The CPU Fencer

Disclaimer: I do not own Hyperdimension Neptunia or Fairy Fencer F

Chapter 5

The Gorlois spat fireball after fireball at the two, Viridis looked at Ethel and who looked back. "Let's defeat this thing and go"

They jumped out of the way of the fireballs as the Gorlois. Ethel's bow transformed into a scythe as she walked towards the boss monster. "Waxing Crescent" Karin's voice said from the fury as Ethel dashed towards the Gorlois as she brought down the scythe landing a clean blow on the lizard-like monster.

The slash left a trail of ice where the scythe went and like the other ice attacks it exploded. The Gorlois punched Ethel when it recovered as her weapon went back into its normal form, a bow.

Viridis went other to Ethel and handed her a potion as well as an energy shard. "Thanks" She said as she took the potion and energy shard.

Viridis then turned his attention to the boss monster in front of him. "I don't think we need to transform but I am itching to use a few techniques that require it" Viridis said mainly to himself as his party heard.

Viridis held his spear out as a white glyph appeared in front of the spear. Viridis pulled back his spear and thrusted it into the glyph, once he did that the glyph glowed a bright white as multiple laser beams came out of it and the laser where bent, as they homed in on the Gorlois.

The Gorlois was hit by the multiple beams when Viridis appeared on the other side of the boss with his spear in front of him like he pierced something. "Laser Show" Viridis said as suddenly the Gorlois was caught in an explosion of light.

The god turned around to see the boss monster get up from the ground slowly. "Seems you have some HP left" Viridis said holding onto his spear. "Hey Ethel, are you ready for another combo attack?"

Ethel glanced to Viridis and back to the Gorlois. "I'm ready" She said. Ethel pointed her bow up into the air as she shot a single energy arrow into the sky.

Viridis dashed over to the Gorlois and thrusted his spear into the stomach of the boss monster, once the spear pierced the boss Viridis lifted it into the air above him.

"Enemy Umbrella" Viridis and Ethel said as multiple rained down from the sky hitting the back of the Gorlois. After what seemed like a hundred arrows Viridis then swung his spear throwing the Gorlois off it and watched as it smashed into a wall.

Viridis and Ethel kept their eyes on the fallen Gorlois in case it got up again. Ethel aimed her bow as Viridis bent down ready to leap into action.

They stayed there for a while before they decided that the boss monster was dead. "Let's go Ethel, Karin" Viridis said to his companions.

Viridis went to perform his spell when he was hit from behind by a fireball. "Gah" Viridis fell to the ground from the sudden attack.

Ethel spun around to see the Gorlois weakly standing. Viridis got off the ground and turned to the boss monster. "Well at least it is putting up a good fight" Viridis said. "It seems another good attack will end it"

Viridis then turned to the blue haired girl. "Do you want the honours?"

Ethel said nothing but she held her bow out towards the Gorlois. "Shooting Star" Ethel said as she performed the skill, the ice arrows pierced through the monster and exploded as the boss roared as it drew its last breathe and scummed to the embrace of death.

"That was pretty dark" Viridis thought of the above line of the boss monster dying. "Let's go" He said as Ethel picked up some items the Gorlois dropped.

When Karin and Ethel came closer to Viridis, he performed his magic skill. "Backtrack" Viridis and party then appeared outside of the dungeon. "They certainly don't have any of these skills and spells back in Gamindustri" He whispered to himself.

The only way to leave a dungeon back in Gamindustri was to use an Eject Button from what he could remember at least.

"Are you two hungry?" He asked as they nodded. "Then let's get something to eat"

The party then headed off to a nearby town. Meanwhile in Gamindustri, Nepgear was hard at work.

"Hmm" Nepgear looked down at the recon drone she was working on. She had to make the drone withstand any harsh environments that were in the other dimension. Nepgear already installed a camera into the drone and it did have a live feedback and it worked from quite a distance.

Her mind drifted off to Green Brother, she never met him personally, seen him once or twice but never actually met him. She saw him once when she was visiting Leanbox with her sister and he was only passing by with a stoic look on his face.

The second time she saw Viridis was a close up picture and that was it. She was interested that there was a male candidate and she was genuinely excited to meet him.

She wondered many things about the blonde candidate as well as questions. For example, what was it like being the only male CPU Candidate?

She hoped she would be able to become friends with him. Now she learnt that he disappeared presumably into another dimension either by accident or purpose.

Nepgear placed down a screwdriver and plugged in a cord that connected to a nearby computer. She was currently running software for the drone and checking its programming, she was more of a hardware person.

As she ran the program it showed the statistics of the drone and saw that the current programs installed on the recon drone, she booted up one of the programs on the drone that caused the camera to turn on.

Nepgear booted something else up as the recon drone started to hover off the ground slightly. The sister of Neptune had a look of pride as she watched her creation hover off the ground. She had been working on the drone for quite a while since she dashed off from her sister and the other goddesses and candidates.

She checked the computer and made the drone hover down to the desk which she was working on and turned off the video feed. She checked the other programs of the recon drone and was quite happy with the results.

"I should be finished soon" Nepgear said as she tested its armour, it wouldn't help in battle but it would protect it against the elements and she also started to put a stealth system into the drone to make sure it wouldn't be seen and destroyed but any hostile forces on the other side.

There was no telling if the dimension Viridis went to was hostile or not. "I hope Vert is doing okay" Nepgear said as she thought back to the goddess of Leanbox. Ever since Viridis disappeared she had become miserable and depressed, she was also worried and thinking about her brother.

She hasn't even been playing her MMOs lately and whenever she was around the goddess she never hugged her or talking about keeping her here. Nepgear was glad that Vert wasn't hugging her but she didn't like seeing Vert so sad.

She once found Vert in Viridis' room weeping with red puffy eyes all tears no longer falling. Vert fell asleep in Viridis' bed and the room was kind of…empty.

The room was a dark green colour, a bed with a green quilt. A desk, drawers full of clothes and other things you would find in a room. He also had a computer that no one knew the password of, and a large fancy TV on the wall that had a Leanbox console connected to it.

Despite the fact that it had barely anything it, it did show Nepgear that Viridis was a gamer like Vert and the other goddesses. Judging from the games he had showed that Viridis had a wide range of game genres.

First Person, Horror, RPG, Action, Adventure, Platform, Strategy, Fighting, etc. Nepgear's thoughts went to her own sister who whined and complained at not being able to go through to another dimension.

Neptune made it obvious that she wanted to go to another dimension. However Neptune wasn't the only one who wanted to go to another dimension. Vert also wanted to leave to the dimension Viridis went to.

Vert wanted her brother, Nepgear could understand. If her sister was sent to another dimension she would want to find her. The sister of Neptune didn't know the relationship between Vert and her brother but there was a saying.

You don't what you've got till it's gone.

Nepgear removed the drone before looking at smaller ones that could fit inside the drone. These smaller drones could move like the bigger drone and can attach themselves to surfaces. They were much easier to make than the large version, and quicker as well.

Nepgear inserted the smaller drones into the bigger drone and looked over to some more parts. "I should make backups"

She walked over to the parts and noticed that she would need to go get some more wires among other things. She could make do with one drone as well as the smaller ones but if the recon drone was destroyed the small drones would cease to work.

The small drones were connected to the recon drone and shared the same video feed. Then there was the fact that they were disposable as they would attach the surfaces, then again the recon drone itself was disposable once they could travel freely between dimensions.

Nepgear went a bit overboard when designing and creating the recon drone. She liked this sort of stuff and she tended to go crazy with adding some…less useful features.

She had installed a digital clock inside the drone and if you opened it you would see it, not really needed but it was there…for some reason.

Nepgear decided to work on the drone for a bit longer before stopping for the day. She didn't know when they needed the drone but she was very, very proud of it. Her time was mostly working on the drone now. Nepgear was excited to test out the drone and see the new land through the recon drone as well.

Nepgear then decided to take a break from the recon drone for now. She might be a robot, hardware and machine fanatic and a technological genius, she did need breaks from it every now and then…even if the breaks aren't that small.

Vert was currently in her room staring up at the ceiling, many thoughts were going through her head.

Why did he leave? Did he leave on purpose? Or was it someone else's doing?

There were too many questions… but no answers, just speculations. Vert rolled on her side, her friends tried to help her, comfort her, but it didn't work.

They all said the same thing to try and cheer her up. Her thoughts reminded that exactly line they said.

Sometimes the best way to appreciate something is to be without it for a while.

While that may be true Vert didn't believe it, well she did…for a while. Chika tried to comfort her… a lot, Blanc and Noire surprisingly tried to help her before they went back to their nations which surprised the blonde goddess.

Then again they were older siblings as well, so it wouldn't be surprising to see themselves in her shoes.

"Was it me?" She asked herself quietly. Was it her fault that he left? If so then how did she make her only family member leave?

She held the bed sheets firmly, griping them hard. A look of guilt coursed over the goddess of Leanbox as she thought back to the times she had with her brother that felt so far away now. There was a saying that she knew was true.

You knew exactly what you had…you just never thought you'd never lose it.