AN: Hey everyone, I have a new short series here. It's a crossover between RWBY and Hyperdimension Neptunia, two series with a generally similar cast and the world. However, while one went to a more serious outlook on storytelling, the other has remained mostly carefree in all narratives. With that, this is a story using Neptunia's tone and is set primarily in that world. The RWBY cast will be interacting with CPU's as they work together to defeat a powerful enemy. A quick note: this is set after the events of both V2 of RWBY and Megadimension Neptunia VII for the Neptunia series. Hope you enjoy this chapter, let me know what you thought or if you have any suggestions, and have a nice day.

Adventures in Gamindustri

Chapter 1 - Everything Will Be Okay

In the middle of the day, in their room at Beacon Academy, three of the members' Team RWBY enjoyed some leisure time. Weiss sat on the edge of her bed, her legs crossed as she was filing her fingernails. Across from her was Blake, laying on her back as she read from a black book. Above her on the top bunk, Yang laid on her back with her arms as a pillow. Her head slightly bobbing as she listened to music through her scroll. The three remained in their stasis of solitude, not an outlandish noise to be heard.

Suddenly, Ruby pushed open the door, "Hey, I found something!" Ruby declared with a smile. In the shock, Weiss' wrist slipped, the file scaping her nail in an unclean way. As the heiress glared at her team leader, Blake and Yang casually stopped what they were doing, "Sorry Weiss…" Ruby said with an uneasy giggle before she revealed what was in her hands. It was a white plastic box with four small unlit lightbulbs on one side and a convex top with an odd purple symbol on top, "But look what I found."

"What is that?" Weiss said in slight disgust, noticing black marks on the side of the box, "It looks like you found it on the ground."

"I did, it was just in the middle of an alleyway." Ruby confirmed while she closed the door, causing her teammate to give a deadpan stare, "But hey, it looks like it still works."

"That kind of looks like a game console," Yang commented as she took off her headphones, "Almost like the one we used to play on when we were kids."

"Yeah, I know." Ruby said as she looked up with a smile, walking over to the vacant wall in their room, "But, I think this one is four-player friendly." She then placed the white box on the floor, pressing the symbol on the top. The purple icon glowed as a hologram of a game screen appeared on the blank wall. On the screen, read a single question, 'Ready?' Ruby then took out her scroll, opening it. as she did, one of the lights turned on with a reddish color.

"Wow, it does work," Yang said as she jumped down from her bed, "I'm in." She said as she took out her scroll. Once she opened it, one of the lights turned on with a yellow color.

"This is absurd, I'm not doing this," Weiss said as she turned away.

"Afraid you'll lose," Yang said with her eyes half opened. Weiss then turned back to her teammate glaring with her cold eyes. Without saying a word, the white heiress took out her scroll and opened it, causing one of the unlit bulbs to glow white.

"Ruby, I think it could be fun," Blake spoke to her leader, "But, don't you think this situation is a bit...contrived." She said with her teammates turning to her, "What if this is a trap?"

"…Nah," Ruby responded nonchalantly, "It's just a game console, what could go wrong?" She said as she sat down, Yang and Weiss following her example. Blake sighed as she took out her scroll, opening it, causing one of the lights to glow purple. She joined her team as they all had a single word appear on their scrolls, 'Yes!'

At the same time, the four members of Team RWBY confirmed their participation in the game. As Ruby smile in anticipation, the text was changed with a small purple dot. The four girls leaned in to look at the dot. Suddenly, the dot rapidly expanded, radiating a violet colored electricity. The dot changed into a sphere, encapsulating Team RWBY before they had a chance to react. After a few seconds, the sphere vanished, along with the four players. An ominous silence filled the empty room. Nothing was heard as the four lights suddenly went black and the screen vanished.

A few seconds later, Nora busted open the door to the room, "Did I hear someone found a game console! Can I play?" She said out of breath before realizing the room was empty, "…Hello?"

As if emerging from a cloud, the four members of Team RWBY free-fell thousands of feet over the land. Their hands locked with one another, forming a circle between the four, "I told you!" Blake shouted at the top of her lungs, "This is why I don't play video games!"

"Come on Blake, we've fallen from higher heights before," Yang responded with a smile as the plummeted. Suddenly, the blond teenager had a realization, "Uhhh…is anyone's weapon not in their locker." She said with her teammates going silent, "Oh…crap."

Suddenly, Ruby felt her grip on her sister loosen. In an instant, a look of panic filled the red hooded girl's silver eyes as the circle broke. Yang tried to reach back for her sister but lost the grip in her other hand connected to Blake. As the black cat faunus panicked, trying to rescue her friend, Weiss lost her hold. Ruby and Weiss continued to descend a high speed, both realizing their grips loosening as they lost sight of Blake and Yang, "Ruby!" Weiss said to her team leader, "Everything will be okay!" The white heiress said as her fingers began to slip. The look of panic on Ruby's face was changed to one of assurance. She nodded, causing Weiss to have a slight smile before she lost her grip.

As Ruby lost sight of the last member of her team, she turned to look back at a region below, trying to figure out where she could land. However, her eyes widened at a realization, she was not over Vale anymore. For that matter, it did not look like she was anywhere in Remnant anymore. She discovered she was heading for a floating island, of which a large metropolitan city full of tall white building, "Wha!?" She said in befuddlement, noticing she was heading for the tallest building of the city.

Her eyes focused as she noticed someone, a girl of about her age. However, while this girl's hair was also short, it was a light lavender color with two plus shaped accessories. She wore a large white hoodie-dress with pockets with purple 'x' on each one. She wore white and baby blue horizontal striped stockings and amethyst colored shoes. In Ruby analysis of her the character, she failed to realize until now that she was heading straight towards her, "Hey, look out!" Ruby's shouted, getting the girls attention, who looked up at the red hooded girl with violet colored eyes, "Watch out!"

"Hey!" The girl shouted from the ground, point up at Ruby, "That supposed to be my thing!" she then realized that in her anger, she failed to notice Ruby heading straight towards her, "Oh no." The girl said before Ruby colliding with her, their head's skull bashing before both bodies smashed into the floor. After the plume of dust created from the collision had passed, Ruby found herself lying beside girl she fell on, whose eyes were spinning as a massive bruise appeared on her head. Slowly, the red hooded girl passed out from the pain.

A few hours later, Ruby slowly began to open her eyes. She noticed a familiar face, almost matching the one she fell on. However, this girl looked slightly taller. Her hair was long and only had one of the plus-shaped accessories in it. Her outfit was also different, this one representing a sailor's attire, "Oh, thank goodness you are awake." The girl said in a king voice to Ruby, "It was a little scary at first, but we were able to complete heal your wounds."

"Who are you?" Ruby said as she rubbed the back of the head. She then discovered herself in a bed to a to a cutie room. The wallpaper was white and baby blue vertical stripes and pink arches. There was a heart shaped window and rung as well, causing a look of consuming on her face, "Where am I?"

"Oh, my name is Nepgear." The girl introduced herself, "And you're resting in Neptune's room."

"This is Neptune's room!" Ruby responded in astonishment. Suddenly, her image of the cool guy with blue hair had been shattered, "Wow, I never knew this about the guy." She said as she looked at the gigantic teddy bear in the corner.

"Who are you calling a guy!?" a voice declared as the door to the room shot open. Ruby instantly recognized the person as the girl she landed on, who now had a throbbing bruise on her head, "I am called a 'Goddess' Thank you very much."

"Oh, sorry. I just know someone with the same name. My name is Ruby." Ruby quickly corrected herself before she realized something, "Wait, did you say you're a goddess!?"

"Yep," Neptune said with a smile on her face her knuckles on her hips, "CPU Goddess of Planeptune."

"Whatatune?" Ruby responded before she reminded the odd location she was falling towards, "...I'm not in Beacon Academy anymore, am I?"

"Vale?" Nepgear responded with a look of worry, "I've never heard of that place before."

"What about Vale?" Ruby responded.

"Nope," Neptune added.

"…Is this still Remnant?" The red hooded girl asked, but a look of befuddlement was left on their faces, "…Oh boy." Ruby said before she put her hands on her head.

"Oh, I get it." Neptune said she crossed her arms, "You're from another dimension."

"Wha?" Ruby responded, "I-"

"No, I can tell now." Neptune cut her off, "Did you get transported here after you turned on a mysterious game console you found out of nowhere?" The Goddess of Planeptune said with Ruby now the speechless one, "Yeah, it's written all over your face."

"It happened to the two of us a while ago, so we know the feeling. It took some time, but we found a way to get back to our own dimension safe and sound." Nepgear spoke to Ruby with a sincere smile, "We can probably send you back to where you came by the end of the day."

"Wow, that's really convenient," Ruby said as her smile returned. However, she soon had a look of panic as she remembered, "But, my friends are still out there. I can't leave until I find them."

"Friends, you mean more people fell out of the sky?" Nepgear responded before turning to Neptune, "We didn't get any other reports of anyone else falling from the sky."

"Not in Planeptune, but I'm willing to bet that at least one Ruby's friends landed on a certain Goddess of Lastation," Neptune said as she winked at Nepgear. She then leaned in to whisper to her sister, "By the way, don't mention anything about Ruby falling on me. Noire will just make a big deal out of it, calling it karma or something." She said with Nepgear having an uneasy laugh. Neptune then moved over to Ruby, "Well, it's your lucky day. You get to have a brand-new adventure in the land of Gamindustri."

"Game Industry?" Ruby responded.

"No, Gamindustri." Neptune corrected, but it still sounded the same to the red-hooded girl, "Regardless, our adventure starts now."

"Neptune," Nepgear said in slight worry, "I'm all for helping Ruby, but what about the issue Histore brought up."

"Oh, don't worry, Iffy and Compa are already looking into it." Neptune brushed off, "Histy won't mind. Think of this as a special event side mission, like when app game does a Collab with another series. It's a once in a lifetime opportunity… or until the event rerun." She then turned back to Ruby, who was lost on so many things just now, "Now, you need a guide through this world. That's where we come in."

"Thank you, but I think I can manage with just a map of the land." Ruby responded, "I mean if you're a goddess, it wouldn't be fair for you to leave for just one outsider."

"Nah, I do it all the time, my people still love me." Neptune casually responded, "Besides, what are you going to do about all the monsters you'll encounter on your journey."

"Monster, like Grimm?" Ruby thought before she smiled, "Well, as long as I have my trusty Crescent Rose, I'll…oh wait." She then remembered that her weapon was still in her locker. She then realized something, there was something in her pocket. To her surprise, it was her scroll.

"Huh, what's that?" Neptune asked, "A type of phone?"

"Yeah," Ruby said with a smile, but as she searched through its features, she realized something that caused her to sigh in disappointment, "No signal, no way to call my friends, no way to call my locker." She said with the two Nep girls having a look of confusion at the last part. However, Ruby noticed an odd new app on her scroll. Once she opened it, she saw what looked like a profile picture of herself with a series of letters and numbers.

Character: Ruby Rose

Level: 5

HP: 750

SP: 250

STR: 135

VIT: 110

INT: 130

MEN: 125

AGI: 180

TEC: 155

LUK: 170

MOV: 50

IQ: 80

FG: 25

"…What?" Ruby said as her expression went blank, "…I have stats!?"

Neptune then leaned over to look at the scroll, "Wow, would you look at that." Neptune said before she crossed her arms, "From my experiences in games, those are the stats of a speed-based player. One who's quick moves makes her harder to hit."

"That's kind like of me, but it doesn't answer my question." Ruby said as she read her scroll, "Why does it look like I'm a video game character?"

"Well, things can be complex when you travel to other dimensions," Neptune responded, but that didn't answer anything.

"But, my aura, my semblance?" Ruby said as she looked for clarification, "And, I'm only level five? I'm been training to be a huntress my practically my whole life."

"Don't worry about it, I'm sure this is just New Game Syndrome. Yep, that Doctor Neptune's diagnose." Neptune responded, "It happens all the time. A protagonist starts a new adventure, their stats always reset so the experiences are still challenging. It happens all the time in the most popular game series, but I think it's kind of a plot hole in the narrative."

"I…guess?" Ruby said as she still looked through her scroll, "Am I in a game or the real world? Or, is this a real world based off a game?" She softly spoke before a small smile formed on her face, "I guess the less I think about it, the more it will all make sense eventually."

"That's the spirit," Neptune cheered, "Now, you've played games before?" She asked with Ruby nodding, "Excellent, so we don't have to go through that whole boring tutorial of explaining what your stats mean."

"Yeah, I think I get what most of these means." Ruby said, "But, I don't think I recognize the last one."

"Oh, that's a…" Nepgear said before her face turned red, "Don't worry about that one, it's just for show."

Ruby then swiped her screen, "There's another stat page, "She said before her face turned red, indecently closing her school, "Those ones are … personal stats I guess."

"Okay then, before we head out into the wildlands." Neptune said as she leaned into Ruby's personal space, "You need a weapon, what do you fancy?"

"I..Uh," Ruby said as she backed up, "Do you have a scythe or a rifle, or a combination of the two." She said with the two Neps having a blank stare, "What, as you said, I'm from a different dimension." Ruby said with an uneasy giggle.

"Wow, you really can use a weapon like That's really cool," Nepgear responded, causing Ruby to blush. She then turned to her big sister, "We could put something like that into development, but it wouldn't be finished until the next day at the earliest."

"I can't wait that long, I don't even know if my friends landed safely," Ruby said as she considered the thought. While they didn't have their weapons, she thought her teammates could still land safely. Weiss had her glyphs, Yang could probably tank the fall, and Blake…was a cat…huh. Ruby then considered something else, what has her landing plan without her Crescent Rose, "…Maybe they're better off than I thought." Ruby said in an uneasy voice.

"It's okay Ruby, we can still leave now." Neptune responded, "I loan you one of my standard protagonist weapons in the meantime."

"…A sword?" Ruby guess.

"Correctamundo." Neptune said as she helped Ruby off the bed, "Now, there's no time to waste. Onward!" She declared as she walked with Ruby, holding her right hand.

As they walked down the halls, Ruby looked back to see Nepgear beside with a warming smile, "Don't worry Ruby, everything will be okay." She said Ruby remember the words of her teammate, causing her to smile back and nod. Ruby then followed Neptune down the hall, a look of determination in her eyes.

Nepstation: Dododo-dododo-do Hey readers, welcome to Nepstation. Your home for fourth wall breaks, regardless of the medium we broadcast on. I'm your host Neptune, flying solo today since this is the first chapter of Adventures in Gamindustri. Don't let the narrative structure fool you, I'm still the protagonist of this crossover tail. While I didn't do much at the start, I will be showing off my super cool protag powers in the next chapter where we take Ruby to Lastation. Stay tuned and I'll see you next time…Oh, also just forget about the stats here. They mean nothing, the writer was just having fun.