Disclaimer: I don't own Hyperdimension Neptunia, it belongs to Idea Factory, Compile Heart, Sega and whomever else works on it.

Several days later, Nepgear, Jupiter and Histoire were gathered in the living area of the Basilicom as Neptune and Croire, who was still looking a little sick, stood in front of a dark glowing portal.

"Do you really need to go?" Jupiter asked, getting a nod from Neptune.

"Yeppers! There's rare bugs out there to find and I'm sure Uzume and Tiny Me are worried about me, but it's okay." Neptune smiled brightly. "Your Histy has Tiny Me's Histy on speed dial. So if you ever need to talk to me, Tiny Me, Nepgear or anyone or want me to come visit, just give us a call. If we're not busy, we'll do what we can for you."

Nepgear nodded. "Neptune, I... I'm sorry that I've been an emotional wreck this past week, I'm usually not."

Neptune walked up to her and gave Nepgear a hug. "That's fine, I've enjoyed the time I spent with you, Nepgear." Neptune smiled as Nepgear hugged her back tightly. "I'm just a Histy call away. And even if I'm not there, Tiny Me usually is."

Nepgear nodded and after a few moments she let go of the hug. "Thank you."

"Um, Neptune..." Jupiter poked her fingers together as she looked at the taller girl shyly. "Can I call you big sis too?"

"Of course!" Neptune put her hands on her hips and smiled brightly. "This Nep already considers you to be her little sister anyway."

Jupiter smiled and hugged Neptune tightly, burying her face into Neptune's chest. "Thanks, big sis."

Neptune had a wide grin on her face as she hugged Jupiter back. "I love being called big sis! It feels so nice!"

"If you keep hugging them we'll be here forever." Croire commented by the portal, causing the two sisters to let go of each other and Neptune to walk up to the portal. "About time."

"You know, if you're this cranky, Crostie, you can go back into the Nep-note." Neptune smirked at her. "After all, you haven't been sick since the second day we were here."

Croire looked at her sharply. "How did you..?!"

Neptune giggled at her. "I've known you for awhile, Crostie, I figured I'd see if you'd run off or stick around. I know Tiny Me can open portals between worlds via Share Bridges, so I can get back to the Hyper Dimension at least."

Croire grumbled about this being the last time she was nice. "Yeah, yeah, well, I was mostly curious about how Nepgear was. Since we got here I figured I'd stick around and see how she was, that's all."

"D'aww!" Neptune grinned and hugged Croire, though she was careful not to squish the tome against her breasts too hard. "See? You don't hate CPUs as much as you say you do."

"Bah!" Croire had a look on her face like she ate something unpleasant. "I hate most CPUs. Your smaller self at least finds ways to be interesting. And this Nepgear, well, she was my first, so she's special."

Neptune, Nepgear and Jupiter's eyes all went white, blank and were surrounded by black outlines. "Crostie! Nepgear!" Neptune's voice was shocked. "How naughty!"

"...Sis did things with a tome?" Jupiter asked, trying to figure it out. She didn't know exactly what "being someone's first" really meant in this context, but she knew it meant something important.

"Th..That...That's not at all what happened!" Nepgear protested, her face red.

"You dingus!" Croire's face was just as red as she squirmed out of Neptune's grasp. "That's not at all what I meant and you know it!" She coughed to clear her throat and try and calm down. "She was the first time I had ever inserted myself into history, back before I got bored with just recording it."

Neptune suddenly broke out into laughter. "Oh, I know. Anyway," she smiled and turned to Nepgear and Jupiter. "Take care, okay?" She turned to Histoire and waved. "Take care, Histy!"

Histoire smiled at her. "Neptune, I want you to know that you are welcome back in our dimension at any time. And..." She looked at Nepgear for a moment before turning back to Neptune. "You've done a lot of good while you were here."

"It's not like I helped save the world, I just spent time with Nepgear." Neptune protested and looked at Nepgear, who looked very relaxed and almost content. "And Nepgear, practice smiling, okay?" Nepgear jerked in surprise. "Your smiling muscles haven't been used for so long that you need work on them, okay? You're too pretty to not smile more."

Nepgear felt her face flushing at that. "O...Okay." She could try. 'Didn't Anonydeath say something similar?'

"Bah! Come on!" Croire grumbled as the group said their goodbyes for a bit more before Neptune grabbed her and they walked through the portal.

After the portal closed, Nepgear closed her eyes and let out a soft breath. 'Thank you, Onee-chan... Thank you so much.' She thought to herself before looking at Jupiter, who was looking at her with a small smile on her face. "...You know what?" Jupiter tilted her head in confusion. "It's time. Tomorrow, I'm going to announce you to all of Planeptune as my little sister." Jupiter's eyes started to sparkle in wonder. "Histoire, I'd like you to get things set up."

Histoire smiled at that and nodded. "Of course, Nepgear." She floated towards the door and stopped. "Nepgear," she turned to look at her CPU, "I'm proud of you."

After Histoire left, Jupiter looked at Nepgear. "Um, sis..." Nepgear looked at her. "I dunno why, but I just remembered this." She opened up her inventory and pulled out a purple disk. "Remember when I was in the other nations?"

Nepgear nodded and for once her visage didn't darken at that. "Yes. What's with that disk?"

"When I was in Leanbox, apparently one of the Anti-CPU faction members had it. I saved her thinking she was a random civilian and..." She handed it to Nepgear, who took it. "It's a Monster Containment Disk."

"What!?" Nepgear's eyes widened in shock. "How?! That shouldn't be possible!"

Jupiter shook her head. "I don't know. I know it has Planeptune tech in it though." Nepgear didn't know she could be more shocked, but hearing that proved her wrong. "I was told it wasn't hidden and that you wouldn't do it..."

"I would never make such a vile, disgusting thing." Nepgear growled as she tossed the disk into the air, ignited her beam sword and slashed several times, destroying it. As the pieces fell to the ground, she let out a sigh. "Do the other CPUs..?"

Jupiter shook her head. "No. I only found out because Anny called me..."

"...Anny?" Nepgear asked with a raised eyebrow. "Effeminate voice, calls me Honey all the time, really good hacker?" Jupiter nodded. "His real name's Anonydeath, or at least that's what he calls himself." She would have said more, but her sister's determined look stopped her. "What?"

"Nepgear... Why do you have a hacker working for you? Why do you use him to spy on everyone?"

Nepgear sighed softly. "...I deserve this much at least." Seeing Jupiter looking at her with a bit of anger actually surprised Nepgear, but she continued on. "I was scared."

"...Huh?" Of all the answers Jupiter could expect, THAT was not one of them.

"They killed Neptune, Jupiter. And I met and hired Anonydeath a bit before you were born." Nepgear walked towards the balcony, with Jupiter following after her. "I was scared of the other CPUs. I wanted nothing to do with them, but I was worried that their peace treaty was just a sham to make me lower my guard so they could come in and make me watch as they destroyed Planeptune before they did me in like what they did to Neptune."

"...You know that they're sorry, right?" Jupiter said softly. She sighed when Nepgear stiffened in shock. "I... When I was in Lowee, I heard from White Heart's maid that she regrets what she did and that she cries over what happened. And Green Heart even said that they aren't the same as they were during the wars."

Nepgear rested her forehead on the glass door to the balcony. "...I've been consumed by hatred towards those three for so long, Jupiter that it's hard for me to just let it go. When I think about them, there's a cold, achy void in my chest." She took a deep breath and slowly let it out. "I just wanted them to leave me alone, but I..." She shook her head. "I guess I might have to scrap those projects."

"...Sis?"

Nepgear looked at Jupiter. "Tell me something. Since you spent time with the other CPUs... What do you think about them?"

"...I like their sisters, I'd like to think of their sisters as my friends at least. Green Heart's boobs are scary, White Heart and Black Heart, um... They don't seem bad, their sisters think highly of them and told me lots of funny stories, Uni discovered that Black Heart likes to cosplay. Or when Rom and Ram dumped paint and feathers over White Heart. And apparently Green Heart likes to look at naked boys kissing each other."

Nepgear raised an eyebrow, she wasn't sure if she found that impressive, hilarious or just plain weird. "...Why are Green Heart's boobs scary?"

"She hugs you to them and then you suffocate!" Jupiter pouted.

"I guess that is terrifying." Nepgear said softly. She didn't mind large breasts, after all, both Purple Heart and the adult Neptune had nice, big and bouncy boobs.

Before Jupiter could respond, there was a loud explosion that caused both of the sisters to lose their balance. "The hell!?" Both of them yelled at the same time.

"Sis!" Jupiter pointed at a floating, glowing person. "Who's that?"

"I don't know." Nepgear said as she transformed into Lilac Heart. "Stay here."

"But I..."

Lilac Heart looked at Jupiter. "I don't know how long you can stay transformed since people aren't putting faith in you directly." She had a genuinely remorseful look on her face over that. "I'm truly sorry, I should have introduced you sooner."

Jupiter nodded. "Take care, sis."

(-)

A minute prior...

"I think it's time, don't you?" The woman's darker half asked softly. The woman was standing on a rather tall skyscraper that overlooked the city.

"Gee hee hee hee! About time! I was getting bored!" Energy covered her body as she transformed, two horns appeared on her head, in front of them were two triangle-shaped hair accessories, around her neck was a blue crystal choker, her arms and legs were covered by a black bodysuit, as was her abdomen and crotch, shockingly, her thighs were left uncovered, as was most of her breasts, having only a small flap covering that went from the outside of her breasts to her nipples being covered, allowing the rest of her large breasts to be exposed to the air. In her hand a staff with a circular top on it appeared and started glowing. "Let's see... How about we just get her attention, huh?"

"I can agree to that." The other voice said as the woman's left eye was dark in color, compared to her bright, blue right eye, the left half of her long hair was a dark orange color and on her left arm a circular shield had formed.

The woman grinned as two large, demonic wings formed on her back and she floated into the air. Her staff started to glow with power before she pointed it at the Basilicom and fired an attack at the building, causing it to shake and rumble. "There, a little shock-wave and imaginary explosion and she should be... There she is."

Lilac Heart flew towards the floating person in the air, in her mind, that was the only person who could have launched that attack. "You!" Pointing her gunblade at the person, she narrowed her eyes. "Who are you?"

The woman looked genuinely hurt. "I work for you for years and you don't recognize me? The stuttering older woman that B-Sha calls Lei-Lei all the time?"

"You're okay?" Lilac Heart asked, surprise on her face. "B-Sha was worried about you. But..." Confusion came to her face. "How are you... Wait..." She narrowed her eyes as she got a better look at Lei-Lei. "You're a CPU?!"

"Bing bong!" Lei-Lei said, though Nepgear heard a second voice in there. "I'm just an old CPU that wanted to talk to you."

"If you worked for me then you know..." Lilac Heart was interrupted as Lei-Lei started to laugh.

"You don't trust CPUs? Of course I do." She put her hand over her chest and grinned while raising one eyebrow upwards. "You think I didn't hear your rants to Histoire about how you hated the other three CPUs? Or how many times you cried to her about your dead older sister..." She shook her head and sighed dramatically.

"And what's the point of this? Just who are you?"

Lei-Lei sighed and shook her head. "I swear, young kids have no appreciation for drama. Allow me to continue. As I was saying, I heard you cry about the previous CPU, Purple Heart, so many times. But as I got to know you, well, as well as anyone could get to know a frigid loner like you."

Lilac Heart twitched softly. 'Is that how people really view me?'

Lei-Lei shrugged at her. "Anyway, as I was saying, you and I aren't too dissimilar." She grinned at Lilac Heart. "In fact, if anyone can understand me, it's you."

"What are you saying?" Lilac Heart asked in confusion.

"Gee hee hee..." Lei-Lei smirked at her. "Your heart... It's full of hate." Lilac Heart's eyes widened in surprise. "For you, it's because you hate the other CPUs, me? Well, us, I guess, but anyway, my hatred isn't for the CPUs of this world, but rather the people."

Lilac Heart narrowed her eyes and gripped her gunblade tightly. "If you know me like you say you know me, you should know that I would never want harm brought upon the citizens of Gamindustri."

Lei-Lei gave her an annoyed look. "Wow, I always thought you were nothing more than a whiny crybaby who talks a big game, but now I see that I was wrong. You're just a little brat who keeps crying for her dead older sister." She shook her head in annoyance. "I was seriously going to let you have your revenge on the CPUs of the other nations."

"Enough." Lei-Lei's deeper voice spoke up. "Allow me to talk to her."

"...There's two of you in there?" Lilac Heart asked, surprised.

"Yes." The deeper voice spoke up. "My name's Uzume Tennouboshi, or rather, I was, before I fused with this woman."

"...Uzume..." Lilac Heart's eyes widened. "I've heard of you!"

Lei-Lei showed complete shock. "You shouldn't have, I erased everyone's memories of me when I was alive. But if you heard of me, then you should know that I'm your senior as I was a previous CPU of Planeptune."

"So this is how you're a CPU, Lei-Lei?" Lilac Heart asked as she gripped her gunblade. "You somehow revived a previous Planeptune CPU and merged with her?"

"Ah ah ah!" Lei-Lei waggled her finger at Lilac Heart. "Close, but not quite. See, my real name is Rei. Rei Ryghts." She grinned at Lilac Heart. "I was the CPU of the ancient nation of Tari and Gamindustri's first True Goddess." Lilac Heart's eyes widened in shock. "By the way, how does it feel to kill that bitch Arfoire, who not only defeated me but sealed my powers and memories? Took me ages to regain my memories and even this much of my power back."

"...How are you still alive?"

Rei grinned at Lilac Heart. "See? There's some advantages to being the One True Goddess of Gamindustri. Even if you lose all your followers and power, you won't turn human or die."

"So that's how you could be alive for so long." Lilac Heart muttered to herself.

"Can I continue here?" Uzume's deeper voice asked. "Anyway, Lilac Heart, you should know that the people of Planeptune turned on me, betrayed me and demanded I be treated as a witch and executed. I sealed myself away and erased their memories of me. But after being alone for the past few centuries, well... You can imagine that I want my revenge as well."

"So," the two began speaking as one, "what's your choice, Lilac Heart?" Camera drones flew up and surrounded them at that moment, broadcasting everything to the people of Planeptune, who stopped and stared in shock as they saw their CPU facing off against another CPU. "Will you join us in our quest for vengance, or will you get in our way?"

Rei smirked at her. "You should know that your subjects would follow you into the Netherworld without question if you asked them to. So go ahead, join us, your people will gladly take up arms once more against the CPUs that wronged this nation."

Looking down, Lilac Heart saw the people of Planeptune, she could feel their confusion, their fear and their anxiety. "You know, you're right. If I asked them to, they would march against Demons, CPUs or more, without question." Lilac Heart closed her eyes and took a deep breath before opening them and glaring at Rei. "However, I will never ask them to go down the path of vengeance for my petty desires. I will never choose that path!"

Rei scoffed at her. "Well, too bad, I guess we'll have to..." Her eyes widened as Lilac Heart disappeared and was in front of her in a flash. Grunting, she blocked Lilac Heart's gunblade with her staff. "Hey! That's not..." She grunted as Lilac Heart continued to swing her gunblade and Rei was forced to block several times. Snarling, Rei held up her left arm and used her shield to block the attack before her wings seemingly turned into hands, one of which grabbed Lilac Heart by her leg and lifted her into the air where she was spun around a few times before being thrown down at super high speeds to the ground, where she crashed into the ground hard enough to leave a crater. "Seriously! Who doesn't give the big bad a chance to monologue? How rude!"

Lilac Heart shook her head and got back up. Without saying a word, she turned and sprung into the air, her blade clashing with Rei's staff. The two clashed their weapons several times as Lilac Heart chased Rei across the skyline of Planeptune, the camera drones continued to record and broadcast the confrontation to all of Planeptune as the clashes erupted in loud shock-waves across the sky. Eventually the two ended up just outside of the city, but still relatively close to it.

"How about you just chill?" Lilac Heart asked as she clashed with Rei again before pushing Rei away and pointed her gunblade at her before firing a blue beam at the other CPU.

Holding up her left arm, Rei's eyes widened as her shield and left arm were quickly encased in ice. "The hell?!"

"You do realize that I've rarely taken time to have fun, right?" Lilac Heart asked her. "You worked for me, you should know that."

Rei snarled at her. "You spent all your time working in the office or doing quests!"

"I also have a nasty habit of pulling multiple all-nighters and only stopping when I pass out." Lilac Heart looked at Rei as if she were an idiot. "And what little spare time I had was generally reserved for finding ways to defeat enemy CPUs."

"I told you that she might be more difficult that you could imagine." Uzume's voice was heard.

"Shut up!" Rei snapped back.

"Hmm, no." Uzume chuckled. "So, how do we deal with her?" A black flash of energy and the ice around her left arm was shattered.

Rei smirked as an idea came to her. "Well, how about we show her just how delusional she really is?"

"I can agree to that." Uzume said and snapped her fingers.

Lilac Heart's eyes widened as she felt power surge around her. "Wha...the..." Her body went stiff and her eyes went dull as her body glowed with dark energy.

Rei chuckled as she floated close to the immobilized Lilac Heart. "Normally this is where your heart would become twisted and any sort of hidden negative feelings you have would be brought to the surface..."

"...But I'll give you a break, you'll have a pleasant experience." Uzume finished as Rei made her staff disappear and it was replaced by a purple glowing sword. "How long should she get?"

"A minute." Rei replied as she floated over to Lilac Heart, who was still stuck in that same position, her eyes vacant. "Ah, if only you had joined us." She cupped Lilac Heart's chin and sneered. "Such a worthless CPU."

(-)

"Nepgear... Nepgear..."

Nepgear groaned as she shook her head. "What was I..?" Her eyes widened and she gasped in shock as she saw Neptune in front of her, smiling. "Neptune?"

The small, short haired girl smiled brightly at her. "Yeppers! It's time to get up, silly! We got a big day ahead of us!"

"We do?" Nepgear was confused, something felt off.

A flash of light and Neptune was replaced by Purple Heart, who grinned at her. "Of course, there's some quests to take care of, after that, how about we go on a picnic?"

Nepgear's eyes sparkled in happiness. "A picnic? Sure! I love those!" She reached for Purple Heart's hand but stopped as she saw it flicker with a black mist.

"What's wrong, Nep Jr.?" Purple Heart asked softly. "Oh, I know, you're still scared by lightning, is that it?" Lightning suddenly flashed outside. "Don't worry, even nature can't beat your big sister."

'Something seems off, but...' Nepgear found herself smiling. 'It feels right.'

(-)

"I'm bored!" Rei groused.

"It's been twenty seconds." Uzume shot back, annoyance in her voice.

"Well, whatever, twenty seconds, a minute? What's the difference?"

"Forty seconds."

"Shut up!" Rei shot back and gripped Gehaburn tightly. "You should have just joined us." Rei whispered softly and turned to the cameras. "Citizens of Planeptune, you can watch as I end your worthless CPU's life right here and now!"

Holding up her hands above her head, Rei turned to Lilac Heart and grinned savagely. "DIE!" She swung the cursed sword down at Lilac Heart, fully intending to end the CPU's life.

Rei grinned as she felt her sword connect with something, but that grin slowly faded away into confusion as she saw that her sword wasn't cutting through flesh and blood, but instead were being held in place by two serrated broadswords, which were held in front of her sword in a X-cross pattern. Connected to the two broadswords was a girl with long purple hair that hung loosely behind her, she was a little shorter than Nepgear was, a modest chest, well, compared to how big Rei was in HDD at least. Her outfit was made up of blue leggings with purple highlights that went from her ankles up to her waist, black boots over her feet, a loose skirt over her hips, her abdomen was exposed and her top was purple in color that covered her arms, hands, neck, shoulders and breasts completely with a stylized black "N" over her chest. "Who the hell are you?"

The girl's eyes were a bright green and Rei could see the power symbol there and as she looked at the girl's back in shock, she saw four wings of light, all purple in color. "Get away from my sister YOU BITCH!" She screamed and slashed outwards, sending Rei tumbling through the air with a yell for a moment.

(-)

The people of Planeptune were in a state of confusion. After seeing their CPU fighting off a strange new CPU, they were starting to panic and some fell to their knees in despair as it looked like their CPU was about to be killed when Lilac Heart stopped moving and the other CPU pulled out a purple sword.

When another new CPU suddenly showed up, protecting Lilac Heart, everyone had hope, but were still confused by what was going on.

"Who the hell are you?" The two-toned CPU asked the newcomer.

"Get away from my sister YOU BITCH!" The newcomer screamed and everyone gasped in shock.

"Lady Lilac Heart has a sister?"

"How come none of us knew?"

"You think she's lying?"

"No way! Look! Her processor has a N on it! That's Planeptune's symbol!"

"Go Lilac Sister!" One of the people in the crowd started cheering. "Come on! If she's Lady Lilac Heart's sister, then let's cheer for her!"

One person in Planeptune wasn't caring about all of that as she watched the fight. "Lei-Lei..." B-Sha whispered and ran out of the Basilicom.

"Where are you going?" One of the co-workers asked her.

"I don't know!" B-Sha answered her. "But I don't want to lose my friend or my CPU!"

(-)

As she flew through the air, Rei sneered at the CPU Candidate. "So, you claim to be her sister? You aren't Purple Heart."

"My name is Jupiter!" Jupiter yelled as she snapped her arm out, throwing one of her swords at Rei. "I am Planeptune's CPU Candidate, Lilac Sister!"

"Feh!" Rei batted the sword away with her left arm and watched as Jupiter pulled it back to her. "Oh? You had it connected to a chain?"

Grabbing her sword as Jupiter pulled it back, the chain disappeared as soon as it was back in her hands. "Yep." She held her swords wide and apart, putting her body in a T-shape stance. Her swords started to glow white. "Blade slicer!" They were engulfed in energy that made them look five times larger than they really were and she rushed at Rei. "TAKE THIS!"

Rei smirked at Jupiter as the blades seemingly passed through her form in a black mist. "Really? I'm the oldest CPU in Gamindustri. I've been here so long that I predate the four nations, kiddo, you think I didn't have to put down people who could fight before?" Pointing Gehaburn at Jupiter, red lightning crackled over the blade for a moment before lancing out and blasting the CPU Candidate, causing her to scream in pain while Rei laughed. "Yes! That's right! Scream! Cry! Bleed! THEN DIE!" She swung Gehaburn to the side, sending the still crackling, screaming and twitching Jupiter careening to the ground.

"CPU Candidates are unusual." Uzume warned Rei. "There was one in Lowee when I reigned over Planeptune, and she always seemed to be able to pull miracles out of her ass."

"Oh?" Rei was surprised at that. "What happened to her?"

"I don't remember. I remember that Lowee's CPU at the time was a total bitch. Really strict and distasteful." Uzume huffed in annoyance. "She always had to be bigger than everyone else, promoted her stuff as having more of everything compared to everyone else, though her controller was just weird. Personally, I'm glad she's gone. Not just because we were rivals, but because she was such a snob."

Rei looked at where Lilac Heart was at and sighed, the battle with Lilac Sister had taken them some distance from the CPU. "I wonder what she's dreaming about right now." Oh well, it didn't matter, she was going to kill Lilac Heart right here and now. "Well, not now, I have to get over to her." She sighed, hating certain phrases and expressions.

(-)

"Hey, Nep Jr." Purple Heart gave Nepgear a grin as the two fought against Black Heart, White Heart and Green Heart in a forest. "You know, this isn't too bad of a way to spend time together." The other three CPUs were on the ground, groaning in pain, deep sword cuts to their bodies as they lay there, twitching and bleeding.

Nepgear was hyperventilating, her pupils were small as she looked at the broken bodies of the CPUs. "Yes..." She started to giggle and laugh. "Yes! This is... This is what I wanted!" She turned to look at Purple Heart, who was, for some reason, twitching and glowing softly. "See? Sis! This is what we should do! We should do this together and..."

"This isn't what you really want, you know." Nepgear's eyes widened in shock as Purple Heart looked at her but was speaking with Neptune's voice. "Gosh, hold on." A moment later, she was back in her human form letting out a breath of air. "Whew! That took awhile to get through that interference. Blasted predecessor and her send-you-to-a-warped-dream-world ability."

"...What's going on?" Nepgear asked as the scenery faded and changed to the Planeptune Basilicom's living room.

Neptune grinned at her. "Silly Nep Jr.! It's me! Your big sister! The one who was killed in Celestia."

Nepgear's eyes widened and she gasped in shock. "W...What?" She put her hands over her mouth as Neptune nodded at her. "I...Is that really you?"

Neptune had a sad smile on her face. "Yeah. You know, being dead kind of sucks, I can't eat any pudding, I can't even interact with the living world very often."

"Nep...Tune? But... This is a dream, isn't it?"

Neptune gave her a nod. "Yeah, well... It's kind of weird, I never was able to interact with you like this before." She crossed her arms behind her back and started strutting around. "Do you remember when you went to Celestia and killed that one woman? Arfoire?" Nepgear nodded and Neptune looked at her sadly. "You remember when you saw the other CPUs? You were about to attack them."

"But I stopped..." Nepgear said softly. "I thought I saw you."

"That's because you did." Neptune answered. "Every time you thought that I was there giving you a hug or looking at you..." She chuckled softly. "That was me interacting with you."

"...You were there... All these years?" Nepgear asked, getting a nod from Neptune. "...Then you knew..."

"That you wanted to kill yourself?" Neptune asked, looking sad. "Yeah. My biggest regret was leaving you alone, Nep Jr., but that doesn't even compare to the regrets I have after seeing you suffer. It was the most painful thing I went through. Every time you cried in your sleep, or asked for help and I couldn't do anything, it made the pain worse. By the way, love the memorial park," she gave Nepgear a thumbs up.

Nepgear slumped to her knees, laughing weakly. "First the big version of you shows up, then she calls another version of you... And now I find out that your spirit has been with me for ten years... What a week." She sniffled softly. "Neptune... I... I was so lonely."

"But you aren't alone." Neptune smiled at her. "And I'm not talking about my spirit haunting you and keeping you from acting on your hatred, I'm talking about someone else."

Nepgear blinked in confusion before Neptune pointed at the far wall and Nepgear's eyes widened in shock as she saw herself with Jupiter, both standing and, to her surprise, both were smiling happily at the camera with Nepgear bent over slightly, her hands on Jupiter's shoulders while her sister had her hands out in a "V" shape. "But I never smile..."

"This is your inner world, Nep Jr.," Neptune answered her, "you smile in here. Anyway, she's our younger sister and she's been there for you for all these years, looking out for you and helping you."

Nepgear looked down. "...But why? It doesn't..." She paused as she felt a hand on her shoulders. Looking up, she saw Neptune smiling at her softly.

"CPUs are brought into the world due to the people's wishes. So what do you think their wish was for you?"

"...To... To... To not be alone?" Nepgear asked, getting a broad smile from Neptune.

"There ya go, Nep Jr.!"

Nepgear chuckled softly. "I feel like my rep as a cold hearted bitch is completely gone."

"Is it a bad thing?" Neptune asked as she stepped back and did a pirouette for some random reason.

"...I don't think it is." Nepgear said. "...Hey, Neptune... Why did you want to make friends with the other CPUs?"

"Originally? I just wanted to be friends with them. But after things got violent?" Neptune sighed softly. "I hated the war. I never wanted to fight! I wanted to have fun! I wanted to explore Gamindustri! I wanted to have a place where children can have fun without worrying about fighting and killing others! I wanted the other CPUs to have that too." She looked at Nepgear and smiled. "And most importantly, I wanted you to live a better life than I had." She sighed sadly. "I guess I failed, huh? You couldn't let go of your anger and hate of them."

"I'm sorry..." Nepgear looked down, ashamed.

"No, no!" Neptune waved her hands and shook her head wildly. "It's not your fault, Nep Jr.! It's mine! I should have tried harder."

"...Can we just stay like this?" Nepgear asked Neptune softly. "Forever?"

Neptune suddenly frowned, stood up and marched over to Nepgear. "No way, Gosay!"

"...I don't think that's the right way to say that."

Neptune shook her head and poked Nepgear in the chest. "That's besides the point! Listen, Nep Jr., you need to go back! There are people who need you. Your sister loves you! And you and Histy need to become friends! Plus!" Neptune stopped for a moment. "You need to let go of your hatred for the other CPUs... You need to make friends with them."

"...I held onto that hate for so long, Neptune..."

"I know..." Neptune nodded as the scenery changed and they were suddenly in the downtown area of Planeptune. Pointing behind Nepgear, the dead CPU gave her a sad look. "That's what I've been fighting against for ten years."

Turning, Nepgear's eyes widened and she stood up, yelling in shock.

The creature was vaguely human, though it was as tall as a two story building, the head was nothing more than a black skull, the hands were black bones and its bony chest was exposed, but the outfit? It looked like a cloak made out of black sludge and slime.

"That..."

"That's your hatred, Nepgear." Neptune's voice was replaced by Purple Heart as her sister, now in HDD, walked between Nepgear and the large mass of hate. "I've hurt it and driven it away many times, and it's gotten a lot weaker in the past week, but it keeps coming back and is still here."

The creature screamed and fired a black energy blast at a distant building, vaporizing it in an instant.

"You have to choose, Nepgear!" Purple Heart yelled while the explosion caused winds to pick up and her twin braided tails to whip violently behind her as she held her katana in front of her. "Will you stand against the darkness in your heart or will you allow it to take control and consume you?"

A flash of light and Nepgear was replaced by Lilac Heart as she stood next to Purple Heart. "I'll fight."

Purple Heart smiled. "That's my little sister. Let's go. For the future of Planeptune, the future of Gamindustri..."

"And my own future." Lilac Heart finished as the two rushed the mass of hatred.

So, the next few chapters are basically one long-running fight.

And yes, Rei-Uzume is full of hax.

No Nepstations until the end of the fight.

BTW, Nepgear's hatred is based off of Hexxus from Ferngully. Average movie, weak villain, but he looked cool at the end.