Well, never thought i'd be doing this to be honest. I don't know what it was that brought me to try and make a Neptunia story of all things, but to be honest, I really like the story that you can get from the games and the anime. I haven't seen much more than the first three games, so there's that, but it was more than enough to get me inspired for this until I can eventually play Megadimension Neptunia VII. Already i've heard a lot of good things about the latest game as far as the american release is concerned, but of course that's not counting the fact that 4GO is going to be released in the US eventually. Whatever the case, I hope that people like this story and that I get some responses. It was a lot of fun writing this to be honest.
A story of beings fighting is often one that will end in a good, or even happy ending depending on what it is that you wish for. Often it will show the ups and downs of a character that would be considered to be the main character while he/she does whatever they can to bring peace to the world. Even then, there will always be more situations where they have the chance to make everything better. In the end everything turns out well and everyone lives happily ever after.
The start of this story is not one of those.
This is a story of survival where there was only one person capable of fighting of the creatures that wished to destroy humanity as far as the stronger ones were concerned. The human beings that wished more than anything to be able to survive placed all of their faith into a being known as a CPU. No one knew what her name was, but they knew that she was fine being called General Silver. Literally no one knew what else they could call her, but they decided to just stick with that.
General Silver was a woman that looked to be in her 20's with solid silver hair that was kept into a high ponytail. A button that looked almost like an old school circle D-pad stood out on the right side of her head, keeping a few of the messy bangs out of her face. Due to this anyone could clearly see the bright Orange eyes that had a white Power symbol in them instead of a pupil. The woman's right arm was covered in some sort of Cyber styled mesh that looked almost like a motherboard. The other arm was covered by a bodysuit like material that reached all the way to her hand and a shoulder pad in the same shape as her hairclip attached to the arm. Covering her torso was a similar bodysuit like material, with the sides of her stomach having the same mesh instead. The bodysuit connected with two strands of material down to her two boots, that held three lights on them each. The next noteworthy thing about the woman, however, were the shackles that were on each wrist and ankle, three links connected, with half of a fourth one on each.
Of course this didn't even cover her 'Processor units' as she called them. Two small speakers hung over her head without assistance, two sharp blade like pieces of metal being attached to them standing straight up. Behind her was a pair of what looked to be wings positioned in a similar fashion as the speakers, but instead looked like segmented butterfly wings, the non metal parts glowing a bright silver. A single clawed gauntlet connected to the shackle of her left hand, the other hand still the same. Connected to her feet, however, were two boots that looked almost like a Mech's legs with how blocky they were.
Every single one of the humans that lived in their world, one that was dying just as quickly as the monsters that they tried to push back, believed that General Silver would find a way for them to survive, and she did eventually. No one knew what this method of saving them would be, but for many they believed that it would be something that would abandon this world. Many hoped that it was in this situation if they were honest due to just how bad the world was.
Letting out a sigh, Silver Heart turned her orange eyes towards the crowds in front of her. Despite everything, and knowing that her name truly was Silver Heart, she refused to take that title due to what the state of the world was. A Heart CPU was supposed to protect all of their people, and yet they were forced to make a fortress out of the once beautiful city that was Serita. The lands of Silver Harmony were in such a state of disarray that she truly believed that she did not deserve the Title of heart.
Ignoring that train of thought for the time being, Silver Heart turned her attention towards the crowd that was waiting for her to begin talking "People of Serita, no that is not correct anymore. People of Gamindustri! I know that times are dark as they are right now, but I must ask you to listen to my words. This world that we live in right now… It is beyond saving."
Predictably many yells of confusion and outrage range out, but she put a hand up to silence them so she would continue speaking "I understand that these words do not sound encouraging like I normally give you, but please Listen to my words. This world is beyond saving yes, but the Oracle Listorie (Lee-story) has found a way to use what share energy we have to transfer all of the inhabitants of this city to another world. I do not know what it is that we will encounter if we go through with this, but I give you my word as your protector that I will fight anything that we encounter if I must!"
A smile spread across Silver Hearts face as she felt the share energy she was connected to brighten a bit due to the joy that the people, no that wasn't correct either. These were her people and she would protect them as best that she could. Once they quieted down once again she continued "I thank you all for believing me but it will take a couple of days for Listorie to connect the share energy so that we may escape this world of horror that we live in at the moment. I will hold off the monsters by myself if I must if it means that no one here shall lose their life before we leave."
"With all due respect General Silver, FUCK THAT!" One of the men in the crowd yelled at the top of his lungs "You've done so much for us, we aren't leave you to be the only one to fight!"
Yells of agreement range through the crowd as a woman spoke up "Yes! You have never complained even when we ask you for small things like finding a missing person. Why would we leave you to be the only one to fight."
Even more sounds of agreement range out, causing a light hearted laugh to escape Silver heart, her orange eyes seemingly glowing more than normal, as she smiled "If that is how all of you feel then I will do nothing to stop you, but again I must request that you all be careful. Even one of you losing your life would feel like a failure to me."
Silver heart backed up a few feet as her Oracle Listorie, a small woman, as in small enough to sit on an open book, floated up to the mic that had been set up. Listorie had bright blue hair that was kept underneath a silver sailor hat. The rest of her outfit, however, was just a simple brown robe, but it was enough to cover anything that she wanted at this point. The most prominent thing about her at the moment however, was the bright gold eyes that she had.
The small woman let out a smile at the sight of the happy people in front of her before she spoke "I will try my best to make sure that the process is done as quickly as possible, but I must ask all of you to be as patient as you can be. Those of you that can fight, please be careful like General Silver has stated." Listorie let out a small giggle "Forgive me, it seems that I am just restating what has already been said. Please, enjoy the rest of your day."
Clapping quickly started after the Oracle left the Microphone to float over to Silver Heart. With the two giving quick bows towards the crowd, they retreated back into the Basilicom for the time being, even as Silver heart let out a sigh, light surrounding her, being, before a different person stood in her place.
The new girl looked to be in her early teen's, not even a bust starting to develop as far as anyone could tell, but her age was greatly disproportionate compared to what she looked like, though she was about 5'6. The girl had her dark grey hair put into a low ponytail as to keep it out of the way, to show dark green eyes underneath, dark bags under them. Her skin was a bit on the pale side, but it was mostly hid underneath a grey hoodie that seemed to be several sizes too big, despite being left open. She had a plain red-shirt underneath the hoodie, which was also to big, hiding the black shorts that she kept underneath them. A pair of leg red leg warmers covered her legs from the knees down, barely showing the tennis shoes that she had covering her feet.
"How long is this going to last Noel?" Listorie asked a few seconds of silence while looking towards the girl "It's been close to fifty years since anyone has called you Silver he-"
"Don't call me that Listorie." Noel spoke up before she could continue, the girl's eyes trailing over the Oracle with a tiredness that Silver Heart didn't show "I don't have the right to call myself that anymore."
The Oracle floated up a bit more in indignation before going down a bit as a tiredness seemed to envelop her as well "I understand that you don't wish to be called by that title anymore Noel, but you must understand that your Shares would be more powerful if your people knew your true name. As it is we barely have enough Share Energy to transport all of the us to whatever Dimension that we would end up in."
"Damn it Listorie! To many people have died! I don't deserve to be called Silver Heart, let alone what they call me now with the respect they do!" The girl spoke, the rage in her tone obvious as she looked towards the Oracle that was a little startled by the anger. Seeing this, the girl let out a sigh, shoving her hands into her pockets "I'm going to go for a walk."
Listorie let out a small noise of discomfort, but didn't say anything other then "Please stay safe."
A simple nod was the only thing that the Oracle got, before she left he Basilicom. Noel was a lot of things, but reckless was Definitely not one of those things. She wouldn't leave the people without a CPU to look up to. She was the only thing that kept the strongest monsters from killing all of the people that she was protecting. What would happen if she wasn't there was something she didn't want to think about.
Walking out of the public entrance for the Basilicom, Noel made her way through the crowds as she headed towards her destination. Seeing the city from ground level was different then from above, and she could see all of the roughshod buildings that the people had built. A lot of them were made out of wood that was barely there, and rusted metal, Basically anything that could make it so that there was shelter. Everyone was dressed similarly to her considering clothes that were way too large, or were extremely dirty. At this point it was normal, and that was one of the first things that she would change when they reached whatever Dimension they were going to end up in.
As caught up in her thoughts as she was, Noel wasn't to surprised when she ended up bumping into someone, but instead of her being the one falling, it was someone else. Looking towards the person that she ended up running into, she was surprised to see a small girl with messy brown hair that looked like they were made out of feathers. The only thing that she had on, however, was an extremely large shirt that had some sort of yellow bird on it that was waving. The girl looked as if she was expecting to be hit, but instead, Noel leaned down held out a hand.
"Come on kid. I'm not gonna hurt ya or anything." Noel spoke with an extremely tired expression on her face even as the girl grabbed the hand "You have a name kid?"
"NORA…"The girl mumbled out as she spoke in a nervous tone as she fiddled with her fingers, now that she knew that she wasn't going to end up getting hurt.
Letting out a smile at the girl, Noel held out her hand for the girl to hold, as they walked "It's nice to meet you NORA, but I have to ask, are you an Orphan?"
"Y-yes… b-but Lady Silver makes me feel not so bad about that! I wanna be like her when I grow up, fighting monsters, and protecting children!" NORA spoke with a wide grin, her two front teeth missing, causing a warm feeling to go through the CPU "I don't think she remembers but she saved me and a buncha others in Firtwa plains!"
Giving an amused look towards the girl, Noel asked "Do you mean Virtua?"
"Uh-huh! She used that big blade on a pole and chopped em all up!" the small girl spoke with excitement "I wanna be as strong as her!"
Smiling at the small girl, Noel nodded "I understand and you know what?" She bent down a bit to the girl who was obvious not older than 5, and spoke with a serious tone "I think you can do anything you put your mind to. If you try hard enough."
"Really?!" NORA asked with all the energy of several kids in one body.
Nodding towards the girl, a big grin quickly flew onto the face of the girl as she started to skip while they were walking. The girl was just so carefree that it was enough to bring a smile onto Noel's face as well. She wasn't too sure how things would turn out, but she was happy to see that there were still people that were innocent like this. It made her have hope that things were going to turn out well eventually.
That smile dropped almost right away as Noel ended up where she had intended to go before she had met NORA. Arriving at a graveyard was not what most people would have expected but it was where she needed to go. Seeing the uncomfortable look that the girl had though, Noel knelt down to her and quickly said "You can stay here if you want NORA. I'm just here to Visit a few people."
"Ok… Can I stay here? I don't like this place…"
Putting a hand onto the girl's head, Noel nodded in understanding "That's fine. I want you to run as fast as you can though if you get in trouble ok? Head to that big building where General Silver stays and run as fast as you can."
The girl gave a nod of understanding, before Noel stood back up and headed towards the Graves. She ignored every single one of the graves that she passed by, though she didn't disrespect those that were buried there on her way. The depressing Aura of the place wasn't something that she was used to, but it was something that she dealt with. Keeping on her path, eventually she found 3 large Graves that were in the very back, all three of them being worn down to the point that there was only a single word on each that could be seen.
"Blue. Red. Brown. You there were the people that I hated the most, but i would prefer you over the mess that has happened." Noel spoke with a soft tone of voice "To be honest, I almost miss the arguing that we would constantly get into over who should be the one to rule Gamindustri… Were leaving this world behind. Nothing we've done seems to be fixing things, and I even beat that woman that started all of this, but it just wont stop. They keep coming and coming, and I can't do anything to stop them no matter how many I take down."
The sound of someone sniffling was heard, even as tears started to fall from Noel's face "You three would probably kill me for saying that this world is beyond saving, but the people need me. I can't stop this by myself anymore. People are dying every day, and I can't stop it! I know that you would kill me, and to be honest if it wasn't for the fact that i'm the only one left, I'd let you too! But I refuse to give up and die until everyone that believes in me is safe and sound."
With the wind picking up for a second, Noel almost felt that she could hear the voices of the three from the graves giving her apologies of all things. That of course just made Noel start crying even more as she sobbed out "You three are such idiots!"
CPU Blue Heart, CPU Red Heart and CPU Brown Heart. Those were who these graves belonged to, and no matter how much time had passed after their deaths, it was them dying that started everything. Whether she believed that it was her fault or not, Noel knew that them dying was the catalyst for everything to start going downhill fast.
Noel would have continued to stay in her thoughts, tears running down her face, if not for the loud crashing noises that started to come from further into the city. Opening her eyes, Noel turned her attention back towards the main part of the city, hearing people yelling as the crashing sound increased. With her eyes turning wide, the CPU rushed to the entrance of the Graveyard to see that NORA was standing there with a confused look on her face.
"NORA I need you to get to the Basilicom now. The City's being attacked, and it would be for the best that you get there quickly." Noel spoke, the seriousness in her tone showing that she didn't have time for arguing.
Giving a nod towards that, NORA turned towards the city, before what looked like her taking a single step, caused a huge dust trail to follow, the line leading towards the city. Noel's eyes widened at the sight, before she shook her head to get her thoughts straight. Not even a second after that, she turned into her Goddess from as to get to where she was needed faster. Silver heart's Orange eyes quickly narrowed in distaste at the fact that her City was being attacked, before she jumped into the air to fly.
Flying over the city, Silver Heart's Orange eyes saw that there wasn't a single monster in the city. But even then, she could see that the people were starting to Panic. Seeing this, she floated above the civilians and spoke at the top of her lungs "Everyone! Please, if you cannot, or will not fight, head towards the Basilicom! It is the safest place in the city and it will be our last line of Defense! All of you who can fight, please position yourself in a way that will make it hard for monsters to surround you! I do not want any Heroes in this fight! If you cannot survive fighting, then run!"
Despite the Protests, SIlver Heart knew that her words were going to be heeded, even as her attention quickly turned towards the Oracle that was flying towards her "General Silver, no monsters have breached the walls yet, but that could change very quickly if you do nothing."
"How many monsters are there Listorie?" Silver Heart asked with a frown, even as she pulled out her Naginata, the glade of energy gleaming a bright silver just like the Metal the color was named after.
Listore's golden eyes turned dark at the mention of that "I'm afraid to say that there are too many for us to hold back. If we do not try to leave now, then chances are we will not be leaving at all."
Silver heart held back the urge to cuss loudly, as she looked towards the greatly dented gated, the Human's that chose to fight nervously looking towards it "Use whatever energy we have collected Listorie. If it takes me out of HDD, then so be it. I do not care if I must reveal my human form to the people so long as they live afterwards."
That comment startled the Tome, but it was enough to know just how serious this situation was for Silver Heart. Giving a nod towards that, Listorie quickly flew towards the Basilicom once again. While she did that, however, Silver Heart herself flew straight towards the Gate, landing with a great thud in front of the Humans, her Naginata held at her side. She was just in time as well it would seem considering the fact that the gate folded inward showing an Ancient Dragon of all things leading the charge.
Giving a growl of annoyance at the creature's Roar, she had her weapons straight to the side, before moving forward "Spiral Arms!"
Stopping right in front of the creature, Silver Heart didn't give it a chance, as she kicked it right under the chin sending it upwards, before kicking it a couple more times to get more air to it, and eventually flipping upward to get over it, and spiraling downward, the blade sticking straight into its skull. Thankfully this Dragon was on the lower side as far as level's went, as it died almost right away due to the Naginata stabbing straight through its skull. The Data bits that it turned into thankful showed that it was dead, but that didn't mean the fighting was over.
"FOR SERITA!" A couple of the Humans behind her yelled at the top of their Lungs, causing Silver heart to wince, but that didn't stop her from swing her Naginata in a circle to kill several monsters that tried attacking her.
Moving her head to the side as a loud bang range out, a bullet quickly found itself into a monster, while she moved the weapon in her hands in a circle, taking out several more in the process. Silver heart ducked under the swipe of a Fenrir that tried to take her head off, stabbing the monster in the stomach, before she threw the Naginata forwards, the spinning weapon taking out several more monsters in the process, before she pulled backwards, something connected to the weapon pulling it back towards her.
Turning her attention towards the group of humans that were fighting with her, she was thankful that nothing had happened to them just yet, but she knew that things weren't going exactly the way that she had hoped they would. The monster just kept coming, and the Snipers could only do so much when it came to supporting the people that were fighting. Turning her attention back towards the horde of monsters that was coming towards them, a Grimace quickly went through her as she felt Energy leaving her.
"Everyone! Fall back towards the Basilicom! Listorie is preparing to use all the energy that she can to transport us! Even now I feel energy leaving me, which means that the Process is already starting!" Silver heart spoke, a grimace leaving her once again as more energy was taken from her. Even now she could feel her Level's start to drop as the energy taken from her started to help the process.
Getting nods from everyone in the vicinity, they all turned and headed towards the Basilicom as Silver heart swung her Naginata with a yell of "Rupture!"
The attack caused lots of buildings around them to come crashing down making it so that nothing could get through for the time being. Silver heart made to start running once again, but before she more energy was taken from her, forcing her out of HDD. Stumbling a but due to the abrupt change, she took note that the humans around her had seen the transformation, a few them looking with wide eyes, but a single woman in the group rushed up to her, and picked her up.
Noel could barely hear what was going on, but she did hear the woman who was holding her say "You heard what she said! Let's move people, we can figure out what's going on with General Silver after all of us are safe!"
Despite the sheer lack of energy within her, Noel managed to hold a hand up and whisper out "Please be safe everyone…"
With that last comment, Noel ended up losing consciousness, everything within her hoping that she had managed to give enough energy to Listorie for her people to survive.
Chapter one completed! Well, more along the lines of a Prologue considering the fact that this didn't really take place in the Hyperdimension and everything. Still, I want to give a warning ahead of time that this story is going to take place a bit before the beginning of Mk1, or Rebirth1, i'm not sure which way i'm going with it, but with the way i'm putting things, everything will be cannon with what happens in this story. I'm changing some things up as it is so might as well make sure that's in here as well.
Whatever the case, I hope that this chapter was good for you guys considering the fact that I really am happy with what I wrote.