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Chapter 96

"Next Program... ACTIVATE!"

There was a blinding flash of light and when it was over, Purple Heart had changed again. Her body suit now covered every part of her body, save for her head and was black with blue trim, save for a gray mesh that covered her abdomen, thighs and the inner part of her chest, her hair, while in the same style as Purple Heart, was longer, unbraided and had become lighter in color to the point of being somewhere between purple and blue. The hair clips on her head had opened up and looked like her d-pad hair clips, only black and thinner. On her legs were a pair of metal purple boots that went up to her knees and on her arms were two large purple gauntlets that went from her wrist up to her elbows. Above her hair clips were two large antennae and on her back was a circular object that suddenly exploded outwards and the light looked like an eight-point star. When the light faded, there were eight wings in a circular pattern around her body and two thin, blue rings. In the center of the wings, on the metal circle that they were all connected to was the symbol of Planeptune. In her hands was a single-handed blade that was purple.

"Next Form, Complete." The transformed Purple Heart intoned and if one looked closely at her eyes, they would see that the power symbol in them had gained an extra line near the top.

"Next..." Uni stared in shock.

"Form..?" Nepgear finished for her.

"SO COOL!" Rom and Ram cheered at the same time.

"You had this up your sleeve this whole time, huh?" Chrome asked, smirking as she looked at the CPU floating there. "What do we call you in this form?"

"Next Purple." Was the answer she got. Turning, Next Purple looked at Uni and gave her a sad look. "I want you to know, Uni, that if not for the torture I had been subjected to in Lastation, I would have used this form to cut down that airship and save your sister."

Uni snorted at her. "It's not like you went "oops, I just remembered I could do this" or some other crap, right?" Next Purple shook her head. "Then whatever, I'm sure that Noire doesn't blame you either."

Next Purple smiled at her. "Thank you."

"Wow, Neptuna!" Peashy suddenly yelled as she looked at Next Purple. "That's your new form?"

"Indeed," Next Purple turned and faced Purple Nightmare, who was now rushing at her counterpart. "You really think I didn't have a trump card left to play, evil me?" She looked down at her feet. "Hmm, I still can't feel my legs." Focusing on her shares, she found that she could move her legs if she made her shares do it for her. "Okay, then I can do this."

"What are you going to..." Chrome asked as suddenly Next Purple's power started to build up. "...EXE?"

"This is for Gamworld..." Next Purple intoned as power suddenly exploded from her feet and from her back while she grabbed her sword and held it to the back and side while turning. "It's time, evil me..." Her power continued to build up and explode outwards as her sword got longer and longer. "DIMENSION SLICE!"

Purple Nightmare was fairly close to Next Purple by this time and launched her damaged tentacle arms out at Next Purple, who suddenly moved so fast that they couldn't keep up. "DIIIIE!" The Nightmare screamed and swung Gehaburn at the fast moving body coming in.

"Disappear!" Next Purple yelled as she swung her large sword forward, clashing with Gehaburn.

Purple Nightmare's eyes widened in horror as Gehaburn was shattered into pieces, as where her tentacle arms, and her newly grown extra arms, and her lower body, as well as her chest, and the Fearicite Crystal that suddenly came out of her chest.

As the remains of her body fell to the ground, Purple Nightmare returned to her human form, but her body turned red and dissolved before it even hit the ground.

Neptune of Gamworld, also known as Purple Void and Purple Nightmare, was no more.

Next Purple smiled as she finished the attack, which ended with her high in the air. "I..." Her eyes widened as she felt herself return to her human form. "Aw, Neppit! I forgot that attack burns all my shares up!"

Letting out a yell as she fell, Neptune swung her arms in a windmill motion. "This suuuuucks!" Sure, she had fallen from higher places before, but never while she was injured. Plus there was no IF or Noire landing pad down there!

The next thing she knew, there was a pair of arms around her, grabbing her. "I have you, Lady Neptune." Steamax told her as he held her in a bridal carry.

"My hero!" Neptune suddenly hugged Steamax. "You know," she giggled and grinned. "Now I see why Uni has a crush on you." She giggled even more as Steamax suddenly sputtered and stuttered. "I'm just teasin' ya." Though she wouldn't be surprised if this world's Uni did have strong feelings for Steamax, but she had no clue.

As they got close to the ground, a magic circle formed in the air and slowed Steamax's descent enough that when he touched the ground there was no jerking motion.

"Yay! Ground floor! Everyone off the ninja elevator!" Neptune cheered as Steamax put her on the ground.

The instant he let go of her, she collapsed under her own weight. "Ah darn it! Don't tell me that I'm paralyzed for real and not just as a status effect?!"

"Ah, I don't know." Steamax said as he immediately helped Neptune off of the ground. "We should get you to a medical bay."

Neptune nodded as the others came running up to them. She gave them all a wry grin. "See? Told you I had enough for one more attack." She sighed in exhaustion. "It's over..."

"Yeah." Chrome nodded and took Neptune from Steamax as she picked up the smaller CPU. "All thanks to you."

(-)

Meanwhile...

"So that's it then, huh?" Kurome looked on as Neptune was carried into the Basilicom to get treatment. "All the Voids of the world are dead, all the Fearicite is shattered."

"Indeed," Histoire told her and floated upwards and towards the others. "If you'll excuse me. I'd like to be with the savior of Gamworld."

Kurome just watched as Histoire floated off. "That's fine, Histy," her eyes closed as she smiled while she looked at Neptune, her eyes gleaming. "It doesn't matter anymore now."

(-)

Laying face down on the examination table, completely naked, save for a sheet over her body, Neptune sighed. "I know I have a nice butt and all, but I wish you wouldn't stare at it so much."

"I'm not staring at your butt, Nep Nep." Compa told her, "but these deep cuts on your back." Her metal hand touched the skin just under the deep gash on Neptune's left side, causing the small CPU to cry out in pain. "Hmm..." She pulled down on the skin, causing Neptune to bite her lip while pounding on the table. "Okay, this looks deep, but I'm not seeing any bone, so I'm sure that this'll heal if we just stitch it up." She let go of Neptune's skin, causing the girl to gasp in relief. "But this..." She touched the area around the cut on Neptune's lower back. "...Nep Nep, I'm touching your butt, can you feel it?"

"Huh?" Neptune had a confused look on her face until a mirror was put in front of her and her face turned red as she saw Compa squeezing and fondling her butt. "H...Hey! Compa! That's lewd!"

Compa frowned softly and gave Neptune's butt a few swats, one of them was so loud that it sounded really painful.

"Uh..." Neptune had a scared look on her face. "What's going on?"

Compa sighed heavily. "We need to wait for the test results to come back, Nep Nep, but... I don't think you'll be walking ever again."

Neptune sighed and lowered her head. "Yeah, I couldn't feel my legs and the only reason I could do that last attack was because I used so many shares to make my body work."

"That might be a good thing." Histoire said as she listened in on the conversation. Neptune looked up and smiled as Histoire floated over to her. She reached up and grabbed Histoire's hand and guided her onto the table. "You aren't human, so you might heal, but it will take a long time and you'll need lots of shares to heal, but you should heal. ...Maybe?"

"Well, better than having a broken body forever." Neptune smiled at her. "And hey, at least I'll have a good story to tell, huh?"

The damaged tome smiled at Neptune. "You are..." She reached forward with trembling arms and Neptune gently pulled her forward. "Thank you, so, so much, for what you did for this world." Histoire told her. "And I'm so, so sorry."

"Huh?" Neptune had a confused look on her face. "Is it cuz I got badly hurt? I knew that was a possibility, Histy. It happens."

Histoire shook her head. "I'm sorry for that as well, but there's something you need to know." She let go of the hug and floated backwards, a truly distraught look on her face. "Without Fearicite or Sharicite... Gamworld is doomed to sink into the abyss."

Both Compa and Neptune stared at Histoire in shock.

To be continued...

Neptune: OH COME ON! Can't a girl get a break?! Yes, I'm doing the final bit of this chapter! And just after we finished off all the Voids too! Author! I want a mulligan, please?!