Snyderverse Neptunia Snippets

by Derald Snyder

Snippet 49- Retraining Lowee Soldiers

"Come on, you sorry soldiers! Shovel that snow!" Peach Macintosh ordered, clad in her white armor suit. "Heave! Ho! Heave! Ho!"

"We're shoveling, we're shoveling!" one soldier grunted as he picked up a load of snow and tossed it aside.

"You can pick up more than that! Put your backs into it!" Peach pressured the group.

"Peach, don't work them too hard now," Adrian cautioned as he walked up, wearing his bright red armor suit. "Sometimes the snow's a lot heavier than it looks..."

"Hey, I shoveled a fair bit myself earlier!" Peach countered. "This isn't the wet heavy stuff! This should be nothing for these scrubs!" Just then, a ringtone sounded from her hip. "Aw, crud... Adrian, take over for me."

"Sure thing," her fiancee nodded, walking over to supervise the shoveling soldiers.

"Thanks." Peach unmorphed her armor, shivering a bit from the cold despite wearing a heavy sweater and blue jeans. Pulling out her myPhone, she walked over to a wall to protect from the wind before answering. "Hello?"

"Hello, Peach. I'm sorry to call you on short notice like this," Vert's voice was heard. "How are things over there?"

"Damn cold, but we're whipping these guys into shape," Peashy replied. "So what's up?"

"Well, it's like this..." Vert then explained what had just occurred at the nature park.

"Steel Feline? Seriously?!" Peach grunted. "I mean, I'm not the smartest cookie, but even I could come up with a better villain name than that!"

"Even so, your brother and Nisa were nearly overwhelmed on their own," Vert pointed out. "And seeing as MAGES. is still doing her community service in Planeptune, we're going to need your help..."

"Ugh..." Peashy grunted as she shivered from a cold gust. "All right, I'll tell Adrian what happened, and then we'll ask Lady Blanc if it's all right to head out early..."

"Well, you could always return to Lowee after this crisis has been dealt with," Vert suggested. "Anyway, I'll see you two soon, all right?"

"Yes ma'am. Sergeant Macintosh out!" Peach said, hanging up and putting her phone away, before morphing back into her armor suit. "Adrian!" she called as she walked back over. "Just got a call from Lady Vert, she needs us back home A-SAP!"

"Oh, thank goddess," one of the soldiers sighed in relief.

"Ex-cuse me?!" Peashy growled, grabbing the offending soldier by the scruff of his neck and dragging him over. "Just for that, drop and give me twenty!"

"Dammit...!" the soldier whined as he dropped to the ground and began doing push ups.

"Moron," one of the other soldiers shook his head as he continued to shovel snow.

"Hey! You wanna join him?!" Adrian barked. "Less talk, more shoveling!"

"Sorry, sir!" The man promptly redoubled his efforts.

*Back in Leanbox...*

"Well, these plushies don't seem to match anything produced in this nation," the police detective said to Chika, Nisa and A-Mac, all of them standing in the local precinct building. "We're scouring the Internep to try and see where these came from..."

"So he's not from around these parts, huh?" A-Mac mused. "Gonna make it hard to track who he is..."

"Hey, I got something!" another detective called from his desk. "It looks like these are Cinnamoroll plushies from the Hello Kitty line..."

"Hello Kitty?!" A-Mac said in disbelief.

"Oh, I remember those," Nisa nodded. "I had a Keroppi plush when I was little, I used to pretend it was the evil Toad Emperor..."

"Your desire to become a Hero of Justice began quite early on, did it?" Chika ribbed. "I played with Barbie dolls, myself..."

"Well, we'll see if anyone ordered a lot of Cinnamorolls lately, try and track who paid for them," the first detective said.

"You do that, detective," Chika nodded. "In the meantime, I must return to the Basilicom... my poor bare feet are suffering so much right now..."

"Come on, Oracle," A-Mac shook his head. "I used to go barefoot all the time in summer..."

"Well, that's you, not me!" Chika sniffed, before marching off...

*At the Lowee Basilicom*

"You gotta cut short and leave because of this 'Steel Feline' character?!" Blanc said in disbelief. "You sure Thunder Tits isn't using you as an excuse to go play games in her room?"

"She said Nisa-and A-Mac would've been smothered if she and Chika hadn't stepped in," Peach asserted. "I think I know Lady Vert well enough by now to know if she's trying to use me as a workdog in her place..."

"Look, we promise we'll come back to finish the training once this dirtbag's dealt with," Adrian spoke up. "If he's using plush dolls as minions, it shouldn't take too long to mop him up and throw him behind bars... Certainly not 30 episodes like it took with Demon Lord Etna!"

"Adrian..." Peach groaned as she rubbed her temples.

"Oh, sorry, forgot about your dislike for going meta," her fiancee winced.

"Well, I sure as hell hope not either," Blanc sighed. "Fine, I'll let you go, but you're getting a reduced paycheck. And you tell Vert that she better appreciate this!"

"Yes ma'am, Lady Blanc," Adrian gave a brief salute, Peach saying the same.

Later that day, a wave of relief would wash over the beleaguered Lowee Army soldiers...

*To be continued...*