Disclaimer: I don't own Hyperdimension Neptunia, thank God for that because I doubt I would've made it as awesome as it is.
Summary: Despite some problems, Lucas was adamant about enjoying his weekend, but everything changed when a girl named Neptune crash landed in his backyard with delusions of a place called Gamindustri... Only they weren't delusions. Now in another world, Lucas struggles to find his place among Neptune's party. Rated T for language and certain themes, will be M later.
Chapter 01: Into the Hyperdimension
Light tapping could be heard as a young thirteen year old boy kept glancing at the clock that was slowly ticking away, silently urging for it to go faster despite knowing that all he was doing was making it seem like it was taking longer.
He just couldn't help it, today was Friday which meant the weekend was right around the corner in a minute or so and he would be free from middle school for two days.
His name was Lucas Daniels. He had short, messy black hair and wore nothing more than a faded silver hoodie with a black shirt underneath it and blue pants his pale skin contrasting with the colors, but the interesting thing were his eyes and mouth. You see, he had heterochromia-two different eye colors with his left eye being blue while the right eye was green. He also had a bit of an overbite showing.
Looking away from the clock to the teacher who was explaining something about ancient history-or it was to him even though the civil war was about three centuries ago, but all he heard was 'blah, blah, blah.'
'Come on already.' Lucas barely bit back a groan as he grimaced. 'Please let it end.'
As if on cue, the bell rang with students moving around to gather their items, Lucas being the fastest as he was out the door, taking note of the teacher saying to do an assignment to turn in on Monday.
He didn't care because he was free!
No more school for two days, hell yeah!
Rushing out of the school, Lucas began to whistle as he walked home before hearing a cry of pain.
Pausing for a bit, Lucas backed up a few steps and looked down the alley behind the school to see a kid that was two years younger being bullied by none other than Henry Alan, one of the local bullies of the school and Lucas's own personal tormentor for years.
Lucas looked from the incident to the direction he was heading, not wanting to get involved, especially if it meant that Henry wouldn't bother him but he stopped after hearing the kid being shoved into the wall, most likely being threatened.
"Come on, I'm just asking for a little cash, don't tell me you don't have it." Henry taunted with a smirk while the kid whimpered.
"Leave him alone!"
Those words were out of Lucas's mouth before he could even think and he succeeded in getting Henry's attention, the distraction being enough for the kid he was picking on to break free and run off.
Seeing that, Lucas swallowed nervously when Henry began to chuckle. "Oh man you shouldn't have done that Beaver." Henry commented using an age old insult that made fun of Lucas's overbite.
"Heh heh." Lucas took a step back looking for an escape as his cowardice was starting to show with nervous chuckles. "G-Good one."
This was why he didn't want to interfere because the person would just run off, then again what could an eleven year old do against someone like Henry? He would most definitely do the same thing in his position.
Henry cracked his knuckles and Lucas took that as his sign to start running as Henry began to chase him.
Lucas wanted to say that he got away with finesse and skill but that would be lying given how Henry was a sports person and caught up with him in seconds and now he was the one being held to a wall.
"Seriously Beaver? Man and here I thought you finally grew a spine." Henry couldn't help but comment due to how Lucas was shaking with the bully giving him a look of disgust. "But you should know better than to do something like that."
After a few seconds of staring at a trembling Lucas, Henry grinned and let him go, confusing the teen.
"Actually this is perfect, I needed to talk to you anyways," Henry said placing a hand on Lucas's shoulder in what looked to be a friendly manner, but it was far from that as he squeezed rather tightly making Lucas wince in pain. "You see it's about that civil war assignment that's due on Monday."
Oh, now he sees where this was going.
"I'm going to be busy this weekend so I won't be able to do it, now I can't just turn in nothing you see where I'm going with this?" Henry asked and when Lucas didn't answer he began to squeeze his shoulder a bit harder. "I asked you a question Beaver."
"Y-Y-Yes." Lucas got out in a bit of a cry of pain.
"Just as long as we understand each other," Henry said with a smile as he let go with Lucas instantly grabbing his shoulder. "See you on Monday with my report Beaver."
Lucas watched Henry walk away with a sad look before he shook his head and forced a smile on his face.
"T-Two reports, I can do this." Lucas whispered to himself, acting like he wasn't worried.
He was rather used to this after all.
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From there it didn't take too long to get home where he entered the modest two floored house. "I'm home," He called out before he heard footsteps as a middle-aged man poked his head out of the kitchen his brown hair neatly groomed as he was dressed up in a suit showing that he was getting ready to leave with Lucas just catching him. "Hey Dad."
He lived alone with his father Stuart Daniels who always took long business meetings overseas and it seemed like he was getting ready to head out for another one.
"Anything interesting happened in school today?" Stuart asked, fixing the cuff of his suit.
"Oh the usual, got an assignment that will keep me busy." Lucas commented, not saying anything about what happened.
He didn't want to bother him about it.
"So um, how long will you be gone?" Lucas asked looking down slightly.
Even though he knew it was common for him to do this, he still missed his Dad whenever he was gone.
"It's just for the weekend," Stuart revealed, surprising Lucas as it was usually longer than that. "I'll be back before you know it."
Lucas gave a slight smile at that, perhaps he could ask if they could watch a movie when he gets back? He rarely gets to do that-.
A beeping made Stuart check his watch as he gave a slight curse. "I need to go or I'll miss the flight," He said grabbing the suitcase that was near the door. "I left money on the counter for pizza and if you need anything just call and I'll fly back home alright?"
Without waiting for an answer or even waiting for him to acknowledge he heard that, Stuart left through the door, shutting it behind him. Seconds later Lucas heard the car start before it drove off.
Giving a sigh, Lucas slowly walked up the stairs to his bedroom where he calmly took his backpack off to sit at a desk so he could begin the report.
Might as well get it out of the way so he won't forget.
Pissing off Henry was something Lucas had no desire to do and perhaps afterwards he could play some video games or watch a movie.
But as he began the paper, what he didn't know was that he was about to experience an adventure of a lifetime. One that would change him deeply.
And it all started by an extremely loud crash an hour into the homework that made Lucas jump, hitting his knee on his desk causing him to yelp in pain while the seat he was in fell back due to his jump and he crashed to the floor.
Ignoring the slight pain he was feeling, Lucas stood up and looked out his window, thinking that perhaps there was a car wreck outside, but he saw nothing going on out there, unless you count the fact that some of his neighbors were exiting their houses most likely to see what that crashing noise was.
Feeling slightly confused, Lucas closed his blinds and walked out towards the kitchen, wondering what was going on before he came to the window looking in the backyard and his mouth fell open when he saw a crater.
Unsure of what was going on, Lucas slipped his sneakers on and ran out there thinking that perhaps a meteorite fell into his backyard or something like that but he was unprepared for what he actually saw.
In the crater… Was a girl?
A girl that looked to be a year older than him that was curled up in the crater as if she was sleeping, some dirt on her with her shoulder-length purple hair a little messy but the bangs were held up by hair clips in the shape of gamer pads.
As the crater wasn't that deep, Lucas went to walk down, accidentally sliding down due to nearly losing his balance.
Getting closer he could see that she was wearing a white hoodie jacket that was line with purple along with blue and white striped socks. The hoodie strings looked like USB plugs and her zipper was in the shape of a giant 'N' along with the fact that she was wearing a white choker.
To be completely honest, she was kind of bizarre looking, Lucas was wondering why anyone would dye their hair purple-wait that wasn't important. The important thing was the fact that she was in a crater which meant she fell from a great height to make it.
… By all accounts this girl should be dead, yet she was breathing.
Was she an alien?
Hearing her groan, Lucas reached over and shook her shoulder. "Hey are you alright?" He asked in concern only for her to open her eyes showing them to be a light purple, matching her hair.
Seemingly unfocused and cloudy, the girl took one look at him and giggled. "You're funny looking." She said most likely referring to his overbite and eyes before passing out.
Lucas twitched.
He was feeling a very strong urge to just stand up, walk away and call the police to take care of this and no it wasn't because she called him funny looking… Okay that probably had something to do with it.
What? He didn't want to deal with that in his own backyard.
But he looked back at the girl who was now sleeping, most likely exhausted and he sighed before grabbing the girl by her arms to try and lift her up out of the crater, struggling in the process.
A coward he might be, along with not wanting to get involved in anything but he wasn't just going to leave her out there, especially with the fall weather soon to be winter.
Little did he know that by doing this he would be pulled in so many situations that could've been avoided if he listened to his gut in the first place.
Lucas sighed as he was in the living room, his front and back doors locked while he was beginning to wonder to do right now?
The mysterious girl was currently on his bed in his room and he had his phone about ready to dial 9-1-1. Yet he didn't.
By all means he should, mostly so this girl could get medical attention because he wasn't a doctor-well that and he was uncomfortable about the idea of undressing her to check her injuries, especially with how it would look if she were to wake up while he was doing that.
But by calling the emergency number it would reveal that she fell long enough to make a crater and survive and if comic books or movies taught him anything, that would mean that someone would try to experiment on her to try and find out how and if they could replicate it.
Or perhaps he was overthinking that part?
Thinking between the pros and cons of doing this, Lucas put his phone up and leaned back on the couch, looking up at the ceiling after coming to a decision.
He'll avoid calling for now.
That doesn't mean he won't call in the future in case he had to, but for now he'll just see how things go from here.
'I still need to do the reports.' Lucas groaned out before he stood up and entered his room, ignoring the lightly snoring girl as he sat at his desk, after setting the chair back up.
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The purple haired girl grimaced as she began to wake up, feeling warm before she opened her eyes, finding herself in an unfamiliar room before she sat up her limbs making a popping noise as she stretched.
"Ahhhh that was a good nap," She said with a smile, not too bothered that she woke up in an unfamiliar room and was ignoring the aching of her crash landing, before she heard some slight snoring and turned to see Lucas asleep at his desk, his hair a bit messy. "Oh right the funny looking guy!"
She vaguely remembered him from her crash-landing.
Crossing her arms, the girl pouted a bit, trying to think of why she was falling before shrugging it off as she jumped out of the bed and slowly approached the young teen where she poked his cheek.
The snore turned into a snort with the teen fidgeting, but he wasn't waking up, so the girl kept poking him before he finally cracked his eyes open in slight annoyance that disappeared at seeing her.
"Hello~!" The girl greeted in a cheerful tone.
Lucas slowly lifted his head up, wincing at the aching in his neck from how he slept, but he ignored it due to not expecting this.
"Uh… Hi?" He greeted with a slight wave before he stood up only to realize that she was a little taller than he was by a few inches and that didn't help his awkwardness.
The girl seemed to notice and cupped her chin in thought. "Hm… Awkward, funny looks, a bit pale," She listed ignoring the 'hey' remark from the teen before she snapped her fingers. "You have no social life, which means you don't have any friends right?"
Hey what's with the insult?!
She didn't seem to notice how he frowned at that. "So what's your name funny guy?"
"Lucas."
"Nice to meet ya Lulu, I'm Neptune!" The girl introduced herself still grinning.
Neptune? Not the name he was expecting-wait what did she just call him?!
"Lulu?!" Luke asked in slight disbelief.
Neptune just shrugged. "Lucas just sounds like a rather generic name that went out of style, so I'm calling you Lulu!"
… Well at least it wasn't Beaver.
Taking a moment to recollect himself, pinching his nose and counting to ten to calm down, Lucas just focused on the important question he had. "How did you fall from the sky?" He asked referring to the crater.
"I don't know."
"You don't know?!" Lucas asked unsure of how to take that.
"Nope I can't remember a thing!" Neptune said cheerfully.
How do you smile and say that?!
"You have amnesia?" Lucas asked in a deadpanned tone with Neptune nodding excitedly.
"Yepperoni, that's exactly what I have!"
"But you just told me your name." Lucas wasn't buying that for a second.
"That's because Histy told me in my dream-Histy!" Neptune looked slightly panicked. "I need to go out and find her, hey where in Gamindustri am I?"
Game-what?
Seeing Lucas's confused face, Neptune tilted her head to the side. "Histy said that she needed help and she's somewhere in Gamindustri!" She explained before striking a dramatic pose. "And with her lies my memories!"
Great she's crazy.
Lucas was seriously considering calling the cops right now to just get this over with. Well he would if he could actually charge her with anything. If anything, she could charge him with kidnapping considering he dragged her unconscious body into his house.
… That sounds bad if taken out of context now that he thinks about it.
"So come on Lulu, adventure is waiting!"
"Come again?" Lucas asked taking a step back with Neptune striking another dramatic pose for some odd reason. "Why do I have to go?"
"Well you're obviously the shy, insecure character who gets development to become brave, it's party building 101." Neptune said with a completely straight face.
"What?" Lucas was so confused by how nonchalantly she said that.
"I dunno, I'm not writing this." Neptune shrugged his question away while taking a hit at the fourth wall. "Just trust me alright Lulu?"
"No, not happening." Luke turned and left his room. "I'm not dealing with this!"
"Lulu?" Neptune took off after him. "What do you mean no?"
"No means no!" Lucas called back with Neptune quirking a brow.
"That just sounds dirty," She commented before taking a look around the house. "Wow, such a bland home, you really are in need of character development, Lulu."
Hearing no answer, Neptune ran until she was in front of Lucas who had an annoyed look.
"Come on Lulu, you have to join my party, why else would I end up here?" Neptune said waving her arms like a child. "It's how this works!"
"The more you talk, the more certain I am that you're insane." Lucas said his tolerance already being strained.
He was probably being more snarky with her because she wasn't threatening to beat him up like how Henry would.
With that said, he walked by her to turn on the Keurig, just wanting some coffee to help calm down because he was too tired for this.
Neptune pouted a bit, her cheeks puffed up as she sat at the dining room table, her feet off the ground due to how high the chairs were, leaving Lucas alone until he had his first sip of coffee and looked at her.
'If I knew she was crazy I probably would've left her out there last night.' Lucas thought though he knew that was a complete lie.
He couldn't imagine leaving someone out in the cold.
Still he had to do something to get her to go away, she clearly wasn't right in the head and he didn't want to be pulled into any shenanigans.
Unknown to him however, Neptune was trying to think of a way to convince him to help her.
If she wanted to get to Gamindustri and find her memories then she needed help and game logic dictates that this guy as bland as he looks and sounds, is an important character… Or perhaps he's a tutorial character?
Nuts, now Neptune didn't know if he was a Main or an NPC.
"Hey Lulu!" She called out with Lucas glancing over, not too annoyed after getting some caffeine.
"You're not going to stop calling me that are you?" Lucas dryly asked with Neptune shaking her head immediately showing the chances of that. "Fine, what is it?"
"What will it take for you to agree to join my party?" Neptune asked showing that she wasn't going to quit this crazy fantasy of hers.
Lucas just took another sip of coffee instead of answering her, mulling over what she was saying. "Okay, hypothetically speaking, if you're telling the truth instead of being crazy," He began just deciding to go with it to get this over with. "How about you prove it and then I'll consider it."
With that he took another sip before Neptune grinned. "Deal and that means you have to come with me so I can prove it!" She said jumping out of the chair to run towards the door. "Let's go Lulu!"
'I just want to stay home and keep to myself.' Lucas thought not making a move except to drink his coffee. 'How did I get pulled into whatever miss crazy there has planned?'
Ten minutes later, Lucas exited the house with an impatient Neptune as he yawned with Neptune looking around the neighborhood rapidly.
Due to how early it was, no one was really up. Probably a good thing so Neptune wouldn't freak some people out.
"Wow even your neighborhood is dull." Neptune commented, crossing her arms. "You have to be the blandest character I've ever seen."
Ignoring what he thought of as an insult of some sort, Lucas began to walk not caring if Neptune was behind him or not. "Okay there's isn't much around here and I have no clue how you're planning to convince me that you're not crazy, so go ahead and try." He commented looking at Neptune who placed a finger on her chin in thought before slamming a fist on her palm.
"We find the portal to Gamindustri of course!" She declared with Lucas quirking a brow. "If I ended up here then there should be a way back."
"I'm not even going to begin to say what's wrong with that line of reasoning." Lucas stated with Neptune rushing ahead, but slowing down enough to where she wouldn't lose Lucas. "So why are you adamant on having me be in your party?"
The two of them made it around the corner where they could see a local park.
"Simple, as the beautiful heroine I need to assemble a party to help Histy out," Neptune said like it was obvious, missing Lucas face palming at her answer. "And I did end up in your home, so you're obviously the first party member! Or maybe you're a secret DLC character?"
"And apparently you're modest too." Lucas muttered sarcastically, but it seemed that the sarcasm went over Neptune's head as she smiled.
"Thanks Lulu!" She said right as they came to a stop near a tree. "Even the park is bland, don't you have any interesting places in this neighborhood?"
"Well there is a junkyard a couple blocks away." Lucas suggested, earning a bright smile from Neptune.
"That is perfect, the way back must be there!" Neptune then grabbed Lucas by the arm and began to drag him with a surprising amount of strength, nearly pulling Lucas over before he caught himself. "To the Junkyard."
It didn't take them too long to get into the Junkyard with Neptune idly looking around the various piles of trash while Lucas was on edge due to the fact that they actually snuck in so they were technically trespassing.
"This is getting ridiculous." Lucas couldn't help but say after nearly an hour of watching Neptune look around.
To be frank he's amazed he put up with it for this long.
Shaking his head, Lucas turned to leave only for Neptune to call out. "So are there any monsters around here?"
"Mons-there are no such thing as monsters."
Neptune tilted her head to the side in confusion. "Really? What kind of JRPG is this?"
"... That's it, I'm done." Lucas went to walk off only for Neptune to shout.
"Found it!"
Those two words caused for Lucas to pause.
No… No she has to be joking.
There was no way she found a 'portal' or whatever she's playing at.
Despite his mind telling him to walk away while he could, Lucas turned to see that Neptune knocked over a pile of recyclables to show a pit that had a purple glow coming out of it.
"Here's the way to Gamindustri, quest number one complete!" Neptune said doing a jump with a fist in the air.
The look on Lucas's face was like one would see in a cartoon, if one were to x-ray his skull they would see a hamster running on a wheel before losing its balance as it rolled with the wheel before coming to a stop showing his brain shutting down in pure disbelief.
This can't be happening. Portals don't-This is-. ... What?
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"Quit gawking Lulu now let's go-!" Neptune went to jump in only for Lucas to snap out of his shock and grab the hood of her hoodie, preventing her from jumping in. "H-Hey watch the hood buster!"
"H-Hold it, that could be something that's radioactive, portals don't exist!" He shouted trying to keep some form of sanity from what he was seeing. "Besides I said I would consider joining your party, I never agreed to actually do it!"
"... Darn fine print," Neptune muttered at that, wrenching her hood free. "Come on Lulu, it's obviously a portal and it won't last long!"
As if to agree with her the glow was starting to die down. Kind of odd that it stayed open long enough for the two to find it, but Lucas didn't care about that.
"See, if we don't go in now, then I won't be able to get to Gamindustri!" Neptune said seeing Lucas hesitate. "That's the key to my memories!
"I'm saying that we need to think before we do something drastic!" Lucas finally shouted. "Jumping into a glowing hole is not thinking, it's downright stupidity!"
Seeing the glow dying down more, Neptune sighed knowing she didn't have time. "As the heroine I can't just wait," She said running to the hole. "With or without you I'm going."
With that said she jumped, crying out 'Boingy' while doing so and Lucas swore he heard some sort of buzzing noise when she did so.
'I guess she wasn't crazy after all.' Lucas thought taking a step back. 'Well she's gone so I'm done here.'
No, he wasn't going to go in there, he was going to go home and forget this whole ordeal ever happened-.
"Hey who's out here?!" A voice made Lucas jump with his pupils dilating in terror and that was before he heard barking.
Oh great, of course the owner of the Junkyard shows up after Neptune leaves and most likely heard them shouting at each other.
With the barking getting closer, Lucas made a snap split-second decision without thinking and leapt into the hole, going through the portal right as it faded.
A mere second later, the owner of the Junkyard came by and gaped. "Who dug this hole here?!" He shouted in annoyance.
Great, now he had to fill it in.
"I think I should've stayed with the dog," Lucas had a look of sheer terror on his face with the wind flapping past his face given how he was falling from a great height towards a forest, he could see Neptune ahead of him falling as well. "At least that way I would survive!"
The ground was getting closer and closer with each passing second and he saw Neptune crash down-man she seems to have a hard time with falling-oh crap-.
Lucas blacked out in pain as he slammed into the ground.
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"Shuuuuuuut Uuuuuuuup!" Lucas jumped as he heard a shout following a thudding noise of something hitting the wall near him as he found himself in a rather bland room that was clearly not his. "Oh shoot, did I break something?"
From the way this room looked, it was a Guest Room.
"What happened?" Lucas muttered hearing voices in the other room but he ignored them as he tried to think before it clicked and his eyes widened. "... Oh."
Right he jumped down that hole following Neptune to avoid getting caught by the owner of the Junkyard and ended up falling-... Out of the… Sky.
Slowly Lucas looked at his hands in shock.
How the freaking hell did he survive falling out of the sky?!
Pushing the covers off of him, Lucas stood up only to stumble, barely catching the bedside table to keep himself from falling over before making it to the window where he opened the curtains and gaped at seeing the futuristic looking city out there rather than the usual neighborhood.
Toto he was definitely not in Kansas anymore.
To Be Continued…
Haha this story is finally getting worked on. I'm a huge fan of the Neptunia games after finding out about them from watching Lost Pause-he made it funnier for me and the characters are awesome in my opinion.
Though I never did think about writing in a new character like this until two years ago, but I never got around to it until recently, some inspiration was from the story 'Hyperdimension Neptunia is Real' by 'Some Random Tosser' that I found two years ago, you rock dude!
Anyways, some people are probably surprised by Lucas's personality so far as he was shown to be nervous in the beginning but then he got snarky. In retrospect it's not really that surprising as the only person that truly made him nervous and in pieces out of fear was Henry, when he isn't around him Lucas is pretty snarky and talkative but because of Henry he doesn't really have many friends to talk to either.
Neptune is the hardest character I've ever had the pleasure of typing which adds to the challenge due to how random and crazy her character can get, especially if one puts her in an almost realistic setting which would make her look insane.
As such both she and Lucas have pretty fun interactions with one being Nep and the other being more grounded in reality. Lucas has already shown a lot of exasperation towards Neptune which isn't really surprising given her uniqueness but overtime he'll get over it and see her as a close friend.
Hehehe and since this isn't a SI where the MC knows the story I can already imagine Lucas's reaction to learning who Neptune really is.
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Oh and one last thing. This story is NOT a Harem one.
If there will be a pairing it will only be with one person. I might make jokes about a Harem in this story to poke fun at it but it will NOT happen!
Okay see you all later!