Hyperdimension Neptunia ASIC's revival: New Friends, New Frontier

Chapter 2: New friends from the other world! Akako's Team

I was born in Saitama, Japan since I was very little, with my twin brother Akihiro as well. The city was never a tourist attraction, but I always enjoyed the new stores and companies making their mark here. Saitama is my home; I care for it very much. The friends I gained here are important to me. This day I remembered was when my life changed for the better

Akako sat under a Sakura tree in the park, looking around at the children and adults just enjoying themselves. Several dogs were being walked by their owners as the tree's shade covered the sun from her eyes. Beside her, Chise was with her flipping through a small book before looking up at the park scenery before her. Her green eyes stared blankly at the people before the pair, a light smile on her face.

"Hard to believe school will be starting next week, right Akako?" Chise asked to her flipping another page.

"Yeah. It's a shame, we start our 2nd year of school next week, but we really haven't done much activities." Akako replied looking at the green haired girl with a smile.

The girl with me is Chise Eguchi, age fourteen and one of my friends. She always reminds me of a doll when we got older. When we got into Junior High, she never was into any of the afterschool activities like we were, so she was always sitting with us. I like her quiet personality; it suits her well.

"But my older sister and my parents said I should look into a club activity this term, says it will help me explore my horizons." Chise said as her hands were to the hem of her dress.

"I guess so, your parents and sister are only thinking what's best for you, I can't complain." She replied. Akako sighed and closed her eyes, the images of her dreams flashing again in her mind's eye. A dark shadow, drones of monsters and people, heroes above a road to save the day. She wonders what these images are and why they feel familiar to something she knew. Her thoughts continue to drift into sleep as a new image appeared before her. She was walking through was a like a graveyard, but it wasn't the common tombstone and stone statues, but machinery, a red sea, and the continuous thunder cracks. She walked aimlessly through it, feeling her own feet going where it wanted to go. It was then she stopped in the middle of a large opening, looking up into the eyes of a humanoid woman holding a scythe. A smirk was on the woman's face; it was like there was no fear as she stood before her.

'Who… Who are you Why are you familiar?' she thought as something chilly tapped her forehead. She blinked for a moment, feeling her forehead. 'My forehead's cold?' as her eyes opened to see an ice cream cone chilling temperature make her forehead cold as someone held it before her.

"You awake sleeping beauty?" Gina said jokingly with a smile, Akako grabbing the cone and smiled at her friend.

"Thank you."

That's Gina Fujino, but we usually call her Gi for short. While she's a second year like me, she's actually a year older than me, Chise, and my brother. Don't let her height mislead you, she's actually very kind hearted and pretty athletic. Her family runs a restaurant in town, the Fujino Café, she's a waitress and one of the chefs there.

"You still look tired, having trouble sleeping?" Gina asked seeing the red haired teen stare blankly at her ice cream.

"You could say that Gina." She said finally taking a bite of the frozen treat. "I've just been having very strange dreams, like a vision, no maybe a premonition of events to come." She mused not noticing a gentle hand was on her head, Gina still smiling to her.

"Come on, it's never you to think so much like this." Gina chuckled, seeing her friend's brother walk up to her.

"Gi, wasn't there something you wanted to share with us?" Akihiro said looking to her sister and the white haired girl.

"Yes, come on. There's a spot to see it from the park, follow me." Gina ordered to the three as Akako and Chise rose up from the tree.

"Sure!" they nodded to the white haired teen and followed her through the park, Akako looking at her brother as they walked.

My twin Akihiro, or Aki I like to call him, the two of us have been together since birth. He doesn't look it, but he loves to read and is very smart. He's usually like Chise and me and doesn't talk to others as much outside our friends. Regardless, I like having him around for company.

Gina and the others walked through the park passing up tree after tree, person by person, leading everyone to their destination. While they walk, Akako still pondered about her dream, the images that were before her, and the woman with the scythe that was in a graveyard. What made her think she knew the woman was the smirk, like she's seen it somewhere before. Why was she having these images before her and why they were in her dreams? It felt weird, like they mean something, or maybe it was just that, dream. She didn't understand it, why have these dreams. There was one thing that made sense, that place looked like the Gameindustri Graveyard, from the Hyperdimension Neptunia series. But wasn't the Graveyard fallen, was it? But now it doesn't at up as now the face of the woman was much clear, CFW Magic. But, wasn't she fallen too?

Before she could ponder even more, she stopped in place as Gina pointed towards the large arch bride on top of hill. She followed Gina, her friend, and Chise towards the bridge and walks to the center. Gina put one hand to the metal railing and another out into the distance. The others stood on either sides of the white haired looking into the distance of what she pointed out. A large building far out into the city was in construction and was to be completed soon as a few weeks, as the large sign in front of the building read. On the top of build was a sign in red letters reading 'Shiroibara Company, Saitama District. Coming Soon'.

"There. Mom and Dad told me about the company making a business here. It's a big time software company that's grown very popular over the years, hard to believe one is coming here." Gina explained before looking at her friends. "Dad said that 345 of 2,000 of its workers are sent here, just that number working here is incredible."

"I've heard of them, they've assist many big time companies' software too, I think my mom got me a new laptop from there." Chise said.

"So any reason you wanted to share with us…?" But Akako's question was cut short when a buzzing noise rang out in her ears as if felt like time stopped for her and she looked around. It felt like everything turned monotone and she was the only color left in the world. The buzzing noise concerned her, it was like someone was calling her to somewhere but she didn't know why. When time resumed for her, Akako place one hand to her ear as she then dashes down the bridge, getting everyone to look at her direction as the flare of her red hair was all they could see.

"Akako?" Chise asked seeing the red haired girl run off.

"Where's she going? Let's go after her!" Akihiro ordered towards Gina and Chise as they followed after Akako, not sure of her strange actions.

Akako ran through the park, bobbing and weaving through people and animals, feeling the buzzing noise was growing stronger with each step she took. Akako stopped by a marble fountain which fork two directions for her to take. She placed her hand to her once more, listening in for the buzzing. The sound was still there, and it the direction going deeper into the park. She didn't know what she was looking for or why she was still going after the buzzing noise, but she had to find it, she had to. The noise grew louder and louder, the noise almost drowning her own hearing. She finally stopped as she whipped to her right to see a faint light beside a small sakura petal tree, the light a deep purple. Was that where the buzzing was, someone near the tree? Before she could walk up to it, a cry of, "Akako!" cut her off guard as Akihiro, Chise, and Gina came running up to her.

"Guys." Akako said softly as the three skidded to a halt.

"Akako, what's up with you, just running off without explain to us." Gina said walking up to the red haired girl and placed a hand on her forehead, feeling it for a fever. "You aren't feeling sick, it's never like you to run off."

"S-Sorry, but look. Can you see a faint light?" Akako asked pointing to the Sakura tree and to the faint glowing light. The three look towards where their friend pointed to and saw it. A faint light was glowing under the Sakura Tree, just flickering before them. It wasn't a trick of sunlight; they could see it plain as day. Was that the object of Akako's odd behavior? They looked back to her, without a word they nodded to her confirming they could see the light. Wondering what it was, they all walk together slowly to the light, and under the tree they saw something that made their eyes grow wide in shock. Before them was a small purple crystal that was glimmering, a small ON symbol was in the center of it. They couldn't believe it, it looked just like it, how can it exist? It looked nothing like a toy, it was real. Akako picked it up and held it in her hand and showed it to the other. The reflection of the crystal's light hit their eyes as they couldn't believe too.

"That's a Sharecite, is it?" Chise asked looking at the crystal. "That's from the Hyperdimension Neptunia series?"

"Yeah, it looks just like crystalize Share energy, but what something like this doing in the middle of the park?" Gina asked another hand still gripped the cooler she brought with her.

"It doesn't look like a fake, could it be real? Akihiro asked looking towards her sister. "Sis, you said heard this? What's it saying?"

Akako place the crystal close to her ear, listening to the buzzing noise like a conch shell found on the beach. The buzzing noise was clear, this time a faint voice she hears through it, sounding like a voice through a static radio. The voice chanted, 'help us… help… please… help us…' over and over, the voice distorted in the sound of the buzzing.

"Help, it wants help…" She said slowly as the faint glowing was growing brighter, everyone but Akako reacting to the glowing. The light covering her hand as everyone screwed out in shock at the light swallowing her hand.

"Akako!" they gasped, as the light surrounded the four of them. They vanished from the sight in a pillar of light, the light vanished with them as no one could see that four children of junior high had vanished from the park. Was a fate or accident, their destination was paths unknown to a world they never knew existed. As they fell through a bright purple wormhole, their screams were the only thing they could hear, the only way they could go was where the wormhole would end.

I wonder if it was my reaction to help which led us there, but I don't think I regret my actions.

Neptune and everyone stood in Planeptune's park in the center of it, most of the Goddesses and humans either sitting on the smooth grass or relaxing by a tree watching. Neptune, Noire, Blanc, Vert, the Oracles and Candidates stood where Histiore predicted their help will come. They didn't get much info on who was coming, only they must wait for them here to greet them and explain the situation with them and hope they can handle it. But what was to handle, a dangerous enemy has come back and they need their help to defend their worlds or both world would face destruction wasn't something they would place on them with worry of freak out. They know the usual situation of freaking out and running off and getting into trouble, they were prepared for that scenario. But the question was, what were these humans gonna be like. As most of them hope, they really hoped it won't go into the 'they fall for some guys' cliché most if not all of them would slap them silly if that happens, but they had to have faith of the Oracles' picks. This was their world at stake, it wasn't time to not put disbelief now.

Noire walked up to the where the help, tapping her feet and crossed her arms. She was a little inpatient, hard to believe now that a new enemy has come.

"Jeez, we've been waiting for an hour, you sure they're coming here?" The black haired Lastation Goddess said impatiently still tapping her feet and crossing her rms.

"Trust Histy on this one Noire, but please get over here before you reenact your other self's getting crushed by me and P-ko. Nep Jr was a complete accident that shouldn't be an issue, right Nepgear?" Neptune said looking to her younger sister.

"Right, I didn't mean to fall into Plutia's world or land on Noire, it was an accident," Nepgear said her hands in her packets, "Plus, Noire set her own flag for not moving, but I would probably have got a serious headache if it wasn't for landing on her."

"Okay," Noire sighed walking back to the others, "But it's just, I never expect it to take this long."

"Well otherworld travel is different than you think, time flows differently between each world, so for them, they are still getting here." Kei said looking at a watch on her wrist before looking away.

"I guess that makes sense. So what's the trick to bring them here?" Noire asked looking to the four Oracles.

"Not much of a trick Noire," Mina corrected her adjusting her glasses, "but they will find what we sent to them and will teleport them here to Planeptune as Histiore fixed its destination. Once that's done, all our preparations will be in motion."

"Seems very basic world traversing." Blanc said with a small smile.

"Indeed, so I be a betting woman and say you sent a piece of Sharecite into the human world, didn't you?" Vert asked, getting a smile from Chika and the Oracles.

"Yes, we weren't sure sending a Sharecite through both worlds would be sufficient, but we were able to succeed. But if creating a portal between two dimensions was possible nothing is." Chika said, her eyes dropped to a watch, watching big hand tick. "A few minutes the portal should open."

"Seems like forever, you sure nothing goes wrong?" Plutia asked, holding a Neptune plush close to her chest.

"Absolutely, the Sharecite can only be seen by who can hear it and find it, we are hundred percent this will not fail." Histiore said looking to the Ultradimension Goddess. Plutia nodded, still not getting it on the idea the Planeptune Oracle was getting at, but continued to watch with her friends.

"Once they arrive, we should try to welcome them and not try to harm them or scare them." Blanc said to the other Goddess before eyeing her sisters from the corner of her eyes. "I'm referring to the two of you, we are trying to ask for their help, not scare them. So try anything or no games or books for a whole week."

"Yes Blanc!" the Lowee Candidate twins rang out honestly, knowing this was serious and it was usually Mina who scolds them for anything they will do or admit to do. They showed their hands up to their older sister and Oracle, revealing no slingshot, traps, or pranks they had on them, mostly being with Blanc the whole day talking to Vert and everyone. Even if they could, they know both their Oracle and sister would scold them for it. They remained quiet without a qword as IF, Compa, and their human allies walked up to them.

"Any progress yet?" IF asked, eyeing her cellphone screen and back at everyone.

"Just two more minutes and they should arrive soon." Histiore replied seriously to the Guild agent. She looked at everyone and placed her hands to the end of her tome. "A warning, it's going to get very bright."

"Wait, bright, what do you mean bright?" Neptune asked blankly eyeing her Oracle as her question was answered by a white portal started to appear in the grass before them as everyone took the hint to shut their eyes tight. The portal shot out a pillar of light that stretched over the park and into the sky, the pillar started to pulse as the light surround the park and everyone in it. No one could see it or even noticed as four bodies fell out the pillar and collapse to the grassy floor. The light finally faded as the pillar of light vanished. Everyone opened their eyes and were grateful they weren't temporary blinded by the light. They never saw a light so bright than the portal between the two dimensions opened for the Planeptune sisters' trip back home. Even Plutia was amazed, so was Peashy, seeing the remnants of the light in the sky.

"Wow, it must have been amazing!" Plutia exclaimed with delight in her eyes.

"Hey, I see some people!" exclaimed Peashy pointing her fingers at the bodies that came out the portal.

Everyone looked to where the small Goddess pointed to, seeing what looked like three girls and a single boy. Appearance wise, they looked to be in middle school, the ones they see in their nations' schools. They didn't look like warriors, but normal at first glance. But this was what Histiore and oracles had put their faith in, so they shouldn't expect any miracles just yet. One of them started to stir from the pile, a red haired girl who rubbed her eyes before looking up at everyone before her. For a moment, she thought she was seeing things, was this a dream? She took her right hand to her cheek and pitched them, feeling the pain and cringed. When she opened her eyes again, it was still there, the people before her and the unnoticeable park. She closed her eyes again, trying to ponder her surroundings, not noticing her friends were with her or awake.

'This is real; this isn't a dream. I'm in another world, and before me are people that shouldn't exist.' She thought and shook her head. She opened her eyes and looked into the eyes of another face, a girl close to her age and smiling happily at her.

"Hiya, you okay? Sorry about that, traveling between worlds isn't easy. Hope you didn't lose your memory, that wouldn't be fun." The girl said with a bright smile on her face. "Oh forgive me, introductions always come first, I'm Neptune, CPU of Planeptune, what's your name?"

'Neptune? This is really her. She's a lot shorter than in the games and anime.' She thought before finally speaking aloud. "Akako Fukuhara, it's nice to meet you Neptune."

"Nice to meet you too Akako." Neptune said smiling at the red hared girl. She looked back at everyone, calling them over to greet Akako. "It's all cleared guys, come greet Akako and her friends!"

'My friends are with me?' Akako asked herself, looking back at her friends who were almost starting to wake up from the ground and looked around as about so many girls from children to young adults came up to them. Like Akako, even they were surprise this wasn't a dream, but from the smooth grass and the light breeze, this was far from the truth. One of the girls before them spoke up with very young but mature voice, floating before them.

"I hope you are okay, sorry to pull you from home in such a short notice, are you feeling okay' she asked a finger close to her cheek.

"Like I just fell into a bottomless pit and out a painting, that's how I feel right now." groaned the green haired girl feeling her head was spinning.

"You'll get used to it, trust me. Oh, my name's Nepgear, CPU Candidate of Planeptune." Nepgear said smiling at the four.

"I'm Noire, CPU of Lastation." Noire said with pride in her voice a hand to her chest.

"I'm Uni, CPU Candidate of Lastation." Uni said in a similar prideful fashion as her older sister. She looked down at them with her hands behind her back with a smile.

"I'm Blanc, CPU of Lowee. It's nice to meet you." Blanc greeted softly, a look that remind them of their own friend Chise's manner.

"My name's Ram, and this my twin sister Rom!" Ram said excitedly, while her twin sister looked shyly at the four of them.

"I hope we can be friends." Rom said hopefully.

"My name's Vert, CPU of Leanbox." Vert said and held her arms under her chest, for a moment they thought they bounced.

"I'm Plutia, CPU of my dimension's Planeptune, it's nice to meet you!" Plutia greeted slowly in her usually speech pattern. The four looked at her, knowing she's kind and a bit slow on the uptake, wasn't someone they anger.

"I'm Peashy, CPU of Ploot's Planeptune too!" Peashy said happily, the small CPU looking more excited of the situation.

"I'm Histiore, Planeptune's Oracle." Greeted the small fairy Oracle, a hand to her chest.

"My name's Kei Jinguji, Lastation's Oracles." Kei greeted in a more businesswoman manner.

"I'm Mina Nishizawa, Lowee's Oracle and Rom and Ram's caretaker." Mina said greeting them in a manner of a teacher.

"I'm Chika Hakozaki, Leanbox's Oracle." Chika said speaking in a manner they usually never see her act.

"I'm IF, a guild agent of Planeptune." IF greeted with a serious smile before pointing to a girl to her left. "This is Compa, she's a nurse of Planeptune too."

"Hello Miss Akako!" Greeted Compa happily.

"My name's Red, and I'm on the quest for all the wifeys!" Red said energetically to the four, Akako and her friends trying to not giggle at the red haired energetic girl.

"I'm Broccoli, nyu. Sorry you got brought here without your consent nyu. You get used to be with this group nyu." Broccoli said holding her Gema in her hands.

"I'm 5pb, a pleasure to meet you!" 5pb said with a smile, the usually shy outside of her concert idol not at all shy to the four of them.

"Cave, a pleasure." Cave said calmly looking at the four with a quiet and cool look on her face.

I'm Falcom, it's nice to meet you!" Falcom said with an honest smile on her face.

"Cyberconnect2, but you can call me Cybercon if you want!" CyberConnect2 said with laid-back attitude on her face.

"MarvelousAQL, welcome to Planeptune!" greeted MarvelousAQL with a bubbly smile on her face.

"Umm I'm Takken, it's nice to meet you." Tekken greeted shyly to them.

"And I'm MAGES, nice to meet you travelers from the other world." MAGES greeted, while friendly was odd.

"Nice to meet you all, my name Akihiro Fukuhara, Akako's twin brother!" greeted Akihiro, looked at all the girls who just before this day were only video game characters.

"Chise Eguchi, nice to meet you, Neptune, everyone." Chise said softly looking at everyone too.

"I'm Gina Fujino, but everyone calls me Gi for short." Gina said smiling happily at the group.

"Now that we got the long introduction out the way, time to get to the meat and potatoes on the situation. You probably wonder why you're here and not home right." Neptune asked Akako and her friends. They nodded, the possible shock of freaking out they weren't home wasn't on their mind, but why they were here.

"We'll explain at our nation's tower, now please follow us." Histiore said and floated away to the direction of the Planeptune Tower. One by one, Neptune and everyone started following the small Oracle, with Akako, Akihiro, Gina, and Chise bringing up the rear. They couldn't believe it, they really were walking with characters from one of their favorite series; they were living and breathing, not fake. There was so much they wanted to know, and hopefully they had the answers as to why. But what was strange as to how the world looked in their eyes that they saw through the screen they watched Neptune's adventures. The fact they were in the world of Neptune, the fact they just met them, was real. But why, all that happened was the Sharecite they founded and were brought here, why were they here? Hopefully, they have the answers they seek.

Arriving back to the Planeptune Tower, Akako and her brother and friends sat in the meeting room with Neptune, the CPUs, Oracles, and their human friends. Gina gave Nepgear her cooler of Ice Cream which reluctantly didn't melt. As they sat together, Histiore looked at the quartet with a calm and stern look.

"Now, before we explain, how much do you know, about us in your world?" she asked eyeing Akako who then raised her hand.

"That you are characters in games, anime, and manga in our world, so we know plenty Miss Histiore." Akako said.

"Well that saves us explaining a long complicated backstory that does span three adventures, one I'm sure is very standalone." Neptune said with nods of agreement from her fellow Goddesses.

"Then you know of the Arfiore Syndicate of International Crime? The Organization that tried to revive the Deity of Sin?" asked Kei.

"Yes, but how you ask about them seems like they still exist. Didn't Nepgear and all of you defeated them?" Gina asked confusedly.

"That's when a few hours ago in our world, we discovered the return of the Gameindustri Graveyard, as well the return of the Four Felons." Mina said and Akako and her friends gasped, leaping off their seats to face everyone in shock.

"What?!" they exclaimed.

"That was our reaction finding out." Tekken said looking around at her friends who nodded.

"And what's more, they've entered your world and starting to create trouble there, because in your world…" Blanc said but Chise interrupted, completing what she was going to say.

"Because we don't have the concept of Goddesses, our world is normal. Anything like ASIC is just imagination." Chise said frowning at the realization.

"So what do we do? We don't want our world to face the same end as your world almost did." Gina asked.

"That's where you four come in." Histiore said and their eye stared fixated on the Oracle. "We aren't asking for your consent, but we're asking for your help. We want you to help us, to finally defeat ASIC once and for all, that's why you are here, to assist us and protect both worlds." She paused for a moment taking a deep breath. "So, will you help?"

Akako and the others were silent, it was a lot to take in, to be brought to a new world and ask to fight some evil threat in amine or manga, and they make it so easy. But this was real, and knowing that this means the loss of two worlds if they say no. There was no hesitation, no real right or wrong answer, they must make the choice. Akako smiled to everyone, the many faces hoping for their help to protect not just their world, but their own as well. She took her right hand and held it to her chest, a look of confidence was before them.

"You really have to ask, for the sake of your world and ours, we'll help anyway we can. Neptune, everyone, you have our word." Akako said as everyone cheered with relief.

"Hooray, we gonna beat ASIC again!" cheered Ram jumping up and down.

"Thank you!" Rom said softly.

"You sure about it Akako, it's not going to be an easy task." IF informed her, getting such an easy response from her without any struggle or persuading.

"When my sis wants to help, there's no stopping her to drop everything to help," Akihiro said holding a chuckle and looked to everyone, "You can count me in."

"Me too, it's our home in danger, we can't leave it in the hands of ASIC," Chise said smiling softly and held out a hand, "I'm in."

"Well I have to keep an eye on these three, plus I want to protect my world too, so count me in too." Gina said holding her own hand up.

"Thank you, Akako, Akihiro, Gina, Chise, we are much appreciated." Chika replied smiling at the four humans from the human world.

"Now with that out the way, and we were expecting a struggle to get you to help us, it's getting you trained up to fight. Then we must create a pathway for sending you, our Goddesses, IF, and Compa to deal with things in that world." Mina said adjusting her glasses.

"The preparations will take three days, that gives us time to create aliases, documents, and currency for Neptune, Noire, Vert, Blanc, Nepgear, Rom, Ram, Uni, Plutia, IF, and Compa. They're fine staying home with you?" Histiore asked.

"Sure. Mine and my brother's place is pretty big, once we explain the situation to our parents, it should be fine," Akako said looking seriously at the group. "It's for the sake of the two worlds, they should understand, "If you can get the pathway open, we'll head home to talk with them. But, is time different in our world?"

"Time moves differently between your world and ours, so only a few minutes would pass while you are here, so don't concern feeling you are missing by your families." Kei said earning sighs of relief from Akako and them.

"Guess you're all staying here tonight, best we get some blankets and pillows for everyone to stay here. Neptune, Nepgear, if you would please?" Mina asked looking at the Planeptune sisters.

"Sure, it's gonna be like a big old slumber party!" Neptune cheered excitedly as she and Nepgear made their way out the meeting room, everyone hearing Nepgear and her continue talking.

"Don't get too excited Sis, it's only because Histiore and the Oracles need to work together for our new friends." Nepgear reminded her short older sister.

"Aww don't be such a killjoy Nep Jr." Neptune groaned as their voices faded down the hall. Noire and the Goddesses tried to hold back a chuckle as even Akako was holding back a laugh at the two sisters.

Neptune is Neptune, no matter if she's a game or real. But an actual real slumber party, it's been awhile since I was in one.

Nighttime hits Planeptune, it was just a few hours since we arrived into Neptune's nation. Because we would stay in Planeptune for a while, we were given some spare pajamas to wear curtesy of the Goddess, luckily they were appropriate for us, I know Vert's 'habits' and I'm not sure I wear what she picks. But I like the red nightgown Neptune picked out for me. All of us, the candidates, and the Makers were in the sisters' room and were laying on the ground most of us already relaxing on pillows.

"I've never been to a sleepover in such a long time!" Compa said excitedly hugging a pillow close to her chest.

"Surrounded by so many beautiful girls, a true Final Fantasy!" squealed Red looking around at everyone, then to Akihiro almost forgot he was there, the red haired teen wearing a pair of red shorts and a short-sleeve shirt, "Oh and one boy, but he's okay."

"Well I'm not looking for a harem or asking for a harem, don't get the wrong idea. I'm not one of those guys," Akihiro said but waves his hands in defense, "but don't get the wrong idea, not all guys are just after a harem, it's just a bad habit we gained over the years."

"Aki's got a point, but we trust him out of any boy in the world, so he's harmless." Gina said looking at the others.

"Why do girls want to clamber around some guy anyway like that?" Tekken asked softly punching her pillow as she talked.

"We'll talk about it, but has anyone seen Nepgear?" Neptune asked, jumping off her bed to look around the floor.

"I think she left to get some fresh air or something, I don't know why." Ram asked shrugging while drawing in a coloring book.

"I hope Miss Nepgear is feeling okay." Rom asked softly.

"I think Uni went after her to talk to her." MarvelousAQL said remember seeing the black haired candidate leaving the room.

"So I guess they're alone." Red said with a suggestive tone. Compa blinked confusedly as IF patted her on the head, knowing this was confusing to the Planeptune nurse.

"Who's alone?" Noire asked coming into the room alongside Vert and Blanc. The Lastation Goddess was dressed in a flowing black nightgown that reached down to her legs, her twin tails untied letting her hair flow behind her head. Next, Vert was dressed in a light green nightgown that fitted tightly to her chest and her blonde hair tied into a ponytail. Lastly, Blanc wore a pure white nightgown and her bangs tied with a brown bow on top of her head.

"Your sister and Nepgear, not worried?" Neptune asked eyeing the Goddess with a smile.

"I trust your sister than anyone, not too worried." Noire said taking her spot on the floor. "Unless she's hiding something, then I should worry."

"That's a very blunt thing to assume, nyu." Broccoli said looking at the Goddess in her usual tone.

"The Pot of Greed is calling the kettle black there." everyone chimed in at the small cat like girl.

"Well it's getting really late, maybe I should check up on Nepgear and Uni to see if they are…" Vert offered but before she could move, a large brown and white hammer was thrown between her legs dangerously causing her to shriek with a high pitch scream. Everyone jumped to see Blanc had thrown her hammer, her eyes glowing red as she stared darkly at the older goddess.

"Don't even damn move Thunder Tits if you value living right now." She spat back, making Vert fear for her life in ways no one saw from her.

"Yes ma'am." Vert squeaked as Neptune sighed at the two, shaking her head.

"Histy's going to have to get the floor fixed, again." she said narrowing her eyes.

"What's that, the fifth time now?" IF asked, "That what happens you have them over, Nep."

"You know; we're going to enjoy this spark of life now while we're here." Akako said holding back to fits of giggles.

"When you are with these people, it's never a dull moment." Falcom agreed smiling at everyone watch Blanc pick up her hammer, gives Vert another death glare, and dismiss it. While the dangers of two worlds hang in the balance, it was nice to have a calming time before the big day of training and preparations. Even the sights of an already sleeping Plutia and Peashy were the sign things will be alright. For Akako and everyone in the Planeptune sister' room, they felt a little at peace, like the coming days were just farther away.

In the tower's observatory, Nepgear sat with her back against the window overlooking the nation. She was in her pajamas like everyone else, a light purple long-sleeved button up shirt and shorts. The moon was lighting up the dark room she stood in, the light reflecting her purple hair. There was a lot on her mind, a lot of things that transpired today. The return of ASIC, the Graveyard, and the four new allies who would be swept up in the mess she thought she ended those years ago. Nepgear didn't show it to everyone, but the thought of everything ASIC and the Felons, those three long years in the Graveyard, failing to save her sister and the other Goddesses the first time and leaving them there, was feelings she didn't want, not like this. She may have matured, but those feelings were still etched hard to her heart. Could she really risk her sisters and friends to that again, after these months of quiet? She sighed to herself; she wished these days of peace would last a bit longer.

"There you are!" A voice called out, getting the Candidate's attention. Uni peered her hear from the hallway and walked into the moonlit observatory. Uni wore a black sleeveless nightgown with white frills on the collar and hem of the gown, her black hair down like her sister's. She wasn't wearing socks, her bare feet on the cold surface. "I was wondering where you ran off Nepgear."

"Uni," Nepgear said softly looking at the Lastation Candidate, "where you looking for me?"

"A little," Uni said halfheartedly walking to the Planeptune native. "I wanted to sneak a peek at what Kei and the others were making, all I saw was bracelets before Chika got in the way." The two stood face to face, Uni seeing Nepgear's sad face, the moonlight making it clear to her. "You okay, you look down. It's it about ASIC?"

"Can't hide it from you can I?" Nepgear admitted smiling at her.

"I've known you for a while; you're not easy to read." Uni stood beside Nepgear, her back against the window too, "But you seem to be in deep thought, you have been acting strangely the moment IF and them were hit by the wave."

Nepgear sighed, placing her hands to her front, her face looking to the ground. "Rom, Ram, and you have no idea the suffering I felt when I was captured, seeing my sister and the others lose to Magic and failed to save them and left them behind. I don't want anyone to get hurt like before, I lost my sister before, but I don't want to lose her again," Nepgear's eyes darted to a photo of her and Neptune, the date on the edge reading years before the ASIC events: August 18, 20XX, "When Histiore wanted me and Neptune to go to the graveyard to deal with ASIC, I was still just 'born' into Planeptune with my sister being someone I would hide behind because I was very nervous of meeting my people up close. I thought we could win, that it would be an easy victory and we go home and have pudding, Neptune's favorite food. But I watched Blanc, Vert, and Noire be tossed around by Magic and my sister loss to an opponent. I don't want to endanger any of you again, or even Akako and her friends. They are wrapped in a problem I was sure was over," She sighed again looking at Uni with a cheerier smile trying to hide back the sad feelings she had, "Sorry, I didn't mean to drop all that on you."

Without a second for her to react, Uni wrapped her arms around Nepgear's neck and brought her into a tight hug. Nepgear was taken aback as Uni's face was buried into her chest. "Dummy, don't hold such a burden by yourself anymore. I'm here, so are Rom, Ram, our sisters, everyone who fought alongside us. You don't have to feel like you have to fight a solo battle, this time Nepgear, we'll be there to back you up."

"Uni…" Nepgear said breathlessly seeing the side of the usually prideful Candidate in a whole new light. "Why are you being so nice to me?"

"Because no matter how I treated you, you stayed my friend and that's something I can't forget. Even when I called you a traitor, you still wanted to make things right. This is just my way of saying, thank you Nepgear." Uni said still holding Nepgear tighter in her arms.

"You're welcome Uni." Nepgear replied and finally wrapped her arms over Uni's waist.

The two Candidates stayed like that for what felt like eternity, the moonlight bathing their bodies. They did now care how long they remained. Standing there in the moonlight room, as long they were there for each other. In the end Nepgear felt better, the heavy burden in her chest had finally lifted, she was ready to face ASIC and help her friends fight them. Everything was well in the world.

"You know. I never noticed, but your boobs are just like mine in your human form." Uni pointed out, making Nepgear sigh, not wanting to react to such an embarrassing tidbit of info. Maybe it was asking about her boobs before finally it caught up. Resting her head to Uni's neck, she sighed speaking into her ear.

"Goodness Uni, we were just having a major character moment and you lay that on me?"

"Sorry about that," Uni replied chuckling, letting go of Nepgear to look at her directly, "guess that kind of slipped out. Let's return to your room before our sisters worry about us."

"Yes. Let's!" Nepgear replied and together they left the observatory and returned t the Sisters' room. Nepgear felt even better as she walked the hallways of her home, but tomorrow it was seeing what new tricks her friends would show them.

Nepgear's burden of the past has lifted, but tomorrow would be the start of a new adventure. With four new friends to train, the CPUs and their friends are thrown into a new chapter of their lives.

Next time: Hyperdimension Neptunia ASIC's revival: New Friends, New frontier

Chapter 3: A conversation of concerns! Team Akako's new powers

Michael: And that's the spilt chapter one into two chapters, usually not my thing to write anything shorter than 10,000 but I guess so it's not too hard to follow. Don't expect short chapters or very long outside the first arc, as the events are just as such in the later chapters and arc of this first installment. If you saw the well first chapter, there will be two installments of my ASIC story. Also, please disregard what that user said in the review section that's an issue form a private message that shouldn't be public. But it's all over and I like for all of us to move on. This isn't a place to make fights and I like all of us to be mature young adults to teenagers. No one should be enemies of anyone and no one has a grudge on anyone, anyone bringing this up needs to move on and let it go.

Sorry your inbox will have a lot of new messages, but Chapter two will have another split. So you are going to see a more detailed and longer conversation between Noire and Akihiro, who have the most developed friendship from what I'm planning. Of all the friendships between the humans and CPUs, they are my favorite because it's fun to now show Noire more exposed to friends than to hide herself from others. She's a great character, but needs to open up more to others.

That's all for this chapter, I wish it wasn't 6,000+ words but it's fine where it is.