Hello all and welcome to yet another diabetes-inducing addition to my collection. This one is a special one, as this was a suggested chapter from user Gigarot, so shoutouts for that! Here's your chapter, hopefully, I made it as good as you had imagined, and if I didn't? Well, damn my bad lol. And as always, I hope you all enjoy it.

Synopsis: Nepgear manages to invent a machine that hypnotizes monsters into believing themselves to be the cutest thing they can imagine, so what happens when Uni accidentally activates the machine? And how will Nepgear manage to turn her back?

Sparks flew around the darkened room as the scientist worked on the mechanizations of her twisted arts. Only the most depraved and twisted minds in all of gamindustri could understand the rationale of a mind as twisted as her… Even the great proclaimed Mad Magician would blush at the sight that she would behold if she were present,

"Goddess damnit! How did this one get that funny face too!" Or perhaps not… For you see Nepgear was hard at work in her secluded lab as she furiously exclaimed her frustration. One may ask themself why Nepgear's lab was as secluded as it was, layered in a thick concrete exterior, the answer was simple; despite not working with materials that should be that dangerous, Nepgear caused explosions- like way more than should be reasonably be expected. As for the target of her frustration at the moment?

"Seriously. How does everything I make get that face on it? I don't even know how that makes any sense, it's not like I'm putting it on, I just turn my back and poof!" Nepgear pouted while looking at her latest genius invention. This one, in particular, she was fond of, this one could revolutionize gamindustri as she knew it!

She had to say if only for a moment it was tempting to attempt to patent the creation and boost Planeptune shares by a substantial margin. If she did then Neptune would have more time to relax, and honestly, she deserved it. But as tempting as that sounded, Nepgear put the thought aside for multiple reasons. If nothing else held true she found the idea to be dirty and low down, she and her friends had been through far too much for underhanded tactics like that. But past that, she hadn't been alone in thinking of this specific invention, she had received input from one of her friends internationally, who just so happened to be the CPU candidate of that nation.

Her invention was simple, it functioned as a simple hypnosis machine to be utilized on monsters in order to tame them and either dispose of them or leave them in their incapacitated state. After all, Nepgear was quite confident there was no way to deactivate the hypnosis, what would be the point in hypnotizing monsters if they just went back to normal after a time interval?

The problem Nepgear had run into when she first drafted the machine was simple, what thought do you insert into the minds of monsters to make them docile? She had originally thought that making them love whatever they saw would solve her dilemma, but upon thinking it over the last thing anyone needed was a love-struck ancient dragon or horde of dogoos after them.

Next, she thought about just voiding all thoughts of the monster. Sure, this may be a little less than ethical, but the benefits outweighed the consequences, right? But she soon found this to be a dead end as well, if there was no thought in the monster, then it might revert to pure instinct, and that might make it more aggressive, which was obviously not what she wanted.

Feeling herself in a rut, Nepgear couldn't think of what to do about this issue, which frustrated the young goddess, she was on the brink of revolutionizing gamindustri. It was just one step away, but it would appear luck was on her side that day, as she received a knock at her door. Getting up from the desk she was sulking over Nepgear walked gingerly over to the door, opening it to find a surprise visitor,

"Oh Uni, what brings you over?" Nepgear was genuinely surprised to see her friend over, she hasn't texted or called like she usually did when she visited,

"Oh, Noire said she needed something that Miss Neptune was supposed to have finished, and she was busy, so she sent me to get it. But surprise surprise it's not done yet, I think Miss Histoire is currently having a word with her, so I thought I'd stop over and say hi" Uni succinctly explained her visit, receiving a heavy sigh from her counterpart,

"Goodness I'm sorry about Neptune, I even told her to finish those…" Nepgear said with a guilty expression, which received a laugh from Uni,

"Jeez, it's not like it's your fault. What are you doing in this dark room, did I wake you?" Uni asked as she looked past her friend into the shared room of the goddesses, which she always found a little odd. I mean she couldn't imagine sharing a room with Noire, but she supposed the Planeptune sisters were different in that way,

"Oh no, don't worry about it, I was just… thinking," Nepgear said, dodgy in her words, which was immediately picked up on by the other woman, if Nepgear was acting like this she was bothered by something and felt bad about worrying anyone, which meant Uni needed to prod,

"What's on your mind?" Uni politely asked as she made her way into the room and took a seat, inviting Nepgear to do the same,

"Oh goodness, you don't need to bother yourself with it Uni, it's just an invention isn't behaving like I want it to" Nepgear waved off her friend, who only shook her head,

"C'mon it's not like Miss Neptune will be done any sooner, I have time, I might not be some mad scientist, but I can sure listen" Uni gave her friend a reassuring smile, and eventually Nepgear took her seat and started to explain her newest idea,

"So, I was thinking of a way to subdue monsters with hypnosis, but I have no clue what idea to put into their mind. I thought of love, nothing, and a few others, but nothing seems to work the way I want it to" Nepgear explained, and Uni cupped her chin with her hand as she thought it over,

"So, you want to make the monsters threat-less, that's a really good idea! But hmmm what's something that poses no threat… I mean cats are great, but that's just because they're so cute… That's it!" Uni shot up as the epiphany came to her,

"Really!? What is it?" Nepgear practically shook her friend as she desperately wanted to pick her brain for her idea,

"S-stop shaking me!" Uni called out as she was being shaken, and eventually, she felt her body return to motionless, looking up she saw the eager, star-filled eyes of her expecting best friend, "Well I was thinking, what if you make the monsters think they're a cat, or something really cute?"

Nepgear beamed as she thought the idea over, "That's genius! I need to get to work on it right now! I love you!" Nepgear spoke quickly as she rushed giving Uni a quick hug before rushing down the hall towards her lab, leaving behind a flustered Uni who crossed her arms with a huff,

"If it was that easy to get it out of her, I should have studied robots a long time ago…" Uni pouted. Looking around she realized she really didn't have much to do as she waited for Neptune to finish. Letting out a sigh, she pulled out her N-gear, making a note to update Noire before starting up some game.

Back in the present Nepgear looked over her proud (minus the weird face) creation with a smile. It wasn't particularly difficult to implement Uni's idea as the base of the creation had already been completed, she just needed to code it, which did not take long. Finally… It was ready so she could test it anytime!

"Well, any time, after I hit the little girls' room" Nepgear chuckled as she turned around to head down the hall, with the circular nature of the Planeptower's top floor, the nearest bathroom was counterclockwise to Nepgear's current position.

Unbeknownst to the 'mad scientist' at that very moment, someone was making their way down the hall antiparallel to Nepgear's direction, and the two happened to miss each other despite being in the same location, not 30 seconds apart,

"Nepgear?" The voice called out the bored voice of Uni, who was tired of waiting for Neptune to finish her work, poking her head into the lab. Uni noticed a distinct lack of purple hair. "Huh, I wonder where she went?" Fully walking into the lab now Uni took note of all the strange creations around. Some were large mechanical bodies, and some were smaller gadgets and the like, but Uni couldn't help but notice,

"Why do all of these have that stupid Nepgya face?" Uni had to stifle a laugh, she knew that Nepgear wasn't all too fond of the funny face component, but she had to wonder why all these creations had the face? Uni soon found her focus on the strange robot-looking creation on the desk in front of her, "Huh was she working on a remote-controlled model?" Uni asked to herself, as she looked at the controller in front of her, and she felt her curiosity burn,

Hitting the power button on the remote, Uni saw the screen light up, "Huh that a pretty screeeeee-" Uni's voice drew out as her eyes fogged up and she felt her mind get hazy…

It was almost 10 minutes before Nepgear was able to return, somehow, she got caught up in another one of Histoire and Neptune's spats, and she (regretfully) had to take the side of the oracle on this occasion, much to the dismay of her sister, who looked betrayed. Ordinarily, she would feel bad for her sister, but today was different, she was holding Uni, and Noire for that matter and Nepgear wouldn't stand for that. So she had to put on her best serious face and explain why Neptune had to work on those documents.

"Speaking of, I wonder where Uni went? Did she leave and decide to come back? She should have said something, I would have made time to hang out with her…." Nepgear mused to herself as she approached her lab, opening the door, and almost immediately she felt something brush against her leg, which was more than a little odd. And hey wasn't this thing brushing against her leg awful far up her thigh, awful close to-

"Eeek! U-U-Uni! What are you doing!?" Nepgear jumped back as she looked down to see Lastations CPU candidate brushing her head against her inner thigh.

"Meow?" Was all the response she got.

"M-meow?" Nepgear was baffled, sure Uni's sister was into her, cosplay was it? And maybe that ran in the family, but surely this was too far! Right? Nepgear looked on in an odd mix of horror and indigestion as her friend walked on all fours towards her,

"Prrrrrr" Was all that left her mouth, and it wasn't just a cat impression she sounded like a cat.

"Uhhh Uni this isn't funny; can you please stop?" Nepgear tried her best to not sound harsh as she pushed her friend away from her legs, but as she looked past her, she noticed one thing in her lab, her latest creation was on. "Oh, that bodes poorly…" That certainly explained a few things. If Uni had accidentally activated it, it would have hypnotized her into believing she was the cutest thing she could think of, and an overly affectionate cat certainly fit the bill.

Looking around, Nepgear noticed she was in the middle of Planeptune's basilicom, and she had an overly affectionate Uni-cat nipping at her heels, quite literally. She at least owed Uni the decency to preserve her image by storing her away for the moment, right? As she walked into the lab, Nepgear turned to see, to her horror, that Uni was making her way further down the hall,

"W-wait! Uni! Over here!" Nepegar called out, and it occurred to her that Uni didn't seem to comprehend the words she spoke. I mean, after all, Uni believed herself to be a cat, and cats don't understand human speech. "Goodness, uhh psst psst" Nepgear felt her face heat up as she tried to garner the 'cats' attention, snapping her fingers, as the girl in question slowly looked around before making her way towards the lab, with a soft 'prrr' following her. Nepgear let out a sigh. This was going to be a long day, and she prayed to whatever higher power there was that Uni would not remember it when the day was through, she might not speak to her for a year if she did.

After Uni was fully in the laboratory, Nepgear closed the steel door behind her, making sure to lock it. Slouching onto her chair, Nepgear turned off her machine while making sure not to look into the hypnotic signal. Letting out a deep sigh, she looked over to her friend, running her hand through her hair,

"What am I gonna do? I made that hypnosis permanent… Although I guess all that I have to do is make a counter signal, right? That should only take me a few hours I guess." Nepgear thought over what she had to do in order to return her friend to her normal self, although looking at her friend now she noticed one more issue… "Did you have to wear your normal skirt?" Nepgear tried to avert her eyes. As Uni thought she was a cat, surely cats walk on all fours, and with the way, her normal outfit was… well Nepgear certainly got her fair share.

Shaking her head furiously to clear her mind of those compromising shots, Nepgear began to focus her attention on the device; she would have plenty of time to think of that later… "Wait NONONO!" She shook her head again, maybe Neptune's blood ran a bit too thick in her sometimes.

Taking a deep breath, Nepgear began to run through the necessary calculation of her laptop to determine the needed wavelength and frequency of the hypnosis beam she would have to use, or at least she would if there wasn't an exceedingly eager cat trying to get in her lap and push down her laptop.

"Uni, no!" Nepgear stood up as she scolded the now pet, who only looked up at her with saddened eyes, and Nepgear could only feel bad for what she had done. Putting her laptop to the side, she pondered it for a moment, "Well maybe there's more than one way to revert the hypnosis, and it will be good for testing any bugs, yeah!" Nepgear reasoned to herself as she walked over to the cat, presenting her fingers, and she had to say it was more than a little odd to have her friend rub her face on her fingers.

"This Uni is sweet in her own way too" Nepgear smiled, closing her eyes for a moment, but in her moment of vulnerability, she felt something wet move across her cheek, ripping her eyes to confirm that her fears were exactly true as she saw Uni lick her cheek once more.

"..." Nepgear could only look with blank eyes, "I need to fix this as soon as possible" But how should she do it? Trying to generate the anti-hypnosis would surely take the rest of the day, and she doubted Cat-Uni would let her think hard enough to do it, so where did that leave her?

Well looking around she figured the first thing she could try was a physical force, I mean if someone's head was jarred enough maybe that would free the hypnosis, looking around Nepegar grabbed the nearest book, "I'm so sorry!" she apologized as she gracefully threw the book, and she watched in slow motion as the book nailed the cat in the head with a loud bonk, as the cat hissed looking around for what could have caused it. Nepgear tried her best to play it off, but she could feel the guilt of her actions creeping up on her, until

"Goodness, I'm so sorry Uni!" She rushed over, rubbing and petting the head around the area her book had bonked her. Eventually, the cat seemed to forgive her, and Nepgear thought over once more ways she could try and break the trap she had accidentally placed in her best friend's mind.

Hypnosis is just a lock on the mind, so perhaps all she needed to do was shock her mind hard enough to rattle free her conscious thought. The idea sounded simple enough, but how would she actually do it?

"Hmm" What would shock the mind of Uni? "I got it!" Making sure that Cat-Uni was safely behind the door, Nepegar quickly, and stealthily made her way to the kitchen. Rummaging through the cupboards for a specific item, one that was sure to knock Uni free, "Ah-ha!" Lifting up the item victoriously. Truth be told Nepgear did not even know why there was any cat food in the basilicom, they never owned any cats (Histoires orders) but for some reason, they seemed to have a stache of it, maybe it was a gift? Regardless, Nepgear gave herself a mental pat on the back as she turned to make her way back to her lab, only to freeze. She was looking face to face with a stunned looking strawberry haired ball of fluff,

"Ge-Ge, what do you need cat food for?" Compa asked nicely, maybe she planned on feeding strays?

"Uhhhh" Nepgear stuttered, how would she explain this? It was Compa, so anything she said would likely get her out of this situation, but she still had to think of anything, "I uhh, need this. I'll be in my lab, but don't go in there! And don't tell anyone!" Nepgear frantically explained as she backed away from the scene, before breaking out into a full sprint as she made her way back down the hall, leaving behind an exacerbated nurse,

"Hmm, maybe she brought in a stray and is keeping it in her lab? That'd be just like Ge-Ge~" Compa hummed as she made her way along, maybe she would stop by later, she figured Nepgear could be trusted with a cat,

`Sighing heavily as she closed the door behind her, Nepgear looked through her lab to see that Uni had taken up to laying in the chair she had just been in, perking her head up when she noticed Nepgear had returned, making her way over while stretching her back in a disturbingly cat-like manner,

"Here uh kitty kitty," Nepgear would never let herself live this down, this was humiliating for both of them, pushing the thoughts to the side, Nepgear opened the can, before presenting it to her friend. This stuff was beyond nasty, surely this would be a shock enough to her system to wake her right?

"Well, would you look at that" Nepgear looked on as Uni eagerly ate the meal presented to her, purring loudly as she did. This really was an impressive piece of machinery Nepgear had invented huh? The hypnosis was so deep that Uni's brain rationalized that if she was a cat then she must love the tastes that cats love.

Well then, what did Nepgear do from here? Looking around her lab, Nepgear saw a specific piece of equipment she had developed, "Aha! That might work, walking over to her bench, she picked up the rainbow-colored core. In truth Nepegar didn't even remember why she invented this one, it was a device that forcefully activated a goddess HDD transformation. It used a concentrated share crystal along with a needle to override the body and force the transformation,

"Sorry, this might sting a little…" She apologized despite knowing her words would be lost, before pulling the trigger, and watching the needle lightly pierce the skin of the candidate, and the ensuing light that brightened the room, leaving behind….

"W-what the goodness!" Somehow the situation got worse. Nepgear was baffled by the sight before her; indeed, Black Sister stood before her, the only problem? "W-why do you have cat ears and a tail?" Indeed, Black Sister was wearing her standard processor, complemented by fluffy ears and a tail matching the color of her own hair. It would appear Uni's hypnotized mind combined with the acting share energy in her willed her body to achieve the form she believed herself to be, and the result was the cat girl that was walking around Nepgear's lab.

While it certainly was worth noting that the hypnotism indeed remained through transformations, which would be useful against especially annoying bosses. But that didn't help Nepgear's current situation at all. "Hmm, so what happens is what the person believes to be the cutest thing ever their mind will force them into behaving like that?" Surely there had to be a loophole Nepgear could utilize? Nothing in life was foolproof, not even her genius inventions… well especially her inventions.

Regardless, Nepegar pondered the puzzle as she tried to piece together how she would attempt to return to Uni once more, "Hmmm if I convince Cat-Uni that Uni is the cutest, then her mind would revert itself wouldn't it?" Nepgear mused, and it did make sense if in Uni's mind she believed herself to be the cutest, then the hypnosis would return her to being her.

Now, all that needed to be done, "Uhh Uni," she snapped her fingers to garner the attention of the cat once more, and as the cat eagerly trotted over to her, Nepgear put her hands on Uni's shoulders as she looked at her. "Uni I don't know if somewhere in the reaches of your mind you can understand me, but uhh I really think you're cute" Nepgear started somewhat embarrassed, looking at the girl in the eyes, "And I know it bothers you that your chest shrinks when you transform but I think your drills in your HDD form are so cute, and I think it's super cute when you get all flustered whenever someone compliments you, and and I think Uni has the cutest style and I think the way you smile when you think no one is looking or how you always look up to people, I think you're super cute when you do that. I think… I think Uni is the cutest of all us candidates, I mean sure Rom and Ram are plenty cute. But everything Uni does is cute! Uni is the cutest in all of gamindustri, and I just wish she would come back to me so I could tell her that… But Uni never listens to me when I tell her she's cute, but even that's cute."

Nepegar had forced herself at the beginning to get herself going but as she went and went, she realized she really believed all the words she was speaking. Looking at Uni now, Nepgear could only sigh,

"I figured it'd be too much to expect that to work… maybe I only did that for my own benefit… What kind of person would believe themselves to be the cutest, certainly not the Uni I know…" Smiling gently as she looked at the girl who had curled up in her lap, Nepgear patted her head, receiving a delighted purr in response, "See even this Uni is the cutest, in her own way. Uni's cat ears and tail just make her even cuter. And she lets me say all these things without blowing up" Nepgear beamed as she continued running her hand through her friend's hair.

As she considered it, Nepegar figured that nothing else she could try could shake her friend's mind free, so what was the harm in playing around with this cute little cat for a while, and so for the next hour that is what Nepgear found herself doing, dangling pieces of thread in front of her, watching her pounce on them. Petting her and watching her cute little face explode in happiness at the smallest gestures, and of course, she made sure to take plenty of photos. Although she figured now, once she finally did return Uni to normal, Uni was never allowed on her N-gear again… A price to pay, she supposed.

Eventually, the energy of the cat seemed to run on empty, and she managed to curl herself into Nepegars lap, and doze off to sleep, her face content and curled into a slight smile. She had returned to her base form as she slept. Petting her head once more, Nepegar softly kissed the girl's forehead, before bringing out her laptop once more, "I might end up missing this Uni, but it'd be wrong not to return her!" Nepgear shook her head as she began typing up a storm, running all the necessary calculations to form the counter hypnosis signal, and after an hour of concentrated work, she felt confident that she had cracked the code. Sighing to herself, she ruffled the hair of the girl still curled up in her lap,

"Cmon, wake up Uni" She began shaking the girl, who slowly roused from her sleep, and Nepgear soon presented the familiar funny faced robot and watched as Uni stared into it, and soon she slumped over, which gave Nepgear pause for a moment, but soon Uni stood up. This time on two feet.

"Uni!" Nepgear lunged forward and hugged her friend, as much fun as the cat was, she was happy she had returned her friend to normal.

"..." Uni could only look around slightly dazed, before realizing the proximity of her fellow goddess, quickly stammering out a response and semi lecture about personal space, to which Nepgear could only smile listening to.

"Say Uni?" Nepgear asked gently as Uni crossed her arms.

"What?"

"Do you, do you remember anything about the last few hours?"

"... What do you mean?" Uni seemed somewhat perturbed by the question, and Nepgear could only let out a sigh at it, figured it'd be too much to hope that Uni remembered their little outing, although, she supposed, that would be for the best.

"Nothing, it's just you accidentally activated my hypnosis machine and it took me a little while to make the counter signal, so it's been a few hours, I'm sure you're sleepy from the process, I'm sure Sis finished up those documents, so you can go grab them and head home, I'm sorry but I'm a little beat, I need to shower" Nepgear bowed as she explained the circumstance surrounding Uni's supposed lost memory, before making her way out of the lab.

Uni stood motionless for a few moments, before gently touching her forehead. She felt like crawling into a hole and dying. She remembered. She remembered everything. How she ate cat food, how she had a cat tail and ears, how she crawled up Nepgear's skirt. Everything. She felt miserable, and like she needed a cold shower. But at the same time. At the same time,

"Do you really feel like that? You big dummy" Uni remembered how warmly Nepgear spoke of her when she thought she could not understand. The sweet words Nepgear had said in order to try and return her, she couldn't tell if they were genuine or not, but in her heart, she wanted to believe them to be genuine. Maybe… Maybe one day she would tell the girl all the things that actually made her the cutest in all of gamindustri, but now? Now she needed to get home forget this whole adventure like a baaaaad hangover…. Not that Uni had actually ever been hungover.

Nepgear found herself walking down the halls with one of the weirdest feelings she had in her life. She was at the same time extraordinarily happy she had managed to return to Uni, and she was happy she got to spend time with the sweet catgirl she had been. But at the same, she was disappointed by the fact that Uni would remember none of it, and furthermore, she felt almost dirty for seemingly taking advantage of her friend in that way, sure it worked out in the end, but shouldn't she have tried to work a little faster? As she contemplated the thoughts she made her way down towards the washroom, which was situated across the hall from her bedroom, and as she walked in to grab a change of clothes, she couldn't help but hear the voice that greeted her,

"Woah Nep Jr, you look like all your saved data erased, what gives?" Neptune asked her sister,

"Nothing, it's just been a long day" Nepegar sighed as she grabbed her change in clothes,

"Well, that makes both of us" She chuckled "Say no need to be a grumpy cat about it" Nepgear froze as she slowly turned around to face her sister. There was no way, right? She was just being a little goof, classic Neptune, goofy Neptune. "You know Nep Jr, me, and Histy both agreed when we decided to build that lab of yours that we needed to be able to monitor exactly what you were doing in it." If Neptune's face could be any smugger, she certainly would do so.

"Uhhh does that mean?"

"Yepper~"

"You saw?"

"I saw everything~"

"Huh, and those are probably new-gen cameras, right?'

"Right again my dear sister"

"Which means they come standard with audio recording"

"Wow you're good at this~ I even downloaded the whole thing onto my phone"

Now Nepgear really needed that cold shower… and a copy.

As Neptune saw her sister leave the room doing her best impersonation of a ghost, with how white her face was, she could only chuckle to herself. Looking around, she roused herself from her laying position and walked into the hall, making sure no soul was following, she stealthily made her way down the hall. Nepgear sold her down the river today, and now she was going to help her. Grinning mischievously Neptune gently opened the reinforced steel doors before gently grabbing the machine of interest. In a few days, all would know of her plans, well at least Nepgear would when she got a call from Uni,

"Uh, Nepgear?" Uni sounded exacerbated,

"Is everything ok, Uni? What's going on?"

"Uhh, Noire is acting like a cat… I think your sister might have something to do with it considering she's uh playing? with her at the moment"

"..." Nepgear could only stare blankly. Had science gone too far?

I hope you all enjoyed that, I really think it was a good suggestion, so hopefully I did it justice, now let me get to it,

Gigarot,- First thank you very much for your suggestion, but past that yea that would have been a great bit... had I thought of it while writing lol

Sitting on the Event Horizon- I like to think that Neptune likes to tease Uni like she does Noire, although to a far less extent and I thought that'dbe a funny bit after her giving Uni an actual nice gift, as for the other gifts I just tried to think through what the best way would beto incorporate all those characters (and obviously I didn'tget to all of them), but I did think the Affimojas bit was among one of my better ones. As for Plutia, I was thinking she would just give something like that because she wants everyone to be as close as possible and she thought that Uni and Nepegar were already really close, although I'm sure Iris Heart would have had a few more things to say on the matter