"We need to find out the truth about us APLs…if we ever want to protect any of you…I don't know how long it'll take but…there's a chance you'll never see us again…again…again…"

It was cold….it was dark….it was painful….every step that was taken filed my heart with more and more guilt. We left them for this…right when they thought they had a happy ending, it was taken away from them…by us…

"If we don't come back…take good care of Laxtria…Alex and I will miss the two of you…"

These words continued to eat me up from the inside. I felt as if I was running out of time…I really was running out time. I wasn't going to be the same…I was going to be something else…something different.

"Goodbye…" I finally lost my sanity…the black void inside me has finally made its way into my heart…Its finally turned me into its vessel…I finally…snapped.

Ultradimension Nepzaki: Origins of the APL

Chapter 0: Returning To Our Home...

(Dimension: Hyperdimension)

(Location: Unspecified)

(Time: Unknown)

(Point of View: Unspecified)

(BGM: Destiny by Blood – Fire Emblem Fates)

"Block!"

"Counter!"

"Dodge!"

These were commands I was hearing multiple times a day, you would think I would be tired of it by now, but I'm used to it; I'm used to be told what to do, it's happened to me all my life.

"Block!" I repeated in my mind. I observed my surroundings until I noticed a familiar swordsman just inches away from me. I raised my right arm as if it was a shield and blocked the attack of the swordsman. "You'll have to be quicker than that Terra."

"Don't forget that it's not just me your dealing with," Terra smirked, my eyes widened a bit before I turned my head to see a mercenary sprinting towards me. "Counter!"

I kicked Terra in the stomach, pushing him away from me and creating some distance between the both of us. I proceeded to spin around and then sidestepped out of the way of the mercenary's blade before delivering a blow to their jaw.

The mercenary was launched into the air, it didn't take long for him to plummet back down into the ground. "You know Zest, for a guy who's moves are based on a person who's half human, half feral dragon, your bane stat must be clumsy."

"You better shut that mouth of yours, ya hear?!" Zest growled at me as he stood up on his own two feet . In the corner of my eye, I caught something sparking from a distance. "Dodge!"

I performed a backflip just as a bolt of electricity whisked right past me. I was just barely able to dodge it, though, there was a small tear in my clothes. "Tch, damn you Kashi and your tome."

"What's the matter? Are you afraid of touching the sewing machine after all of this is over with?" Kashi wasn't showing it, but I knew that he wanted to laugh, he's just as emotionless as his Goddess.

(Silence BGM: Destiny by Blood)

"That's enough!" Our "mentor" shouted. In that tone of voice, this most likely means that we've pissed him off, not like I care, though. I've been dealing with his crap so much that I don't even care about his lectures.

Our mentor came out of the shadows he's been hiding in and walked towards us. I remember when I actually used to like this guy, but now seeing him just gives me a headache. "Oh boy, here we go again…" I muttered to myself while also praying that my headache won't turn into a migraine.

"Tamazaki, throughout the whole training session your posture has been off, your movement has slowed, and your attitude has worsened!" Our mentor was sure letting me have it, yet I could list a bunch of things that the guys did wrong. "This has been happening too much lately, what has gotten into you?!"

"Oh, so you HAVE been paying attention to how I act." I'm honestly surprised! He's been paying attention to my emotions, he been paying attention to how I feel! "I'm so flattered that you actually care about me."

"Tamazaki, don't try to be a smartass," Terra whispered in my ear before placing his hand on my shoulder and giving our mentor a smile a teacher's best student would give. "Sorry about that Hinato, Tamazaki is just a bit grumpy from the lack of sleep."

Terra, Kashi, and Zest have always found ways to excuse me and my behavior whenever Hinato starts lashing at me. Apparently, it's because we have to stick out for each other. Most of the time it seems to work, but when it doesn't we all usually have to suffer.

However, this time, I wasn't having any of his s***, I really wasn't going to. "You know what? I'm done!" I said, "do you really want a reason to why I'm this way?"

"That would gladly be accepted." Hinato shook his head.

"I'm pissed because I'm tired of all of this bullcrap! We've been here in this God damn catacombs for only the True Gods know how long!" I shouted, "speaking of Gods, we came here to learn the origins of us APLs, only for us to be stuck training every single second of the day!"

"Uhh Tamazaki? You might wanna-" Zest tried to stop me but I was going to continue regardless of what anyone said.

"No! I'm fed up with all of this s*** Hinato!" My face was getting red and was starting to burn up. This is the part where some of the pent up rage inside me suddenly started to seep out. "I LEFT MY GIRLFRIEND AND DAUGHTER FOR THIS?!"

It hadn't even been a 10 seconds before I became self-aware and realized what I had said. I looked at Hinato, he was astonished from what I had said. I backed away from him and saw that Terra, Kashi, and Zest were all shocked.

"…I'll…I'll be going to my room," I spoke in a quiet tone before walking to the exit which was also the entrance.

(Location: Tamazaki's Bedroom (In the Catacombs)

I opened the door to my room and entered, I gently closed the door behind me. I proceeded to make my way over to my bed until I faceplanted into my pillow and sighed. That was really smart of me to make a scene in front of everyone.

My name is Trenton Tizius Tamazaki. I would say that I'm 29 years old, but I'm sort of a God, so I don't really age. I go by the title of Red Player, the APL of the nation called Planeptune, and the servant of the Goddess Purple Heart…or…Neptune.

I rolled over until my back was facing the wall. About a decade ago (yeah, it's really been that long), an evil woman known as Uhrevia defeated and captured me and the CPUs of Gameindustri. It wasn't until 6 years after, we were saved by the CPU Candidates of Gameindustri, as well as the APL Aspirants of Gameindustri, one of the APL Aspirants being my younger brother.

I rolled over once again, this time until my back was flat on the bed and I was staring up at the ceiling. We defeated Uhrevia, who we also found out was my mother and was the sister of True Purple, making me and my brother the cousins of Planeptune's Goddesses.

Although…after we had our celebration, we had left Gameindustri in order to find out the true Origins of us APLs. We left behind everyone we had ever met and befriended, just for no reason at all apparently. It's been five years since we left, and so far the only thing we've been doing is training and learning skills that we can't even use on each other…ever since that accident with the Aspirants.

There was someone knocking on my door. Usually, at times like this, I wouldn't answer since it's usually Hinato, the other APLs, or one of the Aspirants. The person at the door knocked a specific way however, they did it so I knew who they were.

I stared at the door for a for a full minute. "Come in," I responded. The door proceeded to open until a red-haired boy silently poked his head into my room. I looked at him before proceeding to sigh and placing my hand on my face. "You need some Al?"

This is my younger brother that I mention not too long ago, his name is Alex. Alex is an APL Aspirant, they're basically APL equivalents of the CPU Candidates, yet they have a similar role to us APLs. During the six years of us being captured, Alex came from our world to Gamindustri in order to help the CPU Candidates save the CPUs. It wasn't until after all the CPUs had been saved he had found out I was also in Gameindustri being a slave to Uhrevia.

I'm so glad to see my younger brother, though. I think that it was a good thing that Uhrevia had defeated us when we fought her, I couldn't even imagine what it would be like if we had won that battle…we would be missing out on something important if we did.

Alex closed the door behind him, yet he wasn't going anywhere. I had to sit up on my bed to look at Alex, he was giving me a silent stare. About two years ago, while us APLs were training, Hinato was forcing us to use a move that was meant to paralyze any living thing that was moving and was in our radius. As we were about to release the move, the APL Aspirants came into the training area to spectate us…they didn't know what we were about to do, though.

We released the move right before we were aware that they were in the room. The move did end up hitting them and launching them in different directions. After some treatment, we had found out that the Aspirants had lost the ability to speak. These catacombs were huge, there was even a library [that Kashi practically owns]. Hinato decided to teach the Aspirants how to use sign language so they would be able to communicate with us. This also meant that the rest of us had to learn the language so we knew what they were saying.

We're all fluent in the language now, so there isn't really a problem besides there being four fewer voices inside the catacombs. "Come on buddy, you know that I don't bite," I told him. Alex tilted his head and gave me a raised eyebrow. "…anymore," I added onto my previous sentence.

Alex began to walk toward my bed until he was at the edge, he sat down and placed his hands on his lap before staring at me once again with a silent stare. "You heard about what happened down there I'm guessing…" I asked. Alex responded with a head shake, so much for being a brotherly figure. "I'm just…tired of it." I said, "We've haven't learned as much stuff as I thought we would learn and…I just want to see them again."

"*Everyone here knows how you feel Tam.*" Alex signed, it was hard to not look at his face and look at his hands instead, even though I'm taller him it's still tough. "*They miss everyone back at home as much as you do. I miss Rult waking me up every morning and Gear always greeting me with an angelic smile.*"

"Of course, you do Alex…" I told him, "If it were just Neptune, I feel as if I could relate to everyone…but…I have a little girl back home who's growing up without a father…you know how much pain I go through at night just by thinking about that?"

"*Immense amounts?*"

"Exactly…immense amounts of pain…" I said, "I just want it all to go away…I just want to leave this place and go back to our home…I…I just want to live as a family again…" I noticed that Alex was once again giving me a silent stare, I placed my hand on top of his head. "Sorry about Al, I guess some of this stuff might be a bit too personal."

"*It's fine Tam.*" Alex smiled and closed his eyes. "*You can share anything like this with me. We're brothers, so this is supposed to be a normal thing for us to do." Alex and I haven't been able to bond since we were little. Since we're here now, that has been happening a lot more, and I don't have a problem with it, I'm happy that we can finally rekindle those heartwarming moments once more.

"So…did they send you up here to get me?" I asked Alex, to which he responds with a nervous chuckle. "Alright, get over here!" I pulled Alex into a headlock and started ruffling up his already messy hair, making it messier than it already is. Whenever I go through things like these, the guys tend to send Alex as a messenger since he's my brother. I always seem to not listen to my gut whenever that happens, as it always gives me the correct answer.

Alex began to tap on my arm multiple times to show that he's had enough. I let him out of his headlock and let him fix his hair before talking to him again. "Alright, what do they want from me this time?" I asked him. "Do they want me to go on cooking duty? Cleaning Duty? Anything that involves heavy objects?"

"*Actually it's neither of those for once.*" When Alex told me that I was a bit surprised. This was the first time that they didn't send Alex up to tell me to do a chore, which led me to this question: "Then what do they want?"

"*Hinato wants everyone to meet in the training area for some kind of announcement.*" Alex signed. This was completely rare, we've only had an announcement once and that was during the day the Aspirants had lost their voices. "*Everyone's beginning to gather in the training area as we speak, so we should hurry.*"

If this were something completely different, I'd tell Alex to tell Hinato to "Go Fuck himself". But to have an announcement the day I finally decide to give Hinato a piece of my mind seems a bit weird. "Alright, I'll be down in a few." I told Alex. "I just need to mentally prepare myself in case it's stuff I don't want to hear."

Alex shook his head as a response. He stood up from sitting on the edge of my bed and began to make his way to the door. As he opened it, he gave me a look which was his way of saying, "Will you be alright?". I gave him a thumbs up, he shook his head once again before leaving my room and entirely while leaving the door halfway opened.

After some time of preparing myself for the worse, I finally got out of my bed and slipped on my sneakers. I proceeded to walk over and through the door, closing it on my way out. I walked down the long corridor, I was passing multiple rooms, "Infirmary, Botany, Storage, Pantry" these were just a few rooms out of many that were in the hallway.

I walked down the hallway bit further, eventually, I came to a stop when I reached a pair of glowing white doors. If I were to tell you these doors were golden when we first arrived here, you'd probably say I'm full of crap. I took a deep breath, I didn't know what type of announcement this was going to be, but I knew for sure that everything was going to change as I walked through these doors.

(Location: Training Arena (Rocky Terrain)

The moment I walk into the arena, I'm greeted by a line of 7 people who have their backs turned to me. Just by looking at this I could already tell that we were going to have a great start to this so-called "announcement", Hinato has for all of us.

I made my way over to the line of people. Terra, Kashi, Zest, Alex, Luth, Caem, and Taem were in this line. Everyone was as stiff as a statue and we're looking directly at Hinato who was standing in front of us, no one even moved their eyeballs to take a quick look at me, everyone was so stiff that they almost looked soulless.

I mentally sighed to myself before getting into my position, from anyone else's perspective, this could've looked like a general observing his troops for the first time in the military. Hinato was even walking up and down, silently examining us from every angle. I wouldn't be surprised if he suddenly shouted out, "Drop and give me 20!"….he's done that before…except it wasn't 20 push ups…that's all that I need to say.

"It has been half a decade since we have left Gameindustri in order to find out the Origins of the APLs…" Hinato started. Honestly, I wanted to block out what he was saying as I basically said the exact same thing earlier, except I was about ready to choke someone. "During this time, we have gone through many hardships and lost many things…"

But really, I would like to know why he's telling us this. He's probably doing this in case the Aspirants didn't hear it, but I'm 90 percent sure that they heard what I had said from the other APLs. If you looked at Luth's face, you could see he wanted to shoot himself. If you look at Caem's face, he obviously looks tired. Finally, if look at Taem, you could see that he was getting really impatient.

Hinato basically went on with what I had said earlier, except that he was trying to sound more sophisticated while doing so. Hinato, we get that your very smart and all since you know about not only about the Multidimension, but as well as the multiverse, and we want to listen to what you have to say. But at this point, I would risk pressing the skip button despite there being important text, and wander around this whole world without any clue on what to do instead of listening to you talk for over and hour.

Now before I continue, most of you are probably wondering why I sound like Luth and acting like a d***. Well honestly over the years, I've basically learned to stop being that Obedient, dense protagonist that you've all known since November 15, 2015, and learned to not really care about what others think and be my own person. This is due to all the stress that has been on me for the last few years, if I was still able to age, I would have gray hair at the age of 26.

"But…I don't see a need for us to be here anymore." Hinato suddenly caught my attention, along with everyone else who was a most likely wondering when he was going to shut up. "I feel as if we have learned enough about APLs to make the five years spent here worth it."

Was Hinato actually saying what all of us were thinking? At this point, the eight of us stopped being stiff as statues and looked at each other. I then faced Hinato and took a step forward. "Hinato…are you saying…what we think you're saying?" I asked him just to make sure he wasn't playing with our emotions.

Hinato then glared at me, most likely from leaving my position. If I want answers, I'll get my damn answers. Hinato saw the look in my eyes before he turned his back to me. "…" Hinato slightly turned his head, I saw a smile grow on his face. "Tomorrow, we will be leaving the catacombs and returning to Gameindustri."

The moment Hinato said those words, I could feel myself starting to get light-headed and stumbled backward. I could also hear the muffled voices of the other APLs; they sounded very excited. I then proceeded to faint…great, I feel like that guy with the bracelet…

(Location: Tamazaki's Bedroom (In the Catacombs)

The moment I open my eyes, the thought of what I was just told makes me want to faint once again. Of course, I'm not going to do that since this is only the prologue, I have no reason to pass out to simple stuff like this until we get to 15 chapters and beyond, that's when my card becomes valid.

I sit up, only to be greeted by my little brother who is currently hugging me with tears streaming down his face. I wrapped one of my arms around him and placed the other on the back of his head and smiled at him. "We're…we're going home!" I happily said. "We're finally going home!"

Alex looked up at me and smiled, tears were still forming in his eyes. I wiped his tears away and continued to hug him. I wanted to cry, but I couldn't. Not because I don't want anyone to hear me crying, it's mush at I felt as if I lost the ability to cry for whatever reason. No matter, I'm sure it will come back to me someday.

There was a knock on my door. Before I could ask who it was, the person who was revealed to be Hinato walked right in. Even though in less than 24 hours, we'll be gone , doesn't mean we have to neglect other people's privacy. "Was I interrupting something?" Hinato asked it was at this point I realized that Alex and I were still hugging each other.

"Err…not really," I say as we broke away from our embrace. It was at this time, I felt a bit bad for lashing at Hinato earlier. As I was about to apologize, Hinato gave me the palm of his hand and looked in a different direction. "Umm…"

"There is no need to apologize Tamazaki, as I should be apologizing to you as well as everyone else in the catacombs." Hinato started. "I felt bad for having the eight of you leave on such short notice, but it wasn't until you shared how you truly felt did I realize why you truly acted the way you were…I felt terrible."

"…Well geez, I don't know how to necessarily respond to that." I truthfully told him. You'd expect me to have a heartwarming response, but I seriously can't think of anything to say that will get me a positive response. "But, I guess I'm glad you finally opened your eyes…"

"Indeed," Hinato said. I wasn't going to say anything, but I do wonder if Hinato ever thought about his sister throughout the five years we've been here. Maybe the thought of returning home to her kept him going. "Now, I suggest that you begin packing, as we will be leaving at the crack of dawn, which will be the end of the day for Gameindustri's residents."

"You heard the man Alex! Let's get packing!" Alex gave me a determined look before we got to work. While we were packing things up, the thought of seeing Neptune, Laxtria, Nepgear, Histoire, and everyone else caused me to work faster. In just a few hours, we were going to be home. We were going back to where we belonged!

Acallaris: What's going on everyone? My name is Acallaris, and welcome to Ultradimension Nepzaki: Origins of the APL!

Ultradimension Nepzaki is the sequel to Hyperdimension Nepzaki: The Awakening of the APL Aspirants, (which was the sequel to Hyperdimension Nepzaki: Rise of an APL). If you're new here, first off welcome to one my stories, where Goddesses have servants that are either dense as f***, complete idiots, absolute jackasses, or perverts. I suggest you turn back now before it's too late (It was a joke, please don't leave T-T).

Second off, I would recommend that you read Rise of an APL and then Awakening of the APL Aspirants. If you don't want to then that's fine, but there will be some parts that won't make any sense until you have read those two stories.

If you've already read both stories then…welcome once again to the sequel of APLA. I hope you guys are ready for another long adventure, cause I know I am! (Well somewhat ready)

There won't be a upload schedule just like there was for APLA since I don't want to stress myself out. Chapters may take longer to come out, now that summer is…coming to an end *shivers at the thought of school*. But these chapters will have better quality since I've learned that quality is better than quantity.

I have a few more things to discuss but it seems that I've run out of time. So you'll just have to wait for the next chapter to be released, see you guys later!