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Arc Two, Part Two: Bang!

DIMENSION: Ultimension - a dimension series of Neptunia(?)

LOCATION: (Unknown)

TIME: XX:ZZ

"Shit!" A voice cursed by a tall woman who slammed his fist on the wooden table as it made a crack. "That bastard managed to defeat Ambon!" She said with an angry tone.

"I wouldn't be mad." A much calmer voice spoke behind the woman. "Ambon probably deserves it anyway, no need to cry over spilt milk."

"Yeah, and besides," Said by another woman. "We had to keep an eye on all of them. Luckily our main target is on its own so it's easy to kill, we have to cripple the rest first."

"Oh yeah?" The tall woman rolled her eyes. "Just how can you do it? You do know you can't stand a chance once the CPUs knew you, it be over the dead body before we even see you."

"Do not worry. You have my back."

"Huh?! Do you think I will help you?"

"Since when you didn't?"

"..."

"Good, and oh," The third woman said, mentioning the one behind the tall one. "When will that big guy operate?"

"Oh, don't be a hustle to him. I got him around my wig~" Replied by the woman, with a teasing tone.

"...right. Just don't overdo it."

"Okay!"


LOCATION: Gamindustri Main Arena

TIME: 5:00 PM

"I can't wait!"

Eliza cheered in anticipation as she stepped out of the room and jumped on the purple hologram that softly glowed before it moves towards the door.

"We have our second combatant from the Batch Two of Planeptune! Let us meet the Woman of the Gravity itself, Miss Eliza Alcazar!"

A loud cheer erupts as Eliza grinned while she waved her arm around to the large crowd that beamed at her. She simply grinned as she looked them as the purple hologram she was standing on stopped and three different colors of holograms appeared right in front of her.

"Now, to Lastation. Many people said he is an intimidating person so they respect him, in terms of battle issues. But if you talk to him without those, he won't even hurt a butterfly! Let us meet, Stemier the Vulture!"

The black hologram popped an image. It shows a tall man with a big, brown feathery overcoat that reaches all the way on his feet and a red scarf around his neck that passed don't down to his chest. He's shirtless, showing the world his packed muscles with several scars on it. He also wore a black ripped jeans and a pair of black shoes on his feet. He wore a dark blue bandana around his forehead and narrowed pair of yellow eyes.

'I wonder how will he able to object my slam.' Eliza smiled at the thought with anticipation. 'Only one way to find out!'

"And from the Leanbox. They have a mighty warrior but not clad in armor but an adventurer! Frilly Frolic!"

The green hologram flipped vertically as an image of a slim, blonde young man appeared. He has a fair skin but thin masculinity. His eyes were dull brown with his expressionless gaze, his jaw is pointed. Messy blonde strands of hair lay loosely in front of his face as most of his hair hang on his shoulders. He wore a black hoodie jacket with a grey polo shirt underneath and a green shorts that barely reaches his knees and a pair of sandals.

Most of the crowd snickered belonged to the different nation at such an appearance and funny name but everyone in Leanbox remained silent. Eliza's grinned dropped with a frown.

"And from Lowee. She is a summoner, yes, she. A summoner of monsters using snowy magic. Meet Snowy the Trooper!"

The white hologram spun around for a single second with an image. A petite woman who's noticeable is her tall and slim figure with a rather cute smile adorned her lips on her face. Her white hair tied in buns with side bangs. She wore a white dress with unattached long sleeves, exposing her bare shoulders to the cold element. She also wore a long, white skirt with snowflakes around it, a knee-high white socks with a light blue sneakers in her footings.

Many men on the crowd said 'aww'ed before getting a, unfortunate, slapped in their faces. Even Eliza is having a second doubt about attacking the woman. That is, until behind of the woman rose a giant snowman with an angry look at the hologram. Despite being made up of snow, it shows an intimidating aura.

Eliza gulped.

"Round two... BEGIN!"


The fair skinned girl traversed to a new place, a forest. She passed through several icky situation and places that unfortunately passed her way. She is currently holding a small light metal bar in her right hand.

Ten minutes had passed, she had yet to hear a fight occurring, or if there's already a commotion going on. Despite the eerie silence save for some annoying crickets, there's no out of ordinary yet in the place. So far so good she only see small animals like white bunnies, polar bears and some-

...

Wait a second, she tried to recollect her thoughts. 'Polar Bear? Since when did I noticed it? In a tropical forest, no less.' She thought as she looked over her shoulder.

Her eyes widened in shock to see several trees fell one by one and a cold shiver run down her spine. Reacting to instinct, she quickly look in front of her and maneuvered her way in the forest while glancing over her shoulder to see the sudden deforestation trailing on her. She quickened her speed as she finally reached the clearing with several trees still around.

Looking back, the trees that fell one by one stopped as small smoke simply comes out. Eliza step back a few steps as she held her long metal bar... Long?

Then a shadow shifted inside of the smoke as a pair of yellow, glowing eyes appeared. It didn't move from its position as the smoke slowly dissipates. Eliza hoisted her metal bar over her shoulder as she narrowed her eyes at the Vulture.

The Lastation's combatant simply stared at her with no expression. The Woman of the Gravity clicked her tongue, "Are you going to attack or what?"

"Clearing, not safe." She heard him said in a robotic way. "Must be, surrounded."

"Surrounded?" Eliza said with a puzzled look. She looked around and found nothing sort of out of the ordinary, nothing but tall trees. She then turned to the other side of the forest only for a black flashed appeared and see Stemier.

She nearly tripped her footings in surprise. 'How did he get here so fast?' She looked over her shoulders to looked behind, only to find empty where the Vulture before at. She turned her face back in front of her too see him still standing on his position, without movement or any engaging act.

She thought for a second before walking back, she watched him trailed his keen eyes on her until she almost reached the other side of the forest. Then, in an instant, she saw him moved so quick and fast that she had a hard time following him with her eyes.

"What-?!" She started but she felt a dangerous feeling from behind.

"Bullet Thin."

A soft but with killing intention made its way into Eliza's ear as she instantly leaned to the right but she winced as she felt a hot stinging pain in her right cheek. She quickly scrammed away from the side of the forest. She felt a painful throbbed from her cheek. She shakily raised her hand to touch the wet part and looked at it in front of her face. It's a blood.

She focused her attention back to the enemy and glared. Stemier simply looked at her with his cold, piercing yellow eyes. He simply remained there on the position like nothing.

'Damn.' Eliza thought as she sighed then lowered her metal pipe and closed her eyes. Then, she opened them with a renewed confidence and a smirk curved in her lips. "Guess it's time for me to shine."

She grabbed her metal pipe with both hands, then the pipe softly glowed a green color. "Swat Pak!"

Then she positioned her pipe in a baseball formation then she swing... the freaking long pipe?!

She swung her long (long long) pipe in front of her. The the forest's trees instantly bent as if a miraculous force did it... Or let's simply say that the other side of the forest is completely turned into a bending position.

Then she hoisted back her 'normal' length pipe. The green glow finally disappeared. Eliza looked around the place, or rather looking at the Vulture.

Meanwhile, up in the sky... Stemier sighed as winds continued to hit him from all sighed as he looked up in the sky. Then he screamed. "FFFUUUUUUU-"

Anyway, Eliza whistled at what she had done. "Whoops, maybe I overstepped it." Then she let out a snicker before proceeding to walk away.


"Whoa!"

Well, that was surprising.

Eliza was simply walking quietly on clear field when a ball of white almost fell on her head as she sidestepped. Taking a closer look, it's made up of snow. Speaking of snow...

...there's hundreds of 'em in the sky!

"Eh?!" Eliza sweat dropped at the sudden number of snowballs floating in the sky but she noticed that they all simply floated there. Then, she felt a shook from the ground and a loud 'bang!' sound. She nearly tripped over her feet after the loud sound. Curious, she quickly runs towards the origin.

After stepping on the top of the hill, she saw that weird guy from Leanbox, Frolic, and that cute lady, Snowy. There's a pile of snow scattered around Frolic while he simply stood there, staring blankly at Snowy. The Loweean combatant wasn't pleased by this.

"Hey!" Eliza heard the white haired woman yelled. "It's hard making Polar Golems and Polar Revenants you know?!"

The person she just yelled at was simply passive as usual, pouting angrily at the man. She raised her right hand.

"Polar Orbitals!" She shouted, then few snowballs from above descended. Then the snowballs exploded in white smokes then a bigger versions of snowballs appeared but with blue dot in the middle with two white orbitals rotating in different ways and all pointed to Frolic. But then Snowy waved it around in a circular motion them back to the air. "Polar Cyclone!" After saying it, a strong cold wind mixed with snows formed around her as mini-tornadoes rotated around her. Despite the strong winds, Snowy's attire didn't budge a slight movement because of it while the air arouns howled stronger than before.

But she didn't stop, she then lowered her right hand in front of her as she pointed her hand to Frolic. Then her left hand, grabbed her forearm. "Polar Tyrants!" Then her hand glowed white-blue then strange creatures made up of snow with devilish blue eyes glared at Frolic.

But despite the giant snowballs, the immense howl of the cyclones, and monsters formed with an intimidating aura. Frolic hardly flinched, or if he really flinch at all. His attire only flaps because of the strong winds. But so far, his position remained intact of that place.

Then the blue dots in the giant snowballs glowed bright then shot a large white beam at him. The cyclones tore through the ground and rage towards him. The monsters crawled in a frightening way towards him. All came together at once. But before one of the attacks hit him…

"Boom."

A loud bang resonated again, the same of that sound from before. Then, Eliza witnessed the best thing she had ever seen, or at least what is best for her and, she might added, the coolest thing. Ever!

All the attacks (included the 'skill' monsters) that was sent to him exploded all together. The snows scattered everywhere, near or far. A few more seconds after the explosion, everything around is messed up of snows. Frolic remained the same, well, except a single thing. Just three feet away, a wall of snows surrounded Frolic, about five feet high. But he simply ignored it and continued staring where Snowy is, or was before he was surrounded by a barrier of snow. The said person was fuming in anger at the moment.

Meanwhile, Eliza is, whose metal pipe embedded at the ground while looking in front of her, jumping up and down at the scene.

"That's cool!" She shouted with a tight fist, due to her yelled, Snowy, the one that's closer to her, heard her. The Snow Trooper of Lowee turned her head to Eliza with a puzzled expression before lightening up.

"Oh! You must be the Gravity Woman we heard about!" Snowy turned to Eliza and shouted at her from afar, her expression from fuming rage then to excitement at seeing Eliza.

Eliza grinned at the recognition. "Yeah, it is I." Then she started to walk towards to the side. "Can I join?"

If you look above, they formed a triangle. Well, Frolic seems not interested but Eliza saw him climbing out of the snowy barrier. He slide on the snow and stood quiet fast.

Snowy noticed him as well as she smirked. "Finally, someone decides to move."

Then the three of them ready their stances.

Eliza lifted her metal pipe above her head. Then said metal pipe glowed green. Snowy spread out her arms and white smoke pop around her then several cat-like monster made up of snow appeared. Then she raised her left hand as a single snowball from the sky descended towards her, the snowball glowed for a second before it dropped something: a lion made up of snow. Frolic did nothing, but his eyes finally dwelled around the two.

"Attack!" Snowy yelled and then the group of cat-like monsters separated in half and turning to Eliza or Frolic. But the lion stayed beside Snowy. Eliza prepared to dodge, block and retaliate.

She avoided the first monster that is lunging towards her then stabbed it from behind using her pipe, the monster turning into a pile of snow, then she turned around and swung her pipe horizontally on the second one as it knock to the side and had the same result as the first. She raised her pipe to block as another monsters jumped at her and it only bit her pipe, she pushed the monster to the side then slammed her pipe on the monster instantly killing it. She clumsily stood up but recomposed herself quickly. Now glaring at the monster with a serious look, she charged towards the monsters.

Her metal pipe suddenly extended to a lengthy degree and swung it in front of her, the length of the weapon reaches half of the flocks of the monster and instantly destroying them. Then she swung again to the second flock and same result happened.

After that, she looked over to Frolic to see him standing on his position. Eliza sweat dropped. 'Did he really killed them all that easily?' But wait, she didn't heard a bang before. So does that mean he defeated them with physical attacks?

Then, her eyes slightly widened when she heard a giggle. But not a kind of giggle, but a sadistic sound kind. Looking at Snowy, Eliza saw her laughing in a creepy way as she sat on her snow lion. She shivered down her spine to five large creatures made up of snow behind Snowy. The monsters looks like a gorilla, a giant cyclops, a eagle, a venus-like monster and a literal man made of snow.

"Fufu~ It's kinda tiring to make my pawns, you know?" Snowy muttered but loudly enough to be hear. "Well, no things go easy." Then she sighed.

...!

The creatures altogether suddenly moved, from either Eliza or Frolic.

Eliza turned around her heels and started to run away. She felt the ground shook beneath her feet and then she jumped as she avoided a large hand from a giant gorilla that trying to slam her. Upon landing on her feet, she turned around as her metal pipe glowed green.

"Smack!" Then she swung her pipe horizontally and tore the gorilla-like monster in half. The upper body flew a meters away from the lower half. But instead of turning into a pile of snow, the lower and upper body of gorilla stayed the same. Her metal pipe glowed green as it returned from its usual length. She saw confused to see that it didn't turned into a pile of snow, then she noticed that she was covered by a large shadow, she looked up to see a big foot from the gorilla.

Reacting by instinct, she quickly run to the side and jumped forward as she avoided the foot. She looked back to the lower body to prepare another attack. But surprisingly, the lower body turned into a pile of snow after its foot slammed to her former position.

She saw the upper body crawling towards her as she turned her body to the monster. She raised her pipe and prepared to strike in vertical position. Her metal pipe glowed green again as it instantly extended by six times longer than the original pipe. She brought down her pipe and it reached all the way on the opposite side of the upper body. Then the body turned into a pile of snow as her metal pipe also returned back to a normal length.

She heard a howling sound in the sky, she raised her head and she saw the snow eagle soaring above her but below of the floating snowballs in circular motion repeatedly. After looking at it for a few seconds, she raised her metal pipe and it glowed green. The metal pipe extended towards the sky, but when she was about to hit it, the snow eagle descended towards her. She tried to move her pipe to hit it but the snow eagle nimbly dodged out of the way and it maneuvered around the pipe. Eliza's eyes widen in panic to see it opening its beak to attack her.

No! Not attack her, probably eat her well and alive.

Using the smallest amount of time, she let go of her pipe and jumped to the side, avoiding the impending death from the snow eagle's beak. After backing away several steps, she saw her, was now in usual length, rolling on the side. She was about to get it when she felt something coming and quickly dived right towards pipe. Looking back to see a giant fist hand on the ground where she was formerly at. Raising her head up to see a giant man made up of snow kneeling down in front of her.

"Boom."

A very loud 'bang!' sounded in the air, the sudden sound made Eliza closed her eyes and put her hands over her ears as echoing pain vibrated in her ears, almost making her ear drums destroy in the process as painful headache strikes her. She also gritted her teeth hard and pushed herself on the ground.

After several seconds later, the sound finally disappeared but the remaining sound echoed in her ears but it quickly dissipated and silence finally lingered. But after a few more seconds, she slowly opened her eyes and removed her hands on her ears. Her vision is slightly blurred but with a quick shook in her head, her vision returned sharply as before. Observing her surroundings, a pile mountain of snow was in front of her, just looking at it she sweat dropped.

It was at first her mind was still hurt about the loud sound, but things began to clear when she saw the great pile of snow in front of her. 'Wait, isn't the literal man made up of snow kneeled at me?' She thought, she started to look behind and only saw piles upon piles of snow. Then she saw two people on top of a larger pile of snows, probably larger than the one behind her. Upon closer look, it was Frolic and Snowy.

However, Frolic is holding Snowy by the neck in the air with only one hand. The latter was still struggling futilely as she tried to kick him but with her energy fading fast, her kick was light as a feather. She tried to claw his hand off her neck but it seems like he simply tightened it. Finally, her hands dropped to her sides as she stopped moving. But before she could lost her final bit of consciousness, Frolic let go of her and threw her to the side and, because of the hard impact, knocked her unconscious.

Eliza's eyes widened in surprised, questions flooded her mind on how he defeated a OP-looking girl that easily. But considering Frolic can made loud explosion made up of sound, she guessed that maybe it's a tie.

The problem is that, if Eliza can outmatch him.

Finally noticing her presence (despite their distance), Frolic turned his body to face her. He glared at her from afar and started to walked down the mountain of snows. His sandals were instantly buried in the snow but he quickly lifted his feet as if nothing happened with each step he took. Meanwhile, Eliza is brainstorming her ideas about defeating him. Oddly enough, she wore a rather calm but noticeable worry expression.

'I'm sure he can use a very loud sound.' She thought while eyeing the man she aforementioned. 'But his movements is gonna be my problem, I had yet to see him move.'

True, because of Snowy's monsters that are very strong, her attention remained on the monster completely. It means that she was focused on Snowy rather than Frolic, which she could've considering she saw what he did. It shouldn't be surprising. And now that she fought a much larger foe, she was completely focused into it. And if she put a deeper thought, Frolic didn't use his attack quicker than before. If so then he put a thought then, or maybe he put up a fight before throwing that very loud sound.

Just remembering it, her ears twitched painfully for a small second making her wince. Just thinking about it just makes her brain messed up from the ringing headache.

Looking back at the man, she noticed that he was nearing her place already. She grabbed her metal pipe and made a defensive stance, her eyes sharply analyzed his movements while the said person simply stared at her blankly.

Her eyes were so focus but, why did she heard him talking despite a few more distance? It's understandable if shouting but she heard it loud and clear.

"Pray for your safety."

Her eyes widened when she finally noticed, that her enemy, is already in front of her.


A few minutes before...

LOCATION: Gamindustri Arena - CPUs' Sidelines

Purple Heart watched the fight proceeds, her purple, ponytailed lie loosely on her left shoulder. Her arms were crossed over her well endowed chest as she stood over a purple hologram with a Planeptune symbol. Her expression is serious as her eyes glued on the 'TV'... well, it wasn't even have parts of a TV. She is staring at the purple HUD with the fight of Snowy, Eliza and Frolic.

On her left is NPG Magic, while on her right is... B-Sha?!

"Hell yeah! That girl is gonna get a price!" B-Sha energetically said, or yelled. She wore an expression of glee. "My brand new weapon has a price to be paid and will be selling soon!"

And started spurting out random nonsense.

The purplish-ash skinned woman looked at her friend, yes, friend. "B-Sha, please tone down your voice. We're just behind Lady Purple Heart." Magic nudged her by the shoulder, her scythe behind her back.

But the energetic Sha of Planeptune grinned at Magic. "Oh come on, at least compliment our selling achievements!"

"More like YOUR achievements." Magic deadpanned.

While B-Sha pouted and argued back at Magic, Neptune ignored them as her mind was focused on one thing. Not in the HUD that the fight is going on but rather a person whom very familiar to her. She cannot show that confusion to anybody or they might go wary because of this so she tried to accept that maybe the person she saw wasn't the same as before.

But the person said her name... and Purple Heart undoubtedly thought that it was her.

"Neeeeeppy?" A certain drowsy voice said behind them. "Are you heeere? It's daaaark..."

B-Sha and Magic instantly shut down their bickering as they looked back, the NPG was the first who react. "L-Lady Iris Heartress? Are you there?"

After Magic said that, B-Sha ran towards the drowsy goddess of Planeptune. Here came, Plutia.

"Hellooo Magi-chan, B-chan, Nep-chan." Plutia smiled happily as she said their name, although Magic blushed slightly and cough on her fist.

Deciding to come straight, Magic asked. "Why are you here Lady Iris? Are you here to watch the fight?"

Plutia hummed with a nod before walking forward with B-Sha trailing her. She stopped beside Purple Heart.

"Neppy... are you ignoring me?" Plutia said, her questions have noticeable edge in her tone but she still wore a happy expression. That tone of voice finally put the first CPU of Planeptune out of her stupor, turning her head to look at her and said.

"E-Eh? Oh sorry Plutie, I'm just in deep thoughts."

Truth to be told, she indeed heard Plutia but the gears in her mind still continued, promptly forgetting the second CPU of Planeptune, this also was miffed by Plutia in a wrong way. But luckily, Purple Heart said her reason.

"Ooh? I see..." Plutia put a finger on her chin as she hugged her Neptune-like doll on her petite chest. "Is it... aboooout that girl in the hospital?"

Purple Heart looked at her with a surprised expression before nodding and closing her eyes in the process. "Indeed, I don't wish to know that she is the same person we knew before."

Plutia could only nodded her head, meanwhile Magic and B-Sha stayed silent.

"But if she is." She opened her eyes, her white symbol shone brighter than before. "Then I have no choice but to do it to her." She said with a small anger in her voice and sharp edge in her tone.


Hello my fellow Authors and, especially, my dear Authorians.

It's not usually me to spilled the beans, unlike before when I first published my story, but this isn't a 'bean' where you just give a water and grown instantaneously and it reached up to the sky. No, it will take some time.

Okay, start with the next chapter I'm gonna add some small secrets that is barely able to notice by some of you readers (unless you're a diligent reader). For example:

"Have you seen my pen?" Neptune asked Nepgear in confusion after looking around her living room.

Nepgear shook her head. "No, I haven't, sis. Why though?" She asked, curious as to why her sister would asked something do unimportant.

Neptune fidgeted around hoodie for a second before smiling at the CPU Candidate. "Nah, maybe I already forgot about what I'm supposed to write."

There, that underlined. I know probably some of you will think that maybe there's something in that underlined words. Well, honestly, they're not part of the main plot but a side plot, that could potentially be part of the main soon after finding the secrets out.

Welp, anyway that's it for today. Favourite and follow the story! Don't forget to review as well, suggestions and critics are available.

~A