There Is No Victory, Only NEPTUNE!


Purple Heart realized she could not win.

It was not a very difficult realization to come to. One of them. Two of them even. That she could deal with and even achieve victory. It was not arrogant of her to say that she was the strongest of the CPU. It was merely a fact. They understood, as well, and that was why, she guessed, they'd turned on her. After all, if it was down to her and someone else, everyone knew she would win.

The power of the Main Character was with her, after all.

But there was one other status that she had right now, besides being the Main Character of the story.

As she faced off against the three Current Hardware goddesses, Purple Heart smirked. "Heh. I can't believe I have to resort to this."

Black Heart clicked her tongue. "You talk too much," she said, conveniently ignoring her own predilection to banter.

"What're you gonna do now? Run? We're not going to just let you get away, you know," Green Heart said, as she moved away from Black Heart, clearly preparing a flanking maneuver.

White Heart narrowed her eyes. "You got a plan, don't you bitch?" she asked.

"Indeed," Purple Heart said. "You know I'm the Main Character, right?" she asked.

"As if you didn't boast enough about that regularly," Black Heart said, scoffing. "Well this is your hopeless boss fight, then," she said.

"Hold on, Noire," Green Heart said, her tone lowering as she realized that Purple Heart was being way too confident for the situation at hand. "What are you planning..?"

White Heart curled her upper lip in an ugly snarl, "whatever it is, I'll stop it right here!"

"Well, this is a cutscene, so I'm limited to my own skill and ability," Purple Heart said, raising her hands. "And I can lose to you three, but..."

"But what? Speak up!" White Heart shouted.

"The Player," Purple Heart said, simply. "The Player can't lose."

"... What... what are you planning?" Green Heart asked, as realization dawned upon her. "No, you don't mean-"

"I'm turning control over," Purple Heart said. "Even if you were to have an ability to win that fight... The Player can just savescum time and again until we achieve Victory."

"Dammit, this is bullshit!" White Heart shouted.

"Yeah! That's totally unfair!" Black Heart cried, as she realized that they were basically set up for an unwinnable situation. Even if they won, the player would just reload an earlier save and try again and again and again.

"Well, so is teaming up on me. So this is your just desserts!" Purple Heart crowed in victorious triumph as she surrendered control of her body to the player.

And then asses were kicked.

Because even the most grindy of stones has to yield in the face of the almighty power of the Save Scum.