Hyperdimension Neptunia is owned by Compile Heart, Idea Factory, Sega and whomever else worked on it.
It's finally time.
But first! I'd like to say that I never expected to get to 100 chapters on this story. I was expecting the story to be done awhile ago, TBH. Anyway, thank you, everyone, for sticking with me so far and I hope you continue to read to the end.
Chapter 89
The two clashed their blades against each other as they glared at each other, Purple Heart's katana was being blocked by Purple Void's twin swords as she held them in a cross formation in front of her. "One big sword, really?" Purple Void sneered at Purple Heart. "I wonder if you're telling people that you like 'em big and hard?"
Purple Heart growled at the insinuation. "Better big and hard than small little pricks like you seem to enjoy." Her eyes went over the two swords in Purple Void's hands and she smirked. "If I'm telling people what I like with my sword, what's that say about you? You like being unsatisfied or something?"
Purple Void chuckled at her Heart counterpart. "I prefer girls, their bodies bounce and jiggle in bed more."
Purple Heart's sword lit up in flames. "I actually agree with you on the enjoyable parts of a female lover. Blaze Break!" With a burst of strength, she pushed Purple Void away from her, engulfing her counter-part with fire.
Purple Void grimaced and her swords became encased in ice as she spun around a couple of times, putting the fire out. "Neptune..." Purple Void whispered as she shot forward like a rocket. "SLAM!"
Throwing up a guard as fast as she could, Purple Heart grimaced as the attack hit home, sending her flying back with frost covering her hands. A quick burst of flames from her sword melted the frost. "Okay, so she's faster than I thought." When several dark swords formed around Purple Void, Purple Heart gritted her teeth and an equal amount of swords formed around her. "Thirty-two bit..."
"Thirty-two byte..." Purple Void intoned. "Giga Blade!"
"Mega Blade!" Both CPUs yelled at the same time, launching their attacks at each other. Purple Heart's swords were launched straight at Purple Void, leaving a golden trail of light in their path while Purple Void's swords curved and bent through the air, a streak of pure darkness cutting through the air in their wake. Most of the swords still crashed into each other, however, two swords of darkness cut through the wave of swords and Purple Heart swung her katana to the side for one as she bent out of the way of the other one, the blade barely passing over her body with barely any space between it and her body.
"GAH!" Purple Void cried out as the sword in her left hand was blasted out of her hand as one of Purple Heart's blades got through to her and almost took the Void's hand off. "That was close."
"Oh?" Purple Heart straightened herself out. "You don't seem very skilled if a basic attack like that could disarm you."
Purple Void sneered and flexed her fingers as a small portal opened behind her and another sword seemingly slid into her open hand. "Don't think you're better than me." Purple Void rushed in and slashed with her right sword in an over-head chop, only for Purple Heart to swing upwards to block it. Purple Void stabbed forward with her left sword and Purple Heart kicked upwards with her right knee, knocking the blade off-course and missing Purple Heart completely. Purple Void gritted her teeth and swung her left arm at Purple Heart, who pushed her katana up, knocking Purple Void's right arm out of the way and quickly moved her katana to block the oncoming slice.
Purple Heart was panting softly. The only reason she was able to move this fast was because she was using her shares to create bursts of speed to do what should have been impossible. While useful, it was tiring and burned through more Shares than what most people realized. "Dual Edge!" She yelled and slashed hard, knocking her bikini-clad counterpart away from her.
Purple Void growled and created four gigantic blades and dropped them where they crashed into the ground and surrounded Purple Heart as they glowed brightly. "Imprisoning Sword Dome." She snapped her fingers as an eruption of energy blasted upwards, causing Purple Heart to scream in pain and Purple Void merely smirked. "You're impressive, but you're... Huh?" Purple Void gawked as there was a bulge in the erupting energy and a black jet with purple lines burst out of the attack. "Interesting, but I can do that too. HDD Neptune!" She cried out and jumped into the air as her body glowed and transformed into a similar looking jet to what Purple Heart had turned into.
"Should have figured she could do that." Heart Jet muttered to herself as she hit the boosters and accelerated.
"Get back here!" Void Jet yelled and zipped after Heart Jet. As she closed in on Heart Jet, two gun turrets near her nose opened up and started firing, forcing Heart Jet to shift side to side to avoid taking damage. After a few moments of this, Purple Jet turned and shot upwards and she was followed by Void Jet. "I'm just as maneuverable as you are, I'll hunt you down and take you out."
Heart Jet suddenly cut her engines and started to descend while turning and pointing right at Void Jet. "Really?" She asked and fired several missiles right at Void Jet before reactivating her boosters and zipping away.
Void Jet sneered and fired bullets to destroy the missiles that were fired at her, only to gasp as the warheads of the missiles opened up and several micro-missiles were fired as the larger ones were destroyed. "YOU BITCH!" She screamed as was caught by the trap Heart Jet had laid out and getting engulfed in a fiery explosion.
"This is almost too easy." Heart Jet muttered to herself and flew to the ground as her EXE attack ran out of power and she transformed back into Purple Heart. "Is she playing with me or..?" Purple Heart gasped as there were black glowing blades all around her, pointing at all sorts of angles.
"Just kidding!" Void Jet called out as the jet rushed down at Purple Heart. "Time to slice and dice!"
Wasting no time, Purple Heart started to do back flips to avoid the swords for several feet before she stopped and slid backwards while pulling out her katana and cutting at the swords, shattering them into particles of energy. "This..." She launched herself forward and slashed so fast that she left an X-shaped pattern behind, shattering more than a dozen swords. "Take this!" She cried out and spun around, her sword glowing with power as she sent a wave of energy at the remaining swords, shattering them. "Is that all you... GUH!" Purple Heart gasped as it felt like her heart was throbbing. 'Dammit, not now!' She gasped and clutched at her chest with her free hand. 'Damn you, Kurome!'
"Oh?" Void Jet chuckled as she transformed back into Purple Void a few feet away from Purple Heart. "It seems that you're having some trouble. Having a heart attack, you fake?"
Purple Heart glared at her evil counter part, her left eye glowing brightly as she tried to suppress what she had just felt. "The only fake I see is a CPU who would rather destroy her nation than protect its people."
"BORING!" Purple Void yelled and looked away in annoyance. "I'd rather just play games, eat pudding, go for enthusiastic and long walks while doing lewd things to my little sister." She looked back at Purple Heart and grinned. "You should really hear the way she whimpers when you rub her..." It was only sheer, dumb luck that had her dodging and kept her head from being bisected when Purple Heart launched a sword at her so fast that she didn't even see it as she ducked and only lost a few strands of hair. "Wow, touchy."
"You leave Nepgear alone, you freak!" Purple Heart snarled at Purple Void. "She doesn't deserve what you do to her."
Purple Void chuckled and dismissed her swords as she suddenly grinned. "You know, I think it's time to stop messing around with you." Her voice lost all of its humor as the air started to get tense. "I'm going to kill you and end the suffering of this world once and for all."
"What do you mean?" Purple Heart asked as she tried to fight off the after-shocks of the pain she had been feeling from the Fearicite in her.
"Imagine being born into a world that revels in pain and suffering," Purple Void spoke as the energy in the air continued to rise, "and all you could feel, from the day you were born, was everyone's hatred, sadness and pain." She snarled as she glowed red. "Not just in your nation, but across this godforsaken world all at the same damn time!"
A red pillar with black numbers erupted from Purple Void as she was consumed by the Fearicite energy within her.
"Dammit..." Purple Heart panted as she knew what was coming next.
When the pillar of energy ended, at first Purple Heart thought that her evil counterpart hadn't changed much at all, just that her gloves and boots had become metal as everything else looked the same as usual, except that her irises had changed from blue to a crimson red.
When four large, metallic tentacle-like arms came out of the transformed Purple Void's back, each one revealing to have reptilian-like mouths that opened up to reveal what looked like a laser cannon in the center of them, Purple Heart knew that her other self had fully transformed.
"Purple Nightmare is here." Purple Nightmare, a mask that made her face look something like an alien lobster's face, told her. "As is my sword..." A double-bladed purple sword slid out of a portal in the sky and Purple Heart's eyes shrank as she saw it. While she had never seen that sword before, the feeling she got from it was one of raw malice, power and carnage. "Gehaburn, the Cursed God-Slaying Sword." Purple Nightmare said as she took the sword, gave it a swing and took a stance while her four tentacle arms waved behind her.
"Well... Fuck." Purple Heart muttered to herself as she finally suppressed the pain she had been feeling fully.
To be continued...
If you're having trouble picturing what the tentacle arms look like, think Doc Oc (Spider-Man) arms with the heads looking like the heads of Grabboids (Tremors movies). As for the skull mask, think a lobster.