/!\ "Underlined text indicates German speech!" /!\

I, Diana, Nepgear and Jonny find ourselves in the Planeptune Basilicom's top floor.
The same floor I and Diana had arrived in initially.

Well, Diana is now walking towards the balcony to fly off towards the trouble makers.
She activates HDD and dashes off.

"Come on, let's follow her." I suggest, activating HDD.
Nepgear follows my example.
"You know, I can't do that." Jonny points out.
"I'll carry you. No problem." I offer and hold my hand out.
Quietly groaning, he takes my hands and we fly off the balcony towards where Diana went.

We can see the once again broken east-wall of the main city of Planeptune with the CFWs inside the walls.
"Oh... we have just finished the repairs..." Nepgear silently complains.

"GET YOUR F*CKING ASSES OVER HERE, YOU INOBEDIENT C*NTS!"
This is literally the first thing Diana says since we entered this dimension.
And it's directed at the CFWs.
Who, by the way, immediately stop wrecking whatever they can find and instead put their gazes onto us.
They... well, minus Brave. He didn't break anything in the first place.

The CFWs slowly float towards Diana...
"It was Magic's idea!" Trick almost instantly says.
Diana groans loudly and points towards Brave.
"Give me a report, Brave."
"CFW Magic's definition of 'innocent' is... different."

"Magic, you little b*tch!" Diana slaps Magic once across the face, imprinting Magic's face with her own hand-print.
"I'll give you innocent!" She quickly summons the same sword she used in the battle against Explode...
And shape-shifts it slightly. Without hesitation, she smacks the flat side of the blade against Magic's belly.
Magic visibly cringes in pain and you can see smoke being emitted from the sword.

"This will leave a nasty burn mark." Diana states with a poisonous voice, disintegrating the sword once more.
True to her words, there is now a burn mark on Magic's belly. 'INNOCENT' it reads.
"Don't ever forget what I mean with innocent!"
"Y-yes."
"Good. The others may return to Gamindustri Graveyard and continue the work they had been doing."
"Y-yes, Lady Diana."

Diana smirks to her accomplishment as the all CFWs, except Magic, fly off.
"Why do you bother with them." Magic asks Diana and points towards us.
"The green dude is my brother, the other two are my friends. All the CPUs are my friends. Don't hurt my friends and family."
"Why did you not want to me to leave."
"Easy, you come to the Planeptune Basilicom, and prepare a public excuse towards the citizens of Planeptune."
Magic deadpans at that. "H-how embarrassing..."
"And I'll get somebody else to pay attention you don't f*ck sh*t up!"
Silence for a few seconds.
"Come on, we will go to the Basilicom."
"Y-yes, my goddess."

"Oh! Back already- WHY IS SHE HERE?!" Histoire seems... 'surprised' about Magic's appearance. And really stressed. And tense. And stressed.
"She is here for a public apology. Is that right, Magic?" The later part of Diana's explanation sounds significantly more menacing than... her other offers.
"Y-yes... t-that is right!" Magic stutters in 'agreement'.
"Uh... okay..." Histoire is at a loss of words in this situation... I can understand why.
"I am gonna work on her speech. Come on, Magic." My sister commands the CFW to follow her into an empty working room.

We are left standing in the Planeptune's lobby.
"So... Hey, Histy... Not seen for... a day." I awkwardly stammer.
"Yes... Hello, Deniz..."
"Hello, Histoire... Has everything been working... besides this incident?"
"Hello, Nepgear... Yes... fortunately... There was not a lot of work in the past day..."

Standing there for a few more seconds, doing absolutely nothing, I am getting bored.
Therefore I suggested: "Come on, Nepgear. Let's visit Linda for a moment."
"Yes, sounds good." Nepgear nods and agrees.
"Guys! I am still here!" Jonny reminds us... How did we forget him?
"Yeah, we are gonna introduce you to Linda."
"...Great."

Having disabled our HDDs along the way, we now knock at the door to Linda's room.
"Hey, Linda? Are you there?" I shout at the door.
No reply.
Shrugging, I push the door open to find... nobody.
"Look! She's left a note!" Nepgear is pointing at a piece of paper on her desk.

Visiting an old friend.
And revenge towards somebody else.
If there is anything important, call me.
-Linda

"Well, looks like that didn't work out so well." Jonny boredly states. "Besides, Matt might be coming every second, so would you mind bringing me back?"
"Yeah, sure."

I'll skip anything exact on this part.
Jonny is back home. He will call us if anything actually weird happens.
Magic is extremely terrified for... some reason. Also, she and Diana return to the Gamindustri Graveyard for now.
And Histoire...

She was called by Kei because of some cursed sword.
Yeah, doesn't sound so good, does it?

"Unfortunately, this is all the information I have and it will take three days before I can give you anything more exact. I am sorry." Histoire apologizes... for some reason.
"You know, that sounds oddly like something in the games... Though nothing positive..." I slowly say, scratching my chin.
"Do you think you know where we can find it?" Nepgear asks tilting her head slightly.
Thinking a little more about it, I answer "If it's at the same place as in the game, it should be in the Lan Castle Depths."
"It would be worth a try... Still, I will research the sword." Histoire replies, raising her finger.

"Also, it's called a cursed sword for a reason. In the games, horrible things happened once the CPUs found it... I'd... rather not talk about it... If you want to know, ask Linda once she's back..."
"Linda?" The oracle questions.
"She insisted to know." I dully answer.

"So, to the Lan Castle?" Nepgear asks.
"Yes, to the Lan Castle." I confirm.

"The Lan Castle..." I mutter to myself.
It took only a few minutes to actually fly here. Unsurprisingly.
Now Nepgear and I stand in front of its gate. A really large one at that.

The pinkette also has this kind of stressed look on her face, like if...
"Something feels wrong..." She says in thought.
"Then let's better be careful."
"Yes." She pauses a second... "Would you go first, please?"

Because she looks distressed and somewhat scared, I nod and start walking toward the castle.
Nepgear is following closely and draws her sword. I do so too not taking any risks. Always on the look-out.

...

The monsters aren't really strong around here, probably because we are significantly over-leveled for this area.
Still, something is off, Nepgear felt it, and I feel something as well...

...

The monsters in its depths are slightly stronger, but still no problem.
And it looks like this is the place...

"Do you see anything?" Nepgear questions, still inching behind me.
"No, nothing of signifi-" The sudden trembling of the ground interrupts me.
"ACCESS!" We shout in sync, enabling HDD.
And no moment too late, as the ground beneath us falls, dust rising...

Something... rises from the depths...

A/N

YAY! CLIFFHANGERS!
And I slowly but surely come to an end with my prepared chapters to upload.
I need to make sure to write faster...
Anyways, feedback would be appreciated.