"Why the hell should she even be able to go out and fight?"

She heard a voice call outside of her current cell. Honestly she's even lucky she has a cell, let alone alive after what she's done. Even she agreed she deserved to be in here. Almost destroying Gamindustri and all that.

"Don't mistake it as a chance of redemption. She is fully intended to die."

"What if she turns against us?"

"We'll be there to kill her."

Honestly, she's been threatened to be killed by the guards so many times it's almost funny. They never followed up on the promise, but they've come close to it. They've starved her, beat her, and even had special fun with her, but they've never killed her. No matter how many times she stayed silent or apologized, they'll simply never forgive her for what she's done.

"Prisoner number one-zero-four-five. Get out here, you're on a special assignment, along with four-six-nine-zero, nine-five-nine-six-" A guard called out a couple of prisoner names, hers was the first one to be called.

That was her que, the door swung open as a couple of guards stood by the door, one with handcuffs ready. She stayed silent as even whispers at the guards would get her a couple of bruises.

….

It was just another mission where the prisoners had to wipe out a plethora of monsters, without any context. Why tell a bunch of prisoners anyway? The reward was living another day… What were the guards from earlier freaking out about? She's been on these types of missions a couple of times.

Though there was something wrong. She didn't even have a weapon. Sure all the other times she had some rusty weapons to take on monsters, but they got the job done. Her S.P skills were disabled by the collar around her neck as well.

"Where's my weapon?…." She silently said, but she quickly covered her mouth as she spoke out of line.

"Use your fists dumbass." A guard aggressively replied.

Okay, she was in the clear. She won't get beat this time. She honestly thought she would be more careful this time around.

"Get a move on one-zero-four-five. The cave is that way!" The guard pointed to the nearby cave system they were supposed to clear.

She quickly ran over to the cave, lest she be shot to death like zero-zero-one-three. The cave was strangely quiet, nothing was making a sound. That's strange there should be the sound of fighting, possible death screams. She won't admit it, but one gets used to the screams of death from the prisoners on these types of assignments. Be it from prisoners trying to escape, to being shot because you looked at a guard funny, to the way monsters might ruthlessly kill you without any second thought…. They don't think much usually.

No, this cave was simply just dead quiet. There just simply shouldn't be any silence, prisoners at least should be conversing with each other. They must be dead… it wouldn't be the first time she was the sole survivor.

She got on to her knees and silently let out a few tears. One to not risk death by monster. Two to not risk death by guard. These were the only times that she could ever sob alone.

The quiet sobs wouldn't last long as a random prisoner's head rolled alongside to her. She jumped backwards and let out a small shriek.. okay she takes it back! She's not used to the death!

"My, oh, my they broke so easily. I wanted to have fun with them, but they died too quickly. And the next thing I find is little-old-Rei. That is definitely a treat." Her eyes widened at the familiar voice, but it was in a tone that should belong to a certain other goddess.

She slowly looked up, "Purple Heart?" She could indeed see the famed Lady Purple Heart that defeated her. However, there was a noticeable difference in her posture and the absolute fact that her power button pupils let out a sinister red color. It was unnatural.

"Why the formality, Rei? You can call me, Neptune."

She glanced towards the side to see a fresh coat of blood on the goddess' blade. It was obvious what she has done. Though, Rei, didn't see her as the type of person to do something like this. She was a goody two-shoes after all.

"U-Um… why are you here?" She nervously asked, the blood off her blade not helping.

"There's no need to be scared, little Rei. I'll just take care of you that's all."

The only times that she ever heard that phrase was from a masochistic goddesses and her guards from time to time when they do anything special to her. So naturally she backed away ever so slowly, but a hand from the Lady stopped her.

"Don't run away."

Chills were literally crawling all over her!

"What the? Lady Purple Hear-" The two guards that escorted her and the other prisoners to the cave were unlucky to choose this time to try to see if any prisoners were alive. Their luck was still terrible as said Lady was quick to act and disposed of the two. She was even back where she was holding Rei, but had a bit of blood on her face.

"Wh-Why did you do that?" Rei let out.

"Why are you freaking out, Rei? Isn't this what you think of citizens? Pawns to your disposal that you can waste at any time? Don't be some kind of hypocrite and tell me it's wrong."

She did have a point, at least for her other self, but still this isn't the person that she once fought. Call her a hypocrite, but it is wrong for her to do it! It's wrong because she just did it out of the blue, no warning…..

Rei shook her head at the Goddess who ruthlessly murdered some guards and prisoners… hopefully she wasn't crying.

She didn't entirely expect for her neck to be grasped and her entire body pulled up, "Now, now, Rei. What did I say about being a hypocrite?"

There was a tight squeeze on her neck, a yelp accompanied it. What the hell was she doing?! This isn't the Purple Heart that everyone knows!

"Wha-" She felt the pressure around her neck grow tighter. She let out a gag. Even if they were enemies there was obviously something extremely wrong in her behavior!

"Now listen to me, Rei. You will do as I say and together we'll bring Gamindustri into true despair."

A tighter squeeze. Another gag. This.. this was obviously an imposter… her enemy wouldn't dare to do anything to harm her own people! Despair? What? It's all slowly becoming a blur of emotions, just who is this imposter?!

A tighter squeeze, another gag, and the sound of something breaking.

"Huh? Was that your neck? I didn't expect it to be so fragile." Purple imposter chuckled, but it wasn't her neck that broke. "Huh? A collar?"

She slightly let go of her neck and let the collar, which disabled her skills… not that she can remember her most powerful ones, drop to the floor.

This was… a chance. Thinking up a random, basic, spell she raised a hand towards the opposing goddess. Unfortunately it was a basic lightning spell and due to the goddesses holding her by the neck they were both electrocuted. The goddess let her go and backed off a bit. She really wanted to apologize, but it probably wouldn't do any justice here… she was defending herself really… never thought one could claim self defense against a CPU, but here she can… even if she was an enemy to said CPU.

Feeling her neck she looked up to see the goddess smile, "I do love it when they struggle. It makes it all the more satisfying to break them."

"W-why a-are you doing this? Why you of all people?" She wanted to shout a million other things, but her shyness wouldn't allow it.

"Trying to show bravado, Rei? You were always nervous before you transformed. Speaking of, you would be extremely helpful if you were in a transformed state under our control."

"Our contro-"

"But, my time here is short and I have to meet with the others. I do hope you come to our side and watch the world fall, you would love it." The imposter CPU quickly flew out of the cave.

"W-wait!" Rei called out, intending to follow. She did make a quick stop at one of the guards and picked up a rifle off of one of them and keys from another.. don't know what you could run into. After she got out of the cave, she got into the vehicle that brought her here and drove off to find… someplace… the sky looked a bit different than usual.

…

"What the?!" Rei exclaimed as she slammed on the breaks and looked out into the distance. She got out of the car for good measure as well.

There were literally portals of monsters pouring out… no they were just appearing here! The sky was slowly showing signs of cracking! How is that possible. What unnerved her the most was the fact that there giants off in the distance.. at least she thinks they're giants, hopefully just illusions.

Just…. What was happening and what is she going to do now?

….

Something stupid that came to my head. Took some liberties (Obviously as in Rei was in prison). Story takes place in the Bad end of VII. Let's see if people are just interested in the story… see where that goes.