Chapter 4

Siblings:

(Compa's P.O.V)

I couldn't believe what I was hearing. The entire room was silent, everyone was watching the screen with wide eyes in shock. Although the one who was the most shocked, was Shisho (Tiger). His eyes were wide, his jaw was dropped, and his entire body froze as the video went on. The screen went dark but then changed into another video with Dr. Hikari in a different outfit.

"Video log number two, Tiger is now seven years old and has grown up like any other human child. It's funny, seven years ago, I thought of him as just a science project, but I've come to love him as my own son. His personality is very calm and docile, he doesn't wine or cry like most children. He is a second grader in elementary school, but doesn't socialize with the other kids. Update complete, signing off." The screen fizzled a bit and another video came up.

"Video log number 3, Tiger reaches age ten. He has achieved amazing things since the last log. At age eight he dove into his studies, then six months later he became the youngest person to ever win the noble peace prize. At age nine he got interested in baking, and within three months he became an official patisserie and donated some original recipes for cakes to five star restaurants. It seems that he accels at anything he put his mind to. I've been thinking, is it the goddess's grace that gives him these abilities or is it that he is just a natural born prodigy? Either way, I just think of him as my special baby boy." Ms. Hikari said. Suddenly a little boy comes into the frame with a cup. Is that Shisho? Ohhh! He's so cute! Wait, now's not the time for this.

"Hey Mama, I brought you some tea." younger Shisho said.

"Thanks sweety." She said while petting his head. The screen fizzled again and came back on.

"Video log number four, he is now fourteen years old. I've been thinking about his current state of mind and the reason i created him. He seemed to docile to be able to fight for the CPU's, but something incredible happened two years ago. He and I were out shopping when a group of four criminals were terrorizing the shopping district. Everyone was on the ground as the criminals were threatening them with their guns. I was about to get me and him out of the area but when I turned to him, he had walked up to the leader of the group and confronted him. I have to admit I was terrified when the leader pointed his gun at Tigers head and I was about to push him out of the way, but I was surprised of what happened next. Tiger started to fight back, he had caught the leader off guard by knocking the gun out of his hand and started to relentlessly stomp him into the ground. When the leader's accomplices finally noticed the state of their leader they were out raged and about to retaliate against Tiger. Although they stopped dead in their tracks in fear once they noticed Tigers glare at them. He radiated confidence and killing intent that I had never seen in him before, but what was most astonishing about him was his eyes. What was once a gold color was then a shining blue with d-power symbols instead of irises, the same eyes as the goddess. Fortunately they turned back to normal before he or anyone noticed, besides me of course. It was amazing, that kind of power was lying dormant inside of him for so long. After that event, the time between then and now he as been training and became a monster hunter. He currently takes quests from the guild regularly. Now, something has been bothering me. The first four homunculi were alive but they weren't compatible with the power, so they were thrown away. It makes me wonder what they could have been if they weren't part of this project. If they were alive now, all I would want to do is apologize." The video ends again. The next video came on, but this one was shaky like there was an earthquake.

"This will be the final video log of project guardian. Tiger is now seven-teen years old and his fighting skill has grown graciously. Tonight was the night of his monthly check up at the lab, so we transported his surprisingly deep slumbered body to the lab. While he is in the capsule the lab suddenly got attacked by and unknown entity. This project was kept secret and so was this location of the lab, so I have no doubt they are after my son. Now that the security is keeping the entity at bay for now, I've taken this time to make sure my son is safe. Inside the capsule, it supplies his body with share energy so it will keep his body from ageing until he is freed. The capsule is impenetrable from the outside, so the only way to release him is to open it when the conditions are meet. The only conditions are that the presents of the CPU's, the capsule will recognized the collected share energy around them and open. Tiger, right now I'm only guessing that you would be watching this. I'm sorry I never told you about what you are, and your purpose. This must be some shock to you, but i hope you can forgive me when ever you wake up. But can I ask for one more request, my son? Please fight with the CPU's and be happy when ever you end up. Be brave, and I expect grandchildren, I love you baby boy. KYAAAA!" Suddenly a loud boom was heard, and the screen went black.

"MOM!" Shisho yelled. Tears started falling heavily from his eyes,"Damn it! I let her down, I should have been there!"

I was about to console him, but then he took out his sword and began a relentless slashing at the capsule until it was in pieces. He suddenly falls to his knees, still crying.

"I think it's best if we leave for a while, just until he calms down." Blanc whispered to the rest of us. We all left the room, besides Shisho of course.
"Man, this is an interesting turn of events." Iffy said. We all nod in agreement, this is a lot to take in.

"To think, if he was there all those years ago, the Counsel War might not have even happened." Noire said.

"Poor Shisho, finding all of this out at once must be really hard on him. I wish there was something we could do." I said.

*BEEP* *BEEP*

One of Iffy's phones started to ring.

"Hello? Yes Histoire what is it? ...eeehhhh!?" Iffy shouts.

"What is it Iffy?" I asked.

"There's an emergency! Some strange group of people are terrorizing Planeptune!" We all gasp in surprise.

"Hurry, we must investigate!" Vert said.

"But what about Tig? We're his friends, we have to be here for him." Nep-nep said.

"I agree with Big sis!" Ge-ge said.

"But the people are in danger." Noire countered. They were all silent trying to thing of what to do next.

"Then why don't you all go and I'll stay here." I said.

"Are you sure Compa?" Iffy asked.

"Don't worry, I'll make sure he's alright while you guy's deal with the problem. I'll bring him back to the Basilicom later. Without a second thought everybody started to run back to Planeptune. Ge-ge was a bit reluctant to go though.

"Don't worry Ge-ge, it'll be alright." I reassured her as she left.

When they were out of sight, I go into the room again to see how Shisho is doing. He was still there on his knees, he stopped crying but now he was just blankly staring at the ground. "Shisho, are you alright?" I asked.

"I should have been there, I let her down." He said weakly.

"Don't think like that, theres nothing you could have done at the time. She took the risk of putting you in the capsule to protect you."

"But was I really worth it? I'm not her actual son, I'm just some test tube freak! Do I really have the right to live? Why would she risk her life to save my artificial one?" Does he really think like that? Just because he wasn't born like normal people doesn't mean his life isn't worth it. To comfort him, I gently hug him from behind.

"You know, my grandpa said this, Any life is worth saving, be it people, animals, or even insects. She truly loved you like her own son, so risking her life for yours means that you are worth it. It doesn't matter if you were created, it's still a life she did anything to protect. So please don't blame yourself for what happened then, and focus on what is happening now, and remember you have friends now that worry about you. Don't be sad, okay?"

After a moment had passed, he had stopped shuddering. What surprised me was he turned around and hugged me back. He's so warm, I can get used to being in his arms. WAH! No, bad Compa, no thinking like that about Shisho!

"Thank you, Compa-chan."

Chan?

(Neptunes P.O.V)

Man, this place is trashed. When me and the rest of my party arrive back to Planeptune downtown was a mess. Busted cars and rubble were everywhere, I can't believe someone would to this to my nation!

"Hahahahaha!"

What was that? It sounded like a lot of melodramatic laughing. "I told you that would come!" a voice said. We all look at a large hill made out of busted cars and four people standing on top of them, I wonder why I didn't notice that before.

"Didn't I say going on a rampage will get their attention!?" One of them said. He was a guy with long blond hair down to his shoulders, his eyes were brown and a sadistic smile was plastered on his face. He wore a black shirt under a yellow hoodie, blue jeans and black sneakers, he also had silver metal gauntlets on his arms.

"Yes, yes, you finally had a good idea, now shut up about it." said the only female of the group. She had long, platinum hair down to her hips and blood red eyes. She wore a white sundress that was down to her knees, and white heels and a black whip coiled around her right arm. *Squeak squeak* There was a weird squeaking sound coming from another one of them. I turn my attention to a guy who was writing on a white board with a marker in hand. He had short red hair and grey eyes, and wore a red shirt and black jeans with metal boots on his feet. When he was done writing he showed it to them and it said,

"Can we get on with this already?"

"Yes, let's stop wasting time." the last boy said. He had midnight black hair and had an eye patch with a skull on it over his left eye and his right eye was grey. This guy looked so emo, he had black everything, T-shirt, cargo pants, shoes, and fingerless gloves. He also had . "Let's just do what we came here to do."

"Who are all of you?" Noire said. Hey, this is my nation, I should be the one to confront them first.

The blond haired boy smirked, "Okay, lets introduce ourselves, I'm Gelb!"

"I'm Weiss, the pleasure is all yours." the white haired girl said cocky.

The red haired guy wrote on his whiteboard again, I guess he's the type of character that doesn't talk. "I'm Rot, please die for us."

"Finally, I'm Schwarz." The goth one said.

"Okay, so we know who you are, now what do you want?" Blanc said.

"Yeah, why did you have to ransack my nation you baddies!?" I yelled at them.

"Hm, he's not here. I thought he would at least follow them here." Gelb said, their flat out ignoring us! How rude, and who is "him?"

"Well then I guess your plan was as useless as you are." Weiss said.

"Enough! We'll just kill them first and deal with him later."

"Hell yeah, time crush some bitches!" Gelb leaped off the hill of cars first, pounding his fists together. "Who to choose, who to choose?" He held his gaze on Blanc. "I've heard you've got shortest fuse, bet you'll be the most fun to play with."

Blanc's body gave off an aura as she readied her hammer, as if warning the others that this one was her's. "Okay asshole, just don't blame me when you die!" Blanc charged at the boy, jumping into the air and swinging her hammer down the crush the boy.

Gelb punched the head of the hammer to stop it, then threw an uppercut with his other hand to knock her back. "The hell!?No human can take my attack head on and live!"

Gelb cracked his knuckles and took a fighting stance. "Oh yeah! That hurt, now I know this will be good."

Weiss was the second to decease from the wreck, she unwrapped her whip and pointed to Noire. "You look like an easy one, come on I don't have all day."

"Is that what you think? Sorry to disappoint you but I'm lossing to you, I'm the strongest one here and I'm going to make you pay what you've done. Not that I care about Planeptune or anything." Noire drew her rapier, waiting for the first move.

"If you don't care, why fight? Walk away now and maybe, and that's a big maybe, we'll let you live a while longer." Noire didn't move, Weiss swung her whip.

The black goddess rolled forward under the whip, as she got back on her feet Noire grabbed the whip with her free hand and gave it a hard pull. Noire want to get the weapon away from the girl but she held on and was pulled along with it, this gave Noire a better idea. Once Weiss was close enough Noire turn kicked her in the chest.

Weiss cartwheeled a few feet back, she pushed herself up, tugging on the whip and letting it re-wrap around her arm. "You just signed you soul to me."

"Ahh, are you gonna cry?"

Rot's boot shot out jets flames and carried him down, he looked at Vert then went back to his board. Vert lazily held her spear, waiting for him to make a move but he just kept working. "Hello there, I'm Vert the CPU of Leanbox. Instead of fighting why don't we play a game."

Rot stopped to look at Vert then wrote on his board. "We have to fight, but we still play a game."

"Okay what do you like to play?"

Rot turned his board to Vert showing her a drawing of a lion with fire as it's main. "That's very nice. You're a good artist."

A gateway opened on the board, out of the portal can a real lion with a fire main. The beast roared and pounded at the green goddess.

Vert sidestepped the animal and thrusted her spear into it's side. The lion growled in anger, it leaped at Vert again who this time stood her ground and stabbed it in the neck, tossing it aside as it dead.

Two more flame lions came out of his board then Rot wiped it clean to write on it. "I'm bored, if you still kill these thing I'll make something. Please just hurry up and die."

Vert spun her spear over head, she swung it into the first lion to attack, knocking it back with a big cut in it's side. "I can't do that, all my gaming instincts are telling me this is winnable."

The last one, Schwarz slid down the rubble. "Well, well. Looks like I get you purple heart."

Neptune drew her katana as Schwarz drew a metal rod. "Is that one of those joke weapons that are second to ultimate weapons?"

The boy grin, the rod extended to being as long as he was, a blade popped out the top turning it into full scythe. "You've got humor, now be a good girl and get reaper." Schwarz dashed at Neptune, aiming to take her head off.

Neptune leaned back to dodge the attack, she turned sideways to kick him in the ribs. While he was staggered Neptune raised her sword to cut him in half but Schwarz blocked with his scythe. Neptune kneed him in the chest then punched him in the face.

Neptune put her hands on her hips as the boy back away. "Ha! Give up, I'm the main character who fights for justice so you can't beat me."

Schwarz ran up to the goddess, going for a wide swing. Neptune leaned back again, this time the boy used the momentum form his scythe to perform a low kick, knocking her down. "Not all endings at happy." He brought his scythe down on Neptune who rolled to the right, evading the scythe as it's blade impaled the concrete. "And not all stories follow a hero."

Neptune lifted both her feet and put her hands over her head, she pushed herself off the ground to drop kick Schwarz and stand again.

Gab raised his arm to block Blancs hammer then pressed his palm against her, pushing her back. The boy watched her just stand there. "You touched my chest."

"What are you going to do about?" He stood there watching her with a murderous smile.

Seven orbs of light appeared in front of Blanc. "I'll fucking kill you that's what!" Blanc golf swung her hammer hitting the lights. Gab tensed up thinking they were going to fly straight at him. He lowered his guard when they just vanished when he was blasted from the sides.

Blanc struck Gelb in the legs to send him to the ground then raised her hammer to flatten his head. Weiss saw this and threw her whip to stop it.

Schwarz backed away from Neptune and slid to Gelb's side. "Rot! We're done here, we got what we needed."

Rot started drawing a bubble on his board, creating a barrier to keep he goddesses away. He erased it to draw a gateway to escape.

Everyone put away their weapons and regrouped. "Who do they think they are? Coming to pick a fight with us then running away like that." Whined Noire.

"It was a probing attack." The group turned to Vert. "They weren't trying to kill us, they wanted to see how strong we were. I would use this method all the time before I started any wars."

"By wars you mean clan wars on MMOs, right?"

"Well that goes without saying."

"Well they ran away, so let's mosey on back to the cave to see how Tig's doing." I suggested.

(On top of a roof near by)

"What do you think?" Weiss asked her comrades.

"Well they can pack a punch, but they can't hold a candle when we style change." Gelb said with a grin.

"Did you hear them?" Schwarz said, "They said he was still at the cave."

"Losers probably balling his eyes out! How weak is that!? Hehehe!"

Rot started writing on his black board, "I'm bored, can we go now?"

"Yes, the sooner the better." Schwarz said. Suddenly there was a bright light that covered all of them, when the light died they were gone.

(Tiger's P.O.V)

After our little scene, Compa-chan and I make our way back to Planeptune. It was hard to hear all of that stuff, but it helped that she was there to comfort me.

*BOOM*

Without warning, something crashed right in front of me and Compa-chan, and the force blew us both on our backs.

When the smoke cleared, I saw four strange figures. They all looked like the goddesses in their HDD form.

The first three were male and looked the same exept for their individual color outline. They had on what appeared to be black, skin tight, full body surfer suits. Their arms were covered in silver, clawed gauntlets and their legs were clad in bulky, metal greaves that were probably twice the size of their normal feet. Their torsos were completely covered their upper body in silver armor. Behind them were floating wing shaped machines. (If its not clear enough then think of Byakushiki from Infinite Stratos in its default setting.) The one in the center had black hear and grey eyes with d-power symbols in them, the next had crimson hair and blue eyes, and the last male had golden hair and green eyes.

The last was the only female of the group, she had looked similar to Black Heart in her HDD form except she was all white, and her eyes were yellow.

But there was something strange about all of them, they looked, broken. Bits and pieces of their armor and some parts of their wings looked as if they were cracked off. Although I sense much power from all of them, and I assumed my battle position.

"Who are you?" I asked.

The black one, stared at me blankly, until he smirked sadistically,

"Hello, brother."