Lastation's Theme (Hyperdimension Neptunia)
The four CPUs stepped off the Sky Harbor and into Lastation.
"Here we are! Lastation!" Compa cheered.
"This place sure hasn't changed much since last time." IF commented. "I supposed we better go get that Key Fragment."
"Hold on. Before that, I want to know if we're supposed to do something else right now." Neptune said.
As a matter of fact, yes. Neptune, I want you to go find Noire and ask her to help you get to Lastation's Sharicite Room.
Neptune immediately caught on. "I see. You want me to bring Uni to this timeline as well."
IF and Compa looked confused. "What are you talking about?" IF asked.
"You see, by interacting with a nation's Sharicite, I can bring the nation's CPU Candidate back to this timeline." Neptune explained. "It's the reason why Nepgear is now on this adventure with us."
"Did I hear you right? There's a way you can bring Uni back?"
"GYAAH!"
Neptune let out a scream in surprise as she turned and saw Noire, now wearing the clothing she wore in her human form, behind her. Calming down, Neptune put a hand on her chest. "Noire, don't scare me like that...!"
"Sorry, Neptune. But I thought I heard say that you know a way to bring Uni back."
Neptune nodded with a sigh. "Yes, I can bring Uni back to this timeline, but to do so, I need your help to get to Lastation's Sharicite."
"Then what are we waiting for? Come on!" Noire grabbed Neptune's hand and ran with her over to the Basilicom.
"Whoa! Noire, not so sudden!"
The other three CPUs watched as Noire ran off with Neptune. "So, do you two remember where the Key Fragment is?" Nepgear asked IF and Compa.
The two former humans nodded in response. "Yeah, follow us." IF said, taking the lead as the three left to get the Key Fragment.
End BGM
Scanea Felix (Puella Magi Madoka Magica)
The doors of the Basilicom flew open, startling the staff as an eager Noire rushed in with Neptune.
"CPU! You must control yourself!" The male NPC scolded Noire. "And who is that commoner you brought with you."
"This girl has special permission from me to enter the Sharicite Room." Noire told him.
The male NPC gave her a stern look. "Why would you let a commoner get near the Sharicite?"
"Because she is my friend and I trust her. Now if you'll excuse..." Noire led Neptune to the Sharicite Room.
End BGM
Noire and Neptune were now standing in Lastation's Sharicite Room as Noire looked at Neptune.
"So you said if you touch the Sharicite, it will bring Uni here?"
Neptune nodded and walked up to the Sharicite and touched it. Just like last time, the room was engulfed in a bright light, catching Noire off-guard and forcing her to cover her eyes. Neptune, however, had expected this and quickly pulled back so that she wouldn't be at point-blank range. The light finally dimmed down and Noire uncovered her eyes to see her little sister, Uni, in her HDD, Black Sister.
"What the heck? How did I get here?" Uni looked around the room in confusion.
Dearly Beloved (Kingdom Hearts Re:coded)
"Uni!" Noire ran up and hugged her little sister, little surprising her.
"N-Noire!? B-But I thought we all died. Wasn't Gamindustri destroyed?"
Noire nodded. "Yeah. We're back in the past, now. We have to get stronger so we can be able to defeat him this time, but first we have to take care of our nation's problem."
"Avenir, right? I remember you telling me about it one time."
Noire nodded again. "That's right. But first, we have to make sure the staff knows who you are." She exited the Sharicite Room with Uni and Neptune following her as they saw the same male NPC from before impatiently waiting for them.
"Well, it's about time." He then noticed Uni. "And who is that other girl with you!?"
Uni narrowed her eyes at him. "You have some nerve to talk like that to me, Lastation's new CPU Candidate Black Sister?"
The male NPC stepped back with shock. "O-Oh! My apologies!"
Noire smirked. "Well, now that you know you're place, we will be taking our leave." With that said, the two CPUs and CPU Candidate exited the Basilicom.
End BGM
Lite Light (Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;birth1)
Neptune, Noire, and Uni walked through the streets of Lastation, although they had to take a slight detour to get Uni new clothes since she is now permanently in her CPU Form as she was now dressed the same as her human form.
"So Noire, do you have any lead to where Avenir is at the moment?" Uni asked.
"I asked Chian about their location. Oddly enough, their main factory is outside of Lastation's main city." Noire replied.
Neptune blinked in confusion. "They don't operate inside Lastation's boundary?"
Noire nodded. "Yeah, I was quite surprised, too. That's why I wasn't able to deal with them sooner in the previous timeline."
"So they operate outside the city... Did Chian tell you where?"
"Yeah. There factory is in a place called-"
End BGM
Before Noire could tell the location, they were suddenly surrounded a bunch of monsters...and one of them was wearing a suspicious collar.
"What the-!? Where did these monsters come from?" Uni asked.
"Well well, how nice to meet you, 'Lady' Black Heart. You, too, Purple Heart."
Neptune and Noire heard a familiar voice, and they turned to see Ganache walking out of an alley.
Rising Fear (Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time/Darkness/Sky)
"Ganache!" The two CPUs exclaimed.
Ganache grinned. "I'm honored that you already know me." He then looked at Uni. "And you must be Lastation's new CPU Candidate, Black Sister."
Uni looked at him with surprise. "How do you already know me?"
"News flies fast. Anyway, I know Chian told you about our main factory location, Black Heart, so I have no choice but to kidnap you."
Noire smirked. "With these monsters, you must be mistaken. These things are far too weak to defeat me."
Ganache countered back with his own grin. "And that's where you are blissfully unaware of something. You see, one of our employees recently discovered that the monsters have a special form that surpasses Viral Form."
Neptune's eyes widened as she gasped. "END Form...!"
Ganache's grin widened. "So you've heard of it Purple Heart."
"Nepgear, IF, Compa and I faced one before in Planeptune."
"Ah yes. The two new CPUs, Pink Heart and Indigo Heart, and Planeptune's new CPU Candidate, Purple Sister."
Neptune was surprised. "How do you know that IF and Compa are CPUs now?"
"Like I said news flies fast. Anyway, we have found a way for us to control that power. Do you see the collars these monsters are wearing?" Ganache took out a silver remote.
"Observe."
Face It! (Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories)
Ganache pressed a button on the remote, and then collar flashed and a dark energy surged through the monster wearing it, a Fenrir, making it roar out in pain as it transformed into its END Forms.
The Fenrir's new appearance was brown fur with fire sprouting from its back and the back of its legs. Its teeth and claws were also sharper and its eyes were new red...and on fire.
"Well well, even though this is just a test run, it seems to work perfectly." Ganache mused.
Noire and Uni looked at the Fenrir in shock. "Wh-What is this!?" Noire exclaimed in shock.
Ganache smirked. "I take it this is your first time facing a monster in their END Form. Well, allow this Fenrir to demonstrate their newfound power."
Iblis Phase 1 & 2 (Sonic 06)
The Fenrir roared and unleashed a blast of fire at the CPUs and CPU Candidate, but they quickly dodged out of the way of the attack and changed into their processor units.
"Noire, Uni, careful! Monsters in their END Form are pretty strong! I had to use my NEXT Form to be able to defeat it!" Neptune warned.
Uni looked at her in shock. "Are you serious!? Then we're in for one heck of a fight!" Uni then dodged an attack from a normal Fenrir and shot it down with a few lasers. "I'll take care of the small fry! You two take out that flaming Fenrir!"
Noire nodded. "Right!"
Neptune and Noire immediately went into their NEXT Forms and slashed at the transformed Fenrir, but its tail caught on fire and it swung it at the two, knocking them away.
"Tornado Sword!" Noire coated her sword in rainbow energy and slashed the Fenrir, but it seemed to have shrugged it off and slashed her away, and then it coated itself in fire and rammed at her, knocking her into the wall of a building.
"Noire!" Neptune called to her friend.
Noire grunted as she stood up. "I'm fine... I can still fight!" She flew at the Fenrir. "Tornado Chain!" Noire slashed the Fenrir a few times and then kicked it away, and then she snapped her fingers as those three slashes turned into multiple, dealing decent damage to it.
"Delta Slash!" Neptune fired two diagonal slash waves at the Fenrir, and then followed up with a horizontal slash wave, the slashes connecting in the shape of a delta sign and exploding...and then the Fenrir roared in anger.
"I don't like this..." Noire said worriedly, which was unusual as she was usually calm in her NEXT Form.
The Fenrir continued to roar, the flames on its body grew in size and intensity as it charged a powerful attack in its mouth, and when it was fully charged it unleashed a powerful blast that tore through the ground, growing in size as it traveled and hit Noire, causing a giant explosion as she screamed in pain.
"NOIRE!" Neptune yelled.
Uni just finished defeating all of the other monsters...and then she heard an explosion behind her, followed by her older sister screaming in pain and Neptune yelling her name as she turned and saw Noire back in her normal HDD in her normal chothes unconscious on the ground. "Noire!" Uni tried to fly to her, but then she saw Noire get trapped in a containment field and carried over to a grinning Ganache.
"Well, that went as well as I hoped. I will be taking Black Heart with me now. If you want her back, Purple Heart must come to our main factory in Mechanical Mayhem. Alone. If you can defeat this Fenrir, that is."
"NO!" Uni fired a beam at Ganache, but the Fenrir countered by unleashing a stream of fire from its mouth, resulting in an explosion between the two attacks, and when the smoke cleared, Ganache was gone...and so was Noire.
Neptune growled in anger. "This time, Avenir's gone too far!" She turned her attention to the Fenrir and unleashed one of her strongest attacks. "Neptune Break!"
The Fenrir was slashed relentlessly by Neptune's Neptune Break, leaving it weakened as Uni dealt the finishing blow. "NGP!" Uni relentless fired at the Fenrir, knocking it into the air, and then she finished by firing a beam at it, causing a series of explosions in the air as the Fenrir fell defeated and burst into pixels.
End BGM
Neptune transformed back to her normal HDD, but she was still in her processor unit. "We've defeated the Fenrir, but Ganache has taken Noire." She growled. "I have to go after him."
"I'll go with you!" Uni quickly volunteered.
Neptune, however, shook her head. "No. You heard Ganache. If we want to get Noire back, I have to go to their main factory alone."
"But-!" Uni tried to retort, but Neptune had already summoned her wings and had taken into the air.
"I'm sorry, but I need you to stay here."
Uni watched as Neptune flew off out of her view to save Noire. "I have a bad about this..."
So do I, Uni. Nepgear, IF, and Compa have already found the Key Fragment. I told them to wait at Chian's place, go over there and tell them the situation.
"Right!" Uni activated her wings and flew to Chian's. Luckily, Noire told her where it was.
Metal Depot (Sonic Battle)
Neptune flew through the skies of Mechanical Mayhem. As the name implies, the place was mechanical. There was no life anywhere, just machinery and robots created by Avenir.
Neptune looked around the area. "To think that Avenir has complete control of this entire area... If they're not stopped now, Lastation in great danger." She kept flying until she spotted a factory in the distance.
"That must be their main factory. Noire, please hang in there. I'll save you!"
Neptune flew at the factory at high speed and broke through one of the windows...which of course, sounded the alarm as she was now surrounded by robots.
"I don't care how many robots there are! I won't let anything stop me from saving Noire!" Neptune began slashing through the robots, mercilessly destroying each one.
One of the robots tried to punch her, but she caught the fist with her left hand and began applying force to it, shattering it and then slicing the robot in half as she saw more robots approaching from a distance.
"32-bit Mega Blade!" Neptune flung one of her pixilated blades at the robots, which erupted in a pillar of light and destroyed all of them.
"I can't waste anymore time here! I have to find Noire!" Neptune then heard a bloodcurdling scream. Her eyes widened as she instantly recognized it.
"Noire!"
Neptune followed the scream down a hallway, before finding the door where the screams were loudest and opened...and to her horror, she found her held in place in a machine that was electrocuting her and constantly draining her power.
"Noire!" Neptune screamed her name, but it was drowned out by Noire's scream before the machine stopped and her head fell. Neptune slowly approached her friend. "Noire... What have they done to you...?" She whispered...and then the machine started up again as Noire raised her head and let out another bloodcurdling scream.
Neptune clenched her fists in sheer anger. "I'VE HAD ENOUGH OF THIS!" She summoned her sword and destroyed the parts of the machine that held Noire as the Lastation CPU fell to the ground in front of her.
Neptune gently turned Noire onto her back and lifted her by her head. "Noire...please be alive." Tears started to form in her eyes when her friend didn't respond. "Please..." Neptune gently her head on her chest and began to silently cry...and then she heard a weak moan as she lifted her head and saw Noire slowly opening her eyes and looking at her.
"N-Nep...tune...?" She weakly spoke.
Neptune, although teary-eyed, managed to give a relieved smile. "Noire..." She gently hugged her friend. "Thank goodness. I was afraid that I lost you."
"Well well, I won't say that I expected this."
Neptune immediately separated from the hug and turned her head to see Ganache standing at the door with a grin. "To think you would actually come here to save her... I thought you were sworn enemies."
Neptune gave him a cold glare. "That was all in the past! Noire and I are friends now!"
Ganache's grin widened. "'Friends', you say? How unexpected that two Goddesses would put their differences aside and become friends. Well, since you're here, I might as well use you to test our latest creation."
Suddenly, they heard a wall break down to her left as Neptune looked and saw Killachine...but its weapon was different. Instead of a spiked ball and chain, it now held a sword that looked like Noire's in HDD.
"You may have already guessed Purple Heart, but that machine you saved Black Heart was meant to drain her power. We then used that drained power to strengthen this here Killachine." Ganache explained.
Neptune tried to contain her anger, but failed miserably. "Draining a Goddess's power, and using it for your own personal gain..." Neptune gently put Noire down, and then stood up turned to the Killachine, giving it a glare that pierced down into its core as she transformed into her NEXT Form. "YOU HAVE CROSSED THE LINE! AVENIR WILL END WITH THIS KILLACHINE'S DEFEAT!"
Ganache smirked. "Go ahead and try."
Scamper (Hyperdimension Neptunia Mk2)
Killachine roared and charged at Neptune, who also charged at it as the two clashed swords, and then the Killachine tried to punch her, but she applied more force to her sword and used it to vault over the Killachine and dodge its attack.
"Critical Edge!" Neptune turned around and slashed the Killiachine three times, dealing a decent amount of damage to it...but then it coated its sword in rainbow energy and slashed her as she barely dodged, but it left her shocked.
"That's Noire's attack! How is it able to-?"
Ganache grinned. "Isn't it obvious? Since Killachine has absorbed Black Heart's power, it is able to use her skills."
So that's why its weapon looks like Noire's.
"Regardless, I won't lose! Cross Combination!" Neptune slashed the Killachine several times, but it blocked her attacks and countered with Tornado Sword again, but she flew over the attack. "32-bit Mega Blade!" Neptune flung one of her pixilated swords at the Killachine, the pillar of light dealing continuous damage to it.
Killachine still had a lot of fight in it as it charged at Neptune and slashed her as she jumped up to dodge the attack...but then she heard Noire's scream behind her and turned to see Killachine holding Noire in its free hand.
"Noire! Let her go!" Neptune tried to fly at it, but when she moved, the Killachine tightened its grip on Noire, getting a pained cry out of her and forcing Neptune to stop.
Ganache gave Neptune a mocking grin. "What will you do now? If you value her as much as you say, you will drop your weapon and surrender."
Neptune turned her head to look at Ganache and gave him a death glare. "Damn you..."
Suddenly, two beams of purple and pink rushed past Neptune and at Killachine, destroying the arm that held Noire.
"What?! Aghh!"
Neptune heard a thud behind her as she turned to see Ganache on the floor, and then looked at the doorway and saw Nepgear, Uni, IF, and Compa standing there, IF and Compa currently in their HDD.
"You guys! How did you-!?"
"Uni told us the situation, so after we got direction from Chian, we rushed here as fast as we could." IF explained.
Compa rushed past her and fired lasers at the ground near Killachine, forcing it away from Noire, and then she recalled her weapon and picked her up.
Noire opened her eyes and weakly looked at her. "Compa...?"
Compa gave a gentle smile. "Don't worry, you'll be fine." She turned to her friends. "I'll get Noire to safety! You guys deal with the Killachine!"
IF nodded. "Got it!"
Compa flew out the room with Noire, and then IF rushed at the Killachine. "Take this. Darkness Blade!" IF coated her energy blades in a dark energy and slashed the Killachine four consecutive times and finished with a cross slash through the Killiachine, damaging it a good amount as it tried to retaliate with Tornado Sword. "Nuclear Inferno." Before it had the chance to attack, IF's left energy blade glowed a blazing red and she unleashed a stream of fire at its right arm, completely melting it off.
"This attack will finish it!" Neptune got into a stance as she put all of her power into her sword, making it double in size. "Dimensional...SLICE!" With one swift, powerful attack, she sliced the Killachine in half, making it explode into a hundred pieces, the recoil forcing Neptune back into her regular HDD and into her normal clothes.
End BGM
"It's over." IF calmly said as she transformed back into her human form and turned to Neptune with a grin. "You're lucky the author told Uni to come find us, otherwise things would've ended badly."
Neptune smiled. "Thank you. I wouldn't have been able to save Noire without you guys."
Uni grinned. "Don't mention it." She then approached Ganache while giving him a very cold glare that could pierce his very soul. "As for you..." Ganache looked at Uni, fear clearly in his eyes. "I may not be a full-fledged CPU like my big sister, but as CPU Candidate of Lastation, Avenir is finished. I'll make your punishment is as painful and severe as Noire would make it."
Neptune, Nepgear, Uni, and IF were now sitting now in the living room of Chian's house with her, Neptune looking down with a worried look as they waited for Compa to finish healing Noire.
Chian looked over at her. "Lady Purple Heart, are you okay?" Neptune remained silent with worry. "...You're worried about Lady Black Heart, aren't you?" Neptune slowly nodded.
IF put a hand on the purple CPU's shoulder to comfort her. "Don't worry, she'll be alright. Compa's healing skills actually improved when she became a CPU."
They then heard footsteps as they looked to see Compa walking down the stairs in her HDD. "Lady Pink Heart, how is Lady Black Heart?" Chian asked.
"She'll be fine, but she said she wanted Nep-Nep to come upstairs to see her." Compa told her, and then looked at Neptune. "She's resting in the second guest room to the left."
Neptune nodded and walked up the stairs. Following Compa's instruction, she found the room Noire was resting in and gently opened to see her resting in the bed.
Dearly Beloved
"Noire?"
Noire opened her eyes and looked at the doorway to see Neptune standing there. "Neptune..."
Neptune walked up next to the bed and gave Noire a soft smile. "How are you feeling?"
Noire returned with a weak smile. "A bit better thanks to Compa. Thanks for saving me, by the way."
"I couldn't let them have their way with you. If I didn't save you, they would've drained you of all your power and you would..." Neptune bit her lip, not wanting to finish her sentence and shuddering at the thought.
"I know... I would've died. That's why I wanted to thank you for saving me...and I also wanted to tell you something."
Neptune blinked. "What is it?"
Noire blushed. "I-It's actually something I wanted to tell you in the previous timeline, but I never got the chance to tell you. And I was afraid I wouldn't be able to tell you now."
Neptune looked at Noire in confusion as her blush deepened.
"Neptune...the truth is...I...I love you."
Neptune blushed as she looked at Noire with surprise. She had honestly loved Noire ever since they first met on her first adventure when she lost her memory, but she couldn't tell her because she was unaware how she felt...no. That was wrong. She was afraid that Noire wouldn't feel the same way.
But now she knows her true feelings...and it made her really happy.
Neptune smiled. "Noire...I...I love you, too."
Neptune lowered her head to Noire and kissed her on the lips. The white-haired CPU happily obliged and kissed her back as their tongues explored each others mouths.
The two separated after a few minutes and looked at each other lovingly in the eyes, and then they heard the door open, snapping them both out of their trance as they looked to see Compa in her human form standing at the door.
"Oh, I'm sorry. Am I interrupting something?"
Neptune shook her head with a smile. "It's fine. We had just finished talking anyway."
"Oh, okay. Anyway, it's about time we head for bed."
Neptune nodded and was about to leave, but then she felt something grab her wrist and turned to see Noire looking at her with pleading eyes.
"If it's okay, I want Neptune to sleep with me." She requested to Compa.
The cream-haired CPU blinked. "Why? Are you two a couple now?"
The CPUs of Planeptune and Lastation both blushed and nodded at the same time.
Compa smiled. "So that's why Nep-Nep's visit took so long. Alright, you two can sleep together." Compa began closing the door and waved at the couple. "Sweet dream, you two."
Once the door was closed, Neptune climbed onto the bed and tucked herself in next to Noire, giving her girlfriend a soft smile. "Good night, Noire."
Noire smiled back. "Good night, Neptune."
The two CPUs dozed off into dream land, happy that they were finally able to admit their feelings to each other.