Location: Septent Resort
Eventually Uni's crying calmed down completely with the raven haired girl having cried herself to sleep
'she's clinging to me pretty tightly despite the fact that she's sleep ' Nepgear thinks with a sweatdrop
"So what's the plan Gear"
Nepgear looks over to the Brunette and looks her over
While she definitely looks better than when she had intercepted Black Guardian's Hurricane Sword, she clearly still has burns on her legs
"For starters, you need the hospital" Nepgear says tiredly, "i need a Re-Sync, the Mascot hiding behind a False Surroundings spell needs to stop doing that so we can talk to it, i need to get its blessing, we need to take it to Histoire, we need to submit the quest items to the guild and as comfortable as she may be right now, Uni needs a bed"
Everyone nods in understanding
…
Wait a minute, "what did you just say?" IF asks Nepgear
Nepgear blinks, "Uni needs a bed?"
"No, before that"
"You need a hospital?"
"No, after that!"
"Which one then? The hiding mascot, the blessing, Histoire or the guild" Nepgear asks slightly irritated
"... the hiding mascot" IF says sheepishly
"Oh… what about it?"
IF facepalms, "how do you know it's hiding here?"
"Oh that" Nepgear says before pointing in a direction, "if you look closely over that way, you can see an area in the air that looks like its shimmering"
"Oh, is that it Ge-ge?" Compa asks curiously while pointing at a specific point in the direction Nepgear pointed in
"Yeap, that's the weakness of the False Surrounding spell or any illusion spell really" Nepgear says, "it's called artifacting, the bigger the artifacting the less skilled the user is"
"I'll have you know that i take offence to that statement" a new voice speaks up
The shimmering area stops and fades away revealing a Black Disk that is Lastation's mascot
"Eh, you're fine" Nepgear says dryly, "not many know about artifacting anyways, majority of the time people break through False Surrounding spell typically involves Dispell Force or through some BS powered by sheer force of will"
"Um Ge-ge…?"
"Yes, that includes magic users, Dispell Force was created for that reason"
The mascot of Lastation clears it's throat, "you were looking for me, CPU Candidate of Planeptune"
Nepgear carefully sits up, doing her best to not waken the slumbering ravenette
"The CPU are captured and are held hostage in the Graveyard" Nepgear says, "we need your help to get them back"
"And Histoire wants to speak with you" IF chirps up from the side
"And Histoire wants to speak with you" Nepgear adds with a nod
"I'm afraid the CPUs being captured is all the more reason why I cannot come with you" the Mascot says
"yeah, and I'm sure you're perfectly fine dealing with a mind controlled Black Guardian by yourself"
The candidate and the mascot stared at each other in silence for a few moments
"Noon, tomorrow, collect me here then" the mascot finally says
Nepgear hums questioningly
"I will need to make sure everything will be fine before I leave to see Histoire" she says
"Make sure to have a chat with your oracle as well" Nepgear says to the mascot, "if the oracle does their job properly then the nation wouldn't need you to be actively making sure it's not falling apart"
"Very well" the mascot says before leaving
"Gear, are you sure about that? You could have at least gotten the blessing now" IF asks
"It's fine" Nepgear says, "if the mascot is anything like Noire, then it will hold to the agreement made"
"That…makes sense" IF says
"So what's the plan now Ge-ge?" Company asks
Nepgear looks at Trink, "I need you and lusty over there" she points at RED completely ignoring RED's cry of indignation, "to take the items to the guild and escort the mascot to Planeptune Basilicom"
Trink nods, "alrighty, lady Nepgear"
Then Nepgear looks to Brin, "we're gonna need the carriage"
Brin sighs, "understood"
Brin's form is encapsulated by blue flames, when the flames receded there stands a metallic demon horse with a mane of blue flames
Attached to the horse is an old timey looking carriage that has eerie blue lights
IFs eyes sparkle at the sight of Brin's monster form, "SO COOL!" she squeals
"Alright ladies, time to board"
Gearsy: *groan*
Wifey: *le gasp*
Wifey: wha happan?
Gearsy: why is my luck so ass!
Gearsy: yes, I have the hottest piece of ass in the multiverse as my wife
Gearsy: but that's not enough reason to put me through this much crap in a day!
Wifey: *blushes*
Wifey: seriously babe, what happened?
Wifey: you sound like you wanna 1v1 Lucy for whatever you just went through
Gearsy: ...
Gearsy: am I really hell vibing?
Wifey: oh baby, you're always hell vibing when you're complaining
Wifey: AND you're avoiding the question!
Wifey: now!
Wifey: what!
Wifey: happened!
Gearsy: *hides behind throne*
Gearsy: Rushy happened
Wifey: Rushy?
Wifey: Miss Noire's surrogate big brother / Oracle Rushy?
Wifey: Black Guardian Rushy?
Gearsy: yes and yes
Gearsy: their both the same person anyways
Wifey: so Rushy showed up
Wifey: what else?
Wifey: you won't be complainy if it was just Rushy
Gearsy: …
Gearsy: he's mind controlled
Wifey: well shit
Wifey: I know you had an idea of a plan to follow and everything
Wifey: but I'm throwing that straight out the window
Wifey: sorry, not sorry 😶
Gearsy: nah it's fine
Gearsy: if you're joining up with me soon
Gearsy: mind running a quick errand for me?
Wifey: *blinks in confused*
Location: a short distance outside of Planeptune
The group of Nepgear, IF, Compa, Magi and the sleeping Uni stops a short distance away from Planeptune proper
The group gets out of the carriage before Brin transforms back into her human form
Brin then takes Uni from Nepgear's arms, carrying the ravenette princess style
While Nepgear herself is then carried by Magi in a piggy back style
Compa was also carrying IF piggy back style as the burns on the brunette's legs won't allow her to walk
Magi and Brin were going to carry Nepgear and Uni to the Basilicom while Compa is taking IF to the Hospital to get her treated
Location: ?
A girl with short, silver hair with black hair clips resembling playback buttons and cyan eyes enters a lab
The girl is wearing a see-through black and white dress with a long, black tie with a green eaten apple symbol, a USB cable sticking out the back, a black and green choker, and black gloves with a white stripe
Her legwear consists of black, thigh high socks and black and green boots with an "A" symbol on top
In the centre of the lab is a mechanical contraption that is holding an energy crystal
Despite the room's lights being turned off the energy crystal was emitting enough light that the girl can still see in it perfectly fine
"Is it done?" the girl asks seemingly no one
"mmn… almost" respond a female voice from the far side of the room
The silver haired girl looks to the far side of the room to see a see a girl with pink hair tied to a ponytail with a hairclip resembling a wifi symbol and red amber eyes
She wears a white and blue blazer with buttons representing smartphone apps, a black and blue turtleneck dress with the zipper resembling the power symbol and detachable sleeves, a translucent skirt with hexagon designs on the front to match her blazer, and a white belt. her legwear consists of black thigh high socks and yellow sneakers with a lightning bolt symbol
The pink haired girl is typing ferociously on her keyboard
The silver haired girl makes her way over to the pink haired one to check if the other girl wasn't messing with her again
After watching her friend work for a minute the silver haired girl lets out an impressed whistle, "I'll be damned, you really are almost done"
The pink haired girl giggles, "I told you Anri, an uber genius like me can finish this whenever I want!"
The silver haired girl, Anri, gives the pink haired girl a flat look, "uh huh, what happened that has you rushing?"
The pink haired girl grins sheepishly, "I just wanna show you how awesome I am"
"Maho" Anri says dryly with a piercing older sibling like gaze
Maho just deflates at that, "Gearsy needs help" she says softly
Anri's eyes soften at that, "she really means a lot to you huh?"
Maho nods and turns her attention back to finishing what she's working on
Anri stayed silent by her friend's side, she looks to the energy crystal in the mechanical contraption, 'somehow, I have a feeling Maho is going to blindside the toxic Basilicom fossils that they call staff' Anri thinks to herself
'instead of requesting help from one of the nations on Gamindustri proper like Maho suggested, they choose to force this on Maho instead' Anri frowns, 'and those people that gave the information required to even begin this ludacris project are extremely suspicious, but I suppose that their pride is more important to those fossiles than doing their jobs and serving their Goddess, their Goddess Candidate and their nation
"Hey Anri" Maho says suddenly
Anri hums in acknowledgement
"After I'm done, wanna go on an adventure?"
Anri blinks in surprise and looks to the pink haired girl whose grinning like an idiot
"You're just going to hand the IS Crystal over to them?" Anri asks with a raised eyebrow
Almost immediately Maho's grin turned vicious, "now why would I do that?" She asks, "all of this stupid sus as is"
Anri pursed her lips, "Then?" she asks the other girl
Maho just childishly sticks her tongue out
On her tongue, much like on Nepgear's, is a runic seal of tranquility
In the back of Anri's mind she knew that she probably wouldn't agree with whatever it is that Maho was planning
But at the end of the day, it'll be funny and she'll probably get