Chapter 1: 2010-2011
Year: 2010
Nation: Lastation
Exact location: Noire's office
The office has a black floor, in which there's neither carpet nor fancy flooring. The walls are white though in need of a lick of paint, and there's pipes coming up the walls and on the ceiling, in which it's black with green wooden beams. There are also windows though they are quite small and are split by lots of panes. There is a cheap black desk, a cheap black chair and on the desk are lots of papers, pens as well as an old laptop that's in need of repair.
Sat on the desk, is a thin young woman with red eyes and long black hair tied in pig tails with blue ribbons. Her fringe isn't tidy and has two bangs that reach her chin. For her clothes, she wears a top that's black resembling what a maid would wear, and consists of golden trimmings and white frills around her upper arm and chest, revealing a fair amount of her cleavage. Her skirt is white with black trimming and is significantly frilled there, and goes down to her lower-thigh in which she wears white and black boots going up to her thighs.
This woman has her head in her arms, desperately struggling not to cry, due to the tragic events that have happened to her.
"Why am I not the true goddess? I work really hard; I strive to be the best. Why did that brat Neptune have to come to my land and ruin everything for me? I know I messed up with Avenir, but if she had explained herself when I first met her, I would have noticed something's wrong and would have sorted it out straight away. But she had to stay here, when it should have been clear to her she's not welcome. How I was to know she meant no harm? She didn't explain herself. I was at war with her, we were at war with each other, and instead she gets to win and I get to lose, even though she never shows any care, even though she's a lazy stupid girl. That witch even made me bleed, and makes out I'm her only friend and bullies me for it. Why can't I be successful despite working hard? Why can't I have friends who treat with me respect? Why do I Noire Black Heart, CPU and ruler of the land of Black Regality, have to be the butt monkey all the time?" She says sounding extremely upset.
She gets up and looks out of the window, looking at her nation full of fog, smog and dirt, with nothing pleasant to see. Seeing this frustrates her knowing that she does all she can to fix the pollution and makes her nation as prosperous as she can, but for some unknown reason it never works, even though she works hard, even though she studies into the effects, yet she knows Neptune doesn't do anything, and yet her land gets to be prosperous and she gets to triumph.
After taking a good look at the view, including and especially what's at the bottom, she never the less carries on and opens an envelope that's addressed to her, as thoughts run through her mind about quitting and letting someone else take over, along with other thoughts which suggest she's not in a good place right now.
Year: 2010
Nation: Planeptune
Exact Location: Neptune's bedroom
The room has green and yellow chequered carpeting and has pink walls with windows and elegant yellow curtains. The ceiling is pink too and has flower patterns on them, with a large light resembling a flower attached to patterns of more flowers. On one side of the floor are purple cupboards on two tiers, and in the centre are 4 low chairs around a table, and in one corner are shelves in a cabinet full of different objects from cutlery, to games, to toys. On one wall is a large flat screen television with a console and on the other side is a large purple bed that appears to be very comfortable.
On the bed is a young female adult lying down asleep. She has short purple hair with two gamepad clips and purple eyes. She wears a choker around her neck with a light blue D-pad symbol on it, and wears a white hoodie with purple sleeves and hood. The hoodies is closed by a large button in which there's a large purple N in the middle, and there's two strings that resemble controller plugs. Her hoodie has two pockets with control pad emblems on them, and she wears thigh high socks which have horizontal stripes that are light blue and white, and she wears trainers which are purple and blue with an N on them.
There's a knock at the door which doesn't wake this female up, though the door opens and another young female adult enters. She has blue eyes and medium length blonde hair in two pigtails, and wears a purple and white headdress on her head, along with what looks like a purple graduate gown lined with golden designs, a white folded down collar, and a teal tie.
She has in her hands a two handed katana in which impaled all over the blade is some delicious pudding, producing distinctive aromas causing the sleeping female to wake up.
"Hi Neptune, have you had a good sleep?" The blonde female asks in a friendly manner.
Neptune yawns and stretches before answering.
"Yes thank you, and oh thank you for the pudding Histoire it's my favourite!" Neptune speaks with much excitement in her voice.
"It's the least I can do for the true goddess, Neptune Purple Heart of Planeptune. You didn't just rescue me when the others were busy with their problems, but you've personally defeated the main villain Arfoire, and help put Planeptune on the map, and turned Noire and Blanc into jokes." Histoire responds in a cheery tone, as she hands Neptune the sword with the pudding in it.
"They are jokes considering they're both a bunch of meanies with no understanding of fun and joy. Their nations stink as well, Lastation literary does, and Lowee is just so cold, can't have fun when it's cold. It's no wonder they're both loners.
In any case, that adventure was awesomesauce full of bad no good bosses and monsters that I managed to defeat, I even helped to destroy that arrogant Avenir, and I look forward to seeing all the people love me, and see me as the true goddess. I'm going to be the most popular goddess, in fact I'm going to be the only goddess soon enough with the way things are going, and all I have to do are my favourite hobbies, eating, snoozing and beating up monsters. I can't wait to be the one to beat the big bad again. Could you pass me my sauce gun?" The Planeptune CPU speaks with joy and happiness.
Histoire then goes to the shelves and picks up a gun shaped like a Desert Eagle, only for her body language to show concern and worry after hearing those words.
"What's wrong Histy?" Neptune asks, baffled by the body language that the oracle Histoire shows.
"It concerns the last thing you said. I cannot believe this and I have massive regret over this catastrophe. We've just received word of monsters operating near Planeptune." The oracle of Planeptune Histoire responds, her tone suggesting panic and fear.
"Why is that a problem? You know how much I love and excel at kicking monster's butts. Plus which I'm celebrating my victory over Arfoire, Lonely heart, and the bad mouthed little girl. I have no time for that, all my effort is on playing games, eating and sleeping." The CPU asks, her voice suggesting much bewilderment.
"Oh it's not so much that, that is the problem, and I do not wish for you to leave your celebrations to attend to such a trivial matter either. It's just that I made a terrible mistake and didn't realise the ramifications of it until it was too late." Histoire is struggling to explain.
"What mistake did you make?" Neptune asks.
The oracle too ashamed, shocked and ridden with guilt struggles to speak.
"Was it someone you assigned?" The Planeptune CPU asks, only for Histoire to nod in fear.
"Who did you assign to deal with it?" Neptune asks calmly.
Histoire despite the shame she feels plucks up the courage to speak.
"Nepgear." The oracle replies, looking at the ground as she is unable to look directly at the eyes of who she is speaking to.
"Oh my goddess." The CPU says trying to remain calm but is evidently shocked to hear such news.
"I know, I should have paid closer attention. The monsters seem to have some connection with Arfoire. Of course it's bound to lead to something big, and as a result…" Histoire says trying so desperately to remain calm even though it is not happening.
"Nepgear the Planeptune candidate, my long purple haired younger sister with purple eyes, single D-pad hair clip and wears a white, button up sailor uniform with purple designs, a yellow ribbon being held together by the N-emblem, along with thigh high socks with pink and white horizontal stripes, and medium sized boots that match her uniform in colour scheme, will get a lot of attention from people, as if she's the main character, in fact she'll be that. She's not fun though, she's boring and doesn't make anyone laugh. Plus which, her personality doesn't change when she transforms. She's not what people want, and not only this she has a dark secret. Let's just say that put Nepgear in certain circumstances and she could destroy the world." The purple haired female responds trying not to go crazy despite clearly not being happy to hear such news.
"At least it would probably ensure Planeptune is the remaining nation, which is what you want. Plus which you would probably get to help fight monsters in spirit and be able to rest, even get good nourishment." Histoire says trying to sound reassuring even though it's not working.
"It's true, but I would want Planeptune to be the sole nation without there being any reason for us to look villainy. I don't trust her to be able to achieve it, plus which she's naïve. Worse yet is that when I'm being watched I'll have to come across as though I love Nepgear, even if it means showing Noire and Blanc up, when really I hate her attitude, her boredom, and cannot bear the prospect of her succeeding me. No way hosey. This will be a significant set-back for me, and could affect my popularity. We'll have to make sure this never happens again, and hope that next time there's a super duper threat I can recover from this. Because this is my world, and the series of adventures that happen belong to me. I'm the only one qualified to do this because I'm funny, I'm cheery, I'm the strongest, and I'm also lazy and eat lots and lots of food." Neptune says speaking in defiance that she won't let the situation bother her, even though she is clearly frustrated.
To try and calm herself down she bites onto some pudding and pulls the sword away so that she just has pudding in her mouth, but suddenly…
"Histoire? I've just cut my lip." Neptune says, suddenly giggling slightly as if she's nuts, and one of her eyes twitches, as her mouth bleeds where she cut herself, though her body language does not show pain of any kind, nor does her voice.
Year: 2011
Nation: Planeptune
Exact location: Neptune's bedroom
Neptune does receive medical attention, though it is by an incompetent medic with congo pink coloured hair who's method is to wrap Neptune with bandages like a mummy, only for it to not work and injuring her some more. After that she was left to rest where she would remove the blood and rely on her powers as a goddess to heal, and heal it did.
As Neptune and Histoire predicted, the monsters that Nepgear was sent to deal with, would lead to an adventure like Neptune had experienced, but not without incident in that Nepgear found a sword that required the death of CPUs to become powerful, and found that it was the only way to defeat Arfoire again. Nepgear would try to avoid using it, only to suggest something that was completely insane and out of the question: for all the shares to be handed to Nepgear which would kill the CPUs due to their need for shares.
This led to a battle between the CPUs. Noire and Uni were the first to be fought but they lost and despite their protestations, thanks to a dream Nepgear had that night where she was to think about whether to use the sword or not, where she experiences a nightmare where she kills all the CPUs, defeats Arfoire, only for it to be meaningless due to the destruction it would bring on everyone including herself, she manages to avoid killing the CPUs, and it was agreed for there to be a new plan. This plan involved the CPUs sharing all of their shares and concentrating it into sharicites, and they would use them with the sword without killing anyone to defeat Arfoire.
Arfoire is defeated again and without any CPU or Candidate dying. Despite this happy ending of that experience, Neptune is not pleased at all, in fact she is frustrated. Frustrated that as she predicted, if the circumstances were correct, Nepgear could destroy the world, and in fact were it not for a dream she had it would have happened. In fact both Neps are here and are talking about this very thing.
"Even now I cannot get over how much of a dumb, dumb idiot you are." The Planeptune CPU speaks with disappointment and frustration.
"But when I saw Noire try to kill herself I stopped her, I managed to save them!" The Candidate Nepgear protests.
"Yeah but that's because that and your dream the night before triggered your change of mind. It's only lucky luck that you didn't go through with it!" Neptune says with much anger in her voice, and her eyes says much rage as well.
"You weren't exactly trying to encourage me not to go through with it, in fact you fought with me!" Nepgear responds in a similar manner.
"Because I'm your super-duper awesomesauce sister, and I knew all too well that trying to persuade you wouldn't work!" The CPU of Planeptune replies maintaining her tone and body language
"You're a hypocrite, I thought you wanted Planeptune to be the sole nation, and why was it ok for you to wreck Lastation and Lowee, but it's not ok for me to have gone through that path of conquest?!" The Candidate maintains her tone and body language.
"Have you actually seen what people have said, the fact that one of the possible endings involved you killing everyone including me?! Many don't like you for that, and there are people beginning to question us as heroines!" Neptune says her tone getting angrier.
"Oh I get it so Lastation and Lowee need to fall because we envy and hate them, but we can't be the ones to do it! I get it, but do you not think they'll find out your true intentions?! That you only care about yourself?! In any case how was I to know that the sword wouldn't defeat Arfoire for good?!" The Candidate protests.
"How were you to know that with anything there's a risk of failure?!" The CPU responds in a mocking angry tone.
"I knew that!" The Candidate yells angrily.
"Really?!" The CPU maintains her tone, in fact emphasizing how much contempt she has for her sister.
"Of course there was but there was no other way!" The Candidate responds with much frustration and anger in her voice.
"Of course there was another way, and it turned out it was a case of working together. Stupid Idiot! You didn't even think to research about the sword, as to whether it would work, or is there an alternative way around it?!" The CPU responds still angry even now.
"No one else did, why are you singling me out in this?!" Nepgear says with much frustration in her voice.
"Because I'm meant to be the brain dead but cheery, friendly, energetic lazy hungry heroine, and all the others aren't capable of using their wits despite what their personalities may be! You are meant to be Planeptune's CPU Candidate, a hardworking individual. Come on, you work on robots do you not do any research there?!" Neptune's voice along with anger is now showing disgust and outright contempt for her sister.
"And what about Histoire, I know you see yourself as the main character, and the world looks after you and our nation really well, and she's our oracle, but why hasn't she done any research into the sword?! In fact why is it that she assigned me to this in the first place and yet you don't have a go at her for it?!" The Candidate responds now sounding smug, as if she's got Neptune on a point.
"You leave her out of this!" The CPU says with anger as if that's a berserk button that her sister just pressed.
"Why? Is that because she's secretly lazy herself and wants the same things you do!? After all I know about how Histoire lied when she said the other CPUs didn't listen to her when she was captured, and she really didn't understand that they had problems and offered to sort them out, not to mention their scepticism due to a lack of knowledge of her then! Nepgear's body language now looking as if she can hit Neptune for her attitude.
"Quiet! The research that we found didn't even say that it could slay someone like Arfoire and ensure she'd never come back!" The CPU responds back, her tone strongly suggesting that she feels as if she's talking to a complete idiot.
"But it did say that it would be powerful, and in my dream I did manage to slay Arfoire with it." The Candidate responds in a similar tone.
"And why can that be trusted?!" Neptune maintains her tone.
"What reason would there be for ancient texts to lie?" Nepgear protests in a mocking tone.
"What reason would there be for a CPU Candidate of Planeptune to be a complete moron, answer me that?!" The CPU replies in a similar manner.
"Very simple explanation, it could be hereditary." The Candidate responds knowing full well that what she just said will trigger the CPU significantly.
"Shut up! What evidence is there to suggest the ancient texts are telling the truth?!" Neptune responds with much aggression in her voice, perhaps more so than before.
"What evidence is there to suggest the ancient texts were lying?! Besides as I said, the sword was really strong!" Nepgear responds in a similar tone.
Neptune struggles not to giggle at what Nepgear says finding it to be completely absurd.
"OK then do you believe me if I say that you will not be no longer the CPU Candidate?!" The CPU says maintaining her body language and voice.
"If you say so! I don't know why you would lie to me!" The Candidate responds while sounding sarcastic, in response to her detecting the CPU being sarcastic.
"Then I make those sources look incredibly reliable. You will never be my successor, and you will never be sent on an assignment ever again! It looks like I'm the only one capable of being in charge! Do you have anything to say?!" Neptune responds still angry, as her facial expressions says it all.
"So be it! I'm not surprised at all that you've never liked me, you've never cared for me! That was all just for show, and that was so you can show we're better siblings than Noire and Uni, or Blanc and Rom and Ram!" Nepgear responds, her body language expressing a desire to do something significantly more than hitting her sister.
"And you're really a compassionate girl?! You were the one who insisted that killing CPUs was the only way, and it's only a dream and what you saw that changed your mind, and that was because Arfoire would beat you eventually! Get out! Get out of my sight!" The CPU yells loudly and with much anger.
It's at this point that Nepgear storms out, her facial expressions suggesting that Neptune is nothing to her, that she isn't worth beating up, or even worth being concerned about with regards her attitude. As if on cue, Histoire enters the room and they both pass each other without saying anything, or even acknowledging each other. Neptune meanwhile calms down though still frustrated and disgusted by her.
"What an idiot." The CPU sighs.
"One of these days Histoire, Nepgear will regret being a complete dumb, dumb moron that will be the day. She'll certainly pay for that, that's for sure. Is there something on your mind?" Neptune says in a calmer tone.
"I have news concerning the popularity poll you did in hopes of you showing legitimacy and proving why you should be the true goddess." Histoire explains once again sounding nervous, no doubt because the news isn't good.
Neptune unholsters a Desert Eagle from her left side, before aiming it at her mouth and dessert sauce comes out landing on her mouth which she consumes. Her body language suggests she consumes sauce to calm her down and is effective for her.
"Yes go on." Neptune replies calmly, noticing the nerves coming from the oracle's voice and body language.
"You have done well reaching 2nd place and you have had lots of votes, but unfortunately by a significant amount, you have lost to Noire Black Heart of Lastation." The oracle responds sounding upset that she had to deliver such news to Neptune.
"What?!" Neptune responds in shock and annoyance as she holsters her Desert Eagle on her left side.
"Yeah and she is to take centre stage in the first adventure in a few years' time." Histoire continues in the same tone.
"I don't believe that! That mean tsundere lonely heart, is considered more popular than me, by the public?! Considering the stupid stunt that Nepgear almost did, I can't begin to imagine what she'll do! With her taking centre stage she'll probably be more lucky, have more friends than me, her horrid hard work paying off, and her defeating me and showing me up! I'll have to see what I can do about this! OK Histoire." Neptune's rage is back, though she sounds more in denial as opposed to anger, bewilderment as opposed to rage as is her body language.
The oracle nods before leaving the room, as Neptune giggles in disbelief to hear such news and unholsters her Desert Eagle from her right side, so she can spray sauce in her mouth due to being in even more stress.
"I have lost in a popularity contest to lonely heart, the mean tsundere, the one track minded girl who can't run her nation properly, who lost to me repeatedly despite supposedly training all the time! Oh what's going to happen next to me!?" The CPU continues in the same baffled frustrated tone.
She laughs even more in disbelief before leaving her mouth open for the sauce to come in, as she pulls the trigger. However as opposed to sauce coming out, a bullet comes out along with the distinct bang a gunshot of that gun would make. This alerts Histoire, and she rushes in and after having a look at what has happened, her mouth is large, her jaw has dropped in shock and horror at what has happened.
Year: 2011
Nation: Lowee
Exact Location: Rom and Ram's bedroom
The room has an orange floor with a purple and pink heart shaped rug, in which on top is a short white table and on one side is a light blue bean bag cushion, and the opposite is a pink one. Near the wall in which there's a heart shape window surrounded by an orange circle, is a bed large enough for two people to sleep in, consisting of a white quilt and two fluffy pillows with one light blue and the other pink. Behind the back of the bed is a cabinet full of books and toys, and next to that is a white cupboard with a door and a set of drawers next to it. On top of that are toys. Next to that is a large oval mirror. On the wall adjacent but opposite the bed, is a white cabinet shaped like a tall house, and has a door on it, and next to it are a desk which is partitioned off and consists of a pink chair and a light blue chair, and in each partition are lamps that are pointed on the desk, along with stationery.
On the bed 3 females sit on it, with two of them being of similar height and appear to be children, while the third one while still short, is taller than the two and appears to be significantly older than the two.
In fact the eldest one who appears to be a young female with a petite figure has dark blue eyes and light short brown hair, which reaches her chin and her fringe is kept parted to the left. She's wearing a large and puffy white hat on her head, with ornate blue lining and brown patterns on it, and wears a white dress that reaches her knees and is sleeveless, and has chocolate-brown lining around that area, and wears a brown belt over it. She also wears a white coat with fur trimmings as well as what looks like white sandals.
One of the twins has short brown hair and steely blue eyes and wears a light blue overcoat with white puffballs, a pink handbag and a ribbon, along with a white and blue hat to match with a pink rectangle in the centre, and she also wears white tights and shoes that match her dress in design.
The other wears similar clothes and has the same eye and hair colour, only her hair is significantly longer and what is light blue is instead pink.
"…I can't believe that not only was there last year in which that stupid damn bitch Neptune would show up unannounced and with no explanation, but then despite researching into fighting with an axe, she would defeat me repeatedly. Then there's also the fact that Arfoire was with me for all that time. Had it not been for her showing up I would have worked out what went wrong. But then there's what happened this year when Nepgear foolishly insisted we had to give her our shares, and had it not been for a change of heart which was down to luck, we would have been killed due to them taking our shares. Don't they know that's stealing and that's wrong? Do they also not think we'll die even if we agreed to our shares being taken, considering how close you were to it, isn't that what that old hag Arfoire wants, us to die?" The eldest one said, her face and hands and voice showing much anger.
"I knew there was something iffy about that dummy from the start right Rom?" The twin sister in pink replied in agreement.
"Right, Ram." The twin sister in blue Rom added.
"Nepgear and Neptune also act like they so amazing when they're together, as if to rub our noses in it, it's as if they put on an act when they're out dealing with quests that concern Arfoire, when they suspect that the public are watching them. How can they be that great when Neptune is so lazy and completely irresponsible?" The eldest one says showing the same emotions as before.
"You're right Blanc that dummy is so annoying, and I can't help but think how much longer we have to put up with this, since us CPUs have to work together and yet it's all about Planeptune. What else is going to happen to us, is there going to be a sadist who harms us immensely? It's bad enough when we had to deal with that Trick creep." Ram speaks with much disgust and frustration at the situation. Her face clearly bothered by the events that took place.
"Yes, it's annoying the way it all is." Rom agreed, her eyes show much anger.
"Yeah and the issue is finding a way to deal with this. It's been a struggle to get Lowee to be warmer, despite the amount of research and experimentation that I've tried to do. All I've managed to do is to just make Lowee more colourful, that's it. Anyway I'm curious as to see what the letter says that you've received and believe to be of great value to us." Blanc says as she's enthusiastic about looking at the letter, in which she quickly reads through, smiling and nodding in agreement as to what it says.