Author's Note

Haha! You thought I would be a slowpoke and you'd have to wait two more weeks for a new chapter?! Well you thought wrong! Ahahahahahaha! I wasted my free days and spend nights after work, working on chapter 8! That's right! My brain is on a roll! I could put Nayna out of business!

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Oh who am I kidding, I can never write as fast as they can. Well, the holidays are upon us, but don't worry, this isn't the last chapter before I shut down. I have another week and I garentee you that chapter 9 will be out before the holidays.

So let's make quick, and start this chapter! I made it super long just for you guys, cause I luv you!

PS. Don't you dare skip the Author's Note at the end. I have important things to say.

DISCLAIMER: I will never ever be able to own Hyperdimension Neptunia. Why? Because it belongs to Idea Factory and Complie Heart.


Planeptune, Gamindustri

Place: ???

Date: August 25, 2019

Time: 12:03 A.M

"So this is my real power…" The tall figure flexed her hands as she looked over her new outfit.

"Well, look at you!" Croire floated around her, admiring the outcome. "Now this is what I call menacing. I bet you could even take White Heart on."

She smirked at she stared up at the moon. "The time has come for a new era to fall on Gamindustri. I shall rid this land of those weak CPUs!"

Lastation, Gamindustri

Place: Basilicom

Date: August 25, 2019

Time: 6:24 A.M

"Sorry, Noire, but I don't love you anymore…"

"N-No…" She watched as Neptune intertwine her fingers with the other Noire's hand.

"I love this Noire, now. She's much better than you, sorry…"

"No…"

Her eyes teared up as she watched Neptune turn her back on her and walked away with her new friends from the other dimension.

Noire chased after the purple CPU, but no matter how much she ran, no matter how hard she tried, she could not reach her. "Neptune! Neptune, wait! I love you, so please! Don't leave me! Please, don't leave me! NEPTUNE!"

Noire gasped as she sat up straight. She looked around to find herself in her own room. She clenched her black blanket as she panted heavily. She closed her eyes and forced herself to take long calming breaths to stop her heart from going wild.

She rubbed her eyes and felt tears. She sniffled and dried her eyes before checking the time. "Still early." She whispered to herself. "Of course. Histoire sends me home for a day to rest and recover and I still wake up early."

Considering that yesterday she had worked tirelessly to keep the citizens calm about not seeing their Goddess for several days, Histoire had decided she had earned it. Not that Noire disagreed with the point, she was getting exhausted. "Still..." The fact that the citizens of Planeptune thought of her as their new CPU was troublesome and she didn't want to give them a false reason as to why Neptune had disappeared and not shown herself. How long can I keep the news that Neptune's missing from everyone? Noire thought to herself, knowing that the sooner Neptune got back, the sooner things could return to normal.

Between worrying about her girlfriend, working herself to the bone and dealing with terrible headaches, Noire ended up snapping a few times at the people. "And then there's that Rei Ryghts woman..." Not that Noire knew much about her, other than she was working with someone named Croire.

The scariest part of the whole thing was that apparently Croire had enough power, or was able to grant power, to make a CPU disappear from one dimension and get sent to another one with ease, or at least, that's what Histoire had hypothesized with what they knew.

Thinking about all this was starting to give her white hairs and her hair was already white in HDD so Noire doesn't know what that says about her. She hoped that a relaxing day could take the stress off her shoulders for one. She was a little worried about Nepgear's ability to run that nation when the tome had suggested for her to take a break. Noire knew that it would be a good experience for the young CPU Candidate, though. Nepgear needed to learn how to run a nation like Uni after all. The black goddess was quite proud of what her younger sister did. If something ever happens to her, Noire knew that Lastation was in good hands.

She decided that she had enough sleep. She didn't want to have that nightmare again. She knew something like that would never happen in real life, but it just felt too real for her. She was always afraid that Neptune might never want to return to her anymore. "It's just a dream. Neptune loves me… She wouldn't abandon me," she told herself.

Noire stretched her arms above her head. Her eyes glanced over to the picture frame on her side table. It was a picture taken of her and Neptune on their second date. She picked up the frame and smiled at the fond memory. The image showed Neptune kissing Noire on the cheek. Even the memory was enough to make Noire blush. Placing the frame down, Noire got dressed and left her room. She made her way to her office and found her younger sister at her desk working away at the documents.

"Morning Uni, you're up early," greeted Noire.

Uni looked up from her work and replied, "Morning, sis. Thought I'd get the day started early."

Noire walked up next to the desk and held up a sheet. "Do you need any help?"

"Not really. Paperwork is pretty easy to do," Uni answered as she signed her name.

Noire smiled and said, "I am so proud of you, Uni."

Uni suddenly choked on her own breath and started coughing. Noire panicked and gently pat her sister on the back, hoping to help her.

"Are you alright!?"

"I'm… I'm fine sis, sorry. I just wasn't expecting you to compliment me like that…"

Noire frowned, "You make it sound like I don't recognize your accomplishments."

"Ah haha… ha… ha…" Uni hesitantly chuckled as she bashfully played with her dark hair. "Well… I'm glad I'm doing a good job. It's probably because I have such a good sister as a role model"

Noire couldn't help but blush. "Well, of course! I'm the best of the best!"

Uni quickly nodded her head in agreement. "Soooo… Do you maybe want to do something? Paperwork isn't heavy and I'm pretty much almost done… We could maybe… hang out?" Uni looked at her sister with hopeful eyes.

"Hmmm." Noire looked through the signed papers to see that everything was in order. Many of Uni's decisions were good, so she knew that there weren't any problems on that end. "Yeah, I guess we could hang out. We haven't really had a sister bonding day like Neptune and Nepgear, right?"

Uni beamed and jumped out of her seat. "I'll get ready!" She moved around the desk and was ready to go out the door when Noire stood in her way.

The black CPU chuckled, "Woah here! No need to rush, it'll still take some time to finish these documents even if it is light."

Uni blushed, "Um, right, sorry. Let's get those paper finished first."

"I'll work on the other half of the stack," said Noire. "It'll go by fast with two people."

"Okay!" Uni walked back to the desk and lift up a stack. "I'll work at the coffee table. I've been sitting in your chair for way too long."

"What? Is my chair that uncomfortable?" Noire asked, wondering if she needed to get a new chair or not. While she found it to be pretty comfortable, she knew that it might have been because she had basically worn it in and it felt comfortable to her.

"No, but I just need a new work area," said Uni as she moved to the couch and sunk into the cushion. "Goddess, I love the couch."

Noire chuckled as she sat down in her black cushioned chair. It may have only been four days since she had last been in Lastation and while she wouldn't admit it outloud, she was beginning to feel homesick, and resting in her own room in her own bed was really refreshing in ways that being in Neptune's bed wasn't. Even if she liked being surrounded by Neptune's scent, the fact that there was no cute, cuddly body in bed with her made it less enjoyable than what it was normally. Noire wondered if Neptune was homesick as well, since Histoire mentioned something about a time difference between their dimensions.

"So Neptune's been in the other dimension for four years… I wonder how she's holding up? I didn't get a chance to talk to her yesterday. I hope she's doing alright…" Noire sighed softly.

Not far away, Uni rolled her eyes. She knew that Noire loved Neptune and would get like this constantly when Neptune wasn't around. Well, that's fine! Uni had a look of determination in her eyes. We'll do so much together today that Noire won't have time to worry about her girlfriend. Not that Uni wanted to have Noire forget about Neptune, far from it, her big sister was happy when Neptune was around after all.

No, Uni just wanted Noire to stop being so dang mopey!

Privately, the CPU Candidate was worried about Neptune as well. After all, if something bad happened to Neptune, then both her best friend and her big sister would be really hurt and that was something that she didn't want.

Besides, Uni didn't mind Neptune either. She was pretty neat and nice to be with.

Planeptune, Gamindustri, Other dimension

Place: Basilicom

Date: August 3, 1999

Time: 1:42 P.M

Neptune walked the streets of Planeptune. She could always fly back, but she was always more interested in seeing the citizens smiling faces. It meant that everyone in Planeptune was happy. Though, it had been awhile since she was back.

"It's been awhile. I hope Plutie isn't angry that I've been gone!" Neptune said cheerfully.

"I'm the angry one. You were bumming at my place for two weeks to play and it kept me from doing my work."

Neptune glanced at to see the black goddess following behind her with her arms crossed and an annoyed look on her face. "Huh? I tried to get outta your knotty hair like, so many times, but you stopped me from leaving." Neptune tried to imitate Noire's voice while sounding all alluring. "You were like, verbatim, "No, don't go! If you leave me now, I'll never, ever forgive you!" Honestly, do you have a crush on me?" Neptune gave her a silly, smug look after saying that.

Noire blushed, "What!? I do not! And I did NOT say it all sexy like that! You would always try to leave when you were beating me at a game…"

The purple CPU giggled, "Even though this-dimension's you hates to lose, you kinda suck at games. You're head-shakingly mistaken if you believe you can defeat me at your skill level. You should take some pointers from my girlfriend. She puts up much more of a fight that you."

Noire growled, "Grr! I refuse to accept that! Even if it's just at a stupid game, I can't believe that you're better than me!"

Neptune only rolled her eyes. "So hey, try to face this factoid. If you can't do your work with me around, why're you coming along now?"

Noire looked away as her blush deepened. "I-It'll all work out. I usually work incredibly hard, so I can take a break like this if I want. Besides, if I don't show my face around here every now and then, she might forget about me…"

"Whoa, your face just looked like it was punched by a love fist!" Neptune teased.

"Huh!?" Noire pressed her hands to her cheeks as she denied, N-N-No it doesn't! Don't say anything that'll cause a misunderstanding!"

Neptune sighed as she shook her head. I know you have a thing for Pluie, no matter what you say. Kinda hurts to know my girlfriend's counterpart likes someone else other than me, though… I really hope there's not a Plutie in my dimension or I'm really screwed. Neptune sweat-dropped at the thought of a Plutia in her dimension. Well, she won't be turning into Sadie... Right? Neptune thought to herself and hoped that was the case.

"How shameful, shouting in the middle of a busy street."

Neptune looked behind Noire to see the brunette. "Blanc? Well, what a coinkydink."

Noire groaned a she flipped her hair. "Ugh. Why is the benevolent CPU of Lowee at a lowly place like this?"

Blanc narrowed her eyes on Noire. "I'd appreciate it if you tried to call me by my name, newbie CPU of Lastation."

Noire and Blanc glared at each other while fire burned in their eyes and electrical sparks started to pass between them. Their stare was so intense that the flames and electrify were almost visible.

Neptune had to take a step back from the CPUs as it felt like the sparks could go off and set off an explosion, which, Neptune supposed would be cool, but it would also be kind of... dangerous if she got caught in it. "Sparks a-cracklin'! Their eyeballs are firing angry lasers at each other right now… Um, so what's up, Blanc? Got some biz in Planeptune?"

Blanc ripped her eyes away from Noire's gaze and answered, "It's nothing official like that. I had some free time, so I came to visit Plutia."

Neptune nodded. "You've been coming and going all over the place since then, huh? So in this dimension, both Blanc and Noire are fighting for Plutie's attention."

Blanc blushed as she fidgeted, "I-It's not like that…" It was so adorable that it was taking everything Neptune had not to squeal and hug Blanc.

Since when is Blanny so darn cute? No! Bad Neptune! You have Noire! Your Blanc was never this cute! Neptune yelled at herself.

Noire felt her left eye twitch. There was this burning in her heart that told her that she couldn't afford to lose. Standing up straight, Noire made herself as tall as possible over Blanc so that she could stand tall, proud and look down on her chief rival. "Oh boy, how confident! You've got fewer shares than this newbie, but you can hang out here?"

"It's not that I have fewer shares. Lowee still has more brand-loyal followers than Lastation." Blanc retorted, her eyes narrowing at Noire in recognition of the challenge

Noire smiled, "I noticed you said 'still'… At least you admit that it's only a matter of time until I pass you." Privately, Noire admitted that this kind of banter was actually pretty fun. Much better than a one-sided conversation at least.

"Could you not twist my words to work them against me?" Blanc grumbled.

Neptune stood on the sidelines as she watched Noire and Blanc duke it out with words. She could tell that this conversion wasn't gonna turn out well. In fact, people were already starting to stare. Man, Plutie. You one lucky gal… The purple-haired girl glanced over at Noire to see her eyes lit with jealousy. Noire really wants Plutie to only look at her, huh? Blanc is only competition to her…

"Hey, refresh my memory," said Noire. "What was that red binocular thing you put out that gave everyone migraines?"

Blanc flinched as she stuttered, "Th-That was…!"

The black goddess chuckled, "I heard it bombed pretty hard! You'd think someone in your RD team would warn you beforehand, but hey."

"Urgh… The concept was good, but… It was just ahead of its time…"

Noire knew this conversation was her win. It was time to show Blanc just who was the better one. "And seriously, how long are you gonna cling to using cartridges? You're behind the times, not ahead. But I guess you've been a CPU for so long, it's only natural that you're stuck in the past."

Blanc snapped, "Dammit, you jackass! If you wanna fight it out, I'm ready to rip out that poison tongue of yours!"

"Sure, bring in on!" Noire challenged. "Let's make it as clear as day and night who the better CPU is!"

Now Neptune had to intervene, but first, "Day and night, Blanc and Noire, Huh? Pretty sweet wordplay, especially if it wasn't intentional. But this isn't the time to be impressed!" Neptune jumped in front of the two goddesses with her hands out. "Stop, ladies! Don't fight out here."

"Shut it! If you get in my way, I'll punch a new hole in you too!" threatened the white CPU.

"This fight is between Lastation and Lowee only. Don't butt in!"

"But if you fight here, Plutie's gonna see. I don't need Sadie getting involved." Neptune countered, hoping that was enough to keep them in line. Plus I also don't want the Console War to start in this dimension. I've been there and done it, no need to do it all over again. I'll have to keep these gals in check!Even if it meant using how they felt about Plutia against them, or if they had to turn their anger on her, that was fine.

Blanc suddenly turned pale. "Eep!"

Noire shivered. "Yikes!"

Neptune blinked as she saw the flames died out from the two CPUs. "Oh, and they stopped. Sadie's might is absolute, huh?" That was good to know. Hopefully it could keep any fighting to a minimum.

Blanc grumbled as she recomposed herself. "I'll let you go this time. I didn't come here to start a fight with you anyways."

Noire huffed as she flipped one of her pigtails. "Agreed. I mean, I can lay you out anytime I want."

Neptune only sighed. So this is what a love triangle is like. Thank the goddess I didn't have any competition for Noire back at home. Speaking of Noire, I wonder how she's doing? Neptune happily smiled thinking about her lover. Probably doing just ay-okay without me. She is so reliable!

Planeptune, Gamindustri

Place: Planeptune City

Date: August 25, 2019

Time: 11:41 A.M

Walking down the streets of Planeptune Uni and Norie enjoyed the bright sunlight, which made the titanium buildings shine brightly. Uni was so happy that she was spending time with her big sister that it was taking everything she had to not burst into giggles and squirm happily. It really felt like this was her reward for being patient and waiting.

"I'm surprised you wanted to spend our free day in Planeptune, Uni," said the black goddess.

"I was afraid you might worry about work if we were in Lastation. I want today to be a day where we can have fun without worries," revealed the younger sister. "Plus, Nepgear told me there was a new arcade that just opened up here."

"Well, I'll always worry about work wherever I am, but I guess Planeptune is a nice place to spend time together. I've been cooped up in the Basilicom so much lately so it's nice to walk around the city once in a while.

"Yep! The weather is nice too!"

"It would be nice to invite Neptune, but that's kind of impossible," Noire sighed.

"I mean, we could invite Nepgear, but I'm guessing she's busy." Noire glanced at her younger sister to see her bright smile. Considering how rare it was to see Uni like this, Noire couldn't help but smile back at her. "We don't need those Planeptune sisters to have a good time today, we have each other."

Uni nodded, "Being with big sis is the best!"

"So how was running Lastation alone?"

"Umm… It was stressful at first, mainly because I didn't know what I was doing, but after a while I kind of just got the hang of it."

"That's good to know."

"Do you think Nepgear will be okay taking care of Planeptune alone?" Uni asked.

"It's only for a day, so she should be fine. And she has Histoire with her too."

"You're right, Noire." Uni nodded. "Besides, Nepgear is way more capable than Neptune anyways, so of course she's fine. No need to worry."

"You and Nepgear must be really close…" Noire smiled at her.

"What!?" Uni stopped in her tracts and blushed. "W-We are not close! Not the slightest!"

Noire stared at Uni with a dumbfounded look until she noticed how red her face was. She thought it was cute how her sister could blush like that. Ah, young love… "You know, I think Nepgear might be doing some quests today. Why don't we stop by and say hello."

Uni crossed her arms and looked away, "There is no need!"

Noire couldn't help but silently giggle. "If you say so, but just to let you know, it's not good to bottle up all your emotions like that."

"W-What do you mean?"

"Trust me, you'll become an easy target for Neptune's teasing when she gets back," Noire warned as she went back to walking.

"Huh? Wait! What do you mean by that, big sis!?"

"Just as I said."

"Noire!" Uni whined, causing Noire to chuckled.

Their happy moment, of course, came to an end when they came across trouble. Blocking their path was a crowd of people holding signs and posters. They kept repeating themselves, declaring, "NO CPUS! NO CPUS! NO CPUS!"

"Well, that's quite a welcome party," Uni scoffed. "Way to ruin the day… Why does the Citizens group want us out so bad? We didn't even do anything wrong!"

"Isn't that Nepgear?" Noire voiced.

"What!?" Uni looked pass the people's heads and sure enough there was Nepgear with the Basilicom staff and Guild Agents standing in front of the crowd. "IF is there too!"

The brunette with the blue jacket stood in front of Nepgear as she commanded, "Stand back! You all may not come closer!"

"Get out of here, you filthy Guild Agents! You're in our way!"

IF gritted her teeth as the other Guild Agents helped the Basilicom staff push back the crowd. This is going really bad!

"Please! There is no need to yell," Nepgear said.

"Get out of here! We want the CPU! Bring her out! Bring out Purple Heart!"

"Neptune is busy right now, so she can't see anyone!" explained Nepgear.

"Lies! She abandoned us! The rumors were true! CPUs aren't needed here! They only care about themselves!"

"How can you say that to your protector!" IF exclaimed.

"She isn't protecting us! If she was, then where is Lady Neptune!"

"Please, we care for all of you, so please stop this riot," pleaded the purple-haired girl.

"This doesn't look good," Noire whispered.

"I had to do something similar, but the crowd wasn't this big," Uni murmured as she looked around.

"Leave Planeptune! We don't need CPUs!"

"Let's just all stay calm, okay?" Nepgear said.

"CPUs were a mistake! They shouldn't exist!"

"There's no use, Nepgear. These heretics won't listen," said IF.

"Boo! Go away! We don't need you!" The citizens began to throw rocks and other objects they could get their hands on.

"Hey! Stop that!" IF yelled.

"Kyaa!" Nepgear yelped as she held her hands up to protect her head.

"Nepgear!" Uni pushed pass the crowd to get to her friend.

"Uni!" Noire followed her sister and made way to the front of the crowd.

Noire and Uni transformed and stood in front of Nepgear protectively. Black Heart and Black Sister's presence stopped then Citizens group's actions.

"Uni! Noire!" Nepgear was glad and surprised to see them here.

"You alright, Nepgear?" asked Black Sister.

Nepgear nodded. "Now that you're here."

The white-haired candidate slightly blushed as she huffed, "Be thankful."

Nepgear smiled, "I sure am."

"Noire? What are you doing in Planeptune. I heard you went back to Lastation," asked IF as she walked up next to the CPU.

"We came to tour around Planeptune for our day off, but it seems like you guys are having some trouble," explained Black Heart.

"They're getting a bit hard to control for the Guild," admitted IF.

Nepgear looked down shamefully. "I'm sorry. I thought I could take care of it… But in the end I ruined everyone's day…"

"It's alright, Nepgear. A CPU needs to know when to ask for a little help. And Uni and I are happy to help you," said Black Heart.

"Well, look who it is."

Black Heart turned her attention back to the Citizens group and glared when the leader of the group walked out. "Rei Ryghts!"

"Black Heart, CPU of Lastation, and Black Sister, CPU Candidate of Lastation. It's a pleasure to have your presence," said Rei.

Black Heart didn't like how Rei looked so confident. She had this smug look her face and it ticked Black Heart off. "Stop this nonsense! As Planeptune's substitute CPU, I will not allow you to cause anymore chaos on these lands!"

"Oh Black Heart, who said I was the one causing trouble! Isn't it you that's causing trouble?"

Black Heart growled, "What?"

"She's trying to tempt you, sis," warned Black Sister. "Remember what Blanc told us about Ram."

Black Heart took a deep breath to calm her anger, "Right."

"Please peacefully leave Planeptune, we don't want to cause an uproar!" shouted Black Sister.

"You aren't even a CPU! Why should we listen to you!?"

"You aren't invited in Planeptune! Get out!"

Black Sister felt a vein pop in her head, but she needed to stay cool. If she attacked them, there would be greater chaos for the goddesses. "I ask again, please peacefully leave Planeptune!"

"This is our home! We aren't leaving!"

"Yeah! You are the ones that should leave!"

"Then please cease these actions!" Nepgear begged. "This isn't like everyone! Neptune will be sad to see all of you acting like this when she returns!"

"Neptune? Return?" Rei let out a laugh. "She isn't coming back! She will never come back!"

Black Heart snapped, "That's it! I've had enough of you, heretic!" She summoned her weapon and pointed it at Rei.

"Kyaa! The CPU is gonna kill me!" Rei cried in a high pitched voice. "She is gonna attack old defenseless me! Someone help!"

"What!?" Black Heart raged. "Who said I was gonna attack you?!"

Rei smirked as she tapped the tip of Black Heart's sword. "Your Duel Revolver sword says it all."

"I knew it! If we don't follow orders, the CPU will dispose of us!"

"Rei was right all along!"

"We don't have freedom under the CPU's rule!"

Black Heart tried to fix the misunderstanding. "No, you're wrong!"

Rei laughed, "Hahahaha! Come everyone! We must chase the CPUs out!"

The Citizens group marched forward as the CPUs stepped back. The Guild Agents and the Basilicom's staff stood in front of the goddesses as they pointed their spears at the people.

"No! Don't harm them!" Nepgear ordered.

The Basilicom's staff and the Guild Agents looked at each other as they backed off. They couldn't go against their goddess. The Citizens group continued to march forward as they moved back.

"This is getting out of hand," growled IF.

"We must do something, sis!" said Black Sister.

"I know, but…!" Black Heart didn't know what to do. For once in her life, she didn't see a solution out of this.

Rei chuckled, "I WIN!"

"Getter Ravine!" Suddenly the ground exploded in front of the Citizens group, causing them all to run back.

Black Heart and Black Sister shielded Nepgear and the Basilicom's staff along with the Guild Agents from the debris as they covered their faces. When the smoke cleared away, White Heart stood in between the Citizens group and the other CPUs.

"White Heart!" Rei growled.

"Leave, Rei! And take your dogs with you," White Heart commanded. "And I'm sure as you know, since I get angry easily…" White Heart held up her hammer threatenly. "I ain't afraid to use violence."

"Tch!" Rei turned around, but she gave White Heart the stink eye before leaving. "Let's go everyone. We did enough progress today!"

The Citizens group peacefully left the area without any trouble. Black Heart let out a sigh of relief as she released her transformation.

"Thanks, Blanc," Noire said. "I owe you one."

White Heart turned back to her base form and said, "You've lost your touch, Noire. You've gone soft, could this be the result of a certain purple-haired goddess?" Blanc smirked as she saw Noire blushed.

"S-Shut up," Noire grumbled as she crossed her arms.

Black Sister turned back to her human form and asked, "I'm glad you took care of Rei for us, but why are you in Planeptune? Lowee is like miles away from here. There must be a reason why you are here, right?"

Scratching her cheek out of embarrassment, the white goddess chuckled. "Ah, well-!" Blanc was interrupted by two new voices.

"Uni! Nepgear!"

Uni looked up when she heard her name, and up in the sky was none other than the CPU Candidates of Lowee. "Rom!? Ram!?"

The White Sisters landed and returned to their base forms. They ran over to Uni and tackled her. The black candidate chuckled as she embraced the twins. Nepgear joined in on the hugs and embraced the twins along with Uni.

"As you see, Nepgear told the twins that Planeptune opened a new arcade and they just had to come and try it out," explained Blanc.

"Funny thing, Uni and I came to try out the new arcade as well," said Noire.

"Whatever the reason…" IF and the other Guild Agents walked up to the two CPUs and bowed. "We are relieved to have you come and help us. We were in dire need of it."

"Don't lower your head, IF," said Noire. "Remember, we're friends."

"And no need to be so formal with us," Blanc added in. "It makes you feel distant."

"Sorry," IF chuckled. "Force of habit. But things seem to have calmed down thanks to you, Blanc. I should hurry and report this back to the Guild."

"Keep up the good work," said Noire. "Neptune must be real glad to have you on her side. I would have kept you if I knew you were this reliable."

IF laughed, "Don't worry, even though I live in Planeptune now, you still have my faith, Lady Noire."

Noire rolled her eyes, "Quit it with the titles."

IF smirked, "I'll see you later." She waved goodbye to everyone else and lead the rest of the Guild Agents back to the Guild.

Noire turned to the rest of the group and asked, "So what now? Should we head to that arcade?"

"We are heading to the same destination, so we should go together then," Blanc suggested.

"Would be weird not to go together if we are going to the same place. Nepgear would you like to come?" Noire asked.

Nepgear turned away from the candidates and sadly looked at Noire as she replied, "Thank you for the offer, but I must tend to my CPU duties. It is your day off after all."

"Awe, but Nepgear!" Ram whined.

"I'm sorry, Ram, Rom, Uni," she apologized.

"I-It's okay, Miss Nepgear," voiced Rom. "W-We can all hang out next time."

"Most definitely," Nepgear promised.

"Don't work too hard, okay? Working hard is Lastation's motto," said Uni.

Nepgear smiled, "Thanks Uni. I'm happy to know you care."

Uni blushed bright red. "C-C-Care!? I-I don't care about you!"

Nepgear pouted, "Awe, and I thought we were friends…"

"Wha?!" Uni doesn't like seeing Nepgear sad, especially when she was the cause of it. "O-Of course we're friends, you stupid girl!"

"Really?!" Nepgear immediately brightened up. "Yay!"

Uni crossed her arms as she looked away, "Hmph!"

"Their arguments kind of reminds me of yours and Neptune's," Blanc said.

"What do you mean by that?" Noire questioned.

Blanc only grinned, "Nothing."

Noire narrowed her eyes in puzzlement. She didn't like it when information was being held back. Blanc only giggled at her expression. While Neptune did most of the teasing ot Noire, Blanc could understand why Neptune thought it was so much fun.

Nepgear thanked Blanc, Noire and Uni before breaking off with the Basilicom's staff. The rest of the CPUs ventured off to the new arcade in the area. Nepgear even gave them special passes as thanks to play the games for free. Rom and Ram were really excited, and so was Uni, but they all wished that Nepgear was with them.

Noire and Blanc watched over the younger ones as they chatted. They both agreed that Neptune needed to return to her rightful dimension. Once their sisters had their fun, they would need to meet with Histoire.

Things were just getting too out of hand.

Planeptune, Gamindustri

Place: Virtua Forest

Date: August 25, 2019

Time: 12:13 P.M

Rei growled as she clenched her hands. "White Heart, you shall disappear by my hands!"

She looked around the trees, making sure no one was around. Once she made sure that the coast was clear, she shouted, "Croire! Come! I need more power!"

The fairy float out from the bushes and chuckled, "So you want more power, ay? You're slowly becoming like your counterpart."

"I must make those CPUs disappear!" Rei declared.

Croire smirked as dark energy formed above her. "Go ahead. Take it. And rule over Gamindustri!"

Rei laughed as she absorbed the dark energy that Croire provided for her. "Yes! Give me more! Give me more! Hahahaha!"


Author's Note

I hope you all enjoyed the chapter, now for serious business.

Before we end it, I just want to say that I love you guys. I love the reviews you guys give and love hearing your opinions and everything, but if your having a bad day or you just feel like total shit, and you just want to hate the world, don't do that by putting terrible and negative reviews on someone's story.

Putting a bunch of swears and telling the author to die because they aren't a good writer or the their story sucks, that isn't helping anyone and it's definitely not gonna make you feel better, or the other author either. In fact, those aren't even reviews, you're just attacking the author. Reviews are suppose to help make a writer get better, not make them feel like they're crap. If you have something to say about someone's writing then it's okay to give critiques, not just tell them they suck and don't give a reason why.

Luckily, I don't see that on my stories, but I've seen a couple on others and it just makes me mad since they're such a better writer than I am and they are getting these negative comments for no real reason! But I guess some authors are bound to get those people some times.

When I was just starting out as a writer, and mind you, I was a very terrible writer, and I had so many hate comments that I just gave up writing all together. Fortunately, I got the balls to try writing again, and the fact that I'm going for an animation major so my storytelling skills needs to get better, I posted LITOW.

So please just keep the negative comments to yourself if you have nothing to say. I rather get no reviews than a bunch of hate comments saying that I should go die or something. No one should be telling that to anyone. I'm not calling anyone out, since I don't see anyone like that reading my story, but I'm just getting this out. I just needed to rant about this to let out some steam because I'm a bit angry that someone I consider a great writer got comments like that.

But like I said, critiques are fine. They are meant to make us authors better, even if some critiques are hard to swallow. That's why I would tell my readers to go easy on me. If they have something to say on my writing, break it down to me gently. I'm a big emotional baby. Sorry.

Well this went on for awhile. I didn't mean to rant for this long. Anyways, chapter 9 will be the last chapter until 2020. So I hope you look forward to it. I can feel a lot of hate coming, so this rant also goes well for me. Please don't curse me for what I'm about to do in the next chapter.

Love you guys!

-Shiena