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

And thus from this point on, the start of Nepgear's story.

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Chapter 1

When Nepgear vanquished The Deity of Sin, Arfoire, with Gehaburn and the Makers, they all returned home with Nepgear crowned as the Sole CPU of Gamindustri. She governed the whole Gamindustri continent by differentiating it into four areas. To the West resides Nepgear with Histoire, IF, and Compa helping her. For the North area Lowee it is entrusted to Mina Nishizawa,the East Area Lastation to Kei Jinguji, and the South Area Leanbox to Chika Hakozaki. The rest of the Makers helped the others in their respective places and on their own way.

When the people asked about why they are all turned into Planeptunian people, Nepgear said this.

"The CPU's…. are all in Celestia fighting against the Deity of Sin and her ASIC armies" answered Nepgear "If they bring the huge battle scale here it'll only bring unwanted casualties. Therefore until they return i'll keep the Gamindustri in check under Planeptune's name"

Nepgear decided to keep the actual events that have happened to the rest CPUs hidden from the rest of the world except for Oracle's and the Makers, Mainly because it'll cause many panic, dissatisfaction, and it would lead to rebel and revolt that will result in chaos and destruction to the whole Gamindustri.

The good thing is that the people understood her explanation and with Nepgear's familiarity for being a good girl, they all trusted her.

The bad thing is that this lie bringed more weight on her guilt and more burden for her heart.

It didn't helped when Arfoire's last words still etched in Nepgear's mind

"Without strife, without conflict, without competition… nothing will advance, nothing will evolve. The people will be complacent and live their lives in peace… The world will stagnate and rot"

Even as these words linger after she killed her with the cursed sword, she kept on working for the land and the people that she was entrusted to as a CPU, day and night. This, of course, made her extremely tired and eventually she developed a cold and a bit ruthless personality to better my image to those who make trouble for the people.

Speaking of the cursed sword, Gehaburn, it is now stored within Nepgear so no one can be affected by it. Although Histoire warns Nepgear to don't stay close to it, she insists on keeping close so that it won't affect other people gradually

As time went by, things started to balance and calm, even though it was chaotic at first. For this, Nepgear talked about revealing the truth to the people about what really happened to the CPUs in the Basilicom

"So what do you think about my idea, Histoire?" said Nepgear, wearing her usual white with purple sailor uniform and with the same thigh high socks, medium sized boots, and her D-pad clip on her hair. But now she also wears her sister Neptune's white hooded parka slinging off on her shoulder with the USB-like string tied up together to hold it in.

"Are you sure about this?" asked Histoire, who is wearing her tiny dress, in panic tone while hovering on her book around the meeting room "It'll cause panic to the people and more troubles around us if we rush this"

"Of course not now, so calm down okay? The situation around us started to feel calmer than it was at first"

"Ah sorry about that" Histoire calmed down and then she asked "So when will you tell the people about it?"

Nepgear thought for a few seconds then continued "I think about a few months later or less if the situation is a lot calmer as we progress further. Sounds good?"

"Yes, It's a more sound and sure move. But i can't help but worry for you"

"I get that sentiment Histoire. Oh, by the way, where are IF and Compa? They should be around here, especially after I gave them the meeting details" Nepgear asked after wondering why there are only her and Histoire in the room.

"About that" Histoire started to explain "IF still have some missions she needs to finish while Compa has an emergency patient she needs to attend"

"I see…" Nepgear thinks it's fair, especially with the efforts needed to ease the people's worries and we must not take it too easy.

But she can't help but think that something was off for some reason, but she couldn't figure out what…

As the day started to get dark, Histoire told Nepgear that she will tell IF and Compa the result of this meeting and then hovered to her work room to finish the rest of her paperwork. Meanwhile Nepgear finished up her new designs in the meeting and went back to her bedroom.

She turned to her purple pajamas, flopped onto her bed, tucked her blanket on her and tried to rest. It didn't go well as she remembered her fallen CPU friends, Nepgear started to cry as she wondered if her actions to the world were the correct one and started to call for Neptune… Vert… Noire… Blanc… Uni… Rom… Ram but to no avail.

She hoped for the future to be better so she could let go of her guilt and tell the world the true events that had transpired in the past and then she finally fell into her slumber.

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The next day

Nepgear woke up from her bed around 8 AM and as she got up, Nepgear could feel her share energy slowly decreasing but for some reason she didn't feel weaker. When she began to ponder why, she heard Histoire's loud shout calling for her and burstly open her bedroom door.

"Nepgear! this is an emergency!" Histoire said as she gestured to Nepgear to follow her. Nepgear followed her while she was still in her Pajamas and thought to herself 'Right after I hoped for the future to be better, I feel as if destiny is toying with me…'.

When they arrived at the Basilicom's channel room, Nepgear looked at the news feed that was frequent and what she saw horrified her.

The news feed is mostly about how Nepgear killed the other CPUs in order to kill the Deity of Sin, this made people protest in rage to the point of insulting the other CPUs in the feed and wanting to overthrow Nepgear's reign and her death.

Nepgear thoughts are a rapid mixture of unwanted feelings. Rage, sadness, grief, and hatred. "How? How did they know about this!? Was it you, Histoire?" Asked Nepgear to Histoire amidst this problem

"No! I wouldn't dare to, especially with our meeting last time about telling it hastily which is not a good idea" proclaimed Histoire "Now our discussion about it have come true and new chaos brewed!" panicked Histoire.

"Then who the he-"

"BEEP! BEEP!"

Nepgear trailed off as she heard a beeping sound from one of her channels. She opened up the small screen beside the channel and she saw IF with a distressed look on her face.

"Nepgear! Incoming missiles from above heading towards the Nep tower!" IF spoke up.

"WHAT?! Where are the shields surrounding Planeptune?" Her rage boils further as how the missiles were able to pass through the shields she put up, it was already tested as well by her a few months back.

"The shields suddenly vanished, I don't know how it did" IF replied

"Great, just great…" Nepgear said in a sarcastic tone while she hurriedly ran to the veranda and transformed into her HDD form to intercept the missiles.

As she saw the amount of missiles, it was a lot. She spent no time leisurely enough for it to come close to the tower and shoot them all with her blaster, changing from rapid shooting mode to burst shooting mode.

Nepgear managed to destroy them all and then looked at the trail it came from, the direction was coming from the South Area Leanbox. 'From there? No one had the authority to launch that many missiles at once, except…..' She stopped her thought and returned to the veranda with her heart in tremble, her fist clenched hard on her blaster, and with her face showing disbelief and hatred.

When she landed, she exited her HDD form and saw Histoire waiting for her. She approaches the book and Histoire hugs Nepgear with no time to waste while Nepgear returns the hug softly. Both were in silence while hugging until there was a call from the Leanbox channel, 'I knew it….' thought Nepgear as she let go of the hug and walked forth to the channel and prepared for what came next.

She picked up the call and with a cold tone she answered "Chika…"

"Oh? how thoughtful of you to expect me in this call"

"It was you wasn't it…. the only one who has the right to use that many missiles at once is you…"

"Correct, as expected of the Sole Goddess in Gamindustri"

Nepgear grimaced at that.

"Well, I didn't expect much from it since it was you. Knowing how you can wield your blaster with ease" Continued Chika

"That doesn't mean that it's okay!" Growled Nepgear

"Like you would know what's okay and what's not" Chika mumbled "By the way, I was the one who spread the news to all Gamindustri about the true incident on what happened to the CPUs"

"WHY?!" Shouted Nepgear with rage

"I want you dead. I, no, We can't stand it anymore, especially with what you have done. So I need to reignite the people to turn against you, and the real story of the past incident is just the right flame to do so"

Nepgear stood there in silence with utter disbelief towards her behavior

"Oh, by the way, Goddess. This is war….."

Chika ended the call after that statement

Histoire looked at Nepgear who just stood there with worry after all that while IF and Compa arrived and listened to the whole thing.

"Nep-" She stopped and froze on the spot as the hatred inside Nepgear started leaking out a lot even with a few distance from her.

And then, a loud scream can be heard from the stationary goddess.

"DAMN YOU, CHIIIIKAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

That scream had instilled fear to those who heard it and almost everyone in the Nep Tower heard it loud and clear.

And those who heard it had a thought inside themselves….. That this was the start of a tragedy.

To Be Continued

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No, don't put the To Be Continued song meme in your head. This is not the funny arc.