Hey guys!
Don here bringing you a fic that was requested on reddit. I am not the most well-versed when it comes with 'Hyperdimension neptunia' but I do love the games and characters so I tried my best with this. I hope you all enjoy.
Walking around a floating city was not something Jaune expected to be doing really at any point of his life. What was supposed to have been a simple mission of killing a few Grimm in the Emerald Forest had both his team and RWBY falling into a canyon after a series of accidents and waking up in an alley, thereafter.
After checking to see if anyone was injured, they tried checking their scrolls to see where they were. Alas, no service. They were in a foreign land with no reference so the best course of action was to look around to understand where they were.
They did however immediately notice, the fact that they were in the sky, after leaving the alley they had arrived in. They were able to see floating islands in the distance, connected to the one they were currently on by cables.
Of course, they had figured splitting up would be the best way to find information. Splitting into pairs, which seemed like a good idea at the time, till Jaune got separated from Pyrrha by a large crowd of celebrating people. Though he did figure out that there was currently a festival taking place, the chaos and confusion having split him from his partner like it was inviting them to partake in the festivities. He still had no clue.
Jaune pushed through, eventually finding his way to a somewhat barren park and decided to take a rest on a nearby bench. Slouching over he gave out a sigh and mumbled under his breath "What is going on?"
"It's a celebration of the founding of Lastation." a voice answered from behind him causing him to jump up, and spin around.
Standing behind the bench was a beautiful young woman with red eyes and black twintails "And uh… what is Lastation?" Jaune asked.
"Well duh! You're standing in Lastation," she states like it's obvious, and then asked sarcastically "Seriously don't you even know where you are?"
"Nope," Jaune says simply looking around. He stopped looking around and locked eyes with her, "I have no clue where on Remnant we are."
Frowning at him, she asked, "Remnant? What the heck are you talking about?"
Blinking in surprise Jaune looks around the park, then the sky, then back at her, his voice trailing off, "Uh… Well, this is awkward…"
Both of them stand there in silence staring at each other for a few moments before the girl crosses her arms around her chest, and walked up to him, getting right into his face.
"Your messing with me aren't you!" she angrily asked poking him in the chest, her face red with anger.
Stepping back he raised his hands in defense "Nonononononono! I'm not messing with you at all! Just uh…" He told her as he was trying to understand his current situation, "I'm just… confused is all."
She stared at him for a moment before stepping back, the red leaving her face, "Oh... so I guess you're new here then?"
He nodded at her question, trying not to lie, "Yeah my friends, and I just… dropped by here."
She closed her eyes, and turned away from him, and stated like she was doing him a huge favor, "Well then I guess I have no choice but to show you around."
Jaune looked shocked for a second at her offer before smiling,"Really? That would be a big help."
Turning to look at him again she smiled, "Yes really. I wouldn't be much of a…"before closing her mouth and going quiet.
After a few seconds, Jaune asked, "Are you alright?" causing her to jump.
She stammered for a moment before composing herself "I wouldn't be much of a representative of Lastation if I didn't show a guest or possible new citizen around."
Jaune nodded at her answer, "Well thank you for the help," before holding his hand out for a handshake, "My name is Jaune, it's nice to meet you Ms..."
Reaching, and taking his hand "Noire, you can call me Noire."
And with that Noire started showing Jaune around the city, going around the celebrating crowds. She had shown him a few stores, the Lastation Library, adventurer's guild, and then the home of Black Heart, the CPU of Lastation.
That caused Jaune to ask the question, "Hey Noire what is a CPU?"
His question caused her to stop and look at him, gobsmacked, stammering at Jaune's apparent stupidity, "H-h-how DO YOU NOT KNOW WHO THEY ARE!?" She practically shouted at him "They are the four Goddesses who govern and watch over Gamindustri!"
Jaune said in defense as he stepped back at her ferocity, "H-hey sorry, like I said, I'm not from here."
Holding her hand out, Noire caused a sword to appear and held it to Jaune's neck, "Alright, who are you really? Everyone knows who the four goddesses are, so start talking."
Looking around he sees no way out of the situation, as Noire moves the sword closer to his neck causing Jaune to press himself up against the wall of the ally they had been using to cut past the crowds.
Jaune exclaimed in fear, "Alright, I'll explain everything as best as I can, but can you please just put the sword down!?"
Noire stared at his face and body, judging how much he was going to talk about for a moment before sighing and putting her sword back in hammerspace, crossing her arms and watched Jaune, waiting for him to explain.
Jaune answered honestly, relaxing at the sword's disappearance, "Alright, so you might think I'm crazy, but my friends and I are from a different world called Remnant."
She stared at him, expressionless, before sighing. Noire began walking down the alley and told him, "Follow me."
Seeing no choice in the matter, Jaune followed her with the feeling that if he tried to run she would just catch up to him.
After taking a few turns and crossing a crowd, they arrived at a bar placed in an alley. The two of them stepping inside, Noire taking a glance at the bartender who looked mildly surprised at her appearance.
"We will be using the back room. Bring the usual," Noire said as she walked past the bar towards a door. Being the only patrons there the bartender got to work on her request as Jaune follows her to the back room.
The back room was actually just a small room with a booth. Taking a seat on one end of the booth, Noire looked at Jaune, expecantly waiting for him to take the seat across from her.
Once the bartender came to the back with a tray carrying the alcohol Noire requested and left, she poured herself a glass of the wine before taking a sip of it, "Alright. Continue, tell me about your world."
Jaune drew a blank before asking, "Uh… What do you want to know about it?" when nothing else came to mind.
Noire swirled the wine in her glass before taking another sip of her drink, "How does your world function, do you have nations? Are they monarchies? Anything that would not be considered normal."
Jaune assumed a thinking pose before he informed Noire about Remnant, "Well my world has four kingdoms, and the four kingdoms are ruled by councils. We also have Faunus who are like humans, but they have an animal characteristic, like cat's ears or a lizard's scales. We also have Grimm which seem to only hunt humans and Faunus."
Noire pondered what he had said, "So does that mean you have ways to deal with these Grimm?"
"Yeah, the kingdoms have Huntsmen academies that train people to fight Grimm." he informed Noire as she poured herself another glass.
As she drank from the glass, Noire asked, "And how do... you fight them? I-I'd say with swo-hic!-rds seeing as you have one. What else? Guns? Hic! Magic?"
Jaune took a glance down at Crocea Mors "Well it depends on the person. I use a sword, and shield, but I have a friend who uses a scythe that's also a sniper rifle. We don't have magic or anything like that, but we have aura, and semblances."
Now on her third glass she waved him to go on.
"Well aura is like an… internal energy we have that can be unlocked and semblances can be... anything really. Everyone has one unique to them, like super speed or strength, but more… personal," he explained, struggling a bit to explain certain points.
She was through the bottle considerably faster than the previous ones and was nearly done with it, her face blushing a little. With a slight slur, Noire gestured to Jaune, "What about you?"
"I don't have mine yet," he admitted sheepishly.
Noire nodded before downing the rest of her glass. Noire poured another glass, letting out a little giggle before pouring another for Jaune and sliding it over to him, before chugging the rest of the bottle, "Alright -hic!- that's enough business! Hic! Let's celebrate!" She cheered and hollered, causing Jaune to look at the seemingly already-drunk girl.
When he didn't take a drink immediately, Noire slammed her fist on the table which caused Jaune to instantly take it.
Jaune gauged the drink in surprise and he looked back to Noire who was chugging yet another glass before he said, "This is soda…" which caused Noire to freeze.
Noire looked at him in confusion for a second before pouring another one and staring at it, "Hey yeah you're right… this is root beer… Damnit!" She slammed her fist on the table once again, "I told them to -hic!- stop doing thaaaaat!" whining, drunk before getting up and slamming the door open.
She yelled out at the barkeep, "BRING ME REAL ALCOHOL!" before she slammed the door back shut. Noire pouted as she took a seat before looking at him, shouting, "They don't trust me, Jaune, but I'M THE GODDESS! I CAN HANDLE MY ALCOHOL!"
Jaune just replied with "Uhhh…" to the black haired girl's statement as the bartender came back, this time holding a bottle actually filled with wine and two new glasses. As the barkeep placed them on the table, Jaune leaned over to him and whispered, "I shouldn't have said anything, right?" causing the bartender to just shake his head and walk back out a look of pity on his face for Jaune.
She shakingly poured a glass of the real wine before she looked at Jaune, "I don't -hic!- understand why people always say I -hic!- don't have any friends!" She told Jaune, taking a big swig of wine, "I do too have friends! Hic! You're my friend now... right?"
Jaune felt bad for her and nodded, causing a big smile to spread across her face, "Sure, we can be friends, Noire."
Her smile became a bit scary as she said, "Yeah that will show Neptune! A-Always saying I'm a loner with no friends." She chuckled to herself before hiccuping again.
She looked at Jaune, noticing that he was still drinking the soda, "Heeeey... why aren't you -hic!- drinking the wine!?" before pouring him a glass and shoving it to him, somehow not spilling any of it.
Taking the glass from her, he saw her staring at him expectantly. Shrugging, he took the drink before taking a sip of it as Noire gave a cheer.
Next Morning
With the Beacon students
Pyrrha was crying at the fact that the group was not able to find Jaune. Ruby and Nora were trying to comfort her while Ren, Yang, and Weiss were all looking around, talking about what they should do.
"Uhm, guys. You should all take a look at this," Blake said, holding a newspaper as she walked up to them.
With Uni
Taking the elevator up to the floor in the tower that her's and Noire's bedrooms where on, Uni was worried. Earlier she saw people online talking about a particular newspaper issue and had ran to confirm what they had said. After buying one she ran back to the tower to check with Noire to see if it was true,expecting to see Noire awake and going through her usual morning routine. What she didn't expect when walking into the room, however, was seeing a white wedding dress, and other clothes scattered around the room.
Uni let out a scream upon seeing Noire lying in her bed with a blond-haired guy, causing both of them to sit up in fright before seeing each other and letting out a scream themselves before Uni ran out of the room, dropping the newspaper.
Acting on instinct, Noire jumped up out of the bed and exclaimed, "W-w-what are you doing in my bed!?" She let out a scream, noticing that she had no clothes on, grabbing the blanket off of the bed and covering herself with it.
Making sure he was covered with the remainder of the bedsheet, Jaune said what was on his mind, "I don't know!"
They both stopped moving as the adrenaline wore off. They both sank to their knees and clutched their heads as the pain slowly swelled.
After they calm down Jaune looks at Noire "I think I know why they don't let you drink." he told causing her to go red in the face.
"S-shut up!" she stammered out as she pointed a finger at him, "This isn't my fault! You're to bl-blame too!"
Jaune pointed his finger back, countering, "Well, you're the one who wanted to go to a bar!"before both of them noticed the gold bands around their fingers.
Noire then noticed the newspaper on the ground, running over, still covered by the blanket (and leaving Jaune completely naked as she took it) before letting out a scream as she read the head title 'Goddess Black Heart married?' accompanied by a picture of the two of them, Noire in a wedding dress, and Jaune with his hoodie traded for a suit jacket and white tie.
Falling to her knees, she held the newspaper. shaking. Jaune stood up and walked over, covering himself with the bedspread, kneeling down to look at the newspaper.
"How could this happen?" and "Why me?" were some of the things that Noire started muttering in her depression, "The others are gonna start making fun of me when they find out."
She suddenly placed her hands on Jaune's shoulders before she started shaking him back and forth, demanding, "You will take responsibility for your actions, got it!? I refuse to be the first Goddess married only to get divorced the next day!"
Noire stood up, "Work! I need to get to work to help take my mind off of this," before she walked away, leaving a dazed Jaune on the floor. She walked over to the wedding dress on the ground and stopped to pick it up.
Muttering to herself, she put the dress away before grabbing a set of clothing from her closet. She pointed at Jaune as she turned to look at him, before stepping into the bathroom, "Get dressed and wait here."
Hearing the shower run Jaune got up from the floor, finding all of his clothes and put them on before he noticed that he was missing his weapon and armor. "Ah! Where is Crocea Mars!"
Noticing the weapon on a nearby dresser, he ran over and grabbed the blade, checking it to make sure it was fine. After inspecting the sword and making sure the shield still worked, he strapped it to his belt,before trying to see if he could find his armor.
Busy with his search over the next few minutes through the drawers, cabinets, and closet, he didn't hear the shower turn off and Noire stepping out, dressed. She walked close behind Jaune before asking, "What are you doing?"
Jaune was currently on his stomach checking under the bed and jumped in surprise, hitting his head on the bed frame, causing him to hold it in pain, and groaned through the discomfort of the bump, "Hngh… I was looking for my armor... agh..."
Noire looked at him and took notice of his hoodie, smirking, trying to hold back her laughter, "Is that a bunny?"
The pain faded away and he nodded up at her as he came out from under the bed, "Yeah my sisters got it for me," a smile appearing on his face thinking about his little sisters saving up all of those Pumpkin Pete box tops.
"I see," Noire said before walking over to the door, "Come on, I have things to do today."
Getting up, figuring he could find his armor later, he ran after her, catching up quickly since she was only walking, "So uh… You go by 'Black Heart' too?"
Looking at him over her shoulder "Yes I do." before she knocks on a nearby door "Uni are you in there?" she asked through the door.
Shuffling was heard from inside before the door opened, followed by Uni's appearance, "I'm here, Noire." She jumped upon seeing Jaune standing there beside the Goddess. Blushing, she gave a little bow. "Oh, hello. I'm Uni, CPU candidate for Lastation."
Surprised at the greeting, Jaune bowed back and responded back, "Yea-hi-hello. I'm Jaune Arc. It's nice to… uh... meet you."
Noire asked, holding up the newspaper, "Uni, where did you get this?"
"Oh, I saw posts online about some people talking about it, so I went out and bought one so I could show you," she informed Noire, "I thought it was just a tabloid, but I figured you would want to know about the rumor."
Noire looked at her ring, "Yes, well apparently it's true," she told her little sister before looking at Jaune, "Your gonna take responsibility for this, Jaune. I refuse to let the others see this as weakness." She grinned as she thought to herself, "Yes maybe I can use this to my advantage."
Uni looked at Jaune, "I'm sorry if you got wrapped up in this somehow, sir."
Jaune took the blame as he raised a hand, waving her apology off, "No, I think it might be my fault she got as drunk as she did."
Uni frowned as he continued to explain, Uni's face changing to one of understanding, "I mean she was helping me with a problem, and we were talking in a bar, and I was the one who pointed out the bartender gave her soda, not alcohol."
"Yeah, that sounds like Noire. She's gotten drunk off of root beer once so the people of Lastation tends to swap her alcohol with it when serving her, kind of an unspoken law," she told him, causing Noire to gasp.
"What!?" Noire exclaimed, "I can handle my alcohol!"
She tried to defend herself before what happened dawned on her again and she slouched over.
Jaune shouted out in realization, causing the other two to jump, "WAIT! My friends are probably worried about me!"
Noire nodded and Uni was confused. Noire looked at Jaune and asked, "Well do you know how to get to where they are?"
Jaune paused before shaking his head, "No. All I remember is that it was an alley near that park, and I think there was a red neon sign that had a disc on it nearby." he confessed.
Noire looks at Uni "You know where that is?" she asked as Uni nods.
"Yeah, the shop that has the neon sign is a game shop that Nepgear, and I go to sometimes when she, and Neptune visit," Uni told her.
"Alright, can you go, and bring his friends here?" Noire asked.
Jaune piped in, "Look for a group of girls and a guy with a pink streak in his black hair."
"Pink streak, gotcha," Uni said, giving him thumbs before disappearing into her room before coming back out and closing her door. With a wave, she ran down the hallway.
Watching her disappear into the elevator Noire motioned for Jaune to follow her. Walking towards the elevator themselves, they waited for it to come back up and Noire told him as they did, "So I know I said I would help you out last night, but I don't think I can let you leave now."
"What!?" Jaune exclaimed. "But my friends! I-I have to go back! We have lives there!" causing Noire to frown at him.
"Yeah, well now we," she gestured to them, "are married, and I have a public image I need to keep!" she told him, causing to frown back at her, "So I can't help you go back."
The elevator dinged as it arrived once the two stepped inside, Noire hit the button to her office at the top of the tower. "Well how about a deal, then?" Jaune proposed, getting Noire's attention.
"Hmm, a deal?" Noire asked with interest in her voice.
Jaune bit his lips, stealing his nerves, "Alright... so if you help my friends get home... I will stay." he finished, getting her to smile.
She asked him, with reasonable skepticism in her voice, "And how do I know you won't just leave with them if I find a way to get them back?"
Looking Noire dead in the eye, Jaune held out his hand, "If you can find a way to get them back to Remnant, I will stay. I promise. An Arc always keeps his word."
She holds the stare for a moment before accepting his hand with a satisfied smile on her face, "We have a deal then, Mr. Arc."
Just then, the door for the elevator opened. Stepping out, Noire released a scream. The office was a mess, papers strewn everywhere, books fallen off the bookshelves.
"Hey, my armor," Jaune pointed out, his armor on the ground with the suit jacket and tie from the picture next to Noire's desk. He went over to pick them up as Noire was panicking about the mess. As he grabbed them, he noticed something underneath as Noire picked up a paper.
"I think I found our marriage certificate," Noire said, looking at the paper, noticing both of their (somewhat messy) signatures on it before she looked at Jaune who was currently grabbing what was under his armor.
Picking it up, he noticed that it seemed to be some kind of article of clothing. Upon unfolding it he heard Noire give a scream once again as his face went red with embarrassment, dropping what he now knew were Noire's panties.
With Uni
Walking down the street Uni sees the game store with a neon sign on the front. Looking down the alleys she finally saw one that had a group of people crowding around a newspaper. Walking over to them she noticed one of them was a guy with a pink streak.
Walking up to them, she poked him in the shoulder, "Hello?" she said, causing them all to jump, and a few of them to reach their hands towards their weapons.
"Uh... are you Mr. Arc's friends?" she asked them.
Ren looked back at the rest of them before turning at Uni, "Yes, we are Jaune's friends. Do you know where he is, miss?"
Uni smiled at him, "Yep. He and my sister asked me to come to get you and take all of you to them," she said, causing the ginger hair girl to glomp her.
"Your gonna take us to Jaune Jaune!?" she excitedly asked Uni, shaking her.
Ren put a hand on her shoulder, "Nora, I don't think she can take us anywhere with you shaking her," which caused the girl to stop before Ren looked at Uni, "I'm sorry about my friend, miss. Can you please take us to him, we all have been very worried about him."
Once she got her bearings straight, Uni nodded, "Yeah, sure, follow me," she turned and walked out of the alley, still a bit wobbly.
Back with Jaune and Noire
Arriving back at the tower, they all squeezed inside the elevator, Uni making sure to stay far away from the girl she now knew as Nora after they all did their introductions on the way.
Once the elevator arrived at the top, they noticed Noire sitting at her desk, face planted on the desk as she let out a groan, while Jaune was making himself useful and was putting away the books that had fallen onto the floor.
Uni stepped out of the elevator, deciding to test the waters as she announced, "I'm back Noire, Bro."
Noire only gave a groan as Jaune looked over at Unias the others stepped out of the elevator. He greeted them with a smile on his face, books in his hands, "Hey guys."
Before anything else could be said, he was attacked by 3 red blurs. Well... only two. Ruby just hopped excitedly nearby him as he was tackled to the ground by Pyrrha and Nora,Pyrrha crying into his shirt and Nora talking so fast that Jaune couldn't quite understand what she was saying.
Hearing the impact of Jaune's body hitting the floor, Noire lifted her head off of her desk. Seeing the man that was now her husband with two girls on top of him caused her to stand up and slam her hands down onto her desk, "HEY!"
She shouted at the two of them, causing Pyrrha to stop crying, Nora to stop talking, and both of them to look at her.
"Get off of him," she said firmly, becoming a bit jealous. Sure, she barely knew the guy, but she was a Goddess and he was her man now. She wasn't just going to let some random women be all over him!
And there we go. A plenty long first chapter, I think. This was my first time writing something for 'Hyperdimension Neptunia', so I hope I did Noire and Uni justice for their characters as well as I could. That rootbeer thing was a reference to a fairly popular voice line from Megadimension. If you all enjoyed and want to see more, you should know what to do. Huge thanks to Aldo7Aces for beta'ing for me, and making the fic a lot better. There was a lot of work he did to help. Go check him, and his story 'Amiable Youth', out he is a great writer.