I plan to reply to reviews as much as I can.
PhoenixFire3000: Oops, that's my bad. It's been awhile since I've played the Neptunia games or watched the anime so I forgot the CPUs are the only ones who fly there. I'm considering doing a harem but I'm not sure about it. Also the last question gets answered in this chapter.
LeotheZodiac: I thought of paring him with everyone for a harem thing but I don't know if I'd be able to make it work well.
ChosenOne358: Sorry to disappoint but I am thinking of writing a story about Re; birth 2 when this story is done or maybe if I find enough time to be able to work on both. Also, I'll try to keep Gohan near his original strength but I will have hold him back a little bit or else he'll be like Saitama and one-punch everything.
KrispytheWonder-cat: Thanks, I'm glad you liked it!
Raygha Raikouga: I won't lie; I've thought of pairing him with either of Rom or Ram but it's in the same case as the harem in which I don't know if I'd be able to make it work or feel like it fits in the story.
Cybersamurai: I'm going to try my best to keep everyone in character so I'll just apologize in advance to everyone in general if any of the characters end up acting out of character during some point of the story.
As a side note, that doesn't mean it won't be a harem or Gohan won't get paired with Rom or Ram. It just means I'm not sure how or if I'll be able to make it work.
Now that, I've done that; there's nothing left to say other than please enjoy the second chapter! :)
In the Lowee Basilicom, everyone was gathered inside the dining hall and enjoying the meal Blanc had the chefs prepare in honor of Gohan's heroic actions and her twin sisters safe return. The only issue was that there was only one person who was currently eating that meal, a certain black haired demi-saiyan to be specific. All the CPUs and the CPU Candidates were currently all staring in shock and awe at their first glimpse at a saiyans enormous appetite.
"I don't think I'll ever eat again." Noire commented as she pushed her own plate away from herself and continued watching Gohan as he practically inhaled a whole bowl of ramen in just a few seconds. She couldn't understand how Gohan was in such amazing shape when he eats enormous amounts of food.
Vert agreed with Noire before turning her head toward Gohan, "Have you given any thought of where you plan on staying while you're here?"
Gohan looked up from rolls he had just started to eat, forcing himself to swallow them quickly so he could respond. "I haven't really thought too hard about it. I figured I would just travel around and see what the world has to offer." He looked at Vert as he said this and noticed she gained some kind of spark in her eyes as he told her his plan.
"Then I believe you should come to Leanbox, I would enjoy the company of such a capable young man like you." As Vert said this Gohan tilted his head in confusion, something about the tone she used felt odd to him. Before he could think of response Neptune decided she was done being quiet.
"No fair Vert, I wanted him to come back with me and Nep Jr. to Planeptune," she yelled as she stood from her chair and pointed an accusing finger at the blonde haired goddess.
"Why exactly do you want him to come with you to Planeptune?" Blanc questioned, even though she was positive the reason was fairly obvious to everyone in the room.
Neptune stood tall and put her hands on her hips in some kind of triumphant pose, "If Gohan came with us back to Planeptune, he could do all the quests Histy tries to force me to do so I can stay and play games!" Gohan couldn't help but give a small laugh at her idea, he wouldn't mind helping his new friend out but that was different story than just doing her work for her.
Nepgear saw the look that her sister was receiving from Noire and decided to jump in. "Neptune, I think even if Gohan chose to come to Planeptune he wouldn't want to work for you. Plus, I can only imagine how angry Histoire would get if you tried to push your work onto him." Nepgear turned to the demi-saiyan and gave him a sheepish smile, "I'm sorry Gohan, we'd be happy if you wanted to come to Planeptune though."
"It's okay Nepgear, you don't need to apologize", he said as he looked to Neptune, "I appreciate the offer Neptune, but it wouldn't be right if I did your work for you. If you need my help with a problem or something like that I'd be willing to help but you still need to do it yourself." Gohan said as he saw the lilac haired girl sink down into her chair. He felt bad for bursting her bubble like that but it was for the best, she was being told the same thing Piccolo had once taught him when he was barely over 5 years old.
"Ha, see Neptune even he knows that it's wrong to just push all of your responsibilities onto others", Noire said in a victorious tone. Gohan got the feeling that this was an issue that Neptune had been lectured about millions of times.
"Well, it has been nice getting to know you Gohan but it's about time we had back to Lastation", Noire said as she motioned to Uni as the two rose from their chairs and headed to the door.
"Oh okay, it was a lot of fun talking to you Noire, and I hope I can talk to you more next time I see you Uni." Gohan said with the Son grin appearing on his face.
"Yeah, I hope so too", Uni muttered as she felt a small blush come onto her face as she thought about his words but before she could say anything about it to him Noire called her from the hallway to hurry up.
"Goodbye Uni, see you later." Nepgear called out to her as she disappeared into the hallway. All the heads turning as the screech of a chair skidding along tile rang out. Vert was now getting up and moving to the door that the two raven haired sisters had left through.
"Aww you're leaving now too Vert?" Ram asked, running up to the blonde woman with a sad face.
"I'm sorry but I have a few games I need to put some time into tonight or I'll fall behind some of my party members." She responded as she walked to the door. "Gohan", Vert called out as Gohan nodded to her, "That offer to come see me in Leanbox is open anytime, okay?"
"Oh uh, yeah I'll be sure to go visit you some time Vert", Gohan replied as he returned her smile and said his goodbye to her.
"Goodbye miss Vert" Rom called softly as the blonde goddess gave Rom a cheerful wave before leaving.
Blanc turned her head to look at Neptune who, under Blancs sharp gaze began to sweat nervously. "What, don't tell me now that the others left you don't want me to hang around with you anymore Blanc?" Neptune asked as she saw Blanc give a small nod. "I'm hurt, I thought we had something special Blanc." The Planeptune goddess cried out as she feigned some kind of chest pain.
"Neptune we shouldn't overstay our welcome", Nepgear said as she walked up beside her sister and tried to get her to stop her antics.
"You're going now too, miss Nepgear?" Rom asked as looked down at her feet.
"I'm sorry Rom, but Neptune and I need to head home now." Nepgear responded as she gave the short haired twin a sad smile.
"Okay…" Rom said in a defeated tone, not looking up from her feet until Ram came up beside her and grabbed her hand.
"It's fine that they're leaving now Rom, let's go play some Mega Maryo Creator." The long haired twin said happily as she pulled her sister out of the dining hall. Once the twins had left the room, Blanc stood from her chair walked to Gohans side.
"And what are you planning to do now Gohan?" Blanc asked as the boy pushed himself up from the table.
"Hmm I didn't really think about it." Gohan said, scratching the back of his head as he tried to come up with some kind of plan for the night.
"Oh, oh then you're coming with me and Nepgear to Planeptune!" Neptune yelled out as she moved quickly to his side before grabbing his arm and practically dragging him to the door.
"I guess so." Gohan muttered under his breath as he pulled his arm free from Neptunes grip. "Thank you very much for all the food, it was really good Blanc", Gohan said to the brunette girl before bowing slightly to help show his appreciation.
"I'm glad you enjoyed it, and just like with Leanbox, know you are always welcome here in Lowee. I'm sure my sisters would be happy for you to come here", Blanc spoke with a small smile gracing her face until she felt heat rush into her cheeks. 'And I would be happy as well.' She thought, too shy to say something that bold directly to the demi-saiyans face.
Gohan nodded as he gave Blanc the famous Son grin, "Sure, I'd be more than happy to come back here and see all of you again." He said as he felt someone tugging on the sleeve of his shirt, he turned his head to see Nepgear nervously trying to get his attention. "Guess we need to go catch up with Neptune." He muttered to himself as he noticed the energetic girl was missing from the room. "Tell Rom and Ram I said goodbye", Gohan yelled out as he jogged out of the room in the direction of where Neptune had gone.
"Wait for me", Nepgear called out in a panic as Gohan ran past her, "Bye Blanc." The lilac haired girl said as she disappeared behind the door. Nepgear ran for a few minutes till she finally found Neptune and Gohan waiting for her outside in front of the basilicom. "I'm sorry for the wait, I got a little lost."
"That's okay Nep Jr., I'm just trying to figure out how we'll get to Planeptune. I don't think I can carry you both." Neptune said as she looked between Gohan and her sister, trying to think of a way to carry them at the same time.
"Wait you can fly?" Gohan asked as he looked at Neptune in surprise, her ki was definitely higher than the average persons, he had noticed that everyone he had met so far had been stronger than the average human. He figured that was because they were CPUs like they had told them but he didn't know if they had control over it or not.
"Not like this", Neptune said before a pillar of purple light surrounded her body, the light dying out as quickly as it appeared to reveal a grown up version of Neptune, her hair had become a darker shade of purple and grown longer in the back and was tied into two long braids. Her outfit had become some kind of skin tight black suit, with purple lines going across it. The D-pad clips in her hair had been replaced with two black circular clips with light blue pluses on them. "I can fly in this form but I don't think I can fly with both of you." Her voice had become deeper and Gohan noticed that the childish tone Neptune seemed to always have had left and been replaced with a more composed and serious tone.
Gohans eyes had gone wide in shock, he wasn't expecting Neptune to transform out of nowhere like that. Her ki had risen much higher than it was before, it was a significant leap in power. "That's an amazing transformation, so all CPUs can do it?" Gohan asked as he recovered from his shock.
Neptune nodded as she let her purple wings that seemed to be made of light materialize behind her, and started hovering of the ground. "It's called Hard Drive Divinity, or HDD for short. But we still have an issue of how to get to Planeptune."
"I can fly on my own though", Gohan said as he gained a confused look from both of the girls. To prove his point, he began floating up of the ground until he was a few meters of the ground. "See? I thought you saw me flying before when I was fighting that Trick guy?" He was confused that that were so shocked when he was sure all of the girls had had a front row seat to his fight with Trick.
Neptune gained a thoughtful look as she tried to recall the fight, it all had happened so fast that it was a difficult to keep up with Gohan during the fight. "You were flying." Nepgear said as she went through the fight in her head again as well. "I'm sorry but you moved really fast so I didn't get a good look at what was going on."
"It's okay Nepgear, you don't need to apologize." Gohan said as he landed back onto the ground, he noticed that Nepgear seemed to have a habit of being overly apologetic and blaming herself for things that were out of her control. His eyes slid over to Neptune who was still in deep thought.
"How?" Neptune asked as she came out of her thoughts and looked into his eyes, "How are you able to fly if you aren't a CPU yourself? I've never seen anyone other than the other CPUs fly." Neptune crossed her arms as she fixed Gohan with an intense gaze, Nepgear looking in between the two before she fixed Gohan with a similar, but less intense, questioning look of her own.
"Umm well", Gohan felt a cold sweat come over him as he thought of a good explanation to give the two of them. "You see; I was trained by a very powerful person back where I'm from and he taught me how to control my ki so that I could fly."
"Your ki? That means your life energy doesn't it?" Nepgear asked, not being able to hide the confusion in her voice.
"Yeah, but it doesn't work like you might think. I can explain in more detail but it's best if I do that after we get to Planeptune." Gohan said as he turned from Nepgear to her older sister,
"Yes, I suppose you're right. Let's get going." Immediately after saying that Neptune shot up into the air "You carry Nep Jr. okay?" She yelled before flying off in the direction of Planeptune.
"W-wait Neptune, why can't you ju-." Nepgear felt her face heat up as she turned towards the black haired boy, who was giving her sheepish smile.
"Sorry, but it looks like we don't have a choice. Here, get on." Gohan said as he walked to Nepgear and knelt down slightly in front of her so she could climb onto his back. Gohan looked back at the lilac haired girl and noticed the blush that was steadily growing on her face.
"I'm sorry, it's just a bit embarrassing." Nepgear muttered quietly as she walked up behind him and took a moment to ready herself before she wrapped her arms around his neck and Gohan put his arms under her knees to keep her secure.
"You ready?" Gohan felt her head nod against his shoulder, having her confirmation he took to the skies. Flying at a decent speed in the direction he sensed Neptune. "Feel free to tell me if I'm going too fast or anything like that." Gohan called out over his shoulder as he felt Nepgears body shake against his back.
"I-I'm okay, don't worry about me." She laughed meekly as she looked around where they were at. Recognizing some of the landscape she found herself wondering how the boy carrying her knew where to go.
After half an hour of flying Gohan noticed that Neptunes ki was no longer moving, and after a few seconds her ki shrank back to its usual strength. 'Looks like she got back home, which means if I speed up a bit it'll only take a few minutes to get there.' He took a glance back a Nepgear, she looked as if she was no longer nervous or scared about him carrying her and was just enjoying the view. "Hey Nepgear, would you be okay if I sped up?"
She visibly jumped as she was pulled from her thoughts, "Oh umm yeah, go ahead Gohan." Gohan nodded back to her before his white aura came over his body before he flew twice as fast as before. "Wait Gohan, that's too fast!" Nepgear screamed as she tightened her grip around his neck.
Gohan stopped in an instant as he felt her desperate grip on his neck, but because of the quick stop Nepgear got shaken roughly and lost her grip and fell off of his back. "Darn it." Gohan yelled out as he heard the lilac haired girl scream as she fell off of him, before shooting straight down as fast as he could to catch her. Easily getting past her before getting under the falling girl and catching her safely, putting one arm under her knees while his other supported her back. "I'm so sorry Nepgear, are you okay?"
"Y-yes, I'm okay. Sorry I made you worry." Nepgear said as she stared at her lap as she felt heat rush to her cheeks as she realized how Gohan was holding her. Gohan gave a sigh of relief as he unconsciously tightened his hold on her.
"I'm going to fly us the rest of the way like this, that way there's no chance of you falling again." Gohan said as he took off once again, steadily gaining speed until he was back to the original pace they had been going at. He wasn't going to risk Nepgears safety for the sake of getting to Planeptune faster. Nepgear just stayed quiet as they flew, she didn't know what it was about him but being near Gohan like she was at the moment was extremely calming.
In what felt like a peaceful eternity to Nepgear, they finally landed on the balcony of the Planeptune basilicom. Slowly the demi-saiyan placed Nepgear onto the ground before stepping back a little bit to allow her to steady herself. "I really am sorry for dropping you like that, I didn't mean to." Gohan said as he gave Nepgear a remorseful expression.
"It's really okay, I didn't mean to end up freaking you out like that", Nepgear whispered, the blush on her face remaining there with no sign of fading away. "Thank you for catching me."
Gohan gave the lilac haired girl a smile, "Of course, I'll do my best to protect you." He had said that without thinking about it, but as soon as he saw the astonished look on the girls face, he tilted his head in confusion and wondered what was wrong with what he said to cause Nepgear to react like that.
Before he could ask the blushing girl what was wrong, he heard the door that lead into the basilicom open and Neptunes head pop out, back into her original form, with a smirk on her face. "Once you two are done flirting, I'll be waiting inside." She called out in a sing song voice before going back into the basilicom. Nepgear immediately ran in behind her, yelling at her older sister that she had the wrong idea while Gohan was left to just sit there in confusion before he followed them into the building.
Gohan was about to try and sense where the girls had gone but he found he had no need to as the voices of Neptune and another girls voice called out down the hallway. The girls voice was strangely familiar to him but he couldn't figure out where he had heard the unknown girls voice was.
Gohan turned the corner and came into the room and saw Neptune talking with, or arguing with it was difficult to tell, with a girl who was relatively small and was floating on top of a book. Both of the arguing girls turned to him as he walked through the doorway. "Histy, allow me to present the mighty Son Gohan!" Neptune yelled out as she slid over to Gohans side before giving a ta da pose as if showcasing him.
Gohan couldn't help but laugh at the girls' antics, it was hard not to find it amusing. Gohan stepped forward and gave a small bow to the blonde girl on top of the book. "It's nice to meet you, my names Son Gohan but I guess you know that now." Gohan said before he let out a nervous chuckle.
"It's nice to meet you as well, Neptune has told me a little about you before you arrived here. I'm Histiore, I am the Oracle of Planeptune." Histiore said as she bowed her head to the young saiyan. Gohans eye widened in surprise but he tried his best to hide it, this girls voice was extremely similar to the voice that had led him here but it seemed as if Histiore had never even heard of him before Neptune told her about him. He let out a defeated sigh before quickly regaining his composure.
"Now that the intros are over, it's time for you to explain yourself mister." Neptune yelled out as she pointed an accusing finger at him.
Gohan nodded as he looked over the three girls in the room, "I did say that I would explain to you in more detail about how I was able to fly and why I was so strong so I will." Gohan said before moving over to an open seat, watching as Neptune did a belly-flop onto the couch, Nepgear sitting on the open space left on the couch and Histiore seemed content floating where she was.
Gohan was left with an intense turmoil going on inside himself, he didn't want to lie to them but he still couldn't tell if it was a wise decision to tell them the truth of how he ended up in Gamindustri. Looking over all three of them, he trusted all of them. He had learned from both his father and Piccolo to believe in his instincts. "Okay, to explain this to you then I first need to apologize to both of you", Gohan said as he pointed at the lilac haired sisters, "I had lied about how I came to Lowee."
The room was completely quiet while all eyes were zeroed in on him. Gohan took a deep breath as he prepared to tell them everything, from the very beginning so they would truly understand and hopefully believe him once it was done. "Okay, it started when I was about four years old, and my Uncle came to Earth, the planet I'm from and tried to force my father to commit genocide on the people of Earth." Judging from the strange and awestruck looks he was receiving from the trio, he knew he was in for one hell of a night.
I felt this chapter wasn't as good as it could be, but I wanted to get it out before I went out of town for a while. The next chapter that comes out for this story will probably be in a week or two, but rest assured there will be a next chapter. Also I still haven't decided who to pair Gohan with but I figured some slight romantic scenes between him and Nepgear would be kinda cute. I hope you enjoyed the chapter and look forward to the next. Thanks for reading my story and have a great day everyone!