Author's Note

Hey guys! I hope you haven't been impatient with me. I know it's been awhile, but I'm not dead. Y'know how slow and lazy of a writer I am. Also my break had just started last week, so I have plenty of time to write now! But doesn't mean I'll be pumping out chapters. Once it closes in on the holidays, I'm taking some weeks off from writing. Y'know, like I did with last year winter break, if any of you remember.

Also a big thanks to my beta reader for editing this chapter even though they were really busy. Which also delayed the update of this chapter. Who can blame them, they have lives. I have lives. We both have busy lives. So I appreciate everything they do for me. Thanks Nanya, you're the best. Go check out their stories too. Echos of the Dark, that story is the shit! If I enjoyed it that much, I'm sure you guys will too. Though, many of you already follow them, so I'm sure you already now what talking about.

Anyways, enough chitchat, have fun with chapter 6!

DISCLAIMER: As always, I don't own Hyperdimension neptunia and their scenes, scripts and characters, except for Lenna. They all belong to Idea Factory and Complie Heart, if you don't already know.


Lowee, Gamindustri, Other dimension

Place: Lowee City

Date: September 17, 1997

Time: 12:58 P.M

Croire looked down from the sky to see the three CPUs. After coming to this dimension to observe Neptune's advances, she found herself in Lowee with Noire and Plutia.

"Time sure flies by real fast here, I wasn't even gone for that long…" A smirk appeared on her face. "I think I can see something interesting coming along… This will be fun!"

Lowee, Gamindustri, Other dimension

Place: Lowee City

Date: September 17, 1997

Time: 1:03 P.M

Neptune, Noire and Plutia were making their way to Lowee's Basilicom. "So, why are we here you ask?" Neptune asked no one in particular. "Well, Noire came by to whine about the sabotage of her factories."

"Must go to Lowee," Noire intoned, her expression dead. "And I wasn't whining." She added, her expression and voice unchanging.

"As I was saying," Neptune sweat-dropped, "she ended up pissing off Plutie and now she's like that, so we're sneaking into Lowee so Noire can complain to Lowee's CPU personally!"

"Neppy..." Plutia spoke up. "Who are you speaking to?"

"The audience, silly." Neptune winked at her as they entered Lowee. "Otherwise the author would have to use some awkwardly placed exposition when I can do it much easier!"

"Ah! That makes sense!" Plutia nodded. "Neppy's so smart!" She giggled and clapped her hands while bouncing on her feet. Neptune just rubbed the back of her head while giggling nervously.

Privately, Neptune was quite surprised when she first passed through Lowee's borders. This dimension's geographic region was so different from her dimension. Instead of it being covered in ice and snow, this Lowee was covered in red leaves. It was a beautiful sight to behold for this large nation. At least I don't have to worry about cutting glass when I come to this Lowee. Neptune thought to herself, though she did blush softly as she remembered the last time she and Noire had been in Lowee and a rather cold gust of wind came up that made Noire's skirt flip up, flashing her lacy undies to everyone who looked.

Well, that and seeing Noire's nipples turn rock hard, as she wasn't wearing a bra that day. Or any other time. She giggled to herself.

"Neppy, what are you thinking about?" Plutia asked.

"Ah!" Neptune rubbed the back of her head. "Nothing much." She really missed her Noire. Three plus years had been pretty hard on her. How much longer am I going to be here? She really hoped it wasn't long. Sure, she liked Plutia... when she doesn't go HDD, and this Noire wasn't too bad, even if she was a little mean at times, but she could see herself becoming good friends with both of these CPUs easily. After all, the two of them never had to fight a war like she had, and she hoped it stayed like that.

But Neptune missed her home, her girlfriend, her sister, her girlfriend's sister and all her other friends.

Shaking off her quickly depressing thoughts, Neptune turned her attention to the Basilicom of this Lowee and was nearly blown away by just how... Large the place was, almost like a castle. The roof was tiled in forest green and the walls were white lined with red on the edges. It was much bigger than Plutia's basilicom and Neptune's. Even the nation itself was big!

"So this is Lowee's Basilicom," voiced Noire, finally regaining her senses after recovering from what Plutia did to her earlier.

"Wooooow! It's like a castle!" chirped Plutia, ignoring how Noire finally recovered.

"Hurry, Plutie! We need to build our Basilicom bigger!" announced Neptune.

"Are you planning on compensating for something?" Noire asked with a deadpan expression on her face. She sighed when both Neptune and Plutia ignored her comment. It wasn't fun sniping at someone when they didn't give as good as they got.

"It is a sight to behold for sure."

"It sure is!" Plutia agreed while nodding.

"Wait… Who said that?" Noire asked, realizing that she didn't recognize the voice.

The three CPUs turned their heads to the right to see a tall blonde woman in a green dress. She turned her head to look at them and blinked.

Neptune immediately recognized that face. "HEYYYYYY! It's Vert, Vert, Vert, Vert!" She happily yelled.

The blonde woman flinched. "Huh? Wh-Why do you know my name?!

"You know her?" Noire questioned.

"Is she your friend, Neppy?" Plutia asked.

"Heck yeah! Of course there'd be a Vert in this dimension. If there's a Noire and a Blanc here, I should've figured there'd be a Vert too. Wow! It's been ages since I've seen her! Missed ya so much, Vert!" And just like how this Noire looked like her Noire, this Vert looked almost like the Vert of her dimension.

"So basically, she's a friend of yours in the other dimension," Noire said, instantly figuring it out.

Vert was quite confused on what they were talking about. She just couldn't follow the conversation. "U-Umm… What's going on? Over there? Dimensions? How much do you know about me?"

"I'll be doing all the greeting stuff," announced Neptune. "This is Vert, and she's like me, Noire-"

Vert blinked when she heard the name. She said Noire? As in Lastation's CPU?

"- and Plutia. She's Leanbox's CP-"

Once Vert instantly hear the word Leanbox and the letters C and P, she could guess what's the last letter would be. Not wanting her identity blown, she quickly interrupted the shorter girl. "AHHHH! BlAAAAAAH! GLOOOORRHGNNN!" She wanted to say 'Stop! Don't say anymore!' but somehow she got tongue twisted. At least that stopped Neptune from saying anymore.

"G-Good gravy, those are some weird noises to make all of a sudden," Neptune said as she gave Vert a puzzled look. After all, that was the sound people usually made when they were buried in Vert's expansive chest. "Why'd you do that?"

Vert cleared her throat and composed herself. "B-Because… you shouldn't reveal a maiden's most intimate secrets like that! Come over here for a moment!" Vert reached over and latched onto Neptune's right ear, pulling her away from a very confused Noire and Plutia.

"Hey, don't pull on my ear," Neptune whined as she winced in pain from the pulling.

Vert have pulled them a great distance away, but considering the size of the building, they were still in front of it. Neptune could still see Noire and Plutia, but they looked like the size of jelly beans from where she was standing.

"They won't be able to hear us now." Vert released the purple-haired girl and began to question her. "Just who are you? How much do you know about me?!"

Rubbing her ear, which felt like it had been almost torn off, the girl gave her a confused look. "Whaaaa…?" Then Neptune realized, "Oh, my bad! We haven't met here. My name's Neptune. I'm one of Planeptune's CPUs!" It was so strange having to re-introduce herself to an old friend, but it couldn't be helped. In this dimension, no one knew who she was. It was a little bit sad, honestly.

"Planeptune?" Vert remembered the name. "That meager nation? I underestimated you. To think your nation has a great enough network to have unmasked my identity…"

"Uuuuuh." Maybe in her Planeptune, which had been built out of necessity more than anything else, but Neptune didn't think Plutia's Planeptune had that strong of a network just yet.

"In any event, please keep my true identity a secret. Top secret, if all possible," Vert said.

"Awwwe," pouted the purple goddess. "Do I really have to hide it?"

"Yes," Vert stated.

"Oh pooh, alright," Neptune sighed, it wasn't like they were enemies and if the plot progressed like she thought it would, Vert's identity would get exposed anyway. Along with most of her. Neptune idly wondered just how much different this Green Heart looked compared to hers. After all, Black Heart had a gray outfit and kept her twin pigtails while exposing a good amount of her cleavage via a boob window and Iris Heart… Neptune didn't want to go there, since if Plutia's HDD form had any less material on it, she'd be wearing floss.

"What are you talking about…?"

"Hmm?" Neptune turned around to see Plutia and Noire walking up to her.

"We can't waste time right now!" Noire urged, "We have to get inside the basilicom."

"Oops!" Neptune almost forgot why they were here. "They're right, actually. We have to hurry and go see Blanc. Sorry Vert, I'm in a rush today."

Vert narrowed her blue eyes and thought, Actually… If she knows this much, I cannot let her out of my sight and risk her divulging my secrets…

"Alright! Let's get moving! We're busting through the Basilicom's front gates," announced Noire.

"Yay!" Neptune cheered.

"Yaaaaaay!" Plutia cheered.

"Yay, indeed!" Vert cheered as well.

Noire narrowed her eyes to a glare. "I heard one voice too many." She turned her attention to the tall woman who had a smile on her face. There was something about that smile that the black-haired girl just didn't trust.

"Huh? Are you gonna join us, Vert?" Neptune questioned.

"What a terrible response. You were going to kick me out of your party?" Vert pouted.

"You were never in it," clarified Noire. "I can't have some random stranger join us."

This must be Noire that Neptune spoke of earlier. She looks and acts exactly like my information. Vert thought to herself. "Now, now. One mustn't restrict access to one's party to only known friends in real life. It's far too uptight."

Noire scoffed, "This has nothing to do with being uptight."

"Noire, don't be a meanie…" Plutia pouted.

Vert glanced over to the girl with the purple-braided hair. I suppose that has to be Plutia… Where have I heard that name before… There was something there, but she couldn't place it off the top of her head and pulling out files to look up people's information would be a bit… Too suspicious.

Neptune nodded her head as she placed her hands on her hips. "I agree! You know the dark curse of loneliness better than anyone, Noire."

Noire felt something snap in her head as she growled, "I don't know it! N-Not at all!" She chanced a glance at Plutia. After all, I have Plutia. She's always my friend… Noire slightly blushed as she thought about the girl.

Neptune took notice, but didn't question. She didn't want to hear why Noire was blushing like a schoolgirl. She recognized that blush better than anyone else, because it was the same blush that her Noire made whenever she was thinking about Neptune.

"Either way, I ought to introduce myself," suggested the blonde. "My name is Vert. I've traveled to Lowee from afar for my own personal reasons."

"And those are?" Noire urged.

"I believe them to be similar to yours," She answered.

Noire glared. "You're making it hard for me to trust you." There was something deep in her heart that was screaming at her not to trust this Vert farther than she could throw a chunk of gold that was as big as her… Which was to say, outside of HDD, not very far.

"It'll be fine, Noire," assured Neptune. "Vert is Vert, so there's no need to worry." Her Noire might disagree with that somewhat, but she knew that her Noire would ultimately agree in the end.

Noire rolled her eyes. "You think that ridiculous logic will reassure me?" She looked back at Vert and wondered why she was thinking about being chained up for no reason.

Noire's question was ignored as Plutia went to great her new friend. "I'm Plutia. It's nice to meet you, Vert." She smiled at the blonde.

Vert smiled, "Why yes. Pleased to make your acquaintance."

"And the conversation continues…" Noire groaned and decided to let Vert come with them. "Damnit, fine. Just know that if you try anything funny, I'll show no mercy!"

Vert nodded. "Of course. I'll bear that in mind." Though privately, she was thinking about something else entirely. This is a good chance to see what my competition can do.Not that she thought any of them would stand a chance against her, but she needed to make sure.

The four walked back to the Basilicom's entrance and pushed opened the doors. It was strange that there wasn't anyone guarding the place. They walked onto the matted floors and looked around. They had to find where Lowee's CPU was hiding.

Planeptune, Gamindustri

Place: Basilicom

Date: August 23, 2019

Time: 6:11 P.M

Noire was back in Neptune's office working on a fresh stack of documents that Nepgear brought her. After reporting her findings to Histoire, she needed some paperwork to take her mind off some things.

While hard at work, the phone on the desk suddenly rang. Noire picked it up and answered, "Noire here, may I help you?"

"Lady Noire, this is Lenna, calling from the front desk. I got some reports saying there's some trouble happening near Central Park."

"Trouble?"

"It would seem to be the Citizens group again."

Noire let out a soft groan, "Them again?"

"I've already asked Nepgear to go take a look. I thought I'd let you know."

"If Nepgear's already taking care of it, then it should be alright. Send some soldiers down with her just in case."

"Yes, Lady Noire."

"Let me know if things get even worse."

"Of course."

The line went dead and Noire placed down the phone. She slumped back against the black chair and huffed. The Citizens group suddenly became really active. Noire wasn't sure what she should do to stop them from protesting against her. It wasn't like she was gonna give in and step down as CPU. That would be insane.

Noire shivered as a chill went down her spine. Glancing over to the corner of the room, she felt like a pair of eyes were observing her. The goddess knew that there was no one in the room but her, yet she felt like she wasn't alone. Everytime she would come work in Neptune's office, she felt like she was being watched. Like she was being… judged.

She didn't feel threatened by it, she just felt strange about it. Noire then groaned in pain as her head slightly pounded. She was also getting a lot of headaches lately. "I must be getting tired."

She sat back up and put her mind back on the papers in front of her. She tiredly sighed while thinking about Neptune. A small blush dusted her cheeks pink as she thought about the times they were together. Thinking about her girlfriend always made her feel better. I wonder if Neptune's thinking about me too…

Lowee, Gamindustri, Other dimension

Place: Lowee City

Date: September 17, 1997

Time: 1:11 P.M

"They have entered the Basilicom, Chu."

"Good." He smirked as he watched the screen of the monitor showing the four CPUs that had entered the Basilicom. "I honestly didn't think that the CPUs would infiltrate Lowee, but I guess it's my lucky day."

"Whatcha gonna do, chu?"

He glanced back to the small grey creature. "Quite easy. We will capture them. That child of a CPU found out about my identity, but they don't know. They still think I'm the secretary of Lowee."

"Chu chu chu. CPUs are too easy to manipulate." He swished his tail as his round ears twitched.

"You are quite right, Warechu," he voiced.

"I'll go set up the trap while their exploring the building. Mr. Badd, you should get into position and greet them, chu."

"Of course, we should greet our guests." The large man stood up from his seat and walked out with the little creature.

Lowee, Gamindustri, Other dimension

Place: Lowee City

Date: September 17, 1997

Time: 1:38 P.M

Neptune opened the next door to see a large room with with many antique furniture and vases. Everyone entered the room and looked around. They had been searching the entire building for the CPU in charge, but couldn't come in contact with her. What was even more weird was that they were walking in the open and have yet to be confronted or captured by any Lowee guards.

"Isn't this kind of weird?" Noire finally voiced.

"How so?" questioned Vert as she watched Neptune and Plutia admired the large jade vase.

"We're enemies that have been wandering around in White Heart's Basilicom and yet no one's coming to face us?" Noire asked, confusion in her voice. "It's just weird."

"Maybe we are just that sneaky?" the blonde suggested with a smirk.

Noire scoffed, "Yeah, right." She jerked a thumb at Neptune and Plutia. "Those two couldn't sneak up on the dead if they tried." To punctuate a point, the loud ones suddenly let out a shriek of fear as a bug crawled out from behind a vase and they yelled while trying to stomp it to death. "See?"

"...Fair point." Vert conceded as the two finished off the bug and gave each other a high five for ending the evil vermin's life. "I'm not sure why they're happy about doing that. They probably got three exp at most."

Noire shrugged, though privately she was glad that the bug was gone too.

"My apologies for keeping you waiting."

"Huh!?"

Everyone jerked and turned to the other side of the room to see the other door open. A large round man in a black striped suit walked in with a large grin on his face. He bowed and then clapped his hands.

"I applaud you for making it this far."

Neptune looked the man up and down. "Wow! When did Lowee get a clown?!"

A vein popped in his head, but he kept his cool. "Ahem! My name is Mr. Badd and I am Lowee's minister."

"Oh, I heard about you," voiced Noire.

"It is a real honor to be recognized by Lastation's CPU," said Mr. Badd.

Noire crossed her arms as glared at the minister of Lowee. "So you know who we are already."

"Of course, Lady Black Heart. I am no ignorant guy that doesn't keep track of the other nations."

Noire smirked, "Lastation could use a guy like you, but…" She transformed into Black Heart and summoned out her sword, "I'll have to take you hostage to get White Heart out."

"Noire," Plutia whined. "It's noooot nice to threaten people…"

"Oh my bad." Black Heart cleared her voice and rephrased, "Tell me where White Heart is and I won't chop your chubby head off!"

Neptune lightly chuckled as she scratched the back of her head, "That's not any better… Actually…" She looked around in confusion, noticing that they were short a person. "Where did Vert go?"

"Forget about that blonde idiot," said Black Heart. "She's not important. Now, where's White Heart! I have some complaints to voice to her!"

"Uh huh, we came to talk to Blaaaaanc," voiced Plutia. "Do you know where she is, Mister?"

Neptune tilted her head in confusion, "Why do I feel like something is not right? Is this my protagonist intuition talking?"

Mr. Badd quickly held up his hands, so that Black Heart wouldn't attack. "Oh! If it's Lady White Heart you'd like to meet, I'll gladly take you to her, so please. Don't harm me…"

Black Heart grinned as she lowered her weapon. "You're quite an easy guy, aren't you?."

Mr. Badd smirked as he took out something from his back. "Actually, it is you who is easy."

Black Heart blinked, "Excuse me?"

Neptune gasped, "Oh I know! It's one of those plots where you pull some kind of trap out of nowhere and capture us, right?!"

"In fact, yes." Mr. Badd placed a gas mask over his face and pulled out a remote from his pocket, pressing the red button. "Sorry, but I'm gonna need you all to be asleep."

The doors in the room suddenly shut themselves as they locked, causing everyone in the room to be trapped. Then smoke rained from the sprinklers on the ceiling, filling the room quickly with gas. Mr. Badd laughed as the CPUs held their throats, while coughing.

"Don't breathe it in!" Black Heart warned, but it didn't help as Plutia fell unconscious. "Plutia!" The black goddess turned to Neptune to only see her fall as well. Black Heart clenched her teeth as her vision began to blur. Sooner or later, she'll succumb to the gas and follow Plutia and Neptune into lala land as well. She needed to find a way out of this somehow, and quick.

"There is no escape."

Black Heart squinted through the white smoke to see Mr. Badd. She growled, "Y-You coward! Fight me like a man!"

Mr. Badd chuckled, "Indeed I am a coward. As a human, there is no way I could ever beat a goddess without some tricks. That was also Lady White Heart's mistake. She did put up a fight, but without her followers, she was weak. She only had the strength of a human."

"W-White Heart?" Black Heart's eyes widened when she heard him talking about taking out his own goddess. "W-Who are you really?"

Mr. Badd smirked, "Well, how smart of you. You're right, not only am I Lowee's minister, I'm also a member of the Seven Sages."

"W-What?!"

"Looks like you're losing consciousness. Night night for now."

"D-Damn you…" Black Heart grumbled before she lost her consciousness.

Mr. Badd loomed over the three CPUs and chuckled, but then he realized something. "Hmm? Weren't there four infiltrators?" He rubbed his chin in thought, "Maybe I mis-counted? Whatever the case, I have taken all the CPUs hostage. As I thought, I am the greatest member of the Seven Sages." He couldn't help but laugh some more. "Ah haha! Ah haha haha!" It took everything in his power to not throw his hands to the side with his palms up while he laughed.


Author's Note

I'm sure you guys have some questions. Maybe? I don't know if you do or not, but this chapter is just to check in on Neptune and where's she at. I did change it up a bit from the game, because I was too lazy to write a fight scene. Sorry guys. There's a lot of action going on later in the story and I want to save all of the action for later. I don't want my fighting juices to run dry and have nothing epic for what's gonna happen later. But it will be totally worth it, trust me! You just have to be patient again...

Yeah, if you have been with me for a year already you will know that being patient is a big thing with my stories, which I totally appreciate you all doing. And thanks for all those reviews as well. They're fun to read and they keep me motivated to write, sometimes... but don't you worry your little heads, the next chapter will be out sooner than you expect.

So until next week, see you all in chapter 7!

-Shiena