After we recovered from the initial shock of Neptune doing work without objecting, everything seemed fine once again...

Then my phone rings.
Matt.

...

I never gave him my number and it's not on Skype.
How is he in my contact list?

"At least it's not your mother." Nepgear jokes.
"Yeah. She is not really friendly with... anybody."

I pick up the call.

"Whazzup, mate?" Matt asks through the phone.
"Hey. I should probably be asking."
"Yeah, you're right 'bout that. By the way, I love it here!"
"That's good to hear. So why'd you call?"
"May I stay here?"
"You should ask Vert about that... And your parents."
"Both said they wouldn't mind if I stayed for a while."

Didn't they have school or something... Never mind.

"Then why'd you call me?"
"Honestly, dunno. Boredom."

Silence...

"'t was nice talking to you. Bye."
"Yeah, bye!"

So that just happened.

"Your friends are pretty random." Nepgear states.
"Random, but not as random as some of yours." I point out.
"You might actually be right about that. Hehe–"

*RING!*

This time it's my mother.

"I ain't picking that call up." I state, set the phone to vibrate mode and store it.
"Actually... I am fine with that. She doesn't seem like an all too nice person."
"She's not that bad usually. Though I had my reasons to not invite friends–"

Jonny storms into the room, falling over in an attempt to stop.
That doesn't seem to take him out, so he quickly stands up and rattles down whatever he has to say.
"Lookatthiscuzitsweirdandnobodyhasanyideawhythisishappeninginthefirstplace!" At the same time he frantically points at his own phone.

While I couldn't understand what he said (and neither seemed my girlfriend), I quickly understand what he was trying to tell us.

"Squid-Humans?" Nepgear looks at the picture with a puzzled expression.
"Actually... they look like Inklings and Octarians... and they are fighting." I point out.
"Uh, what are they?" She asks again.
"...Squid-Humans. From a video game."
"Oh, okay."

From a video game.

I slowly get up.
"Jonny, where was this picture taken?"
"Uh, Tokyo... I think."
"Looks like we'll be visiting Japan."
The pinkette also stands up in response.

I turn towards her and tell her. "I feel like you should rather spend time with your sister, don't you think? It's been weeks. For us at least."
"I guess your right about that..."

"And I will spend some time with my own sister... Speaking of whom... where is Diana?" I ask.
Jonny is quick to answer that question. "Changing clothes."

"If I had to guess, that has to do with whatever she did with you."
"Your guess would be right."
"Then I won't ask."
"You better not."

I, Diana and Jonny (who actually wanted to come with us for a change) are ready to fly off towards Leanbox as Matt will definitely want to go on an adventure!
That sounded more epic when I thought about it...

"Jonny, just... just close your eyes. It's not that bad if you do." I suggest.
"Well, if you say so."
"Or look up. I want to carry you." Diana tells him with a smirk.

Jonny is quick to wave that idea of though. "...I'm fine. I'll close them."
"'kay~"

"Access!" My sister and I exclaim, activating our HDD.

Diana is quick to pick Jonny up and dash off before me.
My friend is yelling in fear... probably didn't expect that.
Sighing, I dash after them.

*Neptune's PoV*

The door to my room slowly opens.
I look up from my stack of paper-work and turn towards the sound.
Oh, it's Nepgear.

"Hey, Jr. How you doin'?" I wave at her.
"I'm fine. And how are you?" She asks as she pulls a chair next to me and sits down on it.
"No probs whatsoever. Feeling fine as always."
"Are you sure about that because..." She points at the paper in front of me.
"I guess I did realize that I needed to do my work. Even if I am just the Candidate now."
"You are still way stronger than me."
"Come on, that's not true. You have saved us and defeated the Deity of Sin on your own."
"He, you're right about that."
"Besides, the presiding CPU is always slightly stronger."
"What do you mean?"
"Who do you think collects more shares?"
"Yeah... You are really not acting like yourself."
"Oh, come on. I have to be serious sometimes too, you know?"
Nepgear chuckles. "You never seemed like you tried."
I pat her shoulder. "Did you just come here to talk with me?"
"Uh, no. I wanted some more details about what happened to you on... uh, Mobius, was it?"
"Sure." I reply happily. "What exactly do you want to know?"
"Do you know how that Wryn-girl found you?"
"I never really thought about that... I suppose it was plot-convenience. Oh, idea. Lemme call her."
"Before you do that, something else... Did something seem... off about that world?"
"What do you mean?"
"In Deniz' dimension there have suddenly appeared video game characters..."
"Ya think that might be connected?"
"Well, yes. I mean, it's odd... Why does this happen?"
"Jr. I am Neptune. I ain't think about that kind of stuff."
"You usually don't do any work either."
"Hehe, good point." I sheepishly reply. "Though Wryn was kind of... how do I put it... game-breaking?"
"Mmh..." My sister puts a hand to her chin. "Like, bringing a character from a game somewhere he doesn't belong and therefore violates the rules of that game?"
"Uhm... yeah, probably." I keep quiet about the fact, that didn't really understand what she was trying to tell me.

"This may be a significant problem..." Another voice comes from the door. Oh look, it's Histy!
"What if somebody came here, and he is able to overpower us without any issue?" She sighs. "This is not good..."
"Nah, don't worry. I haven't seen a lot of games with stat-values even close to us." I wave off her worries.
"There surely are. And we have no way to counter-act that..." Histy sighs once more.
"Well, what can we do Histoire?" Nepgear asks.
"I'd say pray... But to whom?" And Histy sighs for the 3rd time...

*Deniz' PoV*

"Oh my gosh, Matt, put on some proper clothing if you wanna come with us!" I complain.
"No. This is easy and comfy to wear." He crosses his arms.
"Then put on freaking shorts! And a shirt!"
"Okay, okay..." Matt throws his hands up dramatically and walks into 'his' room. "Jeez!"

We (minus Diana) just sigh in response.

"Yup, that's Matt..."

A few seconds later he comes out, in proper clothing.

"Anything else you are missing, Matt?" Jonny asks him.
"Well–"
Matt doesn't get to answer as he is immediately interrupted by Jonny. "Good. Let's go."

Diana and I are still in HDD from the flight here, so we just pick them up and fly back towards Planeptune.

...

Why did we bring Jonny here in the first place?

Ah, never mind.

Time skip...
Histoire opened a portal, Neptune and Nepgear waved us good-bye, Nepgeo ran Matt over (and didn't excuse herself) while Linda facepalmed because of that.
The green-haired girl also asked whether she could join us... so Nepgeo pushed Jonny over the railing of the balcony.
So... well, now Jonny is in the hospital (I don't even know how he survived a fall from a height of 1km) and Linda is coming with us instead...

"*sigh* Ready everybody?" Histoire asks, sighing from the turn of events.
"I suppose so." I answer.
"Good then. Be careful."
"Will be, just make sure the city won't be burning down 'cuz I ain't there to do some work." Linda says as she turns away.
"Gotcha, I'll be doin' mah work." Neptune replies.
"Geo. You will feel my wrath once I return." Diana says in a dull tone, to which Nepgeo gulps. "F*cking noted down."
Matt is just stretching.

*Meanwhile, in another Gamindustri, different from ours...*

"I am back..." The girl enters the tall building in the center of the city.
"Right... nobody is here. My friends work and she just left to check on another nation..."
She sighs and continues walking up the stairs instead of using the elevator.
"But... That vendor gave me this... Maybe it will help me... Maybe it won't..."

She stops and sits down onto the stairs.
"And if it doesn't... I will manage it..."

A/N

Sorry for the delay...
I am making a fan-game. Still, I will finish this story.
Regarding the fan-game... If you want to get involved, PM me. I'll give you more details and I'd appreciate any help.