Part 18: Episode 18: Rescue

Episode 18: Rescue

Goodness! What’s this note here? “Left to get ice cream, putting on your bill, hope you don’t mind. Uni” Oh, I guess I did promise Ram and Rom that. Oops. Well, last time on Neptune we exposed Underling’s plot. Now, on Neptune…

Video- “A Sticky Situation”

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Halt, villain!
Oh, dammit. Persistent jailbait tramps! Anything here to hold them off? Ah-ha, here we go!
She disappeared. But to where? Gust is sure she went this way.
There’s only one way in or out. We couldn’t have missed her.
On your guard! I sense a pack of creatures in heat.
Dogoo: Bow-wooze.
Bow-wow-wooze.
Bow-woooooooze-ooze-wow.
What the goodness!? D-Dogoos?
So many Mister Dogoos all over the floor and ceiling.
It’s not an ideal situation. They’re just dogoos, but so many is…
Dogoo: Bow-wooze.
Bow-wow-wooze.
Bow-wooooooze-ooze.
Great scales of justice! They’re surging at us in one group!
W-Wait just a second, dogoos!

Absolutely nothing strange happened while we were chasing Underling, I-I don’t know what you’d be talking about. W-What could have happened?



Whaddaya think you’re doin’!? They’re sticking to my clothes! Hey! Don’t touch that!
This is icky and unpleasant! They’re getting dogoo jelly all over me…
Bwahahaha! Hey! Don’t…hey…don’t tickle me there! I can’t stand it… Hahahaha!
G-G-G-Gust will give you tummy ache if you eat her!
Tch, just like a man to let their hormones lead their assault. How debasing!
Th-That tickles, dogoo. Wait, don’t go up there! That’s not for you to explore!
Grrr, you damn fodder enemies! I’ll crush you so flat, the players will think that you’re 2D monsters!
Uh-oh, Iffy’s snapped. She broke the fourth wall.
Please, I asked you to stop nicely… I really can’t…handle this feeling…
Don’t just sit there and let the dogoos take advantage of your purity! Get off your ass and help me!

Certainly nothing with dogoos. Nothing at all.



Even the unintimidating dogoo can become a great threat when they amass.
Underling got away.
But she escaped deeper into this area, so her hideout is probably in here.
Good point. It’s frustrating to go back without a souvenir, so let’s explore a bit deeper.

U-Uh, anyway, we found Lady Chika!

Video- “A Rescue, I Guess”

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That…is Chika!
Chika, are you injured?
Ugh…Cave?
Pull yourself together, woman. I shall remove you from this place.
No, don’t concern yourself with me. I’m already done for…
I have a dying favor to ask… I must ask my dear sister Vert…
No, you can’t die! We’ve only just met…
This is what we in the SMD call ‘bullshitting.’ It is what she does.

She’s not really Vert’s sister, by the way. Miss Cave told me she just says that.



Dying people don’t check to see if people are buying their BS.
She does look weak, though. Maybe she needs some healthy sunshine? Let’s take her somewhere nice to rest.
Yes, let us return her to the Basilicom.
I can’t possibly walk anymore… Yes, I’m…I’m too weak… Please just leave me here to die…
If you fail to quit your childish antics, we really will leave you to die.
You can be such a party pooper, Cave.

Miss Cave is really nice so I didn’t mention it to her but I don’t see how you could mistake Underling for the real Lady Chika now that I’ve met her.

Video- “Chika For Real”

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Her personality’s taken a 180.
It is a bad habit of hers. Please try to overlook it.
You’re the real Lady Chika who called me to Leanbox, right?
Correct. I heard you’re a nosy little CPU Candidate restoring the nations’ shares. I thought you’d help us, too.
But more important than anything else in the whole wide world…tell me! Tell me what happened to Vert! Now!
Holy moly, y-you got really scary.
Shut up and speak! Time is precious, so speak! Speak! I’ll tell you everything I know!
U-Um, okay…

Still, she was more helpful than the other two Oracles.



Yes, and in order to save them all, we need to get the mascot characters to help us.
Lady Chika, do you know the whereabouts of Leanbox’s mascot character?
Yes, I do. Rather, I did.
What could the change in tense possibly mean?
ASIC has taken our mascot. That happened shortly before they took me.
Then, they’ve already destroyed it? Like when they broke Lowee’s disc?
If you have disc fragments, I can repair it.
No, I don’t sense that it was destroyed. If it had been, there would be some kind of visible change in Leanbox.
Why do you think they didn’t break it?
Like I’d really know that much. I don’t even have the faintest idea what ASIC is planning.
All I know is the mascot is intact. Period. That means you still have a chance to reclaim it.
That’s what it sounds like. We’ve got to rescue it right away.
To do that, we’d need to sneak into… No, maybe we’ll turn Underling into our little stool pigeon.
She is rather conspicuous. I would be unable to feign surprise if she has been seen vandalizing something. Let us go.

Feinne’s Notes:
Hey, two more quests. Kind of boring this time but oh well. Can’t all be boobs and references.





Next Time on Hyperdimension Neptunia, Mark 2: Underling Grows Bold!? What the goodness could that mean?