Hyperdimension Neptunia is owned by Compile Heart, Idea Factory, Sega and whomever else worked on it.

Since people already read the prologue before, here's chapter 1 as well.

Chapter 1

"Histy?" Chrome raised an eyebrow. "Whatever," she reached behind her and pulled out some clothes that Neptune recognized as her hooded parka and undershirt before tossing them to her. "I'm not sure you'd want your underwear, they were torn to shreds when you were found."

"...Torn to.." Neptune trailed off, her eyes widening. "Oh right!" She remembered exactly what happened after being warped to this dimension.

*Flash*

"AAAAAAAAHHHH!" Neptune yelled as she waved her arms up and down rapidly. "I HOPE THERE'S NO ONE DOWN THERE!" Part of her wanted to laugh at the thought of crashing into Noire somehow. "Too bad this doesn't look like Lastation, oooh! What's that?" She asked as she looked at the land while she fell. "There's a big mountain range over there and..." She looked down. "Oh, there's trees... Hopefully I don't hit anything hard."

When she crashed into a tree and the branches snagged her underwear, causing her to flip over and face down with her butt high in the air, she let out a scream as she felt her panties get pulled up the crack of her butt. "Owwie! Wedgies suck! LET GO!" Neptune squirmed and thrashed to get away from the evil tree.

There was a tearing sound and Neptune let out a scream as she fell down while her underwear tore in half, part of them staying in the tree while the rest floated away in a breeze.

When Neptune crashed into a hard rock, she was knocked out and missed who had found her.

*End Flash*

"Oh, that happened." Neptune giggled nervously and rubbed the back of her head. "Um, I hate to ask, but do you have any undies?" She asked, blushing as she put her clothes on. "I'm not big on going commando."

Shrugging, the Arfoire look-a-like threw something at Neptune. "I figured as much, you're lucky that you're roughly the same size as some of the girls around here, so it wasn't hard to get you some clean underwear."

"Thanks." Neptune smiled and grabbed the underwear that she was offered before she stiffened and looked at them while blushing beet red.

"...What?" Chrome honestly couldn't say that she understood why the girl in front of her was suddenly blushing like that. "Are you okay? Are you alergic to the material?"

"No, not that..." Neptune shook her head and held the panties in front of her. "They're black."

"...So?" Chrome wondered why the girl blushing more.

"...Isn't that the color of panties girls wear when they want to do lewd things?" Neptune asked, causing Chrome to face-fault. "Um, are you okay?"

"Urgh, seriously?" Chrome muttered as she got off the floor. "Listen, it's all we have for now. Either put the lewd panties on or walk around without any panties on and hope that you don't flash your butt off to everyone if the wind blows." She sighed and watched as Neptune blushed but put them on, sliding them up and under her parka. "...You know, I never got your name."

"Huh?" Neptune blinked before smiling brightly. "I'm Neptune! The main character and CPU of Planeptune." Her smile died when she saw the look on Chrome's face. It was a mixture of disturbed, shocked and anger. "Um... Are you okay?"

"..." Chrome took a deep breath and slowly let it out. "Considering how you're acting, I'm inclined to believe you're just extremely delusional."

"But I am! I'm the CPMMMMPH!?" Neptune's eyes widened as Chrome was upon her in an instant and putting her hand over Neptune's mouth and squeezing her cheeks to silence her.

"Listen here," Chrome hissed, the anger in her eyes actually caused Neptune to stiffen in surprise, "whatever you do, do NOT call yourself a CPU when you leave this room, do you understand?" When Neptune didn't show any sign of comprehension, she shook the young-looking girl. "Do you understand me?!" Chrome hissed in anger.

"MMmmhmm!" Neptune nodded as Chrome slowly pulled her hand away. "But why can't I say that I'm, well, me?"

"Speaking of which, you may want a different name..." Chrome said softly, "then again, we're far enough South that she probably won't hear about it so long as we stay down here."

"Um, hello!" Neptune protested, "Gamindustri to Arfoire wannabe! Neptune needs some information. Please? Pretty please?"

"...Gamindustri?" Chrome asked, confusion on her face. "This is Gamworld, like I said." She sighed as Neptune pouted more. "Fine, if you're going to pretend, just know that CPUs are not only hated, but feared."

"...What?" Neptune asked, her pupils shrinking. "Hated? But that... That's wrong! CPUs..."

"Are selfish, twisted, warped individuals who care nothing but their own pleasures and cause everyone around them nothing but pain." Chrome interrupted her, anger in her voice.

"...Huh?!" Neptune gawked, unable to hide her surprise. "But that doesn't sound right. CPUs are supposed to protect their people."

Chrome scoffed at that. "If by protect, you mean torment, then yes, but otherwise..."

"Chroooomey! Hey Chromey!" A young sounding voice was heard from outside the door. "Are you..? OH! There you are!" A young girl poked her head into the room before entering the room.

Chrome sighed and turned, letting Neptune see the person fully. "Filyn, what's wrong this time?"

"Well, it's... Huh?" Filyn looked at Neptune. "What's wrong with her?"

"Huh?" Chrome turned her head and looked at Neptune, who was staring at Filyn with wide eyes and a pale face. "...Are you okay?"

Neptune couldn't help but stare at the little girl. Said girl was a bit shorter than Neptune was and was wearing boots that went half-way up to her knees, grey cargo pants, a dull colored t-shirt, she had long red hair done up in long twin tails that went from her head to her hips, she had black, spiky hair clips that held her hair up and she had a black eyepatch over her right eye while her left eye was yellow. An image of an older-looking woman with the same hair and eyes as this girl flashed through her mind.

"Pathetic, this is all the CPUs of Gamindustri can do?" The woman sneered as White Heart, Black Heart, Green Heart, Purple Sister and finally Purple Heart herself were bound up in cable tentacles after being defeated. "Don't worry, you won't die, not yet. But you'll wish you were dead as we drain your shares out of you and turn you into a husk and drain your nations before releasing the Deity of Sin."

Her chilling laughter was the last thing Purple Heart heard as she felt her shares being drained from her and she lost consciousness.

"Hey! Hey! HEY!" The voice that sounded like that woman caused Neptune to shake her head as the memory faded from her mind. "JEEZ! You suddenly froze up for no reason there!" Filyn gave Neptune an annoyed look as she tapped her foot. "You got a problem with me?"

Neptune stared at her and shook her head. 'It's not that girl, this isn't the same thing, right?' Neptune thought to herself. "Uh... What was your name again?"

"Her name is Filyn and she's basically my little sister." Chrome answered Neptune.

"A-HA!" Neptune pointed at Chrome. "I knew you two were bad guys! First you strip me naked when I'm out cold, next you gave me lewd panties and then your sister is a villain! Next you'll feed me eggplants!"

"Well, we are having eggplants for dinner tonight." Filyn admitted before her visible eye widened. "HEY! I'm not villain!"

"Your name is Filyn, it rhymes with villain!" Neptune crossed her arms and nodded. "The evidence speaks for itself! You can't confuse the main character!"

Chrome rubbed her forehead in annoyance. "I'm getting too old for this shit." She had no idea what was going through Neptune's head and decided to focus on Filyn instead. "Filyn, what's wrong?"

"Oh!" The girl's eye widened and she turned to face Chrome. "Poofy's gone!"

"Again?" Chrome smiled kindly at her. "Don't worry, you know he never gets hurt. The last time he disappeared, he came back and we found a bunch of new food, didn't we?"

"Well, yeah..." Filyn looked down, sulking. "But I'm worried about him." She looked up as she felt a hand on her head. Looking up, she blushed softly as Chrome ruffled her hair.

"Don't worry about it, kiddo, he'll show up in a day or two like always."

"Thanks, Chromey." Filyn smiled brightly and gave Chrome a hug. "Anyway, I gotta go, there's stuff to do. And Linda was looking for you."

Chrome nodded and hugged Filyn back before letting her go and watched her run off, smiling. "Anyway," she stood up and gave Neptune an annoyed look, "I don't know what you think you know, but please stop making assumptions about us just because you think you know anything." She turned and walked to the door. "Your socks and shoes are here by the door." She turned her head and gave Neptune another serious look. "And whatever you do, do NOT mention you are a CPU to anyone, understand?"

"...Fine." Neptune muttered and plopped down on the bed as Chrome left. "What's with this dimension?" She asked herself softly. It wasn't hard to figure out that she was yet another dimension. If the local Arfoire had been wearing a witch's hat and was laughing like a maniac, at least she would have felt more at home, but the fact that this... Chrome person was rather calm, collected and nice, even if a bit stern with her, was a complete shock to Neptune.

But that didn't even compare to what she had been told about CPUs. "Selfish? But we're not..." Neptune trailed off as she thought about Vert's love of gaming, how Noire loved cosplay, how Blanc loved writing and her own general laziness. "But we don't cause everyone around us pain..." She sweat-dropped as the thought of Rei, Kurome and Iris Heart all went through her mind. "But Uzume had a good reason, she thought that the world betrayed her, Rei's power made her psychotic, she's a lot better now with friends and Sadie... Um... Yeah, okay, I got nothing for her." Neptune rubbed the back of her head and sweat-dropped. "Maybe she's right, maybe all of us are pretty bad."

Neptune winced as memories of when she had been brainwashed by Kurome entered her mind and the things she said and did to Nepgear before her big self stopped her and then their sisters had to beat them all up to knock some sense into them. 'Man, I really nepped it up there, huh?' Sure, Nepgear had forgiven her, but Neptune still hated what she had tried to do, even if it was because she was brainwashed. As memories of other things she had done to Nepgear and her friends that weren't the best entered her mind, Neptune hung her head and sighed. "Great, maybe that's why I went to Hell when I killed myself by accident, huh?"

Still, she couldn't stay in this room all day. She wanted to see just what kind of world she was stuck in. "Oh! That's right! Nepgear gave me a phone to call her on, right?" Neptune started digging around in her hoodie's pockets and frowned as she didn't feel the phone. "Did I put it in my inventory?" She asked and pulled up her inventory and winced as she saw how small her selection was. "I really need to stop getting rid of my stuff after the adventures are over, I'd like to have my broken DLC stuff between adventures at least once!"

Not seeing her phone, she sighed and hoped that she didn't leave it back in the Hyperdimension, or worse, lose it when she got warped into this world and it broke. Getting off the bed, she walked to the door and put her stripped thigh-high socks on and then her shoes before stepping outside and grimacing at how bright it was. After putting her arm above her head to block out the excess light, she blinked a few times to adjust to the light and looked out.

From what she could see, there were plenty of buildings around her, the streets weren't really paved over as the roads were dirt and she could see several people meandering about, talking to each other and none of the buildings were taller than two stories and were either made of brick or wood. 'This is pretty primitive.' Not even Lowee had houses that looked this primitive and they were simplest houses in Gamindustri. 'Wait, didn't she say I was in Lowee? Why is it so warm then?' The weather was closer to Leanbox or Planeptune than it was to Lowee. "Oh! Wait, that's right! The other Blanc's Lowee was fall all the time, wasn't it?" She muttered softly. "So I guess this Lowee is more like Spring or Summer all the time, huh?" Okay, that wasn't so bad.

Looking around, she couldn't see Chrome or Filyn and shrugged before picking a random direction and walking that way. 'Maybe I'll meet someone I know or something?' Sure, they probably wouldn't be exactly like the people she knew, but if they were similar enough she could at least guess their personalities and interact with them. "After all, it worked before, it should work again." She giggled softly.

(-)

One hour later...

Neptune stared in horror as she looked out at the field of vegetables that were being harvested. Not that there was food being harvested, she liked that.

What made her stare in horror was the fact that the people were harvesting the most vile, nasty, disgusting thing known to CPUs everywhere.

"Eggplants!" Neptune screamed, threw her hands up in the air and turned to the side and started running. "AAAAAH! I DON'T WANNA GET CONTAMINACK!" She let out a grunt as she slammed into someone she didn't see when she was running and both of them fell to the ground.

"Jeez!" A familiar voice was heard and Neptune looked at the person, her eyes sparkling as she saw someone she knew. "You sure are lively!"

"Iffy?" Neptune's eyes continued to sparkle as she saw her friend. The same short brown hair, the same leafy green bow, the same green eyes, the same blue over-coat, the same old burns and scars on her face and legs. 'Wait, what?!' Neptune's eyes as she jumped back in shock and took a good look at IF as the other girl got to her feet.

The girl was... A mess. There were what looked like burn marks on her chest, neck and what she could see on IF's legs and her skin was a mixture of red and and what looked like it had just healed, leaving horrible burn scars behind that contrasted horribly with what she knew IF should look like. The burns weren't bubbly and the skin wasn't broken, a testament to whomever treated her, but it was still noticeable with the way her skin was red in some places, blue in others and yellow in yet other places. If it wasn't so horrifying it would be pretty neat, as IF looked like someone had almost tattooed fire onto her skin.

"Iffy?" The girl snorted, and Neptune noted that least she still had her nose, eyes and ears and none of them looked to be TOO badly off. "Not often someone I never met before would call me that." She tilted her head. "Wait, how DID you know my name? Oh wait, Chrome told you, didn't she?" The burned girl rolled her eyes at that. "Seriously, she needs to stop telling people what happened to me and make sure that I'm okay." IF huffed in annoyance. "I told her that I'm doing better thanks to all those treatments. I mean, my face is mostly back to normal now, my hair's grown back finally plus my skin's not bubbling and cracking like it used to."

Neptune stared in absolute horror. "...Who... Who did that to you?"

"Huh?" IF frowned in confusion. "I thought you knew." She shrugged. "Whatever, look, I'm a bit busy and I need to get going." She turned to walk away and was stopped as Neptune grabbed her coat. Turning, she looked at Neptune, who had tears welling up in her eyes. "What?"

"Please... Tell me. Who did that to you?"

IF huffed and gave her an annoyed look. "I don't know why, but fine, and just so you know I don't want your damn pity, I might be pretty weak because of this, but I'll still kick your ass if you take pity on me." Neptune nodded at that and IF sighed, feeling some of her annoyance dissipating just looking at this girl for some reason.

"I can do that." Neptune tried to smile but couldn't. At least this IF had a similar attitude to the one that was her best friend and the one that was basically her daughter. Plus she'd know who to beat up over this.

"The CPU of Lowee did this to me." IF snarled and spat on the ground. "Fucking bitch, I can't prove it, but I know that she's the reason that the guild burned down and I got caught up in that fire that killed all my friends. Does that answer your question?!"

Neptune nodded, a horrified and stunned look on her face as IF pulled herself out of Neptune's slack grip and walked off. 'The CPU did that to Iffy?' She trembled and the words of Chrome entered her mind.

"...do NOT call yourself a CPU when you leave this room!"

'...Are all the CPUs of this dimension this bad?' Not even Iris Heart, as Sadistic as she could be, did stuff like that. Well, other than that one time that Tekken had been alone with Iris Heart, but Neptune didn't want to think about it.

Shivering in both disgust and horror, Neptune wondered just how much worse things were going to get if she was stuck in this world for any real length of time.

To be Continued...

I am *SO* fucking mean to the characters in my fics, aren't I?

Okay, so early concept artwork for Filyn had her with an eye patch over her right eye, and in the Japanese version of Super Neptunia RPG, Filyn is voiced by CFW Magic, who has the same VA as Arfoire and Chrome anyway.

Oh yeah, I found a BUNCH of concept artwork for the characters, it's rather amazing to see just how the characters looked originally.