Hyperdimension Neptunia belongs to Compile Heart, Idea Factory, Sega and whomever else worked on it.
And the 2nd to last part of this story. Boy is this long.
Nepgear sighed as she stood by Neptune's bed, even though it had been months by now, her older sister wasn't waking up or responding to anything. At least IF, Compa and Peashy had taken to telling her stories about what was going on. "Neptune, I... We have enough shares now. We're going to try to force open a portal between this world and ours." She sighed and trembled softly. "We've still got about three weeks before the deadline, but our shares aren't increasing in the slightest and Histoire thinks that all shares have been maxed out in each nation." Nepgear grabbed Neptune's hands and gave them a squeeze. "In case... In case the portal we open is only enough for one person for a short time and I'm the only one who can go, I want to tell you that one, I'm sorry... For taking your role as the main character again. If we see each other again, please don't let me get punished again, I know you can talk to the writers at least." She laughed softly as there was no reaction from Neptune. "I figured you wouldn't react. But, beyond that..." She leaned up and gave Neptune a kiss on the forehead. "I love you, Onee-chan. Even when you're mean to me sometimes, or take advantage of me, or when you do stupid and idiotic things, you're my big sister and I'll always love you." She took a deep breath and let go of Neptune's hands as she stepped away from the bed. "Goodbye, Neptune. If you wake up anytime in the near future, we're going to be trying to create a portal in Virtua Forest to connect to our Virtua Forest."
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"Neppy Jr.?" Plutia looked at Nepgear with worry on her face as Nepgear came out of Neptune's room. "Are you okay?"
Nepgear took a deep breath and shuddered. "I..." She was stopped as Plutia suddenly grabbed her and hugged her. "Plutia?"
"Go ahead, Neppy Jr., it's okay to cry." Plutia smiled softly as Nepgear hugged her tightly and sobbed softly. "I miss her too."
The two were joined by IF, Compa and Peashy, all joining in the hug. Even though they had all come to terms with Neptune being in a coma, it was still hard to see her in bed, not moving or reacting when they all knew her as an active and rambunctious person.
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Three hours later...
"About time..." Blanc trailed off as she noticed the tear tracks on Nepgear, Plutia, Peashy, IF and Compa's faces. "Hey! What's wrong? Is Neptune..?"
"She's alive," Nepgear said as she pulled out a paper towel and wiped her face, "I was just kind of overwhelmed emotionally and had to cry, I'm sorry."
"No one's blaming you." Vert smiled at Nepgear. "Anyone would cry if their family was hurting or dying."
Blanc sighed softly and nodded. "Yeah... I personally cried for a month straight when my parents passed away a long time ago. I built my Basilicom on top of their resting place."
"I didn't know that." Nepgear said softly as she looked at Blanc.
"You never asked," Blanc smiled at her. "I figured that having a Basilicom as their gravestone would be more memorable than a slab of rock saying "here rests the CPU's parents" or something."
"I'll have to ask about them sometime." Noire spoke up as she took a deep breath. "Are we all here?"
"Yes." Histoire said as she floated in. "I have the dimensional coordinates of Nepgear's world and I contacted the other Histoire three weeks ago, she should be in her Virtua Forest right now."
"So how is this going to work?" Vert asked.
"First," Histoire instructed everyone, "the CPUs, yes, Peashy, this includes you, stand in a circle around Nepgear. It would be best to have Plutia stand to the East, Peashy next to her, Blanc next to Peashy, Noire next to Blanc and Vert between Plutia and Noire."
"Just like our nations, huh?" Blanc asked as they took positions around Nepgear and Histoire. "So now what?"
"Focus your shares onto Nepgear," Histoire instructed, "the power, not the actual shares, of course, while you do that, I shall set up the dimensional portal. Nepgear will act as the focus and the other Histoire will be the beacon."
"Maaaan..." Plutia pouted, "Dimensional travel is hard!"
"There's a lot of work that goes into it." Histoire admitted. "Here we go."
"I'll start us off then," Blanc said as she took a deep breath and glowed white, "I, CPU White Heart of Lowee, grant you the shares of Lowee, Nepgear."
"I, CPU Black Heart of Lastation, grant you the shares of Lastation, Nepgear." Noire continued as she was covered in a black light.
"I, CPU Green Heart of Leanbox, grant you the shares of Leanbox, Nepgear." Vert smiled at the CPU Candidate as her body started to glow green.
"Neppy Jr. can have Planeptune's shares too!" Plutia smiled as she glowed a deep blue color.
"And Eden wants to help too!" Peashy cheered as she glowed yellow.
A complicated circle formed under Nepgear's feet as she started to glow purple. Her eyes widened and she gasped. 'I haven't felt this powerful since I faced the Deity of Sin...'
"Now!" Histoire yelled as the glow got so bright that the forest was covered in its light. "Portal OPEN!"
The light erupted into a pillar that pushed everyone away from it as it rocketed into the sky.
"This is..." Nepgear asked softly as the intensity dimmed down.
"Wow," Histoire gasped, her eyes wide. "There were so many shares that this portal... It's not like what Nepgear used to get here, it's far stronger and more stable!"
"Wait, so you mean that it's permanent?" Nepgear asked Histoire, who shrugged.
"I do not know, all I do know is that all of you could go through and not have any problems getting back." Histoire admitted.
"Well then..." Vert smiled softly as she and the others got up. "Shall we go? I can't wait to see another world."
"You just want to see your other self." Blanc smirked at her. "I wonder what I'm like over there."
"Save them first, worry about what they're like later!" Nepgear yelled as she ran into the portal and disappeared, followed by IF, Compa, Peashy and Plutia. The other three CPUs looked at each other and laughed before running in after her.
"Good luck, everyone." Histoire whispered softly and turned to float back to the Basilicom.
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In the Hyperdimension...
"So this portal should open up around here?" Uni asked Histoire as she, Rom and Ram followed the oracle out into Virtua Forest as they pushed some branches out of the way.
Histoire nodded, relieved that she had found the three CPU Candidates. "Yes, if I'm right then Nepgear will appear here soon." A beam of light erupted not far away from them. "I believe that's the portal in question."
"Miss Nepgear will be back..." Rom was shivering slightly. "Then we can save sis!"
Uni sighed softly. The three of them had only gotten away because their big sisters had allowed themselves to be captured so they could get away and while the three had enough shares to transform, Uni figured they could pull it off three times before they couldn't do it anymore. "I'm so... USELESS!"
"Uni?" Ram asked as she, Rom and Histoire looked at her in concern.
Uni stomped the ground in anger and started yelling her frustration out. "What good am I?! I just ran away like a coward and I can barely transform and all our hope rests on Nepgear and..."
"Move! Move! Oh goodness! Move!"
"That sounds like Miss Nepgear." Rom said and looked up, her eyes widening in shock. "Miss Uni! Look..."
There was a crashing sound as Uni was flattened by a flying body into the ground.
"...Out."
"Ow, ow, ow..." Nepgear groaned as she sat up. "Rom! Ram!" Her eyes sparkled. "You're both alive!"
"I don't mind you being on me, Nepgear," Uni's voice came out from under Nepgear's butt, "but I'd rather you not crash onto me when I'm not prepared for it."
"What the goodness?!" Nepgear yelled as she jumped up and off of Uni, who was sitting up, her face slightly red. "UNI!" She hugged her friend. "I haven't seen you in so long!"
Uni blushed and hugged Nepgear back. "I missed you too, but did you have to land with your butt on my face?" Now Nepgear was blushing as she thought about the position she had landed in.
"Sorry."
"Sheesh, you should have waited a few more moments, then you wouldn't have crashed onto someone like you did to me." Noire's voice was heard through the portal, causing Uni's eyes to stare in shock as not only Noire, but also Vert, Blanc, a small version of IF and Compa and two girls she had never seen before all walked through the portal. A small part of her mind noted that this Noire wasn't wearing her usual gothic lolita dress that showed off her shoulders and the top of her breasts, but rather a blue and black ensemble that showed off her abdomen and covered her breasts and shoulders completely. 'That actually looks pretty stylish.' The back of her mind noted, though that was completely ignored as she couldn't get over the shock of seeing her big sister in front of her.
"N...Noire?" Uni asked, trembling as her red eyes teared up.
"Huh?" Noire looked at Uni. "Yeah, I'm Noire. You... Kind of look like me, huh?" The next thing she knew the girl with the half tails was tackling her to the ground and crying. "What the heck?"
"Sis! Oh sis! I can't believe you got away!"
"BLANC!" Both Rom and Ram cried out and ran over to the Blanc that was in front of them, hugging her and crying softly. They saw that her outfit was different than they were used to, but it was still Blanc.
"What the hell is going on?!" Blanc yelled in shock and looked at Nepgear, who rubbed the back of her head.
"Uni, Rom, Ram..." Nepgear began, "those aren't the Noire and Blanc that you know."
"HUH?!" All three yelled at the same time and looked at her in shock and then at the two girls they were hugging, both of whom were blushing hard.
"They are Noire and Blanc and they are CPUs, but they aren't your big sisters." Nepgear explained as the CPU Candidates jumped away from the CPUs like they had touched a live wire and quickly apologized for their mistakes.
"It...It's okay." Noire said, smiling softly at Uni. "I'm actually a little jealous of myself now. She gets such a nice little sister and I'm just an only child since mom never had any other kids."
"Now I know how Vert feels," Blanc muttered softly, though she couldn't believe that she understood how that cow could feel.
Vert chuckled softly and looked around. "Does the me of this world have a little sister?"
"No," Nepgear, Uni, Rom and Ram all answered, causing Vert to suddenly sulk, tears falling out of her eyes.
"Always wanting the sister, never having one." Vert muttered in sadness.
"Can we please focus?" Histoire asked and blinked at the girl in pajamas who was looking at her in surprise. "Yes?"
"Woooow! Neppy was right! You are big compared to my Histy!" The girl smiled at her. "I'm Plutia, CPU of Planeptune in my dimension."
"Ah!" Histoire smiled at her. "I'm glad to meet you." She sobered up and looked at Nepgear. "Truth is, you're cutting it a little close. There's less than an hour until the scheduled execution time and..." There was a loud noise that filled the air and everyone turned to look back at Planeptune City and saw a giant metal ship flying overhead. "I'm afraid that the CPUs are being held on that. I do not know if they plan on executing the CPUs there or not."
"And what's worse," Ram pouted, "all the shares in the world are almost gone! We barely have enough to transform!" Beside her, Rom and Uni nodded.
"Hmm..." Nepgear looked at her hands and then looked at the other Candidates. "Here, give me your hands." She grabbed Uni's hands, causing the Lastation CPU Candidate to blush hard while Rom and Ram grabbed their hands. "I still got a lot of share power in me, so..."
Rom, Ram and Uni's eyes all widened as they felt shares flood into them.
"There." Nepgear smiled at her friends. "That should be more than enough, right?"
"How did you..?" Uni gawked at her.
"Oh!" Noire spoke up, instantly understanding. "You still had a ton of shares from when we flooded you with them, huh?" Nepgear nodded at her. "Figures you'd have all of those and use them like that."
"Um, Nepgear..." Uni spoke up as she looked at the other CPUs. "I'm not doubting my other sister, Blanc or Vert, but why are there three kids and a girl in pajamas here?"
Nepgear gave her a smile and chuckled softly. "That girl in pajamas could make the Deity of Sin her bitch." Her chuckling increased to full-blown laughter at the looks she got from Uni, Rom, Ram and Histoire.
"Let's go! I wanna save the others!" Peashy suddenly yelled.
"Yes, you don't have much time!" Histoire yelled at them. "Please hurry to Planeptune!"
"Right!" Nepgear yelled as she, Vert, Blanc and Noire all transformed.
"Wow, you really are different from sis," Uni commented as she looked at Black Heart, "your name is still Black Heart?"
"Of course, why?" Black Heart looked at Uni in confusion.
"Well... With all that gray color, I'd almost expect you to be named Grey Heart." Uni chuckled as she transformed into Black Sister while Rom and Ram transformed into their White Sister forms.
"Everyone's transforming?! Yippee!" Plutia cheered as she was engulfed in light and became Iris Heart. The smirk on her face and the look in her eyes as she looked at Black Sister and the White Sisters had them all staring at her in fear. "Oooooh... You three are so cute... I could just..."
"Plutia..." Purple Sister interrupted, "save playtime for later."
"Oh pooh." Iris Heart pouted heavily. "Fine. Just for you, Neppy Jr." She said in a sultry voice that had most people shivering, though some were doing so in fear and others because the voice and tone was actually fairly arousing.
"We're next!" Compa yelled happily as she and IF transformed into their Awakened Forms.
"Wow!" White Sister Rom's red eyes lit up. "They look like Miss IF and Miss Compa, but they can transform like CPUs!"
"I am Compa!" The eleven-year-old girl with now-blue hair commented.
"And I'm IF." The one with reddish-blonde hair said.
"...No you aren't!" White Sister Ram yelled in shock as she looked at IF. "You have boobs bigger than Uni in her human form! Or our big sister!" Next to her, Black Sister twitched and looked at her incredibly flat chest. White Heart likewise also twitched and looked at her small chest. It was rather humilating that two eleven year old girls had bigger boobs than she did.
"...Does the Iffy you know not have boobs?" Compa asked as she looked at her own boobs. They were continuing to grow and got sore often enough that she was wearing a bra almost full time these days.
All the CPU Candidates shook their head.
"Nope, she's as flat as Rom, me and Uni are." White Sister Ram answered the eleven year old girl.
"Pea's next!" Peashy yelled. "I'm getting BIG NOW!" She was bathed in light and Rom, Ram and Uni all stared in shock. "Ta da! I'm Yellow Heart!"
"What the..?" Black Sister's eyes became blank and white as black circles formed around them. "What the..."
"Uni?" Purple Sister asked her friend. "Are you okay?"
"WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?!" Black Sister cried out in dismay, causing everyone to jerk in shock. "I know that CPUs get more mature in some areas when they transform, but..." She pointed at Yellow Heart's large breasts. "WHY DOES SHE GET NICE BIG AND BOUNCING BOOBS?!" She screamed, frustration seeping into her voice as she threw her head into the air and balled her hands into fists. "I don't get bigger! I SHRINK! THIS WHOLE DAMN SERIES IS SO MEAN TO ME!" The raw frustration and genuine anguish was easy for everyone to hear and understand.
"Aww, but I like the cute Uni who doesn't have giant boobies." Purple Sister said with a blush on her face.
Black Sister stopped sulking and instantly perked up at hearing that as she looked at Purple Sister. "You... You mean it?" When Nepgear nodded she cheered and hugged Purple Sister. "Thank you!"
"Ahem!" Histoire coughed into her fist. "If we're done making boob jokes, you have three CPUs who need rescuing."
"ACK!" Everyone's eyes went white with black circles around them. "That's right!"
Iris Heart grabbed Compa while Yellow Heart grabbed IF and Purple Sister grabbed Histoire and the group flew off at high speeds towards Planeptune.
(-)
There was a large platform in the middle of Planeptune City, on it were the three CPUs, Blanc in her undershirt and underwear and being held in the air, her arms and legs shackled to metal poles that were by her side that went above her head in an "X" pattern. "Well, at least this isn't any different than when I was in prison." Blanc muttered softly and sighed. "I guess this is it."
Next to her, Noire was in her bikini top and panties and was likewise shackled in an "X" pattern. "I'm sorry," she sighed softly, "I wish I could have done something more."
Next to Noire was Vert, also shackled in an "X" pattern, but she had a robe over her otherwise naked body. It was only loosely tied around her mid-section and the top was left open, exposing a good amount of her breasts while the bottom of it barely covered her crotch and butt. The fact that there was a breeze that constantly caused the bottom edges of her robe to flutter up and give anyone who looked at her a free look at her bare butt or crotch was kind of embarrassing, but Vert was ignoring that. "There's not much else we can do now. It's all in the hands of fate now."
"Not the first time, huh?" Blanc had a small smirk on her face, which died off as their would-be executioner came out to talk to the crowd of people.
"Citizens of Gamindustri!" The blue-haired bitch began, "you have long toiled under lazy, selfish, greedy and pathetic CPUs, have you not?" The crowd started to cheer loudly as the woman turned to look at the bound CPUs. "In fact, this isn't even the first time that they allowed themselves to be captured! Every time there's a major crisis, they seem to be absent and people's faith in them wanes, does it not?!"
"YEAH!"
"WORTHLESS CPUS!"
"GET RID OF THEM!"
Blanc, Noire and Vert all twitched as they heard that. 'After everything we've done for them.' Noire thought to herself sadly. 'They'd just turn on us like that? Didn't we protect them from everything that came our way to the best of our abilities?' She knew it wasn't their fault. 'I guess we really are just loser CPUs...' The taunts that CFW Magic had said years ago came back into her mind, although for some reason Noire wasn't hearing CFW Magic in her head, but rather Purple Heart from when she had been a cold and cruel CPU. 'Neptune, if there's an afterlife and I get to see you there, I want you to know that I don't hate you for what you used to do to me.'
The woman grinned and walked over to a table that was covered by a sheet. She pulled the sheet off of the table and the CPUs stared as replicas of their HDD weapons were sitting there. "Then I think it would be appropriate to end each of you with your own weapon!" She giggled a high-pitched giggle as she picked up the large sword and walked over to Noire. "I think I'll start with you."
Noire gave her an annoyed look. "Go ahead, do your worst, you bitch, but you won't win."
"Defiant to the end, huh?" The woman sneered at her. "I guess I'll tell you who I am. My name is Rei Ryghts," her eyes seemed to glow as she held the replica of Black Heart's sword in a thrusting position, "and I'll be killing you now!" She yelled and ran forward at Noire, who couldn't even try to dodge out of the way.
Noire, however, just smirked at her. "You miscalculated." She whispered as a green energy blast hit Rei in the back of the head, causing her to fall flat on her face. "I knew that help was arriving." She looked up and blinked in shock. "Vert, Blanc, are you seeing what I'm seeing?"
"...I'm seeing people that look like us in HDD flying in, but how?" Blanc asked, astonishment in her voice.
"They might be from that other world that Nepgear and Neptune were sent to." Vert summarized as the CPUs flew at the platform while some of them flew towards the ground as the crowd dispersed.
"Iffy," Iris Heart looked at the little girl, "Compa," she looked at the other little girl, "make sure that if there's any monsters that get summoned to the street that you take them out and if anyone's in trouble you help them out."
The little girls nodded and ran off as Iris Heart and Yellow Heart flew up to where the bound CPUs were.
"NGH! That hurt you know!" Rei grumbled as she got to her feet and glared at all the CPUs. "Oh, look! A bunch of loser CPUs from the other dimension." She grinned at all of them. "Tell me, how's the stupid one? Still in a coma?"
"You bitch!" White Heart and Blanc both growled at the same time.
Purple and Black Sister wasted no time as they fired a pink and green energy beam at Rei, who merely grinned at them as a staff formed in her hands and she parried both blasts with ease. "Touchy, touchy... Oh well, I guess I should stop fucking around and transform too, huh?"
"What?!" Everyone gasped as Rei was bathed in light. When it ended, she had a horn on the other side of her head, her glasses were gone, her eyes were the same color as her hair, her breasts had grown several sizes and rivaled Green Heart's breasts and they were even more exposed! Her outfit was black leggings that left her thighs completsly exposed, her sides and midriff were covered in a processor that was black on the sides with a white center and her arms and legs were covered by gauntlets.
"Hee hee hee..." The transformed Rei grinned as she stared at them. "All this power, it's amazing! I'm almost as strong as I was when I was the CPU of Tari."
"Tari's CPU?!" White Heart gasped in shock. "The one who was responsible for the Great Crash back before I became Lowee's CPU?!"
"That's right, kiddo." Rei chuckled at her. "Of course the people and I didn't get along," she had an annoyed look on her face, "they whined about how they wanted better games and this and that before they turned on me. Pathetic. I really had no choice, I had to put stricter and stricter rules down to keep them from rebelling against me, but they still did."
"And because you failed as a CPU, you decided to take your revenge against Gamindustri by coming here and trying to execute us!?" Noire yelled in shock.
"Eventually the people will turn on you as well." Rei looked over her shoulder and smirked. "Then again, they already have, haven't they?"
"No!" Purple Sister yelled at Rei, "you tricked them and they all, AAAAAH!" She screamed out as lightning crashed down on all of the transformed CPUs, causing them to jerk in pain.
"Really, girl, it's not MY fault that they followed such worthless and weak CPUs." Rei yawned at Purple Sister. "None of you could beat me anyway, not while I have all these shares and all of you have to split what shares you have up."
"Don't..." Purple Sister growled as she started to glow before she swung her weapon to the side, causing the lightning to explode off of her, "underestimate me!"
"Or me!" Black Sister growled as she broke free of the lightning next.
"Or us!" The White Sisters said at the same time as they broke free.
"What?!" Rei stared in shock as Iris Heart, Yellow Heart, White Heart, Black Heart and Green Heart all followed suit. "How?!"
"We're not weak," Black Sister growled at her as everyone took a stance.
"Well then..." Rei chuckled as demonic wings formed behind her and she floated into the air. "Please, do your best against me. Show me just how strong modern CPUs are."
(-)
Meanwhile...
"Ploo Ploo was right." Compa said as the two girls, in their awakened states, cut through Crystal Golems and bits that had suddenly been summoned onto the streets, causing people to run around in a panic as they smashed buildings and attacked onlookers.
"Let's get rid of them so the CPUs can fight without worry!" IF yelled as she cut down a crystal golem.
"Look out!" A familiar voice yelled and IF turned as a bit got close to her from behind, before two gunshots rang out and it exploded into data. "Sheesh, why is a kid out here?" The person sounded exasperated as she walked forward. "What the?" The girl looked at awakened IF in surprise. "You look a bit familiar."
"Wow, Iffy!" Awakened Compa's eyes sparkled. "She looks like a bigger you!"
"Huh?!" The girl who had a large blue over-coat, long brown hair and a green leafy bow in her hair looked at the little girls in surprise. "What did you say? I've never seen you before..."
"I'm IF," Awakened IF said and pointed at Compa, "she's Compa."
"...HUH!?" IF yelled, her eyes bugging out. "What the hell... How the hell?! What's going on here?!"
"No time to talk now!" Awakened IF yelled and turned to see another wave of monsters heading their way. "This is mommy's Planeptune! We'll protect it!"
"Uh huh!" Awakened Compa nodded as multiple syringes formed in her hands. "Nep Nep needs to have a home to come back to!"
"...Wait, what?" IF looked at the girls in confusion. "...Who's your mother?"
"Nep-ko!"
"Nep Nep!" The girls answered at the same time.
"...Girl in a white parka hoodie, about my height, short and spiky light purple hair and constantly jokes around?"
"Yep!" Both girls nodded at the same time.
"..." IF twitched in surprise. "Nep, you have some 'splaining to do!"
(-)
"USELESS!" Rei screamed as her wings blocked a combined long-range attack by the CPU candidate before creating several magic circles behind her that blasted them with energy, forcing them to dodge. She looked up as White Heart came rushing down with her axe and she smirked as she batted the Lowee CPU away before flying into the air to avoid a spear attack by Green Heart. "So USELESS!" Without even looking, she spun around swung her staff upwards to block an attack from Black Heart. "Come on, is that all you've got?"
"Yellow Heart! NOW!" Black Heart yelled and Rei turned her head in time to get a white boot to the face, which sent her crashing into and through the stage that held the other CPUs.
"...That looked like it hurt." Blanc muttered, getting a nod from Vert and Noire.
"Grrr!" Rei growled as she pulled herself up and out of the hole she had been knocked into.
"My, my..." Iris Heart smirked as she tapped her sword on her open palm. "I think I'm going to enjoy punishing you."
"In your wet dreams!" Rei snapped as she stood up to face Iris Heart.
"I'll have to teach you some manners then!" Iris Heart yelled and rushed forward, only to have her eyes widen as Rei smirked at her. Looking down, she saw one of Rei's wings had grabbed her by the ankle.
"Who's going to teach WHO manners?" Rei chuckled evilly as her wings lifted Iris Heart into the air and spun her around before slamming her, face-first, into the stage, and then she lifted Iris Heart up again and slammed her down on another part of the stage, repeating the action over and over again several more times before slamming Iris Heart into the street down below. "Worthless Sadistic Goddess." Rei sneered at Iris Heart.
"Well, shit." Black Heart muttered softly. If Iris Heart was beaten THAT easily, just how strong was this crazy bitch?
Iris Heart groaned as she sat up and glared at Rei. "That hurt you know!" She forced herself to get to her feet and staggered. 'Shit, if she had slammed me around anymore I'd probably be out of the fight and back to my normal self right now.'
Rei started laughing like crazy. "And just what are you going to do now?!" She pointed at the flying fortress in the distance. "So long as I have that, none of you can defeat me. I have all of this dimension's shares flowing into me."
"Then all we have to do is fly up and shoot it down." Black Sister declared and turned to do just that when Rei started laughing. Looking over her shoulder, the white-haired CPU Candidate glared at Rei. "What's so funny?!"
"Go ahead and try, but with how fast the winds are blowing up there, you'd need a fighter jet just to get close and the thing's so heavily armored that it won't be easy to shoot down." Rei threw her head back and laughed. "It's so easy! I'll crush all of you! Maybe after I win I'll be nice and let you watch as I destroy the world?"
There was a sudden laugh that came from the bound CPUs and Rei turned to look at Noire, who was laughing, as was Vert and even Blanc was chuckling. "What's so funny?"
"You don't know anything, do you?" Noire said as she looked up. "Are you sure that you're going to win?" She asked while looking at the flying fortress.
"Of course I am." Rei smirked at her. "In fact, even if you managed to damage it enough to bring it down, it would turn into a large bomb and destroy this city with ease!"
"So you think you've won, huh?" Vert asked, smirking as she looked up. "Looks like you miscalculated a little."
"...Huh?" Rei turned and looked up, as did all of the CPUs and stared, her eyes widening in shock as a purple streak roared across the skyline at incredible speeds. "No way, that can't be! It's impossible!"
"But it is..." Blanc smirked at her. "You forgot that there was one more CPU."
"But... That's not possible!" Rei stared in horror as explosions erupted against the outside of her air fortress as the purple streak slammed into the fortress. More explosions started to quickly erupt from the fortress before it turned into a giant ball of flame. "NOOOOO!" Rei gasped as she looked at herself as her powers started to fade. "Impossible!"
"It's..." Purple Sister gasped as she saw something emerge from the firey ball of explosive metal.
"About time you woke up, Neppy." Iris Heart said as she floated up though it was obvious she was barely able to keep herself transformed at that moment, smiling as her friend, transformed into a purple jet fighter, came rushing out.
"Wait, she can transform herself?!" Black Heart gawked in surprise.
"Well, she turned you into a sword, me into an axe, thunder tits," White Heart ignored Blanc's sudden laughter, "into a spear, her sister into a gunblade and Yellow Heart into a freaking rocket punch gauntlet, of course she could turn herself into something else!"
The jet rushed at the stage at high speeds and several glowing blades of energy formed in the air and were launched at high speeds towards the bound CPUs, cutting through the bars in several places and freeing them from their binds.
"About time!" Noire yelled as the three of them dropped to the platform. "Um... Wait, that wasn't..." She stared as Purple Jet didn't stop and was actually increasing speed before firing several energy blasts at Rei, stunning her before slamming into her at high speeds, the nose of her jet hitting her in the stomach.
"YOU!" Purple Heart's angry voice was heard as the jet transformed back into Purple Heart, her katana glowing brightly. "HOW DARE YOU DO WHAT YOU'VE DONE?!" She screamed as she slashed at Rei, cutting through the insane Goddess's staff. Grabbing Rei by the horn, she spun and kicked her down towards the others. Snarling, Purple Heart rushed in and struck Rei several times in rapid succession before kicking her away, where she bounced on the ground before sliding to a stop and reverting to her human form.
Purple Heart said nothing as she stalked forward towards the downed Rei. "For everything you've done," her voice was cold and made everyone listening stiffen in fear, "for all the pain you put me, the other CPUs, my sister, my people through... There's only one..."
"STOP!" Rei's voice was heard as another Rei Ryghts suddenly jumped in front of Purple Heart, her arms held out wide in front of her. "It's not her fault! It's mine! She was flooded with my memories, my feelings and thought she became me. I've long since come to terms with what I did." Rei bit her lower lip. "Sometimes my power gets the better of me and I become psychotic, but it's not her fault! Don't hurt her."
"I see..." Purple Heart whispered for a moment before her eyes glowed brightly. "Then you can both perish together!"
"EEEK!" Both Reis yelled at the same time as Purple Heart leaped at them, her sword glowing.
"Victory..." Purple Heart growled.
"Neptune, no!" A voice called out and Purple Heart found a pair of arms wrapped around her head, pulling her back and away from Rei.
"Huh?" Purple Heart blinked several times as she realized that there were two arms around her, her head was resting on something soft and comfortable and she felt rather safe at that moment. She looked up to see Vert looking at her with worry. "V...er..t?"
"Don't do it." Vert whispered to her. "I don't want you to become the way you were before."
There was a pair of arms that wrapped around Purple Heart's midsection and she could feel a pair of soft breasts on her back. "Neptune, please... You're not a killer." Noire whispered to her.
Suddenly Blanc was there and hugging her, pressing her head against Purple Heart's chest. "Please? We want our friend back."
"I..." Purple Heart shivered and found herself relaxing before returning to Neptune. "I..." She buried her face into Vert's chest, sobbing.
"Welcome back," Vert, Noire and Blanc all whispered at the same time, glad that this wasn't the Neptune that they had feared.
"AAAAAAH!" The Rei that had captured the CPUs suddenly screamed as her body glowed black.
"What the?" The transformed CPUs gasped as a glowing blob came out of Rei's chest.
"That's..." Rei gulped as she took a step back from her other self. "That's my power... It..."
"So that's the cause of everything?" Iris Heart narrowed her eyes at the energy before her sword started to crackle with lightning. "Fighting Viper!" She yelled and rushed in, slicing at the energy, and, to the shock of everyone watching, cut it into three parts. One part went to the Rei that had been causing problems while another part went to the other Rei who had been trying to escape. The final, and largest part, was grabbed by Iris Heart, who sneered at the power in her hands. "Oh, you think you're tough, do you?"
"What are you doing?!" Black Heart yelped in surprise. "Plutie! Don't!"
"Goodness," Green Heart stared in shock, "if you combine Iris Heart's typical attitude with the psychosis of Tari's power..."
"Shit!" White Heart swore, not liking the implications.
Iris Heart chuckled as she squeezed onto the power. "Do any of you really think there is ANYTHING in this or any other world that can make me bow to it?"
"That's actually a very convincing argument!" Purple Sister said in shock as she landed near Neptune while Black Sister and the White Sisters landed next to her.
Iris Heart groaned, as much as she liked to boast up her own abilities, the damage she had taken earlier was making it hard for her to control this. 'Shit, I really don't want to hurt them if this thing wins.' She could feel her domination of the power slipping away from her. 'I know I don't really deserve them as my friends, so I won't let you use me to hurt them!' She mentally yelled as she felt the power starting to overwhelm her. "D...Dammit, I..." The next thing she knew there was a pair of hands over hers. She looked at Black heart in shock. "N...Noire? Why are you..?"
Black Heart smiled at her. "Despite everything, Plutia, you're my friend. You saved my life more than once."
"Considering how horrible I've treated you," Iris Heart gave her an unbelieving stare, "I'm surprised you aren't enjoying seeing me suffer."
"There was a time I would have enjoyed seeing you suffer." Black Heart shook her head. "But I've changed. Neptune and Nepgear, they drove it into my thick skull what friendship is."
Suddenly another pair of hands were on theirs and White Heart smiled at Iris Heart, "you believed in me when no one else would, Plutia, so I'm not letting you face this alone."
"You almost sound like you love her." Black Heart smirked at White Heart.
"So what if I do?!" White Heart snapped at Black Heart.
"Do either of you think I deserve it?" Iris Heart asked them, "considering what I've done to you."
"Bah!" White Heart scoffed at her. "I took my own citizens for granted, did bad things to them and I got another chance to make things right."
Suddenly another pair of hands were on theirs. "Besides, Plutia..." Green Heart smiled at Plutia, "the times you were sadistic to us, we kind of deserved it."
"You idiots." Iris Heart gave them a kind smile. "Thanks."
Suddenly Yellow Heart was grabbing their hands. "You don't have to do this alone, Ploot! I'll help too!" She smiled at the CPU who raised her for so many years.
Before anyone could say anything more, the power started to reach a fever pitch and energy shock-waves were building up as everyone's hair was whipped around in the air.
"Plutie!" Neptune tried to move, but found herself being held back. "Please! I have to!"
"Neptune!" Purple Sister looked at Neptune. "Please! Trust them!"
The power continued to build up and waves of energy started to cover the whole city.
"Is this thing going to explode or something?!" Noire yelled, her red eyes looking on in shock.
There was a loud popping sound and everything suddenly calmed down.
"...The hell?!" More than one person yelled in shock as the Ultradimension CPUs pulled their hands back and looked at them in shock.
"Anyone feel any stronger or crazier than normal?" White Heart asked.
"Nope." Black Heart patted herself down and shook her head.
"Same." Green Heart answered.
"Pea's good." Yellow Heart smiled.
"I'm no different." Iris Heart patted herself down as well. "Nope, no different."
"...So what happened?" Rei from the Ultradimension asked in confusion. "I didn't get it, neither did my other self..."
Everyone just looked at each other in confusion.
(-)
In the Ultradimension...
"Man..." A gruff voice spoke up as a dark skinned female fairy dressed in a dark dress and who had dark blonde hair appeared in the forest with a glowing black ball of energy in front of her. "While that was interesting, you're way too dangerous to be running around free." Surrounding it with energy, she shrank the power and sent it into the book she was sitting on. "I'd hate to see what a sadistic CPU like Iris Heart could do with you." She sighed.
"OOOOH!" A voice that sounded familiar to her suddenly spoke up. "A rare bug for my collection!"
"Huh?" The fairy turned and her eyes widened. "No way, you're..."
To be continued...
Well, Neptune DOES like to be the big damn hero, doesn't she?
Ultra Blanc's comment about her parents being dead and her using her Basilicom as a monument to them is a reference to DeraldSny's "Mother's Day: Ultradimension Style" fic.