All I will say is…thank you for being with me in the beginning, Thanks to a friend of mine of beta-reading this chapter and well…let the last chapter begin.
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It had been a full day since Purple told to do nothing but rest, and she was about to explode!
During this time, she had fallen asleep for the entire day before waking up at the feel of hunger, so a nurse brought her a sandwich with some orange juice. She devoured the sandwich in one fell swoop, and after swallowing the same nurse gave her the T.V remote.
It was not unusual to be treated like a child when you look like on, and this was certainly no exception, however it was amusing to find that many of the adults felt pity towards her. The nurse had definitely seen the scars on Purple's body, but still…
Upon thinking more about the unusual nurse her thoughts shifted from curiosity to the reflection of the past few days.
I haven't seen any of my friends since yesterday, the Goddess reflected.
-They are probably waiting for you at the inn, today is your last day here after all.
True…hey, where is Blackie 1 and 2?
-They left. They ask that you meet them where we first found them here.
She hummed for a while and afterward nodded in defeat. She wasn't bored, she was pretty much enjoying the movie playing on the TV. The story was about a girl who ended up in the past, thanks to an experiment including a dog and a car, having the scientist shot in front of her and recurring to "Desperate times require desperate measures" dilema. However, as she is trying to go back to the present things get more difficult for her. Her Father falls in love with her and risks destroying her own existence, of course, he doesn't know this.
…I'm skipping the main point, aren't I?
Purple wanted to get out of this place. She wanted go and help Chian, after all Chian needed all the help she could get. Also, although she didn't want to admit it, she couldn't stand living so close to Peashy. She didn't hate her, it was just awkward to be in the same place the one that you had been fighting to death against not so long ago.
Purple had never intended getting so close to killing Peashy, but she had… so close she had gotten to carrying the death of another on her back.
Even though many told her that the kid had forgiven her, it was vastly different to hear from word of mouth than directly from the person's lips.
The door opened, snapping the CPU out of her thoughts and the TV. The nurse entered the place and walked to her.
"Well Miss…Purple?" The nurse found it strange that a girl was named after a color, "It appears that you can leave now, please come with me so we may give you the clothes your friends left for you"
The purple head stood up slowly. She acknowledged that despite not being fully healed, she had been allowed to leave and followed the nurse. When she bypassed Peashy's bed and saw her sleeping couldn't help but come to a halt.
The nurse noticed and turned around "Is something wrong Ms. Purple?"
"…Is she…is Peashy making any better?"
"Yes, we have all the reasons to believe that in a week she'll be just like she was before all the damages that brought her here" if only she knew who was responsible for causing those wounds, she wouldn't have been so composed in front of Purple.
The mere guilt left Purple with a pain inside her chest.
-Come on, we don't have all day-
Nodding to Orange, she walked past the sleeping Goddess. I'm sorry, Peashy.
Purple left the hospital after changing clothes into what can be called…souvenir clothing. A black shirt with the words: "The one who makes it all" and an image of Black Heart in the center, black jeans, blue color shoes. Not really her favorite type of clothing but better than nothing.
She started looking around hoping to find someone she knew and found absolutely no one.
"Down here!" exclaimed a voice beneath her.
She looked down to discover Warechu looking at her with uninterested eyes. "Jeez, do you not remember…oh wait, you were knocked out-chu"
The Purple Head's heart almost burst out sheer overwhelming cuteness radiating from the creature standing at her feet.
What? You thought it was going to be a bad one, please she is Purple, when has she done something considered normal among her actions?
Anyways, not everyone was having the same reaction as her.
-DISGUSTING! Kid, stay away from that…THING!-
How can you call it that, look at it, the purple head knelt and started petting the animal, isn't this the cutest thing alive?
-Kid, there is something wrong with your likes!-
Before they could continue arguing, the mouse spoke up "Although I do enjoy nothing more than being petted, you must come with me. There's…someone waiting for you." Just then it moved away from Purple's kind and nice hand to start walking somewhere.
-I have a bad feeling, a talking rat ain't normal! And it's a RAT! Don't you know those things are evil from birth!-
-I believe that's…racest.-
-"Racist"! And no, it isn't when you are stating a fact, besides I think it doesn't apply with creatures of darkness brought to destroy us!-
Purple, in all honesty, didn't know Orange could be like this when she was scared of something, she didn't even know Orange could get scared. This seems like something to take note of.
Without a lot of alternatives, they started to follow the mouse they had both confused for a rat, a normal thing if you ask me.
The animal and the Goddess walked for a while around the streets of Lastation. the civilians were all going through their normal routine, some talking with friends, others playing around and some more eating snacks. None of them had an idea that their CPU had almost been killed, no one knew about the fight she just went through so no one saw her any differently from a child passing through with a mouse. Okay, the last part did cause some murmurs between the people to occur but nothing else.
And yet, Purple didn't really mind it, she was about to be killed just to save a kid from taking a really dark path and at the hands of the own kid no less. No one may ever acknowledge her for it, not even for having stood against a machine that threatened to destroy everything. Not a single soul will ever tell her "Thanks for saving us!" but…she didn't mind, she didn't put much attention into that.
All she cared about is that she had saved the day. To her, everything that mattered was that she did the right thing and because of it, everyone lived happily ever after.
Just as a true Goddess should be like, protecting her realm without any reward.
The two of them finally arrived at their destination: Chian's place.
They entered and were both greeted by a surprise.
"Congratulations on your recovery!" exclaimed everyone who Purple had met so far in Lastation: IF, Compa, Metal, Chian, K-Sha, E-Sha, S-Sha, Nisa, Warechu, and Arfoire. All the people had exclaimed in excitement those words, all but S-Sha who had a party-like whistle on her mouth and an uninterested expression on her face, and Arfoire being in front of everyone had a huge cake with an interesting design of both Purple Heart and Black Heart shaking hands with a rainbow in the background…literally the last thing she wanted to see now due to the memories of all the times she has puked liquid of the same color.
-It's just a cake, calm your stomach-
Got it… Purple gave them what could only be called "an angelic smile".
"Thanks!" those were the only words her mouth could form.
The next hour was spent eating the rainbow cake while chatting and having a good time overall. Purple's soul was overjoyed by this, she hadn't been able to experience such a peaceful time since… How long had it been? All of the pain and suffering seemed so recent that any pleasant memories appeared to be almost an illusion.
"When was last time we had such a nice moment?" her question seemed to trigger several different reactions from everyone.
IF, the Shas, and Warechu had an answer of a date that happened three months ago; Compa and Metal would say that they had a full moment like this, of peace perhaps a few weeks ago; meanwhile Nisa, Arfoire and Chian didn't really remember when was the last time they simply let loose of themselves for some inner peace with friends, or just regular inner peace.
Seeing that she had practically just killed the mood, Purple decided to find a way to lighten up her friend's mood. Orange?
-Repeat after me-
"Actually you know what? Who cares about it?! We're having fun! That doesn't happen every day and I believe we should make more of little moments like these. Cause we don't know if tomorrow we'll have the chance to-"
Suddenly, a memory hit her.
"Mom, let's play!"
"Not now darling I'm a bit busy with this…'test'. I promise we'll play tomorrow after you're done with your job"
"Alright! Then it's a promise, tomorrow we'll finally play!"
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"Why did this happen?"
Purple was suddenly brought back to reality by IF snapping her fingers in front of her. "Finally you responded, what happened to you?"
"Yeah, you just spaced out" Chian added with a hint of worry in her voice.
"Me-I…" she didn't know what was that. Orange what was-
-Pretend you never saw that-
The words of her were colder than usual. Not really knowing what her partner meant she quickly used her best excuse "I forgot what followed" she answered with that causing everyone to sigh in disappointment, except for the brunette, who gave her a really light punch to the head "OW!" okay, we all know at this point the meaning of Iffy giving a light punch to Purple.
"Idiot" She hugged the purple head shortly after "About what happened two days ago…don't you ever dare to do something stupid like that again, otherwise I'll kick you so strongly on the head the pain will never go away, got it!?"
"Y-Yes!"
Arfoire just watched with a smile as the CPU kept talking with her friends. Friends, been a while since I had those…is this how you could have been had I not left in those three years? It hurt her to know she'll never get her question answered but couldn't do a lot about it, what was done was done, and she needed to accept it. No, she already did, it's just a part of her which refuses to let go of the past.
"Sensei!" The woman turned to the left to see Nisa besides her holding a spoon with a bit of cake "Say Ahhh"
"…Nisa" she took Nisa's wrist…before twisting it to almost the point of no return "Please, don't repeat that"
"S-Sorry I just saw you a bit melancholic and thought about getting back with us!" Arfoire accepted her excuse and decided to let go of her. Looking around she noticed the cake had just one piece remaining.
Purple walked towards the food "Me-I'll take the last one if no one minds" she reached out to take it with her hand when suddenly everyone (minus Arfoire) held her for wherever place it was possible to physically restrain her "W-WHAT HAPPENS!?" she asked in a panic.
"Idiot! If we don't leave her at least a piece she'll get our throats!" yelled IF holding her friend with her arms on surrounding her throat.
"I met her in person already and her patience is as small as your resistance to eggplants!" Chian also screamed her reasons out loud while having her arms around Purple's torso.
"Yesterday I discovered the bad way she hates mice and I don't want her pissed off!" even the own Warechu had experienced things no one should experience. He was holding her left foot.
"She's so beautiful when she's smiling and I want to protect that smile!" absolutely everyone stared with disbelief at K-Sha who just spout out those words and now looked confused but didn't stop holding the CPU's right foot "What?"
Sora holding the left arm turned to her sister and lover Emilia, who was holding the opposite arm, and whispered to her "We must seriously create her a profile in Tinker"
"How about we first have the talk with her before anything considering the one the boss gave her turned her into this" E-Sha spoke her idea at which both nodded in agreeance.
Purple on her head was horribly in panic. Orange what's going on!?
-I'd say they met the devil in person and invited her here-
The purple head decided to ask the question you readers are asking yourselves out "Who is 'she'?"
A voice answered at the same time the door of the restaurant was opened "Guess it would be me" they all turned around to see Noire with a huge grin on her face at seeing the loli CPU in such an amusing situation.
Saying they all got shivers is correct, even Metal who worshipped her felt a bit scared due to hearing from them how Noire has treated each one of them, in Chian's case she met her the day before and well…now's not important to know how that ended…and yes, K-Sha is having a nice time seeing the raven head slowly making her way towards them.
She bypassed the mortals holding down the Goddess and took the piece of cake with her own hand before starting to eat it.
Purple didn't know how to react properly at this site, right now Noire was looking at her with a poker face, all while eating casually her piece of cake.
"So, Purple. I take it you're wondering the…interesting design of the cake, right?" Noire asked after swallowing what she was chewing. The purple head nodded at her question, and yes, everyone was still restraining her because the fear didn't let them move away. "Listen, Arfoire and I had a serious talk yesterday, and in not so many words: We started yelling to each other, drank tea, took our weapons and started aiming for each other heads, finished destroying most of my office, traumatized a few people in here, I tried to kill that rat cause it interrupted me, and well, in the end, she achieved her goal after three hours of negotiating with me"
The worse three hours of our lives. Thought simultaneously the people who had the bad luck of being there, including the very own Arfoire.
Noire placed her free hand in front of Purple and raised one finger "First: I'll give you and your party VIP passes to the other nations, quite easy to obtain if you ask me" she raised another one "This one came from S-Sha. Second: I would allow the eventual marriage of her with her twin under certain circumstances we still need to discuss"
"You did that for us?" E-Sha asked with a giant blush on her face.
S-Sha also got one "Well, we always talked about how we eventually wanted to start our own family"
"Leave incest behind for now, I'm not done talking!" at her words the two stopped moving their lips "Thanks. Three:…" she turned around to see her Mother seemingly waiting for her to speak up, with an annoyed sigh she returned her attention to the CPU "Purple, you and I are going to spend the rest of the day together"
"Oh…" shivers started running through Purple's existence "Do Me-I have a choice?"
"No. Now I would appreciate if you dropped her" at her words, all the makers got their hands off the Goddess and backed away in fear "Thank you" she ate the last part of her food and took a look at Purple who seemed more than ready to faint out of fear in this very instant.
Spend the day with Noire?
She may be an idiot in all the aspect of the word but even she wasn't retarded. Agreeing to it was the very same equivalent than agreeing to die.
Still, not like she was asked, she was told what would happen, and it appears her brain finally processed it.
In instants, she vanished and left barely an afterimage of what was supposed to be her and the door of the restaurant was opened as she skyrocketed herself out of it "NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" her words seemed to have echoed in the air as everyone still heard them.
Noire at least had the decency of looking guilty over the consequences of her actions towards the girl "Well…that could have gone out better"
Purple didn't waste a single second in arriving at the inn and barricading herself inside of the room she was sharing with Compa and IF before hiding in the bathtub of the bathroom.
-Did you really have to run like that?-
"What would YOU have done, Orange?" she asked the voice on her head while holding her trustworthy cursed katana in hands
-Fair point, the slight difference though, I would have a shotgun and a Gatling gun-
Then, she heard as someone knocked the door of the room "Pur-Pur, please let me in!" it was Compa still knocking "I understand how you feel and that's why I'm not going to say anything about you. I came to help you out, please open the door so I can tell you of an actual place to hide"
Purple peaked from the door of the bathroom and saw the barricaded door (she used IF's bed and the T.V to do the drill) and eventually answered "Alright!"
If there was someone who she can trust it must be Compa, she's always been there for her and has always done the best for her so why would she sell her out?
-I have a bad feeling about this-
Don't have it, Compa has never betrayed us. With that thought she started de-barricading the door until she eventually finished "Ready, you can come in!"
"…" silence was the only thing that answered her.
Purple quickly grew worried and opened the door…great mistake.
"GET HER!" IF, Nisa, Warechu, and Compa jumped on top of the Goddess and started tying her up with a rope they had with them.
"Sorry Purple but this IS for your own good" the Guild member tried to reason with her as she struggled to tie her legs.
"Normally I wouldn't do this, however, the situation requires us to calm down my Goddess and bring you to her" Nisa also said her reasons at the same time she managed to tie her hands together.
"I simply don't want to die-chu!" typical Warechu.
"I apologize for this Pur-Pur. I promise I'll make it up to you later" Compa took out a regular size syringe and impaled it into her friend's neck before pushing the thing to make the liquid enter into her body.
Suddenly Purple found herself unable to keep her eyes open and slowly closed them along with her resistance.
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By the time she opened her eyes again, she noticed something weird, she wasn't in the inn anymore, she wasn't tied like how she was before, and she had a rope tied on her neck that made her look like a dog, and she was sitting beside someone.
"…Eh?" looking around she noticed she was in Lastation's Basilicom lobby and the only living beings there where her and a sleeping Noire besides her.
She took this chance to slowly stand up and make her way towards the exit, only to be stopped by the feeling of the air not reaching her anymore, she took a step back and started breathing normally again. The rope almost strangled her neck, looking behind her she saw Noire holding the end of the rope and waking up to the feel of the Goddess's attempt to escape.
She snored waking herself up and looked at Purple, the poor loli was terrified and believe me when I say Noire didn't give a-
"Took you long enough to wake up"
The raven head started making her way towards the poor Goddess who was shrieking with fear of the type "Fuck Everything and RUN!" with each step the demonic Goddess gave, little Purple took a step back until she eventually pinned herself on a wall with nowhere to run to.
Orange…it was nice to meet you.
-Can't say the same, I'm actually kind of happy this is happening-
Give all my things to…Metal, he's the only one who hasn't betrayed me!
-I would if I could remember I'm just a voice in your head-
Purple closed her eyes, waiting for the worse, her body wasn't still operating completely and so using magic was highly dangerous and useless…yet, nothing came. By the time she opened her eyes, she saw Noire not being able to hold the laughter.
"Seriously, you should see your expression! It's like "Please don't kill me all-powerful Lady Black Heart!" seriously, what's up with that?" she asked while making fun of the poor child shaking in fear and now…confusion. "Purple, if I wanted to kill you trust me, you'd be already dead. I just want to spend the day with you"
"W-Why?"
The raven head Goddess crossed her arms "Because…Arfoire wants us to repair the broken bond between us. She wants us to go back the way we used to be before everything went to hell" she answered with a sadder tone, remembering all the great times the two spend together.
The hardest part of the reunion held yesterday wasn't to get her to give them the VIP passes, or get her to eventually agree to allow marriage between S-Sha and E-Sha, what really caused a dispute to break out and the longest part was to get her to agree to spend time with Purple and spend it doing fun things rather than killing her.
Originally Noire had lost interest in doing that since she gave for a fact she wouldn't survive against Blanc and Vert but she still hated her guts. And Arfoire wanted to change that by literally leaving them alone in hopes of the fire of their sisterhood to burn once more.
Something the Goddess of black didn't like at the most minimum and with good reason.
However, she finished giving in and agreeing to it.
But only one chance, just one, one day they would spend together. A first and last chance to change Noire to her side; Purple managed to understand that part, she needed to get along with her something hard for both parts.
"And to make sure you won't escape I placed you that rope. Listen, I'll take it off if you promise to not run away at the first chance you see, did I make myself clear?"
Purple took a moment to answer with security "Yes"
"Good, saves me the trouble of explaining why I was walking around with a slave" Noire summoned her rapier and cut the rope around Purple so fast she wasn't even able to see the movement. A second later she de-materialized her weapon and opened the doors of the Basilicom, even if the clouds of the pollution covered the sky she could tell it was a bit past noon, they still had enough time to go to the places she had planned for the two of them to go to.
Breathing in and out she glowed a moment before having her clothes replaced with a completely different outfit: She was now wearing denim black color jeans, a red beanie, a denim vest, a black color hoodie above a red flannel shirt.
"Informal clothes: check. Ready for a day of Fun" she suddenly stopped giving the usual 'I'll kill you aura' and instead gave a 'Don't mess with me' aura, causing Purple to feel a bit more secure around her "Come on, we don't have all day!"
"Y-Yes!"
Meanwhile, Orange was wondering something, and just one thing:
-…Where have I seen that outfit before?-
It's been half an hour since the two Goddesses left the Basilicom and during that time Noire has tried her best to start a conversation, break the ice, but found absolutely no way to do it at least not without scaring the life out of Purple, and she didn't understand why.
And no, Purple isn't guilty of getting like that after all, Noire has made her the interesting set of questions:
"Hey Purple, if you were hit with a tree how badly would you end up?"
"Purple, if you jumped from a skyscraper, would you survive the fall?"
"Have you ever thought about having children and make them exact clones of you?"
"What if we're just fictional characters in a third class fanfiction?"
With all of that, it was obvious the little Goddess would get afraid considering who was asking them. On her hand, Noire didn't know what she was doing wrong.
After the eventful walk, they finally arrived at their first destination: The Theater.
"Alright, we'll begin our 're-do our bonds' with a movie! And I already selected which one, come on"
Now, this was interesting, Purple has never watched a movie before, Neptune left to Celestia before these things were even created so neither her from now nor her from before has seen a movie in this place.
Following Noire they entered the place and found the place of ticket sales, she noticed the lack of people "Where's everyone?" she asked this considering she thought this place would be busier.
"It's Monday, not a lot of people come here and not at these hours for sure" Noire answered the purple head before speaking to the employee waiting for her "Hi, I would like two for The Amazing Spider Heart"
"I'm sorry but the movie was taken out yesterday" he answered her with a tone of sadness before realizing something "…Ah, Lady Black Heart I almost didn't recognize you with those clothes"
"I wanted to go a bit more informal, today's my break and I want to spend it with…" she turned to look at Purple and thought of her answer "…my friend"
"I see, I am truly sorry, however, its continuation is already out"
"Really?"
"Yeah, The Spectacular Spider Heart is the current sensation among teenagers and young adults" he replied with hints of happiness in his tone. He had definitely seen the movie.
"Alright then we will-" and so, she remembered something sad "Purple, have you seen the movie the first movie of Spider Heart?" she shook her head "Darn it. Okay, then we'll watch…Teen Goddesses"
"I'm sorry my Lady but…that movie was also taken out yesterday and in its place, they put: Teen Goddesses GO! The movie"
Noire had a blank expression over her face "Did they seriously make them a movie?" Noire had been able to watch all the seasons of the first one and when she watched the first episode of the remake she instantly raged quit the rest of it.
"Yes…but the after credit scene made it worthy…literally the only part of the movie that mattered" he spoke in low volume from the disappointment he experienced.
"Okay, which is the movie with the best percentage given to it by fans that you have right now?" she asked this question a bit stressed out.
He started to look at the current movies they had "If I had to say then I personally recommend you: Tomorrow's Noir. It has currently one of the highest high scores given by both fans and critics."
"Then, two tickets please" he handed them the tickets at the same time she gave him the estimated amount of credits and quickly bought the snacks: Popcorn along two sodas and a Hot Dog that they cut in half to share.
"…Now then, where have I seen that outfit before?" wondered the ticket's man on loud voice.
They went inside of the room the movie would take place and saw the thing was practically empty save for a few seats takes by kids who probably had no school today along with a few teenagers and even a pair of two adults.
The two of them took seats in the middle of the room and shortly after the movie started.
During the entire film, Purple wasn't able to take her eyes off the screen, the main character appeared to be inspired in Noire due to the physical similarities the two share and a bit of the pride the two have. Currently, the protagonist was about to face off her rival in the ring.
While she was at that, Noire had done nothing but watch the expressions of her CPU partner and realized how easily she got excited over small details like at the beginning when the protagonist "Noir" took down a whole group of Yakuza with nothing but her bare fists, and also about how easily she got emotional with things like when the friends of the protagonist started leaving the reformatory to perhaps never see her again.
She was…what Neptune was. No, she was a greater version of what Neptune represented. That Goddess was supposed to represent innocence not strength. Purple was innocence in one of its purest forms, that's the way Noire would describe it, she was way more innocent and…childish than Neptune however, that made her different from her in a way.
Maybe, she wouldn't end as she did in the past. Maybe, she would become what Neptune wasn't able to.
The final battle started, it was amazing, both of them had incredible strategies, and after an exciting match, the rival manages to win by almost mere' luck. Still, a victory is a victory, and seeing how Purple got down when Noir lost was sad but interesting to see…and then, in the end, it is revealed how the rival…
"We believe she died thanks to the condition her body was in, added the intensity of the match I'd say it's no surprise she died…I'm sorry Noir"
Knowing what this scene was, Noire looked beside her and saw Purple with some tears rolling down her cheeks. There had been two reasons for this: she was way more sensitive than Neptune so it is believable that something like this made her cry, and the other one is that…this reminded her of Falcom.
The movie ended with a "To be Continued" and some clapping from the public.
"Purple, the movie ended, let's go eat something healthy to compensate the popcorns," the raven head said gaining a small nod from the purple head. They left after putting the stuff they used in the trash can. Noire could have sworn she heard some sniffing from Purple but decided to ignore it.
The two of them were now at a salad restaurant waiting for their orders to be served. Purple had returned to her normal self after leaving the theater so no need to worry about that. Also, they both ordered what would be their favorite: in Noire's case, it was Purple's weakness: Eggplant, while the other one decided to check out what was a Shiitake by ordering that salad.
After a while, their orders arrived being brought by a nice young lady.
"A regular size Eggplant Salad and a regular size Shiitake salad?" she asked nicely.
"Yes"
"Here's your order" she delivered both plates which looked exactly the same "Enjoy your meal…and are you perhaps Lady Black Heart?"
Noire sighed before smiling "Yep, that's me"
"C-Could I take a photo with you?"
"Sure, why not?" she quickly posed for a photo as the waitress took them a selfie.
"Thank you very much!" she quickly left back to the place she should be and when she arrived she noticed something "…I swear I've seen that outfit before, but where?"
In the time Noire had done her business with her fan Purple already started helping herself with the food. The Neptune I know would wince and pout about having this as lunch or any food in general, guess the memory loss changed a few bad aspects of her, huh. She took her fork and gave a bite to her salad as she realized something dreadful: she had been given the shiitake salad.
"Purple wait that's my salad!" she exclaimed but instead of seeing the disgust in Purple's face she saw…joy?
Purple swallowed what she had stored on her mouth "No, yours is eggplant and mine is Shiitake"
"Purple, you are eating eggplants right now"
Said Goddess looked at her salad and at Noire's "Really?"
-I'll be honest here I'm as confused as you are. I also thought you hated eggplants but you don't, in each case you see them as a regular food while the thing that made you puke was…-
"Purple, did you confuse eggplants with Shiitakes?" Purple slowly nodded realizing her dumb mistake there. "Well, that was surprising"
What in the-? Okay, she hates with her life eggplants just for you to tell me that she's actually eating them nicely and freely while what she hates is, wait a second. Noire took a piece of Shiitake (hard to find) and got it near Purple, seeing her expression suddenly becoming disgusted at just the smell of the food. That settles it, the memory loss and heavy hits she received in the console war affected her likings, better tell mom about this if she's going to go with her.
They continued eating silently, all the time Purple was now the one trying to break the ice, with no success whatsoever. Noire was just eating and spacing out, she even looked as if she had forgotten she wasn't alone.
"Noire, is something wrong?" said Goddess looked to stare at the one who just asked her and remained watching in silence. After what felt like an eternity she stood up and took Purple's wrist dragging her out of the restaurant "W-Wait, Noire we haven't finished eating!"
Her words fell on deaf ears as the raven head forcefully took her out of the establishment (they had already paid so no worries on that) and then guide her somewhere else forcefully.
"Hold on, where are we goin?"
-"Going"-
Not now!
"…" Noire didn't answer, instead, she started letting out again the killing aura that surrounded her in the first place "Shut up and don't question me"
After having walked around with the smaller CPU they had finally arrived at their destination, really far away from the place they were just a moment ago. They even went out of the city, and their location is simple: The destroyed part of the forest just outside Lastation, the exact place where Yellow Heart blew up and destroyed most of her surroundings.
"Noire, why are we-?" she didn't finish due to being pushed away by Noire, and so she finally was able to see her face. She was angry.
FLASH
She transformed into Black Heart and materialized her big sword in front of her "…I really tried to, I really tried to get along with you, I really tried to be friends with you again, return to that past where there was no violence, I really did try and yet…I can't, not anymore!" she aimed her weapon at Purple "I can't handle to see that stupid face anymore, I can't handle you existing anymore, I can't handle my wishes to kill you! Take your weapon and fight me one last time."
Even if it looked like an order Purple could easily tell it wasn't, this was something else, something that needed to be done. Purple had spent so much time trying to like Noire that she completely forgot about making her like her.
No, even if she had tried, the result wouldn't have changed at all. Even if she hadn't escaped earlier she somehow could tell they were meant to face each other in that place. It was something destiny wanted.
"Me-I don't want to fight you" she materialized her cursed katana and ARMAS as well "But if necessary I won't hold back" truth is she can barely hold a weapon and talk about fighting, after what happened with Peashy she was scared of even thinking about fighting, but it didn't mean she wouldn't try to overcome her fears.
"Why don't you transform?" Black Heart asked with a growl.
"Because I can't," she said this remembering she can only transform if IF gave her permission to.
To Noire, those words were an insult. "Fine then! Come at me and give me your best blow! I'll let you give me the first one for free so don't waste it!"
"Here I come!" she charged both of her weapons with electricity and quickly jumped into the sky, both weapons joined as she started spinning in mid-air. "EXE DRIVE:-" she started descending down on her opponent, she had never tried out this technique due to the huge risk it represented if she failed or the enemy moved away but if it's a free shot then now's the best moment to try it out! "Infinite ZERSTORUNG!"
A great earthquake shook the zone the two Goddesses were in, as a huge amount of smoke created from the impact covered the air.
As this one started dying out Purple was able to see in front of her Noire…with barely just a little scratch in her processor unit.
"…What was that?" The white head asked with fury on her tone "I can't believe it, there's no way Neptune would be this-!" she stopped at hearing her own words. "…That's right, Neptune wouldn't be this weak, Neptune hates eggplants and doesn't have anything against Shiitakes, Neptune isn't so sensitive, Neptune even hates salads…I get it now. You aren't Neptune that's why!"
"Excuse me?"
"It was so obvious since the beginning, Neptune is dead! We killed her in Celestia, you, you are the new Neptune, you are the result of the death of Neptune!" she started screaming those words which caused a lot of confusion to grow into Purple "That day, when we first met, I didn't find satisfaction with your blood in my blade because you aren't my target, my target's been dead for too much time I just never realized it!"
"Me-I not understanding a lot"
"Don't you see it? You aren't Neptune you are a consciousness born from whatever remained of Neptune's brain. You are nothing but the result of Multiple Personality Disorder!" those words seemed to have freeze time for Purple, suddenly it all went slower before it all played at the right speed again "It makes sense, I already had my vengeance so killing you, someone who's not Neptune will never satisfy me! I finally found-
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-peace" Noire spoke those words with a smile and a tear running down her left cheek, then she did the last thing Purple expected her to do…she bowed her head to her all the way to the ground "I apologize for trying to kill you, I mistook you for someone who just happens to look like you. Do you think that you could forgive this dumb Goddess for not realizing something so obvious?"
"…" Purple knelt with her and placed a hand on her shoulder "Of course!" she gave once again her angelic smile.
The two of them stood up and Noire talked again, this time a smile on her face "Let's start things again. My name is Noire, people tend to call me Black Heart, and I am the Goddess of Lastation" she stretched out her hand "Who are you?"
"…" the Purple head reached her hand out with Noire's "My name is Purple, and I am the Goddess of Planepteune, nice to meet you!"
-"Planeptune"-
Yeah, just that. Purple could care less if she said something right or not, right now she had somehow calmed down an anger that was thought to be unlimited.
After shaking hands the raven head hugged the little CPU with a bear hug almost breaking her back "From now on, let's get along, now that the person I hate is gone I have no motives for hating you or any similar from now on"
"I just hope to get along with you!"
"As Arfoire would say: All for a brighter tomorrow. My anger has been calmed, hopefully, for good, I know I still have to make it up to you for everything I've done but believe me when I say this. No longer will I do any of that. After all, a friend wouldn't hurt a friend, right?" she asked with a huge smile that no tsundere could possibly hide.
"Yes, let's be friends!" even if Purple wasn't fully alright with the way things turned out, she was happy to know that Noire got her vengeance and that she would be an ally if the future would require it.
Purple had practically ended all the businesses she had in Lastation. She had the Key Fragment, she had destroyed #1's plans, and had befriended the CPU who hated her other self, her principal self, her original self. The last thing remaining would be to help Chian in the Tech-Expo but…that story is for another time.
As the light starts growing in size, so does the darkness.
But for now, Purple will spend the rest of the day with the new friend she just made.
And it would be one of the happiest days of her life.
Right now something was for sure: the beginning had just reached its ending.
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PURPLE HAS LEARNT: INFINITE ZERSTORUNG
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NEW DATE TO DOWNLOAD
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NAME OF DATA: REVELATIONS
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DOWNLOADING DATA
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A MESSAGE HAS BEEN FOUND:
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UNTIL NEXT TIME.
And so, the beginning has finally reached its ending, thank you all for following this story all the way with me, no I am not cancelling it, I am simply giving it a really long break and focus on other projects I've been wanting to do for a while now.
I apologize for not reviewing reviews but well, I wanted to make this as serious as possible, I thank you all and well, just as the computer said, there will be a next time, Purple still has a lot of things to do before any of this is over, like unmasking the rest of the numbers along with G.G, defeating them and save the world, you know the usual hero journey thing but with great changes in this case.
All I'm saying is…I have loved doing this story and that's why I need a break from it, a break from Purple to come back better than ever.
Once again, I thank you all for being there with me and well, I'll say it for those who didn't recognize it.
Noire was dressed as Delsin Rowe (from Infamous Second Son) in the bad end route, congratulations on those who managed to tell as whom she was dressed as.
Don't worry I won't be taking a full break from writing these things I'll just be working on my other story and I'll begin a new one, of what? That's a hyper super mega level secret.
I guess that's all I wanted to say huh, welp, for the last time in this story.
Shadic out.
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MEANWHILE IN ANOTHER UNIVERSE
The city was a chaos, buildings were on fire, people were screaming and running to safe places, and the responsible was just riding a hover board while laughing like the maniac they are "Where are you!? Are you really going to let me destroy your dear city and kill everyone you care about!?"
"No" the evildoer turned around to meet a girl, this girl wasn't any ordinary girl for she was something else, something amazing, spectacular, she was…perhaps the greatest heroine in existence.
"Took you long enough, Spidey"
"Well you know what they say, right?" she took a battle stance, huge grin under her mask "The hero always arrives late, it's ShowTime Greenie!"
With that last cry, they both rushed to each other ready to start what could be the fight of the century.
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GOD DARN IT! WHO PLACED THIS HERE?!