The Champions and the Maker Dream Team had just landed in The Land of Black Regality when they had met the boyish-looking Oracle at the train station. The difference between the two nations was marked by the generally more ornate feel to the station.

Planeptune's terminal was more modern in comparison to Lastation's. Broken monitors and strips of lights littered the area, still trying to guide nonexistent passengers to their destinations. Pieces of stone marble that used to structure the terminal lay scattered as gentle winds from holes in the rooftop cascaded down and brushed them aside.

Lastation's terminal however was decorated with wrought iron frames, twisting and turning into intricate designs, all of them topped with golden arches. The station stood in open air giving passengers a full view of the nation they were leaving or entering. Instead of the more digital feel of Planeptune's displays, Lastation still preferred a more mechanical form of train schedule, but as with the Land of Purple Progress, their displays weren't working either.

"Welcome to Lastation. I am Kei Jinguji, the Oracle of this land. Thank you for accepting your roles as the Champions."

Histoire had sent word to Kei before they left, but the directness of the Oracle caught the Champions by surprise.

Kei walked up to Lara and reached out a hand, "Lara Strife, Champion of Lastation, I am happy to be of service." Lara shook Kei's hand as a sign of respect.

"Wait, how do you know which countries we're getting?" Maya asked.

Kei tilted her head, "Histoire didn't tell you? Well, I suppose it is a complicated matter. Your devices all have the color schemes of the nations you all represent. I also see some… similarities…"

The room went quiet as the other girls processed this information.

"Anyhow, we must meet with the rest, follow me."

Kei led the group to the Base just outside the main city of Lastation. As they rode the cars that the Lastation Convoy provided, they passed by a street full of buildings that stood strong after the attacks. All of them had this steampunk aesthetic, and it speaks about Lastation's culture and their industry. The vehicles then stopped at the central part of Lastation. It was a small two-story building in what looked like the beginnings of an office district. One thing stood out about the nation to the group was that while empty, the streets were clean and free of any damage.

"It looks a lot better than Planeptune," Lara pointed out.

Kei nodded, "Lastation has a better military program than Planeptune."

Lara looked at Alex who was blushing and nodding.

"We were able to mitigate most of the damage to the city, but the Basilicom was still corrupted. The more dangerous monsters mostly stay near the Basilicom. They aren't the main problem."

Kei led the group to the base which, unlike Planeptune, looked more like a meeting room for a high-end business than an underground resistance. The black-tiled floor held a long meeting table with ornate golden accents. Beyond the table was a computer console that only had one large screen showing many different windows.

At the table, sat three girls, just like in Planeptune. The first girl wore a red and yellow school uniform with a red "K" symbol resting on her chest. Sitting across from her was another girl with dark blue hair wearing goggles and a scarf. Next to her was an older looking bionic woman with light blue hair.

The schoolgirl stood up and made her way to the group. She stepped up to Lara and inspected her.

"You don't seem like much, but if you're Noire's chosen hero, I'm not going to complain."

Kei coughed into her fist, "This is K-Sha, one of the Gold Third. She's, um, … very loyal to Lady Noire."

"And I swear I will make that purple bitch pay for what she did to her," K-sha added, her eyes darkening.

Alex took this opportunity to hide behind Lara, while Hotaru hid behind Alex.

"Histoire said that you had something for us?" Kei asked.

"Oh!" Lara vocalized while taking off her hairpin, and handed it to Kei.

She walked over to the console and placed it on a scanner. Windows popped up on the console, showing a map and some exterior shots of a building. The exterior was an unassuming one story gray building. Next to the pictures of the exterior were another set of images that showed some of the interior pictures of the shooting rooms within the range.

"Uni's favorite shooting range," Kei commented, "We weren't able to find anything there…"

"We weren't able to find Gear either," IF pointed out, "But Alex was able to find her almost immediately."

Kei considered this information, "That's something to keep in mind."

"Nepgear offered her help to me when I found her" Alex added, "She reached out to me when I was hurt."

"Wouldn't you know it, it's crawling with robots," The girl with dark blue hair, Chian, pointed out to the monitor as she observed the pictures.

"Like I said, monsters aren't the main problem here," Kei started to explain, "For some reason, robots have been attacking and patrolling Lastation. The fact they're patrolling the shooting range is most certainly not a coincidence. Any advances there must be meticulously planned."

"Leave that to me," the bionic woman, Lid, said, "Stealth is my specialty."

Unfortunately, Lid's idea of stealth was cardboard boxes. One would think that six cardboard boxes would be very suspicious, and apparently one would be wrong as the small group of robots failed to see them scooting across the hallway floor. In most of the rooms, weapons were scattered across the concrete hallway and on top of the counters. Pistols, sniper rifles, laser pistols, revolvers, miniguns, machine pistols, you name it, it was there. There was even an unlit flamethrower and a frost gun right next to each other.

A comm alert sounded in everybody's ear.

"Are you sure this will work?" Lara asked through the comm link given to everyone.

"Just hide on top of another box then you won't be seen!" Lid reassured.

"This is ridiculous!" IF groused, joining the conversation.

"Trust me! The bots don't have heat trackers!" Lid explained.

"Alright. I'll trust you on this," Lara agreed, somewhat nervous.

Everything was going smoothly until Lara's box caught on the tile and flipped over. She squeaked and the robots patrolling the hallway turned to see her. Low aerial drones gave chase, and Lara ran down the pristine white hallways. The whole thing happened so fast that the others didn't have time to react to it.

Lara ran through the hall, the doors whizzing by her while the Drones' pursuit didn't give her time to go into any of them. She turned the corner and entered the first door she could find.

Even with her luck as it was, she found herself in a shooting range. She jumped over the counters and went to the far side of the room and hid behind the targets. She took out the gun that Lid had loaned her and started fiddling with the safety.

The drones burst in and started to advance on Lara. She got to a point where she was confident that the safety was off. She stood out from behind the targets and shot at the drones, squeaking as the recoil caught her by surprise.

The bullets themselves proved to be very little help. The ones that actually made contact with the drones hit heavily armored plating and simply bounced off. Lara panicked and shot even more wildly.

"Ugh, you aren't even aiming. Have you even used a gun?" A voice complained from all around her.

"U-um… no…? Who's talking?"

A black mass of energy coalesced in front of her. Forming a trophy of a young girl wearing a black one-piece bodysuit looking through the scope of a very large gun.

"My name's Uni, It looks like you need help."

Lara nodded as her Digivice started reacting. She took it out of her pocket and held it out as if she was in a trance.

"I can't do this alone…"

A light shone from the digivice and brought the statue into itself. A flash of bright light erupted from the device and engulfed the entire room.

Lara found herself in a digital dimension that's surrounded by black code, and she felt her body start to move by itself.

Lara reached out with her left hand and a ring of code appeared on it. She then scanned the code with her digivice.

"Access: Sister Spirit Evolution!"

She took the Share Code and held her digivice sideways while her clothes were dissolved into a million pixels.

A black metallic circle with white edges appeared in front of Lara and it clung to her chest. A black tar-like substance erupted from the now-glowing metal ring and covered her entire body from the neck down, hugging and highlighting her curves. A chunk of it solidified into various metal pieces, some of it disappeared and the remaining black tar turned into latex, leaving a mostly black skin-tight bodysuit with long gloves, and thigh-high heeled boots. White and gray patterns then engraved itself on Lara's new outfit, and white rings also appeared on various parts of her suit.

Lara's body shrunk, giving her a more petite and shorter build. She then observed and posed with her new younger form.

Lara finally closed her blue eyes as she felt the Share Energy growing and assimilating within her, and the final stages of her transformation take place.

Her face drastically morphs into a much younger one, her long hair lost all color and tied itself into twintails. Her white twintails then curled itself into drills. Small wings also appeared on her back.

Lara opened her now green eyes and reached out to her side. A large cannon-like weapon appeared out of condensed shards of Share Code. She then poses with the massive weapon with a flourish.

"Spirit of Lastation! Black Sister!"

The light died down to reveal Black Sister pointing her gun skyward. She brought it down to rest on her other palm and looked through the sight.

"I've got you in my sights…" She noticed that she even sounded younger.

She let off a couple of shots that immediately destroyed the drones. Just in time for Purple Sister to crash in from the door and destroy the counters in her landing.

"Nep–" Lara shook her head. "Alex!"

The main security bot lumbered in after her, gun aimed at Alex. She stumbled and fell heavily to the ground. There was no way for her to evade the weapon in time. Just as it got ready to fire, Lara flew in between them and pointed her gun right between its eyes.

"NGP" Lara stated.

She shot the robot, launching it up in the air. With precision timing and shots she juggled the robot in the air. She then flipped a switch on her cannon and fired a devastating beam at it. The robot crashed down and a ring of code surrounded it.

Lara brought out her digivice and scanned the code, "Share code! Digitize!"

The Robot collapsed into a pile of parts and strangely enough, some spare Credit chips.

"You… really… need to … be more careful, Alex," Lara panted as she began to glow, " I… can't be saving you all the time…"

Maya and Hotaru ran in, just in time to see Lara transform back to normal. Lara swayed a little before collapsing. Fortunately, Alex managed to catch her.

"Well, it looks like Lara found her Spirit..." Maya pointed out.

"Will she be okay?" Hotaru asked.

Alex lifted Lara into a piggy back position. Lara was about the same height as Purple Sister, but Alex could carry her with ease using the Goddess' strength.

"She'll be fine," Alex stated, "I think the transformation and the use of one of Uni's skills exhausted her."

Lara shifted herself to a more comfortable position on Alex's back.

"Hmmm… Nepgear…" She muttered with a smile on her face.

Alex blushed, "Umm… I can actually explain that."

Maya turned to the mass of robot parts and saw the manufacturer tag engraved on them: Avenir.

"Of course, it's Avenir, " Chian groused, "Couldn't resist a deal where they could take Lastation again." she said while clenching her fist in genuine anger.

The Resistance were all in the infirmary watching over Lara. The infirmary is in an almost secluded room far removed from the meeting area, Separate from the regular sleeping quarters. Lara was laying on a bed with a cold washcloth over her head.

"Will she really be okay?" Hotaru asked.

"Yeah, she's just exhausted." Chian said.

"How was Avenir able to take the Basilicom? How were Miss Underling and Warechu able to take Planeptower for that matter?"

Kei coughed into her hands and prepared to tell the story, "When the CPUs met their end, the natural Share Barrier weakened. Not only that, but the Sharecite in all the nations went dormant, as if in mourning. Allowing ASIC to come in and corrupt it. I am surprised that Histoire didn't tell you this."

"I think she did, but I don't think any of us understood it." Alex said.

Kei nodded, "And now since the lands are corrupted, the citizens started to feel it, and the monsters started to invade areas that they aren't supposed to invade. To the point where the Other Neptune had offered to use her abilites to take the people to another dimension. We contacted the Ultra Dimension through their Histoire, and their CPU's helped us take our citizens. Leaving us Oracles and a handful of Makers."

"So then that's when Miss Histy called us." Alex muttered.

"I see that you realize your importance to us," Kei said, "You all had better get some rest, Once Miss Strife awakens, we're going to start our mission."

== Nepstation 05 ==

Neptune: Nepstation! It's ya girl Neptune once again, comin at ya live from Lastation! And with me are two guests, Lara strife and Uni!

Uni: Wait, I thought I died already?
Neptune: Yeah, that's also what my lil Nep said when she was revived. So, what do you feel now that you're kinda back?
Uni: Conflicted, I guess? It's really unusual to die, only to come back as a spirit.

Neptune: Right... So Lara. Now that you got Uni, what do you feel?
Lara: I feel… kind of badass! I mean, Did you see the size of my gun?

(Uni looks away and blushes)

Lara: And to think the person who has that gun is a cute little girl.

Uni: J-just start the preview already!

Lara:I learn about my new abilities, experience the Bleeding Effect for the first time and we gear up for our big mission! Next Time: Lara Strife and The Black Sisters!

Neptune: Hey! Trolling the Tsun sister is my job!