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Chapter One-Fake world
On a balcony, a young black-haired woman stared down at a town. The town was industrial, black smog could be seen. It wasn't so bad to harm its citizens, but could be seen.
The woman had a black and white strapless dress. Showing her sizable cleavage. Her hair was in twin-ponytails, tied with blue ribbons. Her red eyes were filled with doubt.
"Why can't I, shake this feeling?" Noire muttered, arms crossed over her chest.
She was a goddess in charge of taking care of this land, Lastation. However, a feeling of dread was extant. Noire growled.
"Noire, what's wrong?" a female voiced asked, softly behind Noire.
Noire turned to see a young teen. She had the same hair and eye color as her. Her one-piece dress was black, she had on black wear sleeves that didn't cover her hands. Her was also in ponytails, not as long as Noires.
"Uni, I'm…not sure," Noire answered her younger sister, shaking her head.
Uni titled her head. "How so?"
Noire was about to answer her, but a pounding headache stopped her. She held her forehead at the pain.
"Noire!" Uni screamed, rushing to her sister.
Noire held up a hand. "I'm fine, Uni. I've been having these headaches for a while. It…will go away." The pounding lessened.
"Are you sure it's a simple headache?" Uni asked. "Maybe you need to see a doctor?"
Noire stared at her younger sister. She was about to answer her, but something snapped at her.
"Don't trust her! She isn't a friend to you!" a familiar female voice warned her. "This isn't Uni! It's imposter!"
Noire stiffened at this warning, she was about to scream at it. But…why can't shake the feeling it was true, deep in her heart.
"I think…I'll see one later, Uni," Noire said. "Maybe, I need some air is all." Noire was engulfed in a light.
Her clothes vanished, being replaced by different clothes. A black skinsuit that covered her torso that showed her cleavage. She had her legs covered in black boots, with her arms. Her hair changed to white, it wasn't in ponytails anymore, it's end near her butt. Lastly her eyes changed to lime with power icons.
"I won't be gone long, Uni," Black heart said. "I can't get behind on my work. Last thing we need, is for me to be like that dumba…. Neptune."
She was about to say something completely different. Sure she might give Neptune a hard time, but what she was about to say. It was harsher than ever.
"Okay," Uni slowly replied, concerned for her sister.
Black heart formed her wings and flew out the window. Growling the way.
'Why is it, I'm so angry!' she thought. 'It like something is wrong with my county, and I can't see it! What was that back there?!'
That voice whatever it was, stated that Uni wasn't her sister! How can that be?! She knows that was her sister…wasn't it? Her doubts came back in droves.
Black heart floated above her county, taking in the site. It had beauty, her hard work right before her eyes. A sense of pride came to her heart.
"Why would I think something wrong with it?" she smiled as it was prospering.
A blinding light appeared before Black heart. She screamed, covering her eyes to block the blinding light. It disappeared soon as it appeared.
Black heart slowly removed her hands, and screamed in fear. Because under her, wasn't a thriving city. It was a waste land!
"No!" Black heart screamed at the top of her lungs. For this was Lastation, her county!
Various building was rusted with dark skies, like the pollution ran rampant. Nothing looked clean, it was dirty like no one cleaned it in years. The shapes of vehicles were down there, seemly ruined. Nothing moved, not a person in site. Not even the wind blew.
"No! What happened?!" the goddess demanded. "Answer me!"
Suddenly, she was back in a thriving Lastation. Black heart's chest heaved with cold sweat running down her face.
"What in the hell was that?" she questioned with a hand on her pounding chest.
Her eyes widened, remembering that if their land were in danger. They would receive flashes of it, calling to them to save it. She stared at land below, it didn't look like that place.
"What is going on? Am I, going insane?" Black heart whispered out at the visions she received.
(A Bedroom)
In the huge bedroom that had a desk with books, along with a computer. There were also various books in shelves around the room, almost like a library. One large window could be seen, leading to a balcony.
Outside the window, was a town in snow. There was chill from outside, but at the same time. It was inviting.
In this mini library, there was a young woman.
The short brown-haired woman stood in front of a full length mirror. Her height was under five foot. She glared at the reflection. The only clothes on her, were a pink camisole, and a pair of panties. The panties were pink, with snowflakes in the lace.
Her body was thin, but had healthy weight. Her semi tanned skin gleamed, but the one thing that was madding to her, was her flat chest, and height.
"This pisses me off!" Blanc screamed at it. "Why do I have to be the short one?!" Her blue eyes almost red.
This was on-going thing for her, being the smallest of the goddess. She looked at the mirror again, and stepped back.
There was another person in the mirror…no. It was herself, but a little taller with bigger breast. Wearing the same underwear as her. Blanc slowly stared at her older self, it gazed back at her. Even if this refection wouldn't beat Noire or Vert. It could beat that Neptune's human body.
Blanc slowly touched the mirror, the grown-up vanished. Replacing it with her normal refection.
"The hell," Blanc muttered, suddenly, her head exploded in pain.
She screamed holding her pounding head. The scenery changed, Blanc blushed at being no longer in her bedroom. She covered her half-naked body the best she could with her arms.
But it wasn't needed, there seemed to be no one around.
"Where am I?" Blanc questioned, looking around seeing not a soul around. She let her arms rest at her sides.
It was a winter wasteland covered in ice and snow, even colder than her county. That was saying a lot, it was coldest place in Gamindustri, and the same time. It wasn't bad as this place. This place chilled you the bone, it screamed death.
Blanc walked, looking at the place to see where she was at. Even being in her underwear, the cold didn't bother her. Not even her feet were cold, crunching in the snow while walking.
Her heart started crying at seeing this mysterious landscape.
"Why? Is my heart…crying?" A small tear came from her eyes. She touched it, surpised that she was crying. "I don't know this place, so why am I crying?"
She spotted a broken pillar in the distance. "No…it can't be."
She ran to the pillar. Screams of disbelief erupted from Blanc, seeing it up close. This was a pillar of Lowee's library, one that she took great care of. She looked around, she fell to her knees, trembling.
"No, no, no!" Blanc ranted at seeing the library that she took care of close-by.
For it was there and in ruins! It was a huge building, but. Nothing with walls of frost, and decay. A gaping hole where the entrance should, exposing all the books to the elements. Blanc could see in side, everything looked encased in frost. The desks, computers, and the books!
Blanc ran inside, dodging the debris, to get to one of it selves. She did confirm that everything was covered in frost, but kept running to the selves. Picking up one of the books there. She tried to read it, but couldn't! The pages were frozen, it's ink ruined, making it unreadable. Blanc dropped the ruined book, desperate, she picked up another one, and another one.
But no luck, they all shared the same fate!
"Why?" Blanc muttered at loss of them while looking around the once beautiful library. She loved books, because of their knowledge, with the joy they could bring.
She cried at seeing such…horror! She shook her head, for if this was Lowees does that mean…
Blanc ran off, she needed get to a higher place, she has to see. At what this means.
Stopping at a near-by hill high enough, she screamed in horror. From what she could see, it was Lowee, but dead. Houses, trees, and the roads were covered in solid ice. Nothing looked alive in this place.
"M-my land!" Blanc screamed, crying at seeing such ruin. She fell to all fours, noticing the coldness of this place. It was crying at being…abandoned by its goddess.
"I didn't abandon you!" Blanc screamed back to the land. "I would never abandon you!"
You did! Look at what happened, because you left me!
"No!" Blanc screamed at the lands response. She could feel it's rage at her for leaving it to…ruin!
"Onee-chan, what's wrong?" a soft voice asked.
Blanc's head snapped up, she looked behind her. No longer in that land, back in her bedroom.
She could now see, a young girl looked like her. But shorter with a brown dress. Her blue eyes full of concern standing by the closed door. Thankfully keeping Blanc's modesty, as there were attendants in her home.
"Rom," Blanc whispered out her younger sister's name. She stood up, to look at her sister.
Rom nodded. "You were screaming. I rushed in, so what's wrong?"
Blanc felt anger seeing Rom, screaming to hurt her. No, to kill her! The mere site of her enraged beyond anything she felt.
'No! This is my sister! Why do I want to…kill her?!' a horrified Blanc thought, with her blood freezing.
Blanc stepped back from Rom, scared at what she would do.
"Onee-chan, your starting to scare me," Rom whimpered, seeing how her sister was backing away from her.
"Rom, please I'm…stressed out," Blanc finally answered, after a few seconds.
"Stressed out, how? Onee-chan?" Rom asked, about really to walk, to Blanc.
Blanc held out her hand. "I'm…fine. My deadlines for my…book are coming out. I haven't been getting enough sleep is all." She lied, not trusting herself…or was it. She didn't trust Rom.
"Oh, I guess would do it. Do you want to help with anything?" Rom smiled, normally this happens with her older sister. She pulls all-nighters, time to time.
Blanc shook her head. "I'm good, why don't you. Go see Ram, your classes are about to start."
Rom pouted. "Ah, party crasher Onee-chan. It's so boring in school, but I'll go. See you later." Rom left the room.
Blanc sighed in relief at Rom leaving. "Great, but what were those feelings?"
Blanc walked to her desk. She took a seat, thinking about the visons, and her anger at Rom. Blanc picked up one of her favorite books, feeling it. The vison of seeing all those books in decay, chilled her. For long as she remembered, she loved them.
"Like how I love gaining knowledge," Blanc commented on herself, noticing that part of herself.
Her eyes widened. "What the hell, why aren't there schools or programs to help children with learning!" That thought hit her like a train. "No, that isn't right is…it?"
That idea just came out of the blue for her, or did it. Blanc looked to her window, trying to find where that thought came from. Lowee's education was okay, so why. Is she so concerned for it?
"Hey, it's lady White Heart!" a girl's joyous voice called out.
Blanc looked around, seeing no one, but herself.
"What the hell?"
"Yes, it's her!" another child's voice cried out in joy. Soon other child's voices called out her goddess name, each filled with joy.
"Calm down, children," a grown up voice spoke. "You don't need to smother, Lady White Heart."
The children whined. Blanc heard her own soft laugher!
"It's okay, there eager to see me," another Blanc spoke softly. "I wanted to see how they were doing. With them being kicked out of their country, I'm afraid they weren't doing so good."
Blanc was confused at hearing her own voice like this. It was hers, but softer and calmer, and what did she mean by kicked out of their country.
"Come on!" a child whined. "I don't want to take about that mean old Neptune!"
"Neptune, what in hell is going on?" Blanc whispered at hearing that name. "Why would a child be mad at her?"
Sure she was an airhead, and lazy, but why would a child be mad at her. Did she steal his pudding or what?
"Okay, children. What do you want to talk about?" the other Blanc questioned the group.
"One of your stories! Pretty please, we want one!" they cried out.
"Now children," the adult said. "We can't bug Lady White Heart. She's a busy person, with her duties in this um…war."
"War?" Blanc whispered, why would there be a war going on. Sure she had one not that long ago, the Console wars that they ended.
More like, Neptune forced them to stop. Because of an enemy was ruining their world.
The children whined, complaining about it. Blanc heard a name, but couldn't understand it.
"I'm sorry she's right children," the other Blanc said to the children. They kept whining, wanting a story from the goddess.
"But, I could give part of one," the other Blanc replied.
The children screamed, wanting that. The voices slowly faded, then there was silence.
Blanc looked down, thinking about the voices. "What was that, children wanting me to tell them a story. I've…never done that…have I?"
Sure she would try to write books, but they never were popular. Right?
"What is happening to me?" Blanc slammed her fists into the desk, a fire burning in her.
The table creaked at her strength. Blanc got up with growl, pacing around the room.
"Even it makes me mad, those voices felt right! Why would children be happy to see me like that?! I mean, I'm not bad person to scare them. If so, why does this bother me?!"
She thought about it, and the answer came.
"I'm not mad at the children being happy," Blanc whispered. "I'm pissed because I can't remember them! Why can't I remember them?! Like there blocked!"
Blanc looked to her desk, seeing the book. She ran back to the book, picking it to look at it. She dropped it.
"What is this, even it feels wrong," Blanc whispered in realization. She looked around the room, feeling it was wrong.
"This is wrong? This isn't my home, no that's crazy talk!" Blanc screamed at what her feelings were telling her. Everything in this place, felt fake.
Suddenly, a flash of that lifeless place appeared before Blanc. Blanc's eyes watered, seeing it's pain.
"My land is calling me. It's in ruins, but how? I'm here and it's thriving," Blanc's hands became fists. "I'm done not knowing?!" She kicked the chair close-by.
It splintered in bits. Blanc stomped to her selves full of books, not hurt at destroying her chair.
"If I don't know what going on. It's time to research the hell out it!" Blanc reached for a book, containing information on goddess.
It was one of her oldest books, one that made by the original goddess. Or someone who knew about the very first one that ruled Gamindustri. She placed it on her desk.
"First thing though," Blanc's face turned red. "Get some damn clothes on!"
She still was in her underwear after all.
(Leanbox)
A tall beautiful blond woman walked the halls of her home. Her blue eyes looked around the place, full of doubt.
Her green dress hugged her full figure. It was green and white. Her long hair was wavy, lastly. Her hands were covered by white gloves that covered her arms.
The hallway had various game posters on it, the hall was vast. Her home was just as huge, for she was goddess to Leanbox. The land of green pastures.
"Why do I feel so…sad," Vert muttered, a hand on her chest. Feeling a longing she can't quince.
She held her head, it felt like a hammer slamming in to. Her eyes teared up, seeing a deserted pasture. Filled with twisted trees and black grass. Covering what looked her land's city.
"Again," Vert muttered at the vision, one of her county in despair. It has been assaulting her for the past few days.
Then there was the other one, hearing the cries of children. Ones that had lost everything, placing them in orphanage that she made for them. It was a bittersweet thing. They had a place to stay, but no parents to love them.
"How can there be children like that?" Vert questioned, there wasn't any war.
No, even during the Console wars, it never involved people…did it? Her memories of that war were foggy. All she could remember was they ganged up on Neptune, and defeated her.
Neptune then had teamed up with two friends and beat them. All the while, calming they weren't taking care of their counties. Which was proven true, with them teaming up with her to save their world.
Vert's eyes neared, growling. "That little brat. How dare she use us as her stepping stones!"
Suddenly, Vert gasped in horror at her rage. But it felt right, like something was missing. Vert looked to her computer room. In their housed the best computer for gaming.
Vert's mouth thinned. "Time to check something." She ran to the room.
Not to play her online games, but to research the war they fought. For once, it wouldn't be gaming.
After a short period, Vert cursed. Unlike her normal self, the reason there wasn't any data on the war.
"What's going on?!" Vert slammed a fist on the desk. "I know that I can get…distracted by my gaming. But to have no data on the Console war, is preposterous!"
The only thing she could find; was the stuff she knows. Which was her, along with Noire, and Blanc making fools out themselves. All the while, Neptune was the goofball heroine!
"What a minute," Vert went back to typing. Soon she got more information that was strange to her. "Every time a crisis arose, it was up to Neptune to save us. All the while, we got the short end…is just me or is…Neptune getting all the breaks?"
Thinking back, it was like that. Neptune would get the jump on whatever came their way, excepted that one time they were captured.
"Or was it made to be that way. Her young sister did most of the work, all the while, the other sisters looked bad," Vert hummed out. "Am I overthinking this?"
Vert rubbed her chin, thinking about it. Even with that fight with Rei Ryghts seemed like that, seeing how those other versions of themselves acted.
"What's going on?" Vert questioned at why she was having these thoughts, and what it means.
(Lastation)
Noire had already got back from her break. Working on her paperwork at her desk. Various papers along with a videophone, and a small mirror were there.
"Everything is fine, nothing in books," Noire muttered out, seeing if she could find a clue as to why, she was having these visions.
A ring was heard, Noire raised a brow. Wondering on who be calling her.
"Neptune," Noire checked the caller id. "What does she want?"
Answering the phone, an image appeared. It was smiling blue-eye teen. She had short purple hair with two game pads for hair clips. Dressed in a white baggie sweater with capital Ns.
"Howdy Noire!" Neptune waved to her friend.
"Hello…Neptune," Noire replied back, on edge. Her instincts were screaming, hang up the phone on the goddess.
"Hey," Neptune pouted at Noire. "What's with mean face! I'm here calling you, to see if you're doing okay!"
Noire sighed and questioned Neptune. "Why would you do that?"
Neptune looked sheepish. "Well, your shares have been so high lately. I thought you were working too hard, having no friends would do that."
Noire was about wail on Neptune that she had friends, but froze.
'What's going on?!' a wide eyed Noire thought. 'I've never told her; my shares were so high! How did she know that?!'
"Hey Noire," Neptune whined while waving a hand, seeing the widened eye look of Noires. "Are you still there, did your brain finally fry."
"My brain didn't fry, Neptune!" Noire screamed back, enraged at Neptune. Anger at something bothering her.
Seeing the goddess enraged her, and not like before. She was annoyed with her, sure, but this. It was unbridled rage, she wanted to ram her sword down Neptune's throat!
"Fine whatever," Neptune sighed. "So, what got your undies in a bunch?" She stared at Noire.
"Nothing that you should worry about, Neptune," Noire flatly answered back, trying to keep her anger under control.
Neptune eye's neared. "Okay, don't tell me. You finally lost Uni. She got tired of being bossed around by you."
Noire had a throbbing vein on her head. "No! That's it, if you not going to say anything important. Goodbye, I got work to do, so." Noire hanged up the phone.
Noire growled at being told off by Neptune that she lost her sister.
"Where does that…dummy got off telling me that!" Noire slammed a fist on her desk, papers flew off the desk from the blow. "Where does she get by acting so smug? She never does her…job? What the hell?"
Noire thought about Planeteptune, how it was so clean, and advanced then her county. Noire held her head, seeing another Planeteptune.
This one, was more run down. The buildings looked old, barely any power going to them. It wasn't ruined, but getting there. Like, there wasn't any share energy there to power it.
"Now a different Planeteptune," Noire muttered at the vision. She heard the phone ringing again, and it was Neptune. "What's her deal! I don't want to talk to her!"
Noire pressed the cancellation button, ending the call. But it rang again.
"Ah!" Noire couldn't take it anymore, she brought out her sword. She slammed it into the phone.
Sparks flew, the ringing stopped. Noire huffed, glaring at the trashed phone.
"When I want quiet, you listen, you damn bitch!" Noire ranted to the broken phone.
Noire felt something on her neck. She looked at the mirror, for a second. She saw a white choker there, with a small glowing red light.
"What the?!" Noire touched the spot where it was. She didn't feel anything, but only her neck now.
From what she could see, it looked like a device that she doesn't wear. She looked out window, wanting to get out. Feeling that an event was going to happen, and she didn't want to be here!
"I don't know what this feeling is, but," she transformed into Black Heart. "It's time to get out of here!"
She flew out the window, taking a quick look back. She spotted her window being closed off by a shudder. It wasn't just that window, every single one of them were sealed off.
"What is that? I never had shudders like that?" Noire questioned the strangest of it. She looked out to the horizon. "Where do I go?"
Blanc's face appeared before her.
"Blanc? Why would I go to her?" Noire questioned at where instincts wanted to go.
Black Heart heard sirens, looking down. She spotted police cars rushing to her home.
"No time to think! I need to find out what's going on!" Noire flew, confused as to why the police would rush to her home.
Sure she had a police force to keep the peace in Lastation, but why were they rushing to her home? She didn't call them or anything.
"Like those shudders closing," Black Heart muttered. "No! They were going to trap me in there!"
From what she could see, these shudders would slow her down. Then those police, if they were, would subdue her. Black Heart poured on the speed to Lowwe.
"I don't know what's going on here, but it's time to find out!"
Blanc might have a clue to what's going on. She could only hope so.
(Blanc's room)
Blanc was wearing a spaghetti white dress with brown on helm. There was a white ribbon tied to her right leg. Her normal shoes were on her feet. She paced around her room, reading the old book.
"I've confirmed that my visons are my land calling me. It's also sending memories to help remember it, why?" Blanc questioned, looking up from her book.
Staring at the room, it still felt fake. Her eyes widen in realization.
"I've…had these feelings before!" she lowered her head, thinking about the time she was captured, and the Rei Ryghts incident.
They all happened when she was thinking that something was wrong with this world. But those crises stopped her from researching them…or was it that. They were made to stop her!
Blanc glared at the window. "Someone is jerking me around!" Stomping to the window, she stared at what should be her county, but wasn't.
"This is a fake! Or, I'm going crazy, but those visions. They're real! I know it!"
Blanc stopped ranting, seeing Black Heart flying toward her window.
"What the hell?! Why is she coming here, and running like her ass is on fire," Blanc commented at seeing Black Heart flying full speed to her home.
She even looked spooked, checking behind her every so often.
Blanc opened the window to let her in, but materialized a hammer. "Okay, let's see what she wants."
Black Heart rushed in, landing. She sucked in air like a vacuum.
"Come on in," Blanc sarcastically replied to her guest.
Black Heart glared at Blanc, but recovered. "Thanks, I'm sorry I didn't call. But something strange is going on."
Blanc was about to snap, but titled her head. "Define strange for me."
Her feelings were telling her to listen, to what Black heart has to say.
"It's going to sound crazy…hell it is crazy!" Black Heart ranted.
"Stop jerking me around, and tell what the hell it is?!" Blanc screamed to the white-haired goddess, eyes glowing red.
Her anger was burning hot, not at Noire, but at her own frustration.
Black Heart glared at Blanc. "My feelings are driving me crazy!"
Blanc nodded. "So?"
Black heart raised her arms in frustration. "They keep screaming that, my county is in ruins! That Uni, my sister, isn't my sister! Then that dumb Neptune calls me when this is happening, saying my shares were higher than normal. When I didn't tell her!"
Blanc kept quiet at Black Heart's ranting. A shiver ran down her spine, it was the same thing she was experiencing.
"Blanc, why do you have a scared face?" Black Heart questioned Blanc, seeing her face lose its calm expression.
"The same as me," Blanc whispered with a hand on her chin.
Black Heart was about to reply.
Knocking erupted from Blanc's door.
"Onee-chan! There's a strange noise coming from your room!" Rom screamed, knocking on the door.
"Yeah, Blanc!" another young voiced said. "What's going on?!"
"Rom and Ram," Blanc muttered at hearing her sisters. "They should be in school, why are they here?"
Black Heart stared at the window, see spotted something.
"We need to get out now!" Black Heart grabbed Blanc, who cursed at being grabbed. Ignoring her, the white-haired goddess flew out the window with Blanc in her arms.
Blanc cursed, about to smack Black Heart. But froze, not a second later. Steel shudders slammed down on her homes windows. Her hammer went back into storage. Blanc was to shocked hold it anymore.
"The hell…those shouldn't be there!" Blanc screamed seeing those shudders. They make her home look like a prison!
Black Heart stopped and turned to see. She growled, seeing that it happened again!
"Noire, what is going on?!" Blanc demanded, glaring at her.
"I don't know, but someone is trying to trap us! The same thing happened to me, at my home! I never such shudders installed before!" Black Heart pointed to the steel shudders.
Blanc broke out in a cold sweat. "I was right; someone is keeping us trapped."
Black Heart stared at Blanc. "You're having visons of your county in ruins."
Blanc slowly nodded. "Yes, I walked around in mine. It wasn't like this Lowee." She waved a hand at the landscape. "It was a frozen wasteland. Ice covered everything, with my land screaming I abandoned it!"
Black Heart gasped, Blanc's eyes had tears. She was crying, when she barely did!
"Blanc," Black Heart muttered, shocked at seeing such…sadness. Whatever she saw, it broke her heart.
"I-I didn't abandon it!" Blanc cried out. "How could I do that! I only wanted it to thrive in peace, with people enjoy reading! Everything I work for…destroyed by someone!" She stiffened out.
Black Heart's heart ached. Her eyes teared up, seeing the dead Lastation. It was crying to, sad that it's goddess left it to rot.
"My land," Black Heart sniffed out. "It's calling me, to save it. But from what?"
Blanc looked at Black heart, seeing her pain. She was feeling the something as her. There lands were in peril and they can't do anything to save them.
Loud noise could be heard, looking down. Blanc could see figures rushing to them. She couldn't make them out, but they seemed interested in them.
"Noire," Blanc called out. "We need to go now!" Blanc pointed to the group from below them.
Black heart looked, seeing them. She nodded with a growl.
"Your right! Whatever is trying to keep us trapped, is working to capture us! We need to move!"
Blanc nodded. "I'll transform and run like hell!"
Blanc was engulfed a light, and changed into her goddess form, White Heart. Dressed similarly to Black heart, but hers was white. Her hair was blue with a cowlick on top, and long side bangs.
The blue-haired goddess glared at the group with pink eyes with power icons, wanting to fight them. But, she had bigger problems.
Black Heart had let go of White heart, who was down transforming. White Heart was now flying with her box-like wings.
"Let's go!" Black Heart screamed, flying away.
White Heart nodded, flying away with the white-haired goddess. To escape this fake Lowee.
"Where do we go?" White Heart questioned, not knowing what to do next.
"To Leanbox," Black Heart answered. "Vert might be having the same visions as us!"
"To the cow," White Heart sourly muttered. "She might be gaming her brains out, for all we could know!"
Vert was own to play her online games for hours on end!
Black Heart nodded. "True, but call it a feeling. She's in the same boat as us."
White Heart raised a brow. "Okay, but what about that…dumbass Neptune. Shouldn't we…warn her."
Black Heart shook her head. "No! That's the last thing we need to do! She seems to be the center of this! That call she give me when I was suspicious of Lastation that's too much of a coincidence! Then, I have a vison of Planetune, one that's starting to ruin."
"What?" White Heart questioned Black Heart, Planeteptune has always been…stable hasn't it?
Suddenly, she could see Planeteptune, seemly dying. Building that were winding down, with it being dark, despite it being day. Like her visions of Lowee's pain. But it wasn't as bad. Like it was…slowly losing its share energy.
White Heart held her head. "What was that?"
"You saw it to," Black Heart looked at White Heart, firmly. "That might be what was happening to Planeteptune. I'm sure of it!"
White Heart's eyes widened. If that was the case, why did it look so beautiful now!
"Is that damn Neptune responsible for this!" White Heart muttered, enraged that she was played the fool all this time.
"I think so," Black Heart agreed. "Thinking back, she is always the one who wins. Even if she has her goofy moments, we were the ones who got the short end! Think about time with Arfoire! Our counties were doing okay, but their problems, problems that I wouldn't have let happened! I didn't want that kind of economy!"
White Heart thought about it, and was right on the mark. Sure she could be strict, but to be a tyrant like that. She didn't want that!
"What happened to us?!" White Heart screamed, frustrated at it all.
"That's what we're going to answer!" Black Heart answered, increasing her speed to Leanbox with White Heart following her.
(Leanbox-Vert's home)
Vert walked the hallway of her elaborate home. She was thinking about her findings, they only raised her suspicions that something was going on.
"Why did those problems arise," Vert had a hand on her chin. "They shouldn't have; I've made sure of it." She would have noticed them, because of safeguards.
But, her bastion ran rampant without her knowledge, no. Something didn't add up, it was like…she wasn't around then when this started!
"Why did I feel that," Vert muttered. "This problem was already there before…awakening in this place!"
Vert's head started throbbing. She lowered her head at the pain while holding it.
"Now, I've got them!" a familiar voice laughed maliciously.
Vert's head snapped up. She gasped.
She could see a different room; the room was spacious. There was round table with plush chairs around it. It was purplish, with looking a bit dark. She couldn't make out the details of this room.
The reason why she gasped. She was lying face down on the ground! Not alone, Noire, and Blanc were there to. Both lying face down, with…Neptune standing over them! With her hands on her hips, smirking.
"What is this?" Vert muttered in disbelief at the vision.
She never had a moment like this happen to her before!
Neptune cackled. "No more share energy crisis! With these three here, I'll be swimming in pudding. I'm such a genius!"
Vert could hear Neptune talking more, but couldn't understand it. Cold sweat ran down her face, fear rampant in her.
"That was Neptune! What did she mean by a share energy crisis! We don't have…one do we?"
Another vision assaulted her, this one. Planeteptune in process of dying.
"Planeteptune is in danger, the same as my county," Vert muttered, suddenly, it felt wrong. "No! It was in danger, but now. It's thriving while my county is decaying, dying! She did something to reverse it!" She screamed, realizing a truth.
*Boom* *Clank*
Vert heard the sound of things slamming close. She looked behind, seeing metal gates slamming down in her hallways!
"Damn!" Vert ran in opposite direction, it was trying to trap her! "There is someone trying to stop me, from finding the truth!"
The gates were gaining on her. Vert didn't waste any time; she was engulfed in light. Soon, she was in her goddess form.
It was skimpier than the other goddess, the top part. Wrappings that covered her sizable breasts, white color. Her bikini bottoms were also the same color. Her lean stomach showed, with her skin being a creamy color. Her long hair was in a ponytail, and lastly. Her eyes changed green with power icons.
Once changed, she flew toward one of the windows. Using all of her speed she could muster.
"Time to get out!" Green heart screamed out.
She growled, seeing another gate about to slam in front of her. She looked up, noticing that this was the second floor of her home. She pulled out a spear that had drill at the end of it.
"Time to bust out of here!" Green Heart activated her drill spear, buzzing to full power. She thrusted it the roof, sheetrock, wood was blasted away. Green Heart kept thrusting away. Soon, she could see light. With two more thrusts, she made a hold big enough to get out.
Green Heart was now outside. Huffing and glaring at her counterfeit house.
"Neptune, when I find out what you did. I'm going kick that butt of yours!" Green Heart screamed, enraged at Neptune's scheme that she unraveled, well part of it.
Green Heart heard rushing, she spotted dozens of figures. All moving toward her position. She wanted to fight them, to get answers, but can't. There was no telling what they had, and she was at a disadvantage.
"I need to get out of here," Green Heart flied away from her home. Growling at being driven away. But, there wasn't much choice. If she got captured, she might forget her findings.
"I need help; it pains me to ask for it. But under the circumstances, I need it!" Green Heart stated firmly, it was the only choice. Because of she was sure this enemy had every intention of capturing her, and forcing her to be a puppet!
And she wasn't no one's puppet!
From the corner of her eye, she spotted Black Heart, and White Heart. Both hitting for her home.
She stopped. "Why are they going there?" Her eyes widened. "They might be going to meet me! If so, there's a chance their experiencing visons like mine!"
There is also the chance that, they were the ones that trapped her. The same vison of her ground with these two flashed.
"No," Green Heart shook her head. "There not the ones, there like me! We've been forced into leaving our country. I need to save them! We might find the truth together!"
Green Heart rushed to stop the two goddess. If they go to her home, they might be captured!
The two could see Leanbox, its own beauty right under them. Even with the grasslands around the city. It seemed to infer with metropolis that thrived close-by. That wasn't the case, they coincide with each other.
Both to the two goddess, it felt fake. Like their own counties.
"I see it! We're close to Vert's house!" Black Heart pointed to the elaborate house.
"Good!" White Heart exclaimed. "The soon we meet with the cow, the sooner we can kick ass!" She clenched her fists, ready to fight this hidden enemy.
"Stop!" a voice screamed out to them.
The goddess stopped, knowing that was Vert's voice. Looking to the side, they could see Green Heart rushing to them.
"What the, why is Vert here?" Black Heart replied, confused at seeing the goddess in air like them.
Green Heart stopped close to them. "Don't go to my home!" She warned them.
They were about ask why, when suddenly. Nets almost touched their feet!
"What the hell!" White Heart screamed, getting out her axe. It was big, white with a glowing blade.
Even Black Heart got out her big sword. They could see figures loading bazookas, ones that fired nets at them.
"You bastards!" White Heart screamed. "You want to fight; I'll be happy to fight with you!" She was about to rush down there, with Black Heart.
"No!" Green Heart ordered. "We need to get out of here!"
It was suicide to stay here. Because this group seemed equipped enough to capture them, they needed to stay free. There lands need them!
White Heart glared at goddess, wanting to release some steam. As for Black Heart, she put away her sword.
"She's right. We need to get out of here!" she started flying away.
"What, why?!" White Heart screamed back.
"It's no good if we get caught!" Black Heart screamed back. White Heart was about to speak her mind. "Now's not the time to fight! We have to plan our next move. If we don't, there a chance we get put back in our cages!"
White Heart wanted to ignore the orders, but put away her weapon. Vert nodded at her choice.
The three goddess flied away, disappearing from site.
(A room)
Neptune watched this from a monitor, seething. Her room was barley lite, as it would seem the monitor was the only lite. In this dark room, there seemed to be a TV with a gaming system. Lastly, a big bed with a lump in it.
"Those idiots, why did they break free!" she screamed in rage. "It was such a perfect trade! They help keep Planeteptune afloat with share energy, while I relax!"
"Neppy, please calm down," a groggily female voice groaned out from the bed. "It's my naptime."
Neptune shivered, knowing who that was. The one person she didn't want mad.
"I'm sorry," she apologized to the person. "It just those three are now running loose is all." She laughed nervously.
The other female sighed. "Not a problem, they still have those devices."
Neptune nodded her answer.
"So you can find them again, with a little time," the other female huffed out. Somehow seeing Neptune in the dark.
"Um sure, but it wouldn't be super-fast," Neptune whined. "I'm afraid if they do something drastic, it would go back to normal!"
"Understood," the other female agreed. "It would be pain if it goes back to that time. So much hustle, working, and not sleeping." The female yawned out.
Neptune growled. "Worse, no pudding! I must find them, before they leave Planeteptune! If they get free, there sure to cause trouble for me!"
The other female went back to sleep, snoring filled the air.
As for Neptune, she went back to searching for the three goddess. They had a job, they weren't getting away from her! Not with her pudding at stake!
(With the three escaped goddess)
The three were at the edge of their counties, wheezing, and back to their human forms.
"Damn!" Blanc cursed. "That was tiring! I never flew so much!"
"Agreed," Vert huffed out.
They were spent beyond belief.
Noire rested against a tree, catching her breath. She looked around, seeing the trees. It was a forest that seemed familiar. Her eyes widened.
"No, it can't be," Noire walked around, checking the area. She screamed out in rage, finding a discrepancy.
Both of her friends stiffened, wondering what was wrong.
"Noire, what's wrong?!" Vert asked the black-haired woman.
"This is a forest of Planeteptunes" Noire waved a hand around the place.
"What?!" both Blanc and Vert screamed out.
"That's impossible," Blanc screamed out. "How is this Planeteptune's forest. We should be far away from it! Leanbox should be far away from there!"
Vert nodded. "Yes, my county is…wait a second!"
Blanc looked at Vert, wondering what stopped her.
Vert growled. "It would be true if this was my county, but it isn't!"
That statement chilled Blanc, with Noire.
"Are you saying, we're in Planeteptune the whole time!" Noire replied back, shocked at the reply. Even if she said this was Planeteptune's forest.
"Yes!" Vert answered back. "Maybe that's the case! It might explain why are counties are in peril, if we're not in them to begin with!"
"No it can't be," Blanc muttered. "How can that be…unless. We were placed here for whatever scheme that purple-haired bitch cooked up!"
Blanc's eye glowed red at the conclusion. Even Noire growled, angry at being duped like this.
"So what have we been doing?" Noire questioned. "I know for one, we have been making share energy for these fake counties. But, for what end."
Blanc shrugged, not knowing an answer.
"I think, I know," Vert finally replied.
Blanc and Noire looked at her, nodding for her to continue.
"To support Planeteptune," Vert answered.
"To support Neptune's country, why?" Blanc asked.
Noire hummed, the same vison of Planeteptune falling into ruin. Flashed before her.
"Verts right!" Noire held up a finger. "Remember those visions of Planeteptune losing share energy."
Blanc nodded, remembering seeing it. Vert also nodded.
"What if she…abducted us to produce share energy. For her county!" Noire exclaimed.
"That might work, but share energy isn't easily made," Blanc replied. "It's made by people believing in their goddess. How could she do that? She needs real people, nothing less or it won't work."
"What if she, somehow did do that. We didn't notice it, intel now," Vert responded back, rubbing her chin.
"That might work," Noire replied. "But, how would those people be obvious to-!"
Noire stopped taking as a hot pain erupted, at her neck! She screamed, something was chocking her! Noire heard other screams then hers. She looked seeing Blanc and Vert in pain. Each holding her throats, like something was chocking them.
'That thing!' Noire thought, seeing same device she had seen earlier. Their pain was from that thing. It's light glowing brighter, like a beacon.
She growled and reached for Blanc's choker. She grunted, pulling it apart. Because her strength wasn't like that of her HDD form, it barely moved. Along with hers flaring up.
Noire wanted to pass out, but a crack appeared on Blanc's choker. Soon, it broke apart. Blanc went to her knees, gasping. Freed of the pain.
Noire moved to Vert, doing the same thing. Hers came off, after a lot of pulling, but Noire fell to the ground, clenching her neck. Her own was increasing the pain, tenfold!
"Hold on, Noire!" Vert grabbed the device and pulled. Hers came off after a few seconds of pulling, which felt like forever to Noire.
Noire thanked her, gasping breaths. Thankful to be free.
"Ahhh!" Blanc screamed, curling in a ball. Seemly in pain.
"Blanc!" both Vert and Noire screamed, scared at seeing their friend like this. They removed the devices, so why is she still in pain!
A soft glow covered Blanc, she grew a few inches. Soon, she looked like her reflection.
"What the…how did she grow?" Noire muttered in disbelief at seeing this new Blanc.
Vert picked up her own device, studying it.
"What hit me," Blanc moaned while getting up. Getting up, she noticed things looked small. She looked at herself.
"I-I'm taller, but how?!"
Lucky for her, she was wearing a longer dress. It wouldn't expose her underwear as easily if she wore anything else. Even her underwear felt a bit snugger on her.
"I don't know! But what were those things?" Noire screamed out, pointing to the broken device at her feet.
"A controller of some sort," Vert answered, holding it up. For them to see.
"A controller?" Blanc questioned, staring it.
Vert nodded with neared eyes. "I think it's what influenced us all this time. I'm no expert, but it looks like it could do that."
Noire growled, picking up her own trashed device. Inspecting it further, it did seem capable of doing that.
Blanc picked up her, glaring at it. Ready to crush the thing. But she pocketed the thing, with the others doing it. It might hold clues, if they could analyze it down the road.
Blanc suddenly looked toward the direction of Planeteptune. "That darn Neptune, she made me shorter! All because I was a little taller than her! Even the first time we meet, she pouted at me being bigger! Even when my county formed! I…what the?!"
Blanc stopped talking as memories came rushing in. Of a history unknown to her. The formation of her land, with Neptune appearing before her. Acting high and mighty because she was the first one there.
She looked at Noire and Vert, remembering meeting them. How they wanted peace with her, dispute her being the younger one, and tensions being high. She couldn't remember what it was, seemly Neptune's doing. Feelings, and the recent events concede with it.
"What is going on?" Blanc whispered. "I'm remembering things that, I didn't know before."
Noire trembled, remembering her sister Uni. The laughs they shared all the while, she gave her praise.
She could now see an open field. Various people were muttered, cheering for various people. In front of Noire, stood Uni. But she couldn't see her clearly, it was blurry.
"Good job, Uni!" other Noire cheered her younger sister. "You've became an elite sniper, I'm so proud of you!" She gushed over her sister's achievement.
Noire gasped in disbelief. Sure her younger sister could shoot, but hearing this. It sounded like, she joined the military! They didn't have one…did they?
"Thank you, Noire!" Uni replied back, with pride. "I'm ready to help with this war! We need to stop-"
Noire couldn't hear anymore, it was scrambled.
"What war were you talking about, Uni? Why did she join our nations…military, what is this. I don't understand," Noire whispered, wondering what this war was, with Uni joining a military force to fight in it?
They had fought in one ready, and it was ended. Or was it a fake one that she only knew about.
Vert teared up, remembering seeing so many sad children.
"What are we going to do?!" one of children's cried, sniffing. "M-my mommy and daddy are gone!"
Vert sniffed at hearing so much pain, from one so young.
"Why did that bad lady, have to hurt them! All they wanted was to be left alone, but th-that lady. S-she laughed while hurting them! Why?! Why wouldn't she stop after they begged her?!" the child screamed in angst of having his parents harmed.
Vert cried, hearing similar stories from other children. Each tearing her heart up.
"What kind of monster would do that! Harming innocents while laughing at their pain, with their children present!" Vert screamed to the heavens, her anger at its peak.
"Vert?" Noire questioned the blond-haired goddess, seeing her distress.
Vert's head snapped to stare at Noire. Rage burning in her eyes, her spear griped firmly in her hand. If it weren't for her gloves, Noire could see her knuckles turn white.
"Vert," Noire slowly stepped back. "Your scaring me."
Vert huffed and growled, her anger teeming to be unleased.
"She's pissed," Blanc muttered in disbelief, never seeing this side of Vert before.
"Damn right, I'm pissed!" Vert replied back, grinding her teeth. "I think it's a memory of mine, one with children being orphaned! By a monster! One that killed their parents slowly, with their children close-by! She even laughed while doing it!"
Both Blanc and Noire blood froze at hearing such things. Suddenly, they were assaulted by memories of similar cases. All them, refuges escaping from their land. Which land, they didn't know.
"What in hell happened?!" Noire exclaimed. "How could there be so much pain like that. How could anyone do that to their own people." Her stomach was flipping, threating to spill its contents.
Blanc looked down, feeling powerless. She could feel that she wanted to stop it, but nothing worked with whoever was in charge of these peoples lives. Whoever they were, they didn't care what happed to their people.
She looked toward Planeteptune's city, feeling that Neptune knew the truth.
'We could storm that home of hers, but no,' Blanc thought, a little surprised. Usually she could attack first and ask questions later. 'We need more information. What is this war that happened, and why were we put into those fake counties?'
Blanc stared out to the land beyond the forest, humming.
"Blanc, what are you thinking?" Noire questioned the brown-haired goddess, looking in a different direction.
Blanc pointed in direction away from the forest. "I say we, find out what happened to us!"
"What?" both Vert and Noire said at the same time.
"We aren't going to get answers here or with Neptune," Blanc explained. "I say we, go and find them there!" She kept pointing in the direction away from the forest.
"Maybe, but Neptune might be the key," Vert replied back coldly. "If we go and see her. We might get our answers."
More likely, they beat it out of the goddess!
Blanc glared at Vert. "True, but it would be on her terms! I know your pissed, but think! She's behind our current situation, if we go charging in there. We might get trapped again, and I for one. Don't want happening again, not if I can my answers somewhere else!"
Vert breathed hard, her rage trending to explode on Blanc. But she was right, this was no time for them to go halfcocked.
Noire stared off in distance that Blanc pointed to. That was where her county should be.
"I'm with Blanc," Noire slowly answered. Both Vert and Blanc huhed at Noire. "That's where Lastation should be at. I can feel it more clearly now, and it's crying for my return! I need to go!"
Noire started running off to the place. Like a trance, not noticing the other two looks of confusion.
"Wait for me," Blanc cried out, trying to catch up.
Vert looked back to where Planeteptune would be. Glaring at it one last time, she turned her back to it.
"One day I'll find the truth Neptune, and if you did that to those children. I'm going to kill you! That's my promise, even if Nepgear begs me not to! That's going too far to children, even adults who wanted peace!" Vert stated, walking to catch up with her fellow goddess.
They needed to find the truth, and what it means for their futures.
A/N read and review.