Hello everyone. Hope you've had a pretty good day. Here I am, with the latest chapter of Hero of Neptunia. However, before I start, I want to address some comments that I may have missed, or are from the last chapter.

(Heh, started every sentence with an H)

To Lunar Black Blossom: Thanks again for letting me know I was going a little overboard with the stuttering. I recently read some more fanfics, and I am sure I have a better grasp of his personality

To Urufu Fire: I think I have a good grasp of the power scaling. My plan is to make One for All stronger than a single candidate. Then the CPUs will be stronger then the quirk. I'm sticking with this!

Now with that out of the way, on to the chapter.


'Maybe I shouldn't have tried to run. I may seem like more of a threat if I don't explain myself...' Izuku thought as he continued his escape from the goddess that was after him.

When he turned his head back to look at his pursuer, he noticed that she was much closer then he thought she was. In fact, she would be on top of him in a few minutes if he didn't pick up the pace.

'H-However, getting more training with One for All is never a bad thing.' he thought as he sweat-dropped at the face of fury that was following him. He then used his legs, and jumped further away from her.

"Get back here!" the greenette could hear her yell as he dashed to the left, changing his direction in hopes that he would shake her off.

Uni was struggling a little from the injury she had gotten from the previous battle, and was silently cursing herself for allowing it to happen. If she wouldn't have let her leg get injured, then she could probably catch up to the human in no time. 'Noire wouldn't do something as stupid as that! I've gotta get better, so I can protect the people of this nation from people like him!'

She took a few more steps, and realized that her target had left her field of view.

"Damn leg! If only I didn't ha-" she stopped herself because an excellent idea, one so simple yet so practical, entered her mind.

She snapped her fingers after she knew what she was going to do next.


He didn't hear any footsteps behind him, so the greenette could only assume that he had finally lost the goddess.

He let out a sigh of relief as he plopped himself on the ground to rest a little. "Wow. I didn't think the goddesses could be so intense..."

He inspected his legs, mainly looking for any damage to them. When he looked at them and saw that there wasn't anything serious wrong, he let a small smile grace his face.

"Next step is to summon One for All without thinking..." Izuku said quietly to himself. During that whole escape scene he just had, the greenette constantly focused on trying to find the right percentage for his quirk so that he wouldn't mess up.

Who knows what would've happened to him if he had broke himself, and Uni had caught him.

He shivered a little at a possibility that crossed his mind, and then stood back up, "I still haven't completed my quest yet. Although I'm glad that I helped her, I got sidetracked. I better hurry up if I don't want to be out here all day..."

He was about to start walking, but froze stiff as he heard and saw a gunshot fly past his head, and into a tree that was nearby. The boy slowly turned his head, and paled at the person that nearly killed him.

There she was. Standing there with smoke coming out of a pistol she had. She had on a smile, but he could feel the menacing aura behind it.

"Hey, Izuku!" Uni said in what was obviously a strained voice. 'Thank goddesses for HDD...'

"H-Hi..." he responded, feeling fear overwhelm his brain. 'How the heck did she manage to get here so fast!? I thought I left her behind!'

"You're going to come back with me to the Basilicom, right?" she asked him, that same creepy smile on her face.

Izuku could've thought of a multitude of ways to escape the situation, but his fear had overridden everything.

Well... almost everything.

I mean, fight or flight is built into almost every living thing.

As he was about to pull another stunt like before, the goddess's cocked her pistol and fired a bullet at him. It narrowly missed his leg by a few centimeters.

"We're not going to have you run off again, are we?" she said as the smile never faltered. The candidate watched the boy freeze up for a second as he thought of wjat he could do. 'Holy crap. Plutia was right. This does work! I'm going to have to find a way to thank her later.'

The boy knew he was in a tight spot. If he tried to run away, he would most likely get pelted with bullets. And if he didn't run, then he would have to possibly reveal the secrets of One for All to people he didn't even know.

'Okay. Let me think about this. If I run, then I would get shot at with the pistol. But I assume the fire rate of it wouldn't be that quick, unless it was an automatic. If that was the case, then she would've probably shot more then one shot at me as that threat, but-'

Uni had lost her menacing composure at seeing the boy start to mumble to himself. He was talking at a speed so fast that she even had a hard time keeping up with what he said.

"Hey," she simply said, trying to get his attention. It worked, as he turned to look at her. "Comeon, let's go. You can mumble to yourself on our way there."

Izuku relented, and started walking in front of the goddess, while she directed him.

"No funny business," Uni said as she pushed him with her gun, "Got it?"

"Yes," he said.


The walk there was rather uneventful. Since they were still in the forest, they had to deal with a couple monsters. Uni made quick work of them, making sure Izuku didn't use his powers at all. When they made it back to the city, many of the people passing by did a double take when they saw the CPU Candidate escort a green haired boy.

In all honesty, Izuku felt very insecure because of the stares. The judgmental eyes people gave him reminded him of his past school life. How all the students and teachers would give him a look that practically said 'Get away from me. I want nothing to do with you'. The stares he was currently getting were similar, and brought back some bad memories.

He would occasionally avert eye contact from them, and prefer to look at the ground. He thought that doing this would help in some sort of way, but he was wrong. He was silently hoping that he would make it to the building as soon as possible.

Once the both of them passed through the people, they came across the Lastation Basilicom. The greenette gaped in awe at the sheer size and style of the building. 'Woah, This building could give UA a run for it's money.'

He then felt a slight push from the girl behind him, "You can look at the building later. We're almost done with this whole mess, so let's get this over with.

She got in front of him, so that she could open the door. When she did, Izuku was met with what he could describe as a busy office building similar to the ones that would show on TV. Most of them were at some computers, some doing work while the others stared vacantly at their screens. There was also a desk that was nearby that had a worker there that was talking to someone on the phone.

Also, there was, what Izuku assumed, a boy with grey hair and blue eyes that was standing near the desk. They seemed to be waiting for someone.

"Kei, over here," Uni said, which got the boy's attention.

They walked over to the pair, and gave the greenette a decently long stare before turning to the candidate. "I got your message about something you needed me to see. I assume it is this plain-looking boy in the weird clothing?"

Okay, in his defense, Izuku couldn't really have gotten any different clothes, so he was still rocking the gym uniform with various tears and his attachments. 'I should get some new clothes.'

"That is correct," Uni stated from beside the greenette, "I can tell you more about what happened when we're on our way to Noire's office."

"Okay then. I have plenty of time to hear him out." The Oracle then turned around, and made her way to the elevator, with the candidate and her prisoner right behind her.


Everyone knew of the goddess that ruled over Lastation. She was someone that always appreciated hard work, and dedication to any job or assignment. In fact, the goddess was so serious about work, that she spent almost all of her time doing it.

...Which would explain why she was sorta lost at the moment...

"Uuugghhh..." she groaned while laying on her bed.

Truly, this could be described as a terrible day for the CPU. There was practically nothing to do! This had never happened before, so she didn't really have a plan for if it did! But now that it was here, she felt an overwhelming sense of unfulfillment.

Of course, there was her hobby she could do, but as if the stars had aligned, she had ran out of thread and had to wait until the next day for her shipment to arrive. Then there was Uni, but she was already on a quest. The other goddesses had other things to do as well so she couldn't do anything with them. And all her totally real friends besides the goddesses were doing stuff.

Truly, there was nothing that could entertain her. The goddess even would've taken the Planeptune CPU on a day like today.

"Nooooiiirrrree... leeeeet meeeee iiiiiinn..." a familiar annoying voice said to her. She could easily tell who it was without looking at them, but turned to look at her balcony door anyway.

Behind it was the lazy Planeptune goddess herself, Neptune. She was in her signature hoodie that doubled as a dress. She could be seen weakly clawing at the glass trying to gain entry. She looked at Noire with what was essentially a plea for help.

"Leeeeeett meeeeee iiiiiiiinnn..."

The more mature goddess sighed, "Neptune, what are you even doing here?" She then walked up to the glass so she could get closer to Neptune. "Aren't you supposed to be grounded?"

"Ehh? You thought I was grounded? Hah! Nobody can keep this protagonist down!"

"...Let me tell Histoire that then."

"No please! Have mercy Nowa! Don't tell Histy! I won't have pudding for another week if you tell her!"

Noire then got back to the topic that was more important, "So why are you here?"

Neptune lightly hit her fist against the glass while she made a pair of puppy dog eyes and a pout.

Noire knew she shouldn't open the door, even if she was bored. Neptune needed to pay for not doing her job as a goddess. In fact, she should go over to the phone, and call Histoire right at this moment.

'Yeah, that's what I'll do. Then, maybe she will take her job as a goddess more seriously! This is just for her benefit, so don't give in!'

"Thanks Noire!"

"No problem."

...

...

...wait, what?

When did she get in here? Why was she smiling at her with that mischevious look? Why was her hand on an opened glass doo-

Oh.

The goddess of Lastation sighed to herself as she turned her attention to her new guest, "So for the third time, why are you here?"

Neptune smiled as she spun around a little, "I came to keep you company, of course! I know how much of a loner you can be."

Noire's cheeks gained a hint of red to them, "N-No I'm not a loner!"

"Comeon Lonely Heart, you don't have to lie to me. I know you were probably counting the minutes until I showed up!" the shorter goddess said before giving a smug grin to her.

Noire sighed to herself again at the look Neptune gave. Sure she wasn't counting the minutes for her to arrive, but since she was here now, maybe the both of them could do something.

Just then, Noire had gotten a knock at her door. This actually got Neptune's attention. "You having another guest here?"

"You aren't my guest! You're an escaped convict," she shot back. She didn't get to see the goddess of Planeptune fall backwards in a comical manner because of her attention on the door.

When she opened it, she saw Kei, Uni, and... some guy...

"Hello Lady Black Heart," Kei started before turning her attention to Neptune, "And a hello to you Lady Purple Heart. Shouldn't you be back at your Basilicom?"

Neptune got mildly annoyed after that comment, "I'm not grounded! I'm a responsible and grown up CPU!"

"Well, let me just get Histoire on the phone, and-"

"Okay okay! I'm sorry! Please don't rat me out!" the goddess begged the oracle. She had even gotten on her knees, and clapped her hands together with shut eyes.

"...Um..." the green haired boy could only say, as he had watched the display before him.

"Oh right," Noire said after taking her eyes off the lazy goddess, "Uni. Kei. What's the reason for bringing this guy into the basilicom?"

"Well," Uni started, "I called you earlier and told you that I found something that could very well be a great asset, or a terrible enemy." She then pointed her finger at the boy, "This is it."


And that's the end of this chapter. Next time, there will be more interactions between Izuku and the goddesses. Let me know if you all have any questions, and I will answer them to the best of my ability next chaper