Hyperdimension Neptunia: Gamindusti of Future Past

Disclaimer: I do not own Hyperdimension Neptunia, they belong to Idea Factory, Compile Heart and Tsunako

Chapter Five

" Any signs of him?" The red haired CPU asked through her Visual Radio while walking down the streets of The Land of Black Regality.

" Nope, no sign of good ol' Rogie. " Neptune replied through her N-Gear as Uzume frowned, the CPUs had arrived Lastation few hours ago, they wasted no time and began their scouting mission immediately.

About an hour after their arrival, Uzume had stumbled upon the sliver haired agent, who was fighting a bunch of Lastation security robots, without hesitating, the red haired CPU rushed in and help the agent.

" Ora!" Uzume let out a battle cry and punched the Black coloured robot in it's metallic head, it stumbled back managing not to lost it balance, but as it recovered " Ora!" Uzume punched it in the head again as the metal plate of it's head start to crumble.

And soon enough, Uzume separated the head of the robots from it's body with a spinning kick.

The last robot dropped dead on to the ground, electricity sparked around its body for one last time before it dissolved into bits of data.

" Rousy!" Turning around to face the agent, Uzume eyes widened as she realised that Rouge had slipped right pass her grasp yet again " Why are you running away from us...?" Uzume can't help but to wonder.

It's close dawn now and yet the CPUs wasn't able to see any sign of the sliver haired agent, when all of the sudden.

" Guys!" Nepgear called out from her N-Gear " Did you found something Gearsy?" Uzume asked " Y-yes, I went ahead and checked the registration list of the inn nearby, and I found Rouge's name written on one of them! Wait, I'll sent the location of the inn."

" Good job! Nep Jr.!" Neptune praised through her N-Gear with a raised fist " Hehe..." Nepgear merely blushed while she send her location to the CPUs.

Soon after, the CPUs gathered at the inn " Soooooo, are we just gonna wait till Rousy returns?" Neptune asked " Well, yea—" Before Uzume was able to respond, a loud explosion was heard all across Lastation.

" What the goodness!?" Nepgear exclaimed as they rushed outside to checkout the source of that explosion, and the sight shocked the CPUs.

" Nepu!?" Neptune exclaimed in shock " What... the hell happened...!?" Uzume could only muttered under her breath.

The top floor of Avenir's building went up in flames, smoke were emerging from the building, there was some broken piece of the construction falling off to the street below.

Fortunately, there was no citizen nearby as the bits and pieces merely hit the pavement below with a loud ' BAM '

Then the CPUs of Lastation were seen flying towards the flaming building faster the the speed of sound.

And without hints of hesitation, the CPUs flew after Black Heart and Black Sister towards to the headquarters of Avenir.

And sure enough, when they flew right into the building's top floor, they saw Rouge fighting against Black Heart and Black Sister, it's obvious that it was a losing battle for the agent.

Though some sort of smell seems to picked up Uzume's attention " Urgh, it stinks!" She frowned as she turned herself towards the source of the smell, and her eyes widened upon seeing what it is.

" Uzume, what's wron— Goodness!" Before Nepgear can asked, her eyes lay upon the source of the smell as she gasped in surprise.

Neptune noticing the little commotion, also directed her attention to where the two is focused on, though she soon held the same expression the two CPU has " Nepu!?"

The three of them then slowly approached a man in a typical business suit, who's laying on the ground.

His clothing was damaged severely as if it's been slashed by a blade, in fact, injuries were all over the man's body indicating he was attacked by a blade, blood was all over his cloth and body.

Uzume gulped nervously before kneeled beside the man as she lay her head on the man with her ears pressed against the man's chest, a while later she place her fingers on the man's wrist.

Uzume stay silent as she slowly stood back up, slightly shaking, Neptune and Nepgear didn't say anything as they already know the results.

No heart beat and no blood pulse, the man, also known as Avenir's CEO Trenton " He's dead..." Uzume announced with her fist clenched.

However, there is something bulging her mind, as the corpse of Trenton doesn't really seems right.

The the sound of metal crashing against metal snapped Uzume out of her fear, turning her attention back into the fight.

Black Heart had delivered a upper slash towards the sliver haired agent, although Rouge had his blade up for defence, but the superior strength of Lastation CPU had launched him off his feet, into the air.

Then Black Sister took the chance and aimed towards the soaring agent, she pulled the trigger with no hesitation, shooting a green laser beam towards her target.

Rouge tried to raise his blade up for defence, but Black Heart disarmed him before the beam struck the agent at full force, it exploded upon contact and send the agent crashed right into the wall in Mach speed creating a large crater.

Rouge coughed out blood as he rebounded off the now cracked wall, Uzume and Nepgear gasped while Neptune flinched " Ooooooof, that must've been painful." She commented.

Then Black Heart rushes in for the final strike, eyes widened in shock, Uzume transformed into Orange Heart and blocked the blade with her megaphone, entering into a blade lock with the black CPU.

" Uzume!? What are you doing here?" Slightly surprised, Black Heart processed the situation before continuing pressing on the matter " Neptune and Nepgear too... Are you guys siding with this criminal as well?" Black Heart demanded before breaking the blade lock.

" Wow! Hold your horses, Nowa." Neptune exclaimed, now stand beside Uzume " We're actually here to find Rousy." Now de-transformed, Uzume explained.

" Rou...sy? You mean that criminal— Wait, where did he go!?" Eyes widened, Black Heart scanned the area only to find that the exit door was swung opened " Damnit!" She cursed loudly as she kicked the floor causing the building to shaking for a bit, releasing her frustration upon realising what happened.

The agent had escaped from the CPUs, yet again, especially Uzume and Co.

Robots began to enter, they paid no mind to the CPUs in the room as they started to clean up what's left of the wrecked room, picking up Trenton's corpse in the process.

Not too long after, Nepgear with another girl went along with the robots to search for some clues about the incident just happened.

" Rousy..." Looking rather down, Uzume turned towards the now de-transformed Noire.

Wearing a fancy dress consisting of dark blue, white, red, and small amounts of gold lining and buttons. The dress part covers a red with black spiked lining cloth while the breast part is white, along with the skirt which has black lining on both layers.

A blue bow behind that which matches a smaller one worn around her neck attached to a black and white collar with a gold piece in the center.

Noire have a very long black hair about waist length with bangs that are neatly combed, framing her face, worn up in long pigtails with two-piece black and blue ribbons and a pair of very noticeable red eyes.

" Can you explain to me what exactly is going on? Cause I'm feeling kind of left out. " Noire demanded with her arms crossed as Uzume scratched the back of her head.

" Well, to put it simple, I met Rousy yesterday while I was completing some quest from Histoire. He was destroying some Planeptune security robots due to being attacked by it."

" You means Avenir's robots?" Noire asked as Uzume nodded and continued.

" Anyway, we fought and I knocked him out, then I brought him back to the Basilicom to ask him few questions, but the process was disturbed due to Neptune and Nepgear getting assaulted by some CPU breakers and Killachine."

Noire glared at Neptune " Seriously, CPU breaker and Killachine? I thought you're stronger than that Neptune." " C'mon Nowa! It was like... a bunch of them! Plus we underestimated how the drop in shares had affected us." Neptune pouted while retorting, Noire instantly took back her slight insult as she looked at the lilac goddess with a bit of sympathy and worried before looking back at Uzume.

" I arrived the scene and together we destroyed the attackers. Next thing we know is Arfoire somehow was revived and she got us good."

Noire's eyes widened " Arforie!? She's back?" " Yeah! She's back and it's totally unfair! She threw a surprise attack while we were all tired and stuff." Neptune exclaimed.

" Then out of the blue, Rouge came in and stored Arforie for a while till we were able to recover and defeat Arforie again, she declared something about the doom of Gamindustri and retreated."

" The doom of Gamindustri... What does she even meant by that?" Noire deadpanned " Well duh! Probably some dump plan involving her taking over the world or be coming the true goddess again." Neptune threw her arms out in annoyance.

" Seriously, this author better have a new plot planned than reusing plot from before, cuz I'm not dealing with another Deity of Sin or a ancient CPU that wants to destroy the world nor a delusional being filled with hatred which wants to gain control over the entire dimension!"

Uzume sweat dropped as she continued her explanation " At the end of the day, Histoire received a message from Avenir, turns out Rousy was never in the database of Gamindustri's population, that's why the security robot targeted Rousy as a unknown threat."

Noire hold her head with her arm sighing " This is way too much information at once..."

" Anyway Noire, you kept calling Rousy a criminal, what's with that?" Uzume asked " Isn't that obviously?" Noire pointed at the devastated room, with a little bit of flames still burning.

" You mean Rogie did all this?" Neptune asked " Isn't that obvious?! He broke into the building, hacked into the system, blown up this room when he was confronted by Trenton, killing him in the process, there couldn't be any other reason to explain this!" Noire yelled.

" Do... you have any proof that Rousy did all that?" Uzume asked " Well, he is the only one in the building! Who else could had done that?" Noire exclaimed while Uzume stayed silent as she's deep in thoughts.

" But something's not right..." Uzume finally saying what's been bulging her mind, gaining everyone's attention. " What do you mean?" Noire's raised an eyebrow with her arms crossed.

" You guys didn't realize since the corpse is gone but, despite the explosion earlier and all the fire in the room, there isn't a single burn mark on Trenton, also when I touched his body, it's cold, if he really was killed by the explosion, wouldn't his body be warm and have burn marks all over?" Uzume have his thumb and index placed against her chin, eyes closed as she starts to analyse the situation, while everyone just stayed silent as they took in the information.

" Trenton's body is already cold, and there was no blood coming from his injuries as the blood already dried. If I were to guess..." Uzume looked towards Lastation's CPU as she seems to be caught onto Uzume's line of thoughts.

" Wait, now I'm the one who feels like being left out." Neptune protest as Noire sighed.

" Basically What Uzume is suggesting is, Trenton dies long before the explosion occurred maybe even all the way back before this Rousy, Rogie or whatever you called him arrived here, and the corpse was placed into the room right after the explosion, this whole scene might be a set up." Noise explained to the confused Neptune.

" Guys! Looked what we've found!" Nepgear yelled as she approached the trio with Noire's little sister, Uni.

She have eyes that are also red, long, jet-black hair that reaches her chest wearing her hair in twintails, held together with light blue and black ribbons, though some sections are left untied.

She's wearing a black dress with milky blue lining with a belt-like accessory connecting into a bow behind her together with a large circle piece with white details that connects the collar and the dress and long fingerless black gloves with milky blue details, and similarly detailed boots.

Uni revealed a touch pad to the goddesses, although it seems like the touchscreen function was broken, but the screen is still barely lit up.

" Looks like it's a Profile of someone." Uni said as the CPUs took a closer look.

Na_e: N/#

Ag_n* N*me: Rouge

#ace: Hum*n ( For#er )

Re_o*t A_en* ( Cur*e_t )

Gender: M_le

Age: 50 ( Men*al )

20 ( P_ys*cal )

Hei_ht: 176 cm

W*ig_t: 64 kg

Ab*l_y: _#* S_

" The... hell!?" Uzume frowned, while they were able to makeup most of the missing letters, there were few they were able to understand.

" What does it mean by former human!?" Noire exclaimed in disbelief " W-we don't know... That's why, please Noirsy, give us more time, at least until we're able to ask Rousy properly." Uzume begged as Noire closed her eyes and crossed her arms.

To be honest, she got mixed feelings about this, it's not that she doesn't trust Uzume and Neptune's words, it's just that when Lastation's safety is put on the line, she just can't help but to question everything.

" C'mon Nowa~" Noire's eyebrows twitched " C'mon—" " S-shut up Neptune! Fine! I guess I'll let him off the hook this time!" She flicked her hair in a elegant manner before crossing her arms again " But that doesn't mean I won't consider him as a criminal and a threat to Lastation! If he cause another commotion in Lastation again, I'll show no mercy, you got it?"

Everyone nodded and sighed in relief " Thank you, Noire." Nepgear said as Noire blushed slightly " Thanks Noirsy! I knew I could've count on you!" Uzume exclaimed, causing Lastation's CPU to blush even more.

Seeing the chance, Neptune jumped in to tease her even more " Nowa! You are the best!" Neptune herself towards the black goddess and hugged her tightly.

In response, Noire's face now as red as a tomato, she pushed the lilac haired goddess off her body and turned around " It's fine! I-i-i-isn't that w-w-what f-f-friends do? R-r-right?"

" Aw shoot, guess I can't call you lonely heart anymore... Well, who cares, I'm still gonna call you that, lonely heart!" Neptune frowned as she got back up.

" H-hey! I do have friends! Uni, we're leaving! " Noire said as she transformed into Black Heart " Y-yes Sis!" Then in a flash of light, the Lastation sisters transformed into their HDD states and flew back to their Basilicom.