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

This was originally part of the last epilogue chapter. I broke it up because it was too long.

Oh, and before I forget, Farsight21, Blanc's outfit is white, yes, but her next most prominent color is blue. Really, dunno why they aren't named after their hair color for their HDD forms.

Epilogue 3

When they got back to the Basilicom, everyone stared at the injuries Plutia and Chrome were sporting. "What happened?!" Ultra Noire gasped as she saw her friend.

"Weeeeeell..." Plutia began and smiled. "If you think this is bad," she drawled out, "you should see the other person."

Black Heart rolled her eyes as she carried Neptune over to the wheelchair and put her down, transforming back. "I wouldn't know," Noire smirked at Plutia, "when we got there, it was just you two."

"Exactly." Chrome said as Yellow Heart turned back into Peashy.

"Well..." Neptune looked around. "Where's Iffy and Compa?"

Nepgear spoke up at that point. "Oh, they're out with the other IFs and Compas along with Marvy, CC2 and both Falcoms."

"...Boy, this is going to be confusing." Neptune giggled. "So, I know you all want to know what happened in Planeptune," she looked at Uzume, who was sitting at the table and eating a sandwich. "Well, after we took off from Lastation, we ended up running into a water tornado and that's when Histy directed us through it. And then it was like we ended up at Castle Grayskull."

Hyper Noire gave Neptune a sharp look. "You went "by the power of Grayskull" when you transformed, didn't you?"

Neptune giggled and nodded. "Uh huh, it was too appropriate."

Gamworld Nepgear spoke up to explain things with Chrome and Neptune filling in details of what happened in Planeptune.

"That pedo freak was there?!" Hyper Blanc hissed while her sisters both went blue in the face at the thought of dealing with him again.

"Uh huh!" Gamworld Peashy nodded. "He licked me and Filyn and he wanted to do other bad things too."

Filyn grimaced as she thought about that fight. "Then, well, I don't know what happened, but this crystal thing bonked me on the head and gave me lots of shares, so... Well, both Peashy and I were able to transform and..."

"HE WENT BOOM!" Gamworld Peashy threw her hands into the air.

Gamworld Uni explained what happened to Judge and then Neptune finally explained about her fight against her evil self during that time. Though she did leave out some details, like getting stabbed through the spine and being turned into a Void temporarily, just giving vague details about being badly injured thanks to her evil self and losing the ability to walk because of it for awhile.

"To think Kurome would do that." Uzume muttered, feeling horrible about what her other self had done to an entire dimension.

"Well, she's gone for good now." Neptune smiled. "Turns out that she kind of screwed up when she tried to take over my body."

"HUH?!" Everyone yelled.

Neptune blinked a few times as she looked at the reactions that the CPUs from Gamworld had. "Oh, right, all of you were in the other nations at the time. Yeah, Kurome took all the Fearicite energy that exploded after the Voids died and made one big Fearicite crystal and then she tried to rip my soul out of my body before Green Void, White Void and Black Void showed up, with all the other Void and Heart CPUs that died because of her and they sent her into the Fearicite and then it all went poof."

Hyper Noire face-palmed hard. "Jeez, make it sound horrible. But you are okay, right?" She asked, concern in her voice and Neptune nodded.

"Yeah. After that, we came here with everyone across Gamworld." Neptune sighed as she realized it was getting late. "And, well, that's kind of one of the reasons I called you all here. The people who came with from Gamworld..." She gave them all a small smile. "Some of them want to move into your nations."

Hyper Vert chuckled softly. "Leave it to Neptune to tell us a story that gripping and then tell us why she wanted us to show up. I have no problem having people move to Leanbox."

Neptune looked at Uni, Rom and Ram from Gamworld and gave them small smiles. "What do you three want to do?"

"I hope you're not mad at me," Gamworld Uni spoke up and looked at Ultra Noire, "but I'm going to go and live with her. I still have a lot to learn about being a CPU, I think."

Gamworld Rom looked troubled. "...I want to know the real Blanc..." She looked at Ultra Blanc and then back to Neptune. "Can we still come to visit?" Neptune nodded and found both Rom and Ram were hugging her tightly.

"Can we still call you big sis?" Ram asked softly.

"Yeah." Neptune smiled as she hugged them back. After a minute, the three ended the hug with the twins stepping back and Neptune looked at Ultra Vert. "Hey, Vert, did you bring the things I asked you to?"

"Indeed." Ultra Vert nodded and pulled out a small bag. "CPU Memories."

"So that's your plan, huh?" Ultra Noire chuckled. "Give each of them CPU Memories so they can transform again?"

"Well," Neptune smiled at her. "It seemed like a good idea." She looked at Chrome. "Do you think it's a good idea?"

Chrome scratched the back of her head as she thought about it. "I don't know how that item interacts with us, but they might still need to undergo the ritual to become fully realized CPUs." She shrugged. "Only way to know is to try it out."

Neptune nodded. "Alright, you heard the lady."

Ultra Vert chuckled and handed one to Gamworld Uni, one to Gamworld Rom and one to Gamworld Ram. "Hmm, I have three more, you said to bring six, but..."

"Well," Neptune scratched her cheek. "I figure that P-ko here," she ruffled Gamworld Peashy's head, "could be hooked up to Vert's Sharicite Crystal and get the ability to transform that way."

"It's a complicated process, but it's doable, at least for CPUs born in this world, but it's not well-known." Histoire said and looked at Blind Histoire. "What do you think?"

Blind Histoire shrugged, she had no clue about it herself. "This isn't something that I know, but if it's possible, then it's possible. I think that it should be observed closely though, due to the fact that they were born from Fearicite, but they did demonstrate back in Gamworld the ability to process and use Shares."

"Why did you ask for six, Neptune?" Chrome asked, confused.

"Because you and Filyn should have your powers too." Neptune answered her. "You never know when you might need it. Besides, you only need a few shares to transform."

Gamworld Uni looked at the CPU Memory in her hand and shrugged. "So, how do I use this?"

"You eat it." Neptune, Ultra Blanc and Plutia all said at the same time.

"It does look like a rice ball..." Gamworld Rom said before swallowing it, as did her sister and Uni.

The three opened their eyes in shock before they felt a surge of power and were engulfed in light as they transformed.

"Hey!" The transformed Uni looked at herself. "I'm back and, GAH! WHY AM I STILL IN THIS STUPIDLY SKIMPY OUTFIT?!"

"WAAAGH!" The transformed Ram whimpered. "I'm still showing almost everything!"

The transformed Rom looked at herself. "...So what we looked like before is what we look like now? ...That's neat."

"YOU'RE NOT SHOWING OFF SO MUCH OF YOUR BODY!" Both transformed CPU Candidates yelled at her, causing her to fall on her butt, their faces bright red.

"Wow!" Ram grinned as she looked at her other self. "That's so cool!" She suddenly ran around her other self and giggled loudly. "Hee hee hee! Other me's butt is even bigger now!"

"Stop staring!" The transformed Ram slapped her hands over her butt-cheeks and her heart-shaped tip glowed softly while her tail twitched over and over.

Uni stared at her other self, her face turning bright red. "JEEZ! That's indecent!" She thought the long tail was pretty neat and the coloring was cool, but her other self was showing off even more skin than she did in her Next-gen Cradle HDD outfit.

After all, her Next-gen Cradle outfit at least covered her butt-cheeks fully, unlike her other self's HDD form.

"So what do you call yourselves in this form?" Histoire asked as she was the only one not blushing like crazy.

"Darkness Sister Black," the transformed Uni said and pointed to the others, "Darkness Sister Pink, Darkness Sister Blue, Darkness Sister Yellow and," she pointed at Gamworld Nepgear, "Darkness Sister Purple."

Hyper Vert looked at Gamworld Peashy and smiled at her. "Well, you'll soon be Green Sister, okay?" Peashy nodded, smiling as Vert ruffled her hair playfully.

At that moment, Gamworld Nepgear was engulfed in a white light and transformed into her HDD form.

"What the goodness?!" Nepgear's eyes bugged out as she saw her other self's transformed state. "I imagine if I was Vert's sister that I'd end up wearing something like that."

"Well, shoot." Darkness Sister Purple muttered as she looked at herself. "Well, that confirms something and..." She trailed off at the looks that both Verts were giving her. "Uh..."

"Don't mind them," Hyper Noire's face was bright red, "they're a couple of perverts."

"After what we saw in Leanbox, this is amazingly tame." Chrome muttered and rolled her eyes.

"Wow, Other Neppy Jr.!" Plutia's eyes lit up upon seeing Darkness Sister Purple's HDD self. "You're really sexy like that." She ignored the sharp looks that both Chrome and Neptune gave her. "I bet you'd need to beat people off with a stick when you're like that."

Neptune suddenly laughed as she remembered how she almost had to do just that when Compa had started to fill out. "Plutie, I don't think everyone has to deal with that like our Compa did."

Plutia just giggled and stuck her tongue out.

Neptune smiled before tilting her head as she took on a contemplative look. "For some reason, I think I'm forgetting about something..." There was a sudden flash of light where Filyn was and Neptune slapped her forehead as she realized that Filyn had eaten her CPU Memory as well. "Oh yeah, I forgot about her."

All the Hyperdimension CPUs that didn't know about Filyn's transformation suddenly tensed up and stared in shock at who was in front of them. "CFW MAGIC?!"

"Huh?" Vermilion Heart looked at them in confusion and then looked at Neptune. "...Can you please explain this, because I don't understand."

"Ah, well, the version of you from this world fought us a long time ago, beat all four of us and Nepgear easily and then we were captured by tentacles and slowly drained to death." Neptune answered her. "Well, we weren't dead, but we weren't really conscious or alive during those three years."

"...Oh." Vermilion Heart looked at the CPUs who were glaring at her. "...Did she have a scythe too?" They nodded and she sighed heavily. "Well, that sure explains a lot, doesn't it?"

"Well," Neptune had an amused look on her face. "I always did call you a villain and you turn into the one that made all of us helpless for three years."

Vermilion Heart chuckled, her voice sounding just like CFW Magic's voice. "Well, at least now it makes sense. But my name is Vermilion Heart like this."

"Vermilion Heart, huh?" Histoire muttered as she looked over the CPU. "Yes, much better than CFW Magic." She looked at Neptune and shook her head. 'Leave it to Neptune to find an alternate dimension version of the one who beat them all in combat at the same time.

Neptune smiled and then looked at the other CPU Candidates. "Well, if it's okay," she looked at Ultra Blanc and Ultra Noire. "Take care of them, will you?"

"You make it sound like I'm irresponsible." Ultra Blanc gave Neptune an annoyed look. "It'll be nice to have some more people around though. And maybe they'll be less difficult to deal with than Copypaste when he tries to be quiet."

"And you should know that I'm not bad at taking care of people." Ultra Noire smirked at Neptune. "I took care of you, didn't I?" Neptune smiled and nodded.

"Big Sis Neptune," Darkness Sister Blue spoke up and smiled at her. "Thank you." She hugged Neptune again. "I love you, big sister."

Neptune smiled as she hugged the girl back. "I'm glad you let someone like me be your big sister." She said so softly that only Darkness Sister Blue could hear her.

"Ladies," Hyper Vert spoke up, "I do think that we should go to the areas where the people from the other dimension are at and find those who wish to go with us."

"Oh!" Neptune's eyes widened as she and Rom ended their hug. "Verty! Vert!" Both Verts looked at Neptune curiously. "I forgot to mention, the people from Leanbox are... Well, they might expect that it's okay to do the sort of thing that's okay at R-18 island. So you might want to lay down the law on them right away."

"Thanks for the warning." Both Verts muttered at the same time.

"Oh, and Vert," she looked at Ultra Vert, "can you stay here for a little bit?" Neptune looked at Nepgear. "Could you go with them, Nep Jr.?" She then looked at Uzume. "Can you help them too?"

"It's the least I can do since Kurome killed their world." Uzume said as she transformed into Orange Heart. "Ta da!" Her voice was pitched upwards and everyone who had never seen her before was shocked by her mannerism change. "Orange Heart is here to help."

"What is it with Planeptune CPUs and wild personality changes?" Ultra Blanc muttered, everyone else just shrugged.

"Sure, I'll help too." Nepgear nodded and walked out onto the patio with everyone, leaving Darkness Sister Purple, Ultra Vert, Histoire, Blind Histoire and Neptune alone.

Darkness Sister Purple would have left, but Neptune had grabbed her arm to stop her. "Why did you stop me, Neptune?"

"Well..." Neptune looked at her and then at Ultra Vert and sighed heavily. "Would you want to live with Vert in her world?"

"Neptune?" Both Vert and Darkness Sister Purple stared at her in surprise.

"I'm not trying to get rid of you, Nepgear, but I think that you'd do better to not be around me." Neptune sighed. "Sorry, not what I meant to say, I mean, it might be good for you to learn to be a proper CPU. And if you stay here, I'll want to treat you special and I'm worried that my Nepgear will get jealous." She suddenly grinned and chuckled. "Besides, if I let my Verty have you, people might get confused about which CPU Candidate is from which nation."

"But Neptune, I don't mind being here with you. I'd rather be here with you." Darkness Sister Purple told her.

"Can you at least try? Like... Maybe a couple of months?" Neptune hedged and sighed when Darkness Sister Purple looked hesitant. "Please?"

"Neptune," Vert began, "I do appreciate this, but why are you trying to push her onto me? You fought me tooth and nail to keep me from taking your Nepgear away from you, so why?"

Neptune looked troubled as she gripped the blanket over her legs. "Because... I... I..."

Seeing that, Vert shook her head. 'Something's not right.' A large part of her wanted to take Neptune's offer up. In fact, if it wasn't for the fact that she could tell that there was something wrong with Neptune, she would have taken her up on that offer. But she knew, deep down, that if she did, Neptune would suffer and that wasn't something she could do to her friend. "Neptune... I know this sounds a bit out of character for me, but..." She looked at how Darkness Sister Purple looked hesitant. "I have to decline for now." Neptune looked at her in surprise. "If Nepgear doesn't wish to move in with me, well..." She sighed. "I admit, I'm saddened by her choice, but I would rather she came with willingly."

"...Are you feeling okay?" Neptune asked her and Vert huffed.

"I don't think I'd be able to handle a CPU Candidate and all the new people moving into Leanbox at the same time. Besides, if Nepgear wants to learn how to be a proper CPU, my door is always open." She winked at Darkness Sister Purple. "But," she gave Neptune a stern look, "if I hear of you treating this Nepgear like you did with your own sister in our world, I won't hesitate to come and take her away from you."

Neptune nodded as Vert turned, transformed into her goddess form and flew off. "Nepgear..?" She looked at Darkness Sister Purple, "why didn't you want to go with her?"

"Because I want to live with my real sister." She answered and gave Neptune a kiss on the forehead. "The one who loves me. Now I need to go help them guide people to the other nations. I'll be back, I promise."

Neptune watched as Darkness Sister Purple took off. "...Why though?"

"Neptune," Histoire spoke up and Neptune turned to look at her. The book fairy had a smile on her face as she floated over and gave Neptune a pat on the head. "You've changed a lot since your trip. Don't second-guess yourself or others. It's not you."

"Thanks, Histy." Neptune smiled and yawned. "I think I'll just take a nap on the couch." She rolled her wheelchair over to the couch and pulled herself off of the chair and onto the couch. The instant she was laying down, she was out cold, snoring softly.

Histoire smiled and floated over to Neptune and took the blanket off the floor and pulled it up over Neptune's body. "Sleep well." She stayed hovering over her CPU for some time afterwords, just looking at Neptune sleep.

Behind her, Blind Histoire had a knowing smile on her face as she nodded silently.

The two didn't leave, even as Filyn, Chrome, both Nepgears and Uzume came back hours later to report that the others had gone back to their nations with a sizable amount of people from the other world.

End Epilogue 3

We're not done yet. There's one more to go.

And yeah, I do plan on coming back to everyone in the future with some one-shot chapters showing everyone adjusting to their new lives.

Yes, Chrome swallowed the CPU Memory, she just did it outside.