"So what is he anyway? A golem? A magic doll? Can I have him?"
Vuvi rolls her eyes. "He's my masterpiece. And no, noone can have him. He's not a tool, or a doll. He's… real. Go find yourself a boyfriend… or a thorny bush you can hump." she finishes with a flick of her hand.
"Right, right… " Penelo nods, unfazed by Vuvi's verbal barbs as she crouches in front of Pip, inspecting him with wide-eyed fascination. "But what does he do?"
Vuvi springs to her feet, stomps over to Penelo and slaps her hand away from his pelvic port.
Pip droops his head with a long, sad beep.
"He's a divine gift!" Vuvi snaps. "And we're on a mission!" she says, bitterly. "At least we were until we got involved with you!"
Penelo's ears slowly fold over her face.
"I said I'm sooooorry!" she whimpers as she slumps to the floor. "I'm not a bad person, I promise! I didn't know Veena stole weapons! I thought it was food! She's… different. But I thought I could trust her."
"Still stealing!" Vuvi scoffs. "This is why me and Mother try to stay away from big towns and cities. They're just full of liars and cheaters and backstabbers and thieves!"
She glares at Penelo, who flinches, hiding herself behind her ears and paws as she whimpers.
Penelo crawls toward Vuvi, keeping her head low.
"I'm really sorry, Lady Blackthorn." she cries softly. "I know this is my fault too. But I really thought it was just food. And I… was hungry…"
Pip tilts his head.
"Excuses." Vuvi snorts, turning away from the prostating bunny-girl. "Go tell it to the judge. Once word of our legend comes from the centaur village, we're out of here! With our gold!" she grins.
"Y-You're legends?" Penelo gasps, her ears erect.
Vuvi nods slowly, wearing a deeply smug grin. "Living. Legends." She turns to Pip and raises a brow. "Well, half living."
"Seriously? What did you do?"
"Hmph!" Vuvi scoffs. "I'm not in the mood for story telling."
Pip shuffles over as Vuvi turns her head away from Penelo with disdain. He takes her chin gently in his hand, brushes her red curls from her face, and beeps. Beggingly.
"Since when are you programmed to make sad, puppy-dog eyes?" Vuvi giggles. "You can't even blink!"
Pip points to Penelo, tilts his head and beeps again.
"Fine, I'll talk!" Vuvi sneers. "Only because lover boy, over here, seems to like you for some reason."
Pip gives a shy beep.
"Yay!" Penelo squeals, leaps off the floor and pounces onto Pip, covering him in her soft, furry body.
"Ugh… you should be paying for that." Vuvi says with an eye roll.
"So why are you legends?" Penelo asks while latched to Pip.
Vuvi turns to her with a smirk. "Well…"
She proceeds to regale Penelo with their time and activities in the centaur village, going into delicious detail regarding Pip's performances and the life changing outcomes they provided.
"... so, if you think about it, we basically saved the entire village. Now we're on a journey across the continent to help others, make Pip stronger and eventually…" she pauses for dramatic effect. "... take down the Demon Queen herself!"
Penelo's eyes almost burst from their sockets. "Are. You. Serious? This has to be a joke right?"
Vuvi leans in and hardens her expression. "I never joke when it comes to world changing orgasmic-liberation."
Penelo blinks, staring at Vuvi with eyes beaming with reverence.
Then she sniffs.
Then she drops to the floor and bursts into tears.
"W-What did I say?" Vuvi splutters as Pip glares at her.
He helps the bunny-girl to her feet as she wipes at her eyes with the tips of her long ears.
"Pleeeeeease!" she sobs. "I want to heeeeeelp!"
"You want to what?" Vuvi asked, stunned.
"Help!" Penelo sniffles. "I really, really wanna help! My village… the women. They're so miserable. The curse ruined everything. Most of the men left when I was little. My mom…" she sniffs. "...noone tries anymore. They just stopped… caring. About everything!"
Pip takes her paw gently into his hand, resting the other on her back. Assuring her that he was there.
Ready to listen.
Ready to bear her burdens.
"I'm weak, Pip." she weeps as she presses her cheek against is humming breastplate. "… and scared all the time, and I don't have useful skills. I'm not even a good thief. My super cuteness is all I have… but even that's useless if no man will even look at me!"
Pip lowers onto one knee beside her, gripping her hand tightly. She turns to him, sniffling through tears as he lifts a hand to his heart.
"Awwwwww!" she swoons. "So sweeeeet! How did you make him this perfect?"
Vuvi sighs. "I didn't, even I'm not that good. It's just… who he is."
Penelo turns to Pip, her caramel-like skin shifting red as she gazes amorously into his golden, glowing eyesockets.
"Ugh… don't look at him like that!" Vuvi groans.
"But look at him! He's sooooo cute!"
"Hmph…" Vuvi groans. "His heart might be his, but that body is all me, darling!"
"Speaking of his body… you said he had a…" she grins, biting her lips as her violet eyes gleam with lusty thoughts. "...can I see it?"
"I don't control him, ask him yourself!"
Penelo turns back to Pip as he lifts from his knee.
".... just a little peek. Pleeeeease!" Penelo smiles sheepishly with a tilt of her head.
"Too cute!" Pip thinks, ejaculating a trio of excited beeps.
He leans back, hands on sides, and activates his pelvic port with a thrust of his hips.
Penelo's eyes widen with wonder and shimmer with divine light as Pip's full presence reveals itself in all its majestic, metal, magnificence.
"It's… It's…It's…I—" Penelo stutters, her mind enchanted as his glowing, golden godhood lights up the room around her.
Her eyes roll into the back of her head as she slumps to the ground with a sensual moan.
"That's a new one!" Vuvi chuckles as Pip panics and leaps at the mumbling, half-conscious bunny-girl laying on the floor.
"Oy! What was that light just now! No magic allowed in there!" A gruff, grumbling voice yells from beyond the cell walls. "Blackthorn!" he grunts as he struggles with their rusty door. "You're free to go. Word in from the horse people. Your story's true. Take your toy and gold. The rabbit stays!"
"That was quick." Vuvi says with a proud smile.
The heavy, wooden door vreaks open and a portly, dead-eyed man waddles through. He glowers at Vuvi who grins at him smugly before he shoves two bags into her arms.
"Get out!"
Vuvi beams as she snuggles into the clinking sacks. "Our quest continues, Pip! Let's go! We dine like royalty tonight…oh… well, I will. I'll spoil you tomorrow, promise!"
Pip shrugs and follows after Vuvi, but as he reaches the cell door he turns back to Penelo, who smiles at him bitterly through teary eyes and waves a woeful, fluffy goodbye.
"W-Wait! Pip! No!" Vuvi squeaks as he grabs a bag out of her arm.
He shoves it into the warden's chest and points at Penelo.
The man stares at the bunny-girl, then the sack of gold, then Pip.
His eyes light up like lamposts as he grips the bag tighter. "Done!"
Penelo bursts into Pip's arms, crushing him with hugs and smothering his faceplate in sloppy kisses. "You saaaaaved me! I'm yours, forever, Pip!"
Behind them, Vuvi groans.
"That was your half you just gave away!" she grunts. "You can forget about getting upgrades now! And for a bunnykin of all things… Honestly, I thought I built you better than this!"