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Surprise! Bonus chapter before Christmas!
And this is the epilogue to the Hyper Dimension G arc.
Chapter 33
"YAHOO!" Neptune cheered as she, Ouya, Rom and Ram all jumped into the Basilicom's large baths. All four were without any sort of modesty towel to keep people from seeing them naked.
"She hasn't changed in regards to this, huh?" Vert asked in amusement while Stadia calmly walked into the baths completely naked. "No modesty towel?" She didn't bother asking why Neptune wouldn't, the girl had offered to let Affimojas see her nude images after all, and Rom and Ram went naked all the time.
Stadia stopped to look back at Vert. "I'm not embarrassed to be seen naked. Clothing provides protection, that's all. And towels should be used to dry you off, what good are they if they're soaking wet?"
Vert sweat-dropped as Stadia slipped into the water. "Ah, she shares Neptune's lack of modesty..."
"I've noticed." Noire deadpanned and sighed as she and Blanc slid into the water. "Nnngh..." She let out a grumbling sigh in relief.
"I thought Neptune was the old woman." Blanc smirked at Noire, who gave her a dirty look. "But I agree," she sighed in relief. "This feels good." Her eyes widened and her face went red as she felt something round and heavy on her head. Narrowing her eyes in anger, she lowered her body in the water. "Thunder Tits, I swear, if you don't remove your boobs from my head, I'm going to tear them off."
"Aww, Blanny..." Blanc's eyes widened and her face turned red as the person that was resting on her. "I'm sorry."
"Ah," Blanc fidgeted as she realized it was C-Sha, who was sitting next to her. "Sorry, that's something Vert does to me a lot."
"I made the suggestion." Vert smiled from where she was soaking in the water a bit away, and more importantly, out of Blanc's lunging range.
"Mmmm!" Neptune smiled as she stretched her arms above her head and winced as she felt a loud pop in her spine. "Hoo! That felt good!"
"Jeez, mom." Stadia grumbled, looking bothered by what she heard. "Want to act like a more stereotypical old lady while I'm here?"
Neptune laughed and bobbed over to Stadia before throwing an arm over her shoulder, causing her daughter to look away, blushing. "Now, now, it's been over three hundred years since I got to take a bath with you Ouya, let's not grumble about stuff like that." Stadia nodded and Neptune had a grin come to her face as she reached her arms around Stadia. "Now then, let's see how you're developing."
"HEY!" Stadia yelped, her face going completely red as Neptune squeezed her breasts. "Mom! I'm your daughter!"
"Hmm, they seem bigger than before." Neptune muttered and let go before reaching down and poking Stadia's stomach and sides, getting laughter from Stadia, who thrashed and tried to get away. "Oh yeah, forgot you were ticklish there." She smiled and rubbed the back of her head.
"Jeez, mom! I've been in stasis for three hundred years!" Stadia gave Neptune a dirty look while crossing her arms over her breasts. "I haven't put any weight on and my boobs haven't grown an inch!"
Neptune pouted. "Jeez, throw a wet blanket on any sort of fun."
"Speaking of wet blankets," Noire spoke up and gave Neptune an annoyed look, which was shared by Vert and Blanc, "what was that back there? I was actually having fun in that fight and you're like 'no, just end the fight, no more fun' the entire time."
"I agree," Vert said while Blanc nodded, "I can't believe you weren't enjoying the fight at all."
"Uh..." Neptune gave them a confused look, which was shared by Stadia. "I wasn't enjoying the fight?"
"Mom wasn't complaining about it, so I thought she was enjoying it. I even saw her smiling." Stadia pointed out. "Mom never smiles in a fight like that."
"No, I'd say she wasn't enjoying it." Blanc pointed out, an annoyed frown on her face. "She made us wrap up the fight. I wanted to use that Next Form more myself."
"Mom, your friends are all violent maniacs." Stadia deadpanned and Neptune laughed as Vert, Blanc and Noire all blushed.
"Well, I actually was enjoying it too." Neptune smiled. "But I didn't know what he could do, or if he would just turn himself into a bomb and blow up, summon a giant meteor or do something else."
"Yeah, it's pretty stupid to let yourself get lost in enjoying stuff and then the world gets destroyed because of it." Stadia told them. "That's what mom taught me."
"I take it happened more than once?" Noire asked and Neptune nodded. "...Alright, I suppose I can forgive you."
Neptune smiled but mentally grimaced as she saw the annoyance that was still on her friends faces. 'And knowing my luck, they'll never find another opponent they can go all out against like that with their Next Forms.' She mentally sighed and wished she could make it up to them, but knew that it was too important to end the fight as quickly as possible.
Blanc sighed and tried to tamper down her annoyance. She knew it was irrational and that Neptune had been right, but she had never felt such a rush of power and to find such a durable opponent to use it on, she wanted to fight him until she couldn't move her body.
"Doo doo..." A voice she didn't recognize was saying something behind her.
Vert shook her head and tried to forget about it. She was certain that another opportunity would present itself. '...And if not, maybe I could get one of the others to agree to an all-out fight.' She knew it wouldn't be the same, none of them were likely to try and tank as much as Affimojas had and counter strike.
"Doo doot..."
Noire sighed in annoyance. 'Our normal HDD states are perfectly fine for most everything we come across, except those rare super bosses.' Though she almost wanted that redhead that beat her down years ago to reappear. 'Ha! Let's see you beat me a second time, you scythe-wielding freak!'
"Doo doot doo doot doo doot doo doot!"
"What is..?" Blanc let out a yelp as the person doing that sound suddenly pounced on her from behind. "HEY!" Her eyes went white and blank as her face went completely red as she felt a pair of hands on her chest. "STOP THAT!"
C-Sha stared as she saw Ouya groping Blanc from behind. "You're making her mad, you should stop." Though, privately, she kind of wanted to see it continue, because Blanc's reaction to being groped was hilarious.
Ouya pouted as she fondled Blanc's chest. "...You're flat."
The next thing she knew, she was slammed into the water as Blanc spun around and smashed her hand into top of the girl's head. "You want to repeat that, you brat!?"
"HEY!" Neptune was over there in an instant, pushing Blanc away. "Ouya's just more blunt than she needs to be." She quickly grabbed Ouya out of the water, who gasped as soon as her head came out of the water. "And you," she gave Ouya a stern look, causing the gray-haired girl to fidget under her mother's stern look. "What did I say about commenting about anyone's physical appearance?"
"...People don't like it when you call them flat, or chubby or say they're small in certain areas that they can't control." Ouya said and Neptune nodded and pushed Ouya towards Blanc. "...I'm sorry, that just slipped out."
Blanc's face was still red and she growled at Ouya, but nodded. "Fine, but if you do it again, I'll hit you even harder." She slipped into the water and looked away in annoyance.
"...If it helps, you're not chubby like my Aunt Blanc is." Ouya smiled at Blanc, who gave her a curious look.
"That's just baby fat." Neptune said as she let Ouya go, causing the other girl to pout.
"Aunt Blanc says that all the time when I ask her about her chubby tummy." Ouya pouted before she decided to move on.
'...So the other me has bigger boobs than me,' which annoyed Blanc to no end, 'but she's also a bit fat, huh?' Part of her was glad that she didn't have breasts if it meant that she had to put some weight on. She spared a glance at C-Sha and Vert and sank into the water until it was just under her nose and let out an annoyed huff, causing the water to bubble. 'Why can't I have a body like C-Sha or Vert? Hell, I'd like a body like Noire's.' Images of rather... Shady people of both genders acting like perverts around her just because she had a small body flashed through her mind. 'And then there's...'
Memory after memory of Vert making fun of her for being small and under-developed flashed through her mind, making her mentally sigh as she felt sadness start to engulf her. "BLUB!" She yelped as Ram fell onto her, sitting on Blanc's face.
"YEEK!" Ram jumped off of Blanc and helped her up. "Sorry, Blanc."
"BAH!" Blanc yelled and took in air. "What the hell, you little shit?!"
"Maybe we shouldn't have been playing in the bath." B-Sha muttered as she, Rom and Ram slowly backed up. "Run away!"
"GET BACK HERE!" Blanc yelled as she chased the three around, kicking up a lot of water.
Not far away, Nepgear giggled at the antics before making her way over to where Stadia was keeping to herself. "Hey." She smiled at her niece. Stadia gave her a confused look as Nepgear settled down next to her. "A lot happened, huh?" Stadia nodded to her. "I mean, finding out that I'm an aunt was a real surprise, I kept freaking out every time I thought about it."
"Yeah..." Stadia nodded. "You were kind of a giant flake." She chuckled as Nepgear looked down and flushed. "But, um..." Stadia scratched her cheek. "You were really cool during the fight." Nepgear looked at her in surprise. "I can see how your mom's sister, you just jumped in when people needed help and that was a pretty cool attack you and the others did to the general."
Nepgear blushed and smiled happily. "Thank you." She was surprised as Stadia looked troubled. "...What's wrong?"
"...Do you think Histoire can help me and Ouya?"
Nepgear wondered why she was asking, but nodded. "Yes, I'm sure she can."
*Flash*
An hour ago...
Histoire looked at Ouya and Stadia, her eyes were glowing brightly as she scanned them while the other CPUs and CPU Candidates watched her. "Hmm... Interesting." Her eyes returned to normal and she turned to Neptune. "I've never seen this kind of CPU before."
"Well, they were human before being turned into CPUs." Neptune pointed out.
"I don't think being born in a lab counts as being human." Stadia grumbled. "I knew it, you can't help us either, can you?"
Histoire gave Stadia an annoyed look. "And when did I say that? I just said that I've never seen this before from a CPU." She crossed her arms in annoyance. "If Neptune didn't reassure me that you two were her daughters, I would never believe it."
Stadia gave her a nervous look. "...You can remove my HDD state?"
"If by remove, you mean retire you, then yes." Histoire nodded at her. She gave Stadia a smug look. "Don't think of me as some under-powered piece of junk that can't figure things out. I've retired a few CPUs in this world. You're just different, that's all."
"But we had our HDD forms sealed away before..."
Histoire shook her head at Stadia. "This isn't a sealing, this is removing your ability to transform, for the rest of your lives."
"...So what happens then?" Ouya asked as she gripped the plushie in her hands.
"It will take me three days to get everything set up." Histoire said while holding up three fingers. "As for you two, you'll have long lives, but you'll have no power anymore, if that's okay with you?"
The two nodded before Stadia found her legs giving out on her and she slumped to her knees as tears suddenly burst out of her eyes. "Free... Finally free... I won't have to listen to that stupid voice in the back of my head anymore." She could feel Ouya hugging her, sobbing into her shoulder.
"Might I suggest that these two be put into lock-up until I'm ready?" Histoire asked and looked at Neptune.
"Hmm..." Neptune thought about it. "Only if we get to take a bath together first." Histoire gave her an annoyed look and Neptune smiled at her. "I haven't had a bath with them in hundreds of years, Histy! I want to have one last bath before we free them."
Histoire sighed and nodded. "Fine, but once they've recovered, they'll have to go into the holding cells down below."
Stadia and Ouya couldn't hear anything, they were too busy hugging each other and crying in relief.
*End Flashback*
Stadia sighed softly. "...Hey, auntie..." She looked at Nepgear, who smiled at her. "W...When I'm finally free of this fate... C...Can we hang out?" Stadia tried to smile. "I... I want to know more of my aunt that mom praised all the time."
"Aww..." Nepgear smiled and nodded. "Sure."
Stadia smiled back before grunting in pain and gripping her head as it felt like her whole body was throbbing. "H...Hey, mom... I'm recovered!"
"Uh huh..." Ouya nodded and grimaced. "We need to go."
The two quickly got out of the bath and ran for the changing room.
Neptune could only watch them leave sadly. "...Good luck." She whispered and sighed softly.
(-)
IF stared at the two girls as they ran out of the bathroom dripping wet while gripping their heads. "You two should get..."
"Don't talk, get us locked up before we turn around and try to murder mom." Stadia groaned in dismay. "I don't care if anyone sees me naked!"
"Hurry!" Ouya nodded and IF sighed and pulled out some handcuffs and made sure to get the naked girls arms behind them and locked into place before taking them to the holding cells.
"Compa," IF nodded to the nurse, who stared at the naked, wet girls stupidly, "go get their clothes, okay?" Compa nodded and ran off. IF got the girls into the elevator and pushed down to take them into the holding cells. "Didn't Nep teach you modesty?" Both Ouya and Stadia gave her a look. "...Nep didn't teach you modesty?" She asked and reached into her inventory to pull out two large coats, putting them over the girls shoulders to at least cover themselves up.
"I'm just naked." Stadia pointed out to IF. "It's not like I'm on the toilet or doing something perverted. That would be embarrassing."
"Yep." Ouya nodded. "Mom's got no problem with being naked."
"But didn't you two get embarrassed about her offering her nudes to Affimojas?" IF asked as the elevator stopped.
"That's different." Both Ouya and Stadia said at the same time.
"Not from where I'm standing." IF muttered and led them to the nearest cells, before undoing the cuffs on their arms and pushing them inside before closing the door behind them. "Compa will..." She trailed off as Compa came down with some bundles of clothes. "Be right here."
"Nep Nep helped me, she knew which undies and stuff were yours." The two girls nodded and took the clothes through the bars. "Nep Nep said that she'll have some special food made up when you get out."
"Thanks." Stadia said as she she and Ouya got dressed in front of IF and Compa, both of whom turned around to give them some privacy. "Oh, where's Steamax and Affimojas?" She asked as she looked around and didn't see them in any of the other holding cells.
"In another section of the Basilicom." IF told them.
(-)
Steamax looked up as Neptune walked into his holding cell area. "Lady Neptune? Can I help you?"
"Yeah." Neptune nodded at him. "Who gave your boss the power to change the world?" Steamax jerked in surprise. "There's no machine that he used to change the world and that glow wasn't natural on him, so who's behind this?"
"...How do you know?"
"The fact that Ouya and Stadia didn't immediately try to help you two out, even worn out, to fight against me is how I knew." Neptune told him. "Those two have programming in their DNA to fight any CPU that's ruling the world." Steamax nodded. "But that programming also makes them work for anyone who can challenge the CPUs."
"...Why are you telling me this?"
Neptune didn't have any of her typical amusement on her face as she gave him a stern look. "Because if you two were their bosses this time around, they would have tried to fight us, even in our Next Forms, even as beat up as they were."
After all, after getting freed from the Mole People's control, the two had fought against her and the other CPUs as they tried to free the world and it happened again when the Dinosaur Cultists took over the world. The two had been forced to defend the cultists with all of their might, even when they had been screaming and pleading with the cultists to let them live and not fight.
"...Very well." Steamax nodded to Neptune. "The General and I worked for a woman with blue hair who wanted a specific console."
"...Why a console?" Neptune asked and Steamax shook his head. "Okay, so this person had the power to do things then?"
"Very likely. The woman Arfoire, the other Neptune, Lady Ouya, Lady Stadia, Lady Plutia and Lady Peashy were all brought to us by this woman." Steamax paused as he saw a pained look cross Neptune's face. "Lady Neptune, those last two... Who are they?"
Neptune sighed and felt her shoulders slumping. "...Someone who I love like a sister and the first girl I ever adopted who's still alive. Plutie wanted to be more with me, but I couldn't. I... I just didn't feel that way about her. And P-Ko... She's my daughter." Neptune had a solemn look on her face. "...Plutie and I... We haven't been on good terms for a long time."
"...I won't pry into your personal life, Lady Neptune." Steamax told her. "But that other person is still out there and..."
"I know." Neptune nodded and sighed, looking down. "Thanks." She turned to leave before stopping at the door that led into the cell block. "...Steamax," she turned back to look at him. "Be a good man for Uni, okay?"
"Wh-wh-wha?!" Steamax stammered and fell on his ass.
"I mean it." Neptune told him and walked off. "If you get a Tsundere to like you, you need to cherish it, because they're possessive of people they like and don't give up on it easy."
Steamax just sputtered as Neptune left.
In the elevator, Neptune wondered about what she was told. 'So whoever Ouya and Stadia are working for also has Plutie and P-Ko, but why..?'
(-)
Unknown location...
Raising an eyebrow as Neptune stumbled through the purple portal, her parka disheaveled and a flustered look on her face, the blue-haired Uzume just walked over to Neptune and knelt down in front of her. "...What happened?"
"Ran into Miss Busty's older sister." Neptune muttered as she pushed herself up. "She thought she was dreaming and..." The curvy Neptune blushed and looked down. "She decided to try and have some fun with me. I barely escaped with my virginity."
Uzume just gawked in surprise.
Neptune got up and giggled while having a silly grin on her face. "...She's a good kisser though."
The next thing she knew, she was on her ass and her cheek was hurting.
Uzume gave her an annoyed look and held out her hand. "The object, now."
"Ah, right." Neptune nodded and reached into her pocket, pulling out a white stone and gave it to Uzume.
Uzume huffed and disappeared.
"Congrats, idiot, you made the Tsundere mad." Croire said from inside the Nep Note. "That was kind of amusing though, maybe next time you won't let some big-chested bimbo fondle you because she thinks she's having a lewd dream."
Neptune said nothing as she rubbed her cheek and grimaced at the pain.
Have a safe and happy Christmas everyone.
