Hyperdimension Neptunia belongs to Compile Heart, Idea Factory, Sega and whomever else worked on it.
I fell asleep today, that's why this came out so late.
Sitting at the desk, Nepgear sighed as she stretched, wincing as her back popped from doing so. "I should have never agreed to do all the paperwork."
Next to her, Histoire gave her a tired smile. "Well, between the two of us, we did say we'd do paperwork while the other CPUs did quests to raise as much of their shares as possible."
Nepgear felt like slamming her head on the table. "If I had known things would be like this, I would have offered to do quests instead of paperwork."
Histoire smiled nervously and floated over to Nepgear. The tiny fairy patted her on the shoulder. "Don't worry, it's only been three months. I dare say that we're more caught up doing everyone's paperwork than when I was doing just Plutia's paperwork."
Nepgear sighed and hung her head. At least she had an intimate understanding of why Neptune always tried to bail on paperwork every chance she could. "It feels like we're not even making a dent in this." She groused as she looked at all the paperwork in the room.
Before Histoire could answer, Noire stuck her head into the office. "Oh sheesh, I knew this would be too much for you." She grumbled as she and Blanc came into the room. Both of them were holding pens as they grabbed some paper off of the desk. "We'll help you."
Nepgear smiled at them. "Thank you, but what about..."
"There's nothing more to do today." Noire answered her and Nepgear could see that she was looking kind of tired. "I'm taking tomorrow off, okay?"
"That's fine." Nepgear sighed softly, knowing that they all needed to rest at least once in awhile. "How's the share situation?"
"Very strong." Blanc answered as she wrote down stuff on some of the papers and handed some off to Noire who gave Blanc some. "Thanks to those kids, the shares in Planeptune have been increasing as well."
"At our current pace we should have enough shares well before the one year mark." Noire smirked at Nepgear's surprise. "I don't know how your CPUs do things, but we work our asses off as CPUs over here."
"When we work." Blanc added, knowing that she preferred relaxing things and that Vert preferred gaming to working and Plutia was extremely lazy.
"I guess for you, you probably feel more pride in your accomplishments due to choosing to become a CPU, even if you're way behind in many areas," Nepgear commented softly. "None of us in the Hyper Dimension chose to be CPUs, you did though, so I guess that's something you have over us."
"Wait, what was that about me being way behind?" Noire asked, an angry tick formed on her face.
"Well, if you were ahead, you might have figured out that you didn't see either me or little Rei when you stormed our base several months ago." A familiar voice spoke up that had all three CPUs standing up in shock and looking around. "Yoo hoo! Look at the television."
The three did and the screen turned on, revealing Anonydeath. "Hey! Oh, it's Noire along with the cute and sexy ones."
Blanc twitched. "...Am I cute or sexy?"
Nepgear found her face flushing. "I'm not used to hearing stuff like that."
"And what do YOU want?" Noire glared at the hacker on the screen. "I'm not happy about you hacking my systems, or taking all those pictures of me when I was in the shower!"
"Well, I've got good news for you in that regard, I no longer have the pictures of you that I took, nor do I need them anymore."
Noire's eyes went white and blank while she squeezed a fist angrily and angry tick marks formed on her forehead. "For some reason hearing that just really pissed me off. What am I? Not good enough for you to peep on anymore?"
"Well, peeping on you would be good and all, but there's no need for me to do that, after all, there's several copies of you that are all around me." Anonydeath said, his voice chipper.
"Oh, that makes perfect sense then, no wonder you don't need to peep on me." Noire crossed her arms and nodded her head at that, which only lasted for a few moments as her eyes turned white and blank with black circles around them in shock. "W-w-w-WHAT?!"
"Yep, see, apparently there was a second little Rei that showed up, stole a WHOOOLE lot of stuff and to stop me from warning you, she created a bunch of Black Heart clones." Anonydeath sighed softly. "While they basically let me do what I want, so long as I don't try to leave, I've been getting kind of bored here. They just don't react the same way you do, Little Noire. Oh, and I'm almost out of supplies, so if I don't get out of here soon, I'll die."
"Hmph!" Both Noire and Blanc said at the same time.
"Oh, come on! I really do need some help!" Anonydeath whined out to them. "Oh! I know! How about if you help me, I'll tell you everything that got stolen and how it works?"
Nepgear looked at the television and took a deep breath. "I have a question for you."
"Hmm?" Anonydeath tilted his head. "Well, it depends on what it is, sister, but I sure as heck ain't telling you what I look like under this armor."
"Were you the one responsible for brainwashing Neptune and Peashy?" Nepgear asked, causing Anonydeath to sigh.
"Indeed," he nodded at her, "I was the one who did that. What? Are you going to leave me to rot now?"
Nepgear looked at Blanc and Noire. "Get ready, we're heading to Eden. I'm going to call Plutia and Vert to join us." She turned and walked to the door.
"Are you SERIOUSLY going to save this creep after everything he's done?!" Noire yelled in both shock and anger. "HEY! Don't ignore me!"
Blanc sighed as Nepgear walked off without saying one word to Noire. "Get ready, Noire, we're going." She ignored Noire's growling as she left the room, followed by Histoire.
"ARRRRGH!" Noire screamed out after she was alone. "Why would anyone want to help that pervert?!"
(-)
One hour later in Eden's base...
"Just so you know, I am completely against this." Noire grumbled in anger.
"We know." Vert, Nepgear, Blanc and Plutia all said at the same time. Next to them, Peashy, IF and Compa all nodded.
"Now remember," Nepgear looked at IF and Compa. "The only reason you're with is because Plutia and Peashy wouldn't go with us go without you two." She didn't know why, but she didn't want them to get hurt.
"Don't worry, Ge-Ge." Compa smiled at her. "We won't get hurt."
Nepgear sighed softly. She really felt like a heel for bringing two ten year olds into a fight. 'Then again, didn't I bring Rom, Ram and Broccoli with me to fight against the Deity of Sin?' Sure, Rom and Ram were CPU Candidates, so that probably made it okay, but Broccoli was a tiny girl with a large ball with an expressive face on it. 'Maybe that's why I was treated badly before?' Looking at the group, Nepgear felt like bashing her head against the nearest wall. 'Peashy, IF and Compa are all little kids, sure, Peashy's a CPU, but this still looks horrible!'
"Neppy Jr.," Plutia walked over to her and squeezed her hands, smiling, "it'll be okay. We'll just go find out what the robot wants and then go home, right?"
Nepgear nodded and smiled at Plutia. "Yeah, thanks."
(-)
It took the group almost thirty minutes to find Anonydeath's secret lab door and that was only because Peashy had punched the wall so hard that it not only left a dent but also sounded hollow, which had led to the group finding a secret staircase that led to an underground lab.
"Wow!" Peashy's eyes were sparkling as she looked around. "This place is huge!"
"You could probably create the Macross down here and have enough room to make an army of giant robots!" IF yelled out in excitement.
"I'm kind of surprised that there's a secret underground lab," Noire said as she looked around at the various tubes and stuff that was laying around.
"I'm not." Nepgear answered her. "All the labs with really dangerous or weird experiments are underground so that if something goes wrong it doesn't bring harm to everyone around them."
"Reaaaaaaally?" Plutia asked, surprise in her drowsy voice. "How would you know?"
"Because I have one back in my world." Nepgear answered as lights suddenly lit up and she stopped as she saw Anonydeath sitting in the center of the room, surrounded by what looked like several copies of Black Heart.
Everyone stopped to openly stare. Of all the things they had expected to see, none of them had any idea that they would see this.
One of the Black Hearts was wearing a grass skirt and coconut shells over her breasts while she had a deadpan expression on her face. Another Black Heart was wearing a schoolgirl outfit with the same expression on her face. A third Black Heart was wearing a fetishized nurse outfit while holding a clipboard and small needle. A fourth Black Heart was wearing a cheerleader outfit with two pom poms in her hands. A fifth Black Heart was wearing a French Maid outfit with a tiny skirt, and was holding a feather duster in one hand. A sixth and final Black Heart was wearing a very revealing outfit that had fishnet stockings on her arms and legs, a thong bikini bottom that showed off her butt completely and a top that barely covered her nipples.
"AAAAAAAAAH!" Needless to say, Noire wasn't amused as she screamed while her face turned bright red. Blanc and Nepgear were also blushing while Plutia tilted her head and giggled. Vert had a bemused expression on her face while the kids were just looking on in confusion.
"Oh! There you all are!" Anonydeath piped up. "See? They let me do whatever I want with them, so I thought I'd make them dress up in various costumes, but it's boring when they don't have the same reaction as cute little Noire there does." He sounded almost disappointed. "They don't even blush or show any problems stripping out of their clothes in front of me and putting on these outfits either! It's so... Boring!"
"Yeah," Plutia nodded in agreement, "it's only fun to tease Noire because she has such good reactions." A blush came to her face and she giggled in a slightly perverted manner. "It's so cute when she's letting out little cries of pain and humiliation and I just can't hemmmmmph!" Her eyes widened as she looked at Nepgear, who was holding her mouth shut.
"Plutia, please remember there are three children present who don't know about this stuff yet and don't need to know about it just yet." Nepgear answered her and pulled her hand away. "And frankly, I don't want to hear about it either."
"Oh pooh!" Anonydeath seemed to pout. "I wanted to hear more about that!"
Noire was twitching with anger. "You... Freaky... Perv bot!" She yelled and transformed into Black Heart, pointing her sword at Anonydeath. "I should gut you where you stand!"
"Awww!" Anonydeath whined, "come on, Little Noire! I didn't even do anything to them other than look at them."
"I find that hard to believe," Vert answered him, "it smells a bit... Musky in here." She said as she transformed into Green Heart and smirked at the suddenly sweating Anonydeath. "You probably did lots of lewd things to them."
"Well, even if I wanted to, none of them react!" Anonydeath said as he reached over and grabbed the breasts of the one wearing the cheerleader outfit.
While most of the girls blushed at seeing that, their looks quickly turned to confusion as the Black Heart didn't get mad, blush or even moan at the action.
"See?!" Anonydeath said as he fondled her boobs for a few more moments. "Nothing!"
"STOP FONDLING HER, MY, WHATEVER BOOBS!" Black Heart yelled as she rushed in at Anonydeath, only to be stopped by the French Maid copy of herself. "DON'T INTERFERE!" She yelled, noting that the feather duster had turned into a copy of her sword.
Nepgear sighed as she, Blanc and Peashy all transformed, as did IF and Compa. "Let's go!" She yelled and rushed in, meeting the nurse Black Heart head on.
"My, my..." Iris Heart licked her lips as she fought against the one with the skimpy bikini outfit. "I almost want to keep you," she sighed as her sword clashed with that Black Heart's sword but the clone gave no reaction. "Now I see why we were called, you are boring."
Green Heart chuckled as she fought against the cheerleader Black Heart. "My, my, you are interesting, do you know any cheers?" She sighed as the cheerleader didn't respond. "Well, I guess I can at least take out my frustration with Noire on you." After all, even if she considered them friends, Green Heart still wanted to get back at the others for that time they beat and humiliated her in her own nation.
White Heart sneered as she faced off against the Black Heart in the school girl outfit. "I'm going to enjoy this." If there was one CPU she wanted to beat up more than any others, it was Noire. Partially because the uppity brat thought she was so much better because she was younger than Blanc's actual age and Vert's physical age, and partially because Noire was rather close to Plutia.
Yellow Heart laughed as she kicked the Black Heart in the grass skirt in her chest and sent her flying back. "Wow, you're even weaker than the real one!" She giggled, her breasts bouncing as she rushed forward and her claws clashed against the large sword that Black Heart had. "Come on! Show me what you can do!"
As the clones of Black Heart fought against the other CPUs, Anonydeath chuckled and started floating away. "While they're all busy, I'll just..." He stopped as he saw IF and Compa both giving him stern looks. "Oh brother. Look, kiddos, despite what you might think, I'm not that bad of a person, I don't want to have to fight you."
"Nah uh, you're a big baddie!" Compa yelled.
"You hurt Nep-ko and made her and Pea fight against us!" IF was trembling with anger. "HOW DARE YOU HURT MY MOMMY?!" She screamed as she and Compa were bathed in light, causing Anonydeath to hover backwards nervously.
"Oh dear," he commented as the transformation finished, "not CPUs, but like CPUs. This is something that I wish I had more time to study."
"Demon Inferno!" The now red-eyed IF yelled as she jumped up and thrust her katar out, a wave of flame rushed out at Anonydeath, who cried out in pain as the flames were far hotter than he had thought they would be.
"Icy freeze!" Compa called out as she pointed her syringes at Anonydeath, who only looked on in horror as they flew from her hands and got huge, exploding at the ground at his feet and encasing him in ice.
'Cold, cold, cold! Who let little girls play with ice?!' He thought to himself as the cold was making his metal suit rather brittle. When the ice shattered and left him hovering in mid-air, he looked up. "Well... I don't really want to hurt you, but you seem to want to hurt me."
"You hurt my mommy!" IF snarled at him
"Huh?" Anonydeath sounded confused and jumped away as IF jumped after him again, her katars glowing red. 'Interesting, I thought she was an orphan. Who could possibly...' The hacker jerked in surprise as he put the pieces together. "Purple Heart is your mother?" His voice was rather astonished. "I must say, she looks amazing for someone who gave birth to a child."
Across the room, White Heart let out a yell as she clashed with the fake Black Heart. "Well, despite the fact that you aren't the real Black Heart, you're still pretty good, huh?" She smirked as she saw Iris Heart behind the clone. "Plutia! Duck!" She yelled as she spun around a couple of times to build up speed and slammed her axe into the school girl's stomach, sending her flying across the room and into the one with the skimpy bikini, causing them to land in a heap.
"Shall we end this?" Iris Heart asked, chuckling softly.
"Yeah, it's kind of annoying to see clones of Noire when they don't act like her." White Heart twitched.
"Well then..." Iris Heart grinned as lightning started to fill the air around her. "Let's go... Thor's..." She began while holding her sword up into the air.
"HAMMER!" White Heart yelled as she rushed forward. Just before she got to the two clones, lightning blasted Iris Heart's sword and transferred itself to White Heart's axe, causing it to crackle and glow brightly. "TAKE THIS!" She screamed and slammed her axe into both of the clones, causing them to react for the first time ever as they cried out in pain while they were consumed by an electrical explosion.
When the explosion died down, there was nothing left of them as their bodies had turned into data and dissipated.
"Tch..." White Heart snarled and twitched. "I don't feel like I did a good thing." She jerked as she felt Iris Heart's hand on her shoulder. Turning, she saw a gentle smile on her face.
"That means that you care about Noire, Blanc." Blanc blushed while Iris Heart turned to look at the rest of the room. "Besides, they were victims of whatever conspiracy is going on around here."
On another side of the lab Green Heart faced off against the cheerleader and despite a shallow cut on her left breast, the Leanbox CPU was uninjured. Meanwhile the cheerleader Black Heart was on her knees panting as there were plenty of cuts all across her body.
"I guess I should put you out of your misery, huh?" Green Heart asked before gawking in surprise as a topless Black Heart wearing just a grass skirt crashed on top of the one she was facing.
"AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Yellow Heart laughed as she held the coconut shells. "See? I told you I could take your top off!"
The two Black Hearts got up and looked at them with a flat expression, though the one that was topless had countless bruises and cuts forming all over her body.
"Goodness, Peashy, what did you do to her?" Green Heart actually felt bad for the fake Black Heart as she saw a bunch of bruises on that one's boobs.
"Pea doesn't like her." Yellow Heart frowned at the fakes. "They aren't the real ones! So Pea beat up the bully that was hurting daddy too!"
Green Heart nodded. "I see. Shall we put them out of their misery?" Yellow Heart nodded and the two busty CPUs rushed at the clones.
The topless Black Heart and the Black Heart in the cheerleader outfit looked up only to meet their ends as the CPUs passed them in an "x" pattern.
"X-Cross Strike!" Both Yellow and Green Heart yelled out at the same time as they watched the two Black Hearts turn into data and disappear.
"...I don't feel good." Yellow Heart sighed and jerked in surprise as Green Heart grabbed her shoulder and gave it a squeeze. "Beru Beru?"
Green Heart fought the urge to squeal like a little girl and just smiled at Yellow Heart. "I don't feel good either, but sometimes you have to do things that don't make you feel good as a CPU."
Yellow Heart nodded.
Not far away from them, Purple Sister knocked the Fake Black Heart away. "Limiter Release!" She yelled as her power built up beyond its normal limits. "Take THIS!" She screamed and rushed in and her blade clashed against the Black Heart's blade. With a burst of strength, she knocked the fake Black Heart into the air. "Now!" She pulled the trigger on her gunblade several times, blasting the fake Black Heart over and over again. After a few blasts, she flew up into the air and rammed her gunblade into the stomach of the fake Black Heart, stunning her as a stasis field surrounded the fake copy.
Knowing it wouldn't hold for long, Purple Sister jumped back and pointed her gunblade up. "Multiple Beam Launcher, FINISH!" She yelled as an energy wave was sent up at the Fake Black Heart, who could only scream in pain as the attack finished her off.
Purple Sister sighed, even if it wasn't the real Noire, it still sucked to be fighting her friends.
At another point in the lab, Black Heart sneered as she knocked her copy into a table before rushing forward and diving from above. "Volcano Dive!"
When her clone disappeared into data, she twitched. 'Am I that weak? No, I can't be, can I?'
All she knew was that she was going to work extra hard to increase her levels so that she couldn't be taken out as easily as the clones had been.
(-)
"Ah ha ha ha ha..." Anonydeath laughed nervously as he not only faced off against the two angry children that had been knocking him around, though that was more because he didn't want to hurt them than them being better than him, but also several angry CPUs, though Yellow Heart at least looked conflicted. "Well, thanks for saving me, so I'll just take my leave now and..." He let out a grunt of pain as Purple Sister suddenly kicked him against the wall hard. "Owwies! That hurt! I know my exo-frame is solid steel, honey, but I bruise easily!"
"Shut up!" Purple Sister snapped, her eyes narrowed in anger at him, causing him to gulp. "You have information, so talk!"
Anonydeath sighed softly. "Well, I guess I should ask, how much do you know?"
"We know that your group was started because you're a bunch of people who don't want to be ruled by a CPU." Green Heart said, getting a nod from Anonydeath.
"And you can brainwash CPUs to work for you." Purple Sister said, getting another nod from Anonydeath.
"Correct-o-mundo, honey." Anonydeath sounded pretty happy that he didn't have to explain everything. "Well, see, I was asked by little Rei, perhaps you know her, she wears the pinstripe suit, has blue hair and a horn on her head?"
"What did mommy do?" Yellow Heart asked in confusion and worry.
"Well, see, she's the reason that you're a CPU and that I brainwashed Purple Heart, she's the one in charge after all." Anonydeath sighed at the annoyed looks he was getting. "Well, there's more. She asked me to use this lab to create a large flying fortress."
"So you were building the Macross!" IF yelled and pointed at him.
"Not quite THAT big, little one," Anonydeath shook his head, "but large enough that it would be noticeable. Also, little Rei had me make two devices that could drain shares from everywhere in the world."
"WHAT?!" The other CPUs gasped in shock, their eyes wide.
"I know!" Anonydeath whined and if his helmet was off, they would see him pouting. "I was like isn't one enough and she just told me to make a second one."
"That explains a few things then." Purple Sister muttered softly. "Why things are going so badly in the Hyper Dimension right now."
"Oh! So that's what the other world is called then?" Anonydeath asked as he perked up. "See, I had no clue about that, I was never told."
"And why are you telling us this now?" White Heart asked, annoyance on her face.
"Well, see, at first I thought that little Rei just wanted to use the device so we could make our own CPU and run our own little nation, but it turns out that's not what she wants to do." Anonydeath shook his head. "See, I was actually leaving to go find something else to do after the whole cerebral cortex thing, by the way, did you get those plans that I left out for Mr. Badd to find?"
"Yes," Purple Sister nodded, "so you intended for us to find them then?"
"Well, yeah, see, I actually felt REALLY bad about what I did." Anonydeath poked his fingers together. "I feel like a real heel for doing that to Purple Heart, she seems like such a nice CPU too." The others nodded and Anonydeath continued. "Well, see, as I was leaving, I forgot something, so I went back to get it when I overheard little Rei talking about smashing the other world and ridding it of all CPUs. And this one as well."
"And when she realized that you knew what was going on, she created these fakes to imprison you?" Purple Sister finished, getting a nod from Anonydeath. "I see... Are there weapons on the flying fortress?"
"Not when I made it, no, but it wasn't completely built. It just needed some sections put together, so I'm assuming that she moved it to the other world and finished it over there." Anonydeath answered her.
"I see..." Purple Sister said softly. "Is that everything?" Anonydeath nodded. "Very well then."
The next thing any of them knew, Purple Sister was stabbing at Anonydeath's head, causing the hacker to scream out in fear and fall to the side as Purple Sister's gunblade tip entered the wall.
"Nepgear?!" Everyone yelled out at the same time.
"What are you doing?!" Anonydeath asked as he scrambled to get away from Purple Sister, who pulled her Gunblade out of the wall and slowly walked after him.
"Brainwashing, hypnotizing or otherwise altering the state of a CPU in such a way like you did is a capitol offense." Purple Sister said softly, her eyes seemingly glowing in the light. "Two criminals in our world, CFW Trick and an underling hypnotized CPU Candidate Rom and later CPU Candidate Ram to work for them." Purple Sister stopped walking as she stood above Anonydeath, who had backed into another wall. "I don't think I need to tell you what happened to both of them, do I?"
"Is there a law like that?" Black Heart whispered as she looked at White Heart.
"Not that I know of, it must be a law on her world." White Heart whispered back. "Wait, if they have laws against that..." She trailed off as the realization slowly sank in that the world Nepgear had originally came from was a lot more intense than they had thought if there were actual laws on the books about hypnotizing CPUs.
Anonydeath sighed and slumped softly. "Well, if I have to die, at least it's to a very sexy CPU." He chuckled softly. "Go ahead, kill me, but you'll prove that little Rei was right all this time." He looked up at Purple Sister and stared dead into her eyes. "That this world would be better off without CPUs."
Purple Sister said nothing as she pulled her weapon back and stabbed forward.
There was a clanging sound and everyone stared at Purple Sister.
"...You're right, I'm not a murderer." Purple Sister said softly as she buried her gunblade into the wall next to Anonydeath's head. "And I know Neptune wouldn't want me to become one."
Anonydeath sighed softly and slumped. "Thank..."
"Don't thank me," Purple Sister snapped at him. "Know that the only reason I'm letting you live is because I wouldn't be able to sleep at night knowing I killed a defenseless person." She turned her head to look at him. "I'm giving you a second chance, Anonydeath, don't waste it."
Anonydeath watched as Purple Sister and the others left his lab, leaving him alone. "...That girl is scary when she's mad, but DAMN, she is HOT! I should have been peeping on her all this time."
(-)
As they left the base, Yellow Heart looked at Purple Sister, "thank you for not killing daddy."
"Why'd you let the creep go?" Black Heart asked Purple Sister. "Didn't you say that brainwashing a CPU was a capitol offense?"
"And didn't you say that the two people who brainwashed two CPU Candidates were executed?" Iris Heart asked, only stopping when Purple Sister did. "Neppy Jr.?"
Purple Sister turned to look at them. "CFW Trick is dead, yes, but I lied about what happened to the underling. Last I checked, she got a job working in a factory as the person who fetches stuff, cleans up and does menial labor." She giggled at the collective face-fault from the others. "A little tidbit I've learned from everyone is knowing when to bluff and lie your way through a situation."
"She's a better CPU than we are." White Heart muttered softly as they all got up and flew back to Planeptune.
To be continued...
Well, Anonydeath WAS "captured" by a bunch of Fake Black Hearts in canon after all. If they're fakes they aren't as strong as the original is.
Oh, and there's only 2 parts left on this.