A/N: Warning, some mild naughtiness here. Don't say you weren't told.
Snyderverse Neptunia Snippets
by Derald Snyder
Snippet 64- Sniper and Crusader 4
*A short while later...*
"This is a tactical disaster!" an NPC Guild agent complained, armed with an assault rifle. "How are we supposed to stop this thing when we can't even touch it?!"
"Not to mention the hostages!" another agent added. Indeed, the tar monster was almost twice the size from before, several female faces sticking out from its front side, Serena Kylie among them. And the expressions on said women's faces made it clear they were being touched in sensitive spots not spoken of in polite conversation.
"But why does it only capture human women, and devour men to the bone?" a third agent couldn't help but ask.
"Because its creator was a pervert," Batman said as he joined them. "I reviewed the files from his computer again, he wasn't having much luck in the love department..."
"THAT'S why he made this thing?!" Black Sister said in disbelief, flying above and making sure the monster didn't try to grab any new victims. But to her surprise, a few of the captured women emerged from the blob, albeit covered in tar from the neck down.
"Hey, boys..." said a woman with long hair. "How 'bout you join us for a good time?"
"Oh, yes! This blob monster feels so good!" gasped a second woman, whose hair was in a ponytail, her face in clear ecstasy.
"Oh, join us... No! I mean, help us!" cried the third woman, this one with short hair. "This thing keeps- Ahhhhh!" Her body quaked as she fell to her knees. "Touching- meeeeee-!"
"Geez, talk about tempting...!" one of the agents blushed.
"All of you, fall back!" a voice cried from above, everyone looking up to see Black Heart arriving from the skies. "We can't take on this thing without strategy!"
"Noire, you're here!" Black Sister exclaimed in mild relief.
"You heard Lady Noire! Pull back; I'll cover for you!" Batman ordered, the NPC agents swiftly turning tail and fleeing, the Caped Crusader then throwing a smoke pellet in the vicinity of the tarred women, causing them to double over in coughing fits! Batman then grappled away with Black Heart and Black Sister flying after him...
Once the party had gotten a few blocks away and out of the monster's line of sight, they regrouped, the goddesses touching down beside Batman. "All right, does anyone have any ideas?" Black Heart asked.
"Well, the first thing would be to try and rescue the hostages somehow," one agent began.
"I might have an idea about that," Batman said. "But we need more agents, all men. See if any of them are finished with evacuation..."
"They should be, one of those groups pointed me in the right direction," Black Heart stated. "I think I see where you're going with this... but even if we get the hostages freed, that monster will just grab them again..."
"Right after we free them, we strike," Batman asserted.
"But how?" Black Sister protested. "I mean, I know that oil burns easily, but we don't know any fire spells! We'd need help from Rom or Ram!"
"Not necessarily," Batman shook his head. "You managed to free me from that glacier last time with a hot blast from your gun..."
"Yeah, hot, but not fire," Uni pointed out. "That blast would just splatter it all over the place like last time, and probably cover everyone in the area!"
"What we need is a source of ignition," another agent suggested. "That way, when Black Sister blasts it, it sets the creature aflame rather than splattering it!"
"Exactly what I was thinking," Batman nodded. "See if any of the agents have a flare ready to go. And also, tell them to bring some of 'those' guns, as a backup plan..."
*And so, a short while later...*
A line of male Guild agents cautiously approached the tar monster with weapons drawn, but not aimed at the blob. "Sure hope this works..." one of them muttered.
"Just keep your eyes peeled," another agent snapped at him.
"Hold!" another agent ordered, all coming to a halt. "All right, you know what to do."
"Okay..." the first agent sighed. (ahem) "Well, hello pretty ladies... how about having a good time with us tonight?"
"Oh, yes," one of the hostage women replied, emerging from the main body of the blob, covered from the neck down, a thick strand remaining connected between her and the monster.
"Come on, ladies, don't be shy," another agent beckoned.
"It's working! They're coming out!" Indeed they were, all of them drunkenly walking towards the men, their faces in various stages of pleasure.
"Just a little closer, ladies..." the leader taunted. "NOW!"
"Hi-yaaahh!" Black Heart suddenly dropped down from the side, bringing her large sword down to impact with the street, unleashing an energy wave that severed the tar strands, the ladies promptly collapsing like puppets with their strings cut! The tar monster promptly reached out to grab the CPU in retaliation, only for Noire to evade by flying straight up into the sky! "Now, Batman!"
"Roger, Lady Black Heart!" Batman said from the nearby rooftop, lighting the flare attached to the Batarang in his hand. It was too unbalanced to fly very far, but it didn't need to, the Dark Knight hurling it towards the tar monster, the flare sticking into it and starting a small fire!
"EMB: Empress!" Black Sister intoned as she fired immediately, the blast hitting the small fire and causing a fiery explosion, flinging bits of burning oil and tar everywhere! The tar monster screeched in agony as it's mass was engulfed in fire...
"Pull back! Pull back!" the lead agent ordered, he and his fellow men retreating, dragging the freed hostages with them.
"We... we did it!" Uni pumped a fist in triumph. But then, the tar monster shifted and folded over itself, managing to smother most of the fire! "Oh come on! Just die, will you?!" the CPU Candidate growled in frustration as she took aim- only to cry out as a tentacle grabbed her leg, another one pulling her rifle from her grasp! "Oh no! Get off!" She tried to fly away, but more strands of tar grabbed her around the waist and arms... "HELP!"
"I'm coming, Uni!" Black Heart cried as she flew down with her sword out... but another tentacle suddenly yanked said sword out of her hands, smaller strands grabbing her limbs as well! "No!"
Despite their attempts to escape, the Lastation goddesses were pulled into the tar monster's body, their legs disappearing in an instant! "Someone help us!" Black Sister cried, managing to pull one arm free, only to cry out in disgust as the goo swallowed her hips... "Ahhh, pervert-! Don't touch me there!"
"Let- go-!" Black Heart grunted as she tried to pull her arms free to no avail, gasping as she and her sister were pulled in their chests, feeling the warm tar start to fondle her bosom! "Ahhh, don't grope me like that-!"
But just when all seemed lost, and sisters were doomed to become the tar monster's pleasure-slaves... icy beams suddenly hit the blob, beginning to freeze it! A grapple line then wrapped around Uni's arm, the CPU Candidate grabbing the rope with her hand as Batman began to pull... but even with the cold temperature, the tar was still quite sticky...
"Allow me to assist you, Batman," said a robotic voice, two purple armored hands grabbing Batman's end of the grapple and helping him pull.
"Wait- Steamax?!" Batman gasped. "Where did you-?!"
"I was assisting with the evacuation earlier," the cyborg ninja replied. "Now pull!" And pull they did, Black Sister slowly coming free, though her lower body was still covered in tar... After a few minutes she was pulled completely clear, wrapping the rope around her wrist twice more before reaching for her sister and grabbing her under her right arm.
"Wait...freeze guns?!" Black Heart observed as her sister began to pull her out. "Since when did the Guild have those?"
"We confiscated those guns from the group called 'those who slither in the dark'," Uni grunted in reply. "I guess they must've held on to a few of them...!" She gritted her teeth as she pulled harder, Noire's arm coming free, her hand then clasping her sister's wrist as she was pulled the rest of the way out.
"Lady Noire's clear!" The lead agent called. "Turn the weapons to max power! Let's freeze this thing solid!" And so they did, the tar monster attempting to crawl away, but a good chunk was already frozen to the street, making it futile.
Meanwhile, the goddesses had been pulled onto the rooftop with Batman and Steamax, sitting down and panting with mild exhaustion as their HDD ran out and they reverted. "You're late, Steamax," Uni gasped out.
"He says he was helping with the evacuation," Batman pointed out.
"Indeed, there wasn't much I could do to the blob itself, so I left it to you and your sister," Steamax said with a small nod.
"Well, thanks for helping pull us out, at least," Noire sighed, dressed in black pajamas in lieu of her usual outfit. "That'll teach us to let our guard down before the fight's over..."
"What about the other girls? Were they saved?" Uni asked.
"They were indeed," Steamax affirmed. "Every one of them."
"The other agents should be cleaning them off as we speak," Batman appended. "Speaking of which, we should get you two washed off as well..."
"But... I mean, yeah, we should clean up, but I don't have a change of clothes!" Noire complained.
"Me neither, but I wasn't expecting to get covered in sticky goo tonight," Uni shrugged.
"I shall go and retrieve some clothes for you, then," Steamax said with a brief bow, before vanishing in a flash step.
"Thanks, Steamax! You're a true friend!" Uni called after him.
"All right, let's head down to the street," Batman said, the trio heading for the stairs...
*Down at ground level...*
"Oh, Billy! My poor Billy!" wailed the ponytailed NPC as she sobbed her eyes out, she and the other ex-hostages now dressed in modesty cloaks after having been cleaned off.
"Excuse me," Noire spoke up, she and Uni wearing cloaks as well, their hair still moist from their washing off. "Did that thing eat your boyfriend?"
"Eat him?! It stripped him to the bone!" the NPC shot back. "And then it kept raping me...!" She fell into sobbing again, another woman moving to console her.
"Yeah, my Steve got eaten by that thing, too," the long-haired NPC said bitterly. "At least your Robin got away..." she spoke to the one with short hair.
"Yes, but I doubt he'll want to see me again after this," the woman shook her head.
"I'm so sorry... I should've gotten there sooner," Uni lamented.
"And done what?" Noire cut in. "You said it yourself, you couldn't really do anything against that monster by yourself! I mean, yeah, it's tragic that those men died, but sometimes you can't save everyone! At least be happy for those we did save!"
"Yeah, I'm really glad you saved us from that thing," the long-haired NPC nodded. "But how are you going to dispose of it, being all frozen like that?"
"We'll cut it to pieces with special tools, and throw said pieces into an incinerator," a nearby Guild agent answered. "It'll take a while, but that thing won't harm you anymore."
"Hey, what about Agent Kylie?" Uni inquired.
"Catwoman? She's with Batman," the agent pointed, Uni and Noire seeing the woman in question leaning up against Batman with a sad expression, the Dark Knight embracing her with one arm.
"Wish I had my phone to take a picture," Uni said with a knowing smile. Alas, it had been lost along with her gun, buried somewhere within the now on-ice tar blob. So she and Noire walked over to the couple... "So... you're just professionals, huh?" Uni teased.
"What- oh. No, I was just consoling Serena," Batman insisted. "She thinks this whole situation is her fault..."
"How so?" Noire asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Lady Noire," Serena acknowledged with a nod of respect. "Well, when I was sneaking down the steps to that chemist's basement, I tripped and hit my head on the wall at the bottom. When I came to, I was tied to a chair and stripped naked... you can probably guess what happened next." She shook her head sadly. "Rookie mistake... if it hadn't been for that, I could've nipped this in the bud before it ever started..."
"Oh, don't be so hard on yourself!" Uni disagreed. "You said it yourself, it was an accident! You didn't know what that pervert was up to! This whole thing is his fault, not yours!"
"So what happened to this pervert chemist that made that thing?" Noire queried.
"He got devoured by his own creature," Batman answered in his fellow agent's stead. "Nothing left but bones, just like the men at the party..."
"And I saw it firsthand," Serena grunted. "That's probably going to give me nightmares for a while..."
"Well, good thing you've got Batman to chase those nightmares away," Uni teased.
"I told you, Uni," Batman began, his face slightly flushed.
"Right, professional, sure," Uni nodded with a smile. Just then, she turned away... "You're back, Steamax!"
"Huh?!" Noire whipped around, and sure enough, there was Steamax standing nearby, holding some folded clothes. "Geez, at least clear your throat or something next time!"
"I did, Lady Noire," the ninja insisted. "Anyway, these sweatsuits should do to cover your modesty for now."
"Great, give me one!" Noire ordered, all but swiping the shirt and sweatpants from Steamax and quickly pulling on the latter.
"Um, can I ask where you got these?" Uni asked as she began to dress herself as well.
"From the nearby shop," Steamax replied. "Before you ask, yes, I did pick the lock on the door, but I left money on the counter after finding what I was looking for. So it was technically not stealing."
"It's still breaking and entering," Batman said sternly. "But since you did it for the CPU's sake, I'll pretend that I didn't hear what you said."
"You're still going back in the morning and explain to the manager why you did that," Noire insisted, pulling her hair out after having donned the shirt.
"I'll go with you," Uni added as she did the same.
"...Very well, then. But I assure you that my days of villainy are over," Steamax bowed his head.
"Well, we're going to hold you to that, especially after what you pulled when you joined Ho-Hum, even if it was a false flag!" Noire asserted with an angry expression.
"Still upset about him stealing your cosplay costumes, huh?" Uni deadpanned.
*In the sewers below...*
A rat scurried through the underground drainage pipe, emerging into a larger tunnel with a few inches of water at the bottom. But suddenly a black blob erupted from the water, grabbing the rat and pulling it into itself... a minute or so later, a small skeleton was spat out, the blob then going on its way...
(Good thing I got smart enough to split off part of myself in case the worst happened,) the blob thought as it pulled itself onto a dry platform, now only slightly larger than the average human. (But I still need sustenance to maintain what is left of me... and those small creatures won't be enough...)
But then it thought back to the women it had captured and pleasured, feeding off their ecstasy, then the flushed faces of the men that confronted its captives... (Hmm. I wonder...) The blob shifted upward, compressing itself and rising to human height... then two tentacles emerged, reforming into arms and hands, as the rest of the tar took on human shape, with a pair of C-cups forming between the arms, and long 'hair' extending from its head... then a nose and mouth formed on the face while the lower body reshaped into two thick legs... finally, a pair of black eyes emerged from above the nose, black eyelids blinking over them.
The newly formed tar girl then bent over to look at her reflection in the sewer water... "Yeah, this will do," she spoke, her voice burbling slightly. "I can seduce any man I want like this... But I should go somewhere else so that Bat-man and the others don't freeze me again..." Collapsing back into blob form, the tar monster slithered away to parts unknown...
*Snippet 64- End*