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Chapter 97

"What?" Neptune asked, her voice trembling. "You mean... Evil me won?"

Histoire looked down. "I truly am sorry, Neptune. I knew this was a possibility, but if even one Void remained, this world would continue to suffer." She looked up and had a truly miserable look on her face. "I could not tell you that the destruction of the Voids would end in this situation. You may have tried to stop it."

"You're darn right!" Neptune growled at Histoire. "If I had known, I would have tried something crazy back in Lastation."

"What would you have me do?" Histoire asked softly, her whole body showing how utterly defeated she truly was. "I had to observe, for the past sixty years, as this world suffered from greedy, selfish CPUs..." Her body shook with soft sobs. "I truly am sorry, Neptune, that what you did was meaningless."

"...Well..." Neptune suddenly smiled. "Not exactly." She looked over her shoulder at Compa. "Could you get Chrome in here and ask if one of them has my cell phone?"

(-)

After getting Neptune's cell from Nepgear, Chrome walked into the room after Compa. "Okay, so what's the situation? The others are worried that something bad's going on."

"Well, apparently I need stitches, Compa gave my cute booty some good slaps and I couldn't feel anything, I doomed the world, I'm currently naked and I need to make a call."

"..." Chrome gave Neptune, who was grinning at her, a bewildered look. "...Could you explain that dooming the world part a bit more clearly?"

Neptune suddenly pouted. "I was hoping you'd do the "what?" line so I could try and and play up me being naked." She sighed at the look Chrome gave her. "Well, okay, so... Apparently killing all the Voids of Gamworld and destroying the Fearicite crystals... Kiiiind of was a bad thing and apparently the world is doomed."

Chrome frowned and looked at Histoire, who was floating above Neptune and looking regretful. "Okay, I assume you told her, so one, how do you know and two, if true, how much time do we have?"

"I'm connected with Gamworld." Histoire told Chrome. "When the world dies, I shall sink into the abyss with it. I deserve nothing less after all. And as for time... We might be lucky and get three months, but the more accurate timeline would be a few days up to three weeks."

"Histy..." Neptune said softly and looked at her sadly. She looked at Chrome and held out her hand. "Gimme phone!" When Chrome handed it over to her, she smiled and tapped a few buttons on the screen. "...You know, I just realized, I never charged this thing once in the months I've been here and it's still nearly fully charged. ...I don't think I should ask what kind of power source Nep Jr. used for this phone."

"Probably a good idea." Chrome, Histoire and Compa all said at the same time as they didn't want to think about it either.

Neptune giggled and made the call. After a few rings she got an answer. "Hello?" The voice on the other end was scared, timid and full of worry.

It also made Neptune smile brightly. "Hey, Nep Jr., I'm alive."

(-)

In Hyperdimension...

"NEPTUNE?!" Nepgear suddenly cried out so loudly that Uzume, Histoire, Croire and the bigger Neptune, who had returned a little bit ago, all looked at her in shock. "YOU'RE ALIVE?!"

"Chrome! I'm deaf now! Someone talk to Nep Jr. for me!"

"No wait!" Nepgear pouted as the phone was handed over to someone else. "Dang it."

"Well, when you scream like a banshee to Tiny Me, of course she'd go deaf." Neptune giggled at Nepgear, who pouted more which just caused the bug catcher to giggle more.

Nepgear was about to say something when someone spoke up on the phone. "I take it that you're Neptune's little sister?" Nepgear's eyes widened as she heard that voice. "Hello, are you... Huh? Arfoire? You called me that before, Neptune, who the hell is Arfoire anyway?"

Nepgear let out a soft sigh as she realized that she was talking to someone who merely sounded like Arfoire. "I'm sorry, you sounded like someone that I know who isn't a good person."

"Ah, I guess that makes sense then. Anyway, Neptune is... Well, alive and mostly okay, other than some cuts and bruises on her body."

"That's good." Nepgear smiled. "Tell Neptune I'm sorry for yelling so loudly, but we'll be able to come get her in a couple of hours as Croire should be recovered enough by then."

There was some noise coming from the other side of the line and the person on the phone spoke up again. "...I don't suppose it would be too much to ask if you could bring an entire dimension's worth of people with you, would it?"

"HUH?!" Nepgear's eyes were white and blank as she heard that request.

"Here, I'll let Neptune explain it." The person said and there was some shuffling going on before someone else picked up the phone.

"Gee, thanks." Neptune grumbled. "Ah, listen, Nep Jr., this is going to sound a bit weird, but I accidentally doomed this whole dimension."

"EH?!"

Histoire sighed and floated over to Nepgear and forced the phone away from her ear and put it on speaker. "Neptune, are you there?"

"Hey! It's Histy! I missed you!"

Histoire smiled softly as she heard that voice. "I bet you won't say that when you see the mountain of paperwork you have to do."

"GAH! Histy! You're killing me here! Anyway, Histy, how much open living space do we have in Planeptune?"

Histoire blinked and tilted her head in confusion. "Might I ask why you need to ask such a question?"

"Well..." Neptune's tone was totally embarrassed and Histoire mentally sighed and prepared herself for something rather stupid, crazy and just plain weird. "I ended up fighting every single CPU in this dimension, now they're all dead and since all the CPUs are dead, the whole dimension's going to die in three weeks taking everyone with it."

It took the room several minutes to process what they were just told.

"Well," Croire suddenly smirked, "I can't ever say that Neptune's boring at least."

She was knocked off her book when Nepgear's flying shoe hit her square in the face.

(-)

In Gamworld a few hours later...

"So..." Chrome looked at the group and sighed. "That's the situation." The way that all of them looked at her in shock didn't surprise her in the slightest. If she hadn't heard it from Histoire, she wouldn't have believed it herself.

"So all that we did..." Rom began, a hurt look on her face.

"Was for nothing?" Ram finished, looking like she was going to cry. "We... We saved the world from the Voids and it's still going to die?"

"Seems that way," Chrome told her and crossed her arms under her breasts, "from what I was told, the tome Croire will be able to open a portal for herself and one other person to come through in a couple of hours in her world. Which will be in a couple of days."

"Well, this stinks." MAGES. muttered as she thought about stuff.

"You can teleport, right?" Ram asked MAGES., who nodded. "Then, you can..." She trailed off as MAGES. shook her head. "Why not?"

"Sure, I can jump around no problem from place to place, but only if I know where I'm going." MAGES. answered her. "And, well, I only know Planeptune. You gotta know where you're going so you don't accidentally end up with your butt stuck in a wall or something."

Both Peashy and Filyn looked troubled by what they had heard.

"Excuse me." Compa spoke up as she stuck her head into the room. "We're done with Nep Nep now. If you want to come see her, you can." She smiled as Peashy, Rom, Ram and Nepgear all made their way into the room.

Chrome looked at Compa. "I thought the stitches would take longer." Sure, it had taken a few hours, but considering how deep the cuts had been, she thought it would have taken longer and involved a lot more screaming.

"I did too, but apparently they use magic stitches here." Compa smiled at her. "So the open wounds are easily treated. There shouldn't even be a scar. But the nerves in her spine are a lot more... Delicate, to put it lightly. Histoire says that she'll heal, it'll just take awhile and she needs lots of Shares."

"That's nice and all..." Uni spoke up, "but can we get back to the end of the world?" She gave Chrome a look that was a mixture of desperation and concern. "Do we have a plan?"

"I don't know." Chrome admitted to her. "It all depends on what happens in a couple of days."

(-)

"Hey..." Neptune, who was laying on her stomach, smiled as she looked at the four in front of her. "What? No pudding?" Neptune tried to laugh, but when none of them did, her humor slowly died off. "Hey, I'm okay, so..."

The next thing she knew, Rom was hugging her tightly while trembling. "Stupid big sis! Stupid big sis!" Tears came out of her eyes while Ram slipped in and hugged Neptune as well, forcing the injured CPU to lay on her side. Neptune winced as her tender side was touched, but neither girl was putting her in danger of re-opening her wound while Nepgear looked on with worry on her face while Peashy looked like she wanted to cry or scream.

It took almost ten minutes before the two finally relented enough to let go of Neptune and step back. "Okay, I know I'm a big dumb stupid head, but why did you keep reminding..." Neptune trailed off as Nepgear looked at her and trembled. "Nep Jr.?"

Suddenly Nepgear and Peashy were both hugging her, also crying hard.

Neptune just smiled and hugged them back as best she could. "It's okay... I'm okay now." For some odd reason, the two just cried harder at that.

Neptune knew things would work out. 'At least I hope they will.'

She could worry about that for later. Right now Neptune had four little sisters that all needed comfort and reassurance and Neptune would give it to all of them.

To be continued...

Well, this was a somber chapter. But at least they have a plan now.