Snyderverse Neptunia Snippets

by Derald Snyder

Snippet 56- Ironmouse's Last Stand!

Ironmouse groaned as she lay buried under the wreckage of the Mousey Kaiser VI... "(Cough) Dammit, no one fucking told me Vert had a fucking limit break like that... (cough) Bubi! Get off your lazy butt and fucking help me...!"

The little devil then heard her partner's voice in her head... "Don't worry, Mouse, I made a secondary mode in case something like this happened..." The head of the Kaiser suddenly levitated upward, it's hands detaching from the wreckage and floating beside and slightly below said head...

"Ohh, I see... guess you're not completely fucking useless after all, Bubi!" Ironmouse said with a grin, promptly teleporting inside the head and flying it up to the roof, causing Nisa to gasp in surprise and take a few steps back...

(Music- 'Final Boss', Sonic The Hedgehog 3)

"Ready for round two, fuckers?" Ironmouse taunted, the Kaiser's hands punching together.

"Aww, shit..." A-Mac groaned. "Of course it wouldn't be that easy..."

"Arthur, get Lady Vert out of here!" Adrian ordered. "We'll handle this!"

"Okay, good luck!" A-Mac nodded, supporting Vert as they headed for the stairs.

"I'll cover you!" Nisa cried as she opened fire with her Prinny Gun. While one shot hit home, the others were blocked by the Kaiser's hands, said hands then grabbing Blue Falcon and flying up, then slamming her back into the roof, her armor shattering off!

"Nicole!" Peach cried, dashing at the Kaiser and nailing it in the head with a double-footed kick, forcing Ironmouse to back off! "Adrian, get her!"

"I got her!" Red Grizzly grunted as he ran up and hefted the unconscious Nisa over his shoulder, retreating to the back edge as the Kaiser flew back in! Black Raven swiftly conjured a Sylhet Spear that slammed into the flying machine, sending it spinning off-course before it could attack again!

"Ahhh, stop this crazy fucking riiiide!" Ironmouse wailed as she tried to regain control, the Kaiser bumping against an adjacent building and coming to a stop, allowing the little devil to shake off her dizziness. "You fuckers are gonna fucking pay for that!" Mouse cried as she flew back to the Armored Rangers' position, the Kaiser unleashing its laser eyes, sending said Rangers jumping and rolling to evade! Ironmouse then punched downward with the machine's fist, Chika barely rolling aside! The devil cried out in surprise as her machine shook from another double-footed dropkick from Peach! "Damn you!" she yelled as the Kaiser's hands swung out and clipped the blonde, sending her spinning to the floor!

"Take this!" Adrian yelled as he opened fire with Nisa's Prinny Gun, the explosive shots hitting home, causing the devil to turn and swing at him, only to barely slide beneath the massive hands! "Peach, Chika, now!" The Kaiser's head was hit with another double-kick and Sylhet Spear from the two women, cracks starting to show in the metal!

Realizing the danger, Ironmouse flew back up and out of range, before unleashing her machine's laser-eyes at the hapless Rangers below! "You can't hit me when you can't reach me, fuckers! Now what will you do?!"

"Good question!" Black Raven cried as she repeatedly evaded the lasers. "I fear the building can't take much more of this!"

"Out of range? I don't think so!" White Gorilla said to herself, crouching down, then pushing upwards in a massive leap, soaring high above Ironmouse's machine, then cocking her fist as gravity reasserted itself...

"What the fuck-?!" Mouse cried in shock at seeing the Armored Ranger coming down at her, unable to defend in time as Peach's punch hit home, the Kaiser getting shoved down to the roof from the force- and burst apart in an explosion upon impact! "Nooooooo!" the devil wailed as she and Peashy fell along with a significant chunk of the roof!

"Peach!" Adrian and Chika cried in unison!

"We need to get to the ground, now!" Red Grizzly asserted, putting a barely-conscious Nisa's arm over his shoulder as he and Black Raven hurried toward the stairs...

*Down below...*

By the time the trio had gotten to the ground level, they saw A-Mac already running toward Peach lying in the rubble. "Peach! Peashy! Speak to me! Even if just a grunt!" he cried as he knelt beside his half-sister.

"Nnnn... quit yellin', A-Mac..." Peach groaned as she slowly lifted herself up to her hands and knees, A-Mac pulling her up to a kneeling position. "Survived worse falls than that..." She pulled off her helmet, shaking her head as she raised a hand to check... "Well, no bumps at least."

"Where's- Ironmouse?" Nisa grunted, still on the edge of consciousness.

"I dunno..." Peach looked around, as did the other Rangers... but then a nearby pile of rubble fell apart, revealing a familiar pair of twin-tails. "Oh, there she is."

Ironmouse slowly stood up, oxygen tank in hand, holding the mask to her mouth as she inhaled deeply a few times, then pulled it away to speak. "Damn you, fuckers... you've pissed me off... for the last time!" With that, her other hand went to the cat's bell around her neck, snapping it off! Immediately she was engulfed in a shadowy aura...

"Oh shit! She pulled off her bell!" A-Mac freaked. He and the others immediately took defensive stances as Ironmouse's form grew taller, two small skeletons with horned heads forming at her sides, her horns lengthening greatly... then the aura dissipated with a burst of wind, revealing the demon queen now clad in a dark purple evening gown and matching opera gloves with clawed fingers, a pair of skeletal hands wrapping around her ribcage and generous bosom (which had a single eye just above her cleavage), her skin now a sickly grey shade!

"Ohhhohohohoho!" Ironmouse lifted a hand to her face in a perfect noblewoman's laugh. "Behold my true form, the Goddess of the Underworld!"

"Holy shit... she went from 'cute devil' to 'I'm your mommy' in ten seconds flat!" Peach grunted.

"My darling Vert is still more beautiful than this villain!" Chika insisted.

"Yeah, she almost looks like Arfoire now," Adrian observed, gritting his teeth under his helmet.

"Please, I'm twice as sexy as your Deity of Sin!" Mouse taunted. "Now prepare to bow to your goddess, fuckers!"

*One hopeless boss fight later...*

"Ugghhh..." A-Mac groaned, lying face-down with his armor in pieces around him. "Had a feeling... that was... gonna happen..." The other Rangers were in similar states of defeat, though Peach was still trying to push herself back up.

"Ohhhohohohoho!" Ironmouse laughed in triumph, her skeletal minions gone but the woman herself completely unharmed. "That's right, in this form I'm completely invincible! Now swear allegiance to me, and I'll let you fuckers live as my slaves!"

"I don't think so!" a young voice called out, Mouse turning to see iPad standing there with a defiant frown, her large mobile device in hand.

"iPad...?!" A-Mac grunted. "No... run away..."

"Well, aren't you a brave little girl," Ironmouse taunted as she strode up to her with a sexy walk. "Just what can you hope to do against Satan herself, hmmm?"

"Simple! I know your weakness!" IPad shot back before tapping her device's screen... a song began to play, sung by a man with a Welsh accent, and not a very good singer at that.

"What...? Ahhhhh! Not that song by Connor!" Mouse stumbled back in horror, doubling over as she clapped her hands over her ears. "You fucker...! My fucking eeeaaaarrrrsss!"

"Nnnggh!" Peach grunted as she got her feet back under her. (I've got just enough for one last tackle...!) Glancing around, she saw Nicole discreetly retrieving her Prinny Gun, giving a subtle nod to Peach who nodded back... the blonde then launched herself at Ironmouse, nailing her dead-on and causing her to tumble away! "She's not invincible anymore!"

"Damn you...!" the demon goddess grunted as she stood back up, only to see Nisa dashing at her! "What?! I thought I beat you already!"

"You thought wrong, demon!" Nisa taunted as a large energy blade suddenly protruded from the barrel of her Prinny Gun! "It's over! Nippon Ichi!" The Hero of Justice proceeded to slash Ironmouse several times in a pattern that formed the kanji 'Nippon Ichi', finishing with a massive explosion!

"Aaaagggghhh!" Mouse cried as several explosions wracked her body... "Beaten... by a Hero of Justice...?! Daaaammmnn iiiiittt!" With one last explosion, she reverted to her prior form and collapsed, covered in blood, her bell reasserting itself around her neck.

(Neptunia Victory Jingle!)

"Like I said..." Nisa chuckled. "Justice... always triumphs..." She then dropped her Prinny Gun, falling to her hands and knees but managing to stay conscious.

"Yeah! Excellent job, Nicole!" iPad cheered, before dashing up to her half-sister, who was sitting on her knees. "And you too, Peashy!"

"Yeah, thanks. Why don't you go check on your brother?" Peach said with a tired smile, iPad promptly going to do just that.

"Why did... you come here..." Arthur managed to grunt, as iPad helped him up to a kneeling position.

"We can talk about that later, once you and everyone's recuperating at the hospital," iPad deferred. "Oh, Lady Vert! You can walk?"

"Yes, well, I was just exhausted from using that EXE Drive," Vert said as she walked up to the siblings. "I've already called emergency services, they should be here momentarily. And let me say, that was very brave of you, iPad, if a bit reckless..."

"I knew what I was doing!" iPad insisted... only to gasp as Bubi suddenly appeared, those still conscious tensing up.

"Relax, you lot. Unlike Mouse, I know when a battle's lost," Bubi waved them off, before heading over to the fallen Ironmouse, kneeling down and gently picking up her head in his hands. "C'mon, love. It's time to go home."

"Bubi..." Mouse mumbled, her eyes opening slightly. "Sorry..."

"It's alright, Mouse. I'll get you home," the Demon Lord assured her as he picked her up in his arms. "So, bloody good show from you all, Armored Rangers, but you know the drill, this is only the beginning, you won't be so lucky next time, blah blah blah. Cheerio," he deadpanned before vanishing in a puff of smoke and flame.

"Heh... he knows the drill, all right," Nisa chuckled, turning over to a sitting position as she began to hear sirens in the distance...

*To be concluded...*