===CH 6===
CPUs vs Dark CPUs
'Thoughts'
"Speech"
"Skill"
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Zerodimension
The group arrived in front of the ruins of a building resembling the Neptower.
"We went over this, everyone stick together and take down as many of the foot soldiers as you can until the true dark CPUs show themselves!" called out Alex, repeating Rom's edited strategy.
"Right!" the all replied and charged forward towards the large gathering of Alphadimension monsters
The group of 10 CPUs made short process of the offending monster by using a secondary expendable set of weapons that were enchanted with the runes. Alex meanwhile stayed a little bit behind the 10 and made sure that none of the monsters were planning a sneak attack.
It didn't take long until the dark CPUs shoved themselves and all fighting came to a standstill since most of the foot soldiers didn't dare come too close to them.
"You have returned, Alex. And you even brought some sacrifices." said dark purple in a voice that sounded way too much like Neptune's for comfort. "Perhaps the beating we gave you the last two times wasn't enough."
"I believe it's as they say, all good things are three." said dark green and stepped up beside dark purple.
"This time will be different!" declared Alex as his arms and legs began to get covered by scales. "Dragon Force 2nd stage."
"Oh, how scary~. the infamous Dragon HDD." taunted dark purple even though they all were on guard now.
"Big Neptune!" he shouted as he fired a large torrent of black flames at the four dark CPUs causing them to scatter. "Now!"
Adult Neptune quickly replaced her weapon with a giant spoon as she flew towards dark purple. "EXE Drive: Dimensional Pudding!"
A large rift appeared directly above dark purple and trapped her inside a skyscraper sized vanilla pudding. Hyperdimension Neptune could be seen starting to drool since she had her focus on the giant Pudding.
A not all to gentle nudge in her side from Noire was enough to redirect her attention on the battle.
"W-what is this!?" the muffled voice of dark purple came from within the giant dessert "are you trying to suffocate me-!?" she apparently took a mouth full after her last statement as she visibly relaxed and took another bite, trying to do so subtly so that her fellow dark CPUs won't notice.
"I'll take dark white and green! big Neptune handles dark purple! everyone else delays, or preferably takes down dark black!" Said Alex as he shot a barrage of magic rockets at his targets to further separate them.
Everyone else meanwhile headed for dark black to stall, or preferably defeat her.
Alex vs Dark Green and Dark White
Both Dark CPUs took little to no damage from the rockets they had been shot with earlier. Dark white eventually had enough of it and used her Axe to destroy all of the missiles at once and send a large wave of ice magic at Alex.
"Shadow Dragon Roar!" A large beam of black fire vaporized the ice and grazed the offending dark CPU.
"Explosive Spear!" dark green's Spear came flying at Alex from behind.
Having felt the approaching weapon, Alex used his plasma katana to strike it a few times and redirect it into dark white.
The Projectile weapon hit its new target dead centre and send her flying into a nearby building.
Alex reached out with his unarmed left hand towards dark green and a black magic circle with a red outline appeared. A wicked smile spread across his face as shock settled in on the dark CPU, who desperately tried to dodge. "Anti-Nova!"
The dark CPU hastily erected a barrier out of share energy to block the pulse of Anti-share energy heading her way.
The energy blast hit the barrier and tore through it like butter before impacting in the dark CPU. Dark green screamed in agony as the Anti-Share energy tore at her very existence and almost forced her out of her transformed state.
Alex meanwhile wasn't unaffected by his own attack either and reverted into Dragon Force 2nd Stage.
"Time to step up our little game, don't you think?" he taunted as Negative energy gathered around his entire being. "Access, Shadow Drive!"
Adult Neptune "vs" dark purple
Dark purple had apparently forgotten about Neptune's presence entirely and was currently eating her way through the giant Pudding instead of using any skills that could have done so in an instant.
"Do you like it?" asked Adult Neptune, who has joined in with dark purple in eating the giant pudding. She however hovered above the giant dessert and was using a spoon.
"-Whaft is thifs weird sufstance!? Why can'ft I stop!?" dark purple yelled while eating more of the giant pudding
"You're trapped in a giant pudding. It's a dessert, don't worry it's safe to eat." answered adult Neptune from her position as she summoned another load to make up for the portion that had already been eaten.
"You'll pay for this!" yelled dark purple but continued in a more quiet tone "...when I'm done."
30 minutes passed relatively quickly and adult Neptune had to restock the pudding supply 4 more times
"Ugh..." groaned dark purple from inside the street filling dessert before a bright black light erupted from her.
"What now!?" asked adult Neptune as she drew both of her swords at the possible attack.
An attack that never came as she later realized that dark purple's transformation simply wore off and left a strangely dressed version of her human self in its wake.
Dark Neptune gave adult Neptune a stern gaze before she continued digging into the massive pudding to the point at which she eventually passed out after eating up everything.
"...too much..." groaned out the dark CPU turned Human.
adult Neptune wearily approached her Alphadimension counterpart and quickly tied her up with a special rope. "That was easy."
Hyperdimension CPUs and Uzume vs dark black
It has taken them everything to keep up with the dark CPU and they were already beginning to feel the strain from the battle. And to make matters worse, dark black hasn't used a single skill so far.
"Diagonal Blade Dance!" until now. The dark CPU apparently had enough of her warm up session with the 9 CPUs and attempted to end it in one hit
"Diagonal Blade Dance!" Noire used her own version to cancel out her Alphadimension counterparts
"Dimensional Slice!" "Infinity Spear!" Neptune and Vert joined in with their finisher moves to use the opening Noire had provided.
Blanc had to stay out of it since she had already used hers in the beginning of the fight and was barely clinging onto her HDD form as it was. She instead opted to fire a blasts of ice magic into their target together with her sisters.
"Dolce Vida!" "Bits Combination!" Uni and Nepgear shot their respective EXE Drives skills into the mess as well.
Uzume stayed out of the mess since she couldn't join in without risking to hit one of her allies.
The blinding mess of EXE Skills hitting their target eventually cleared up and revealed dark black only somewhat worse for wear and panting a little inside a small barrier made of Share energy.
"...I'll give your credit for persistence you pests" panted dark black as her shield fell. "That stubborn persistence will be your downfall!- wait, one is missing!" she quickly turned around but only came face to face with an orange and white megaphone
"Special Dream Combination!" roared Uzume right into dark black's ear, effectively stunning her while she had to suffer from Uzume's skill
The onslaught ended but a new one started right away, "The Umio Heaven!" this time she yelled into her targets other ear
Everyone else that was still in fighting condition joined in on the second assault with ranged attacks while Uzume used her megaphone screams to stun dark black.
"Let's show her what Alex taught us, Rom!" Ram called out to her sister and raised her staff.
"Let's do this!" Rom replied and crossed her staff over her sisters.
"The oozing crest of corruption." Ram started and a black and purple aura formed around them
"The arrogant vessel of madness." Rom continued and the sky began to darken
"Deny the seething urge to let things stun and flicker." Ram added
"Disrupt the sleep." Rom continued
"The Crawling princess of Iron." Ram chanted
"The Eternally self destructing doll of mud." Rom continued
"Unite!" Ram called out and the ground began to shake
"Repulse!" Rom shouted
"Fill with Soil and know your own powerlessness! Art of Destruction, Black Coffin!" both finished together and a huge black box began to quickly trap dark black within.
Everyone was looking at the two youngest candidates with warring degrees of fear.
The spell completed itself by embedding two dozen energy long swords into the black energy construct, prompting everyone besides the casters to flinch.
A flash of black light shattered the magic coffin and signaled the end of their fight as dark black reverted into a strange dressed Noire.
They also used a special rope to bind her up and decided to rest a bit before joining up with either adult Neptune or Alex.
Alex vs Dark White and Green
The fight among the three Alphadimension CPUs was the last one that was still going with both sides having sustained some more serious injuries.
"RRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR!" A Zerodimension dark CPU made itself know and was about to attack the trio when Alex flashed over to it and proceeded to use it as a bat to beat down the two dark CPUs from his dimension.
The resulting earthquakes from the beat down caused most of the still standing houses to collapse.
Both dark CPUs were now firmly beaten into the ground when Alex flew higher into the air, still holding the half dead titan in his hands and began channeling Negative energy into it.
"Red Shadow Inferno Roar!" He swung the titan in the direction of the dark CPUs, leaving a giant slash wave in its wake which then combined with the roar attack he released.
The Explosion annihilated the entire building complex and killed Alex's living weapon before he descended back to the ground.
Both Dark CPUs were back in their Human forms and knocked out
"Art of Binding:" A yellow Magic circle appeared in front of his hands "Six Way Light Prison" Two sheets of solid light shot from the circle and split into six each, which then slammed into the midsections of the fallen CPUs.
Alex reached out with his senses to locate the other group and headed over to them, dragging the two CPUs through the dirt behind him.
Zerodimension; Neptower Ruins
Everyone had already meet up in front of the ruins of the Basilicom when they saw the titan approaching Alex's fight.
Their initial worry and surprise quickly turned into shock and disbelieve when said Alphadimension CPU began to weaponize the titan in order to beat up the dark CPUs.
If they thought that their already unreal situation couldn't get any crazier than it already was, then all hopes of that were crushed when Alex let loose a Sword skill. Fired from the Titan with enough force to flatten an entire block of buildings and nearly sending the entire group flying from the shockwave.
Shocked silence reigned over the group as no one present could find the words to break it.
Footsteps eventually broke the silence as Alex came into view, pulling both defeated dark CPUs through the debris on the ground.
Switching his hold on dark Vert over to his left hand he raises his right arm towards the group with a yellow magic circle in front of it. "Art of Binding: Six Way Light Prison"
The ropes on the other two dark CPU broke as the binding spell stabilized around them.
"I didn't think you guys would be done before me. Congratulations on surviving and beating them." Said Alex as he stopped in front of them.
adult Neptune was the first to recover "It wasn't that much of a challenge." she then lightly kicks dark Neptune "she practically defeated herself. I just provided her with enough Pudding to do so."
Everyone else also recovered and Uzume spoke up next "That dark CPU from your Dimension really is no pushover. Girl gave us a good run for our money there."
"I can imagine... but I wonder why they didn't enter Demon Force during their battles." Everyone except adult Neptune pales at the implication made by Alex. "...Something's not right here. I've already verified that these four are the real ones, but I can't come up with any good reason why they would hold back in a fight they could easily win otherwise."
"...They were playing with us. Guys, I think this is a Trap!" panics Adult Neptune, instantly on guard.
A giant purple magical circle suddenly appears beneath the entire city, causing everyone to transform and draw their weapons again.
"Radar" states Alex in a bored tone, signalizing that the magic circle belongs to him.
The circle vanishes after pulsing twice. "I've checked the nearby area in a radius of 50 kilometers. I can't find any indications of there being a trap in place."
Nepgear's N-Gear suddenly beeps to indicate a new message. "I've got a new message from the Histoires in Planeptune...They found a way to eventually return the dark CPUs to normal!"
"I guess we'll head back to Planeptune then." States Alex as he raises his arm to open another portal back
"I've got this! Warp!" chirps Adult Neptune before everyone present is swallowed by a large purple vortex.