Heyo. This is my first fanfiction I've ever felt like putting out there, based on a 'what if' set in the Hyperdimension Neptunia series. It has OCs, but none of them are written to outshine the main characters, and don't take the spotlight any more than how Uzume did in Megadimension Neptunia VII.

Edit: As of 7/12/2017, an actual author friend of mine gave me advice after I asked what the average length of a decent chapter was. She told me 5000 words was 'respectable' and gave me 8000 as a general ball park estimate. Granted, this is a fanfiction, but I still want to take pride in and develop my writing skills, so from now on, chapters 3 onwards will be quite a bit longer. Hopefully broken up into nice easy to digest chunks for your viewing pleasure. Thanks to those who have follow me this far!

Edit: 8/29/2017, Soooo yeeeeah. Good news is I'm not dead, not giving up on this fic. Sorry for the hiatus, lost net for like two weeks and lost like all motivation as a result, but it's slowly returning. Sorry for the wait! I'll hopefully have the next chapter up within a week, maybe two. Again, sorry for the delay! Life is a bi*ch!

Gamindustri.

A land ruled by four goddesses known as Console Patron Units—CPUs—who have kept the peace despite interdimensional beings, past CPUs and monsters of all sorts causing turmoil and chaos on multiple occasions.

Lady Black Heart, goddess of Lastation.

Lady White Heart, goddess of Lowee.

Lady Green Heart, goddess of Leanbox.

And lady Purple Heart, goddess of Planeptune

These four have reigned over the major nations for years now.

That's what I've heard from rumors across the wastes; must be nice to be a goddess wanted by your people—pretty sure those four never had to defend themselves against their own subjects. Honestly, I don't even know how I'm still around; my shares are practically in the negatives and have been for years now.

Oh, who am I? Well...

"Pain-us? That sounds like an old meme from N-chan!" Said a lavender haired girl, short and youthful looking, clad in a hoodie-dress combination outfit.

A sandy haired and even younger looking girl rolled her eyes, "It's pronounced 'pan-oos', Neptune. Honestly, you can be so dense sometimes." She spat caustically, a regular attitude she had for those that showed little interest in expanding their knowledge.

"A dense Nep is the best Nep! Gotta keep that fall damage down, after all, Blanc!"

"It probably all goes to your head, unlike any concept of work or duties as a CPU."

Neptune looked quite offended momentarily, holding a hand to her chest as if she were shocked that such a thing would be said about her; "Me? Really? Honestly, why ya being so nasty to me today?"

A soft sigh came from the other side of the room, a tall blond and regal woman taking a sip from a white and purple teacup she held by the handle between two fingers. To say she was merely busty was an understatement, as it seemed her bosom practically had it's own gravity to it despite the well crafted green gown she wore. "It may be because of your failure to comprehend the gravity of this situation, Neptune." She spoke much like a mother lecturing a child, "A nation across the seas hasn't been in contact with our respective ones for almost as long as Uzume's time as Planeptune's active CPU. It is troubling, to say the least."

Neptune huffed a bit as she rolled onto her back upon the soft purple couch of her bedroom, "So they're a loner nation, it's not like we're exactly strangers to loners, y'know."

The last of the four girls in Neptune's room glanced towards Neptune, agitation across her features, "I'm going to pretend that wasn't towards me." The jet black haired girl remark, adjusting one of her black tails that made up her hair style in a forced elegant fidget. Overdressed was one of the many ways to describe the girl's outfit, and yet despite this, her skirt practically showed her underwear at any motion she made with her legs.

Neptune bat her eyelashes in mock affection.

"Get a room already you two; at any rate, the reason we're all here is to figure out what to do about this," Blanc explained, trying to get the CPUs back on track, "Ever since Uzume's history returned, so did several books in my collection, including one about this supposed fifth nation of Gamindustri to the southeast."

The black haired girl spoke up once again, "As silly as it is, maybe Neptune has a point; maybe they just want to be alone?"

Shocked at the girl's rare honest opinion, Neptune pretended to faint, "Noire-senpai noticed me, gak, ded."

"Oh honestly, I'm just saying that maybe it's intentional." Noire elaborated, folding her arms.

"Even if that were the case, it seems strange that they would make no efforts to contact any of us after the Zero Dimension situation was resolved and everyone remembered the correct history." Said the blond, casually sipping her tea.

"Ugh, Veeeeert... don't make it sound like people might be in trouble down there; I can't lay around if people are in troubleeee..." Neptune whined.

Nobody in that room could deny that—while some of them cared less than others, all four of the CPUs wanted to protect others where they could, but leaving their nations to go help one they'd only just recently read about wasn't something any of them were eager to do, regardless of their respective reasons. Shares, the faith of the people towards their CPUs, were harder to tap into across long distances, and it wasn't guaranteed that they could immediately secure enough Shares that far away to maintain their ability to access their HDD form—their Hard Drive Divinity state of being.

Awkward silence filled Neptune's room between the four goddesses.

Until it was broken by a fiery red head who suddenly throw open the door to the room.

"Nepsy!" The red haired girl cried out, her orange tie finally falling back down over her exposed navel as she stood in the doorway, "We got invited to a CPU Summit down in Panus!"

The four girls turned their attention to her, Neptune finally speaking up after a long pause, "Uh, Uzume, that honestly sounded like forced plot point in the story."

"Wha...? Oh, right, I forgot, you guys don't know about Panus, huh"

Blanc held up the book she had been talking to the others about, "Actually, we just were talking about it and wondering what to do; seems the proper thing now is to accept the invitation and meet their CPU, but anything you can fill us in about that nation would be beneficial to us, Uzume."

"What's her name?" Noire asked, her curiosity over another CPU in a far off nation causing her to speak up.

"I'm not sure if she's the same CPU as when I was around, but I'm pumped to find out what her nation has been up to this whole time." Uzume stated with a smile, "They call her Lady Azure Heart, but back in the day I called her Sonia; she was a brand new CPU back then and nervous as hell, but I bet she's grown into a fine CPU after all these years."

The four CPUs glanced at one another, each of them getting a similar idea within moments of one another, then smiling at Uzume.

"Uhm... why are you all looking at me like that? It's kinda creepin' me out..."

End of Chapter 1