The two attacks clashed as a yellow light shined from Edge Heart's side as magenta light shined from Vhestora's. It ended with an explosion as the area around them briefly turning the enviroment dark as the lights outshines the surroundings for a bit.
SLICE!
DASH!
Vhestora did not wait however, as she sliced through the smoke with her blade as she continued to pressure the god.
SLASH!-
AFTERIMAGE!...
Edge Heart charged at her as well, only to slice through an afterimage of her.
"What?!"
SLICE!
He realized the feint as he yelled, turning around just in time to recieve a magenta energy slice that would send him shooting down as well.
"Hah!" The goddess yelled as she dealt a decisive blow.
ZOOM!
SLIDE!
SPLASH!
"Tch!" Edge Heart would yell as he was shot down into the water as he skidded on the surface.
She then turned to the side to see AL who was above her and had been charging a Flaring Blazer.
"Take this, ya thot! Flaring Blazer!"
BLAST!
The pyro warrior roared as he blasted the giant fire blast towards her.
CUT!
PART!-
EXPLOSION!
But Vhestora only licked her lips before using her sword and-
VANISH!
REAPPEAR!
CLASP!
-Cut the attack in half as she gave him a predatory smile. She then vanished before reappearing in front of him, grabbing him by the face as she then whispered into his ear.
As she dispelled the shield for his head from its fear properties overpowering his flames.
"How are you doing, hotshot?" She asked softly which got him to groan, blush and feel fear simultaneously. She wouldn't even let him respond before blasting him as she descended.
"It better be up and at 'em, because we're going down!"
ZOOM!
B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-BLAST!
She answered for the man as she then rapidly descended, magenta blasts of fear energy blasting his face over and over as they went down.
Vhestora then blasted his face once more which sent him away from her at high speeds.
BLAST!
"ARGH!"
TUMBLE!
SKID!
ROLL!
AL yelled as he was blasted free. He skidded and tumbled on the water surface as the two raced on the clear water.
"Don't tell me after a handjob, you're already done?" She queried.
The flame user wouldn't even have the time to tell her to stop, as he was overhead slashed into the lake floor.
"Because I'm not even that wet yet! Blasphemous Strike!"
SLASH!
The goddess yelled as she vertically slash him into the water.
"YOU CHEESY BI-"
FEAR EXPLOSION!
SPLASH!
AL was cut off as he slammed into the water, a big splash forming from the impact.
She then laughed as she would have submerged all three of them.
"Three wetheads in three minutes. That's a new personal best!" Vhestora noted as she laughed.
Meanwhile, underwater...
Brave Heart had been charging up a Ni-bai Bakuhatsu, as he had them in his arms as he was stood at the lake floor.
Fishes and other aquatic life roamed the underwater area as he charged charged attack.
He didn't hold his breath as he found out he had enhanced lung capacity, being down there for the last three minutes and would not have suffocated due to converting his shares into spare oxygen.
Neato.
Six months of training did pay off.
CRASH!...
SKID!...
He even saw Edge Heart who had been charging his own attack, being the Static Gigaslash due to his blade being yellow, collecting energy. They then saw AL crash onto the floor, skidding on his back as he had his flame helmet off.
He then slowly got up as he held his breath right before entering the lake.
MANIFEST!
He soon materialized his flame helmet underwater as impossible as it sounded even if his other flame powers were still functioning, and would get ready to charge back up.
CROUCH!
RUMBLERUMBLERUMBLERUMBLERUMBLE!
He crouched as the ground began to rumble.
But he stopped as he felt the energies of Brave Heart and Edge Heart next to him. He turned and see them, charging their attacks. Al rose a brow before furrowing them with a smirk.
BURN!
CROUCH!
CROUCH!
He too, knowing what they were trying to do, would charge some attacks of his own as he lit his hands on fire underwater (These oxymorons...), and crouched alongside Brave Heart who followed suit as they both crouched.
LEAP!
ZOOM!
SWING!
FLASH!
Gris was the first one to fire due to his aura moving faster, as he zoomed towards the surface as he released the X-shaped arc of lightning. He also had one green light active on his scythe, the second blinking yellow.
Above the water's surface...
Vhestora looked looking down as she saw a yellow light peak through the water.
"Eh?!-"
DODGE!
FLASH!
SHINE!
Her eyes squinted before widening as she backed away right before a yellow X-slash of electricity shot out of the water, before exploding above her as the area above went yellow.
BLAST!
She then looked right in time to see an orange blast come out which she dodged as well.
VANISH!
"Oh!"
SPLASH!
She then reappeared right into Brave Heart bursting from the surface of the water with the other Bakuhatsu in hand as he attempted to shove the blast into her face.
"Gotcha bitch!" Brave Heart shouted as he was covered in his KI as he blasted towards her.
DUCK!
SWING!
But she only gave a sultry wink before ducking the blast, making the god miss as she swuug her sword towards his left lateral. He was caught in a bind as the sword rushed at his blindside as he was outstretched and vulnerable.
"Ufufu..." Vhestora giggled with ill intent.
"Shit..!" Brave Heart cursed as he saw the blade come at him.
SPLASH!
"Overheated Assault!"
FLARE!
BURN!
DODGE!
He was let off from the attack by her suddenly moving to the side as an Overheated Assault from AL was seen as the water would burst again as the flame fighter would appear with his first attack.
"Hyah!"
FEAR ARC!
She then slashed her blade as another arc of fear energy would be emitted from the sword.
"Hrah!"
"Rah!"
BLAST!
FIREBALL!
BOOM!
The two males then use their other remaining attack as they threw theirs at the goddess in retaliation in front of the remaining Bakuhatsu and a quickly conjured large fireball.
EXPLOSION!
SPLASH!
WAVES!
BLOCK!
FLEX!
The water was blasted aside from underneath as the attacks collided and exploded. It rippled as the wind blew the currents back in a dramatic burst of energy.
The men put up their guards as the goddess got ready to charge her opponents in the blink of an eye as she flexed off the attack.
SPLASH!
ZOOM!
The duo snapped in realization as Vhestora gripped the handle of her blade, ready to strike to only be interrupted by a third person.
Edge Heart burst from the depths as well, just as Vhestora closed the distance with the two as he moved at massively hypersonic speeds with an incomplete version of his EXE Drive.
He then shouted it out as the goddess swiveled with her blade as she coated it with her fear energy, and would struck the scythe as he shouted.
"Overwhelming Maelstrom!"
"Yah!" She roared.
FEAR ENERGY!
BOOM!
SPLASH!
DISCHARGE!
FEAR EXPLOSION!
STATIC EXPLOSION!
The two energies clashed as water was be sent flying. The CPU and the VPUboth contested as they brought their weapons to meet, their energies projected around them.
AL and Brave Heart were knocked away, they later steadying themselves as the god skidded on the water's surface and slowed down until he was standing on it by using his gravity.
WINDWAVE!
AL just flew slightly above the water as he too regained his balance and bearings.
"Holy shit!" Brave Heart swore as he skidded on the water, guarding against the wind pressure.
"Damn!"
SKID!
BOOST...!
AL yelled as he was blown back. He then used his boosters to slow himself down as he was pushed.
They then stopped moving across the surface of the lake as the waves calmed, and saw the large explosion of water that was formed from the attack.
It settled as precipitation still rained from above but there were more concerning matters at hand...
Edge Heart was diligent in looking for signs of survival because of his incomplete EXE Drive, but was now shocked as his EXE Drive was challenged, matched and beaten as Vhestora sniggered at the god as they clashed for the second time, the VPU still very much unaffected.
"If that's all you can do, then you might be compensating for something with that scythe." She goaded as Edge Heart would then snarl.
"Why you...! Hmph. At least I don't have to compensate for lack of a healthy relationship with my father,"
PUSH!
SKID!
He stopped himself as he was pushed back by the sudden force that Vhestora put into the blade.
The CPU must've hit a button.
BOOST!
SIDESTEP!
SKID...!
The scythe god then skid across the water as well, before stopping by the other two as they hopped/moved aside to make some room for the fighter.
"She took that like a pimp slap." Brave Heart mimicked her innuendo way of one liners.
"Not you too." AL groaned.
"It is not even relevant, since she ultimately negated the effects of my attack." Edge Heart pointed out as he stood tall, using his flight to stay on the water's surface.
"Sorry, her innuendos are coming onto me." Brave Heart responded in apology, before widening his eyes in realization as she smirked at him with a knowing gaze at his wording.
He then grimaced in mental anguish. "Son of a bi-"
"Anything is an innuendo of you try hard enough. Ufufufu..."
FLOAT...!
RIPPLE...!
Vhestora told the trio as she floating above the water's surface, causing a ripple effect to take place.
"And she's taking on the three of us so easily. It's just like back on Lastation with him." AL would say as he would gaze at her. "Except we actually got some hits in. She's as fast as she is strong." The pyro warrior noticed.
"Then how are we supposed to beat her?'' Edge Heart queried.
"Finding that answer might be next to impossible if she's that much stronger than us. Let's just attack her simultaneously and wear her down." Brave Heart planned.
"Wear me down? Now I feel like one of your cum socks." She pouted.
"Leave the cotton condom out of this!"
FLARE!
AL yelled with fervor as he powered up. "Why must you sacrilege everything I know and love!"
He then turned to his godly allies.
"You guys ready to smack a bitch?" He asked, referencing the song as he did.
AURA!
BURST!
"I'll take that as a yes." AL responded. He then turn to the waiting goddess. He clenched his fist as he looked in her direction.
"Alright, here we come!" The blue CPU yelled.
"Already?" Vhestora asked with a raised brow.
"Stop. It." All three males reprimanded the woman.
But their demand was ignored as she used another one of her skills. The goddess stuck out her fingers of her free hand, her fingertips lighting up into a dark pink colour as she would then say her attack.
"Make me. Vixen Volley."
BLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLAST BLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLAST BLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLAST BLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLAST BLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLAST BLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLAST BLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLAST BLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLAST BLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLAST BLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLAST BLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLAST BLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLAST BLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLAST BLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLAST BLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLAST!
Vhestora cooed as she rapidly fired many small blasts of fear energy from each fingertip, their numbers drastically increasing by the second.
"Scatter!"
DASH!
VANISH!
BOOST!
Edge Heart yelled as the trio split.
RAISE...!
BLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLAST BLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLAST BLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLAST BLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLAST BLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLAST BLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLAST BLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLAST BLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLAST BLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLAST BLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLAST BLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLAST BLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLAST!
As the warriors distanced themselves from the blasts, the goddess raised her hand into the air as the blasts were volleyed into the air.
The fear blasts were shot into the air as they then zoomed down, crashing into the water as they landed by the fighters.
DODGE!
BOOM!
SIDESTEP!
BOOM!
SOMERSAULT!
BOOM!
SLIDE!
BOOM!
WEAVE!
BOOM!
DUCK!
BOOM!
Brave Heart maneuvered the blasts as he weaved and dodged, using his gravity to repel any nearby blasts with his repulsion shield that he activated.
"Hah!"
KICK!
WOOSH!
He then kicked one of the blasts towards the goddess as he tried to use one of the blasts against her.
SLICE!
The fear blast sailed towards Vhestora as she supplied more death blasts towards the trio as they all dodged. She soon noticed the one coming to her and seamlessly cut the attack in half without even batting an eye.
"Damnit!" Brave Heart cursed as he went back to dodging his share of the Vixen Volley after nearly being struck by one immediately after the deflection.
"Blasphemous Strike!"
SLASH!
"Woah!"
FLY UP!
WOBBLE!
WOOSH!
But he dived down to narrowly dodge another Blasphemous Strike that Vhestora used her sword hand for, and made the god fumble for a bit as he jumped ahead of the arc before returning the favor with a Repulsion.
REPULSION!
Brave Heart then flew into the air before twisting and facing the goddess as he outstretched his palm towards her, using his Repulsion to set her off.
BLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLAST BLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLAST BLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLAST BLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLAST BLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLAST BLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLAST BLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLAST BLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLAST BLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLAST BLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLAST BLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLAST-
PUSH!
"Uwah!" Vhestora yelled, being pushed by the universal force as she was sent tumbling as a result.
VOOM!
FALL!
Vhestora was pushed off balance by an invisible attack she would not have been expecting as she was busy firing off her continous attack.
The goddess was cut short from her barrage as she would be interrupted, giving the others an opening as they too were given a break from constantly dodging the DPU's attacks.
FIREBALL!
ENHANCE!
THROW!
AL deflected the last of the fear blasts that were targeted towards him before forming a fireball enhanced by a KI blast, and would then throw it at the offset deity.
VANISH!
BOOM!
REAPPEAR!
Edge Heart then vanished as he had been dodging the blasts that kept him occupied before reappearing behind Vhestora, where she was tumbling to and stuck out two of his fingers, yelling out his SP Skill to take advantage of the opening.
"Flash!"
FLASH!
SHOCK!
The god yelled as he stuck out his middle and index finger.
BOOM!
EXPLOSION!
WAVES!
The goddess was rocketed forward as she was hit in the back by an explosive and flashy jolt of energy.
"AIEEEE!" She screeched in jolting pain, for the first time in the battle.
She was sent into the opposite direction and finally slammed right into AL's hybrid blast, as the combined energies would have caused an explosion that would have been made on contact as it would cause the waves to ripple once more.
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.
Wowza! That was a long chapter. We had plot progression, a mental breakdown, crapton of memes and pop culture reference, lore dump, and the return of a predator-established OC Antagonist.
Where to begin...
Alright, so about what everyone is most likely thinking about, how I integrated the Console Wars into canon. Well fanon, but it's MY canon.
Ahem.-
The nation of Lowee was the first recorded nation in the 2D Age. Tari was a mix between lost history and muddled myth, but Lowee was canonically the first nation with the first CPU since the Fall of Tari, which even the annals of history in the historical scriptures were unsure of its original progenitor. But she existed, and you might have known about her in another dimension. It might not be who you think it is.
The sole CPU reigned over humanity for a few centuries in a small city that later became Lowee, unrivaled and alone as her nation flourished. With the Fall of Tari, nothing could possibly challenge her, the complacent Cyber Heart ruled the sole superpower of Gamindustri.
That was until a new CPU rose to power, within the rural villages in Planeptune forming together, and a mass surge of belief and share energy materialized another Sharicite with ancient methods, to form the first Planeptunian CPU, Star Heart. CPU Star Heart was believed to be birthed in the western parts of Gamindustri and was speculated to now be where the nation of Planeptune resides today. The newly born CPU began to gain followers, and added with the fact that some of Cyber Heart's OWN followers were switching who they worshipped, causing her to lose power, she was not very happy with the elements in play.
So she took her person, all the way from the Northeast to the Midwest of Gamindustri to confront the sudden opposition. Star Heart was also curious of this older CPU and gladly went to the forefront to see who was approaching her nation, added with the advice of a younger Histoire to investigate. The two met up and exchanged names in the mountains that were near where the Gamindustri Graveyard would come to be much later.
After some banter, Cyber Heart demanded that Star Heart Desist in swaying her people away from her. But the other goddess opposed the notion on the fact that she herself needed those same citizens to sustain herself, and that she could take better care of them than the older, more run-down CPU could. Some more words were thrown about, and a fleeting comment about the elder CPU's age was speculated to be what started the Primal Console Confrontation. The battles that took place there shaped those mountains that stand tall today and divide Planeptune from Lastation and Lowee, just to showcase how much the two brawled for supremacy for 200 years.
It was not until the end of the 2D Age and the beginning of the 3D Stone Age were the constant skirmishes concluded. The emergence of a new goddess, within the grasslands of Eastern Gamindustri, had their villages collect into a large settlement through trying conditions, and with some expertise from others that migrated from the two aforementioned nations, had redone the ancient method to construct a Sharicite, and from it came forth a new goddess. CPU Tomb Heart, Lastation's first goddess.
At this point, Several generations of CPUs in Planeptune and Lowee had come and gone, retiring through being killed in battle, or passed down the title to a CPU Candidate before they 'ascended' according to the scriptures.
Tomb Heart was an extrememly hardworking CPU, and amassed power quickly because of her skill and diligence. She was then confronted by Lowee's current CPU which was Daisy Heart, had waltzed over demanding who she was to found a nation on her side of Gamindustri. Tomb Heart was not one for idle chat and because of Daisy Heart's underestimating of her expertise in battle, took down the CPU. With that victory on her repertoire, the CPU became quite arrogant and planned to conquer Planeptune as well. But the current CPU of THAT nation, Saturn Heart was having none of that smoke and after a fierce battle that caused the massive river that ships use to Terraport from Lastation to Leanbox occurred as Tomb Heart suffered her first defeat ironically after her first victory.
And because Daisy Heart survived her humiliating defeat, this sparked what was categorized as the Ancient Console Skirmksh, much more drastic in battles and stakes than its predecessor war, but the peak was yet to occur.
After about 250 more years of battles between Lastation and Planeptune, Planeptune Lowee, Lowee and Lastation, and Lastation and Planeptune, and even all three nations, another nation was busy developing its resources in the islotaled smaller island after the battle that split it, known as The Arrogant Afftont.
A new goddess had been born after all those years of fighting, her name being Gale Heart. Gale Heart had stayed on her island, perfecting her techniques and making games for her people in their isolated bubble, but once she found out from some scouts of other nations with more possible shares, the goddess became adventurous.
She flew over to the nearest continent being Planeptune with a compostie Uzume as it's ruler, which was currently being sieged by the Loweean CPU, which at the time was Cube Heart. The two had taken their skirmish to the mountains that were made in the Primal Console Confrontation, or more well known as The Rugged Mountainside, previously being Mt. Rugged back in the day.
Gale Heart approached the nation, vacant of its leader and proposed a better, bustier lifestyle if they followed her instead of their current leader. She didn't gain attention at first glance, but upon seeing that a flying goddess was upon them, and brought drawn yaoi, yuri and divine oppai with A NEW CONSOLE with her. She then flew to the vacant Lowee as well, and offered the same proposition, although less were swayed. But upon reaching Lastaion whose goddess, Caliber Heart intercepted the goddess and ordered that she left her nation at once.
The taut Gale Heart was not intimidated in the slightest, and instead goaded the greatsword-bearing goddess to a fight with her enchanted halberd, and well... There's a reason why the right side of the mainland near Leanbox and Lastation is smaller than the left side, with an archipelago. And Gale Heart actually won that fight! But Caliber Heart managed to cut her losses and flee with her life back to Lastation to devise a strategy to defeat her rather indirectly.
And after the other two goddesses saw that their citizens were leaving for some island off the south coast and saw video evidence of her literally pulling up on their countries, that sparked what was known as Classic Console Wars, where the spread of information and marketing was used to achieve international dominance rather than straight-up fights as such a simple opening that Leanbox's CPU used to say citizens could not be repeated a second time.
She juked them, famalam-
And then there was what happened to Uzume but...
That's for another time.
Jeez, I wrote a freaking mini-chapter. Don't ever say I don't add lore guys or I swear to Celestia, I'll-
Alright. I've brought back the thot goddess. Nice. Time for some personality and gud fights for the next chapter. And possibly our OCs experience whore magic at its peak? Who knows. All I know is that my hands hurt. But really, who knows.
;)
F in the chat for Gris' alcohol consumption days coming to an end. Root beer for those in despair.
Arrivederci.
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