Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth: Generation of True Gods
Chapter 2: A Problem? Can't go in the -Menu-? -Locked Off-? Mysterious, Mischievous Voices?
AN: Hey, it's Zoarak13 here again! I know I took long but the 2nd chapter came out! It's short though but I'll do Chapter 3 of course! My Editor isn't here right now but she'll come in the next chapter... I hope. From now, I'll do some events that'll interest me and put some dialogues in them and some I made up at the end, I'll also put the dialogues from me, Editor, or other characters at times as well. I'll do some Lily Ranks of course. I'll also answer some peoples questions too! Get to reading this chapter now, viewers!
"You really are good at this, Tetsuya-san." Histoire said to him as she sorted through huge stacks of documents. "Well, I had done something similar to this before. Because a certain someone gave me torture with this task before." He angrily whispered.
"Hm?"
"O-Oh, nothing!" After the battles with the dogoos, Tetsuya explored around the city some more. But he had gotten lost, so, with the help of a map stand, he headed back to the Basilicom. "Is your arm healing?"
"This isn't so bad; it's just a scratch, so you don't need to worry about me, Histoire." Tetsuya never loved to make people worry due to past issues. He did remember one time he tried to save a cat after it got stuck in a tree. But when he reached the cat, he suddenly got hit with a stroke of bad luck, which caused him to fall to the ground from about 3 meters. Luckily, he only received bruises from the fall. That particular memory had him breaking into a cold sweat.
"'We're back!" The voice belonged to Nepgear, with IF and Compa following behind her. On their arms were bags of groceries.
"Oh, welcome back! Have you come to check on Tetsuya?" Histoire floated towards them as she asked. "Yeah, we came to check him up. Especially since a certain someone was so eager to head back to the Basilicom after we were done shopping." IF gave a sly stare to Nepgear, who immediately noticed.
"N-no! IF-san, I just wanted to repay Tetsuya-san back. That's all!" She protested, though the blush on her face didn't help matters. "Alright, alright, I get it. Come on just give it to him." Nepgear began digging into the bag she was carrying. After a few seconds, she got out a set of pistols.
"H-here…" Nepgear held the weapons in a way that made it look she was giving him a love letter instead; head down, bowing at the waist with both arms thrusted out in front of her while clutching the pistols. Nepgear was too embarrassed to make eye contact with Tetsuya.
…But why in this position! She exclaimed loudly in her mind, blush still apparent on her face. Unaware of her thoughts, Tetsuya observed the guns in Nepgear's grasp. 'She didn't need to,' he thought as he grabbed the pistols. They were easy and light enough to grab and hold without trouble. The pistols were the color of iron with black handles. To him, the pistols looked normal enough. As he finished his inspection, he put them back into the bag IF had given to him from the Guild. "Thanks Nepgear."
"N—no problem!" The Planeptune Candidate finally looked up. IF sighed, "Really, we took so long shopping because Nepgear wouldn't stop looking for the 'perfect gift for Tetsuya-san'. She was yammering 'I wonder if this is good' or 'Will Tetsuya-san praise me for this one', right?" Nepgear, whose blush deepened to a beet red, retorted back, "It's not like that!" IF laughed again. Tetsuya really wondered what happened while they were shopping. "Ai-chan, it's not nice to make fun of people." Compa, with an angry look, told IF off.
After a while, Tetsuya remembered something important Histoire told him. "Oh yeah, Histoire told me she located the Mascot." He pointed out.
"Wow, really?" Compa answered back to Tetsuya after finishing her argument with IF. "Yes. You will find it in the area known as Virtua Forest. It seems the Mascot is hibernating there." Histoire finally spoke up.
"Feels like we're finally starting to take action again. Let's roll."
"…" Nepgear suddenly became quiet with a look of disbelief. Compa noticed Nepgear's expression and asked, "Gear-chan? Are you okay? You look a little pale…" Nepgear just shook her head, "Huh? Oh, I'm sorry. I'm okay, really."
"If you say so…" Compa said, though she didn't look convinced. Tetsuya looked at Compa before looking at Nepgear.
"…" He was quiet while still looking at Nepgear before he simply said a quiet 'hm' and left with them.
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-Virtua Forest (Depths)-
The group went back to Virtua Forest but apparently the Game Mascot's location was deeper into the woods.
"Is the Mascot here…?" Nepgear spoke up first. Compa looked around, seeing only three paths in front of the group. "Which way should we go first?" IF put a hand on her chin as she analyzed which of the three paths would lead them to the Mascot. "Hmm… Crap, don't move! Those monsters are acting strange." As if in an ambush, a bunch of Tulips appeared, surrounding the group. But the weird thing was that they started…
"They are?" Nepgear questioned. Suddenly, the monsters' petals and skin darkened. "Whoa, they just…!"
"As I thought." IF said as she put a serious look on her face.
"Huh? Goodness, what's going on?" Once more, Nepgear questioned what IF said. Indeed, the monsters the group encountered before had never assumed darker colors.
"Monsters are vulnerable to the Deity of Sin's influence, especially when considering all the shares ASIC has." IF explained to the group as she began preparing her qatars as if she knew they were going to attack them, "When monsters are tainted by that influence, they evolve into a more vicious form, like these monsters here."
"It's called going viral!" Compa stated.
"Viral…" Nepgear uttered out the word as she looked at the newly-changed monsters.
"They're far more powerful after the transformation, so keep your guard up!"
"Here we go!" With Compa shouting that, it was the signal to battle. IF went to attack first but when she slashed one of the Tulips with her qatars, it didn't look like it was affected at all. It retaliated back by hitting IF.
"Agh!" IF felt immense pain go through her body as she felt the attack. Tetsuya dashed towards one of the Tulips and utilized a special move. "Strike Dash!" He threw one of his swords to the Tulips, which acted like a boomerang as it spun in a circle, slicing through three Tulips as it made its way back to Tetsuya. The girls and monsters momentarily stopped fighting as they were surprised by the move Tetsuya did. Even he was surprised as he looked at his hands, the ones that were gripping the handles of the blades.
"What did I just do?" It was the first time he heard of that move, but his body reacted as if it had done this move many times before.
"Wow! Tet-Tet took three of them out instantly!" He would've probably enjoyed that compliment but there was a battle going on right now! "Okay! Time to use my special move, too! Mirage Dance!" Nepgear was next as she once more gripped the beam saber with a tight grip and dashed to one of the Tulips at a near blinding speed, which caught the monster off-guard. As she got near the monster she did some sort of elegant dance as she slashed the monster with a twirl and finished off with a dash of speed that no one can see.
"Well, I can't let them do all the work, can I?!" IF got up and gave the finishing blow to the monster Compa was fighting with her qatars, which faded away.
"Well, that was harder than I thought." IF sighed and put her qatars away in her bag. But as she did that, she fell down on her bottom, "Ai-chan let me get rid of that scrape!" Compa rushed towards IF's side and began putting ointment on the spot where the monster hit her. Nepgear and Tetsuya began to run towards IF to see how she was doing. "Are you okay, IF-san?" Nepgear bent down to get a better look at IF. "It's no problem; it's just that these monsters are really tough."
"I can tell" Tetsuya said while looking at the -Menu- for the first time; it had 9 lines from top to bottom to press on. He pressed on the -Commands-, when he did it only showed two buttons, -Combo Skills- and -SP Skills-. 'It's probably the -SP Skills-' He thought as he pressed the bottom button.
It then showed the available skills he currently had. He looked at his profile but the only weird thing he saw was that his current level was displaying: ?
He ignored it as he pressed his profile.
-Locked Off-
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'…Huh?' He pressed again.
-Locked Off-
"It isn't letting me look at my own profile", he said as his face became expressionless. After Compa finished treating IF, the three girls began circling him to see. "What do you mean?" Nepgear asked as she looked at the screen which still had the red -Lock Off- screen. Tetsuya sighed in an aloof manner as he closed the menu. "Well, I guess I need to ask Histoire about this." He sighed once more before looking at the girls, "We better find the Mascot quickly now." The girls nodded as the group began trudging forward once more while fighting more monsters. Despite the monsters being a bit more difficult to fight than usual, they didn't meet any viral monsters. Until they encountered…
"It's a Fenrir!" IF yelled as she pointed towards the monster. While not really scary, it was larger than a lion. Its claws were just as large, their length about the same as Nepgear's arm.
"B-but Ai-chan! Our levels are low!"
'Are levels really that important in battles like this?!' Tetsuya thought as he contemplated Compa's question. "Can't we just fight it?" He said while looking at IF. A sweatdrop appeared on her face as she said, "To be exact, the last time we tried to fight a Fenrir for a quest, we immediately had to run away…"
"Ah…"
"But maybe this time with Tetsuya here we may win!"
"Yeah!" The girls said in unison while Tetsuya just sweat-dropped. The Fenrir began running towards them as it roared. "Here we go everybody!" Tetsuya went first and sliced at the monster only for it to use its claws to deflect the blow. 'Klang!' The blade and claw met each other as beast and man sliced at each other while trying to get a hit. 'This monster is tougher than the monsters we fought just now! Is there a way?' Tetsuya's concentration immediately broke as the Fenrir used its other claw to hit him. He used his other blade to block it, holding the monster on the spot.
'I don't know if I can hold it back!' Tetsuya began to sweat as he tried his best to hold the monster in its current position. IF began slashing at its side. While the monster didn't feel much damage, it still roared loudly. Nepgear went next and slashed the other side with her saber.
"Um… IF-san, I don't think we're doing much damage to it." Nepgear said to IF in a displeased tone.
"Yeah, but I think we need to get Tetsuya out of his predicament first." Tetsuya was still holding off the monster, enduring the best he could against the Fenrir's strength. "Monster-san, you need to stop!" Compa began shooting the monster with her syringe. "Don't worry, I'm fine Compa!" Tetsuya yelled to Compa, "But…" Putting more strength into his grip, he managed to push the Fenrir away.
"Demonic Flare!" IF, using the flame spell on the Fenrir, caused lethal damages to it. "It only has a bit of health left, someone finish it!"
"Why don't we have Tet-Tet finish it off?" Compa asked IF.
"I suppose, he is strong so he can do it." IF looked at Tetsuya. He agreed with a nod towards her and dashed towards it.
'Will the same move come up? Or will another one appear?' He didn't care as long they could defeat the monster and then look for the Mascot.
…
-?-
"Dispel!"
…
The monster suddenly let out a loud roar. Tetsuya stopped to stare at what was happening to it. "What the…?"
"RAAAAAAHHHH!" The monster let out an agonizing roar as it disappeared. The group stared in shock at the spot where the Fenrir just disappeared.
"You didn't do that just now?" IF said, coming to Tetsuya's side. He shook his head.
"But then… who did it?" Nepgear asked. That was a hard question indeed. Someone powerful was probably near them.
"Well at least, we completed the quest."
Tetsuya looked at IF with a questionable look, "This was a quest?"
"Well, it was our previous quest, but we couldn't complete it due to it being too powerful for us." IF said in a disappointed tone. Compa said back "Yep! Monster-san was really hard to beat but Tet-Tet beat it for us!"
"But I don't think I did that. Plus, I don't have magical abilities like the ones you guys have." Tetsuya still wondered who beat the Fenrir by making it disappear. He decided to focus back on the current quest by saying "Anyway, let's just go back to finding the Mascot okay?"
The group nodded once more as they proceeded on.
…
-?-
"Hey! Hey! We got it!" A girl yelled towards another girl who looked identical to her.
"Yep! When Nii-san sees this, he'll be surprised!"
"Hey you two! We got to Tetsuya's group fast; since I'm pretty sure ASIC had sent another of their underlings to take care of it." A lady who looked between her late teens and early 20's said to them as she jumped off a branch of one of the huge trees of the forest.
"Yeah, yeah, but Arisa, shouldn't we have met them and Nii-chan earlier?"
"Naaaa. That would spoil the fun," the woman looked towards the path, "It's show time!"
IF Event:
-Planeptune City-
IF: Oops. I totally forgot to give you something, Nepgear.
Nepgear: Huh? What's this, a present?" Looking at the label of the documents, it said "Nep Bull".
Nepgear: A…product proposal…?
IF: Yeah. Nep-ko gave it to me a while back, but I think you'll make better use of it than I ever would.
Nepgear: I mean, you're into tinkering with electronics and whatnot, right?
Nepgear: Oh goodness, absolutely! Are you sure I can have this? I mean, it was a gift from Onee-chan.
IF: Honestly, I can't read her scribbles. They may as well be moon runes… But you know how to read it, right?
Nepgear: Yes. She made sure that only Histoire-san and myself would be able to decipher her handwriting.
IF: I figured as much. That's why there's no point in me holding onto it. Put it to good use, okay?
Tetsuya: I wondered if it tastes like anything... wait! I think its expired!
Highschool Version
Histoire: We have a new transfer student, everybody! Please come in.
Histoire: Please introduce yourself.
Boy: I'm Yuugita Tetsuya, nice to meet you.
(Clap! Clap! Clap!)
Histoire: You may sit next to Nepgear-san, Yuugita-san (Nodded and headed towards Nepgear's left side)
Nepgear: Um, nice to meet you, Yuugita-san.
Tetsuya: Same here.
Nepgear: I know this is sudden, but is there any reason why you transferred here?
Tetsuya: It's to escape from a certain someone and annoying twins who are torturing me.
Nepgear: Wha-
An: Alright, this was a decent chapter. So-so I guess. Alright, some things I have to tell you guys by the way.
People! The 666 words in the prologue (changed to more words because I want to) it actually was a coincidence, I didn't know 666 meant, the you know what but yeah. Indeed Tetsuya is actually going to be a little demonish but you'll see!
But don't worry it'll be a harem... in my eyes, but not for Tetsuya... in his eyes.
Writer DXD: Tetsuya's very quiet so you probably thought he would be like Rito from To Love Ru, but you'll see some rough side of him.
Okay I'll answer my questions in the next chapter! Good reading towards you viewers and authors. Bye :D
One thing: To Satoru Iwata. Rest in peace.
