Disclaimer: Neptunia and Ranma belong to their respective owners which is not me, 'nough said.

AN: currently not planned to be a harem fic and have no particular pairing in mind. Also if I screwed up some facts, I will just say that in my defense, I have not read Ranma 1/2 in a while and I've only played 1, MK II, V, PP, RE 1. Sadly my vita and all its games were stolen before I could play the other games on it. Sucks to be me sometimes. Also before I forget, gender pronouns will be confused a little as they are based on perception (no I do not mean that Ranma thinks of himself as a girl so much as it's written that way to signify Ranma knows what form he's in). Anyways, on with the story!

AN 2: Hi guys, and so starts my round of revisions. My apologies for the idiot scene involving Akane. It's still there but should seem a little less of a bash fest... Sorry if typos are still there, these are more about fixing certain story elements. Fun facts about this chapter:

1. I had a lot of trouble getting the first chapter good enough to post.

2. It actually took me some time to do because I ended up getting frustrated and starting over again and again.

3. This chapter is the result of me saying screw it and frankensteining the acceptable parts from the older versions and patching it up.

4. The dreaded Akane scene is a mystery to me. As for what happened there, I grabbed it for this because I recalled it was the longest scene for the section and did not think to check it since every version of that scene should have had no impact on cohesion... Then I saw the reviews, looked it up and went WTF. I think I might have written that while not in the right frame of mind all things considering... and no, this is not an excuse for me being an idiot. I was an idiot about that scene on all accounts in regards to my handling of Akane.

5. As for why I stitched it together, I have a bad case of ADD and really want to write this story. As such anytime I get too frustrated, I run the risk of horribly delaying things into oblivion. Therefore I have been doing everything I can to fight this off. Truth is I can actually write these chapters fairly quickly so long as I enjoy it. I look forward to getting back to continuing the story after these revisions!

Prologue-

The world was falling apart. It was finally going to end just as Arfoire foresaw back at that time. As Nepgear looked to the red, lightning streaked skies, she remembered the last time she had truly been happy. Back then, she had been so happy to free her sister and the others. She was naïve to have believed their rescue would solve everything. Her sister, even now stood in her memories as the kind of person who could solve any problem in the happiest way possible. Instead Neptune had chosen to let her continue to lead and make the choices in their last adventure. In the end Neptune had chosen to pass on herself with the others. She was not worthy of being the one to lead Gamindustri. Nepgear only need look to the skies as her world fell apart. She was alone say for her oracle. The others had died off fighting in this wretched war. She finally took her eyes away from the blood red skies to look at the hellish landscape about her. Corpses were strewn about everywhere of the soldiers who had foolishly waged this battle even as it was all coming to an end. The world would not live on nor would she. While it was possible to go to another dimension, she only had enough power for one person. She refused to save herself unless she further soil the memories of the others who had died. I am truly sorry everyone. I tried so hard to preserve this world to make your sacrifices have meaning, but in the end not even a memory of this will remain.

"Nepgear, please do not blame yourself. No one knew that things would come to us. None of us, not even Neptune, could have foreseen this," Histoire tried to soothe her goddess as she floated into view before her. It was then that Nepgear realized that there was a way for their world in its entirety to live on if only as a memory. She smiled warmly at Histoire as tears continued to fall.

"Thank you Histoire," She began. The tome smiled but was then surprised by what her ruler said next," I now know of the last thing I can do to save Gamindustri. I can save you Histoire. You are the tome that holds the memories of everything that this world is and once was."

Realization was dawning on the tome of what Nepgear was planning for her but- ," Please don't do it Nepgear! I wish to join you and the others-" She pleaded desperately with fear and sadness etched into her features. She was cut off by the steely look in the goddess's eyes. Nepgear slowly shook her head while hold her in that commanding glare

"No, I am sorry, but this is the only thing I can do to uphold my promise to the others. This is my final command as a goddess Histoire. I order you to live on, to preserve the memories of Gamindustri, and in time to share it with others when you are ready," Nepgear ordered in a soft but powerful voice. As she finished, she brought up her free hand as she transformed. Her other hand grasped the now glowing Gehaburn. As she brought forth her power to send the tome off, Histoire thought she saw the ghostly visages of the other goddesses who had passed on so long ago. Each one wore a sad smile except for her former CPU. Neptune silently mouthed something. Live on Histy, I'm sure you can find someway to save us! The last thing Histoire would remember seeing of her world is the ghostly Neptune's cheerful smile. After that, all faded to white.

Exactly three millennia have past since then and Histoire still lived on to fulfill her final orders. In her time on this strange world now known as Earth, she has bore witness to many things. The most notable was the rise of humanity as it shaped itself into a modern world. This world, even now, lagged far behind her long gone world in technology. Sadly, this world even now did little prove itself worthy of the knowledge she contained. Humanity in this world had proven itself truly a barbaric and untrustworthy sort. Even this more civilized age she watched over was riddled with war.

One thing that had come to her as a surprise was that in spite of its technological inferiority, its people had created a number of things had not existed in her own. One of these things was the creation of a mirror that actually held power over time and space. She could not believe her good fortune to have discovered something like. In fact, it was this discovery that had given the forlorn tome hope. Neptune was truly an amazing goddess. Even when all was hopeless and she was long dead, she still was able to predict this. That smile of hers that was so different from the others' at that time. Upon this one discovery, Histoire looked back upon it and realized why it was she would always serve Neptune. The often lazy goddess could always find hope even in the most hopeless circumstance, and just like all those times before, she had been right to hope. Histoire now held the power to send someone to her world to save it.

Sadly, that was what her currently roadblock to fulfilling Neptune's wish was. She could not go back herself. To undo the past in the world she came from would only create a paradox that in the end would hold no meaning. The fact was that once the timeline of a world was changed all things from the unchanged timeline disappeared. However, the advantage of this phenomenon was that this did not extend to other dimensions. What this meant was that even once she vanished with the old timeline, this dimension's timeline would be unaffected and still record the fact she existed up to the point she enacted the change. To put it simply, she needed someone from this world for her plan to work. Now was the "FUN" part… She had to find someone with a good heart and the potential to change her world for the better.

As she pondered this ordeal, it happened. Chaos was born unto this world like none other. It was unlike anything she had ever sensed before. She did not know where it was or even who. All she knew was that, if whoever was born with this much of it lived long enough, they would truly hold the potential she needs. As such, she began her journal to find the source of it.

It had taken three years to find the child. She had watched him from afar since. What she saw brought tears to her eyes as she watched the madness of this one's life. His parents were certifiably insane. What mother accepts a seppuku contract with their child's playful handprint on it? What kind of father not only takes a child from their mother but does so for the sake of training them in such a tortuous fashion? Histoire could not believe what she saw this child go through, yet the boy never lost the goodness of his heart. She bore witness to the training that took up so much of the child's life. She watched in disbelief as his father constantly bartered him off. Through all of this she had to restrain herself from interfering unless she ruins the very potential the child obviously held to save her world. All I can do is offer to him a new life in a far better world. She would think to herself every time she had the urge to interfere. She bore witness to the curse and the madhouse that was Nerima. Even then she did not interfere for he was not ready still. She watched as the boy proved himself a champion as he persevered to defeat his foes and would always win in the end. Finally she bore witness to the moment her champion had actually killed the immortal phoenix "god king". It was at that time she became torn on what to do as Ranma confessed to Akane. She did not have the ability to send both of them and after all of this she did not wish to take Ranma away now. She continued to watch as she struggled with this decision.

For anyone else this would have been a joyous occasion, but it was not so for one Ranma Saotome. It was to be his wedding day to the fiancé whom he had fought so hard to save and protect. He had even just killed a god in fact. It was not that he did not have feelings for the girl, oh no, he knew he cared deeply for Akane when he thought he had lost her. Maybe it had a little to do with the fact their parents had not even asked but had literally forced him to the altar, or it was the fact that even Akane had kept it a secret that her father had a cask containing the last bit of nannichuan water in the world at this moment. If not that, then most definitely the fact that Nabiki had taken it upon herself to invite everyone including Ranma's other fiancés and rivals. If anything its was the a fact that a huge fight broke out between Ranma, his father, and fellow cursed rivals over the cask containing that last possible cure for their curse. It was definitely the fact the grandmaster of his school of martial arts drank the entire cask thinking it was wedding sake and thus robbing him of a cure once again. Or the fact Tatewaki Kuno brought a steel katana to attack him with to stop him from marrying "his precious" Akane. Then again it kid be all of this and more as currently the fiancés had joined in on the act. Seriously, this had to be the worst day of Ranma's life and right on the heels of his most dangerous adventure to date.

As Ranma was contemplating this in the midst of the chaos, he had failed to realize he had been drenched once again and that Kuno was in fact hugging/molesting her as per usual when he manages to get a hold of "his pig-tailed goddess". Normally this would not have been a problem as Ranma was about to in fact knock his lights out and send him flying. However, Akane had gotten her attention at this moment when she approached. She looked a bit worse for wear as her wedding dress had many tears and cuts in it. Her dark blue, nearly black hair was mussed up and in disarray from fighting. She was sporting a few cuts and bruises herself from this debacle. However, what had Ranma's attention and even caused the ever insane Kuno to actually back off in fear was her face. She had tears in her glaring and now glowing red eyes. In fact her whole face was turning red as it contorted into an expression of absolute rage. She was even surrounded in a blazing aura anger induced ki.

"This was supposed to be the happiest day of our lives Ranma," She spoke coldly as she approached, freezing Ranma in place and sending chills down her spine. This was a new level for Akane's anger," And after everything we've been through together, I have to get attacked by your floozies and watch everything I had hoped for this day be ruined by everyone's antics?"

"A-Akane, you got it a-" tried to verbally defend herself as she was in too much shock at Akane's expression as the tears began to roll down her cheeks to prepare to do so physically.

"RANMA YOU JERK!" was the last thing she heard before suddenly finding herself being sent flying by her fiancés rage induced upper. As the pigtailed martial artist sailed through sky higher than ever before, a mysterious figure whom sat upon a floating tome smiled sadly.

Histoire could not believe what she had witnessed at the wedding. She should have known better than to believe that Ranma would have a happy ending here amidst this mess. What hurt the most was watching the woman that the now girl loved attack her so. Histoire was truly saddened by the outcome of her moment of indecision. She could have spared Ranma from this wedding if she had acted sooner. However she knew that it was finally time for her to act. It was time for her to take Ranma away from this world for good. And so it was with a sad smile that she began to glow and invoke the spell she had created all those years before.

"Please forgive me for what is to come, but you are needed to stop a great tragedy from befalling my world," she whispered quietly as she opened a gateway to her world at a critical moment when it existed. As the flying girl vanished through it, so did the gate. And if one were to look upon the face of the fairy like girl they would see tears flowing freely upon her smiling face. Then she began to simply fade away.

"Please save them all and I wish you to find true happiness"

Okay, that was weird. Ranma thought to himself as he continued to sail of the now completely unfamiliar landscape below. He was flying like normal after one of Akane's attacks. Then it all went weird when he saw the fairy on the book casting a spell and asking Ranma to save some people. Yeah, real nice way to ask. He was not very pleased about the fact he had no choice in the matter or the fact he did not know what he was expected to do. As he looked down he saw a city of black factories and such. As he looked down he got a bearing for where his landing point was going to be. A group of girls had been fighting and were now pleading and arguing with one another. Then there seemed to be a struggle over the sword the winning side had brought along. It was obvious what older girl with black hair intended to do. It was at the moment Ranma realized his landing point.

"Move it ya crazy chicks!"

Why did it have to come to this? After everything we've been through, here we are fighting and now Noire hold the Gehaburn. I never wanted anyone to die!

"Please Noire, there has to be another way! I don't want anyone to die!" Nepgear cried out as she struggled with Noire over the Gehaburn," This is wrong!"

"No Nepgear, there is no other way. None of the others are going to willingly hand of their shares to you. This sword is the only way!" Noire choked out desperately as she finally took the blade and was about to run herself through-

"Move it ya crazy chicks!"

*CRASH*

Nepgear was sent tumbling back with the force of the impact. As she recovered to see what had happened, she looked on in shock with everyone else present at the downed Noire in the center of a large crater with a short and busty girl wearing a ragged, white tuxedo standing on her back. The red haired girl looked down at the downed Noire before stepping off of her to pick something up that laid close by. The new girl now held Gehaburn in her hands. She then made eye contact with everyone here before angrily bringing the sword up.

"No, NOIRE!" Uni cried out desperately as the pigtailed girl thrust downward. All was silent as looked at the blade now thrust into the ground before Noire's terrified face.

"I don't know or even care what the hell is happening 'round here but I'm not gonna stand by and watch ya all go around getting' yourselves killed over a sword," She yelled angrily as a shatter sounded greeted the ears of everyone present. She had just shattered their last option. Nepgear sighed in relief at the sight. It had to have been one of the most beautiful sights she has seen of late, next to the one of finally seeing her sister free that is. Noire took a moment to recover as she slowly regained composure and glared angrily at the newcomer.

"What have you done!? Now all of Gamindustri is doomed. That sword was our last hope to defeat Asic before they destroyed!" She screamed," And now we goddesses can't even sacrifice our lives to it to save our world!"

Ranma was taken back by that last statement for a second before he looked at the weapon once more and gave a snort. The thing had no power in it to start with. Sure, it might gain the power of those it kills, but if that's the case, the real answer is for everyone to work together in the first place. The shear idiocy of what he was hearing was on par with something his pops would say. Shortcuts and the easy way out could only lead to disaster. That had been a lesson etched into him from his last 17 years of life.

"Ok, let's say I believed this thing had that kind of power in the first place. That by killing someone with this stupid sword it would grow in power. Now here's the hole in your stupid plan that I know from experience," He sneered at the woman in black as he answered her," Free power ups always come with a catch. In fact I wouldn't be shocked to find that this weapon woulda only been as powerful as the ones you killed to begin with," as he went on, he could see that the twin tail girl before him was starting to see where this was going," So if that's the case, then why not just work together?"

Let it be known that Ranma is not an idiot. While it is true that he is ignorant, it is also true that Ranma had been able to get his grades up to high school standards in spite of lacking proper education and the madness that is his life.

Noire was stunned. That one fact had eluded them all. How could she have missed something so simple? The sword was a trap. The weapon would only have the power they had. Then something else dawned on her. She had just nearly gotten both herself and Uni killed for no reason. Bitter tears filled her eyes as she collapsed to her knees. Everything was pointless. As far as they could tell, they lacked the power for certain victory. They had no hope and now they were fighting amongst themselves once again.

"Sister!" cried out a familiar voice before Uni embraced her. She could feel the hot tears on the back of her shoulder. Her younger sister continued to cry into her shoulder she kept mumbling softly. It had been clear she had failed as a big sister. As they were having their moment, a clearing of someone's throat drew the attention of those present. It was Neptune walking toward them in her usual cheerful and bubbly manner.

"Hi there, and thanks for the save. It was looking like things were going emo-ville fast Highlander style, if ya know what I mean. Anyways, I'm Neptune, the CPU of Planeptune!" a strange young girl in a hoodie and sporting short, purple hair greeted as she walked toward Ranma and the two sisters. Ranma honestly had a confused look on his face as he had no idea at all what the girl meant by that," Anyways, who are you? Are you like some savior descending from the heavens to thwart Asic for us or something?"

Ranma just blinked at the ever cheerful Neptune for a moment before shaking his to recollect himself before introducing himself," The name's Ranma Saotome, heir to the Anything Goes school of martial arts, sorry 'bout this," He finished sheepishly as he scratched the base of his pigtail. The girl just looked him up and down a bit as if trying to figure something out before slamming a fist down into her open hand as she was finally putting something together.

"Oh, I get it. You're like one of those only child girl martial arts characters that were raised as a son to pass on their family's obscure school," She explained," I mean I was wondering about your use of masculine words, but then I finally got it at the use of heir instead of heiress. I think we were missing one of those. Now we finally have a gender confused martial artist on the team!"

The girl was talking a mile a minute in an oddly excited fashion. What the hell? Why is she talking like I'm some character outta manga? Ranma then FINALLY realized she had been a girl the whole time. Ranma then lowered her head and grumbled in annoyance about curses and water before responding," No, you got it wrong, but for now it'll have to wait seeing as there's no hot water handy and I have no idea where the hell I am," This seemed to prompt some stares from stares from the other girls that were gathering. It was then that Ranma noticed a girl wearing those hell spawned ears and tail," A-and y-you, STAY AWAY!" She shakenly spat out as she backed away from the small cat girl.

"Hey, Puchiko, I think she's afraid of you for some reason," Neptune commented to Puchiko's annoyance. However, the cat girl did catch the message and stayed back taking a place behind some of the others. Ranma was not sure, but she could have sworn she heard Puchiko angrily muttering something about vegetables. While strange, this was not weird enough for the martial artist to even care. After all now that the cat girl was out of sight, Ranma was only nervous about her presence and had more pressing things to attend to like finding out where the hell she was this time. Neptune nodded in satisfaction before turning to the sometimes girl," Well, I guess you not knowing where you are makes you one of those awesome heroes summoned from another world in a time of great need," she nodded sagely as if her statement made all the sense in the world.

"Will you stop it already you idiot! Not everything is a game!" the older of the sisters in black called out from beside Ranma," Aaanyways, I thank you f-for-" she stopped to take a deep breath," stopping me from doing something stupid," she exhaled before continuing," I am Noire, the CPU of Lastation, which is where you are."

"Never heard of it. Is it somewhere in the west?" Ranma replied thinking that she must now be somewhere in Europe or the Americas. Though if that was the case why were they all speaking Japanese so fluently? Noire looked a little confused now.

"How do you not know of Lastation one of the four nations of the WORLD of Gamindustri!?" She cried out in disbelief as she stood up in indignation much to the surprise of her younger sister. Neptune only tsked as she waved a finger in superiority.

"It's like I said, Noire. She's totally a hero from another world come to save us all from the evil clutches of Asic!" Neptune proclaimed once more with gusto before bringing her attention back to a still confused Ranma," And now that we got that out of the way, let's head off to Planetune's Basilicom to give Histy the good news!"

"Uh, before that, you guys mind telling me what the hell a CPU or Basil-whatever is?" Ranma asked in pure ignorance. She did not like the answers she got.

"Oh, well me and Noire are CPU's and a Basilicom is where CPU's live and lead their nation from. By the way our younger sisters are candidates which makes us all Goddesses, so yeah, that about covers it I think" Neptune explained happily," Now off to pud- I mean home!"

Ranma became visibly more nervous as she immediately backed away from the self proclaimed goddesses. While they acted nothing like that jerk Saffron so far, Ranma's trek record with gods has not been good thus far. Noire picked up on this reaction and became suspicious immediately," Hey, what's with that reaction? You got something against goddesses?!"

"Now, now Noire, let's not jump to conclusions. Right Nep Jr.?" Neptune soothed as she turn to an older looking purple haired girl that turned out to be her younger sister," I'm sure it's some sort of misunderstanding."

Nep Jr. nodded in agreement to her sister's words before adding," I-I don't think anyone that would that much about a stranger's life could be bad."

"See, even Jr, agrees with me," the smaller of the purple sisters chirped cheekily," Now what's the big deal?"

Ranma thought hard for once about what she was going to say for once. She did not want to upset four goddesses. Especially since now that she was paying attention, she was sensing large amounts of power hidden away within the four girls. After taking a gulp and a deep breath, she began," W-well. Ya see, I have something of a bad experience so far with gods. Not that I have anything against you girls or nothing, but I had a bit of a conflict with a god recently-"

"Hmmmph, if your so called god is anything like us, then I'm sure you started," The young sister in black interrupted.

"Shh, Uni, let's not start a fight until we know the whole story," Noire admonished Uni before returning her attention to Ranma once more. While she had stopped her sister for Ranma's sake, it was clear in her face that she shared a similar opinion. Letting out a sigh, Ranma began anew.

"I did not start it. First of all, the bastard sent out goons to capture a girl who was coming to me for help saving her home, where I might add was a cure to my curse, then when me and my… group left to stop him, he got Akane involved and through his arrogance had tried to sentence her to death for trying to help me. I did not start that mess, but I will admit I put an end to it," she finished in grave tones as she remembered the battle. She had a distant look in her eyes as she remembered the most difficult fight of her life.

"Wowza, you don't mean you actually ya know, killed him did you?" Neptune asked shocked. It was then that Ranma realized she had let herself get carried away by the moment and admitted to slaying Saffron. She took up a defensive stance while trying to figure out how to flee the scene. Knowing her luck, these goddesses were about to have some beef with her for killing one of their kind. Neptune seemed realize what was going on rushed in arms flailing," Woah now, let's not start any unnecessary fights here. Judging from what you said, this guy was a real jerk and got what's coming to him. I mean really? That guy was totally a villain from the sounds of it! Which makes you an awesome God Slaying Hero from another world, which incidentally is just what we need!"

Ranma eased her stance in utter confusion at the strange girl's rapid fire speech. Why did she keep comparing her to some hero from a manga? That whole description sounded like something she had over heard some of the others talk about at school. Seriously, was this pint sized goddess even right in the head? She then glanced at the others who all seemed to be accepting what this nut job was saying at face value. Even Noire and Uni were nodding in agreement if grudgingly so. At this the group started to gather up as if the conversation was over and a brown haired in an over-sized blue coat walked up to her.

"Come on, you'll get used to it, everyone else does. Not to mention Neptune has a tendency to be right about these things much to everyone's annoyance…"

What had Ranma gotten herself into?