Lowee, Gamindustri

Place: Basilicom

Date: September 14, 2019

Time: 6:05 P.M.

Three days have passed since the battle against Rei Ryghts. Things were calm and no monsters threatened the lives of people. In each nation, the construction has started and volunteers pitched in to help. The threats that plagued Gamindustri have not been forgotten, but with time those fears will disappear.

Ultra Rei along with Ultra Blanc, Ultra Vert, and Peashy returned home first to make sure Ultradimension was doing fine while the Ultra black and purple duo stayed to help around Hyperdimension.

Currently, in the large spacious office of Lowee's Basilicom, the shorter girl with long messy purple hair sat in front of Blanc's desk watching the brunette tap away on her keyboard. She had been answering questions and retelling her adventures with the others for the past few hours. She was starting to get tired.

"Hyper Blaaaaanny," she called out. "I really have to go soooooooon."

"Yeah, yeah. I know. Can you repeat the part where you imprisoned my counterpart in her own home and tortured her?"

Plutia felt a sweat drop. "No no! It wasn't us! Weeeeeee got imprisoned in Blanny's home. Blanny was also there though. A-And we didn't torture heeeeeer. We made fun of her!"

"Right, of course. Still hard to believe a version of me could get trapped in her own basilicom," Blanc chuckled.

Plutia pouted, "It wasn't her faaaaault."

"I understand. She must have been in a tough spot. So how did you escape?"

Plutia sighed, "I tooooold you. Vert helped us!"

Blanc rolled her eyes. "Right. Quite funny how she tried to infiltrate my counterpart's basilicom."

"Ummmmm. Are you done? Noire's gonna be mad if I don't meet up with her soooooon."

Blanc waved her off. "Ultra Noire is fine. She's too busy helping our Noire remodel her city. I heard she was planning to build a central park with a large lake around her new basilicom so she can still have her," she quoted with her fingers as she said, "scenic view."

"But I prooooomised I'd meet her in Planeptuuuuuune…" Plutia pulled up her screen to see the time and frowned. "Ten minutes agoooo…"

"Ah, I see Ultra Noire likes to be punctual too. Don't tell her you're meeting with me when you go back."

The purple-haired girl tilted her head in puzzlement. "Why nooooot?"

"If she's anything like our Noire, she'll chew my head off about using your lives as material for my books," Blanc answered.

Plutia's eyes lit up with sparkles. "Wooooo! You're gonna write a story about us?! I wanna reading it! Can I? Can I?!"

Blanc blushed as she lightly rubbed her neck. "Well, I guess I can give you a copy when I finish. It's supposed to be a sequel to the current work I'm working on."

"Oh! Oh!" Plutia bounced in her chair like a happy child. "Let me read it! Pleeeeeease?! I'd love to see your work, Hyper Blanny!"

Blanc rubbed her chin as she thought about it. "I do have a few prototype copies of the first book, so I don't mind letting you read it. Let me know what you think about it when you're done!"

Plutia nodded her head. "Okeeeeeey!"

Blanc pushed a bit away and pulled out the third drawer from her desk. Shuffling through the papers she found the copy of her first printed book that she will be mass-producing soon. "Here."

Plutia took hold of the paperback book and saw the title her eyes easily grew wide with amusement. "Wooooooow! The Forbidden Love of Two Rivaly Rulers During the Time of World War! Sounds so cooooooool!"

The white goddess cringed when she heard the title being read out loud. "Still working on that title. It's a bit long."

"How about…" Plutia hummed as she thought about a title for Blanc's story. "The Forbidden Love in Time of War?"

"Hmmm, that does sound nice, but maybe it can be shortened even more."

"Oh oh!" Plutia raised her hand as she bounced in her seat. "Why don't you just use the second part? Take out The Forbidden."

Blanc snapped her fingers and pointed at the other CPU. "You're a genius, Plutia!"

"Hehehe!" Plutia giggled as she blushed from the compliment.

Blanc quickly typed that down before she forgot. It was a good thing she didn't mass-produce yet. It would have been a disaster replacing all those copies.

"Is this about Neppy and her Noire?" Plutia asked as she flipped through the pages.

Blanc instantly tensed up. "Huh? No! W-What makes you think that?"

"Weeeeeeell, for starters…" Plutia looked up from the pages. "The characters' names are Nepper and Nori…"

Blanc blinked and then sighed. "You're right, the names are a bit obvious. Noire will instantly figure that out if she happens to check this story out."

"Why not change it to-"

The door to her bedroom abruptly slammed open as a little girl dressed in pink called out into the room, "Blanc! Dinner's ready!"

Blanc stood up from her chair and snapped, "What did I say about barging in, you brat!"

"S-Sorry, Blanc," Rom stuttered as she peeked out from behind Ram. "We did knock, but you didn't respond…"

"Yeah! It was your fault! Bleeeeeh!" Ram stuck her tongue out at the white CPU.

Blanc only sighed, "Alright, I'm coming. I'm sorry about them, Plutia."

The Planeptune CPU chuckled, "It's okaaaaay! They are sooooo cute!"

"Oh, um… M-Miss Plutia," Rom voiced. "Miss Ultra Noire was looking for you. S-She's waiting down in the lobby."

"She's here?!" Plutia jumped out of her chair. "Awwwwwwe. I'm in for some scolding…"

Blanc felt a bit guilty for holding up Plutia. "I'll go meet her with you. It was my fault for holding you. Thank you for today though. Your information was great."

Plutia quickly perked back up. "Glad to help! And thank you for showing me around your Lowee! It's soooooo white, unlike the Lowee in Ultradimension."

"R-Really? I'd love to see a snowless Lowee," Rom mentioned.

Plutia beamed, "Maybe you can visit someday! I'm sure Blanny would love to show you around!"

"Yeah! Let's go, let's go! I wanna see another dimension too!" Ram chirped.

Blanc groaned. "That will have to be for another day." She closed her desktop and made her way to her younger sisters.

Ram pouted, "You're no fun, Blanc! It's not fair that only Neptune and Nepgear get to see Ultradimension! I wanna see it too!"

Blanc didn't bother with Ram's tantrum and turned to her guest. "Let's return you to Ultra Noire before she blows a fuse."

Plutia chuckled, "Noire doesn't blow a fuse! She's veeeeery patient with me!" She softly added, "Sometimes…"

Planeptune, Gamindustri

Place: Virtua Forest

Date: September 14, 2019

Time: 6:47 P.M.

The sun slowly decent, setting the sky ablaze with beautiful colors of orange and pink. While having met up with Noire in Lowee, She was forcibly dragged back to Planeptune. Plutia was at least glad that she didn't get scolded, just a small complaint from the black goddess.

Now, standing in the forest with the portal behind her, Plutia faced the purple and black CPUs of Hyperdimension. She really wanted to stay longer, but Histoire will be upset if she doesn't return soon.

"It's been fun, Neppy," Plutia sadly smiled.

Neptune whimpered, "Plutie…"

"Thank you for all the help. Hyperdimension is truly in your dept," Noire said.

Plutia giggled, "Awwww shucks! What are friends for? And Neppy helped Ultradimension too!"

"We're just paying her back," Ultra Noire said.

"I'm gonna miss ya, Plutie!" Neptune cried.

"I'll miss you too, Neppy! I'll come to visit as muuuuuuch as I can!" promised the iris CPU.

"Histoire and Blanc had mentioned that the portal won't be going anywhere, so we'll still see each other. This isn't goodbye," claimed Ultra Noire.

"We'll be busy with rebuilding our nations, but we'll try to visit Ultradimension too," said Noire. "I haven't seen what it's like over there, yet, and I'm quite interested in Ultra Lastation."

"We'll welcome you with open arms!" Plutia chirped. "Hyper Blanny's sisters wanted to visit too. I told them that Blanny would show them around Lowee."

Ultra Noire crossed her arms as a smug look graced her face. "I'll be happy to give you a tour as well. Lastation in the best after all!"

Neptune rapidly nodded. "Yeah! We'll definitely visit!"

Noire smiled and looked at both Plutia and her counterpart. "Take care, both of you."

"You guys as well. And keep an eye on your girlfriend, will you? I don't need her falling out of the sky again," Ultra Noire complained.

Neptune felt like she was called out, which she was. "It's not like I ask to fall out of the sky!"

Noire only laughed. "I'll make sure to keep my eyes on her."

Ultra Noire smirked, "Good. That's all I needed to hear."

"Is that really how you say goodbye to your friends?" Neptune grumbled.

Ultra Noire rolled her eyes. "Don't expect me to be all sentimental, Neptune. You're probably gonna run to Plutia the next day when you see all the work you have on your hands."

Neptune tensed up feeling like her plans were exposed. "T-That's not true!"

Noire sighed, "I'm gonna have to keep a really close eye on you so Nepgear doesn't have to rebuild Planeptune all by herself."

Neptune quickly denied, "I-I would never do that! What kind of sister would I be if I dumped all the work onto Nepgear while I played in Ultradimension?!"

Ultra Noire shook her head disappointedly. "And there you have it."

"Oh, Neppy." Plutia giggled, "That sounds juuuuust like you!"

Neptune groaned, "Why am I the one being bullied here? Where's Nep Jr? She's usually the one taking the heat…"

Noire lightly weaved her fingers through Neptune's hair, hoping to calm her down. "Sorry, but it's kind of expected when you've been pretty lazy."

"Lazy?! I'll have you know I've been working my butt off to come back home and be the hero!" Neptune argued.

"Hero? I think the real hero here is my counterpart that's been doing the most fighting during the last boss fight," Ultra Noire corrected.

"Nooooo! I don't wanna hear it!" Neptune whined as she covered her ears.

Ultra Noire sighed, "You never change, do you? Anyway, we should get going, Plutia. Everyone's gonna wonder what's taking us so long."

Plutia pouted, "Awe, alreeeeeeeady?"

"We've taken enough of their time. We also have to clean up the mess on our ends too," Ultra Noire reasoned.

"Oooooookay." Plutia sighed, but then perked up when she remembered something. "Oh! Before I go. I forgot to hand this over!"

Ultra Noire gave the iris goddess a confused look. "Hand what over?"

"This is for you, Hyper Noire!" Plutia pulled out a small cardboard box from her inventory and held it out for Noire to take.

The black CPU did not expect to get anything. "What's this?"

"Did you forget? It's your giiiiift!"

"Gift?" Noire took the box and opened it, only to close it right away. "O-Oooooooh! That gift!" Her face was flaming red when she saw what was inside.

"What is it?" Neptune curiously asked.

"I-It's nothing!" Noire answered as she hurriedly shoved the box into her inventory.

"What sort of gift did you give her?" Ultra Noire asked the iris CPU.

Plutia giggled, "I made Hyper Noire a-"

Noire yelled out, hoping to drown out Plutia's voice. "Aaaaah, blaaaah aaaah! Gluuuuuah!"

Neptune looked at Noire like she has grown a second head. "Noire, are you okay? Is this a side effect of Mode Uranus?"

"No, it's not!" Noire quickly denied it, while her face was red with embarrassment.

"I thought we were similar, but maybe not. I would never make such a strange sound like that," said Ultra Noire.

Noire glared and ordered, "Plutia! Hug your Noire!"

Plutia blinked. "Huh? I like this?" She warped her arms around Ultra Noire and nuzzled against her arm.

Ultra Noire flinched as her face burned bright red. "H-Hey!"

Noire smiled smugly. "Look how red you are, Noire. Don't tell me this is the first time you're being hugged?"

"Of course, not! I've been hugged before! And don't hug me just because you've been told to, Plutia!" Noire scolded.

Plutia hummed, "Hmmmm, but I waaaaant to! If I really didn't want to, I wouldn't listen to Hyper Noire."

"Awwwwwe, how cute," Noire cooed.

Neptune sighed, "Ah, young love."

Ultra Noire's blush reached the tip of her ears. She can't take much of the embarrassment anymore, so she announced, "W-We're leaving!"

Plutia giggled as she released her hold on the black-haired goddess. "Hehe, okaaaaay. Whatever you want, Noire."

"Save travels back," Neptune voiced.

"Bye byyyyyye!"

Plutia and Ultra Noire turned around and entered the portal hand in hand. Neptune and Noire continued to wave until their backs disappeared from their sight. The purple CPU dropped her hand to her side and stared at the swirling gateway to the other dimension. It's not like she won't ever see them again, but it felt like they were gone from their lives. She was really making it more dramatic than it needed.

"Guess it's back to just us…" Neptune felt warm fingers intertwining with her own and looked up at Noire. "Noire?"

The black CPU smiled. "Let's visit Ultradimension."

Neptune's eyes immediately lit up. "Right now!?"

Noire rolled her eyes. "No, silly! After our nation is up and running again. We can't slack off when both our populace are stuck in Leanbox."

"Oh, right, hehe…" Neptune rubbed the back of her neck. "You think Vert and Blanc would want to visit too?"

"I think all of us could use a break once everything settles down. We can't have you be the only one to experience a different Gamindustri."

Neptune jumped up and down with glee. "What are we waiting for then?! Let's go ask them!"

Noire laughed as Neptune pulled on her hand. "Neptune, slow down! It will be a while before we can even visit!"

Author's Note

So this is the second to last chapter. Yep, you heard me. Second to last. I will be ending this story in Chapter 40! Man, I never thought I'd finish another story on this site! I was so close to just dropping LITOH, but I pulled through! Just like I promised! I might have taken a long break, but I came back stronger than ever! I think...?

Anyway, I want to thank Idea Factory and Compile Heart for the amazing franchise that is Neptunia! None of these ideas would've happened without them! I also want to thank you guys for being patient and for reading my work! You all are what kept me going! Thank you so much for your support all these times!

With that said, I'll see you all in the last chapter! Nep out!

-Shiena