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

Urgh, computer froze and I lost an entire day's worth of writing. That sucked!

...This was way shorter than I intended it to be. ...Whoops. So, I'll post it up right now.

Interlude: Hyperdimension 2

"Blanc?" Rom looked at her elder sister with worry as the two of them were resting on a bean bag chair and reading a book together. "Are you okay? You sound sad."

"I'm fine." Blanc gave Rom a smile. "What makes you think I'm sad?"

"...Miss Neptune is gone and you don't seem happy." Rom pointed out. She hugged Blanc and cuddled against her. "What happened?"

Blanc sighed softly. "The last time I saw Neptune, I got mad at her."

"Was that because she accidentally dumped a bunch of pudding on your book?" Rom asked as she looked at Blanc curiously.

Blanc twitched, that had been annoying, but that wasn't the reason why she had gotten mad. "No. But I told her to get out and not come back and..." She sighed. "If Neptune dies in that other dimension, the last thing she'll remember of me was me yelling at her like that.

Rom nodded. "...Did she tease you about how her HDD form grows and yours doesn't again?" Blanc twitched and jerked at that. "I like cute and cuddly big sister though."

"Well, to be fair, I was egging her on and bragging about how despite the fact that her nation's so advanced that our nation has more shares all the time and that she wasn't a good goddess." Blanc blinked as Rom gently slapped both of her cheeks and pouted at her.

"...You should apologize to her when she gets back." Rom told Blanc, "you know Miss Neptune will be fine." She smiled at Blanc, "after all, she's the main character."

"...True. Plus if she can transform she can probably go NEXT form, so I shouldn't worry about her too much."

Still, even if what Rom said was true, Blanc couldn't help but worry. As often as Blanc got annoyed by the purple CPU, she still considered Neptune her friend. '...Neptune, I hope you're okay.'

"Blanc?" Rom tilted her head. "Why don't you go to Planeptune tomorrow? Miss Nepgear said she could call Miss Neptune and check up on her."

"...That sounds nice." Blanc smiled softly and the two got back to reading the story.

(-)

In Planeptune...

"Vert!" Nepgear smiled as she saw the Leanbox CPU enter the living area from the balcony. "I'm glad you came over."

Vert smiled and pulled Nepgear into a hug, burying her face into the blonde's chest. "Of course I would come over." She cooed and rubbed Nepgear's back. "I'd do anything for my little sister."

"Aww..." Nepgear giggled and looked up at Vert, a soft blush on her face. "That's nice, but you know I'm not your sister."

"Hmm... Not yet, but things can always change, right?" Vert winked at Nepgear. "Besides, you can have more than one big sister, you know."

"Well, yes, I have two Neptunes as my big sisters and then there's Uzume, who's technically my ancestor..." Nepgear trailed off at Vert's souring face. "Um, sorry?"

Vert released the hug and sighed. "Sometimes I wonder if it's Neptune who's the ditz between you two." She couldn't get mad at Nepgear, the girl was just so honest and pure that it made it impossible to truly get mad at her even when she was being like this.

Nepgear giggled and rubbed the back of her head nervously. "Well, either way, thanks for coming over."

Before Vert could answer there were two people that landed on the balcony and enter. "Nepgear!" Both of them called out.

"Ram! Uni!" Nepgear's eyes lit up happily. "You two came?"

"Of course!" Ram scoffed at her. "Someone has to keep you from getting mopey."

"And Noire gave me a week off to come over." Uni said and looked at Vert. "Ah, well that is..."

"It's fine." Vert smiled at them. "How about we turn this into a slumber party then?" She held up a finger. "Let's just set up some futons out here and we can game all night."

"Super!" Ram's eyes glinted while Uni gave Vert a competitive look and Nepgear giggled nervously.

Watching from a bit away, Histoire sighed and hung her head. 'What's the point of having another CPU come over when she's almost as lazy as Neptune is?'

Still, watching them set up the game system, Histoire shook her head. 'Neptune, come home soon.'

As hard as she was on Neptune, Histoire really did like her and cared deeply about her.

"...Maybe I should see about getting some welcome home pudding ready for her when she gets back?" Histoire said to herself softly and floated off.

End Interlude: Hyperdimension 2

MUCH better than the last few chapters have been.

Also, sure is nice to see the CPUs we know and love not being twisted evil creatures.

One last chapter in Leanbox and then we're out of that lewd country!