Hyperdimension Neptunia belongs to Compile Heart, Idea Factory, Sega and whomever else worked on it.
Nep's Summer Vacation had the best transformation sequence ever. Nepsister strip show! Nep's like "I know you pervs wanna see my naked boobs" before she turns into Purple Heart.
In the Hyper Dimension...
Histoire stared at the wall that the projection had been on just a few minutes prior. 'Could it be... Neptune's original self is back?' While that would be good for Planeptune in terms of how Neptune was a hard worker and did what was needed for the nation...
The fact remained that Neptune had been an utterly cold and ruthless CPU. While she had a sense of humor and could smile, her eyes held no joy in them in anything she did.
Well, other than eating pudding, that was one thing that hadn't changed since the amnesia.
Histoire would never mention it out loud, but she was glad that Neptune had lost her memories and had taken on a more childish personality that included being lazy. While she wanted Neptune to be a bit of a harder worker, if she had to choose between a lazy, but happy and fun CPU and one that did all her work but held everyone and everything at a distance or in contempt, she would take the lazy Neptune over the more serious Neptune any day of the week.
Histoire sometimes wondered just why Neptune had taken on a more childish personality after losing her memories of everything. 'Enough of that, Histoire, you need to warn the others.' She floated over to a wall and pushed a button, causing three screens to appear, which all lit up to reveal Noire, Vert and Blanc. "Hello, ladies."
"Histoire, I hope there's a good reason for calling us." Noire said as she looked off to the side and grimaced. "I'm sorry, I'm just distracted by some stuff."
"It's okay." Histoire reassured her. "But there's something all three of you need to be aware of." The three CPUs looked at her curiously. "As you know, Neptune was transported to another reality a little over a week ago." They nodded, with Neptune missing, the three of them, Uni, Rom or Ram had been filling in for Neptune to make sure that Planeptune didn't fall to ruin and things had been getting hard. "I want you to keep this quiet, but apparently she was captured by a group calling themselves the Seven Sages in that other world... And she was brainwashed into thinking she was part of the group."
"Is that all?" Blanc asked, annoyance on her face. "She's a bit of an idiot, just hit her on the head and give her pudding."
"Or try to steal Nepgear away from her." Vert added, grinning.
"Or feed her an eggplant." Noire chuckled softly. "That always worked when she was affected by confusion."
"THIS IS SERIOUS!" Histoire yelled, causing all three Hyper Dimension CPUs to stiffen in shock. "The brainwashing did more than cause Neptune to work for the bad guys... It may have caused her old personality to come back."
All three CPUs went pale and stared at her in shock.
"A...Are you serious?" Noire asked, trembling in fear. "If she doesn't have her memories from after she had amnesia then..."
"She may not know that we stopped fighting," Blanc continued, trembling softly. "I would hate to have to fight her again."
Vert bit her thumb. "Histoire, I hope you're over-reacting."
"As am I." Histoire sighed softly.
(-)
Several accelerated months later in the Ultra Dimension...
There was a clash of blades as Black Heart's sword connected with Purple Heart's. "Dammit, I thought you and Yellow Heart stayed in Eden!" The two were in the mountains near the Lowee-Lastation border when Purple Heart had attacked her while she had been in human form. Thankfully after several months of combat against her and Yellow Heart, Black Heart had learned to transform very quickly in response to threats from the Eden CPUs. 'For some reason even thinking that makes my skin crawl.'
Purple Heart sneered at the Lastation CPU. "You're my enemy," her eyes were cold and unfeeling and had Black Heart trembling softly, "and you're all alone here in Lastation. There's no need to involve my little sister in this."
Black Heart's eyes widened softly. "What did you say? That titty monster isn't your sister! She doesn't even look like you!"
Purple Heart narrowed her eyes as she pushed Black Heart away and flew backwards. As she did so, she snapped her fingers and several energy blades formed around her before she snapped her hand forward and launched them at Black Heart. "While I will acknowledge that my sister is, as you put it, a titty monster, I won't have you denying her as my sister."
Batting the swords away as she flew into the air, Black Heart growled at Purple Heart, her twin tails fluttering in the wind, "the only one denying your sister is you! Do you have any idea how much your sister misses you?!"
Purple Heart sighed softly. "Yellow Heart really is like a puppy, it's kind of cute. I just wish she wouldn't try to get me to take a bath with her with both of us in HDD so often though." Several more energy blades formed in the air and she launched them at Black Heart, who twisted, bobbed and weaved to avoid the attacks. Purple Heart narrowed her eyes and a small smirk came to her face as Black Heart managed to make the energy blades crash into each other and explode. When Black Heart turned to face her, her eyes widened as she was surrounded on all sides by 32-bit Mega Blades.
"What the heck?"
"32-Bit Megablade Kebab." Purple Heart snapped her fingers and all the swords launched themselves at Black Heart in an instant. Watching Black Heart twist, fly up, descend and move in all sorts of manners that would have a contortionist green with envy, Purple Heart had to admit, she was somewhat impressed. 'Of course, only somewhat.' She thought to herself before flying up when Black Heart's back was turned and stabbing the Lastation CPU in the back, causing her to gasp in pain as she looked down to see Purple Heart's katana sticking out from her stomach. "Isn't this amusing, Black Heart?" Purple Heart asked as Black Heart felt her arms go numb and she dropped her over-sized sword to the ground below. "If I remember right, you once told me that you were completely superior to me."
"I never..." Black Heart gasped as she felt Purple Heart twist her katana.
"Between you, White Heart and Green Heart..." Purple Heart narrowed her eyes at the white-haired CPU, "you annoyed me the most. Always challenging me because you could, how many of my followers did you trick to leave me again?"
"I don't..." Black Heart groaned in pain as her vision started to swim. 'Dammit, stop it, this hurts so much.'
"What I really hated about you, Black Heart," Purple Heart leaned in and whispered, "is that for all your supposed superiority, you never once managed to get a clean win without a surprise attack or someone joining in the fight." She held out her left hand and a 32-bit Mega Blade formed in it as she held it in front of Black Heart's face. "Perhaps I should remove your pretty little head and show it to all the fools of Lastation who follow you?"
Black Heart's eyes were wide with fear as Purple Heart turned the blade to the side and brought it close to her eyes. "N...No..."
"Don't worry..." Purple Heart purred softly. "I'll remove your pretty eyes so you won't have to see what I do to the rest of yo-gah!" A strong blow hit her from behind, causing her to let go of her katana and tumble over Black Heart and through the air, only to stop as something wrapped around her leg and pulled her up.
"Bad Neppy," Iris Heart said as swung her arm to the side, sending Purple Heart flying into a rock formation, which kicked up a bunch of dirt and dust. Turning, she flew down to Black Heart and put her hand over the injury. "Hyper Heal."
Black Heart gasped in relief as the injury healed up. "Thanks." She nodded at her friend and took her hand to get up. "We should get out of here."
"And go where?" Iris Heart asked as she turned to where she threw Purple Heart. "Noire, if you keep running away from your problems you'll never be able to overcome anything on your own."
"I don't run away from my problems!" Black Heart protested only to blush when Iris Heart looked over her shoulder with a raised eyebrow. "Not often, okay?"
Above them, Purple Heart walked out of the dust and dirt to look at the two CPUs. She narrowed her eyes and smirked at Black Heart. "Oh, would you look at that?! You claim to be superior to me, elegant in everything and yet you're so pathetic that you need help?"
Black Heart twitched, for some reason hearing Purple Heart actually ENCOURAGING her to fight alone was painful and she didn't know why. "I don't know where you get the idea that I said I was superior to you from!" Sure, when it came to running a nation or putting out new technology or games she could say she was better than Purple Heart, but as a CPU? She'd never say it out loud, but she viewed Neptune as the lovable idiot that she knew made everything better just by being there.
This version of Neptune? Black Heart could honestly say that she not only disliked her, but could see herself hating her. 'If this was the version of Neptune I had known for ten years, I might have tried to kill her years ago.'
"You know, Neppy..." Iris Heart narrowed her eyes at Purple Heart, "I'm getting tired of your attitude."
"Says the usurper!" Purple Heart scoffed at her. "I don't know how you managed to convince my people that you were the CPU or that I wasn't there anymore, but..." She snapped her fingers and a katana formed in her hands. "I'll remove you and take Planeptune back from you."
"I didn't think that Neptune knew that word." Black Heart muttered as she took a stance with her sword held in front of her, Iris Heart doing the same. "Plutia, what do you think our odds of winning are?"
"About the same as beating Contra without the Konami Code." Iris Heart answered, getting a wince from Black Heart.
"Lovely," Black Heart grimaced, "where's Vert and Blanc anyway?"
"Dealing with Yellow Heart in Leanbox." Iris Heart answered her. "I'm more curious as to where..." She trailed off as she saw Purple Sister suddenly rush in from above, only to have Purple Heart block her attack. "Dang, I was hoping that would work."
Above them, Purple Heart looked up as she blocked Purple Sister's attack almost casually. There was a look of surprise on the other CPU's face, though that quickly turned into determination. "Well, I'm surprised that you didn't try to get to me when I was asleep." Wings unfurled from her back as she pushed Purple Sister off of her and flew into the air to meet her. "Then again, considering that I'm still alive, I have to wonder how effective you really are."
Purple Sister was confused, not really understanding why Purple Heart was saying stuff like this. "Neptune..." She whispered softly. "Please, come back to your senses!"
Purple Heart narrowed her eyes at Purple Sister. "That's interesting coming from you, Purple Assassin."
"HUH?!" Purple Sister's eyes widened in shock as she felt her heart start to hurt from hearing that. "Wh..Why are you calling me that? I'm Nepgear! Your sister!"
"Of course an assassin would act like that." Purple Heart narrowed her eyes. "You think I haven't seen this plot before? You were probably created by someone, maybe a bad guy to use shares, designed to look close enough to me so that you could get close to me while calling yourself my sister and then killing me when my guard was down, huh?"
Not far away Iris Heart and Black Heart, both of whom had flown closer to the action, turned to look at each other. "What the HELL happened in the other dimension?!" Black Heart yelled in shock. "Can you even create someone out of shares?"
"Neppy and Neppy Jr. were created out of Shares..." Iris Heart muttered softly. "I wonder... Either her version of you did that or... Wait, bad guy..." Iris Heart's eyes widened. "You don't think that..."
"Someone created a fake CPU and had it look kind of like her and used it to try and kill her?" Black Heart finished, partially glad that Plutia was in HDD as her mind was a lot sharper when she was transformed. "...I REALLY want to know what happened in the past now."
"Neptune..." Purple Sister said softly, a sad look on her face as she looked at her sister who was glaring at her. "Please, I'm not trying to kill you."
"Oh, so you're here to steal my spot as the protagonist permanently then?"
Purple Sister's eyes widened in surprise. "Neptune..." She whispered, a warm feeling filling her. 'She's still in there. My big sister that I love is still in there somewhere.'
Purple Heart glared as a circle formed under her feet and she launched herself at Purple Sister, her katana pointing at the girl's heart.
Purple Sister watched as Purple Heart got closer, but instead of trying to defend herself, she opened her arms and smiled at Purple Heart. "Onee-chan..."
"NEPGEAR!" Both Iris and Black Heart yelled at the same time as they rushed forward, trying to save the Candidate's life.
They knew they wouldn't make it in time.
Purple Heart snarled and let out a scream as she rushed forward and prepared to stab the assassin in front of her. Her eyes widened as images flooded her mind. 'What?'
*Flash*
"Wow!" A voice that was similar to the assassin said as Purple Heart looked at four girls, two tiny girls, one petite girl and a slightly taller girl with light purple hair. "So you beat all the bad guys already then?"
"Ah, no," Purple Heart shook her head, "there were no bad guys. I simply wanted to ride a roller coaster but my human form is too short, so I went HDD to ride it, but I could not muster the same level of enthusiasm for it."
The assassin-looking girl merely chuckled nervously as Purple Heart flew off.
*End Flash*
'What was that?' Purple Heart asked herself as she got closer to the other CPU.
"NEPGEAR!" Both Iris and Black Heart yelled as Purple Heart's sword connected with Purple Sister.
Purple Sister winced as she felt a sharp pain in her chest. But strangely it didn't feel extreme. Cracking an eye open she looked at where the sword was and saw that the tip was in her skin, causing her to bleed a little, but the rest of the sword wasn't and Purple Heart was trembling. "Neptune?"
Purple Heart looked at Purple Sister and while she was glaring at the Candidate with anger, there were tears in her eyes. "What roller coaster?"
Purple Sister gasped, instantly knowing what Purple Heart was talking about. "You... You remember that?"
"Why would I waste time on such a..." Purple Heart trailed off as another memory came to her.
*Flash*
"Neptune..." Again, the girl that looked like the assassin in front of her was in her mind. "What are you doing?"
"Ah!" Neptune grinned at the assassin. "Nep Jr.! I was just doing all this paperwork."
"Huh? Why?" The aforementioned Nep Jr. asked in confusion.
"Because..." Neptune sighed. "I don't want ya to hate me for being lazy and not doing anything. I know I've been using you a lot for stuff lately."
"Aww..." Nep Jr. smiled and hugged her. "It's okay, Neptune, yes, I'd like you to be more reliable, but I love you just the way you are. If I have to choose between a serious and reliable Neptune and a lazy and fun Neptune, I'll choose the lazy and fun Neptune."
Neptune just giggled at her.
*End Flash*
"What the hell was that?" Purple Heart asked as the katana disappeared and she staggered backwards, her left hand over her head. "What the hell was that?!" She snarled at Purple Sister. "WHO ARE YOU?!"
"I'm your sister, your CPU Candidate," Purple Sister said calmly as she held a hand over her chest, "my name is Nepgear and you're my..."
"PPPPPUUUUUUURRRRRPLE!" A voice yelled and suddenly Iris Heart and Black Heart were blasted away as Yellow Heart came rushing through. "Are you okay?"
"Yellow Heart?" Purple Heart groaned and gripped her head. "I..." Images of meeting a flat-chested girl with long brown hair after falling down, which led to a meeting with a busty girl with strawberry-blonde hair followed by the assassin somehow showing up and looking at her in concern. "What's going..." She groaned as Yellow Heart grabbed her.
"Let's go."
"WAIT!" Purple Sister yelled as she looked at them. "Please! Neptune! I know you're in there! Come back with me, we'll..."
"NO!" Yellow Heart yelled at Purple Sister. "Big sister is coming home with me! If you come after us then I'll hurt you really bad, you big meanie! How dare you hurt Neptuna!?"
Purple Sister's eyes widened in shock and she put her hands over her mouth as she watched Yellow Heart grab Purple Heart and fly off. "...Peashy is Yellow Heart?"
To Be Continued...
Part 3 of ? (5 maybe?)
Original Nep is scary!