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Chapter 90
Purple Nightmare chuckled as she looked at Purple Heart's expression. "You don't seem shocked by this, so I assume you know of this already, huh?"
"With the exception of Iris Void, every Void I met used their Nightmare form." Purple Heart told her and looked at the metal tentacle arms and sighed in relief. "I'll say this," Purple Nightmare raised an eyebrow as Purple Heart smirked at her, "at least I don't have to worry about you doing naughty things with those tentacles."
"...Huh?" Purple Nightmare looked at her upper right tentacle, which seemingly turned to look at her before both looked back at Purple Heart. "...Oh, you've had tentacles shoved in you, huh?"
"Green Void's Nightmare form was a spider and used tentacles." Purple Heart said before snapping her fingers and launching a few blades at Purple Nightmare. Before they even got close, the ends of the tentacle arms opened up and fired blasts of energy at the swords, destroying them. "I didn't think that would work." She muttered as she extended her wings and took off into the air while Purple Nightmare followed after her.
"That's interesting." Purple Nightmare chuckled and sent her tentacle arms, all four of them, forward at Purple Heart, who put her hand on the first one that got close to her to push herself above it. As she flew upwards, another tentacle head rose with her while pointing at her and fired a blast of energy, which Purple Heart countered by creating an energy blade, allowing it to shatter to block the attack. Purple Heart launched a sword at the tentacle to knock it aside before turning to slash at one that tried to ram her from behind, blocking it with a shower of sparks.
"Nnnngh..." Purple Heart gritted her teeth as she pushed against the tentacle attacking her. "So..." Her eyes widened as she felt something wrap around her legs from below. The next thing she knew, she was being pulled at high speeds and slammed onto the ground hard enough to leave an indent in the ground. Grimacing, Purple Heart looked at her legs and saw that there were wires wrapped around her legs coming out of the mouth of one of the tentacle arms like some sort of spider web.
"Is that all?" Purple Nightmare taunted Purple Heart and used her tentacle to lift her counterpart up and slam her back down onto the ground several more times. She stopped and saw how Purple Heart wasn't moving before tossing her into the air and letting go. As Purple Heart flew through the air helplessly, Purple Nightmare rushed up at her with Gehaburn held to the side. "DIE!" She yelled as she flew at the upside down CPU.
Just as she got close to Purple Heart's head, the unconscious CPU suddenly twitched before flipping over and slamming her blade against Gehaburn. Purple Heart could only smirk at the shocked look on Purple Nightmare's face. "What? Never heard of strategy?" She pushed upwards, knocking Purple Nightmare off balance before kicking her away. Before the Nightmare CPU could recover, Purple Heart swung her sword upwards, sending a wave of energy at her. "I grow tired of facing monsters like you." Purple Heart muttered and swung down, sending another wave of energy at Purple Nightmare. Both waves hit and seemingly held Purple Nightmare in an upside down V before Purple Heart spun around and launched a third and final wave at the Purple Nightmare.
When the three waves of energy connected, they turned into the number four and exploded as Purple Heart smirked. "How did you like my Delta Slash?"
Purple Nightmare grimaced as she flew backwards from the attack. Her tentacle limbs snapped out and grabbed the ground to stop her from moving backwards any further and she growled at Purple Heart as Gehaburn started to glow purple. Letting out a yell, she swung it forward, sending a wave of dark purple energy out that tore through everything with ease.
The speed at which the wave was heading her way reminded Purple Heart of Nepgear's Slash Wave and she quickly burst to the side to avoid the attack, which she was able to do.
The energy surrounding the direct wave was impossible to dodge and it consumed Purple Heart, causing her to cry out in pain as it engulfed her before sending her flying backwards, where she crashed on her back and bounced a couple of times, causing her to cry out in pain before she gritted her teeth and flipped back onto her feet and slid back a few more inches. "...D...Dammit..." Purple Heart panted as she bled from various places on her face, arms, legs and torso. It was all shallow cuts that looked worse than they actually were and thanks to her shares, she was already healing. She jumped away from several blasts from the tentacle limbs and fired back with materialized swords, only to grimace as they were countered by Purple Void's own swords. 'Fighting at long range won't work, so...'
Purple Nightmare smirked before tilting her head in confusion as Purple Heart suddenly formed a sigil under her feet. "Just what are..?"
Like a rocket, Purple Heart was suddenly in front of her and driving her foot into Purple Nightmare's stomach, causing her to gasp and sending the Nightmare flying. "Dammit!" Purple Nightmare cried out and her tentacle limbs shot out behind her, grabbing at the ground, trees, and eventually buildings and pulling Purple Nightmare along as she tried to get some distance from Purple Heart, only to find it wasn't working as the Heart CPU kept on her, the two clashed blades as they left the central square and started fighting over the buildings.
As their blades clashed again, Purple Heart sneered at Purple Nightmare, who glared at her. "I finally figured it out." Purple Heart said to her counterpart. "Why I can't stand you."
"Why?" Purple Nightmare growled at Purple Heart.
"Because you're pathetic." Purple Heart sneered at her counterpart as they pushed their blades against each other while flying through Gamindustri. "You claim that you felt all of the world's pain, suffering, hate and other negative emotions since you were born?"
"Yeah, I did." Purple Nightmare pushed back against Purple Heart. "You think you're better than me? Do you think I'm pathetic because I'm a Void?"
"Just because you were born of Fearicite doesn't mean that you had to become a monster." Memories of Black Void and all that she did flashed through Purple Heart's head. "Noire suffered in ways I couldn't possibly imagine and she still didn't completely fall to the darkness despite being a Void." Her left eye glowed brightly and seemingly trailed flames out of it as Purple Heart continued to talk. "If you felt all the pain in the world, you could have done something positive, but you took the easy way out."
"Tch, easy way?" Purple Nightmare pulled Gehaburn back and slashed forward, her blade clashing with Purple Heart's sword. Meanwhile her metal tentacle limbs continued to pull her across the skyline of Planeptune. "The easy way would have been to ignore everything. I plan on ending all of the world's suffering."
"So why didn't you?" Purple Heart demanded as they swung their blades into each other and twisted their arms to the side while glaring at each other.
"Because I'd rather have fun and eat pudding than go through with it." Purple Nightmare smirked at Purple Heart. "And if you're anything like me, you would rather nap, eat pudding and play games than do what you're supposed to do."
Purple Heart gasped, her pupils shrinking slightly as she heard that. "But that..."
Purple Nightmare chuckled at her. "And how many times have you put off doing what you're supposed to do just so you can have fun?"
Memories of what happened after the Deity of Sin had been defeated, how she had spent years with her friends playing games instead of working and completely angering Histoire over it, of the years spent in Plutia's world where she had slept, gamed and messed around instead of trying to gather shares to help Histoire out in opening a portal back home. Or how she put off doing as much work as possible leading up to the CPU Shift period that almost ended with Gamindustri being destroyed. "That..."
Purple Nightmare grinned at her. "You know I'm right. You're no different than me."
Something in Purple Heart snapped at that. "You're wrong! I'm nothing like you!" Her left eye glowed even brighter as she increased her power. "I might be lazy!" She struck at Purple Nightmare, leaving a shallow cut in the other CPU's right shoulder. "I might not be a good big sister!" The two clashed their blades against each other a few more times. "But there's one thing I have over you."
"And that is?" Purple Nightmare asked.
"I never gave up." Purple Heart told her counterpart, who looked at her in confusion. "If I was as pathetic as you, I would have become like you when I was first exposed to a dimension of pure sadness."
Purple Nightmare sneered at Purple Heart and was about to respond when she felt something at the back of her head. 'Oh? We're that close to her, huh?' Purple Nightmare let out a grunt of pain as Purple Heart kicked her in the stomach, sending her flying backwards. Instead of looking at Purple Heart, Purple Nightmare looked at a nearby building and smirked as one of her tentacle limbs started to spin and rushed right towards that building.
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"What the hell?!" Nepgear gasped, having never seen it before. "What's going on?!"
"Um..." Gust spoke up and pointed at Nepgear. "Why is there something glowing under your shirt?"
"Huh?" Nepgear reached under her shirt and pulled out a lion pendant that was glowing. "Neptune gave me this and, EEEK!" Suddenly the mouth of the metal tentacle arm opened up and several cables wrapped around Nepgear, pulling her out of the hole in the ceiling.
"The fuck!?" More than one person said at once.
"Get me out of this!" Mina yelled as Compa and Linda undid the binds holding her and RED down. "We need to save Lady Nepgear!"
"Right!" They all said as Mina blasted the hole so that it was wider and used magic to levitate everyone through it.
What they saw had them staring in absolute shock and horror.
(-)
A few moments ago...
Everything seemed to slow down when she saw the terrified face of Nepgear suddenly in the air between her and Purple Nightmare. The only thing Purple Heart could hear was her own heart beat. She knew she was yelling out Nepgear's name, but she couldn't hear it. She saw the cruel and callous smirk on Purple Nightmare's face as she let go of Nepgear and readied that purple sword.
Without even thinking, Purple Heart formed a sigil under her feet and launched herself at Nepgear as Purple Nightmare swung Gehaburn at Nepgear from behind. Grabbing Nepgear, Purple Heart managed to spin around and cried out in pain as Gehaburn cut deep into her back, through her left wing. Looking at Nepgear even as she felt herself falling, Purple Heart smiled, even though tears of pain were coming out of her eyes. "Nep...GEAAAAAHHH!" She screamed as Gehaburn was stabbed into her lower back, right through her spine and the tip of Gehaburn came out of Purple Heart's stomach.
"Now you can die..." Purple Nightmare whispered and kicked Purple Heart off of Gehaburn and down to the ground below.
Purple Heart had her eyes screwed shut as she fell. 'Oh fuck, this hurts so much.' She wasn't sure which was worse, this or the Fearicite torture she had suffered through in Lastation, but either way, it hurt really badly. Grimacing and cracking an eye open, she saw that the ground was rapidly approaching. Using the last of her strength, she grabbed Nepgear as she pulled her little sister close to her body and spun around so that she would crash into the ground instead of Nepgear.
Purple Heart barely felt the landing as she hit the ground and slid several feet before stopping. Letting her arms flop to the ground, she cracked an eye open to see Nepgear looking at her while crying softly. "Don't cry, Nep...Gear..." Purple Heart's voice was hoarse and soft. "A...Are you okay?" Nepgear nodded and Purple Heart smiled while closing her eyes. "Th...en... It...s all... good..."
Nepgear watched in horror as Purple Heart's head flopped to the ground and her transformation ended, reverting her back to her human form. "Neptune..." She whispered and shook the small girl. "Neptune..." Her eyes burst into tears as Neptune didn't respond.
"NEPTUNE!" She screamed to the heavens in anguish.
The End..?
Insert "Drastic My Soul" from the anime s-CRY-ed here.
Yes, I just did that.