*Neptune's PoV*

"Nothing..." Tails sighs in frustration. "That's been try number 143..."
He said that the device he's using would look for suspicious data signatures or something.
And because I didn't get that, he simplified it: It can find Eggman.

But... as you can see, that plan isn't working that well.
And I am bored. And therefore I complain.
"Could we like do... something else besides... uhm... waiting?! We could go out and do something. This is no fun."

Tails suddenly shoots up from his chair, almost dropping the weird device.
"That's it!"
"Whoa, calm down, buddy. What is it?" I lean over to him. Maybe something exciting will happen now!
"Eggman must be looking for you! We just need to bait him."
My excitement vanishes as fast as it came: I am degraded to bait. Then again...
"Probably the most interesting thing to do right now. Whatever, let's do it." I boredly say.

The new situation is the following:
I am sitting in the middle of wide and open grassy plains, as if I was having a picnic.
Sonic and Tails are hiding behind a rock, the latter still holding the device to see when Fatty arrives.

...

Yeah, okay. I am not sharpest knife in the drawer but this plan is stupid as h–
Fatty is flying over.
I may be naive at times but... HOW IS THIS WORKING?!

He stops midair above me...
What are you gonna do?

...

Oh, he's dropping some red, glowing crystal cu–

*BONK*

"Ouch, that hurt, stupid."
Unsurprisingly, this complaint was left unheard.
Surprisingly, the cube attached itself to my belly area with some belt...
Oh, is this one of those HDD-inhibitors? Nepgear might want to–

HDD-inhibitor...

Wonderful. Thank you, Tails, and your genius plan.

...

Yeah, bye, I'm going now.
Aaaand, he grabs me with some robotic claw, and way too tight at that. There's no space for me to even move a tiny bit!

"Uh, guys, I could need some help here... please?" I yell over to where my friends are hiding.
No response...

Eggman takes off with me helplessly hanging from his awkward flying device.
As he does so, I can barely make out that Sonic and Tails are knocked out.
There is only one thing left to do!

Sigh in exasperation...

The robotic claw was detachable.
So still in that thing, I was thrown into a cage once again.

This is so not worthy of the main-character!
I'd tell him, but neither is he here nor can I actually speak 'cuz they taped my mouth.

Why?
No clue.

...

Now that I think about it: There is one thing Eggy didn't consider: Plot-convenience!

So... when's it gonna happen?

...

I'll sit here for a while... won't I?

"Looks like you didn't break out this time." Mustache-Man walks into my field of view.
My response is to blankly stare at him. Not that I had any other option.
"I'm here to take your power. Any last wish?" He grabs through the bars of the cage and rips off the tape.

"Well, yes. AUTHOR! PLOT-CONVIENCE!"

-Uhm... There you go...-

Suddenly a portal opens up and out comes a girl.
She's about my height, has pink-purple shoulder-length hair, a green sleeveless shirt, yellow pants, a scarf the same color and knee-length purple boots. (Why the long description, me?)

The girl stylishly lands on the floor and flashes me a wide grin. "You called?"
"Yes! Plot-convenience always happens when important characters need it most!" I shout happily.

She straightens herself, turns to the evil dude and cracks her knuckles.
Then she draws a hand-gun with one hand, a katana with the other and simultaneously exclaims. "I am hero! And heroes will defeat the evil and save those in need!"

"I have regrets..." Eggman says before he is attacked by the air-dashing girl.

"Bye!"
"Bye-bye! You know where you can find me." The girl waves to me as she walks through the portal.
"Yeah, I'll make sure to remember!"

The portal closes...
Yeah, I really am not the sharpest knife in the drawer.

OooOooOoh! Eggman dropped some fancy remote thingy!
'Dimension Remote Mk-IV' ... Looks like the right device!
I gotta tell Sonic and Tails–

"Neptune! We're coming... to..." Sonic runs around the corner only to see me standing there. "Did you bust out yourself once again or–"
"Nah, some chill girl appeared and beat Baldy and his robots up real good. And look just what he left for us!" I explain and hold up the remote like it was a trophy.
"Huh, neat." Sonic snatches the device away from to which I pout.
"I found it first..."

"Let's tell Tails, maybe he knows how to use it..."
"Sounds good. Somebody's ought to worry about me."
"Somebody?"
"Okay... Probably a couple dozen people... Actually, probably a couple thousand..."
"Yeah... Let's make sure this goes quickly..."

"Bye the way, what is Eggman now?" Sonic asks as we are about to leave.
"She said his breathing had been irregular, why?"
"Well... As much as I hate him, I'd not want him to die... Let's get him."

*Deniz' PoV*

I fly back to Planeptune the next day accompanied by my sister.
Matt wanted to stay in Leanbox for 'a few reasons' as he put it...

The first person we meet when we enter the Planeptune Basilicom is Linda.
"Hey." She greets us.
"Yeah, hey." And we greet her as well.
"Nepgear is in the living room, along with the others. The other candidates are currently here as well." She informs us.

Candidates plus Jonny...
"What was Uni's first reaction to Jonny?" I ask out of interest.
"Shoving a rifle in his face." Linda answers and pauses for a second. "Well, obviously. Nepgear and I had to step in before anybody got hurt."
Fantastic.
"A bad first impression is still an impression." Diana mutters to herself, yet it's audible to Linda and me.

After that conversation we walk towards the living room where Nepgear, Uni, Rom, Ram, Histy and Jonny are.
They are playing that Smash-like game we had played before, though in teams of three.
Nepgear, Uni and Histoire vs Rom, Ram and Jonny.

Jonny is hitting the buttons rather irritatedly while Uni repeatedly knocks his character off-stage.
Meanwhile Nepgear and Histoire are juggling Rom and Ram around before smashing them into space.

There is no need to point out which team is winning by a fairly large margin.

When the three of us sit down on the pillows on the ground, none of them seems to even realize that somebody entered the room.
They do when the timer ran out. "Deniz, Diana, Linda. I hadn't noticed you entering." Histoire is the first one though.

After exchanging greetings, another person enters the room, yawning: Nepgeo.
Wearing nothing but underwear.
In response Linda stands up, grabs her by the ear and pulls the pinkette probably to her sleeping-quarters.
"That was a thing." Diana mutters.

It only takes a few seconds for them to return, this time Nepgeo is actually dressed in her usual black outfit.
"I ain't sorry. You should be sorry for looking at me." You have no shame.

Before anybody could actually voice their thoughts, a heavy rumbling surprisingly shook the building.
"AHH! What is happening?!" Nepgear shouts startled.
While most are panicking and falling over, I instead stand still and deadpan. "Why is it always Planeptune?"

"Histoire?! What do we do?!" The purple CPU asks her oracle.
"We–"
Said Oracle is hit by a falling bookshelf, causing her to unconsciously drop to the ground.
"Oh no..."
"Histoire will be fine! We first need to find out what is happening." Uni suggests.
Nepgear is meanwhile still staring at her downed Oracle...

"Actually... This is my nation... I have to do this." Nepgear says, clenching her fists
The 'earth quake' seems to subside.
"Any plan then, Captain Obvious?!" Her double asks clinging to Linda, who seemed to have no problem to stand still in a rocking building.
"Yes. Linda, Geo, go and make sure the citizens are safe." The CPU points at them. "The rest of us will go and check what happened." We nod, activating HDD.
"And me?" Jonny questions, slowly standing up.
"Right. You should get out of here. Call the other nations if you can and request. And take Histoire with you. No knowing what might happen here..."

Nepgear... seems like you were finally able to step out of your sisters shadow...
No use standing around. I need my daily dose of action!

A/N

The girl which saved Neptune is not my character. She's from an Indie-game. And a pretty unknown one at that. I doubt that anybody knowing the character will come across this story...
And expect to wait a little longer for the next chapter than usual.