The Running CPU

by Project 0mega

Neptune believes shes done the unthinkable and has ran away to a new dimension as a result. But one day she runs into an old acquaintance, Uni while living her new life. She hopes her changed look and personality makes it so Uni wont realize its her. To top it off a new powerful enemy has emerged. Can Neptune and the new CPU's defeat it or do they need help from outside sources.

13. Chapter 12: Getting found out

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Chapter 12 - Uni's POV

I walk down the stairs and see Emma, Abby, and a few other people going out the front door. I go into the kitchen to see Lucy and a couple other people. "What is Emma doing this time? Also what's for breakfast?"

Lucy turns to me as she finished eating something "She's doing some shopping for us since a lot of us are staying here. You even missed some good stuff. Oh and its all the stuff Abby cooked up for us. There a lot of hashbrowns, strawberry and blueberry pancakes, sausages and bacon. She made a lot of everything given how much some of us eat."

I grab a plate and grab me some strawberry pancakes and some bacon. "Good thing she did but all the food will be gone within the next hour if I had to guess. Anything you doing today?"

"Not that I know right now. I just really want to relax and spend time with my family. Oh that's right you weren't here for the family reunion." Lucy tells me and I wonder what family reunion happened.

"Whose was it? And was it them people walking out with her and Emma?" I didn't get a good look at them.

"Oh just Plutia my daughter and S-Sha. They came to see Abby their long lost daughter. And yes they went with Abby. As well as Isabel and Alex as they want to spend time with my granddaughter both competing to make her their girlfriend." Lucy tells me and I sweat drop at the obvious love triangle.

I pale a little bit. They found Plutia. I shake my head. Nope not going to think about it. I start eating my food. "How is Plutia in this dimension?"

Lucy smiles "Oh she is just the best daughter you can ask for she inherited my sexy nature, her other moms sadistic nature. Other than that she's a joy to be around not as lazy as that Plutia. Other wise she's very loving, protective and caring. She's one of the best mothers you can ask for."

"She's definitely different than the one I know then. Have you seen Nepgear anywhere around here? She wasn't in bed when I woke up." I say finishing up my food and putting the plate and fork into the sink.

"I think I saw her hanging out with Selene and a few others. Think they went out back last time I checked. I believe they are playing with the you don't mind me asking how's your pregnancy going? The first time is always rough." Lucy asked me and I'd be lying if I said it was easy so far.

"So far it's not that bad but I can live without the nausea. The main problem is that I can't transform which is a problem due if someone needs help I can't do much. How long are our pregnancies? Are they like a normal human's?"

"Yeah your share energy is being diverted to the baby. Are pregnancies are about the same. It takes shares from both parents to make it. We have the same nine months. Though the baby is a lot more sturdy in are case and it hurts a lot more coming out your entire body will feel like its being torn apart. My first baby was with Belial and the mix of share and negative energy made it suck. If it starts hurting bad have your lover give you a share boost that should help. It gets worse in the later months." Lucy told me and I groan in response.

"I'll remember that. Thanks for the info. Is Nepgear and the kids in the back yard or the front?"

"Backyard more open space and a pool. Oh right you may want to be careful now. Abby told us a while ago that some anti CPU crazies are making their rounds now. She took some on by herself and got her arm broke because of it. Well have fun with them." Lucy told me before giving me a sharp slap on my booty. "Wow! It does jiggle."

I blush bright red and rush out of the kitchen. I almost run over minigear in the process. I freeze when I see what she's wearing. It looks exactly like Neptune's hoodie. I know this is from our Neptune because I recognize some of the design stitching that my sister did to it. "Hey minigear. Where did you get that?" Is Emma hiding that she knew Neptune?

"Oh mommy's room there was a chest that was open and I saw this and it looked so nice I had to put it on. Do you think mommy will be mad at me?" Minigear says worriedly.

"I don't know. How about we put it back before Mommy minds out huh?" I say to her. Now wanting to take a peek.

"Oh okay. Though I saw Abby give mommy something. I think Abby said mommy killed her before in the Black Forest. Why did mommy kill Sweets lady? Does she hate her?" Minigear tells me worriedly.

Yeah I saw the object that was handed to her and if I'm right the necklace name is Noire's pride. A necklace that was given to Neptune. What if Emma is Neptune? I shake my head. I'll need more proof. "Not that I know of. They get along just fine. Come on. Let's put that back before mommy does come home."

Minigear grabs my hand "Okay let's go Big Uni!" Minigear cheered as we began walking to Emma's room.

I follow her in and she leads me to the back of Emma's closet. Minigear takes off the hoodie and opens the chest. I then see a bunch of old trinkets/ magical items, two wooden katanas, and a beat up metal one that looks like it's been used for quite a few years. All evidence is pointing to Emma either is Neptune or new of her. "Alright lets get going. We don't want to be caught in here."

"Oh okay. Hey can you teach me some things big Uni? Like how to shot things like you do though Sensei said I should work on my form first." Minigear told me. Were the other CPU's teaching them some stuff already? I wonder as we begin walking down stairs.

"Form is important. Sometimes it's dangerous if you don't have your form right." I inform her.

"Oh okay. But that's all Sensei's been teaching me. I want to learn more than just the proper ways to swing a sword and hold it. She hasn't taken me Dogoo hunting once yet." Minigear says with a pout and I see that she's less patient then my Nepgear and more feisty too.

I pat her head. "Don't worry or fuss over it. She's doing this to drill it into your head about having a good form which will save your life later down the road."

"Okay still. I want to learn more. I know can you teach some tactics or I can teach you some magic I know." Minigear told me. Yeah sure I can teach her a few tactics wait what? Did she say magic!?

"You will learn more in time. I've went through what you're going through. I know it's not fun but you have to bear with it."

"If you say so. Hey do you like poisons like sis does?" Minigear asks me why would my other self like poisons?

"No. When did mini me start messing around with poisons?" I ask her curious.

"When she was four her blood became toxic. She had to be rushed to the hospital to stabilize her. Though she became used to it and when she was five she began taste testing poisons." Minigear told me and that doesn't sit well with me.

"I don't think that's a good thing at all. And do you know how her blood came to be like that?"

"Doctors said it was her body's natural chemistry changing. The sudden change gave her body a shock." Minigear told me. So my other self is poisonous..Then did having her kill this Noire?

"That doesn't sound good at all. Is she doing alright at least? She been looking fine to me."

"From what I can tell it doesn't affect her. But her blood burned me when I touched it." Minigear tells me and I see a burn scar on her index finger.

"That's not good. At least she is alright though. How about we go outside and see how everyone else is doing?"

Minigear smiles "Then lets go already silly!"

I give a small laugh. "Fine, fine, fine. Lets go then."

We head outside and see the rest playing. Nepgear was holding Rom who was taking a nap. Small me was playing with IF and Linda. And Selene holding some girl that looked like Noire and Neptune combined with Belial.

"I see everyone got up before me eh. Doesn't feel right due to I'm usually the one that's up first." I say sitting down besides Selene.

"Yeah same here though I tend to sleep in guess we need it with the babies." Selene tells me then I notice little girl looking at me "Auntie Uni?"

"Hmm? And who is this little one? I remember seeing her last night."

Selene gives me a surprised look. "You don't know her? She's your niece she snuck in with your Noire. Say hello Emerald Dawnstone." The little girl now my niece waved shyly "Hi aunt Uni."

I shake my head. "No. So sis hid you from me eh. Why would she hide you?" I ask musing to myself.

Emerald then tugs on my sleeve "Mommy wanted to keep me a secret so bad men wouldn't hurt me." I got a better look at Emerald and she look very close to what I image Emma at a young age looking like...WAIT! This is solid proof of my theory!

"I guess that's reasonable. But I don't know why she would hide you from me. Do you know who your other mother is?"

"Nep nep of course! Though I don't know why you call her Emma. She looked so lonely." Emerald told me and the other three adults go wide eyed as Emerald revealed her other mom.

I get up and look at Nepgear and Selene and know something's up. "You two know something. What is it?"

Nepgear sweats "Well I didn't know about Emerald but I figured out Emma is our Neptune with dyed hair and contacts."

"And why have you not said anything about it then? Almost everyone in our dimension is wondering where she is."

Nepgear looks down "She's going through a lot she didn't want to come out just yet and I didn't want to push her away. I only found out yesterday when you left cooking for a bit." Nepgear looks ready to cry.

Yesterday then. "We at least have to tell Noire sooner or later. You know that right?"

"I know but we should talk with Neptune first." Nepgear says before we feel a rush of air. "EMERALD!" Big sis in her HDD form swoops down and grabs Emerald out of Selene's arms and cuddles her close.

"Sis!?" I exclaimed not expecting her now of all times.

"Uni!?" She said in much the same way then she remembers Emerald "I can explain!"

I grab onto her suit. "Why did you hide her from me?"

"I was dealing with a lot. Losing Neptune put me in a bad place and Emerald was a big surprise. I didn't want to lose her too." Noire told me on the verge of tears and I can tell she was scared out of her mind.

"But why did you not tell me. I tried to be with you the whole time but you just disappear for a few years."

"That was around the time I found out I was having Emerald and I needed some time to myself to sort things out and get away from the goddess spot light. Took up a last name and went into hiding trying out a somewhat normal life. And before you act someone needed to look after our nation." Noire tells she doesn't know I'm pregnant right now probably best I keep it that way for now since she's stressed.

I sigh. "Alright. But why have you yet not tell me about my niece after that? And that she's Neptune's child. That's what I want to know."

"I was scared okay. I believed if no one knew of her she'd be safer. I've only told Kei about her." Noire was now looking down and away from me and Emerald was beginning to get scared.

I rub at my temples. "At least we know of the little one now. Yeah the IF and Linda of this dimension found her and brought her here due to she looked a lot like Emma."

"She looks like Emma? Well now that you mention it she does resemble Emma." Noire musses to herself and she's starting to put it together.

"EMMA IS NEPTUNE! EVERYONE KNOWS ALREADY! IF SHE HAS A PROBLEM SHE CAN BITE MY ASS!" Belial shouted so everyone could hear her. Even I'm not stupid enough to tell her no if she is like Alex.

I then hear "Damn it Belial." I hear from the direction of the house. I turn and see Emma/Neptune standing halfway out of the house. When she meets Noire's eyes she ran back inside slamming the door.

Noire sets Emerald down and chases after Neptune "GET BACK HERE NEPTUNE YOU LAZY SLUT!" All of us quickly covered the kids ears to protect their innocence and boy Sis is pissed!

We then hear a muffled. "NO!"

Belial smirks "Noire is giving Neptune some serious BDSM treatment right now. I soo want to see how she's taking Neptune maybe I'll even give her some tips for later. Neptune is going to be sore for a while."

We then see Neptune jump out of one of the three story windows and landing with a roll. She then sprints back inside. "Noire is definitely going to kick her ass over what she's done." I say still covering Minigear's ears.

Belial smirks "She so will."

Then Selene step forwards looking pissed "ENOUGH!" Then she unleashed a surge of shadow magic quickly binding Neptune and Noire together and dragging them out "You two are acting like children! It's time both of you grow the fuck up! Your scaring the kids Assholes!"

Neptune is just shaking her head struggling still. "I did not want to deal with this yet."

Selene rolls her eyes "Oh big whoop you want to know who else didn't want to deal with this!? The kids you two should have been worrying about rather than squabbling like two year olds over a candy bar! I have half a mind to throw you in with some low lives and let them have some fun with you. Now you two kiss and makeup while I'm still feeling generous and I'm warning you that won't last long!" Her dark purple eyes began glowing in rage and even I was getting a little scared of her.

Neptune slumps. "I came here for a reason. Yet you still somehow find me."

Noire huffs "We are soul mates for a reason. And you left me as a single mother. Your the one who told me you'd never leave me."

"How could I stay after what I've done. I almost killed both you and Nepgear. I didn't even know you were pregnant."

Noire growls "We didn't blame you. We would have worked something out. And told you the day before you just weren't paying attention like always back then."

"That's another reason I left. To change myself from what I was. Look at what I've accomplished here."

"Well you did a lot. Your raising a family and your doing pretty well for yourself as a responsible adult." I speak up interjecting my own two cents into the conversation.

"I don't know if either of you know but I almost took on both Arfoire and Magic of this dimension. Heck I even trained all the CPU's here up to a certain point."

"Well you beat them half to death before they took your right arm off. The rest of us just mopped up the rest." Selene told them and Sis flipped out "You lost your right arm!"

Neptune then holds her right arm out and starts moving her fingers and flexing. "Yes it got chopped off at the shoulder."

Noire gave Neptune a kiss "You stupid lovable idiot."

"There's another important thing that needs to be said." Emma says. Mainly to herself from what I can tell.

"And that is? What? You finally have a decent pair of breasts?" Sis asks Neptune I do notice her rather healthy bust but I didn't pay it any attention till now.

"No it has to deal with Selene here and Lucy inside."

I think for a minute before blurting it out "Does it have to do that their both pregnant with your child?" Sis's eyes widen before she glared at Neptune.

Neptune flinches. "Yeeeah. Lucy wasn't technically my fault. She jumped me."

"Yeah then that means Selene was your fault now I will have a talk with Lucy about what happened." Sis said still glaring at Neptune.

Neptune then looks sad. "I wasn't expecting you all to find me. Much less find out who I was. I was trying to start anew."

"Yeah but you tore our hearts when you left. You are special to us Nep Nep. No one can replace you and leaving hurt us more than any wound. Even Blanc was saddened by your absence." I told her hoping she'd believe us.

She sighs. "I've done a lot of wrong in my past with you guys. How?"

"We love you Neptune. Only one like you. Your too hard on yourself idiot." Noire tells her and she would have crossed her arms if she could.

"I deserve it."

"But big sis! We miss you!" Nepgear shouted as she tackle hugs Neptune well as much as Selene's shadow's will allow her to.

Neptune smiles a little bit. "I know you would Nep jr." A few tears forming.

Nepgear snuggles closer "Please don't run from us again."

"I'll try not to again. Depending if I fuck up majorly again."

"If that happens we'll work it out. If anything at least give us a goodbye letter." I tell her trying to be reasonable.

"Alright. I will."

Selene then walks up to Neptune and kisses her while grabbing her butt to pull her close for a minute before breaking and doing to the same to Noire. "Welcome to the Neptune's harem Noire." Selene told her with a playful wink causing Neptune and Sis to blush.

Neptune looked a little shocked. "Who said I would agree with this?"

"Lucy said you would. That we can all share you." Selene tells and I remind myself to give Lucy a hug later.

"I'd need to talk to her later then. This definitely changes things."

"She's inside last I saw her. She should still be inside. Want me to come inside with you?" I ask Neptune given Lucy may want to hear everything else that happened.

Neptune then concentrates and her two swords cuts through the shadows holding her and Noire. They both drop to the ground with Neptune landing on her feet and Noire stumbling. "I guess I'm back to a CPU of two dimensions now."

"Yeah I wonder how that will work. Though Nepgear has been doing your job back home so she could take over on that front." I say putting my two cents out there while Noire stares at the swords.

"I'm not even a known CPU here even though I am. I guess I need to inform my citizens in hyperdimension I am sorry for what I've done."

"Histy is going to be pissed though so brace yourself Sis. We can go now. Noire why are you staring at her swords?" Nepgear asks getting Neptunes attention to Noire's gaze.

Neptune smirks slightly before twirling the swords. "Because she knows where these came from."

"And where did they come from for the less informed?" I ask curious as to where they came from.

"These are the last two weapons that weren't destroyed. Of the original goddesses." She says planting them into the ground and leaning on them.

"The original goddesses! Those are their weapons!" I say incomplete surprise.

Neptune gives a small nod. "Yes they are. I took them out of Planipatune's vaults before I fled."

Nepgear suddenly pales "Histy and adult Nep were beyond angry when they found them along with other items missing. Adult Nep had to cuddle with Vert for a week to calm down."

"Well if you want to get technical they are mine due to I retrieved them myself. I am the one to put them into the vault due to I wasn't using them at the time and I wasn't going to leave them lying around. It just took me awhile to remember those specific memories."

"Well they mostly thought some thief broke in and stole them. I'm sure Histy will only nag you a bit." I say trying to clear things up.

"It would've took someone powerful to get in that vault. Guess it didn't help I knew where the cameras were so I could avoid them and also how I erased the footage of the entrance. Also very few people know the passcode for the vault. I don't even know if Nep Jr knows of it unless she was told while I was gone."

"I was informed by Histy when I took up the role of acting CPU. And adult Nep added a few new security measures very very lewd security measures at that." Nepgear shivers as I guess she's recalling something horrible.

The swords dematerialize. She then removes her contacts and smirks. "That won't be a bother. I have a back entrance of sorts that not even Histy herself knows of and I made sure it's a lot harder to get in there than the main entrance."

"That's good. So the secret is out Emma?" Croire says from the doorway looking at us with a smile and someone hanging off of her playfully?

Neptune looks up at the sky. "Yes I was. I don't know how Uni here found out but Nepgear found out just by hanging around me."

I then decide to answer that for her "Emerald basically blurted it out when I asked her about her other mom after finding out about her being my niece. And as for Nepgear some of us just know you really well." Neptune look at Emerald in disbelief that her child ratted her out.

"I guess I couldn't go with that I was the Neptune from here or I just look like her due to you know what happened to the Neptune here."

The girl hanging off of Croire then spoke up "I still remember her funeral. Oh silly me I haven't introduced myself yet. I am the Histoire of this dimension and Plutia's oracle at least when she was more active. Its a pleasure to meet you all." Gemstone Histoire says while giving us a small bow.

"Yeah I ran into you a few times but there was a reason I didn't stick around."

"Oh right I'd recognize you in a heartbeat. And drag you off somewhere." Histoire says and it confuses me a bit.

"Why would you drag me off?"

Histoire pokes her fingers together and blushes "Well how should I say this. Me and this Neptune and Plutia used to fool around a lot in the friends with benefits way."

"Man this Neptune loved to have fun in that way." Neptune says.

"She was. That and Lucy too. I still remember that night we all shared a bed together and went at it. It was so fun! I should tell you all about it in detail later." Histoire tells us and I shake my head "NO! Don't you realize the kids can hear every word your saying if we uncovered their ears!?"

"Yeah there are a lot of kids around here right now. So refrain from saying that stuff around them." Selene told Histoire while glaring at her.

Histoire scratches her cheek "Sorry…"

Neptune then summons up her decked out Heckler & Koch HK416 and leans it on her shoulder. "So how is the rest of this day going to go?" She asks.

Histoire sweats and Croire answer for her I'm guessing "We ran into Abby on our way back here. She wanted us to relay a message to ya Nep." Croire's face changed from jovial to completely serious.

"And what is that?" Neptune's says with a tone that sent a shiver down my spine.

Croire shakes her head "Nothing to do with that she told them that they were found and are in a secure location that she promptly made classified while not telling them pretty much anything. The massage she wanted us to give you was that her agents found one of the radicals bases and has one of them captive. Though she was told this news as after hearing they shot up a hospital. It hit Abby hard. I don't know the details but Abby has me a bit worried. She had a tone shift from when I saw her this morning."

"I thought she was going to say something about Ram again." Neptune mutters before speaking up. "That is not good news. We do need to take care of this problem soon. If it was just one enemy it would be easy but no. It is many people that are together to do this and we need to stop it."

Croire nods "Yeah we do. Abby was going to get her agents ready to storm the place with a couple heavy assault troops and tanks. Lets hope it'll be enough to bring that place down. Though Alex agreed to cause some damage for a kiss."

"With how big Alex is. She could just sit on the damn place and it'll be good." Neptune says.

"Yeah but Plutia said they need to be taught a lesson and the look on Abby's face screamed she wanted to kill some of them personally. Though she did make a rational decision that the can't recover intel it the place is completely destroyed. Last thing I saw was Isabel, Alex and ,Abby's parents hugging her. Did a bit of digging and that attack on the hospital was a personal attack on Abby. A lot of the kids that died there. Abby was close to such a blow would hurt a lot." Croire tells Neptune and Neptune looks down and I'm guessing she's thinking about if that were to happen to any of us.

I decide to speak up at that. "That must have torn hole in Abby's heart I went with her on a few trips to that hospital. She thought of those kids as family to loss them would hurt like losing family.

Neptune then cocks her gun. She then gives off a dangerous smile. "So anyone want to mess up a few people?"

Me and Selene have to refuse as would Lucy if she was here. But Nepgear, IF, Linda and Noire nod showing they are in agreement Belial however. "I'm staying here to guard the house someone has to protect the pregnant ladies and kids after all."

"That's good and who would want to mess with you anyways? So Croire. Do you know where this place is?" Neptune asks.

Croire nods and pulls out a map. "Inside a cavern near a town called New Cape Horn. Not exactly big place but its near a landmark."

"I'm going to have some fun in killing some of them." Neptune says smiling.

"Yeah just don't go overboard Neptune. I still remember last time." Croire says to all of us and sis just rolls her eyes.

"Ah I only destroyed a few buildings and a lot of the land around it. They totally deserved it."

"Well anyways we should get going before those radicals get restless. We need to strike quickly." Sis says getting impatient.

"Let's get going then. I'm guessing we are flying then eh?"

Linda then raises her hand "I can fly though IF can't one us will need to carry her."

Neptune transforms. "Ah. It's been awhile. I'm used to traveling on the ground now."

Sis who was still transformed shrugs "I'm fine with that ever is more convenient." She then looks Neptune up and down "Been too long since I've seen that beautiful body in that form Purple heart."

Purple heart smiles a little manically. "It's been awhile since I've transformed into this form. Been sticking around in my human form these last few years. Only transformed once in these last eight years."

"Um sis are you okay you seem a bit um off." Nepgear asks Purple heart noticing how she looks a bit crazed. And not in the way Iris heart is she's just sadistic.

"How do I seem off than how I was?" Purple heart asks curious.

"You seem a bit crazed. Like Iris heart a small bit but in a different. You normally have a kind smile but now you have an almost maniacal smile now. I hope I'm not making you feel bad sis." Nepgear tried to explain not wanting to sound condescending.

"It is… Fine Nepgear. Guess it's a change due to what happened."

Nepgear transforms into Purple sister and hugs Purple heart "I still love you Big sister. Besides you were always the fun kind of crazy."

Purple heart looks at everyone. "Shall we get going then?"

Everyone else nods nods as I go to sit next to Selene and the rest that aren't going. I'd go but I have a second person to worry about that sis still doesn't know of.

Purple heart gives me a knowing look. "Let's get going shall we?"

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Writer: Project Omega

Co-Writer: Alternet RedSkys

Editor: {Still haven't got one}

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