The Vespidian
Arc 9 Twilight
Chapter 1
Things were quiet, oddly enough. I had been expecting to have to fight off abductors on a daily basis and yet, they never came. Ichigo was staying in my room now for safety purposes. It wouldn’t be good if she went home and got snatched. Essentially, we were glued together and she had had her schedule changed around so that she was in all of my classes… well, it was just dance since I was not good at anything else. I was sort of banned from singing after last time. It had been delayed, but BAI had come through with my food and I was able to enjoy tasty catered food on a daily basis. I even shared with Ichigo a bit.
I had fallen into a new routine of weightlifting in the morning, Ichigo cooking us breakfast, we would then go to Star Agency and go to Camille’s dance class. She was actually a very good teacher and I had learned how to be even more flexible than before while I was in the suit. The correct movements were essential and I learned them rather quickly. I might actually be suited for such things. After that class, I would usually do a sponsorship job for BAI. So far they had all been modeling stuff and Ichigo was giving me pointers on how to be sexy and cute with poses. It was good to have a pro model coaching me. I even managed to increase my personal collection of Ichigo pictures since she would help out at my shoots.
As for Xava and I, we were more or less going steady now. At the very least we were fucking like rabbits, doing an evening session just about every day after I returned from sponsorship stuff. You tend to learn a lot about somebody when you are sleeping with them frequently. Neon Nurse’s first name was actually Zanna and her last name was Xava. The reason why she prefers Xava would be that Zanna sounded too close to banana and she got made fun of for it back in the day. I think it is a pretty name, though I can see where the childhood trauma would come from. Kids are evil. Speaking of bananas, Xava was into bondage, and I was the one usually getting the shaft. I think it is the control aspect of things. Speaking of weird fetishes… Ichigo is a voyeur. She watches us and doesn’t even try to hide it. Like she brings a chair and a book and sits in the corner while me and Neon Nurse make love.
At first, I was weirded out and overly conscious of her, made for a couple of limp noodling incidents. It is kinda hard to put the moves on when you feel somebody’s eyes boring holes in your ass. We have a strange relationship, Xava, Ichigo and I. It is not a love triangle or any of that drama, in fact, as far as I can tell Ichigo is not actually even interested in sex, she is just being a damned tease most of the time. Ichigo’s thing is that she watches. To each, their own I guess, though I apparently can’t have nice things. I want a threesome, but Xava isn’t having it. I admit it is a bit greedy and I am a faithful person so unless she says it is ok, then I will restrain myself.
It is a relationship after all and there is give and take. It won’t do to take advantage of her, especially when she dishes out that mind-melting robo loving. I guess it already is a threesome with Sub in on it. Xava is very possessive and barely tolerates Ichigo watching, due to the sound reasoning of why she is there. Ichigo wants me to be her meat shield and if I am getting pounded into a coma in a different room, then it is a little hard to protect her. I mean she is powerless more or less so if somebody wanted to snatch her then it wouldn’t be too hard. Since all three of us are in cahoots on this it won’t due to let our guard down.
I have noticed that all this extra activity has cleared up my mind. Though my thoughts do still get dirty it is a lot better than it had been before. If I see some skanky bitch walking down the street, my eyes are no longer glued to her boobies and ass or some hunky dude with a stacked dick and my thoughts don’t usually turn into a horrible rape plot to drag them off and breed them. Even Sub has calmed down a lot. I am actually rather happy these days and the bad stuff just rolls off. Some might say I am positively glowing. It appears that the robo pussy and cock was just what the nurse ordered.
Mom and Dad were actually getting along again. She had even warmed up to me a little… well ok, she was just not yelling at me or throwing things. She had not fully accepted me as Vesper, but it was slowly coming around. We actually sat down and ate dinner together last weekend. I had not seen Dad that happy in a long time. No one even yelled that night, it was wonderful. The tasty ribs were a bonus for sure. I was happy. If things kept up like this then my parents would be happy again. I was actually able to forgive myself a little. It was all my fault, to begin with.
It is not all rainbows in the lollipop guild though. Sunshine has been gone a lot lately and when I have seen her something just feels wrong about her. Not sure what is going on with her and Dreamer, but it can’t be good. She has been getting distant lately and spacing out even more than usual. Other people have been acting weird too. Fire Chief looks like he hasn’t slept in weeks, he has been messing up a lot lately. He is not going out on calls anymore and just stays down in his workshop all day every day like he is possessed.
I am scared, seriously scared. I want to help them, but I don’t know how to. It also doesn’t help I don’t even know what is wrong or if I do try then things might get even worse. Ichigo keeps saying to wait and so does Neon Nurse, but it has already been nearly three weeks since we started trying to figure out how to deal with Dreamer. It feels like they are not telling me something. I feel like we are waiting too long. I don’t know how much longer I can act like I don’t know there is fuckery afoot.
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“Are you writing a diary?” asked Ichigo interrupting my thoughts as I scribbled them down.
I stared at her, mhmm, she was wearing an apron this morning, so cute, “Yeah? Why do you ask questions you already know the answers to?”
“Don’t be stupid, don’t make evidence against us. What are you going to do if Sunshine finds that?”
“Sunshine wouldn’t do that.”
“We don’t know what she is capable of. Hand it over.”
I turned away from her, “No. This is my dream diary, ok.”
“Fine, just destroy what you just wrote down.”
I mulled it over for a moment and decided that she was right. I tore the pages out of my wet dream diary and ripped them to little pieces. I mean there was just too much good stuff in there to throw it all away, that would just be a waste, “Happy?”
“Yes. Breakfast is done by the way.”
“You made them as I like?”
“Yes, over easy, so they bleed.”
I quickly stashed the hard covered book that had Admiral Moon’s chiseled man chin on the front under the bed. This was something that Dad had gotten me a while back. Everything aside, I do hope that Sunshine doesn’t find this book. It might traumatize her. I mean, I am a pervert and these have been some rather lucid and dirty dreams, some of which even involve her.
“Perving over your friend?”
“Shush you, it is not like I can control my dreams.”
“I know, you think I enjoy getting hit with your rape fantasies?”
“It is not rape.”
Ichigo snapped her fingers and wagged her pointer finger at me with threatening eyes, “No, no, no. I am not having any of that. What the hell would you call eating somebody’s arms and legs and then using them like a cock sleeve, before filling them with eggs until their the stomach nearly burst?”
“A very demented erotic nightmare?” I replied, looking away from her.
“And that is why I am never going to have sex with you.”
“That is Sub though!”
Hey, don’t you blame me! I am innocent, innocent I tell you!
‘If you didn’t have that stupid Vore fetish this wouldn’t be a problem.’
“You are both the problem! Now eat your damned breakfast we have that stupid school thing today, remember?”
“School thing?” I asked.
“Don’t you remember? Chief told us about it yesterday. A bunch of the heroes are going to Chaplain Escalator School for the image campaign stuff.”
Oh… why does that name sound familiar? Hmm. I munched on my toast and eggs thinking it over. I feel like I know this. Wait, that is where I went to school. I remember dad telling me about and showing pictures. It was a rather large private school, oh my god I remember the school uniforms were totally adorable! Now I kinda want to go home and rifle through my closet to find my old uniforms. They were soo cute they had ribbons and frills. I bet Ichigo would look adorable in my old uniform. I wanna see this, I need to see this!
“I am not wearing your old school uniform,” replied Ichigo with dead eyes.
“Please!” I flopped on the floor begging her, “I will suck your dick and gargle the mayo!”
Ichigo just stared at me with pity and then she looked away, “What would I get out of that? It is a win-win for you.”
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“I will be your slave for a day!”
Ichigo raised an eyebrow, thinking it over and rubbed her chin. She was considering it, “Wouldn’t you do that anyway? I mean you have been fantasying about that for a while now. Is that it, you want me to treat you like the filthy animal you are? You really are a total Masochist. You want me to tie you up and whip you, treat you like dirt and call you names?”
I held my face blushing… she knows me too well. Well, it isn’t hard when she can read my thoughts. It is cheating really.
“No. I won’t help you with that. If you are horny go ask Neon Nurse. You two are going out already, so why are you trying to cheat on her?”
“Says the one who is always watching us. You are like a part of it so how is that cheating?”
“Is that a problem? Besides, I get the feeling Xava would kill me if I slept with you. She gets jealous you know.”
“If I can talk her into it, then would you be open to it?”
“That is a big if.”
“So you are saying I got a chance.”
Ichigo rolled her eyes, “I suppose.”
“I will go talk to her about this,” I almost skipped towards the door. I can hardly wait. Finally, I will be able to touch and feel and taste her!
A fork stabbed into my ass and I jumped. It wasn’t even that it hurt, more of it surprising me. I pulled it out looking at Ichigo with wide eyes, “What was that for?”
“We are going to be late. Besides, why would I wear your handy me downs when I am still a high school student with my own uniform?”
“Ah right, you are only sixteen. It is weird though, sometimes you act like you are way the fuck older than me.”
She dismissed me by lightly swishing her hand, “That is cause you are a childish pervert.”
“But still though,” Hmm, “Wait could it be?”
She just stared up at me, “What?”
I pointed at Ichigo, “Are you actually a super op cheat character that reincarnated from another world with all your memories intact due to truck-san?”
“… No… that might be the craziest and stupidest thing I have ever heard. I can tell you with certainty that I have never met a god before. As far as I am concerned, they don’t exist. Closest thing to that would be those weirdo magical girls like Sunshine. Well, I guess there is a hell, technically speaking… but that is more of a different world that Demon Rider goes to.”
“Eh? So it is possible. But it happens a lot in stories you know.”
“You need to lay off the light novels. Bad!” She smacked me with a rolled up newspaper, “Bad Vesper. Does this look like a fantasy setting with swords and magic?”
“No.”
“Now stop wasting time we are going to be late.”
Ichigo was right. My brain might be turning to mush after reading all those garbage reincarnation stories lately. People just aren’t very creative, I mean they are all the same. Oh, I died now god feels bad and sends me to another world. First off, why would god care if somebody died early? Hundreds of thousands of people die every day and just as many are born. Second, why would they give said person op powers? I guess it is just ego/wish fulfillment of the author. Seriously though, lately none of them have even had to go through any hardship. They don’t earn shit and there is no suspense! It is all just rehashed harem and overpowered cookie cutter no brained goodie two shoed brats that have idealized, unrealistic perceptions of how a medieval fantasy world would be.
I mean they just get a harem and then as they go adding more to it, the older conquests just kinda get ignored and fall to the wayside as it expands. If it was me, well first off I would never fall into some weirdo nerd’s harem and assuming I did, then I would fuck his womens and steal his harem for my own. Turn all those bitches into my own personal egg sacks. I would treat them like cattle and breed an army to take over the world. Although, I guess that would be the wasp monster part of me talking.
I mean seriously though, we women are jealous and manipulative creatures. Real harems have infighting and backstabbing. Real harems are scary as fuck. Then there is always the Adventure Guild… why do they all have adventure guilds? Come up with a real system, at best there would be a Mercenary Guild and even then it would mostly be country-specific requests and they would keep close tabs on the movements out of paranoia that they might be betrayed.
Ah, venting over my anger of not being able to read a good reincarnation story. I mean, I really like the concept and it is one of my favorite genres, but I feel it has been saturated with garbage lately. They are all the same and it is starting to piss me off. Maybe I should write my own… call it like Diary of a Wasp or something. Of course, I wouldn’t use stat tables and crap like that. Seriously, what is with the stat table love? It is useless info to glorify large numbers that ultimately don’t mean anything. And don’t even get me started on the laundry list of skills that stop being relevant or even used as the story goes on.
I slapped myself, bad Vesper stop thinking about your weirdo hobbies. We are going to play with some cute children. I bet they will be adorable. Those frills and ribbons though. I wanna pet cat children now… I wonder how Snowball and those other little bastards are doing? Come to think of it, the Mad Dogs have been rather quiet lately. I wonder if that is a good thing or a bad thing? Maybe I will go down there with Medavac for a visit sometime? That would be fun.
My thoughts brought me back to reality and I realized that Fire Chief was in front of me talking about something, “Do you understand?”
“Eh… maybe.”
He sighed, clearly tired and the bags under his eyes were very noticeable, “Mecha Fairy, we are going to Chaplain Escalator School for the Hero outreach program. Remember? We talked about this.”
I nodded, looking around. Ah, the Juniors were here too. Sunshine all magical girly, glowing pink and covered with frills. Gravity Squeeze in his armored suit that was made to look like a tuxedo and that little opera mask over his eyes. Astro Glide in his skin-tight blue and white striped suit and elongated helmet. Even Disk Jockey was here in his cyberpunk outfit that had goggles, all the lines were glowing blue. Reminded me a little bit of Neon Nurse. All of them except Sunshine had some serious faces. Sunshine was just sparkling and smiling like always.
There was that creature on her shoulder and it was staring at me. I shuddered, looking away from it. Creepy! Sub really didn’t like that thing. I think it was called Mellow? I snuck a peak and those swirling, rainbow-filled eyes were locked onto me. Even though I was wearing a helmet, it felt like it was looking me dead in the eyes. Why is it staring at me like that and why do I feel dizzy if I look into the eyes too long? It is like one of those hypnotic swirls, except with colors. No creature should be that cute… but it is creepy. I had to peel my eyes away before I started to try and pet it. But it looks so fluffy!
Evil. That thing is pure evil I tell you.
‘I don’t know about that, but it is certainly unsettling.’
Don’t even look at it.
‘But it is on Sunshine’s shoulder how am I supposed to talk to her?’
Just block it out of your vision.
‘I will try.’
I looked back at Sunshine and smiled, “How have you been doing Sunshine?”
She looked over and her face lit up, “Neesan, Sunshine is doing just fine. Oh, Ichigo-sama is here too, when did you get here?”
Ichigo-sama? I looked at her and she shrugged, “You two know each other?”
“We have met,” replied Ichigo.
Sunshine got closer as that thing fluttered around her head, she whispered so that me and Ichigo had to lean in to hear, “We are finally all together. Finally, the Trinity have found one another and we can fight together to bring peace to the world.”
“Right,” said Ichigo in a very patronizing voice. She obviously wasn’t taking her seriously.
“Trinity?” I asked. I had never heard of that while watching the Moon Sailors.
Sunshine seemed distraught for a moment, “Nee-san? Oh, sorry, Sunshine forgot. Nee-san and Ichigo-sama have yet to awaken.”
“Not awake?” I asked.
“Yes. Mellow said it so it has to be true. After all, we are Mahou Shoujo and will bring justice and love to the whole world! Evil Queen Bambi is up to no good and we have to stop her.”
Mellow huh? I glanced at it and those eyes nearly pulled me in. Luckily, I managed to plop my hand over the head to block it from staring into my soul. It was making cute cooing sounds. Damn it, I could tell it was super soft just from how my hand was sinking into it. It was warm and soothing too… wait a minute. I looked down to find my hand was going into Mellow. It was like it was made of syrup and my hand sunk deeper. Ngh! I ripped my hand back with all my strength and fell flat on my ass.
“Mecha Fairy? Are you ok?” Asked Chief and I noticed that everyone was looking at me.
I pointed at Sunshine, “Did you guys not see that?”
They all looked at Sunshine, “What?”
“Nee-san what is wrong?”
“Mellow was like trying to absorb me.”
“What the fuck is Mellow?” asked Chief.
“What do you mean? That weirdo critter on Sunshine’s should… wait where the fuck did it go?” I said looking around.
“There is nothing there.”
“Wait, what? No, no it was there I saw it! Ichigo you saw it too, right?” I asked, looking to her for help.
Her brow furrowed, “What? Saw what? It was just Sunshine whispering about Magical Girl crap and you were petting her.”
Oh no, they didn’t see it? How can they not see it? The damned thing is glowing and shit. Wait, am I crazy? Am I finally losing my mind? But Sunshine sees it too… but she is crazy. Oh, fuck! Sunshine was smiling at me and mellow was fluttering around. My eyes darted over watching everyone. They couldn’t see it. I mean something that weird looking would definitely draw attention. And yet even if it flew in front of people and did flips right in front of their faces they didn’t react.
“Nee-san.” Smiled Sunshine with her hand extended. I hesitated and then took it to get up. Halfway up, she got close and whispered into my antennae, “Only real Magical Girls can see Mellow. It is best not to talk about her otherwise they will think badly of you.”
“Just a minute,” I chattered, grabbing Ichigo and bolting from the room.
“What is the big idea?” She asked when I plopped her down.
“You see it, right? Mellow! I am not crazy am I?”
Ichigo rubbed her chin, “Well no. I did not see it. However, I don’t think you are crazy.”
“You, you don’t?”
“No,” she replied matter of factly, “I believe that Sunshine has gotten stronger lately. Probably due to Dreamer’s meddling.”
“What does that mean?” I pleaded.
“It means that she is projecting hallucinations into your mind.”
“… Why would she do that?”
Ichigo sat there thinking on it, “I don’t think she is doing it on purpose. I mean it is all just Nee-san, Nee-san, Sunshine, Sunshine in there. I think she wants to make a connection with you. You are her only friend and so she is likely reaching out for you. Honestly, it is strange. I have never seen such an unstable Projector before, so I find this very… fascinating.”
“You have seen other Projectors?”
“Well, yeah, I have done research. Usually, they have way more control and make tools and weapons to fight people. You should have an idea of how it works. Their minds manifest objects through sheer force of will. Of course, most of them are not very strong. I don’t think that there has ever been one recorded over rank 5.”
“How come you can’t see it?”
Ichigo smiled, patting me, “Unlike you, I have decent mental defenses. Think of it like a window. Your window is wide open and Mellow can easily fly on in. Whereas mine is closed and she is splatting against the glass, trying to get in. I was wondering why I was hearing an extra voice.”
“An extra voice?”
“Yes. I believe that Sunshine is very close to going off of the deep end.”
“She is going crazy?”
“She has been crazy. Odd… you said that it was called Mellow?”
“Yeah, that is what she called it. Why?”
She seemed very thoughtful and replied, “I wonder who Twilight-chan is then?”
“Twilight-chan? Who the fuck is that?”
Ichigo shrugged, “I don’t know. She is singing. Something about wanting to be free. Whatever that means.”
“Singing? What the hell is she singing?”
“Not sure. I wasn’t listening very long. She likes to rhyme though.”
“That doesn’t sound so bad. Do you remember the words?”
Ichigo nodded her head, “I think it went something like this.”
“Shadows follow my hollow heart.
This is tearing me apart.
Black as the night.
Moon so bright.
I want to feel.
Break this final seal.
Let me see.
Let me free.
Chains so heavy.
This body so ready.
The countdown has begun.
All the nightmares soon to be undone.”
“Strange. I wonder what that is about? It sounds like she needs help.”
“Who knows?”
“Ah well, glad I am not crazy.” I nodded.
“You are not normal either, though,” smirked Ichigo, “We should get back before they start wondering what is going on.”