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Was so tired yesterday from work, sorry this was delayed.


Chapter 40

"Get back, Iffy!" Peashy yelled as she grabbed IF's arm and dragged her away. "Neptuna's really dangerous right now." She shuddered as she felt the energy erupting from Purple Heart, who dropped her fan and instead pulled out a large, double-bladed sword that had black flames around it and runes carved into its blade.

"What's going on?" IF asked, her face pale and her body trembling. "What is that?"

"Didn't she have that sword to use against us?" C-Sha asked and looked at S-Sha. "You're the one who knows swords."

"Yes, that's the same sword." S-Sha nodded, her body tense. She looked at B-Sha and K-Sha, who were dragging Green Heart over to be next to Black Heart and White Heart. "But this feeling... It's like a Demon just appeared."

"That sword..." C-Sha muttered as she looked at it. "What is that?"

Meanwhile Stadia grimaced as she saw that sword. "Be careful, I've seen mom use that sword to kill giants in one hit before." She closed her eyes and transformed back into her HDD state. As Rainbow Heart looked at Purple Heart, she saw something that terrified her.

Her mother's eyes were completely clouded over. "Iffy, my Iffy..." Purple Heart muttered as energy suddenly burst out with power. "IS LONG DEAD!" Swinging her sword down in a fast arc, a powerful wave of energy burst forward, forcing everyone to scatter.

The blue-haired Uzume, who was standing back, had to cover her face as the backlash from that attack sent wind and debris flying everywhere. "Sheesh, Nepsy, be careful, will you? This is my soul after all."

"DEYAHH!" Purple Sister cried out as she came swinging down, her gunblade colliding against Purple Heart's sword. "Neptune! Calm down! IF's still alive!"

"You lie, I was there when she passed away, I put her in the ground..." Purple Heart said as a burst of dark energy knocked Purple Sister away. Purple Heart flew into the air and slashed at Purple Sister, who barely parried her attacks as Purple Heart slashed at her several times.

"YAH!" Purple Sister let out a cry as she spun around and slammed her gunblade into Purple Heart's sword. Grimacing, Purple Sister used all of her strength to push Purple Heart away from her so hard that her sister's back was to the ground. "Uni! Rom! Ram! Now!"

"What?" Purple Heart gasped as Black Sister appeared above and in front of her while White Sister Rom appeared on her left and White Sister Ram appeared on her right. "This is..?"

"Crystal Explosion!" All three CPU Candidates cried out at the same time as the twins cast a spell that engulfed Purple Heart with ice and Black Sister fired an energy blast into the ice pillar, causing it to explode and sending Purple Heart flying across the room to crash into the far wall.

Purple Heart grunted as she crashed into the wall hard enough to leave an indent, before she shook her head and pulled herself off of the wall. Her eyes flashed and dozens of swords appeared all around her before launching themselves at the CPU Candidates. The twins and Black Sister tried to flee or counter the swords, but found that the swords not only could follow after them, they were able to avoid the counter-attacks.

"GAH!" White Sister Ram cried out as one sword pierced her left leg. "OWW! THAT HURTS!"

"RAM!" White Sister Rom yelled and created an ice barrier around her sister, only to watch in horror as swords slammed into it so hard that it cracked and shattered in only a few moments. Right after that, more swords appeared around White Sister Ram, who stared in horror as they rushed at her.

"NO!" Rainbow Heart yelled as she barreled in, an energy sword in each hand while she slashed, twisted, stabbed and blocked each sword that was launched at the CPU Candidate. "STOP IT!" She screamed, before jerking forward as several swords slammed her in the back so hard that she jerked and fell forward, flopping to the ground.

"SIS!" Gray Heart rushed in and grabbed the swords, pulling them out of Rainbow Heart's back. "Stay with me."

Rainbow Heart grimaced with each sword that was pulled out of her back. "That hurts so much. Even Aunt Plutia's punishments didn't hurt this much." She said softly and painfully as she realized her HP was getting dangerously low.

Peashy ran over to them and helped remove the last swords from Rainbow Heart's back. "No!" The blonde stared in horror. "Ploot! Please!?" She looked at the other girl in desparation.

Plutia nodded and ran over to Rainbow Heart, before using her healing skills to try and help. "I'm sorry, Peashy and I can't help any more." She really wished, more than ever, that she could just transform. 'Damn it, Nep... No, it's my fault, why did I have to fight Peashy? None of us were stable back then.' It wasn't the first time in her life, nor would it be the last, that she mentally cursed out those dinosaur cultists for what they did.

"What the goodness?!" Purple Sister gasped as she saw the sky fill with swords. In fact, there were so many that the ceiling looked like it was made of blades.

"Purge the surface world, kill any who oppose me, allow the Mole People to rule, yes..." Purple Heart said softly as she raised up her hand and power started to fill the air. "Death to all."

"Neppy!" Plutia cried out as she saw that move.

"STOP NEPTUNA!" Peashy cried out, tears filling her eyes. "MOMMY!"

Purple Heart jerked and looked at Plutia and Peashy as her swords wavered in the air.

"Jeez, Nepsy..." Uzume muttered as she looked at Purple Heart with a look between being impressed and angry. "Can't you spare me at least?"

Croire glared at Purple Heart. "HEY! USELESS SLUT! WATCH IT!" She let out a yelp of fear as Purple Heart looked at her and pointed a finger in her direction.

"Hey, Gearsy..." Orange Heart said as she got close to Purple Sister. "How about we give Nepsy the one-two like what we gave to doggy?"

Purple Sister gave her a glance and nodded. "Alright." She jumped up into the air and flew at Purple Heart while Orange Heart raced in.

"Bad Nepsy!" Orange Heart cried out as she did a flying dive kick into Purple Heart's stomach. "Gearsy! Go!" She yelled as she held out her megaphone and launched a sphere of wind magic at Purple Heart, who grunted as it connected and turned into a tornado that engulfed her.

"I'll cut through her delusion!" Purple Sister cried out as she launched herself into the tornado and slashed at Purple Heart, blasting her out of the tornado and forcing her to slide across the floor. "Did it work?" She asked while Purple Heart went still.

White Sister Rom smiled at her twin as she finished healing the injured leg. "Are you okay now?"

"It still hurts!" White Sister Ram whined and rubbed her still tender leg. "...Didn't Blanc once say she was enemies with Neptune?" White Sister Rom nodded and both of them looked at each other, going pale as they realized that they were lucky that their sisters were no longer enemies against each other.

Not far away, C-Sha and K-Sha looked at the ceiling to see the amount of swords in the air hadn't changed. "I'm still not liking that there are so many swords in the sky." C-Sha muttered while K-Sha nodded.

"I know, we can't get out of here if she fires all of them." K-Sha muttered, knowing she didn't have enough bullets to stop them all.

Purple Heart was still with her head bowed, her hair covering her eyes, though she was standing up. Purple Sister took a step forward and frowned as Purple Heart started to sway. "My Iffy's gone, my Compa's gone, my children aren't here..." She whispered. "I just wanted to be the best CPU for my people, why must they hate me so much?"

"Neptune?" Purple Sister walked closer before yelping as Purple Heart swung her sword up, the air pressure alone cutting into her processor and leaving shallow cuts all over her body. "Oww, oww, oww!" She hissed while holding her arms crossed over her face to block the attack as best she could. "Neptune!"

Purple Heart looked up and Purple Sister gasped as she saw tears flowing out of her eyes. "All I wanted... Was for everyone to live happy." She grimaced and gripped her head with her free hand while swaying back and forth. "Surface people must suffer for what happened... No! Hybrid children don't deserve hate! Hate me, not them, stop it!"

"What's going on?" Purple Sister asked and looked at Plutia. "Please, you know what's going on, what's happening?"

Plutia sighed softly. "Neppy made it a rule to not harm anyone who was a Mole Person or descended from them. Some people broke it, Neppy had to punish them."

Peashy had a sad look on her face. "So did Pea and Ploot. Lots of people got mad at us. Planeptune almost fell apart."

"Mommy..." Gray Heart whispered as she looked at Purple Heart. "Why didn't you tell us?" She asked herself so quietly that no one could hear her. Memories of all the times she thought she saw her mother crying or whenever Neptune, Plutia and Peashy had exhausted, sad looks on their faces, but they still managed to smile flooded her mind. "...You were protecting me? You were protecting Stadia?" She asked, her eyes shimmering.

The next thing anyone knew, a large green blast slammed into Purple Heart, causing an explosion and sending her flying into the wall so hard that she bounced off of it and landed next to the Gold Third.

"UNI!" Purple Sister glared at her friend. "Why did you do that?!"

"She needed to be taken out." Black Sister protested and sweat-dropped at the looks she was getting. "Hey, better to knock them out for a little bit so they come back to their senses than have them go crazy with a new burst of power." Black Sister looked up as the swords in the air all disappeared and she let out a sigh of relief. 'Thank goodness, I couldn't keep Noire protected and myself safe at the same time.'

"Looks like our fun's done for now." Croire sighed in disappointment. "Still that was pretty amusing."

"Who said it's done?" Uzume asked as she snapped her fingers and all four CPUs started to glow with black energy, their bodies struggling to get to their feet.

Orange Heart saw what was happening and spun around to glare at Uzume. "Stop it! Why does Uzume have to have another Uzume that wants to hurt Nepsy and Gearsy and all of Uzume's friends?!"

Uzume gave Orange Heart an annoyed look. "Because the people of Planeptune betrayed me, because they hurt me, they wished me dead, all because I couldn't control my power fully, they were scared of me." She closed her eyes. "You couldn't understand, the hatred people had of me. Of how I had to seal myself away in that console just to keep people from trying to kill me, how I had to erase history just so I could live." Her eyes snapped open as raw anger and pain radiated from her. "Once you know what that's like, other me, don't ever lecture me on what's right or wrong ever again!"

Peashy frowned at Uzume. "...Pea knows. Pea lived that for years."

"You had Nepsy and the other CPUs of your world." Uzume fired back. "I had no one. If things got to be too much for you, you could run to your dear husbands and have them comfort you, couldn't you!?" Peashy flinched and Uzume scoffed. "I knew it, so just shut up, you know NOTHING of what I felt!"

Black Heart grimaced as she felt the dark energy covering her again. "No! Stop it!" She screamed and gripped her head. "I don't... I don't want to hate Uni or K-Sha or anyone! I love them! Please!"

White Heart was on her knees, slamming her fists against the floor. "Leave my sisters alone! Stop corrupting how I feel towards them!"

"I never hated Nepgear!" Green Heart cried out as she put her hand against the wall. "Please!?" She begged as tears fell from her eyes. "Please don't make me hate her!"

Purple Heart grimaced and shook her head. "D...Dammit," she could feel her darker impulses taking over. "We... Need to get a shock to get..." She blinked as she looked at Plutia and Peashy her eyes widened as something came to her. "Yes, that... HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

"...Why are you laughing?" Uzume asked, confused.

"You shouldn't have..." Purple Heart grimaced as she felt more dark energy flooding her, "brought them here, Uzume..." She grinned, though it was painful. "Plutia! Peashy! As CPU of Planeptune, I give you... Full..." She grimaced as she felt her body being engulfed in more dark energy. "Permission... To transform... Until this crisis is over."

Both Plutia and Peashy went stiff as they started to glow.

"Huh?" Uzume asked in confusion. "Transform? What do you..?"

Plutia started to giggle. "Hee hee hee... Heh heh heh... HA HA HA! I have SO MUCH ANGER to work out too!" A white light engulfed her and a feeling of absolute dread filled the room that even the Frozen Queen of the North hadn't been able to match.

"Uzume's scared!" Orange Heart whimpered while the CPU Candidates looked nervous and Stadia and Gray Heart both started looking around for places to hide.

"Pea! TRANSFORM!" Peashy yelled as she was engulfed in a white light.

"Now it's time to level the playing field." Iris Heart smirked, her eyes shined with glee.

"And I won't let anyone hurt our family anymore!" Yellow Heart declared proudly.


Expect full reactions to the transformations in the next chapter.