Author Note : Sorry for taking way too long for this chapter. I barely got a freetime these days XD
and Thanks a LOT for KuroGems1208 for helping me fixed a lot of issue and told me what part that need Improvise the most. I'll try my best to Improvise next time !
Beta Reader : KuroGems1208
A black haired girl just stares blankly to the wall as she just had an incident that she cannot handle. She reaches for a tissue and wipes the remaining blood that came out of her nose, but it wouldn't stop flowing.
"That idiot... hmmgh..."
Noire wasn't sure what she felt that time, but all she knows that: she could never forget what she has seen...
Moments ago
It was a pretty good morning in SuperDimension. In a small house in the outskirts of Planeptune, Noire was preparing for breakfast with Compa and Neptune waiting patiently in the living room.
"Sorry I wasn't around when the other girls were here !" Said Compa to open the conversation with Planeptune Goddess.
"Don't worry about it! At least you have time for breakfast with us this time!" Neptune replied. "And I gotta say, this wheelchair feels Neptastic!"
"Hehe, you're welcome Nep-Nep. I just said it's for the CPU of Planeptune, and they said 'TAKE THE WHOLE STOCK IF YOU HAVE TO!' like that hehe~" Said the nurse with a giggle. "But Nep-Nep, how can you 'feel' it?" She is a little curious.
"I actually can feel something now, and I can move my neck freely too. My upper body starts to feel something too."
"Is that so? That's good to hear Nep-Nep!" Compa cheers.
"Alright, the breakfast is ready!" Noire prepared a feast containing omelete, hot chocolate drink and sandwiches. "Here is a Special sandwich from Lastation." A pause. "And sorry, no pudding during breakfast okay, Neptune? You can have it after this."
"Alrighty Nowa!" And they all started eating their meal.
"Nep-Nep? Mind if I ask you something?" Asked Compa in the middle of breakfast.
"Not at all Compa, ask away !" Neptune replied.
"What does your world look like?"
"Hmm...how do I put this... I don't know much about your world yet, but my world is rather great... but for the sake of plot it constantly gets attacked by enemies. There's my nation in the West, Lowee in the Snowy North, the tropical Leanbox in the South and finally Noire's Lastation just across the sea in the East. And there's an island which shape is like a controller too !"
"Wow, that sounds interesting! And how do you and the citizens travel around your Gamindustri?"
"We use Sea Transportations, but there are railways to make travelling a lot easier." Noire explained
"Yep, and Noire chose to build one straight to my city near the main tower FIRST, cause she just wanted an easier and faster way to come and meet lil old me~" Said Neptune with a playful tone at the end.
"I've told you before that it's... umm... your nation is closer than the others!" Said Noire embarrassingly. "And for business purposes! Yeah, business!"
"Hahhahaha! Yeah I know Noire, it really helped us all though, thank you for that!"
Noire let out a sigh of relief, maybe Neptune didn't really know that Noire thought about Neptune at first when she thought about building it.
"Ohh, it sounds like fun! Anyway we use Sky Bridges to cross between the continents, since we are in a landmass floating in the sky, so we need to use them everytime we want to cross to other nations."
"...Floating?" Asked Neptune confusedly.
"...Landmasses?" Asked Noire, as equally confused as Neptune. "Does that mean we are in an island floating between the clouds ?"
"Yep-yep! Sounds cool right? It's super pretttyyyy~" Said compa with a big happy face.
"How? I mean, how can the island float ? Does gravity not exist here?" Asked Noire.
"Hey, Nowa. If gravity doesn't exist here we should be floating into space. There must be some techs that make the landmasses afloat." Neptune comments.
Noire was surprised that Neptune of all people made a rather 'smart' comments. "But... then what lies beneath us then?"
"Actually I don't know much myself. I just enjoy living here, hehe~" A pause. "Oops, my time's up. I have to go to the hospital now. Noire do you want to join me tomorrow? I want to buy some groceries and some other stuffs." Compa asked Noire if she wanted to join her.
"But, what about Neptune?" Asked Noire.
"Oh, actually IF and I are taking a day break tomorrow so she will be under IF's care for a while." Compa explained.
"Well if you say so then I'll come with you." Noire accepted the offer and looked at Neptune, who's pouting cutely. "Hey hey now, don't worry. I'll buy you some pudding later ok?"
Hearing that made Neptune become far more happier than before and let out a bright smile that somehow made Noire's heart skip a beat in surprise.
'What's up with that smile? And why did my heart feel funny for a second there?' Thought Noire.
She and Compa walked to the front door and Noire said her goodbye to the nurse who headed out for work.
"*sigh* Having this kind of friends is really different from what I'm used to." Noire saw Neptune's wheelchair being about to move backward and about to make Neptune fall.
"Whoa whaaaaaa-!" *Bonk* The purplette girl dropped to the floor. "Ouchie~"
"Neptune!" Noire quickly ran to the fallen goddess. "Are you okay? Geez... yo-" Noire noticed the blanket being dropped and revealed Neptune's body being covered and wrapped in bandages, making her body look mummy-like. "Neptune... your body..." Noire wondered how much damage she took from the fall.
"I- *sigh* I know... don't worry, just help me up ok?" Neptune tried to make Noire feel less worried but she knew it won't work.
Noire helped Neptune up into her wheelchair. "Be careful next time okay? Don't do anything stupid like you always did." The black haired goddess couldn't help but to feel pity of her injured friend. "How far did you fall?"
"What?"
"How far, did you fall? From our Dimension into this... Floating Island World Dimension thing?" Asked Noire seriously.
"I don't know, 2 dimensions maybe ?" Neptune lied. She didn't like it, but she didn't want Noire to feel even worse. She wanted to hide it for the time being.
"What!? How... I.,. did you, arghh! Why didn't the spell or whatever that thing was that transported us here didn't just teleport us on top of the ground instead of smashing you across dimensions!?"
"I didn't know about that either Noire..."
"And who the hell used that spell anyway!? Why did that thing just appear out of nowhere!?" Noire looked furious.
"I - uhhh" Neptune looked terrified.
"Arghh *sigh* huff... calm down Noire, calm down.. *Inhale and exhale* Right... " A pause, Noire then shifted her focus to Neptune and apologized: "I'm sorry Neptune, I just... I can't see you being like this. I am sorry." It seems a little tear was about to fall from her eyes but she held it.
'She is worried about me that bad huh... I wonder what kind reaction she would have if she found out about me smashing through 5 or 6 different dimensions?'
"Hey hey Worry Heart, don't worry about it! You said this is temporary right? I felt something in my upper body now so that's good, right? Right?" Neptune stared into the floor trying to remember something that might intrest the other Goddess. "Besides.. I discovered a UNIQUE dimension before we landed here! A dimension where YOU, the all Lonely goddess, have friends! A LOT of them!"
Hearing that made Noire lighten up a bit. "Wait what? Really? Ho- how did you know!?"
"Well I have good eyes you know~ especially on Goddess Form. I saw that other you socializing in a party with some characters that I've never seen before, one of them looked like a fighter from Street Fighter."
"Well... I guess I'm just that great huh? Haha !" Said Noire with pride filled in her voice.
'At least she's not feeling down anymore.' Neptune reliefs.
"I guess I could use a bath right now." Said Neptune out of blue, maybe because she wanted Noire to not focus on her condition.
"Ohh right, hmm let me take you there, but I won't bathe with you okay?" A pause. "It's been a long time since we spent time at hot springs, and there's only two of us now... soo... umm... It's going to be awkward.." Noire said with a small blush.
"Hey, this is T-Rated content, not a M-Rated one, so there's nothing... 'extreme' ... will happen there." A pause. "Not that the author can describe a bathroom 'action' scene anyway."
Noire blushed more after hearing that, she didn't have much choice anyway because Neptune can't move her limbs, so she should be the only one that could wash her body now. Thinking about that made Noire's cheeks become redder and redder.
The two goddesses arrived at the front of bathroom, and Noire started unwrapping Neptune's bandages. "Hey, is this fine? I mean there might be some several wounds left ?"
"Actually, Compa's the who suggested it this morning, when I woke up. She said to clean my body after a long time staying in bed."
"Huh? Okay then." Noire let some bandages left in several 'sensitive' places and picked up Neptune into the bathtub. "Alright I'm goi-" Noire felt something weird in her heart when she saw Neptune. and looked into another direction.
"Uhh... what's wrong Noire? Is there something wrong with my body?" The purple haired girl then realized what's going on. "Ohh you are too embarrassed to look at my sexy bod right now huh, Pervy Heart ?"
"NO! That's definitely not!" Noire couldn't hide her blushing face.
Neptune grinned and thought about something : "Ohh... If that's how you react when you saw this lil old me, I wonder... how can you handle this!"
"Wha - !?" A bright light appeared and showed 'almost' naked Purple Heart wrapped with several bandages in front of Noire.
"Do you feel it now my dear Noire ? Do you feel it now?" Said Purple Heart with her smooth voice.
"Wha- WHAAAA!"
Present
"Geez, Neptune you are such an idiot...~"
Noire continues to wipe more blood from coming from her nose, she can't handle the view from earlier.
"*sigh* I can't believe I got nosebleed because of that ditz." Noire stares at the mirror and unconsciously smiles.
"But... I can't deny that she is actually cute... and umm she's super pretty in that form... *pinch own cheeks* WHAT AM I THINKING!?"
Planeptune of HyperDimension
Nepgear has fully recovered and she's heading back to Planeptune. Uni and Nepgear just arrive at the front of Planeptune Tower, but Uni seems to be bothered by something.
"Hey Uni? What happened? Are you still worried about me?" Asks Nepgear to Uni who's staring down all the time, but no response. "Uni ~ ?"
'Uni, you're such a naughty girl!'
'I don't mind as long it's you Uni...'
'Gyaaaahh!'
"No, that's not what happened. She didn't moan like that, ughh my dirty minds..." Uni mumbles.
"Uhh Uni, whose moaning?" Asks Nepgear again while poking Uni.
"Wha- nonono - nothing! It's nothing !" Uni snaps back to reality and answers quickly.
"But you looked troubled. You know you can talk to me if something's wrong right?"
"Nooooo, I -"
"Hey Gearsy! You have recovered that fast? Wowie you really are cool! Hehe!" Greets Uzume in her Orange Heart form.
"oh Uzume... it's nothing, I have recovered faster thanks to you and Uni."
"Aww don't sweat it, we are taking care of each other remember?" Says Uzume with a smile on her face.
"Yeah, you're my best friend, so it's normal that I care about you." Says Uni while averting her gaze elsewhere.
"Aww Uni, we are more than that ~"
"WHAT!? Wh- what do you mean by that!?"
"Hehe, it's just something that lingers in my mind for a while now. We'll discuss about it later okay?"
"Hhmmph whatever!" She's curious but can't show her embarrassment and curiosity.
"Hey why don't you two join me? Histy said she had something to say, I can't find where Nepsy is so..."
"Oh yes, did you see where Neptune went?" Asks Nepgear.
"No I don't, I was about to ask you the same Gearsy."
"That's weird. I haven't seen Noire since she left too." Uni is confused as well. "She and Neptune are usually the first ones to know that Nepgear was ill, and will come to check on her immediately."
"Uzume thinks they just met each other again and find some happiness you know ~" Uzume lets her girly persona out. "They finally forgive each other and realize about how they need each other ya know!? And they finally kiss and do this and that and those! ~OHH that would be cute..."
"Well I'm sure that they will forgive each other... but I'm not sure about that last part. Especially that kiss and that other embarrassing parts ~ " Nepgear replies.
"As if that's easy... I mean, that incident made Noire overwork even more than her usual self just to take her mind away from it." Uni sighs. "Sometimes I feel like she deeply regretted it... It's just written on her face."
"I'm sure they'll work it out! Like you and me always do Uni!"
"Actually yeah, they have been friends for a long time, so I'm sure they will find a way."
"That's the spirit! Now let's go and meet Histoire !"
Top Floor
"It must be exhausting to wait 3 days just to call me." Says Histoire to someone.
"I know, but I'm afraid that I'm just... way slower than you, especially that you have Neptune on your side and me on the other hand..." The person whom Histoire is calling is a smaller version of herself. "I know Neptune is quite a handful sometimes but she's pale in comparison with her.. " the Smaller Histoire shows a Woman with a whip in the background "*sigh* especially that she gave you a quite major upgrade and she saved your world countless times... I'm somehow proud of her, even when she's not my CPU anymore." Says the person with a faint relief smile.
"You know I feel the same way too, Histoire. She's a great CPU, but we already know that we can't say that directly to her." Says Histoire to her UltraDimension counterpart. "And she shows some improvement these past weeks too, even though it really wasn't necessary."
"*sigh* I just hope I can say the same about Plutia \=./" Says mini Histoire while showing Iris Heart saying something to her worker (whose face looks terrified because of her mere existence).
"C'mon C'mon my loyal servants.. don't you like to get a special reward from me?"
"eeeEEEEEKKK !" The poor worker's scared to the core.
"*Sigh* She's telling the workers to fix her bedro-"
"Hey Histy! What is up this ti- huh !???" Uzume and the girls arrive at the top and greet Histoire, but then she sees something or someone in Histoire's communication device.
"Uzume, Nep-"
"WOW, SHE'S SOOOOO ADORABLE, AWW SO CUTE!" Uzume squeaks happily seeing mini Histoire. "It's like a mini version of Histy! Or she is~ a Histy?"
"Oh I see, this is the new CPU you've talked about, right? She's quite interesting~" Says mini Histoire with a small smile.
"Well maybe not as interesting as your CPU is." Says Histoire as she gets nervous for a reason.
"Hmm? Not as interesting as whom?" Uzume is confused.
"What is hap- Oh... who is this? A new person ?" Iris heart suddenly comes and sees Uzume in her Orange Heart form. She seems to be interested in her and gives a deep lustful gaze towards Uzume, making her flinch. "You looks adorable ~ why don't you come over here so I could just eat you right up ~"
"GYAAAAAAAA!" Uzume screams in fear and ran towards Nepgear and hides behind the Candidate to avoid contact from Plutia.
"Plutia, please, you're scaring her. And why don't you transform back to your human form so we can discuss more pressing matters right now?" Says mini Histoire to Plutia who's still gazing over Uzume.
"Hmm hmm, fine, perhaps you're right..." A shining light appears and the tall woman has now become a smaller girl, wearing her usual attire. "Helloooo my name is Plutiiiaaa... it's sooo niiceee to meet youuu~"
"She's the CPU of Planeptune in UltraDimension and goes by the name of Iris Heart." Nepgear explains.
"Her transformation is even more drastic than us... but you'll get used to it or maybe not..."
"Sowwy, I got a little bit cranky these days, I haven't slept wellll..." Plutia is pouting now.
"And that's the reason. Plutia is unable to sleep properly because of her damaged room." Mini Histoire shows some construction workers working on fixing the ceiling and clean the rubbles.
"Yeahhh, I haven't got my 18 hoursssss straighttttt of sleepppingggg and I don't liiiikeeeee it..." Plutia pouts again in her extremely slow tone. "This is all because of Neppy~"
"Neppy ?" Uzume asks.
"It's a nickname that Plutia uses to call Neptune." Nepgear explains.
"No no. I mean, why did Nepsy destroy her room like that?"
"That's the main topic that I want to discuss... well you see... Neptune was the one who directly destroyed this room." Mini Histoire answers.
"Geez Nepgear, your sister is causing trouble again? That's what she's been up to these days? Instead of, I don't know, maybe VISIT HER SISTER WHEN SHE WAS SICK!?" Uni says, clearly furious at how 'irresponsible' Neptune is.
"Please calm down Uni, you know my Sister wasn't like that! I'm sure there's a misunderstanding." Nepgear is slightly panicked.
"And Noireeee is with her tooooo... soo is she responsible toooo?" Says Plutia slowly, but dangerously.
"What!? She's with her? No wonder she didn't answer my call." Uni is surprised.
"I wasn't even done talking yet!" Mini Histoire interrupts. "Neptune was seen with Noire falling from the sky several days ago, and crashed into Plutia's room, and the disappeared again, and now she's nowhere to be found."
"then why wait till days to fix your room ?" Uzume ask.
"well because... I was Sleeeppppyyy and don't want to move until my room is getting a bit annoyingggg..." Plutia answers.
Uzume confused and trying to process what Plutia just said.
"Wait ! ... didn't that dimension gate to UltraDimension is closed for another month? How is that even possible!?" Nepgear is having a panic attack again.
"I... we don't know yet. This is just a speculation but I think she might not be here in our dimension, but rather she's transported into a new one at the moment of impact. In short, both Neptune and Noire were sent through multiple dimensions across the multiverse." Mini Histoire explains.
"...WHAT!?" All of them screams in unison.
The Forest, Planeptune of HyperDimension
"Hey Big Nep? Are you sure this is the place? I mean, we have check this place multiple times, and we had no leads except for that piece of metal." Says the brunette girl with a leaf bow while searching the place. "Everything else is either burnt or just straight up disintegrated."
"I might have a new lead, but what I know for sure... this is where the other me trained." Big Neptune states.
Hearing that makes IF raise her eyebrows, not sure of what she just heard.
"I know it's sounds stupid, but do you really think that other me got some incredible fighting skills just because she's the Protagonist ?" Big Neptune states as she scans the place looking for another clue. "There's no way it just came outta nowhere right? She trained in secret... yes it's all coming back to me now."
"how do you know about this? And what do you mean?" IF asks.
"I... had seen it with my own eyes long ago when I was little." Big Neptune replies... "back when the Seven Sages was still at large..."
Thank you all for waiting this long, you guys (and gals) are breathtaking !
and thanks once more for KuroGems1208