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

Sorry about that, I finally found the time to write.

Chapter 70

Artina twitched at the CPUs and shook her head. "Fine! You know what? I'm sick and tired of the hostility you keep sending my way!" She snapped her fingers and pillars of light filled the sky, causing over a couple dozen Angels to appear. "After this fight, you're going to be paying Celestia all the Shares you collect that you don't need to keep your nations from falling apart."

Pink sweat-dropped heavily and looked at Green. "You know... I think there was a point that we needed to stop sometime ago."

"Well, we've clearly passed it!" Green snapped back.

One of the descending Angels looked around in confusion before seeing the CPUs and gulping upon seeing Iris Heart grinning like a crazy person. "Um, Lady Artina... Are we going to war with someone?"

"It seems like the CPUs have decided that they won't pay back Lady Flonne for her generosity of allowing them to use the Great Flonzor Z!" Artina declared and pointed at the CPUs. "So, let's make them understand that it's not worth squelching on what they owe us!"

"Right!"

Stadia frowned as she and Ouya got in front of Purple Heart. "Mom, we both know you're weak, let us fight with you for once."

"But you two..." Purple Heart protested, before sighing as she sensed that they wouldn't be deterred. "Alright, just don't get hurt."

The two nodded as the Angels flew towards them all.

"HA HA HA HA!" Iris Heart laughed as her sword materialized in her hands and she flew at the Angels, slamming her sword into the first one, knocking it to the ground before kicking another one in the face and grabbing a third one by the throat. "Oh, I am going to enjoy this." She said with glee in her voice as her eyes glowed red and she grinned. "I think it's time to put the fear of a Goddess into you! HA HA HA HA HA!" She laughed while she rushed away from the group, still squeezing the Angel's throat and dragging her along while she used her sword and feet to knock Angels away from her. "Oh come on! Can't any of you give me a better fight than that?!" Iris Heart asked as she used the Angel she was grabbing as a club and using her to slam another Angel into the ground. "Come on! Come on! Come on! Come on! Come on!" She yelled and laughed even as she ignored the Angel that was gripping her wrist in a vain attempt to get the CPU to loosen her grip.

"What kind of monster is she?!" One of the Angels asked before yelping as Iris Heart's sword-whip wrapped around her legs and the CPU yanked hard, wrenching the Angel out of the air and into several other Angels.

Iris Heart smirked as she looked at her handiwork before noticing the Angel that she was squeezing was starting to weaken. "Well, can't have you dying on me, hmm?" She asked rhetorically as she rushed forward and slammed the Angel into a building so hard that a shock-wave erupted from the move and blood to escape the Angel's mouth as she gasped in surprise. "Heh heh, it's amazing how durable the buildings are these days." Iris Heart grinned as she saw that the building didn't even have a dent in it. "Meaning I can REALLY cut loose and not have to worry about damaging anything."

The Angel paled and started to sweat as the last thing she saw before the pain engulfed her was Iris Heart's demonic grin, glowing eyes and haunting laughter.

The other Angels that Iris Heart had knocked away could only tremble while they watched.

"Well, that makes things easier." Green Heart said with a smirk on her face. "I guess Plutia was backed up."

"In more ways than one." White Heart grinned before nodding to Yellow Heart. The two CPUs ran forward for a few steps before White Heart jumped in the air and Yellow Heart cupped her hands, putting them under White Heart's feet and launching the small CPU into the crowd of Angels. "Alright you utter pieces of gutter shit! FASTBALL SPECIAL!" She screamed while slamming into one of the Angels while Yellow Heart and Green Heart flew up to deal with some of the others.

On the ground, Black Heart smirked as she walked towards Artina, her prototype cannon on her left arm and her sword in her right hand. "I've been looking forward to this for a few centuries now." Her right eye seemed to glow before she rushed at Artina, who flew into the air to avoid Black Heart's downward slash. "Get back here!" She yelled and fired a few shots at some Angels that tried to get close to her. "Out of my way!"

Artina spun around in mid-flight and pulled out a gun with her right hand, firing several shots at Black Heart, who blocked the shots with her barrier. "Just what I wanted, stupid Goddess." Artina said as she snapped her left hand out and wrapped Black Heart up with a whip made out of what looked like Angel feathers. "Take this!" She yelled and pulled hard, yanking Black Heart out of the air and slamming her into the ground hard. Artina grinned and spun around several times, moving so fast that Black Heart was spun into a tornado before she slammed Black Heart into a car, utterly destroying it. "Know your place."

A shot rang out and Artina cried out as her side was hit, shredding part of her outfit and causing her to bleed. She glared at Black Heart, who was laying on her back, with her limbs splayed out to the side, except for her cannon, which she was pointing at Artina. "A lowly Angel tells ME to know my place?!"

Artina scoffed as she looked at Black Heart and the way her legs were spread open. "Well, I'd make a comment about your position, but I'm sure that you were in that position a lot, huh?"

Black Heart narrowed her eyes and pushed herself to her feet. "At least I'm not a money miser whose best friend is rosy."

Artina looked confused for a moment before she saw Black Heart making a lewd gesture and her face went red as she snapped her legs together and stood up straight. "I DO NOT MASTURBATE BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE A LOVER!"

"Which is why you get off to the thought of tormenting people for money, huh?" Black Heart smirked and fired a shot at Artina, who dodged to the left, only to be chased by Black Heart.

Artina grimaced and pulled a rapier out and blocked Black Heart's attack. "I always knew you ascended humans would eventually renege on your promises."

Black Heart pushed against Artina's blade and narrowed her eyes. "Don't give me that! You were tormenting Neptune's husband."

"I was not!" Artina protested before she twisted her blade to the side to knock Black Heart off balance. She grabbed Black Heart's cannon arm and, in a shocking move, executed a perfect judo throw, slamming Black Heart into the ground face-first and twisting her arm. "And besides, why would you care? Didn't he and the others brainwash and rape all of you CPUs?"

Black Heart grunted as she was pinned down. "You think that wasn't something we considered?" She looked over her shoulder at Artina and glared at her. "Do you have any idea how much the knowledge of what we went through weighed on our minds?"

"Not very much, apparently." Artina muttered before yelping as the cannon on Black Heart's arm suddenly spun and hit on her the side of the head, knocking her to the side.

"You have no clue." Black Heart said as she got to her feet and shook her arm to get the pain to go away. "How it feels to have your freedom stripped from you, to be violated in every way possible, to have every reason to hate someone and yet you can't bring yourself to do it."

Artina rubbed her head as she gave Black Heart a confused look. "So then, why? Why do you still love the man who did all of that to you?"

Black Heart gave her a small smile. "I got back together with my husband in a fit of passion and lust, stayed with him so that I could at least be with my children and over the years, I fell in love with him completely." Her smile disappeared as she narrowed her eyes at Artina. "The little bit of happiness that I had with him disappeared over two hundred years ago." She held her sword to the side as though she was sheathing it before launching herself forward. "Take THIS!" Black Heart yelled when she got within a foot of Artina as her sword glowed with power and she swung forward, sending a wave of energy out that slammed into the Angel and sent her flying backwards.

(-)

Meanwhile, Purple Heart, Ouya and Stadia were standing back to back as they were surrounded by six Angels. "Well..." Purple Heart smirked as she gripped her katana. "This will be fun." She glanced at Ouya, who was holding her teddy bear and then turned her head to glance at Stadia, who was holding two metal short swords.

"You know..." One of the Angels spoke up, a confused look on her face, "I just realized, I haven't seen those two in a long time."

Stadia scoffed at the Angel that spoke up. "Probably because Ouya and I were put into stasis for a couple of centuries." She ignored the surprise on several of the Angels and rushed forward, striking the first Angel in the leg and cutting into the arm of another Angel as she got close to it.

Ouya was frowning at the Angel in front of her. "You know..." She stopped frowning and smiled sweetly. "Auntie taught me something fun." She giggled as she lifted the teddy bear up and punched it hard, causing the Angel to double over and gasp in pain.

"And to think I was worried about Plutie teaching her." Purple Heart muttered as she flew at another Angel and struck forward, grimacing as she realized that her stats being halved meant that she wasn't able to do as much damage to her opponent as she would have liked.

A couple of Angels flew back and fired arrows at Purple Heart, who grimaced as she was forced to block the rain of arrows. Pursing her lips into a determined look, she formed several swords around her and launched them, intercepting the arrows and some of the swords hitting the Angels.

"Hey..." The one with red hair looked at her partner. "Is it just me..."

"No, those barely hurt." The one with brown hair nodded. "Meaning..."

"Yeah." The redhead nodded and snapped her fingers as more Angels appeared, surrounding Purple Heart, Ouya and Stadia. "Then that means that we can handle them."

Purple Heart grimaced as she looked around. '...Nearly twenty more Angels? Ouya, Stadia and I can't fight like this forever.'

Before anyone could react, several shots rang out and three Angels jerked to the side before disappearing in a sparkle of light. Several blocks of ice slammed into others, as did a sledgehammer of pure ice, followed by a goofy-looking robot.

"That..." Purple Heart gasped before someone dropped on an Angel in front of her. "Uzume?!" She gasped in surprise as she saw her friend in HDD. "...How are you in HDD? No, better question, how did you get here? This dimension was sealed off from Hyper Dimension."

"Hey, Nepsy!" Orange Heart smiled at the befuddled CPU. "Uzume still has the power of Tari and Uzume decided to help Nepsy out since Nepsy helped her out. And then Nepsy's sister and her friends wanted to help out."

Purple Heart turned around to see Nepgear, Uni, Rom and Ram, all in HDD, hovering there. "...I see..." She smiled at them. "Thank you." She said while turning to Orange Heart, who had walked up to Purple Heart. "Uzume?"

Orange Heart suddenly grabbed Purple Heart and put her in a headlock while rubbing the knuckles of her right hand on Purple Heart's scalp rapidly. "Stupid Nepsy! You keep thinking you need to do everything on your own!"

"Oww! Oww! Oww! That hurts!" Purple Heart yelped as she tried to get away from Uzume.

Orange Heart huffed and stopped doing that as she let go of Purple Heart and turned away while crossing her arms over her chest. "Hmph! Nepsy's a big hypocrite! Nepsy thinks that she has to do everything on her own and won't ever stop to think to ask for help!" She shook her head. "Nepsy's Uzume's friend and Uzume wanted to help Nepsy save her husband too."

"Uzume..." Purple Heart said softly. "I... I didn't want to involve you with my problems."

There was a slapping sound and Purple Heart found herself on her butt while Orange Heart stood above her, tears falling out of her eyes. "That's wrong though! Uzume didn't want to involve Nepsy in her problems! Uzume wanted to sacrifice herself to stop Kurome but Nepsy came back and saved Uzume!"

Purple Heart could only stare as tears flowed freely down Orange Heart's face. "I..."

"Sheesh, you're still an idiot." Black Sister huffed as she got closer to them. "All you had to do was ask and you would have had all of us helping you out." She gripped her gun and smirked. "Besides, beating the snot out of a group of people who've been tormenting my big sister sounds like fun."

"Yep." White Sister Rom nodded as she gripped her staff. "Bad Angels, bad."

"Let's give them a big spanking!" White Sister Ram said excitedly.

"I kind of just want this to end without anyone dying so we can talk." Purple Sister muttered and sighed as she was ignored. "Fine! I want to help my big sister out too and I don't want anyone to get hurt, okay?!"

"...Did they always have sisters?" One of the Angels asked in surprise.

Orange Heart turned around and wiped her eyes. "Okay! Gearsy! Unisy! Romsy! Ramsy! Ouysy! Stadsy! Nepsy! Let's take these big meanies and give them all big spankings!"

Not far away, Green blushed before Pink smacked the back of her head. "What?"

Green rolled her eyes. "Just keep your fetishes in check, we're going to keep this Mole King under our watch and..." She turned and paused as she saw that he wasn't there anymore. "...What?"

"Yoo hoo!" A voice that sounded familiar to them, but different at the same time, caught their attention. Looking to the side, they saw Sobar standing next to Neptune, who was waving at them. "Thanks for watching my... Um... Brother-in-law?" Neptune tapped her chin in confusion before shrugging. "You can go, I'll keep him safe, okay?"

"Neptune?" Sobar, who was freed from the bindings he had been in, looked at her in confusion and then at Purple Heart. "...What's going on?"

Neptune grinned at him. "Hee hee, this Nep is known as Neptune!" She winked and put her right hand up with her fingers extended in a V-shape. She looked Sobar over and raised an eyebrow. "Well, now I see why Tiny Me let you in her panties. Damn, you're hot."

"...Tiny Me?" Sobar asked in confusion before shaking his head. "I'll figure it out later."

"Excuse me." Pink said with a raised hand. "Can you make sure that our hostage is taken out of here safely?" Neptune blinked in confusion and Pink smiled at her. "We just wanted to get you, err, Purple Heart, err..." Sighing, Pink shook her head. "We just wanted to make sure that Purple Heart came back to pay her debt, we didn't want to hurt anyone."

"A bit late for that!" A new voice chipped in and Neptune sighed as she pulled out her Nepnote and opened it up to a page with black fairy wings on it. "Holy shit! I think the CPUs are going for blood. Maybe ya shouldn't have taken the idiot's husband? Those dumb sluts might forgive a lot, but ya don't mess wit' their families, ya morons."

Sobar frowned as he looked around. "This isn't right."

"Ya got that right." Croire said as her page flashed. "Only way you're going to get them to calm down is if some Super Overlord or the Angel's boss suddenly appeared."

(-)

Meanwhile...

Artina panted while rubbing her bloody lip. She grimaced as she felt the broken ribs that Black Heart had given her. "I'm going to enjoy squeezing you dry of every Share that Lastation can spare."

Black Heart growled as she pointed her arm cannon at Artina again. "I'm going to enjoy kicking your ass so hard that you'll need several healers to fix it." She was panting, her cannon had sparks escaping it and one of Black Heart's legs had several arrows stuck in it.

The two glared at each other before letting out a yell and charging each other.

Right before they got close, several arrows slammed around them, pinning both of them to the ground on their knees.

"The hell is this?!" Black Heart yelled as she struggled to move. As tired as she was, that wasn't going to happen.

"I..."

"Artina..." A new voice, female, but low and angry spoke up and the blood drained from Artina's face as she slowly turned her head to see a small female with blonde hair walking her way. "Just WHAT do you have to say for yourself?"

"A...Archangel Flonne..." Artina gulped as she saw her direct superior standing in front of her and giving her a look that was a mixture of anger, confusion and disappointment.

The fact that nearly everyone else was in a barrier that surrounded them only told Artina that Flonne was really mad. Especially since it wasn't just Flonne that was there.

Behind Flonne was Overlord Laharl, looking annoyed as hell at everything.

"I'm in serious trouble." Artina muttered nervously.

Well, Croire called it.