Neptune and Nepgear were doing there usual jig, no not playing video games, they were doing quests. It's not like they wanted to do quests, they would much rather be playing video games all day then having to slay monsters. But Histoire had gotten on there case again about not doing anything worthwhile.
So it was their fault that anything hadn't gotten done in Planeptune for the last week?! Ok maybe it was. But they had a perfectly sound excuse!
"Well Histoire, you see, this new game came out and it was calling out to us! So we-" Nepgear had tried to explain.
One long winded and completely unnecessary (to Neptune anyway) lecture later and here they were, finishing up with the presumably last monster, the sisters had decided to take a breather. They were wiped, but they had only been out for 10 minutes. The last time they fought seriously was 6 months ago. Every other monster they faced since then was digital and on a screen.
"S-So tired, n-need fooood. Preferably pudding!" Neptune whined.
"Well we can't go back now, Histoire will be mad at us... again!" said Nepgear.
Neptune whined again, she knew full well that Histoire would be angry if they went back in such short time, but she was tired! Neptune just wanted to lay down on the ground and not move for the next 50 years.
After a period of silence, Nepgear decided to speak again, much to Neptune's disdain. She just wanted to sleep...
"Sooo, what should we do now?" Nepgear asked.
"Nothing, just lie here until we should go back, then when we're done, we tell Histy we did a lot of work. So much work that we couldn't move our legs, so we had to crawl back. We barely survived!" Neptune summed up the scene in her head with a grin, thinking it was the best plan ever, while Nepgear looked at her older sister with disbelief.
"Do you really think Historire would buy that? She's smarter than she looks, you know." Nepgear reminded her sister.
"I know, but I've lied to her so much over the years that it's beginning to sound truthful. Like remember when everyone thought you drew that really bad picture?"
Nepgear groaned. Yes she could never forget that day. When Noire found it in her room and showed it to everyone. She distinctly remembered the looks of shock and outright disbelief everyone gave her, with Nepgear tearing up. Their faces looked like O_O but in real life.
"Well... t-this is d-different" Blanc said, visibly shaking as she held said drawing.
"It's a very detailed drawing" Vert said, in absolute disbelief that Nepgear could draw something like this, especially in this disturbingly... accurate detail.
"N-N-Nepg-g-gear... y-y-y-you... I-I... t-t-this..." Histoire tried to say without having a panic attack. Noire had supplied her with a paper bag, but it did little to calm the tiny Oracle down.
"Geez Nepgear, If you wanted to learn about that, you should've talked to me, I could hook you up." Noire grinned
"N-N-N-NOIRE!" All 3 of them yelled, while Noire laughed evilly.
Oh, what a day that was.
"Yeah I remember that. Why?" Nepgear asked, wondering why her sister would bring up such an event.
Neptune chuckled nervously, and looked away from Nepgear. Nepgear grew curious.
"W-Weeeeeeell... that was me" Neptune admitted sheepishly.
Nepgear paled, first she was upset, then it quickly turned to anger, then absolute fury.
"Y-Y-Y-YOU WHAT?!" Nepgear screamed, absolutely shaking with anger.
Neptune flinched. She had decided to wait a little for the incident to die down, and she hoped that Nepgear would be over it. Clearly, she was far, far away from being over it.
"I-Im sorry..." Neptune whimpered.
"SORRY?! SORRY DOESN'T EVEN BEGIN TO COVER IT!" Nepgear boomed. Her face was red now, and Neptune could see the veins.
"Owww, my ears..." Neptune complained.
"I had to go to COUNSELING for that Neptune! That was the WORST three months of my life!" Nepgear yelled. She looked like she was about to have an aneurysm.
Nepgear continued her rant for five more minutes, before she finally called it quits.
"Are you OK?" Neptune asked. Nepgear was sweating, she was still red faced, veins were popping out etc.
"Yeah... all... better now... Haaaah..." Nepgear breathed, nearly passing out.
"Good, I think I'm half deaf after all that." Neptune groaned as she cleaned her ears. Mostly wax, since she barely cleaned them.
"Good, maybe I should tell Histoire about this to make up for your lack of work..." Nepgear thought. She enjoyed the look of absolute terror on her older sisters face, before she got on her knees and begged her not to tell.
Before Nepgear could enjoy the moment to the fullest, she felt an odd sensation in her chest. It felt... tingly, that was the best way she could describe it.
"Hey, Neptune?"
"Hmm?" Neptune hummed after she was done begging. "What is it, Junior?"
"I feel a little... tingly. I don't know what it is."
Neptune looked confused, then a malicious grin formed on her face, and Nepgear paled as she realized she should've worded that a little better.
"Well Nep Jr., when a girl reaches a certain age, strange but wondrous things happen to their bodies, you see-"
"N-N-NOT THAT WAY!" Nepgear yelled, blushing furiously as she cut her sister off, before she could go into anymore unnecessary details. Neptune couldn't stop laughing at her sisters embarrassment. She made it too easy sometimes!
"I-Im t-talking about my chest!" Nepgear corrected.
"Oh? Well it doesn't look any-"
"NEPTUNE!" Nepgear cried, her face turning more redder than it already was.
Neptune laughed again at her little sister, who looked like she was going to explode from sheer embarrassment. She wanted to tease Nepgear further, but she was afraid that doing so would literally cause her to explode, so she kept it to herself, for now anyway.
It took a bit for Nepgear to recover from the overload of embarrassment that her older sister placed upon her, then she was ready to speak again.
"What I MEAN is that I have a tingly feeling in my chest. Like someone is tickling my insides." Nepgear said, her face still a little red from before.
"Really?" Neptune placed her hand on her chest, and she felt a little ticklish there too. Like someone was taking a feather at her heart "Huh, you're right..."
"You feel it too?"
"Yeah, what could it be though?" Neptune thought.
"Maybe that conspicuous-looking glowing cave over there?" Nepgear pointed to said conspicuous-looking glowing cave to their right.
How didn't they notice that?
"That's a good place to start!" Neptune said as she went forward towards the cave, with Nepgear right behind her. As they ventured in, the tingly feeling in their chests got more... tingly, for lack of a better word.
"I'm feeling more tingly Neptune, and I STILL don't know what it is!"
"Maybe we should-OOF!" Before Neptune could finish her sentence, she bumped into a wall she did not see, despite the fact that it was glowing bright blue and staring them right in the face. Maybe they should get their eyes checked.
"What did you bump into?" Nepgear asked
"Well, looks like a wall, feels like a wall, so I'm gonna guess it's a wall" Neptune replied sarcastically.
"Ha ha" Nepgear shot back, then went into stunned silence as she looked at the wall a second time.
"Nepgear?" Neptune asked, but no response, she just stared at the wall. Confused, Neptune looked at the wall again, only to end up exactly like her sister: frozen and in shock.
There was a girl in the wall, no joke. She appeared to be sleeping, her arms were crossed around her chest, and, ahem, SHE WAS IN THE WALL!. She had dark blue hair that traveled down to her waist, slightly pale skin, and a VERY small chest.
Chances were she and Blanc would become good friends.
Neptune couldn't see her eye color, due to them being closed. She wore a sleeveless blue hoodie, blue shorts and red and white 'Soapy' running shoes. She also had golden rings attached to her wrist for some reason. A fashion trend? From her appearance alone, she looked maybe 13 or 14.
Neptune couldn't help but feel like she's seen this girl somewhere before. She racked her brain. Then, after a few minutes, she gasped, and looked at the girl in the wall again.
No.
NO.
It COULDN'T be...
It had been so long. And here she was this whole time!
"Uh Neptune, you're seeing this too right?" Nepgear's voice snapped the CPU out of her thoughts. She turned to look at her sister, who was still in the same position, but now she was pointing at the girl in the wall.
"Yeah, I see her..." The tickling sensation in her chest came back, but now it was an intense feeling of ticklish-nese that has never been felt before. Neptune walked slowly towards the girl in the wall, her arm outstretched and her curiosity peeked.
"N-Neptune what are you doing?! That... whatever it is could be dangerous!" Nepgear cried.
"Nepgear, it's a girl in the wall, how dangerous could it be?" Neptune continued to walk towards the wall.
"Famous last words..." Nepgear mumbled.
Neptune rolled her eyes, and walked right up to the wall, and slowly, but firmly placed her hand on the wall. First there was nothing, then there was a bright flash of white that made Neptune back away. The light cleared, and the girl that was in the wall fell on the floor, seemingly unconscious.
"I-Is she o-okay?" Nepgear asked.
"I don't know" Neptune shrugged. She was still wondering if who she was seeing right now was actually who she thought she was.
The girl moved, then she slowly began to sit up. She mumbled something unintelligible as she opened her eyes, revealing them to be emerald green.
Yup. It was official. That was her alright. Neptune could hardly believe her eyes.
It had been so many years that she completely forgot about her, but seeing her again had refreshed her memory. Just wait until she showed the others...
"Uh, a-are you okay?" Nepgear asked, bringing Neptune out of her thoughts again.
The girl shook her head a few times, before jumping up to her feet like a kangaroo.
"Yeah, I'm fine, just a little tired ya know?" The girl responded, taking Nepgear by surprise. Neptune, on the other hand, just sighed.
"U-Um, what's your name?" Nepgear asked.
"You can call me Segula!" She answered. "I was the CPU of Gencast!" She said proudly.
Nepgear's eyes very much bulged out of her skull "Y-You're a C-CPU? I thought there were only FOUR Goddesses! What's Gencast? And what do mean "was"?" Nepgear's questions poured out of her mouth, until Segula put her hand over it.
"Yo, cool down with the questions, will you?" Segula asked in irritation. Nepgear nodded her head, and Segula took her hand off.
"I'll answer your questions momentarily, just as soon as we get out here and back to your place."
This time it was Neptune who started asking questions. "Whoa what? Why do wanna go to Planeptune?!" She asked.
"Cause I don't have a place to go. Remember?" Segula asked icily. She glared daggers at Neptune, who immediately wished she took back her question.
"R-Right, I forgot..." Neptune looked sheepish. "Uh, You can come with us. Let's just hope the others aren't there yet...!" Neptune murmured, suddenly remembering the gaming session she had promised the three of them earlier.
"The others? Why would they be at Planeptune?" Segula asked, clearly confused and begging for answers.
"I'll tell ya on the way back..." Neptune sighed, then they walked back to their place, with Neptune explaining to Segula what happened on the way back.
Unfortunately for Neptune and Nepgear, they heard the familiar voices of the Goddesses, and even the other CPU Candidates were there to by the sound of it.
How were they going to explain this?
As soon as they walked in, minus Segula, who stayed behind to make a quote-unquote 'surprise entrance', they were greeted by the others. Even Uni and Rom and Ram were there. Apparently their big sisters promised to take them with them, since they've never been to one of their sessions before.
The only one that wasn't happy to see them, was Histoire, unsurprisingly.
"What are you two doing back so soon?! You both were only gone for a half hour!" Histoire exclaimed.
"Really? It felt longer than that." Neptune said.
You could practically see the veins popping on Histoire's forehead.
"Histoire, don't get mad, please! We found something in a cave that requires...immediate attention" Nepgear said.
"Really? What did you find?" Blanc asked, taking a sip of her tea as she said so.
"Well, by something, we mean someONE, you see..." Neptune was cut off by Segula's sudden entrance.
"Hey girls! Remember me?!" Segula asked/yelled bluntly.
Blanc ended up choking on her tea, and tried to swallow it with Rom and Ram trying to help her. Vert went white as she said a series of unintelligible words. Noire slapped herself again and again, with Uni just staring in pure confusion.
"SEGULA?!" The three goddesses finally managed to say. The three CPU Candidates and the tiny Oracle were still lost. Nepgear sweat dropped, while Neptune put her face in her hands.
"Told ya they'd be surprised." Segula grinned, while Neptune groaned.
This was gonna take a while.
