Disclaimer: I do not own Hyperdimension Neptunia. If I did, then this would all be canon.
All characters and music belong to their respective owners. I also give credit for the basic design and name of Compa's HDD, Pink Heart. I also thank Author Heart - Ance for Benia's human appearance and name. The only things I can take ownership for are my OC, Troy Kirin Sonar (Eevee), IF's HDD, Indigo Heart, the monsters' END Forms, Benia's HDD, Green Sister, and Nepgear's, Uni's, Rom's, and Ram's NEW Forms.
Scanea Felix (Puella Magi Madoka Magica)
Everyone woke up the next day and was now in the living room of Compa's home, discussing about getting into Celestia.
"So we need the weapons of the four legendary heroes to open the gate to Celestia in the ruins?" Nepgear asked based on what Neptune, IF, Compa, and Histoire told her.
Neptune nodded. "That's right, the Quartet Arms. They were scattered around in pieces last time. I say 'last time' because I'm not sure if the author made changes to finding the weapons."
"Actually, he did." Eevee spoke. "The weapons are no longer scattered in pieces across the nations. Instead, they are sealed away in temples hidden in each of the four nations." He informed.
"Oh great." IF groaned. "Now we have to go around looking for temples."
"Actually, I happened to have found the temple in Planeptune while doing an S-class quest here."
Neptune looked at the Guild Member. "Where is it?"
"Follow me, I'll lead you to it." Eevee lead the group to the temple in Planeptune.
End BGM
The group had traversed through what seemed to be a random forest, until they came across a stone temple with purple outlines.
"This is the hidden temple of Planeptune, the Temple of Progress." Eevee said.
Histoire floated to the door and inspected the purple orb in the middle of it. "So, how are we going to get inside?" She asked.
"Maybe we need to find a specific key to enter." IF thought aloud.
"We already have the key." Eevee said, turning a glance at Neptune, who tilted her head in confusion.
"Eh?"
Suddenly, Neptune began to glow a purple light.
"What's going on?" Nepgear wondered...and then the orb on the door began to glow with her big sister.
"The door is..." IF said as she stepped away from the door.
The entire door then began to glow a bright light, forcing everyone to shield their eyes. The light died down after a few seconds as uncover their eyes and saw that the entrance was now open.
"Hey! The door's gone!" Compa exclaimed.
"Each of the temples open when the nation's Goddess is within the area." Eevee explained.
"I see. That's helpful to know for the other temples." Blanc said.
"Well then, let's head inside." Neptune said as everyone entered the temple.
The group made it through the Temple of Progress, taking out any enemy that dared to challenge them as well as solving a few moving block puzzles to progress onward until they reached an open area with a giant hole in the ceiling.
"Looks like this is the final area before we get to the room holding the Trinity Blade." Neptune said.
"And you know what that means if the final area is an open room like this." Eevee hinted.
Face it! (Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories)
As is on cue, a figure fell from the hole in the ceiling and landed in the room in a cloud of smoke. When the smoke cleared, everyone saw a giant, bulky, four-armed, purple and black robot standing in the center of the room. The Guardian of Progress.
"That must be the guardian of this temple." Nepgear said.
"I think that was pointed out in the line above yours." Uni said.
Eevee rolled his eyes as he summoned his twin swords and went into his Awakened Form. "Fourth wall breaking aside, let's take this thing out."
The eight main CPUs changed into their processor units while IF, Compa, Ance, and Benia transformed into their HDD. The Guardian of Progress scanned the Goddesses, and then summoned two cutlasses in its upper arms, preparing for battle.
Defy the Legends (Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time/Darkness/Sky)
The Guardian of Progress fired two large slash waves at everyone as they dodged in different directions. Neptune and Noire then flew at the robot and slashed it, but it blocked with both cutlasses and performed a spin slash to knock them back.
"Aero Shooter!" Uni jumped from magic circle to magic circle around the Guardian of Progress and fired laser shots at it, and then she jumped off another magic circle into the air and fired one more laser shot at it, but then the robot jumped high into the air (which was surprising for its size) and slashed her as she created a 32-bit Mega Blade in her left hand to block, but the force still knocked her to the ground.
Histoire flew at the Guardian of Progress and slashed it multiple times with her energy blades, using her small size and speed to avoid any incoming attacks before flying back and firing magic blasts at it.
"Genesis Rush!" Histoire then flew back at the Guardian of Progress and slashed it several times, ending with a cross-slash through the robot that dealt some good damage.
"Divine Ray!" Rom held her staff into the air as the tip glowed a bright light, and then a ray of light shone down and hit the robot, dealing continuous damage to it.
The Guardian of Progress's purple eyes glowed as it opened its chest, revealing a cannon that fired a purple beam at Nepgear, IF, and Compa.
"M.P.B.L.!" Nepgear countered by firing her signature purple beam, the two beams colliding and causing an explosion.
IF flew through the smoke and slashed the robot a few times, before retreating back to avoid its spin slash, but the Guardian of Progress rushed at her and slashed her as she blocked with her left energy blade.
"Rising Hell." While she blocked the attack, IF's right energy blade glowed orange as she performed an uppercut slash, which caused magma to erupt from the ground below the robot and send it into the air.
The Guardian of Progress quickly recovered from the attack and got into a held its legs in its lower arms, its upper arms with the cutlasses spread out as it performed forward flips in the air, spinning faster and faster before charging at the group, hitting everyone except the Compa, Benia, and Histoire.
"Angel Pulse!" Compa held her hand into the air, her body glowing a pink light as she released a soothing aura around the room that healed everyone.
"Dragon Hell!" Eevee coated his fist in flames and punched the ground, sending a flaming shock wave at the Guardian of Progress that erupted into a pillar of fire and damaged it.
The Guardian of Progress let out a mechanical noise as it spread out its arms, and then everyone saw a familiar pixilated blade form in the air.
"That's Neptune's 32-bit Mega Blade!" Benia gasped.
"You know, this kind of thing should be expected from the Guardian of Planeptune's temple." Eevee said matter-of-factly.
The Guardian of Progress held out its lower arms at the group, flinging the blade at the group as it stabbed the ground near them and exploded in a pillar of light that greatly damaged everyone except the Planeptune sisters and Histoire, who managed to avoid the attack.
"Are you all alright!?" Neptune worriedly asked everyone, who were now on the ground heavily wounded.
"Owww... So that's how it feels to get hit by that attack." Compa groaned.
"Looks like they're out for the count." Nepgear said.
"So it seems... Looks like we'll have to get serious." Neptune said as she transformed into her NEXT Form. "It's time to show our true power, Nepgear!"
"Right!" Nepgear nodded as she transformed into her NEW Form.
The Guardian of Progress analyzed the Planeptune sisters' forms, and then its eyes glowed red as it summoned two odachis in its lower arms.
"Four blades." Neptune observed. "Alright then."
Neptune created a 32-bit Mega Blade in her left hand and flew at the Guardian of Progress, slashing at it with her two blades as the robot blocked with its four blades, and then she flew up to avoid a slash and came back down behind it.
"Cross Combination!" Neptune slashed at the robot several times with both of her blades, before performing an uppercut slash that sent it into the air, and then she jumped up and did a cross slash to send it back to the ground with a loud thud.
Nepgear pressed the button on her gunblade, the dial changing to a picture of a lightning bolt as she pointed her weapon at the Guardian of Progress. "Multiple Beam Launcher - Shock!" Nepgear fired her signature beam, this time it was yellow with electrical sparks surrounding it as it hit the robot, dealing great electrical damage.
The Guardian of Progress spun around, unleashing a barrage of slash waves everywhere.
"Look out!" Neptune warned as she and Nepgear dodged the slash waves. Histoire flew in front of the others and created a barrier that protected everyone else.
Getting an idea, Nepgear flew into the air and pressed the button on her gunblade again, the dial now changing to the snowflake picture as she pointed her weapon at the ground near the Guardian of Progress. "Multiple Beam Launcher - Chill!" Nepgear fired her signature beam again, this time it was an icy blue and was radiating ice energy as it hit the ground, freezing the floor under the Guardian of Progress, causing it to slip and fall, interrupting its attack.
Seeing that the barrage of slash waves stopped, Histoire dropped the barrier. "32-bit Mega Blade!" Histoire then created a pixilated blade and flung it at the Guardian of Progress, the sword stabbing it in the chest and exploding into a pillar of light that greatly damaged it.
"Thorneraid Sword!" Neptune coated both of her swords with rainbow energy, and then she performed a cross slash with both swords, dealing a great amount of damage and leaving it weakened.
"I'll finish this!" Nepgear flew into the air and pointed her gunblade at the Guardian of Progress. She pressed the button, the dial changing to a picture of a power symbol which began to glow a rainbow light with the power symbol above her chest as rainbow energy gathered at the tip of the Planeptune Candidate's gunblade. "True Ragnarok!" Nepgear fired multiple beams that were all different colors, including black and white, the beams all hitting the Guardian of Progress right in the center, resulting in a ginormous explosion in a pillar of rainbow light.
Neptune whistled. "Amazing." She said as the explosion died down, revealing that the Guardian of Progress was completely destroyed.
End BGM
Nepgear was forced back to her normal form due to the skill's recoil as she landed on the ground on her feet.
Neptune changed back to her normal form and walked up to her little sister with a smile. "That was really impressive, Nepgear. You really have grown strong." She said.
The younger sister smiled. "I know."
The two then walked to their friends and Nepgear helped heal everyone, and then they all heard something opening as they saw the door to the treasure room open up.
"Looks like the path is open." Eevee said. "Time to claim our prize."
Everyone walked into the treasure room, where they saw the Trinity Blade floating on top of the pedestal.
"I still can't used to how much has changed between the two timelines." Histoire admitted.
"Don't worry. It will take some getting used to." Eevee assured her as Neptune walked up and grabbed the sword off the pedestal.
"So that's one down. What's the next one to get?" Noire asked.
"Next, we should get the Dual Revolver in Lastation." Histoire said.
"Alright, let's go." Nepgear said as everyone left the temple and flew off to Lastation.
Lastation's Theme (Hyperdimension Neptunia)
The group landed in Lastation and changed back to their normal forms.
"Hmmm..." Neptune put a hand on her chin in thought.
"What's wrong, Neptune?" Noire asked.
"We were able to find the temple in Planeptune with Eevee's help, but at this point, we have no idea where to look." Neptune said.
Noire winced, knowing that her girlfriend was right. "Oh..."
"We won't get anywhere by blindly looking everywhere." IF said. "So what are we supposed to do?"
"Oh, Lady Black Heart and Lady Black Sister!" They heard a familiar voice call Noire and Uni by their CPU names behind them as they turned and saw Chian walking up to them.
"Hey, Chian. Good to see you again." Compa greeted her with a smile.
"It's good to see you again, too, Lady Pink Heart. You too, Lady Purple Heart, Lady Purple Sister, and Lady Indigo Heart" Chian smiled, and then looked at the other Goddesses, lone boy, and fairy. "And you brought the other Goddesses here, too. And Eevee."
"Fancy meeting you here, Chian." Eevee greeted.
Noire blinked and looked between Eevee and Chian. "You two know each other?" She asked.
Chian nodded. "While he mostly does quests in Planeptune, he sometimes goes to other nations to do quests there. We met after he completed an S-class quest one time." She explained how she met Eevee.
The Lastation CPU nodded in understanding. "I see."
"By the way, who is the fairy on the tome?" The business woman asked, looking at Histoire.
"I am Histoire, the tome of Gamindustri." Histoire introduced herself. "It's nice to meet you, Chian."
"I see. Nice to meet you, too, Histoire."
"Anyway, we're looking for the temple here in Lastation. Have you heard of it?" Neptune asked.
"The Temple of Regality? I was told about it by my father. He said that it was somewhere in Mechanized Mayhem." Chain informed them.
Noire flinched when the area name was mentioned, remembering when she was kidnapped and taken to Avenir's main factory to have her power drained. "W-We really have to go back there?"
Neptune noticed Noire flinch and gave her a comforting hug. "It's okay. I won't let anything bad happen to you." She assured her girlfriend.
Noire relaxed into the purple CPU's hugged and gave a soft smile. "Thanks, Neptune."
"So we're going back there?" IF asked.
"As much as I don't want to, we don't really have a choice." Uni said, and then everyone went off to Mechanical Mayhem, with Neptune, Nepgear, Uni, IF, and Compa taking the lead and Noire staying close to Neptune.
End BGM
When the group made it to Lastation, Neptune, Noire, their little sisters, IF, and Compa were surprised by the drastic change in scenery. There were a lot of monster-type enemies and hardly any robot enemies, and most of the machinery was destroyed, probably because of the monsters now inhabiting the area.
IF whistled. "Wow. Things changed a lot ever since this area was freed from Avenir's control."
"There aren't as many robots around here, now." Nepgear said...and then everyone saw an explosion happen in the distance.
"Wh-What was that!?" Benia asked.
"I don't know... We better check it out." Vert said as everyone ran in the direction of the explosion.
Face It!
A man dressed like a soldier was on the ground, injured as a Metal Dogoo was lying next to him with swirls for eyes.
"Damn... I didn't expect this." The soldier groaned as he looked at his opponent flying above him, which was a Crystal Wyvern that appeared to in its END Form.
The Crystal Wyvern's END Form had dark red skin and brown eyes, with the inside of its wings being multi-colored. It also had two rings of small multi-colored crystals slowly circling around it.
The Crystal Wyvern let out a roar as it charged a beam to end the soldier...
"Brave Cannon!"
Suddenly, a dark beam hit the monster in the chest, interrupting its attack and knocking it back a few feet.
"Are you okay?" A voice asked him as he saw Uni run up next to him.
"Uni..."
Uni tilted her head. "I don't know how you know me when I never met you, but don't worry. We'll help you."
As soon as she said that, the other Goddesses plus Eevee and Histoire stood in front of him as the Goddesses changed into their processor units while IF, Compa, Benia, and Ance transformed into their HDD and Eevee entered his Awakened Form.
"Wh-Wha...!?" The soldier looked shocked at IF's and Compa's transformation, and then he saw Compa point her gun at him.
"Medical Bullet!" Compa fired a green laser at him that healed his wounds. "We'll take care of this monster. You go and hide somewhere."
The soldier sat up and looked at her. "Are you sure? This thing is really powerful."
Uni grinned. "Monsters in their END Forms are pretty tough, but we're tough as well." She assured him as she changed into her processor unit. "Go on, we'll handle it."
The soldier stared a her for a moment before nodding. Picking up the unconscious Metal Dogoo, he ran off behind a piece of machinery to hide as the Crystal Wyvern roared at the Goddesses.
Majestic Wings (Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance)
The Crystal Wyvern flapped its wings, sending a barrage crystals of different colors at the group as they flew up to dodge them, and then Noire flew at the monster and slashed it several times before flying back to avoid a tail swing from the flying monster.
"Ftyuim!" Ance fired a rainbow beam, with black, white, and gray added into the mix at the Crystal Wyvern...but the rings of crystals circles suddenly sped up, creating a barrier that reflected the attack back, catching her off-guard. "Wha-!?"
The soldier and the Metal Dogoo, who had just recovered, watched from behind the trees as Ance was blasted down by her own beam. 'That monster has a reflective barrier. My attacks were completely useless because of it.' He thought.
Holding her head to recover from her own attack, Ance looked at the author. "What the heck, Eevee!? You gave this boss a reflect barrier!?"
Sorry. Couldn't really think of a different gimmick for this monster's END Form.
"So, we can't use ranged attacks on this monster in its END Form?" Rom asked. "This is like the Guard Vermin back in Leanbox, but immune to ranged attacks."
"Looks like I'll have to go into my NEW Form here." Uni said, and then she transformed into her NEW Form.
The soldier looked at Uni with wide eyes. 'Wh-What is that form!? The Uni I know doesn't have a form like that!' He thought...and if they could get any wider, they would as Uni's weapon changed into its sword form. 'She can DO that!?'
Uni flew at the Crystal Wyvern and slashed it several times, before flying back to avoid another tail swing. "Thorneraid Slicer!" Uni coated her weapon in rainbow energy and delivered a powerful slash at the monster, dealing a great amount of damage to it.
"Frostbite!" Ram recalled her staff and created blades of ice in her hands, and then she rushed at the Crystal Wyvern and performed a cross slash through it, trapping it in ice that exploded and dealt more damage.
The Crystal Wyvern created multi-colored crystals around it, and with a roar, the crystals fired beams in different directions as everyone flew around to dodge them.
"Spark Blitz!" Benia's body sparked as she slashed through the Crystal Wyvern four times at lightning speed and then finished the skill with an electrified kick to the ground.
"Hellfire Slash!" Histoire created a sword of fire in her right hand, and then rushed at the Crystal Wyvern and delivered a powerful flaming slash through it, leaving a cut across its chest that exploded that dealt a lot of damage.
The Crystal Wyvern turned to glare at the fairy and fired a beam at her, but she nimbly dodged the attack as both Neptune and Noire charged at the monster.
"Thorneraid Sword!" The two called in unison, their swords coated in rainbow energy as they slashed the Crystal Wyvern at the same time as it roared in pain before bursting into pixels.
End BGM
"And victory is ours." Uni stated as everyone changed back to their normal forms, and then she looked at the machine the soldier and his Metal Dogoo hid behind. "You can come out now."
The soldier and the Metal Dogoo came from behind the machine, the soldier looking at Uni with plate eyes.
Laughter and Merriment (Kingdom Hearts II)
"Uh...okay. What was that form you went into?" He asked.
"That was my NEW Form. It's a form I unlocked during training with Nepgear and the twins with Eevee's help." Uni explained. "It's just as strong as our big sisters' NEXT Forms."
The soldier looked surprised. "Wow. That's impressive. The Uni I know doesn't have that form."
Noire blinked. "The Uni you know?" She repeated before she and everyone else put the pieces together.
"I see. You're from another dimension." Histoire said.
The soldier chuckled. "More like another Hyperdimension."
This time, everyone but Ance and Eevee blinked in confusion.
"How can there be another Hyperdimension?" IF asked.
End BGM
"I can answer that." The Goddesses and Histoire turned to Ance.
Dive into the Heart (Kingdom Hearts)
"You see, your Hyperdimension is actually one of many in the Multiverse." Ance explained.
"Multiverse?" Neptune repeated.
"It's a universe comprised of stories based off of the Hyperdimension Neptunia game series. Each one different in its own way." Eevee explained for Ance.
"...Is the fourth wall going to be left busted after this explanation?" Blanc asked.
"High possibility." Eevee bluntly replied.
"Anyway, I've been checking out the many stories, and as you all know, yours caught my urgency when it pretty much began with your world ending." Ance continued the explanation with a serious explanation.
"You all know what happened after that." Eevee said. "But what you don't know is that this world's destruction alerted a large amount of the Multiverse."
"Well, that's to be expected. A world's destruction should not be taken lightly." Vert said, although she would be lying if she said she wasn't surprised.
"So we should expect help from other worlds?" Nepgear asked.
Eevee nodded. "That's right. This quest will not be easy. We're gonna need all the help we can get."
The CPUs, CPU Candidates, and Histoire nodded in understanding, and then Uni remembered something and turned to the soldier.
Lite Light (Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth1)
"Oh yeah, you haven't given us your name yet." Uni said.
"Oh right. I'm PFC Garland, and this Metal Dogoo is my buddy, Meta." Garland introduced himself and his Metal Dogoo.
"Dogoo." Meta greeted to everyone, and then he launched himself onto Uni, knocking her down on her back as he started licking her face.
"H-Hey! Hey! S-Stop that!" Uni said through her laughter as Meta licked her.
Garland couldn't help but laugh as well. "Red Dogoo! Red Dogoo!" He called out. Meta stopped licking Uni walked hopped back to Garland, allowing Uni to stand back up.
Noire let out a giggle. "Anyway, now that we have a better understanding what's going on, we better find that temple." She said.
Garland blinked. "Temple?"
"We'll inform you about it on the way." Neptune said as everyone turned to leave...but immediately stopped when Noire started glowing a black light.
End BGM
"Wha-!? Why am I glowing?" Noire wondered.
Wondering why her sister was glowing, Uni noticed another black light glowing behind her and turned to find the source...and what she saw surprised her. "Guys! Look!" She called everyone.
The others looked behind them and saw what Uni was seeing. A stone temple with black outlines. The Temple of Regality.
"Well, what do you know." Eevee simply said.
"We were so focused on the monster that we didn't notice it." Histoire said as the entire door began to glow a bright light. The light died down after a few seconds to reveal the entrance to the temple now open.
"Okay then, let's go inside." Neptune said as everyone, Garland and Meta included, entered the temple.
The group made it through the Temple of Regality, taking out any enemy in their way (Garland deciding to show what he can do with Meta, which surprised everyone except Ance and Eevee, since they already know) as well as solving a few moving platform puzzles until they entered a dark room.
"Um... Did someone forget to turn on the lights in this room?" Garland wondered as Ram cautiously walked forward.
"There are no lightbulbs in this place. Only torches." Eevee said.
As soon as he said that, all the torches in the room lit up, lighting up the entire room.
"Talk about convenience." Ram said.
"Um, Ram...?" Rom called her twin as she pointed in front of her.
"Huh?" The pink-haired White Sister blinked before she looked in front of her...and then she was face-to-face with a monster growling at her.
The monster was a four-legged chimera with rough black skin, sharp white claws, black wings with white feathers, and a black tail with a white bladed end. The chimera wore a silver helmet that covered the upper half of its face except for its turquoise eyes. The helmet also had two white horns. This monster was the Guardian of Regality.
Face It!
"Whoa!" Ram yelped as she jumped back to avoid a claw slash from the chimera. "The Guardian of Regality!?"
"We couldn't see it because it was hidden in the darkness." Uni said.
The Guardian of Regality roared at the group as the eight main Goddesses changed into their processor units while IF, Compa, and Ance transformed into their HDD.
"So we have to defeat this thing to get the Dual Revolver, right?" Garland asked.
"That's right. This fight will be a tough one. Be careful." Eevee told him as he entered his Awakened Form.
The soldier nodded. "Got it! PANZER BURST: ABRAMS!"
Meta glowed a bright light and leapt at Garland, transforming into his strongest armor as he prepared for battle.
Defy the Legend
The Guardian of Regality charged up energy between the tips of its horns and fired a beam at the group.
"EX Multi Blaster! Mode: Empress!" Uni quickly countered by firing a golden beam that collided with the chimera's and caused an explosion.
Nepgear pressed the button on her gunblade, changing the picture on the dial to a tornado as she pointed her weapon at the chimera. "M.P.B.L - Gust Mode!" Nepgear fired her signature beam in its wind element at the Guardian of Regality, whose helmet started glowing with silver energy as it crouched down, letting the beam hit its helmet and blocking most of the damage.
With its helmet still glowing with energy, the Guardian of Regality ran at IF in an attempt to ram her as she quickly flew up to dodge...but then the chimera suddenly flew up into into the air, transferring the energy to its bladed tail as it performed a forward flip, catching IF off guard as she was slashed back to the ground.
"Medical Bullet!" Compa fired a green laser at IF, healing off the damage from the attack, and then she pointed her gun at the chimera. "Holy Burst!" Compa charged a light blast and fired it at the Guardian of Regality, resulting in a giant explosion of light that dealt some damage to the chimera.
"Diamond Dust!" Histoire waved her right hand in front of her, sending a gust of ice shards at the chimera that dealt continuous damage to it and forced it to retreat to the ground, but then the Guardian of Regality fired another beam from its horns, forcing the fairy to stop her attack and dodge.
Benia flew at the Guardian of Regality quicker than it could react and unleashed a flurry of stabs, hitting it seventy-to-eighty times in a matter of seconds, and then she flew back to avoid a claw slash from the chimera as her older sister flew at it from the left side.
"Rainy Ratnaptura!" Vert struck the Guardian of Regality at its left side several times, but before she could land the last hit, the chimera flapped its wings really hard to blow her away.
The Guardian of Regality spread open it wings as it created three magic circles, the left one an icy blue, the right one yellow, and the middle one a fiery red, and then the magic circles fired beams of ice, lightning, and fire respectively.
Eevee absorbed the fire beam into his twin swords as Benia countered the lightning beam with her own lightning while Rom created ab ice shield to block the ice beam.
"Fire Dragon Fang!" Eevee coated his swords in flames and slashed the air, sending a flaming cross-slash wave that was stronger thanks to the absorbed fire at the chimera, dealing a great amount of damage to it...however, nobody noticed the white parts on its body change to red.
The Guardian of Regality roared and ran at Ance, who was calmly walking up to it...
"Restricted Maneuver."
...and then the chimera passed right through her, and once they were a couple feet apart, the Guardian of Regality collapsed to the ground, greatly damaged from Ance's skill.
"Giga Flare!" Rom charged up a blast of fire and fired it at the downed chimera, which exploded into a ginormous fiery explosion when it hit...but to their shock, when the explosion died down, the Guardian of Regality seemed fine.
"What!? But Eevee's fire did a lot of damage to it! Why did it take no damage from Rom's fire skill?" Ram asked in bafflement.
Uni took a closer look at the Guardian of Regality and noticed something different. The parts of its body that were originally white were now glowing red.
"Hey! The white parts of its body are now red!" She exclaimed.
"An element shift." Eevee stated.
"Element shift?" Nepgear repeated. "You mean this boss can change its own element, which can affect some of its attacks as well as its weaknesses and resistances?"
"That's right."
"So if the white parts are now red...that's means its element is now fire!" Garland stated.
Proving him correct, the Guardian of Regality charged up energy between its horns, this time firing a stream of fire at the group which Eevee quickly absorbed into his twin swords.
"Until it decides to change its element again, I won't be able to do much right now." Eevee said.
"Don't worry. We can handle it." Noire assured...and then she saw the red parts on the chimera's body flash blue, then yellow, then green, then back to red. "Huh?"
"It looks like its preparing for a strong attack!" Histoire warned.
With a loud roar, the Guardian of Regality flew into the air, charging up energy in between its horns, and then it fired a giant multi-colored beam at the ground that caused an explosion of fire, ice, lightning, and wind as everyone but the Lastation sisters, Garland, and Histoire were hit by the attack.
"Guys!" Noire called out worriedly to her friends as they were now on the ground heavily wounded.
"This is a familiar scenario we're in." Uni commented.
"You're right." Noire nodded, and then she smirked. "In that case, let's use our full power, Uni!"
"Right!" The younger sister exclaimed as she transformed into her NEW Form while Noire went into her NEXT Form.
The Guardian of Regality ignited its bladed tail and slashed Garland as he quickly flew into the air to dodge and fired rounds of bullets, but the chimera fired another stream of fire to counter the bullets before flying up at the soldier, its right claw coated in fire as it prepared to slash him down...but then a pixilated blade from Uni forced it a distance away.
The black candidate then flew at the chimera, firing few lasers as she closed the distance between them. "Thorneraid Slicer!" Once she was close enough, Uni transformed her weapon to its sword form, and then she coated it in rainbow energy and delivered a powerful slash that knocked it back down to the ground.
"Tera Volt!" Histoire created a yellow magic circle in below the Guardian of Regality that summoned a powerful thunderbolt that hit it dead center, dealing a great amount of damage...and then the four remaining fighters saw the red parts on the Guardian of Regality turn yellow.
"Yellow... That must be lightning element." Noire thought out loud.
'Lightning...' Benia repeated in her mind before smirking.
The Guardian of Regality charged up energy between its horn again, this time firing a stream of electricity at Noire...but the lightning was suddenly redirected to Benia as she absorbed it into her body, healing her injuries.
The Lastation sisters, Histoire, Garland, and the Guardian of Regality looked at her in shock (no pun intended).
"Wha-!? How did you do that!?" Uni asked.
Benia gave off a smirk. "I'm able draw in an enemy's electricity and use it to heal myself." She explained. "Histoire gave me the chance when she changed the Guardian of Regality's element to lightning."
"Oh! W-Well, you're welcome." Histoire said, surprised that she unintentionally helped the Leanbox Candidate.
The Guardian of Regality let out a growl in frustration, and then its helmet glowed with silver energy again as it charged at Benia, but Histoire quickly got in the way.
"Delta Storm!" Histoire fired a powerful blast of green wind to counter the chimera, and although it didn't do much damage, it did what the fairy wanted and pushed the Guardian of Regality away a good distance...and then everyone saw the yellow parts turn green.
"That must be wind." Uni said.
The Guardian of Regality flew up into the air and flapped its wings with great force, sending shock waves of wind at the group, but Noire countered by sending 32-bit Mega Blades, which erupted into pillars of light and canceled the waves.
"Tornado Chain!" The Lastation CPU then flew at the chimera and slashed it a few times before kicking it away, and then with a snap of her fingers, those few slashes became multiple.
"Lightspeed Combo!" Benia rushed at the Guardian of Regality and stabbed it one hundred times in three seconds before slashing through it...and then that one slash turned into another hundred, the attacks together dealing a lot of damage and leaving the chimera weakened.
"This ends here! Multi-Weapon Attack!" Uni flew at the Guardian of Regality, transforming her weapon back to its gun form and firing several lasers at the chimera, and then she transformed her weapon back to its sword form and slashed it several times from all sides. "Let's see how you like this." Uni said as she flew into the air above the Guardian of Regality, transforming her weapon back to its gun form and firing a turquoise beam that trapped it in a sphere of energy. "Now! The final strike!" Transforming her weapon once more into its sword form, Uni ended her attack with a powerful downward slash through the sphere, causing a gigantic explosion as the Guardian of Regality roared in great pain before bursting into pixels.
End BGM
"Now THAT was awesome!" Garland exclaimed in amazement.
Noire nodded in agreement as she changed back to her normal form and walked up to Uni, who was already back to her normal form due to the recoil. "That was amazing, Uni! I know I already said this near the end of last chapter, but I'm really glad to have you as a little sister." Noire praised her littler sister with a smile.
Uni smiled back. "Thanks, big sis."
Garland's armor glowed and changed back into Meta, who landed to the soldier's right. "Uni-goo really strong." Meta said.
"You said it, pal." Garland nodded in agreement as Histoire healed everyone else, and then they all heard something opening as they saw the door to the treasure room open up. "Guess that's where the Dual Revolver is?" The soldier asked.
"More than likely." Ance replied.
Everyone walked into the treasure room, where they saw the Dual Revolver floating on top of the pedestal as Noire walked up and grabbed the gun off the pedestal.
"Alright. Where next?" Rom asked.
"Next, we should get the Trust Spear in Lowee." Histoire said.
"Back to our nation, huh? Then, let's get a move on." Ram said as everyone left the temple and flew to Lowee.
Lowee's Theme (Hyperdimension Neptunia)
The group landed in Lowee and changed back into their normal forms.
"Alright, so how are we going to find the temple this time?" IF asked.
"Maybe Financier knows something about its location." Nepgear suggested.
"Nope." Eevee immediately gave a negative answer. "I asked her about it one time and she has no clue where it is."
"Well, that sucks." Ram sighed...and then she noticed her big sister thinking about something. "What are you thinking, Blanc?"
"...I might have a clue where the temple might be." Blanc answered after a moment.
"Really!?"
Blanc nodded and took the lead. "Come on. We're heading to Blizzard Forest." She said, everyone else following after her.
End BGM
The group returned to Blizzard Forest, the blizzard still raging as they were standing at the end of the dungeon.
Vert looked around the area, her sight was limited due to the blizzard before looking at the Lowee CPU. "Are you sure the temple is here?" She questioned.
"I'm not entirely sure." Blanc replied honestly. "But when I got to the end of this place, I was glowing for some weird reason."
"Like you are now?" Benia asked.
"Eh?"
Blanc looked at herself to see that she was indeed glowing a pure white light.
"What's going on?" She wondered, and then everyone noticed the blizzard dying down to a minimum.
"Hey! The blizzard's thinning out!" Ram exclaimed.
Rom looked around the area, now able to see much more before noticing another pure white light glowing behind her and Ram as she turned around...and then her eyes widened. "Whoa! Look at that!" She called out.
The others looked in Rom's direction and saw what she was seeing. A stone temple with white outlines as well as snow on the flat surfaces. The Temple of Serenity.
"The temple was here this whole time?" Garland wondered.
"It must have been hidden away by the blizzard." Ance said as the entire door began to glow a bright light. The light died down after a few seconds to reveal the entrance to the temple now open.
"Looks like you were right, Blanc." Vert said, impressed.
Blanc gave a smirk to the busty CPU. "Told you."
"Well, now that we've found it, let's go inside." Neptune said as everyone entered the temple.
The group made it through the Temple of Serenity, defeating any monster in their way as well as solving a few ice floor puzzles, which took quite a while to figure out how to get to the other side, until they made it into an icy room.
"Ice physics made it a pain getting here..." Eevee groaned.
"It doesn't really help that this temple's puzzles revolve around running into rocks just to get to the other side." Vert muttered...and then a strong blizzard mysteriously started blowing, forcing everyone to hold their arms over their faces and plant their feet securely on the floor.
"The hell!? Why is there a blizzard indoors!?" Blanc exclaimed.
"I think the guardian is about to appear!" Nepgear exclaimed back.
The blizzard finally died down and everyone put their arms down...and what they saw was not one guardian, but TWO.
The guardians were two winged dragons with pure white scaly skin. The only thing different about them was their eyes. The left one had blue eyes, while the right one's eyes were pink. These were the Guardians of Serenity.
Face it!
"Huh!? There are TWO!?" Uni exclaimed in shock.
"Interesting. So these are the Guardians of Serenity." Eevee said. "Who would've thought they would be twins?"
The Guardians of Serenity roared at them as the eight main Goddesses changed into their processor units while IF, Compa, and Ance transformed into their HDD, Eevee transformed into his Awakened Form, and Meta transformed into the Abrams Armor for Garland.
"Even if there are two of them, we'll still win!" Blanc said confidently.
Defy the Legends
The Guardians of Serenity breathed out ice at the group as everyone quickly dodged the double ice breath, and then Uni and Garland fired rounds of bullets and lasers at them, but the Guardian of Serenity (Blue Eyes) created a shield of ice to block all the shots as the Guardian of Serenity (Pink Eyes) flew above the shield fired a barrage of icy lasers at them, forcing them to dodge in different directions.
"Love Cannon!" Compa fired a powerful pink beam at the Guardian of Serenity (Pink Eyes), hitting it in the chest and dealing a great amount of damage to it.
The Guardian of Serenity (Blue Eyes) immediately responded by coating itself in ice energy and flying at Compa like a corkscrew, the pink CPU just barely avoiding the attack, but she didn't the Guardian of Serenity (Pink Eyes) slashing the air with its tail, sending an icy shock wave at her that knocked her away.
"Guys, cover me!" Vert exclaimed as she flew towards Compa. The Guardian of Serenity (Blue Eyes) tried to stop her by firing a icy beam at her, but Eevee got in the way and created a shield of fire to protect her as the green-haired CPU closed in on her friend. "Healing Winds." Vert glowed a light green aura, and then surrounded Compa with a light gust of wind that healed her injuries.
"Frost Javelin!" Ram recalled her staff, and then she created a spear of ice in her right hand and flung it at the Guardian of Serenity (Blue Eyes), the spear hitting the blue-eyed dragon right in the chest and trapping it in ice that exploded and dealt more damage.
The Guardian of Serenity (Pink Eyes) was not happy that its twin got hurt and flapped its wings very hard, sending a powerful gust of ice shards at Ram as she created an ice shield to block the attack.
"These Guardians are awfully protective of each other." IF said. "Whenever we land a hit on one, the other performs a vengeance strike on the attacker."
"It kinda reminds me of how we used to fight, huh Rom?" Ram asked her twin.
"Yeah, before I proved I was strong enough to fend for myself." Rom grinned, and then the two saw the Guardian of Serenity (Blue Eyes) spread its wings, creating eight magic circles around it that fired lasers at the Candidate twins, but the two quickly dodged in different directions.
"Ice Cubes!" Rom created ice cubes with her ice magic and flung them at the Guardian of Serenity (Blue Eyes), all the cubes hitting their target and damaging it.
The Guardian of Serenity (Pink Eyes) roared angrily and prepared a vengeance strike...but Ram had other plans. "Ice Hammer!" Ram appeared from above the Guardian of Serenity (Pink Eyes), the head of her staff coated in a block of ice to make it look like a hammer as she slammed it on the pink-eyed dragon's head, stopping its attack and dazing it for a bit.
"Good thinking! Instead of just targeting one and dodging the other's attack, we should attack them at the same time!" Neptune exclaimed, praising the twins for their strategy.
"Alright. Some of us will attack the blue-eyed dragon with Rom, while the rest attack the pink-eyed one with Ram!" Ance said their attack formation.
"Understood." IF said as she, Neptune, Noire, Nepgear, Uni, Compa, and Garland went to take on the Guardian of Serenity (Blue Eyes) with Rom, while Blanc, Vert, Benia, Histoire, Ance, and Eevee took on the Guardian of Serenity (Pink Eyes) with Ram.
"Critical Egde!" Neptune flew at the Guardian of Serenity (Blue Eyes) and slashed it a few times, dealing some damage to it.
"Inbetween Spear!" Before the Guardian of Serenity (Pink Eyes) could attack, Vert flung several spears that punctured it, with one final spear that pierced right through and dealt great damage to it.
The Guardian of Serenity (Pink Eyes) saw that it and its twin were getting separated and overwhelmed, and fired a barrage of lasers to clear a path, unfortunately for it, Benia fired lightning bolts to counter the lasers.
"Glacier Edge!" Blanc's axe glowed with icy blue energy as she slammed it into the ground, causing a chain of glaciers to rise up and hit the Guardian of Serenity (Pink Eyes), knocking it out of the air and stunning it.
"Spiral Break!" Vert rushed at the downed dragon and slashed through it several times. "This will finish you!" Vert ended her attack by throwing her spear at the Guardian of Serenity (Pink Eyes), resulting in an explosion as the dragon roared in pain before bursting into pixels.
"That's one down!" Ram grinned as Vert reformed her spear, and then her group rejoined with everyone else.
"Looks like only this one is left." Noire said...and then the Guardian of Sereinty (Blue Eyes) started glowing a white aura.
"What's it doing?" Compa wondered.
"A desperation attack, maybe?" Uni guessed as the Guardian of Serenity (Blue Eyes)'s aura erupted into a pillar...and then a pillar of light erupted to the left of it, and once it disappeared, the Guardian of Serenity (Pink Eyes) flew next to it.
"WHAT!? Everyone yelled, plate-eyed with shock.
"WHAT THE FUCK!? SO IF WE DON'T DEFEAT THEM BOTH AT THE SAME TIME, THEY'LL REVIVE EACH OTHER!?" Blanc yelled.
"Really, Eevee? You made this one of THOSE boss fights?" Ance asked in annoyance.
I had to make this boss unique somehow.
The Guardians of Serenity flew around the group. Blanc, Rom, Ram, and Histoire quickly flew out, but everyone else weren't very lucky as they were carried away in a tornado of snow, and then the head of the tornado turned upside down, slamming everyone to the ground and injuring them.
"Looks like it our time to shine, now." Blanc said to her little sisters.
"Yeah. Let's do it!" Rom exclaimed as she and Ram went into their NEW Forms while Blanc entered her NEXT Form.
The Guardians of Serenity both fired icy beams at the four, but they quickly dodged the beams.
"Exo Spark!" Rom held her staff in the air and released a powerful discharge of electricity, electrocuting both dragons at the same time.
"E-Force Blizzard!" Ram spun around and slammed her staff into the ground, trapping the Guardian of Serenity (Pink Eyes) in a giant glacier that exploded and dealt great damage.
"Getter Ravine!" With her upper face shadowed and her left eye glowing an angry red, Blanc flew up over the Guardian of Serenity (Blue Eyes) and slammed her hammer on the dragon's head, knocking it to the ground and leaving it stunned.
The Guardian of Serenity (Pink Eyes) roared angrily and prepared an attack aimed at Blanc, unaware that Histoire was flying up to its left side.
"Delta Storm!" Histoire fired a powerful blast of wind at the Guardian of Serenity (Pink Eyes), knocking it to the ground and leaving it weakened.
"Rom! Ram! Now!" Blanc called.
"Got it!" The twins exclaimed.
Rom flew up into the air and raised her staff, creating magic circles of different colors. "Celestial Elements!" The magic circles fired beams of fire, ice, lightning, wind, light, and darkness at the Guardian of Serenity (Blue Eyes). "This is the true power of my magic!" Rom then held her staff in front of her as she combined the magic circles together, creating a giant rainbow magic circle that fired a rainbow blast at the Guardian of Serenity, resulting in a huge explosion of the six elements that dealt massive damage as she landed on the ground.
"Hailstorm Blades!" Ram fired an icy blue beam into the air, causing storm clouds to form and rain down bladed weapons made of ice at the Guardian of Serenity (Pink Eyes), which then glowed and trapped it in a giant glacier. "It doesn't end there." Ram then coated her staff in ice, forming it into a giant longsword. "Face an endless winter!" Ram delivered a powerful slash at the ice holding the Guardian of Serenity (Pink Eyes), causing it to explode and deal massive damage.
The Guardians of Serenity roared in pain before bursting into pixels at the same time.
End BGM
Rom and Ram changed back into their normal forms due to the recoil of their attacks as Blanc threw her arms around them with a smile. "Way to go, you two! You showed those dragons how strong you really are." She congratulated.
"We sure did." Rom said as she and Ram both smiled, and then the two went to their friends and healed them, and then they all heard something opening as they saw the door to the treasure room open up.
Everyone walked into the treasure room, where they saw the Trust Spear floating on top of the pedestal as Blanc walked up and grabbed the spear off the pedestal.
"All that's left is the one in Leanbox, right?" Benia asked.
Histoire nodded. "That is correct. The Wisdom Bow."
"Then, let's go." Vert said as everyone left the temple and flew to her nation.
Everyone flew through the skies of Gamindustri to Leanbox, although Ance was wondering why they weren't there by now.
"Hey, Eevee. Why did you jumpcut to us flying through the skies?" She asked.
Look behind you, and you'll figure out why.
Curious, everyone looked behind them...and then they saw a Fallen Phoenix fly in front of them.
Face It!
"What is that!?" Benia asked, shocked by the creature's sudden appearance.
The Planeptune sisters, Lastation sisters, IF, and Compa, however, recognized the monster in front of them. "That's the same Fallen Phoenix Noire, Nepgear, Uni, IF, Compa, and I fought on the way to Lowee!" Neptune exclaimed.
"You guys fought this monster before?" Vert asked.
"Yeah, but it fled before we could finish it off." Nepgear said.
The Fallen Phoenix instantly recognized the four CPU and two CPU Candidates, and then it was surrounded by a dark aura.
"It's transforming into its END Form!?" Benia asked as the Fallen Phoenix changed into its END Form.
The Fallen Phoenix's body was now formed by dark purple flames, its glowing red eyes glaring at them as dark energy crackled around it.
"The Phoenix has now completely given into the darkness." IF said. "All we can do now is end its suffering." She paused and looked at the screen. "And I wasn't going for a pun."
The Fallen Phoenix screeched at them as everyone summoned their weapons.
Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke (Touhou: Concealed the Conclusion)
The Fallen Phoenix sent dark fireballs at the group as everyone flew in different directions to dodge, but Blanc decided to bat one of the fireballs back at the Fallen Phoenix, although all it did was direct its attention to her as it breathed out dark fire at her, but she flew out of the way of the attack.
"Sylhet Spear!" Vert created a magic circle that fired a spear at the phoenix, but it flew over the spear and spread out its wings, which crackled strongly with dark energy as it charged at the green CPU with great speed.
Vert was barely able to duck under the attack, and then she turned around and used Inbetween Spear, but the Fallen Phoenix sent dark fireballs at the spears and destroyed them, and then its wings once again crackled with dark energy, but this time it flapped them really hard, sending a dark cross-slash wave at her, but Histoire got in front of her and created a magic shield to block the attack.
"Moon Slash!" Ance slashed the air six times, sending six larger slash waves at the Fallen Phoenix as it flew up to dodge and prepared another attack...but then the slash waves swerved and homed in on the monster, hitting it from behind and interrupting its attack.
"Frost Javelin!" Taking the chance, Ram recalled her staff, and then she created a spear of ice in her right hand and flung it at the Fallen Phoenix, dealing some damage to it.
The Fallen Phoenix breathed out dark fire at the pink-haired White Sister, but Eevee flew in front of her and absorbed the dark flames into his twin swords, and then after a few seconds the flames returned to their normal color.
"You never told me you could do that." Ance said with surprise.
"It passed my mind, but I am able to purify the flames I absorb." Eevee told her.
"That's good to know." Ance nodded in understanding, and then the two flew in separate directions to avoid the Fallen Phoenix charging at them before regrouping.
"However, that's all I can do as my fire attacks won't much to it."
"Don't worry. We'll handle it." Ance assured, and then she pointed a finger at the monster. "Ftyuim!" Ance fired a rainbow beam, with black, white, and gray added into the mix at the Fallen Phoenix, but the monster countered by firing a dark beam, the two beams colliding and causing an explosion.
"Thunderbolt!" Benia pointed her trident at the Fallen Phoenix and fired a bolt of lightning at it, electrocuting it and dealing a lot of damage.
The Fallen Phoenix let out a screech, its dark flames flaring stronger as it dove into the clouds.
"Its hiding in the clouds. Just like last time." Nepgear said.
Everyone looked down at the clouds, looking for signs of the Fallen Phoenix attacking...and then Rom spotted the clouds beneath Ram glowing dark purple.
"Ram, below you!" She warned her twin.
Ram looked below her and the incoming attack and moved out of the way...but instead of the phoenix, a pillar of dark fire rose where she was previously.
"What!? That wasn't part of the attack before!" Uni exclaimed in shock.
"It must've changed when it transformed." Eevee thought out loud.
More pillars of dark fire erupted from the clouds as everyone avoided them, after a while, Neptune thought of an idea.
"Noire, Uni, Histoire, launch your 32-bit Mega Blade into the clouds!" Neptune called.
"Alright!" Noire nodded.
"Got it!" Uni exclaimed.
"Understood." Histoire nodded.
"32-bit Mega Blade!" Neptune, Noire, Uni, and Histoire all flung their 32-bit Mega Blades into the clouds, and then there was a massive explosion of light. Neptune's plan came into fruition as the Fallen Phoenix was launched out of the clouds, looking a bit dazed.
"Smart thinking, Nep." IF praised her friend, and then she flew at the dazed monster. "Darkness Blade." IF coated her energy blades in a dark energy and slashed the phoenix four times consecutively and then finished with a cross slash through it.
The Fallen Phoenix recovered from its daze and let out an angry screech, the dark energy crackling around its body growing strong, and then it flew higher into the air, letting out another screech as it opened a dark portal and sent meteors at the group.
"HOLY CRAP!" Blanc yelled with wide eyes as everyone dodged the meteors.
Once all the meteors fell, the Fallen Phoenix fired another dark beam at Uni, but she saw it in the corner of her eye.
"EX Multi Blaster! Mode: Empress!" Uni turned around and countered with a golden beam, the two beams colliding and causing an explosion.
Nepgear pressed the button on her gunblade, changing the picture on the dial to the tornado as she pointed her weapon at the smoke. "Multiple Beam Launcher - Gust!" Nepgear fired her signature beam through the smoke, this time it was green with wind swirling around it as it hit the Fallen Phoenix and dealt a great amount of damage.
"Delta Storm!" Histoire fired a powerful last of green wind at the phoenix, dealing a lot of damage to it.
"32-bit Mega Blade!" While the Fallen Phoenix was being hit by Histoire's attack, Uni created another pixilated blade and flung it at the Fallen Phoenix, which erupted in a pillar of light mixed with the wind from Histoire's Delta Storm as the phoenix cried in pain before bursting into pixels.
End BGM
"That's the end of that firebird." Neptune said.
"Now, can you line cut to when we get to Leanbox?" Ance asked.
Sure thing.
Leanbox's Theme (Hyperdimension Neptunia)
The group landed in Leanbox and changed back to their normal forms.
"So we have one last temple to find. The Temple of Pastures." Vert said.
"But where is it?" Uni asked.
"Perhaps we should try asking Yvoire." Compa suggested.
"Sure. Let's go to the Basilicom." IF agreed.
Everyone headed off to the Basilicom, and Eevee noticed Ance suddenly stop and stopped as well.
End BGM
"What's wrong, Lady Ance?" Eevee asked.
Ance looked out in the distance. "I can feel it. He's here...in Leanbox." She said seriously.
"He?" Eevee raised an eyebrow, before he realized who she was talking about and narrowed his eyes. "Where?"
"Virtua Forest. I'll go fight him myself. You go to the other Goddesses."
Eevee nodded and ran off to catch up to the CPUs while Ance transformed and flew to Virtua Forest.
Ance landed in a clearing Virtua Forest, although she didn't undo her transformation as she gazed at a certain tree.
"I know you're there. Show yourself, France Shellby."
After a few seconds, a man walked from behind the tree. He had alabaster skin and wore a tuxedo with a red tie. He had black trimmed hair, and dull black eyes. This man was France Shellby.
"So, you're here, Ance." He said.
Expecting a fight to happen, Ance summoned her broadsword. "What are you doing here?" Ance asked him.
"To make sure this world stays destroyed." He simply said.
Ance tightened her grip on her weapon. "You know I won't allow that."
The man smirked. "And neither will the Goddesses of this world, but I am just merely helping the one responsible. However, they can't get into Celestia without this."
France reached out his hand and summoned a weapon. The Wisdom Bow.
Ance's eyes widened. "The Wisdom Bow!? How-!?"
"Do you remember the Fallen Phoenix you defeated? That was meant to stall you while I find the Temple of Pastures and take the Wisdom Bow." He explained.
Ance recovered from her shock after the explanation and looked at him. "So I have to defeat you to get the Wisdom Bow?"
France recalled the Wisdom Bow and simply looked at her. "Only if you defeat me." He says, before he was engulfed in a dark light. When the light disappeared he was in his HDD.
France's HDD wore ancient dark armor that covered all but his head with a death's face dent in the middle of the chest plate, shoulder guards that seemed a bit bulky with long curved horns pointing menacingly, and small knee guards with with the same horns. He had the same black trimmed hair, but his eyes were now blood red and had no pupils. His weapon was a reaper with a black metallic handle and a glassy red chine that he also uses in his human form. His HDD holds the name 'Death Heart'.
"Let our battle begin." France stated.
Disappeared (Kingdom Hearts 1.5 Remix)
"Darkest Blood." France began the fight with a skill, tracing an outline of Ance in the air with his finger. Once he was done, red lines appeared on the traced Ance and boomed towards the real Ance as she barely dodged the attack.
"Starting with a skill? Very well. Ftyuim!" Ance fired a rainbow beam, with black, white, and gray added into the mix at France.
"Ftyuim: Death!" France fired his own larger version of Ftyuim, but it was black with red outlines as it collided with Ance's beam and caused an explosion.
Ance charged through the smoke and slashed at France, but he blocked with the blade of his reaper as the two then clashed weapons with each other before putting some distance between them.
France charged at Ance again, but he noticed that Ance was only walking towards him. Realizing what she was doing, he immediately stopped before he reached her and reopened the distance.
Ance stopped walking and looked at France. "So you knew I was gonna use Restricted Maneuver."
"We have fought many times before. I am no fool to your tricks, and you are no fool to mine." France said.
"True." Ance agreed with him before raising her broadsword. "Moon Slash!" Ance slashed the air six times, sending six larger slash waves at France.
France flew around to avoid the slash waves, but he couldn't quite shake them off before he had enough and fired a very large blood red slash wave to destroy all six of the homing slash waves.
"Falling Echo!" France heard Ance voice behind him, but when he turned around, he was met with her fist square in his face, which rocketed him right to the ground.
"Not bad." France grunted as he stood up from the cracked ground as Ance floated down in front of him.
"Ftyuim!" Ance fired another rainbow beam, with black, white, and gray added into the mix at France, but this time instead of countering with his own version of the skill, he dodged to the side.
"Sanctuary's End!" Punching the air, France sent an earthly shockwave that nearly caused an earthquake at Ance, scoring a powerful hit and her towards a tree. "Ftyuim: Death!" Not giving her a chance to recover, France fired his own version of Ftyuim once again.
Ance was barely able to see the beam coming at her and quickly fired another Ftyuim. The two beams collided in a stand still, but it gave Ance the time she need to move from her spot as the dark beam hit the tree she was on.
"Had enough?" France asked as if taunting her.
"Far from it." Ance said seriously.
"Very well, then. Sanctuary's End." France punched the air again and sent another earthly shockwave at Ance...but this time she flew up to avoid it.
"Moon Slash!" Ance slashed the air six times, sending six large slash waves at France.
"That won't work." France simply said as he fired another blood red slash wave to counter it...but then the six slash waves suddenly split into different directions, catching him off guard. "What!?"
Ance dodged the blood red slash wave and pointed her finger at him. "Ftyuim!" Ance fired one more rainbow beam, with black, white, and gray added into the mix at France as he prepared to avoid it...but then the six slash waves from earlier hit him from behind, damaging him and knocking him into the air as the Ftyuim scored a direct hit on France's chest, blasting him back down with an explosion.
End BGM
"Well played, Ance. You beat me." France said.
Ance, however, narrowed her eyes at him. "I can hardly call this a victory yet. You haven't been using your full power." She said with a bit of accusation in her voice.
France smirked. "That's right. I haven't used my full power. That's for future fights." He admitted. "We will meet again."
France left to somewhere else, leaving the Wisdom Bow on the ground as Ance transformed back to her human form and picked it up.
"Ance!" At that moment, she heard Neptune's voice as she looked up behind her and saw the other Goddesses, Eevee, Garland and Histoire flying towards her.
"You guys? How did you find me?" She asked.
"Benia saw that rainbow beam you use in your HDD." Vert explained. "Anyway, we have a problem. Someone managed to break into the Temple of Pastures, defeat it guardian, and steal the Wisdom Bow!" Vert then noticed the item Ance was holding. "...And judging by the item you're holding, you managed to find and beat the thief."
Ance nodded as she gave the bow to Vert. "I did, but he got away. Although I doubt that will be the last of him." What she said was half-true.
"I see. We will have to be on lookout for him." Histoire said. "For now, we have all the Quartet Arms, so we can now enter Celestia."
"Then, let's head to that gate." IF said, and then Ance transformed back into her human and everyone flew back to Planeptune, although Neptune had something on her mind.
Who was that guy that flew out earlier? He looked like a CPU...
"Huh? Why did you stop, Ance?" She heard Ram ask, snapping out of her trance as she turned and saw that Ance had stopped a few distance away.
"I might as well tell you all, since you're wondering, Neptune." Ance said.
Neptune blinked in confusion for a moment...and then she sighed. "You and your HDD breaking the fourth wall..."
Ance explained to everyone about France.
"France Shellby... I remember you telling me about him." Eevee said.
"He sounds very powerful...and dangerous." Rom said.
"And he's helping the one who destroyed our world in the past timeline?" Neptune asked, getting a nod from Ance. "If that's the case, then we need to get stronger."
"I will handle France, but yes. Training is essential for what may come in the future. For now, we must defeat Arfoire." Ance told everyone. Everyone nodded and continued their flight to Planeptune.
"So, this is the place." Uni said as they were now standing in front of the gate to Celestia.
"Correct. This will allow us all to enter Celestia." Histoire said, and then looked at Neptune, Noire, Blanc, and Vert. "You four know what to do."
The four CPUs nodded and placed the Quartet Arms on the four pedestals, and then the weapons radiated auras corresponding to the Goddesses of the four nations as pedestals started to glow with white outlines, and then a portal opened up in the middle.
"Let's go. Time to end this farce with Arfoire." Neptune said. Everyone nodded and entered the portal to Celestia.
FINALLY DONE!
I am so sorry to everyone who waited a over a month for this chapter. It was just so hard planning out the actual boss fights.
Anyway, the guardians are my own ideas, and they also give a reference to something. Can you guess what each Guardian fight references in terms of appearance/battle style?
France is another of Author Heart - Ance Xila Scott's OCs and will be a recurring antagonist.
Garland and Meta are the OCs of AIYF Productions. I also won't be accepting any more OCs until the second Arc begins.
Until then, look forward to the finale of Arc 1.