Hyperdimension Neptunia is owned by Sega, Idea Factory and Compile Heart and whomever else worked on it.

Man, this took me some time to write.


Chapter 49

Orange Heart and Purple Sister could only stare in horror as they felt the power building up in the sphere. "Gearsy!" Orange Heart turned, grabbed Purple Sister's arms and spun her around a couple of time before throwing her at Kurome. "HURRY!"

"Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! SHUT UP!" Kurome screamed and shook her head from side to side. "SHUT UP!"

"Get away from my sister!" Purple Sister yelled as she came flying in at faster than usual speeds. She spun around as she swung her gunblade, slamming it into Kurome's body, the sudden contact caused the energy sphere to dissipate harmlessly. She then slashed up, knocking Kurome off-balance with Kurome's body and head jerking upwards and to the left.

"NGH!" Kurome grunted and turned her head just in time to see Purple Sister swinging her gunblade down, smashing Kurome into the ground and forcing her to bounce away.

"Gearsy!" Orange Heart yelled as she rushed in and drove her feet into Kurome's stomach, before pushing off and letting out a scream through her Megaphone, blasting Kurome into the ground so hard that a small crater was formed. "Go check on Noiresy, Blancsy and the others."

"You really think you can beat me by yourself?" Kurome asked as she staggered to her feet. "You're nothing but a bunch of weaklings!" She yelled while glaring at her other self and Purple Sister.

"Uzume's not so weak to lose to you." Orange Heart yelled and rushed at Kurome, who sneered and snapped her fingers, creating a wall of force that slammed into Orange Heart, stopping her cold. "Gearsy!"

"Multiple Beam Launcher!" Purple Sister yelled as she fired a powerful blast at Kurome.

"TCH!" Kurome grunted as spun around and created a powerful barrier to block the attack. "More weaklings! Just like every CPU from my time! All weak cowards!"

Orange Heart grimaced and gripped her head. "Uzume remembers... The other CPUs fought the Deity of Sin by themselves."

"And all of them failed." Kurome scoffed in annoyance before throwing her arm up and knocking the energy blast up and into the air. "Well, they did weaken her enough that I was able to finish her off. I should have taken them out at the time."

Purple Sister shook her head. "No, the people of their nations love their CPU, they wouldn't have accepted a CPU who killed the other CPUs and took over their nation in that manner." Her eyes widened in shock as she saw the black dome that was holding her sister captive started to shake. "Uh... We might want to..."

"RUN!" Orange Heart yelled as she grabbed Purple Sister and the two shot over to where the downed CPUs were at and spun around, throwing up barriers.

To Kurome, what happened next was seemingly in slow motion. As she turned to the black dome, it cracked as golden energy escaped from it before exploding outwards, destroying her prison of Hyper Purple and sending out a dome of energy that moved so fast that she couldn't react before it engulfed her while a massive shock wave shot out right after she was engulfed in it, destroying the rest of the monsters while knocking IF, Compa and Neptune off their feet and forcing Orange Heart and Purple Sister to put as much power as they could into the barrier to protect the downed CPUs.

"Ngh..." Blanc grimaced as the roaring of the shock wave and the explosive energy. "What's..." Her eyes widened as she saw a large piece of debris get past Orange Heart and Purple Sister and was heading straight for Rom's prone body, specifically, it was a sharp and large rock that was heading for Rom's head. "Dammit, no!" She forced herself to her knees and pushed up, stumbling and tripping as she forced herself to move as fast as she could. "ROM!" She cried out and grabbed Rom as she tried to move out of the way of the rock, but missed as it clipped her leg, tearing a chunk out of her leg and forcing her to fall down hard.

Rom grimaced, the loud noise and the pain she was feeling made it hard to focus. She sat up and winced as the wind knocked her hat off of her head. Blinking, she gasped as she saw Blanc laying on the ground and gripping a badly injured leg. "Blanc!" She yelled as loud as she could over the roaring winds as she crawled over to Blanc and cast a healing spell on the injury.

Blanc grimaced and sighed softly as her leg knitted itself back together properly. "You okay?" Rom nodded and Blanc smiled before a blinding amount of light caught their attention and they both turned to stare at a dome of raw energy emerging from where they knew Neptune was at. "Neptune?!"

"Miss Neptune?" Rom gasped as she looked at what was happening in horror.

The dome of energy held in place for what felt like an eternity, but in actuality was less than a minute. Vert, Noire, Uni and Ram all regained consciousness during that time and could only watch as the energy continued to erupt before it finally started to shrink and die off.

When the energy dissipated, Neptune was standing there with her eyes closed, her body smoking, her hair singed...

And absolutely no clothes on her body.

Neptune opened her eyes and smiled at everyone. "Nepko..." Her eyes widened as she suddenly coughed out blood before falling forward. "Is... Oooh! My organs feel like a milkshake, neat." Blood came freely out of her mouth as she spoke and was even pouring out of her ears and nose.

"NEPTUNE!" Nepgear yelled as she ran to her sister with Uzume, who transformed back into her human form, right behind her with Rom and Ram following it up. She gasped in horror as she saw the blood under Neptune's body slowly increasing and spreading. "NO!"

"Darn it!" Uzume gasped and cast her healing, along with Rom, Ram and Nepgear.

Noire nodded to Vert and the two of them, Uni and Blanc, stood around in a loose perimeter around the four as they healed Neptune.

Uni looked over her shoulder and her face went pale as she saw Neptune twitching on the ground while coughing as she was healed. 'That's what it felt like when I was poisoned.' She mentally shivered and looked up as Yellow Heart and Iris Heart floated down with Ouya and Stadia in their arms.

"MOM!" Both Ouya and Stadia lunged to get to Neptune, but were stopped by Yellow Heart as she tackled both of them to the ground. "SIS?!"

Yellow Heart shook her head as Iris Heart ran forward and knelt down next to the others and added her healing to the mix. "Right now, Neptuna needs them and we need to let them heal her."

"But..." Ouya tried to protest and Yellow Heart shook her head. "...Okay." Yellow Heart nodded and transformed back into her human form. Ouya sighed and both she and Stadia resigned themselves as Compa, IF and the other Neptune ran over with Compa running in to add her healing powers to the mix.

IF stared in absolute horror at what was going on with her friend. "I... I..."

"Hey, the idiot decided to blow herself up, okay? I doubt that Kurome survived that. And even if she did, she's probably hurting really badly right now." Croire said from inside the NepNote.

"Crostie, not now." Neptune grumbled at the NepNote as she noticed that the others were giving her dirty looks. She wanted to say something, but when she looked at how her smaller self was grimacing and twitching, she just kept her mouth shut. Turning to IF, she put a hand on the brunette's shoulder, causing her to look at Neptune. Neptune smiled and gave IF a thumbs up.

IF blinked a couple of times before realizing what Neptune was doing and smiled back softly, giving her a thumbs up in response. "Thanks." She said softly and Neptune nodded at her. IF looked back at the other Neptune and her smile left her face. She hadn't ever seen that much blood before and seeing her friend just bleeding out only made it worse.

IF decided that she could do something other than worry about Neptune as she didn't have access to any useful healing, the best she could do would be to make sure that Kurome wasn't around.

(-)

Two hours later...

Rom panted, sweat pouring down her face as the last of her SP gave out and she couldn't heal anymore. Looking at the others, she saw that they were all in a similar boat. Heck, Plutia had transformed back into her human form to preserve SP.

"Ngh..." Neptune groaned and cracked an eye open as she looked up. "Did I get blown up by an Overlord again?"

"NEPTUNE!" Nepgear yelped in surprise as Neptune slowly pushed herself up. "You blew yourself up."

"...Oh yeah, I did that." Neptune muttered and groaned. "...How long was I out?"

"Two hours," Uzume answered her.

"Well," Neptune smiled at that. "That's a lot better than the last time I did that."

"Neppy..." Plutia gave Neptune an annoyed look and pointed at Ouya and Stadia, both of whom looked like they were about to break down crying.

Neptune smiled tiredly before flopping onto her back. "Ngh... I'm cold."

Plutia rolled her eyes and pulled out a white hooded parka before draping it over Neptune's body. "Bad Neppy, making all of us worry."

Neptune just chuckled and panted softly. "Sorry, Plutie, I couldn't figure out how to get out of that trap and I was going to blow up anyway."

Plutia sighed and shook her head before walking off. "I'm tired..." She yawned and sat down, rubbing her eyes to keep awake.

"How about we all take a little time to recover?" Nepgear asked as she helped Neptune sit up and put the parka on. The others nodded and walked off with Rom and Ram going to Blanc, who hugged them while Compa stumbled over to IF, who caught her before she fell on her face and Uzume just plopping down where she was standing. Nepgear gave Neptune a confused look as she finished getting the parka on her sister. "...Neptune, why did you come up with such a suicidal thing?"

"It was..." Neptune panted softly, "a combination of Celestia and the Netherworld who helped me develop it. Shares were super weak at the time so it wasn't a bad idea. Blame Mao, he came up with it." She grumbled something about crazy geniuses that confused Nepgear, Uzume and her other self, who had come over to listen to the story. "He wanted to experiment on a Goddess and, well... We didn't realize that the power increase was..." Neptune trailed off and squinted her eyes. "...I think he said it was exponentially explosive or something."

Stadia and Ouya both came over with Peashy at that moment and the two taller girls knelt in front of Neptune and hugged her gently. "Stupid mom." Stadia whispered while Ouya hugged Neptune tightly. "Why do you always do stupid things?"

Neptune just smiled and rubbed Stadia's back. "Says the girl who once tried to swim in a pool of jello?"

"...At least it was tasty?" Stadia protested and the others laughed softly.

"But, Tiny Me," Neptune gave her other self a concerned look, "this isn't something that you just do."

"Mom's always pushed herself stupid," Ouya said and pouted at her mother, "because she puts all the citizens first above herself."

Nepgear scratched her head. "But..."

Whatever Nepgear was going to say was cut off as a pillar of black energy erupted in the middle of the area and everyone stared in shock and horror as Kurome, who was smoking, had burned visible skin, torn clothes and other visible damage. "No way..."

"...Nepsy, that really freaking hurt." Kurome grumbled, twitching and wincing in pain. "That REALLY FREAKING HURT!" The area shook with power as her eyes glowed. "I almost died because of that!"

The power died out almost as fast as it built up and Kurome was panting hard. "F...Fine..." She grinned and stood straight. "If it's come to this, then..."

"What's going on?" Noire asked as she looked at Kurome, who snapped her fingers. 'I'm not feeling that overwhelming power anymore.'

"Oh, nothing much." Kurome chuckled. "I just sent a signal to every Zero Dimension monster to go to Hyper Dimension."

"WHAT?!" More than one person yelled at the same time.

Kurome chuckled as she started to disappear. "I'll be at the ruins of the Basilicom, but if you think you can stop me and deal with the Zero Dimension monsters, you're sorely mistaken. There are thousands." As she faded away, an echoing chuckle was heard with some final lines. "I wonder what you'll do now. Those monsters are strong enough that if there are no CPUs protecting Gamindustri, the people will be all murdered to death."

"Fuck!" Shockingly, it was Rom who summed up everyone's feelings.


I'll just leave it here like this.