All that crisis about Corona Virus is really halting progress, but oh well. The fic is in the way of being finished soon anyway, so...I guess look forward to it?

In any case, we're reaching the end.


Chapter 36: Clash of the CPUs

"It's time for the final battle, huh? This atmosphere is pretty good, but I'm going to stay serious for once. Because you've got a lot of crap coming for you, Kurome!" Neptune declared towards her as she remained serious alongside the others and stared at her.

Kurome, Leader and the formerly defeated CPUs stood before them as the dark CPUs. Their appearance was similar to them, but their eyes were darker and in a deep purple and red light. They were constantly in HDD, their bodies in a darker color.

"I'm surprised to see that you decided to go against me, I thought you realized that Gamindustri wasn't worth saving anymore. That it should be destroyed and be done with, I thought that was simple enough for you to get into your head." Kurome mocked her.

"I realized that you weren't doing this out of genuineity or sympathy, but out of self-gain and your own sick goals. And I'm not one who sticks by someone with such a broken mentality, especially based on what you did now." Big Nepgear declared, staring at her with her hatred and anger condensed into a glare. Her anger would explode if she didn't keep it in, seeing her former friends enslaved by her.

"You talk a lot for someone who isn't truly aware of anything, but it is better to die silently than to live with seeking eternal curiosity. That being said..." Kurome slowly walked up to them.

"I will stop by no means from here on out anymore, I took the liberties to control and direct the many people that believed themselves to be fit to change and rule parts in Gamindustri! You don't get the chance to control this many willing fools than usual, you'd never get the chance to change, control and direct the fate of Gamindustri by so much." Kurome told her, her voice deceitful as usual.

"Whether it was a narcissistic millionaire or a man who believes money to be the greatest thing in the world. They were all disposeable pawns in the endgame to fulfill my goal, thus me and my agenda pulled the strings to command them. Tasking them to spread and distribute my monsters and the truth about you was just another part of my plan." Kurome remarked, smiling deceitly.

"The entire time, you were the ones that manipulated everyone and pulled the strings. You were behind everything, weren't you? You're the one responsible for all the events that have been happening ever since my forced venture to their dimension, who else would be behind everything?" Big Nepgear yelled at her.

"At this point, there is no reason to lie anyway. I was the one who created the monsters and gave them to AffimaX to spread my influence and the one who slowly turned the world against you. You know that I lacked a physical form in your world, but as my plan came to fruition, that slowly changed thanks to the growing negativity and hatred for you." Kurome told them, showing them her corrupted and hate-made body as proof.

"AffimaX and Chika served as great puppets to strengthen my ranks and seek out more easily controlled servants, but I never needed them in the longrun. The same can be said for anyone that I used to execute my plan. Azna=Leb, Mina, Anonydeath, CFW Magic, they all made pleasant tools for my plans to advance. I discarded them all once they fufilled their purpose just like the others. My synthetic CPUs were more useful for the rest of my plan, I had no need for anyone who would dare betray me or make their own agenda eventually." Kurome explained.

"Synthetic CPUs? So that's what they were, those soldiers. I wouldn't ask, but what the hell is up with them and why do you call them that?" Blanc asked.

"Seeing that the CPU had perished, I resorted to forming servants by myself. Monsters wouldn't do, so loyal servants with a mind of their own had to come and I thought these little kids were a good replacement for now." Kurome remarked as she petted Leader like a pet before suddenly grasping harshly and ripping a bit of skin off with no reaction.

"I was made with the physical basis of each of you CPUs while my little soldier allies were created with the basis of the Candidates, but our bodies are completely synthetic and made out of other beings to supplement our strength. But naturally since we possess your powers too, we became far more powerful than you." Leader told them, her body was abnormal and not like an actual CPU or human.

"Well aware of that, I've seen you use different weapons and use abillities that are similar to us. It'd take a no-brainer to not realize that we are similar." Noire remembered their previous battle and all of Leader's abillities, it was like facing all of themselves in one.

"I remember quite well that I defeated most of you easily and without difficulty, it was too bad that I couldn't capture more of you to brainwash. Our master would have enjoyed to take more of you under our control and turn to slaves, but this will do enough...for now anyway." Leader told them as her eyes lit up brightly and her face grew a disturbing smile.

"We have a score to settle after all and this time I want to kill each one of you."

"Let's see...there's me and your former friends turned into my master's personal truckload of mindless slaves to do everything we need them for and become batteries for the Dark CPUs. I'm curious to see how far you think you can get with your laughable side, comparing our sides you seem somewhat weaker and more pathetic."

"What the hell do you intend to do to them?" Big Nepgear asked her, she had immense wrath in her eyes.

"They are going to be my newest and most powerful arbiters, they will serve as cores for my army and colossi. You can do the same, once I capture you and make you understand why you should have destroyed Gamindustri when I returned your true self to you, but maybe you can do something else for me then." Kurome responded.

"I'll never bow to you! I'm going to kill you and be done with all the suffering you caused, you've used me long enough and I won't let you treat them this way too!"

"It's truly a shame to see you oppose me, I've always found you quite interesting and even held some level of sympathy. But if it has to, then I show no mercy. You've done more than enough for me to let your death be dealt with without worry, thanks to you I've resurrected the CPUs to my side and obtained the powers of Rei and the Deity of Sin for myself."

"What? I never gave you their power!"

"I get what she's refering to." Croire appeared and started explaining. "She's taken advantage of the Gehaburn's abillity to absorb share-like energy to keep it ready and save it up. That explains how she managed to obtain that fragment of you that was lost to the Gehaburn, it was all stored up into the blade and kept safe."

"Exactly. That's where I had you hold the remnants of Arfoire's and Rei's energies for me to take one day. And I must say, all this power feels quite exquisite and enjoyable, to the point where I could have bursted!" Kurome responded.

"With all this power, I can end both of your worlds as a start and move on to the next as I absorb more and more power. Your world is already coming closer to the verge of demise." She told her as she revealed both of their powers surging through her, her entire body shining in a purplish-blue veil.

"Just have a sight for yourselves." Kurome declared as she slowly created a window to their world to show them her progress in their world.


The Hyperdimension was under heavy assault, monsters were spawning and invading the cities.

"Everyone, hold down the monsters! Evacuate the people!" Histoire yelled to everyone as monsters were invading the nations without mercy and being repelled. IF and the members of Gold Third were busy holding the enemies back.

"This is not going to end well, when are Neptune and the others finally going to come back!?" IF dealt with the sudden monsters, cutting and burning them, but there were simply too many to deal with at once.

"There's not much to do here other than to fight back!" C-Sha charged forward and punched several monsters out of the way, from the back K-Sha and S-Sha backed them up and attacked many of them.

"We gotta keep Gamindustri safe until they come back." B-Sha stood behind and blasted several flying dragons and birds out of the sky.

"Nep-Nep, when do you come back?"


"As you can see, both of your worlds are under the attack of my ruthless servants. It won't take long until they will face their demise and your worlds will be colored red in my image." Kurome declared and revoked the window as her eyes lit up in red and purple.

"It's about time that we settle this, there is no more need for worthless prattle. Leader, deal with the CPUs alongside the Dark ones! I've already picked my targets." Kurome commanded them as she snapped her fingers. The area slowly deformed and collapsed as all that was left the sky as the dimension slowly changed.

"Welcome to the Zero Dimension. I'm taking no chances." Kurome told them before her hand deformed, becoming a massive amalgamation of monster flesh and capturing both Nepgears with it.

"What the hell?"

"Time to teach you juniors what real power is." Kurome threw them towards a seperate area in the dimension and followed them.

"We won't let you get away with this, Me! I'm taking you down this time too!" Uzume charged forward and followed them, but she was held back by one of the Dark CPUs who restrained her.

"You heard the boss, now let's get real comfy..." Leader laughed as she and the other Dark CPUs stepped forward with a murderous glint in their eyes. Each of them sharpening their weapons and preparing to strike, their eyes showing desire to kill.

"I think for this time, I'll have a bit of a treat. Let's see how you deal with my anger this time, first thing once we're done will be a nice little torture for you, Neptune." She told them as she stared into Neptune's eyes with a angered stare.

"I especially want to get my revenge on you and that self-denounced idiot of mad science."

"Don't insult my beautiful and devout science!" MAGES. immediately yelled at her along with sending a bolt of magic along her way, but it was quickly deflected by Leader's sharp and powerful weapon. A massive blade that seemed to resemble a whip aswell as giant claw on her other hand, both weapons immediately shot into Neptune's eyes.

"Where...did you get those?"

"Come and find out. Dark CPUs, attack your respective selfs and show no mercy!" Leader ordered them, each of the formerly good CPUs charging at the others and starting the battle. She herself charged forward and swung her blade towards both Neptunes and Uzume, aiming to kill them first.

"Come and get your punishment, you mutant jerk!" Neptune transformed to Purple Heart right from the get-go and didn't even try making any jokes, she immediately dodged Leader's attack and responded with a powerful strike from her leg.

"Don't try anything hasty or you'll quickly regret it. I don't think you realize that you're outnumbered in strength and numbers." Leader yelled her out as she appeared behind them and attacked, breaking the ground underneath them to bits.

"Once I've killed you, our master will tear you apart and remake you into a loyal servant that fufills her every order!" Leader yelled out as she charged at them.

"I'd rather not, since I think that the original is better! Critical Edge!" Purple Heart took a quick turn to the side and countered, atacking and assaulting Leader with powerful attacks. Leader simply endured the attacks like they were nothing and simply stood still.

"Neptune, watch out!" Uzume and Big Neptune jumped into the fray and blocked a surprise attack by Dark Purple from the side, they bashed blades and fists with her alternate counterpart, both facing each other face to face before they quickly seperated to dodge magical projectiles. Many of them chased after them, one managed to narrowly branch off direction and hit Uzume on the arm.

"Damn it, stupid magical shenanigans!" Uzume stepped back to recover.

"Keep an eye out, the two self-proclaimed magicians are here and Leader and Dark Purple are waiting for us to get here and fight. We need to stay on the defensive." MAGES. responded as she once again formed a magical barrier that blocked the attacks.

"We need to stay aware in case Leader tries using that stupid Bounded Field again, can you break ít again when it comes?" Uzume asked her.

"I think that's very unlikely, she is much better prepared than last time and even brought new weapons and strategy to deal with us. We should keep the advantage. Seraphic Healing!" MAGES. advised them and cast her spell on them to make them restore health.

"Now go, we are running out of time." She responded as she quickly lowered the barrier before sending both back out to battle as Dark Purple charged forward.

"Alright, time for us to make some steps and big brain moves!" Big Neptune ran forward.


"Tch, so we're going to fight ourselves. Not really up for that, but why not?" Blanc quickly transformed into her HDD form alongside her sisters and the other CPUs as Dark White was charging at them.

"How about everyone goes for each other if possible? We can handle our own weakness quite well." Noire suggested as before them stood the remaining Dark CPUs.

"That's an idea we can work with, but we need to handle any chance of them performing surprise attacks." Vert figured as she immediately summoned her spear and charged forward.

"Eat this!" White Heart charged through, but her attack was intercepted by herself. Dark White blocked her attack mid-charge with her own axe and followed by readying her own skill.

"Schattenschlag." Dark White quickly moved her axe before dealing a powerful attack against Blanc and hitting her extremely quickly and at full force.

"Ice Coffin!" Rom and Ram immediately took their oppurturnity and tried to encase Dark White in ice, but just before their spell went off their staffs were sliced apart into pieces in an instant.

"Rom, Ram, watch out!" Uni warned them and fired a massive energy missile, blocking off their attacker Dark Black and weakening her mid-charge.

"Schattenschlag." Dark White appeared before them and struck all three Candidates with a powerful swing and sent them flying towards the walls before her allies appeared.

"Shadow Whites, Shadow Black, get them." Dark Green commanded them as they appeared and unleashed powerful barrages of missiles at Green Heart to stall her.

"Tch, we are already on the losing end. Tornado Sword!" Black Heart figured before she and Green Heart ganged up on Dark Green and attacked her from both sides, she charged up her sword in a vibrant rainbow.

"Air Lancer!" Vert charged in, but Dark Green easily intercepted both their atatcks and pulled them into a lock and left them open to any of the attacks of the others.

"Damn it, she's ridiculous tough and fast!"

"We'll get you out!" Rom and Ram charged forward, taking their broken staffs and hitting Dark Green as a distarction.

"This is gonna get tough."


"And jump like a kangaroo!" Big Neptune did a quick and dramatic jump whilst pulling her gun and charging forward, avoiding several attacks.

"Damn it, just freaking die already!"

"Aerial Shot MK-II!" Big Neptune made a careful jump and slowly rapid-fired her opponents down with bullets and weakened them or at least slowed them without mercy, but before she was on her way down, she was attacked in relaliation.

"Dark Valiant Edge!" Leader did a quick jump and prepared to stab her, standing above her with an army of sharp black swords floating behing her and falling down, enveloping her in an instant.

Big Neptune was caught by surprise and overwhelmed as she received a significant portion of damage from the blades before Uzume intervened to prevent anything more dramatic to happen.

"Stop this!" Uzume yelled and stunned Leader by yelling in her ears for a short moment as she pulled her sleeves and got ready for a nice combo.

"I'll give you a very nice and peaceful beating before I get to Kurome myself and get done with this. Dream Combo!" Uzume cracked her knuckles before running forward and punching as fast and good as she can, but Leader easily avoided every hit like a fly.

"Woah, do you even try to hit me?" Leader gracefully dodged every hit and continued her assault at Big Neptune aswell as Uzume now, slowly cornering her too. Leader instantly slipped through and charged at Uzume, but Purple Heart intercepted and knocked her away.

"Aren't you a little too anxious to attack them instead of me?" Big Neptune charged forward with her dual blades in hands, but her attack was immediately intercepted by Dark Purple who was in the middle of fighting Neptune.

"No, I'm not the one who has to deal with this. I leave that up to her to do while I try taking the maindish on by myself, I want a taste of revenge." Leader charged down Big Neptune and Uzume and sent them flying into the dimension's wall after beating their bodies, relentlessly striking with her massive claw and whipping them until they were covered in bruises. She charged towards Purple Heart and did the same while Dark Purple took initiative and kept an eye on the two while keeping Big Neptune away.

"You're awfully persistent, for every time I hit you, you just always block and take the pain. Don't give yourself a handicap or I'll kill you in an instant." Leader responded as she chased her.

"Oh, I'm not giving myself a handicap. I'm just observing this fight and I still want to know where you got those weapons and your powers, but let's end the warm-up already." Purple Heart held her hand out to the sky and summoned the Thirty-two Bit Mega Blade and set herself ready for another strike.

"Hm, I can see why our creator desired to make me a counterpart to you. In your HDD, you are quite threatening and a powerful foe, even now I sense immense power coming from you. But I'm done messing around too, I think I'll follow the deceased sister's examples." Leader told them as she unveiled a little black and purple sharicite in her hand and held it close to herself.

"Come on, you too?"

"Let's count down, including me, my master and the now Dark CPUs, we total up to 8 CPUs who will crush you. And you get to be another CPU to die." Leader declared as she transformed into a darker and more powerful state.

Her body changed as her hair grew out and colored dark-blue and her clothes changed to a massive processor similar to Iris Heart and Purple Heart, causing Neptune even further confusion. Her weapons amplified and increased in size and her eyes glew in a bright blue, alongside her were mechanical tentacles equipped to her like sharp spikes.

"Playtime's over."


"Here we are." Kurome told them as she stepped forward and looked at both Nepgears, all three of them standing in a small ruined area resmebling Planeptune, but really it was just ruins that emulated their nation.

"Y'know, it's really sad. I did kind of like you as dumb as it was, so ominous and so relateable." Big Nepgear told her before she summoned her Gehaburn and her eyes lit up with a dark tint.

"But now, I just want to get revenge for me and Gamindustri! I'll free my friends from your grasp and end your damn plans once and for all!"

"I'm not showing you any mercy either, just know that I considered you worth to stay by me and be a part of my plan. But I'm willing to sacrifice anyone including myself and others to accomplish my plans." Kurome told her before she revealed to them the center of the Zero Dimension, among it was something strange.

Within the sharicite was the image of another person who resembled Uzume, stuck within it and looking like she was crucified.

"No way, is that...Uzume?"

"Indeed, I had to a bit of removing and elminating before I could conduct my plan." Kurome explained with a devious smile as she remembered what she did before she started her plan, cruelly subjugating and containing her other self.

"I've done everything to get here, I've even entrusted you with the powers I needed and my console. Luckily, I got it all back." Kurome told them as she was in possession of her console again, holding it close to herself and holding it close to herself.

"Let's begin."


Big shocker~