Author's Note

So my school ended two last week. Finally summer! Yay!

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Yeah, I really don't know what else to say. I've worked on LITOH though, if you haven't noticed from this update. This chapter is more of a filler though, since I'm currently trying to remember what I had planned. So yes, I'll be taking my time in rereading my own work until my memories start flooding back. I had another doc written with a summary of each chapter, but I only had it up to chapter 14, so I need to get brain storming again. So I hope this filler chapter will be enough for an update, until I got the next ten or so chapters planned.

I promise, some good content will be coming out, so please enjoy this for now.


Planeptune, Gamindustri

Place: Eastern Border

Date: August 28, 2019

Time: 9:12 P.M

Black Heart, Green Heart and Black Sister hovered in the dark sky as they waited at the eastern borderline of Planeptune. Black Sister was a bit annoyed that she had to fly back when she flew to Planeptune City from the eastern border.

Green Heart let a yawn slip from her lips as she rubbed her eyes. They have been waiting for six hours and nothing has happened. Green Heart began to think that Black Heart might have made a mistake.

"Are you sure Rei was gonna attack?" Green Heart questioned.

Black Heart began to question herself as well. "I figured she would since she attacked Lastation…"

"That coward!" Black Sister shouted. "She attacked our home and then she just ran! The nerve of her!"

Green Heart rubbed her chin in thought. "I don't think that would be the case…"

"You think that she might be thinking up a plan or something?" Black Heart asked.

"That is a possibility," said Green Heart.

"Whatever the case," Black Sister huffed as she lowered her large rifle. "It doesn't look like she is coming this way."

Green Heart suddenly got a terrible thought. "You don't think she knew we'd be here waiting here for her, do you?"

"Why would you ask that?" Black Sister questioned.

"Well, if she knew we'd be at the eastern border, couldn't she just come in from a different direction?"

Black Heart blanched at the thought. "N-No, she couldn't. I had all of Planeptune's military units spread out around all the borders. They would've contacted me by now if one of the borders were under attack."

"If that's the case, then I don't know where else she'd be," said Green Heart.

"I bet she's relaxing and resting up in Lastation," Black Sister growled. "That bitch!"

Green Heart stared at the black candidate for a full minute and then turned to Black Heart. "Is it just me or does Uni sound like White Heart?"

Looking at her younger sister, Black Heart could see the anger in her eyes. She must still be upset. "She's a bit angry from what happened earlier. There's no use staying here if Rei isn't coming. Let's do a quick patrol around Planeptune's borders, then let's meet up at the basilicom."

Green Heart and Black Sister both nodded and split off from Black Heart to do the patrol. Black Heart looked towards the direction of where her nation is. It certainly was weird for Rei to not attack her. She has successfully lowered her shares and to think that she did not come straight for her was concerning. She can't lower her guard just yet.

Planeptune, Gamindustri

Place: Basilicom

Date: August 28, 2019

Time: 10:27 P.M

After the patrol, the three goddesses met up at the basilicom as planned. They all have found nothing out of the ordinary. All the soldiers were at their posts and are always on the lookout.

"No emergency calls came in?" asked the black goddess.

"No, not one," answered Histoire.

"No towns or villages being lit with flames?" Vert asked.

Histoire shook her head. "No."

"No scary looking thunderclouds?" Uni asked.

"Nope."

"I guess she really didn't come to attack," muttered Noire.

"It's better to be prepared than unprepared," said Histoire.

Uni agreed, "That's true, but…"

"It's really strange for someone like Rei to not attack us when she is so big on getting rid of us," finished Vert.

Uni nodded, "Yeah, that."

"Whatever the case, this is a good chance for you all to rest up," suggested Histoire. "Save your energy for when the fight comes. I'll call all of you if there is an emergency."

Vert let out another yawn and rubbed her eyes. "I could use the rest."

Noire sighed, "Yeah. Let's get some sleep before Rei actually shows up."

The goddesses left the office and made their way to the housing unit of the basilicom to rest in one of the guest rooms. Throughout the night, it was hard for the CPUs to get any real sleep, well at least for Uni and Noire. Vert was out like a light.

Unable to sleep, Uni left her guest room and made her way to the room Noire was in, which was across from her guest room. She gently opened the door and tip-toed in. Noire's back was faced towards her, so Uni assumed her older sister was asleep. When the candidate walked closer to the bed, Noire shifted and turned to look at Uni.

"Uni?"

"Sis! You're awake?"

"Couldn't sleep," she answered. "You too?"

Uni blushed as she twiddled her fingers. "Yeah…"

Noire smiled and shuffled over, patting the open space. "Come here."

Uni took the invite and crawled under the bed sheets. She quickly nuzzled up to her sister and sighed. Noire wrapped her arms around Uni and closed her eyes, taking in the warmth of her sister.

"You think we'll be okay?" Uni muttered.

"What do you mean?" Noire inquired.

"I'm scared. Blanc is in a coma. Rom and Ram lost their home. We also lost our home… I just… I just don't know what's happening anymore and I'm scared."

Noire frowned as she patted the candidate's head. "Oh Uni…"

"Sorry. I know a CPU shouldn't be scared," Uni voiced.

"No, it'd be weird if a CPU isn't scared," said Noire. "Everyone gets scared, so it's normal if you're scared, Uni."

Uni looked up at Noire and asked, "A-Are you scared?"

Noire stared at Uni for a couple seconds before answering, "Yes. Yes, I am scared. I'm scared for the people of Gamindustri, I'm scared for Blanc, I'm scared for Rom and Ram, I'm scared for Vert and I'm scared for you."

"Why?"

"Because you all mean the world to me."

Uni smiled, "I love you, sis."

"I love you too," Noire returned,

Uni nuzzled her head back into Noire's chest and closed her eyes. "You think Nepgear and Neptune are worried about us?"

"I don't know…" Noire murmured. "Neptune and Nepgear probably have no idea what's going on…"

"Why are they the ones safe in another dimension? Why are we the ones suffering?"

"Uni, you know it's not their fault."

Uni sighed, "I know… I miss Nepgear… It's weird not having that clumsy ditz around."

Noire giggled, "I know what you mean. It's already been a week since Neptune's gone. I hope she's alright…"

"Do they even think about us?"

Noire looked down at Uni, only to see the top of her head. "Are you worried that they have forgotten about us?"

Uni hesitantly nodded.

Noire kissed the top of Uni's head and reassured, "I'm sure Nepgear misses you very much. She's probably thinking about you right now."

"Really? I don't know about that." Uni yawned and groaned.

"Go to sleep. You're tired," said Noire.

"Hmm, oookay…" Uni easily fell asleep in Noire's arms.

The CPU however hasn't fallen asleep yet. Her mind has been tangled around the thoughts of her lover. A small bit of worry and fear tingled around in her chest. Neptune… Do you still think about me?

Lowee, Gamindustri, Ultradimension

Place: Metroid Shelter

Date: May 12, 2002

Time: 1:32 P.M

"What…" Neptune stared at a large pool of hot bubbling lava as a single sweat dropped from the side of her head. "The heck is this place!?"

Neptune and the rest of the group have ventured to Lowee under the request of Abnes, a former member of the Seven Sages. She claimed that the Seven Sages have been kidnapping children, so the goddesses decided to go find them.

While in their search, they found themselves in some kind of cave. There were paths going through pools of lava, but there were also man-made lights on the stone pathways. They could feel the heat of the lava from walking further in.

"Wow. There was a hidden base here," said Noire, as she observed some of the technology set up on the cave's walls.

"I wonder if their main base is nearby, too…" Nepgear voiced.

"Did you not know of this area, Blanc?" Vert questioned as she looked around. "After all, you were the only CPU on this continent for such a long time."

"No, I had no idea," answered the brunette, not really showing interest in the place. "I only show an interest in things happening inside my own nation."

"I'm not gonna forgive them for this!" claimed Neptune as she wiped the sweat off her forehead. "Kidnapping tykes and then locking them up in such a place as hot as this sucks!"

"But, ummm, because of the kidnapping incidents, we were all able to live together…" said Plutia. "We lived with Iffy, and with Compa, and with Peasy, and…"

"Yuck. Don't remind me about P-ko," grumbled Neptune as she crossed her arms.

"Are you still upset…?" Nepgear asked.

"How unexpected," voiced Vert. "I did not think of you as the type to hold a grudge for such a long time."

"I'm not angry or anything," assured Neptune. "Like, the anger turned to remorse and is bubbling out of my pores." She let out a deep sigh and said, "I was jealous and lonely at the thought that she was going back to her family. But after I calmed down, I realized that I shouldn't have acted the way I did to a kid who was leaving…"

"So you regret your actions," said Blanc.

Plutia smiled, "Be sure to give her a big apology when you see her again…"

Neptune thought it over and didn't like the idea. "Eh, I dunno. I don't see why I gotta be the humble one and kick a stone with my down or whatever." After what she had been through with Peasy, she felt like it should be the other way around. "That incident aside, P-ko treated me like garbage a lot of times."

"If you don't learn how to stop being stubborn, you're going to regret it later on," advised Noire.

"How persuasive, coming from you," said Blanc.

The black goddess became flustered, "A-And what is that supposed to mean!?"

Vert stood in between the two goddesses and tried to calm Noire down. "Now, no point in fretting over the future. Let us first deal with the problems of today."

Noire suddenly blinked and summoned out her rapier, dangerously pointing it at Vert. "Don't move."

Vert was shocked by her movements. "Hmm? What is it? I was trying to wrap everything up real nice…"

"Squeeeeak?"

"...Huh?" Vert looked down to her side and found a large weird monster right beside her. It was orange with gross lumpy lips and dainty eyeballs.

Plutia stared deep into the dead fish eyes of the monster. "Uhhhhhh…"

The creature just stared back with no movement. "..."

A second later, Neptune was the first to react and shouted, "Gross me out! They're here!"

"Squeeeeeak!?" The creature jerked from Neptune loud outburst and quickly ran.

"Uh-oh! It's running away!" Nepgear yelled.

"Because someone among us had to shout at the top of her lungs!" Blanc scolded.

Neptune light chuckled as she felt somewhat bad. "I couldn't help it, honest! Of course I'd shout if something gross like that comes outta nowhere!"

"H-Hey. What the heck was that?" Noire asked as she dematerialized her sword.

"I've never felt such a disgusted feeling before," Blanc voiced. "A friend of yours?"

Vert sternly denied, "Of course not! That monster was among those that attacked my nation!"

"I thiiiiink they're supposed to be that bald old man's daughters…" said Plutia.

Blanc tried to think over Plutia words, but couldn't make sense of them. That was a monster after all and Mr. Badd was a human. "Sorry. I have no idea what that's supposed to mean."

Nepgear shivered in disgust. "Those icky things are wandering around here? Ewww, I'm not okay with that at all…"

Neptune wholeheartedly agreed with her younger sister. "Same. Whatever I have to square off against those, I feel like I've become pond scum, destroyer of soap."

"D-Don't be afraid of some ugly thing like that. Did you forget that we need to rescue the children?" Noire reminded.

"Yeah, but still…" Neptune was trapped between two options. Either run away because of a tiny disgusting looking creature, or stay and save the children. It would look bad on her reputation if she ran because of something like that. Letting out a groan, she gave in. "Fine, I'll take the rear! Noire, you take point! If you would, dear author of mine, please arrange the party and make Noire the leader, per my instructions."

"No! Neppy, that's not faaaaaair," whined Plutia.

"Don't make such a ridiculous request!" Noire angrily shouted.

"Let's just do our best and get this over with. Okay, Neptune?" said Nepgear.

Neptune groaned, "Ugh. Everything feels so much heavier now, for some reason."

"Let's hurry and find the children," said Vert. "I can't dare imagine how terrified the children must be with those ugly things running around."

"Point taken, let's go!" commanded Noire.

The group headed deeper into the cave. They tried not to fall into the lava as they fought against the monsters found in the cave while looking for the kidnapped children. They explored every inch of the place and couldn't find any living human. The heat was slowly getting to them as they were drenched in their own sweat. Coming to the last area of the cave, they only found and empty cavern with more lava.

"Hmm… They're not here," said Neptune as she placed her hands on her hips. "I see no kids, nowhere."

"It would seem so," Vert disappointingly voiced. "And we have explored this entire area, too."

Noire grumbled, "We were duped. I knew it!"

"Nuh-uh… Abnes was soooo serious…" Plutia defended.

"Maybe she was given false information in the first place," suggested Blanc.

"We can't be sure of that yet," said Nepgear. "I'm sure that if we look just a little bit longer, we'll…"

"Oh! You CPUs actually came."

Blanc recognized that voice from anywhere. "That's…!" Turning around, She was face to face with her old minister.

"Heh, heh, heh… It has been a while, Lady Blanc."

Blanc felt a vine pop in her head. She still remembered the evil deeds he has done while in Lowee. "Don't you dare call me 'Lady'! It makes me wanna puke."

"Good grief. I see your barbaric personality hasn't changed."

"This sounds like a long-time rival reunion, but it's kind of blah since we beat him up back in chapter 6," said Neptune.

"N-Neptune, you shouldn't say that sort of stuff…" Nepgear voiced.

Vert narrowed her blue eyes at Mr. Badd. "He talks as though he knew we were coming."

"Then we were duped," said Noire, still suspecting Abnes.

Mr. Badd gave the black CPU a confused look. "Duped? Whatever do you mean? My daughter merely informed me that they saw you at the entrance."

"Wow…" Nepgear was fascinated by Mr. Badd. "He really is able to communicate with those creatures…"

"I'd rather ask how you came to know about this place, and why you have come here today."

"Abnes told us aaaaaaall about it," a Plutia answered. "She said this is where the kidnapped children were being held…"

"Ah, I see. The childish brat has defected, has she?" Mr. Badd crossed his arms as he smirked. "She lacks integrity… Crawling to the CPUs after fighting against them as bitter enemies for so long…"

"So? Are the kids here or not?" Noire questioned.

"Why yes, they are. Right here… But that is of no matter to you, because you are all about to die!"

Coming out from behind Mr. Badd was the orange six-legged creature. "Kya!"

Another came as well, "Kweh…!?"

Vert clicked her tongue in disgust when she saw them. "Tch… They've squirmed out of the cracks again, so to speak."

Neptune groaned, "Ugh! Do we have to fight again? We already beat him, it's just gonna end up the same results anyway."

"Silence! I may not look much, I assure you that I am much stronger than last time!" Mr. Badd growled out. "I will make it so those mouths of yours never make such comments again!"

"That's my line. I'll punch those nicotine-stained teeth right down your throat!" threatened Blanc.

Everyone activated their HDD and got ready to fight as Mr. Badd summoned out his robot. Purple Heart made the first dash as she wanted to get this over with fast.

Lastation, Gamindustri

Place: Lastation City

Date: August 28, 2019

Time: 10:49 P.M

Rei looked around the ruined Lastation as monsters roamed around. The darkness surrounding the CPU kept the monsters at bay. They could all feel the power emitted from her and dared not to attack or approach.

"How boring…" Rei pouted. "I thought those damn CPUs would come and try to take me down…"

She let out a sigh as she skipped around. She passed by many dead bodies of the Lastation military that she had defeated. She was annoyed that they had run away instead of fighting. And she thought that Black Heart was amazing.

"The role model of a proper CPU my ass," Rei growled. "She ran like mice. Didn't even come to defend her nation. Ha! What a joke!"

"I see you're in a bad mood."

Rei turned around to see a dark swirling portal. Coming through was the very tome herself. "Croire. Where have you been? You've missed my epic takeover of Lastation."

The fairy looked around and smirked. "Man! You are insane! First it was Lowee and now Lastation? You're on a freaking roll!"

Rei laughed as she happily twirled around. "I know, right!? And soon I'll have this dimension free of CPUs! Then…" She grinned as the dark aura expanded. "I'm gonna free the other dimensions of CPUs as well."

"Woah! Tall order," said Criore. "You want to travel through dimensions?"

"Of course! I won't stop until CPUs are extinct!" She clenched her hands as her widened eyes and her pupils contracted. "I will destroy the CPUs across dimensions even! Ahah ahah ahahahaha!"


Author's Note

So as you can see, this is just showing how much progress Neptune had made in the Ultradimension. I might also write a chapter where Yellow Heart beats the crap out of everyone, because that's what happened in the game... Actually, yeah, that's what chapter 16 will be. Okay, so you don't have to wait so long. Chapter 16 will be the introduction of Yellow Heart with a little bit of different dialogue. So until then, see ya'll next time!

PS. Please stay safe if any of you are going to protest. Support the BLM, but safety always comes first. This is the time where we have to band together and look after one another. Also social distance is still a thing.

-Shiena