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Hope you all like this chapter, rather long, I think.

Chapter 58

After getting a call from Histoire, updating them on what happened, Purple Heart, Purple Queen and Orange Heart all gave Purple Sister a bewildered look while Delusional Orange was on the ground kicking her legs up and down while laughing. "Nepgear..." Purple Heart ignored Delusional Orange's laughing, "what did you do?"

"...Well..." Purple Sister poked her fingers together as she blushed. "When it was obvious that you were gone and Rei told us that you could never return, I got really upset and I decided to do something about it."

"...So you turned the Basilicoms of each nation into a giant robot?" Purple Queen asked, unable to contain the disbelief in her voice. Purple Sister nodded and Purple Queen could only shake her head.

"Gearsy," Orange Heart had a nervous smile on her face, "didn't you say that Nepsy was only gone for three years? When did..?"

"I went three months without sleeping." Purple Sister had a nervous smile on her face as everyone, even Delusional Orange, gawked at her in surprise. "And, um... I went a little crazy..."

"A LITTLE?!" Histoire's voice was heard over the phone. "You were so crazy that IF, Vert and Uni almost had to put you in a straight jacket! And the three of them had to take turns keeping you under strict watch for three weeks straight until you weren't insane anymore!"

"...So I had a little bit of a mental breakdown." Purple Sister tried to defend herself. "I never got to finish the giant robots."

Purple Heart sighed as she saw the look on Purple Sister's face. "...Nepgear, how did you do that in three months?"

"I, um, didn't do it in three months." Purple Sister smiled nervously. "After I calmed down, I promised to not go crazy like that again and IF, Uni and big sis Vert all kept tabs on me. But I don't like leaving projects unfinished, so..."

"You continued to keep working on it over time?" Purple Heart asked, sighing and hanging her head.

"Wowie wow!" Delusional Orange jumped up and rolled over to Purple Sister, grabbing her hands and smiling at her. "Gearsy's so cool! If Kurome had known that Gearsy was like this, she would have captured Gearsy for a Dark CPU!"

The others sweat-dropped as they tried to imagine what a Dark CPU version of Purple Sister would have been like.

Delusional Orange let go of Purple Sister's hands and closed her eyes as she transformed back into her human form. "Urgh, that was so..."

"Embarrassing?" Uzume asked after she had transformed back into her human form. Kurome nodded and Uzume sighed. "Yeah, how come our HDD is so different to our normal forms?"

"Eh, I don't see what's the big deal, you're really cute in your HDD form." Neptune smiled after she had transformed back. "Oh, my other self is gone."

"So everything's done then?" The bigger Neptune asked as she walked up to them and smiled. Everyone gave her a surprised look and she laughed softly. "Yeah, I'm not going to get mixed up in the middle of a fight of literal Gods. You might all be cute girls that I would love to hug and go on dates with, but you're all out of my weight class when it comes to combat." She jerked a thumb over to the rather large gouge in the ground. "I don't think I could survive that or even create that."

"...Even me?" Neptune asked as she pointed to herself. "You think I'm a cute girl you'd love to go on a date with?"

"Well, I thought you were super cute when I first saw you, tiny me." The bigger Neptune said with a smile on her face.

"What's that say about me, I wonder?" Neptune asked as she thought about it. Her eyes seemingly lit up as Ouya and Stadia came walking up to them. "Ouya! Stadia!" She ran towards them and pulled them into a hug. "You're both okay!"

Stadia blushed softly but hugged her mother back while Ouya did the same. "Yeah, it was tough." Stadia said softly as Neptune patted them on the back and they broke up the hug. "...Why is evil Uzume still standing?"

"Tch," Kurome spat in annoyance. "Mind your manners, brat."

"Yeah, that's what we call them too." Blanc said as she, Noire and Vert walked up to the group with Peashy and Plutia following shortly after them. Blanc gave Nepgear a confused look. "...What?"

"...I never thought I'd see a Blanc with boobies." Nepgear pointed out. "...And what are you wearing?"

Blanc rolled her eyes. "I was in the middle of painting a room in the Basilicom when I was asked to come and bail your butts out." She looked down at the boots, cargo pants, white tank top that she was wearing and sighed. "I didn't want my outfits to get dirty, so I put on some worker clothes. And before you ask, I was doing it just because it helps me relax, okay?"

"So, it's over, huh?" Noire, who had her hair done up in a single braided ponytail and was wearing a black business suit, asked as she and Vert, who was wearing a light-green dress that showed off an impressive amount of cleavage and legs, looked the group over. "So..." Noire, who had a glove over her left hand, adjusted the tie she was wearing before continuing, "anyone want to fill me in on why we're in someone's soul and why that person is split apart?"

"You can tell?" Kurome asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Not the first time that we've dealt with being in someone's soul, or their soul was split into multiple personalities." Blanc pointed out and looked at Nepgear. "Yes?"

"Um," Nepgear smiled nervously, "It's really shocking to see how many similarities there are between you and our Blanc... Though there are a lot of differences too."

Blanc looked at her in confusion but nodded, understanding what Nepgear meant and hearing the stories of Neptune's home dimensions many times in the past. But then she narrowed her eyes in annoyance when she realized that Purple Sister pay a LOT of attention to her breasts. "Is the sight of me having boobs really so shocking?"

"Sorry, I just..." Nepgear smiled nervously, "it's so different to see a Blanc with boobs. OH! Your chest is really lovely, not too big, but still noticeable..." Blanc chuckled at how her best friend's little sister was panicking and fidgeting in her place, before Blanc stood on her tip-toes and reached out to pat the other girl on her head.

"Hmmm, so this is what it feels like to spoil a little sister, huh?" Blanc said, as her smile couldn't help but grew when she saw the slight annoyance on Neptune's face.

"Um, would it..." Nepgear smiled nervously, "be okay if I touched your boobs?"

Blanc sighed softly and nodded as Nepgear reached out and poked and squeezed both of her breasts. Her face went flush before she lightly batted Nepgear's hands away. "Enough of that."

"Sorry, it's just..." Nepgear smiled nervously. "It's so weird for me. They feel nice though."

"You thought they were fake, huh?" Blanc asked, sighing in annoyance. "They're completely natural, okay?"

"Is that because you had kids, auntie?" Ouya asked and Blanc, Vert and Noire all gave Neptune a sharp look.

"They found out." Neptune said before smiling softly. "Sorry I was gone for so long."

"What are you talking about?" Noire asked in confusion, "it's only been a few months." Neptune gave her a confused look and Noire shrugged. "I have no clue, but I'm guessing that it's been a few days here?"

"Over a month, it should have been like three decades for you." Neptune pointed out.

"Oh, that's because of me." Kurome told them. "When I recruited those two, I managed to synch up this dimension's time with your dimension's time, so now your dimension's time is moving at the same rate as this dimension's time."

"Well, that's convenient." Noire muttered.

"Indeed," Vert nodded and looked around. "So... Now what happens?"

"Hmph," Kurome muttered, "I guess this is where I disappear and you all have a happy ending, huh?" She huffed and turned away.

"Pea thought that because Kurome was her own person that won't happen." Peashy said, causing Kurome and Uzume to both look at her in confusion. "Pea knows that's how things work sometimes."

"What she's trying to say," Vert said while smiling softly, "is that because your soul not only split up, but that both sides have manifested into their own personality and memories that just disappearing isn't an option. The two of you need to come to an agreement."

"Which meaaaans," Plutia said sleepily, "you two need to beat each other up..." A small grin came to her face, "it's kind of fun to do that."

Noire rolled her good eye. "What they mean is that while you could just quietly accept that one of you is right and merge back into the same person, there's always a chance that you won't accept it and split apart again or transform into the other one at random moments."

"By the way, Noiresy," Uzume spoke up as she looked at Noire. "...When were you a guy?" Noire face-faulted while Neptune, Plutia, Peashy and Vert laughed and Blanc let out a sound like she was spitting something out of her mouth. "...What?" Uzume asked in confusion.

"Noire's been dressing up as a guy since she got her eye gouged out, it's kind of cute actually." Vert said as she giggled while Noire got up and dusted herself off.

"You think Blanc's pudgy stomach is cute." Noire pointed out and shook her head. "No, I just like to wear suits and ties when I'm conducting business, which is something I was doing when I got asked to come and help out." She looked down at herself. "Besides, this is a lady's cut suit, not a man's suit."

Kurome scoffed. "I don't see why I should..." She stopped as the bigger Neptune was in front of her. "...Nepsy?"

The bigger Neptune smiled at Kurome and grabbed her hands. "Come on, Kurome, you need to work out your problems with your other self, right? I can't take you to see those sunflowers if you destroy everything."

"Speaking of which, didn't you send a bunch of monsters to Gamindustri?" Neptune asked and Kurome sighed.

"I still think that they deserve to die." Kurome turned to glower at Neptune. "They all deserve to die."

"Do you?" Uzume asked as she stepped up to look her other self in the face. "Then fight me." She smirked and made a fist. "No HDD, no monsters, no Dark CPUs, just you and me."

Kurome started to laugh before she nodded and gave her other self a cool smile. "Fine, but when I win, I'll absorb you into me and then destroy Gamindustri."

Nepgear had a look of worry on her face while everyone else seemed calm. "Uzume, you can't! What if..." She trailed off as Neptune grabbed her arm and gave it a squeeze. "Neptune?"

"Believe me, kid-sis-o-mine, this is the best way for this to be settled." Neptune told her and smiled. "What about the monsters that are attacking though?"

Kurome chuckled. "Well, if I lose, then they'll go away, if I win..." She trailed off and Uzume nodded.

"Fine, this won't take long." Uzume said as she cracked her knuckles. "Nepsy, you and the others should get to Gamindustri and stop the monsters there."

"Right." Neptune nodded and looked at both Uzume and Kurome and sighed. "You know, Kurome..." Kurome gave her a confused look as Neptune smiled. "You might have been a bitch... But you did help me get my family back. So thanks."

"Guh, this sentimentality is really annoyin' me." Croire's voice spoke up from inside the Nepnote. "You wanna get ta savin' the moronic humans, ya better get movin'." A purple portal appeared behind the bigger Neptune as the other CPUs all nodded and left one after another, leaving Uzume, Kurome and the bigger Neptune all alone.

"Hey," Neptune smiled at both Kurome and Uzume. "Kurome, despite what happened between us, it was a lot of fun. Just so you know..." She winked at the blue-haired girl, "I'm still single. Later." She jumped through the portal, which closed behind her.

Kurome's cheeks were flushed and she shook her head. "Sheesh, she just HAS to be like that, huh?"

"Let's be honest," Uzume was likewise blushing as she got into a ready stance, "Nepsy wouldn't be Nepsy if she wasn't like that."

"Yeah." Kurome nodded. At that moment, the humor in the air disappeared as both girls gave each other stern looks. "I'm not going to be just a memory, Me." She grit her teeth and rushed at Uzume. "I won't let you win."

"RIGHT BACK AT YOU!" Uzume yelled as she rushed in and she slammed her fist against Kurome's fist. "I won't let you hurt the innocent people of Gamindustri."

"And who's innocent?" Kurome asked as she lashed out with a kick that Uzume parried with her hands that forced Kurome to spin around. The blue-haired girl rolled forward to give herself some room so she could face Uzume, who was already rushing in. "The brats who thought we were lame?" She dodged a punch at her face and grabbed Uzume's arm before turning and doing a judo throw to slam Uzume into the ground so hard that she left an imprint on the ground. "The people who called us a witch?!"

Uzume grimaced as her back protested from the rough treatment before she pushed up and slammed her foot into Kurome's face, causing her to cry out and stumble back, which allowed Uzume to get to her feet and do a tackle into Kurome, slamming her other self into a light pole. "So what if they did!?" Uzume asked as she pulled back and glared at Kurome, who was wincing. "Nepsy had to deal with a lot worse than we did." She drove a knee into Kurome's stomach, knocking the wind out of her. "Gearsy had to deal with a complete mental breakdown and depression over losing her sister!" She then punched Kurome in the jaw with her left hand. "Plutsy and Peasy had their HDD forms sealed away!" She then grabbed Kurome by the head and slammed her head into Kurome's skull, staggering them both. "Ousy and Stadsy both were forced to fight their mother for years!" Uzume shook her head as she slid back and caught a kick that Kurome sent her way. Idly, she noticed that Kurome's leggings had torn slightly, revealing that she was wearing blue panties. "Nepsy had her mind taken over and was forced to be a mother!" She kicked upwards, slamming her foot into Kurome's stomach before throwing her away. Uzume panted as she watched Kurome hit the ground and spin around. "Compared to all of that, we ran and hid because we were scared, Nepsy stood and faced her problems."

Kurome growled and got to her feet. "So what? I'll deny your dreams with my next strike!" She rushed forward and pulled out her megaphone. "ORA-RA-RA!" She yelled into her megaphone while circling Uzume, who was jerking from the sound blasts from all angles. "Take this, ME!" Kurome yelled as she threw her megaphone into the air and rapidly punched over and over again. Kurome finished it with a knee to Uzume's stomach, forcing her back as she reached up and grabbed her megaphone. "I'll show you despair..." Two circles appeared on either side of her. "GO AWAY!" She screamed into her megaphone, which caused the circles around her to launch a powerful energy blast that engulfed Uzume. "VANISH!" Kurome yelled as the energy died out and she launched herself forward, slamming her fist into Uzume, which caused an explosion. Kurome huffed and turned around to see Uzume on her knees, groaning in pain. "Is that all you've got, me?"

Uzume started to chuckle, even as she had blood coming out of her mouth. "I should ask you the same thing." Uzume stood up and wiped the blood coming out of her mouth. "That didn't have nearly as much power in it as it should have."

"You lying bitch!" Kurome yelled as she rushed forward and launched a punch at Uzume, who rushed in to counter her.

"Am I?" Uzume asked as the two traded blows. "Your source of power is your hate. It's hard to hate when you have people who reach out and offer you friendship and kindness, isn't it?" Uzume asked as she bent out of the way of a kick and countered with an uppercut to Kurome's jaw, staggering her. "Big Nepsy gave you the love and kindess we both wanted." She rushed in and drove an elbow into Kurome's stomach, doubling her over. "Gearsy showed us that being troubled doesn't have to be the end of everything."

"Liar!" Kurome yelled as she lashed out with a roundhouse kick that slammed into Uzume's face, knocking the redhead down. "What would they know? What would ANY OF THEM KNOW?!"

Uzume rubbed her jaw as she got up. "I learned a lot from my juniors and the other CPUs. Plutsy and Peasy both showed me that problems can be worked through, even if there's centuries of animosity built up. You saw the other Noiresy, she lost an eye and an arm and she's doing fine now. And think about this!" She pointed at Kurome. "Noiresy, Vertsy and Blancsy in both dimensions are willing to help Nepsy out. If we had made more of an effort to be friends with the CPUs in our time, maybe we could have had support when our power went out of control?"

Kurome growled and rushed forward. "I won't be forgotten! YOU CAN'T MAKE THE WORLD FORGET ABOUT ME!" She punched forward and her fist landed in Uzume's jaw, causing the redhead to slide backwards a bit.

Uzume groaned as she felt Kurome's fist digging into her jaw. "...It's over." She watched as Kurome's face burst into tears and she slumped down to her knees.

"I...I don't want to die... I want... The others need to pay... But..." Kurome blinked and looked up as Uzume knelt down and smiled at her.

"...You won't disappear." Uzume smiled at Kurome. "After all, you and I are the same person, right?"

"...Yeah." Kurome sighed as she closed her eyes and started to glow. "...I really wanted to go see those sunflowers though."

"Don't worry, I'll go with Nepsy and see them for both of us."

Kurome sighed as she continued to glow. "...I lost before this fight began, huh?" She sighed again as she disappeared.

Uzume closed her eyes and smiled softly. "Yeah, you did."

(-)

Hyper Dimension...

Purple Sister looked around as the monsters that had been attacking suddenly disappeared and she smiled. "Uzume did it!"

(-)

Zero Dimension...

Black Heart wiped the sweat from her forehead as she finished off the last of the monsters. "That looks like it's it..." She looked at the portal as it disappeared. "...Looks like they finally finished the job."

"Good, I'm tired." C-Sha muttered as she slumped to the ground. "I could go for some meat."

"Yeah, me too." S-Sha, White Heart and both White Sisters said at the same time.

Hours later, Hyper Dimension...

Histoire smiled at the gathering of CPUs. "Thank you all for your work in stopping the horde of monsters." She bowed to the Ultra Dimension CPUs. "Especially all of you, you were very helpful."

"Don't mention it." The Noire with the eye-patch said dismissively and looked at the console in Histoire's hands. "So what are you going to do with that?"

"Well, we've already hooked up everything." Histoire said as she sat the console down and pressed the button to turn it on. "Now it's time to release the seal on Uzume."

"No matter how I look at it, it just looks like you hooked up an old console to an old television set." Uni muttered as the console turned on.

There was a flash of light from the console and when it died down, Orange Heart, with her eyes closed, stood there. She let out a sigh and transformed back. "Don't worry, it's just me." Uzume smiled as she opened her eyes. "Uzume Tennouboushi has revive..." She trailed off at the looks everyone was giving her. "...Do I have a dogoo on my face or something?"

"Or something." Nepgear said as she pushed a button and a mirror appeared in front of Uzume, causing her to gawk in surprise.

While she looked like she normally did, mostly, the left side of her hair was blue and her left eye was purple.

"...I didn't see this one coming." Uzume said, chuckling nervously. "I guess we melded together completely, huh?" She scratched the back of her head, laughing nervously.

The next thing she knew, Nepgear was hugging her, which she returned happily. "I'm back, Gearsy. I'm back, Nepsy..." She looked at Histoire and smiled at her friend. "Histy... I've returned."

Histoire smiled, tears falling from her eyes. "Welcome home, Uzume, my friend."

I guess this could come out as "rushed", but I don't think it was. Everything kept flowing to me really fast, plus I had some of this planned out ahead of time, so there's that.

Well, time for an omake written by my beta reader after seeing the giant robot in the last chapter.

Omake: Fear the robot

"KILLER MODE ACTIVATED!" Suddenly Nepgear-like monotone voice from the giant robot shook entire area.

Histoire initially wanted to sweat-drop, when she heard these, to be honest, pretty cheesy words but then tome remembered WHY she was so desperate for other CPUs and CPU Candidates to stop Nepgear from carrying out her plan two years ago. The cold grip of fear, squeezed her heart just like at these horrible moment hundreds of days ago when she suddenly understood just HOW dangerous Purple Sister could be if her wrath was allowed to build up until it went beyond madness.

Two massive jaded blades moved out of hidden chambers right behind robot's hands, while the armored plates on the colossal automaton's chest moved down slightly, revealing huge nozzles hidden behind them. Loud shrill sounds pierced the air, forcing all people who heard it to grasp their ears in pain, as the jaded edges of blades begin to move, just like chainsaw, as the additional servo-engines in the arms come to live.

Pain-filled roar thundered across the Gamindustri as Nepgeardam plunged one of its blades straight into Orange Monster's chest, resulting in geyser of orange-colored blood from the wound. But Nepgeardam didn't stopped there and Histoire could only watch in horror and awe as it used it other blade to interrupt Dark Orange from fighting back by impaling it right hand in the middle of the swing before mercilessly lobbing sad arm off by quickly moving chainsaw-blade back and forth. Planeptune's retainer gulped as Nepgeardam slowly, as if savoring this moment in sadistic glee moved it left blade down, literally eviscerating Dark Orange in front of both Gamindustri and invading army of monsters… which were seemingly frozen in place… in fear at the display.

The nozzles in Nepgeardam's chest started to glow and intensity of light grew faster and faster until massive torrent of crimson and red energy burst forwards, engulfing Dark Orange's entire upper half. A truly blood-chilling agony and terror-filled roar shook entire Gamindustri as huge monster got immolated right in front of entire world.

Well, that's ONE way to deal with a giant monster, I suppose.