Chapter 7: Sister's Side, Same Story

"Professor Ganache, here's the report that you wanted me to make." My mentor took the stack of papers that I had put together and placed it on his desk.

"Ah, thank you Ms. Planeptune. That's all I have for you to do for now, so why don't you take a vacation?" Vacation? But if I do that…

"Oh goodness no, I can't do that while you toil away on this theory by yourself." The professor shook his head, taking off his rectangular rimmed glasses and polishing them with a handkerchief that he kept in his breast pocket.

"It's fine. Winter Vacation is coming soon, so I suggest that you take time off now, cool your head and be with your loved ones." As the professor pushed his glasses back on top of his nose, he gave me a wink and pointed to the door with his free hand. Huh? What could be beh-

"Come on Nepgear, are you going to keep me waiting forever or what?" That voice! Spinning around- It is her!

"Uni!" Leaning against the doorframe in her police uniform, my girlfriend- hehe, we're taking it slow right now- uncrossed her arms and placed a hand on her hip. "What are you doing here?"

"I asked her to come pick you up." Professor!? "I expected that you would be finished sometime today and I knew of your… loving relationship to Ms. Jinguji here. So, I used my network to get her to come here." Network? Goodness Professor, you didn't need to something like that! "Now run along, I wouldn't want you to get worried about forgetting something." My professor stood up from his seat and herded me out of his office. "Go enjoy yourself." And with that, the professor closed the door- I think I heard him lock it too.

"I guess we should go home, huh?" Turning to my girlfriend, I smiled.

"Yeah!"

Uni and I climbed into Uni's car and left Virtua University. Uni turned onto a highway and stayed in the most right lane.

"So, how's being an assistant?" I leaned back into the passenger seat since Uni was driving at a comfortable speed.

"It's a lot of work, but I'm enjoying it so far." I could hear Uni chuckle.

"So, what do you want to do?"

"Huh?"

"Well, we left the university pretty early in the morning. So, we have plenty of time to do whatever we want today." Well… we haven't been there in a while.

"Why don't check up on my brother?" Uni raised an eyebrow.

"Neptune and Sis?"

"Yeah, I mean, I wanna see how they can handle being parents."

An hour and a half later, we could have gotten there thirty minutes earlier, but we hit traffic, we arrived at my brother's house. When we moved closer and closer to his house, there were no cars around. I guess my brother got called to take over something. Oh, well.

"Uni," My girlfriend looked at me. "We should surprise them. Blanc should be there." Uni had a mischievous smirk on her face.

"Let's do this." Uni parked into the driveway and the two of us climbed out of the car and moved quickly towards the front door. As we moved closer and closer to the door, we could the sounds of a girl screaming and shouting as well as what sounds like Blanc trying to diffuse the situation. Hold on, I don't Neptune's child is that big already. Is she?

Uni pushed the doorbell three times and the house suspiciously turned quiet. Faint footsteps could be heard approaching the footsteps. I could hear the lock turning as someone opened the door. Slowly, the front door opened to reveal Blanc poking her head out, sighing in relief when she saw us.

"Oh, it's just you two…" Blanc's eyes dark, she probably didn't get proper sleep again, but she smiled upon seeing us. "I thought you were the neighbors." Uni looked at me then to Blanc.

"Why would you think that?" Blanc rubbed her eyes and let out a yawn.

"Well, I was afraid that we were making too much noise." Noise? You and Plutia? "Anyways, Neptune and Noire aren't here, but your brother'll be home sometime in the afternoon and your sister-in-law just got a job, so she'll be home at night." Aw, I guess I'll have to surprise him later.

"Alright then." Blanc looked at me, patting me on the shoulder.

"Sorry, Nepgear. I know how much spending time with your brother means to you."

"Thank you, Blanc." Oh, wait a second. "By the way, why were you making so much noise earlier?" My brother's best friend scratched the back of her head.

"Well, it's better to show then explain." What? Blanc opened the door all the way and stepped aside, gesturing us. "Come on in. It'll make sense when you see it for yourself." Uni and I walked inside as Uni closed the door. "They're in the living room playing video games." Games? What do video games have to do with anyth-

"AH, It's Nep Jr.!" Wha-

"My, it is Nepgear, and she looks quite mature now."

"Goodness, that's me! It's kinda embarrassing to me meet me now…"

"Rom, look! It's Nepgear and Uni!"

"...They really are Miss Nepgear and Miss Uni."

"So, this is what my little sister looks like if she was human…"

"Wha- Is that really me? Wow, I-I…"

"Mmm."

Am I looking into the past? Because I see me, Uni, Rom, Ram, Vert, Noire, and Blanc when we were smaller… and a girly looking version of my brother. She even has two hairclip versions of my brother's headphones….

"Wh-Why is there…" Even Uni is speechless about this…

"I'm guessing you two can't understand the situation right now," I felt a hand on my shoulder, finding that the arm connected to the Blanc that I'm accustomed to. "You see…"

"Goddesses from another dimension? And Noire let you girls stay here to learn how to act like a normal family?" The girls nodded. The Blanc that I knew went into the kitchen to make coffee for me and Uni. Uni was still baffled about everything, while I tried to understand everything while keeping a Plutia occupied in my arms. I mean, goodness, this is out of this world, literally. I mean it would make sense as to why there are so many people, but…

"Yes, I'm sorry if this is confusing." Goodness, I'm talking to myself. I had trouble talking to people who dressed up as me when I was an idol, but this is taking it to a literal level.

"N-No, it's fine now. It's just surreal…" All of a sudden, the Goddess version of my brother hopped over the couch we were sitting and clung onto Uni.

"Ah!" As Uni tried to keep her balance, Goddess Neptune began to grin.

"Hey, Hey! So you're the older version of Nep Jr. and Uni right?" Uni nodded and Goddess Neptune nuzzled into Uni's neck, causing my girlfriend to get uncomfortable fast.

"So… where's Other-Rom and Ram?" The Goddess versions of Rom and Ram looked up from their game and waved at us.

"Yeah! Where are we?"

"...I wanna meet me too…" Uni was able to pry Goddess Neptune off of her and answered for me.

"Ram is currently working on her first manuscript while getting her Master's Degree and Rom is currently getting her second picture book printed." Both of the Goddess twins stared at Uni with sparkles in their eyes while Goddess Blanc froze.

"Ram and Rom… grown up…" Goddess Vert patted Goddess Blanc on the head.

"Now now, Blanc. Growth is a part of life." Immediately, the smaller of the two goddesses moved away from the larger one.

"Hands off, Thunder Tits!" Wow! I've never heard that nickname from our Blanc.

"Heh, she uses that nickname for Vert than I do." Wait, what? Blanc placed a cup of coffee in front of me and in front of Uni. Thanking her, I took the cup and held in my hands, letting Plutia play with the ends of my hair. As I drank, Goddess Neptune inched closer and closer to me, with a smirk on her face.

"So Other-Nep. Jr., you only came here with Other-Uni." Goddess Neptune basically pressed her cheek against mine at this point. "What's your relationship, huuuuuh?" Is that it huh? I put my cup back onto the table and smiled at Goddess Neptune.

"Uni's my girlfriend." I could see Uni blush and scratch her cheek out of the corner of my eye. Aw, she's still embarrassed about that.

"WHA-!?"

"Goodness, really!?" Goddess Uni, if she drank anything, did a spit take while the goddess version of me… Well, her eyes looked like a cat's. The other goddesses stared at us like we were headless chickens or something. Is the two of us dating really that weird?

"Let's change to topic before they make Plutia cry again." Again!? "If they do, Neptune or Noire's gonna kill me." ...What happened for that them to get that angry?...The look on Blanc's face makes me not want to ask.

Blanc took Plutia into one of her arms and gestured to me and Uni. "So, our Nepgear works as an assisstant to a mechatronic engineer who acts as a Physics professor in Neptune's old college while our Uni works under IF as her junior police officer." Suddenly, those looks of surprise turned to looks of curiosity. Goodness, they go with the flow…

"Wow, really!?" The goddess version of me was in my face, her eyes were literally stars. "How many robots did you make? What is your favorite part about making robots? Can I see them?" ...And I thought I was crazy about robots… and I am, technically. I could vaguely hear Uni's conversation with her goddess counterpart.

"So, you have a gun right?"

"Yeah, what of it?"

"Can I see it?"

"I mean, legally no, but I guess you can look at it if I empty the magazine. Since you're me and all."

As I tried to answer and calm down my counterpart, the other goddesses began to do their own things:

Goddess Noire tried to listen into our conversations but Goddess Neptune kept bothering her.

Goddess Vert was fawning over Goddess Rom and Ram as they played Maria Festa 6, with Goddess Vert getting a couple of turns in when either of the twins didn't want to play for a bit.

Goddess Blanc was reading and was suspiciously inching away from Blanc, although with some talking Goddess Blanc sat close to our Blanc, both of them reading the same book together while Plutia looked around on Blanc's lap.

Suddenly, we heard crying and Blanc immediately picked up Plutia and headed upstairs.

"Aaaah, diapers! Diapers!" Ah... The struggles of taking care of a baby.

In about three hours or so, Neptune came home. His eyes were narrowed and his clothes were a little messed up.

"Ah… I'm tired at all… I thought Mr. Anonydeath would supervise a club about computers or programming or something." Neptune collapsed onto the couch as Uni and I moved away and took a deep breath. Blanc placed Plutia onto his back and the child curled up and sat there happily.

"What kind of club were they?" Neptune looked up and stared at Blanc with empty eyes.

"Fashion." With that my brother's face plopped against the couch as his best friend laughed.
"Lemme guess, they tried to make you a model didn't they?"

"Yeah…" This made Blanc laugh even harder. Neptune turned to the side, letting Plutia slide onto the couch before sitting up. "Why don't you just shut up fo- Nepgear? Uni?" Oh, he noticed me. "When did you get here?"

"Hours ago."

"Oh. Uh… sorry." Neptune scratched the back of his head as his cheeks dusted red. "I was kinda tired to no- hours?" I nodded.

"Yes, I wanted to surprise you, but you weren't home." Neptune opened his mouth in understanding when we heard the whines of a baby behind him. My brother checked his watch.

"Oh, I guess it's feeding time." Neptune stood up and picked up Plutia. "You two want to stay for lunch, although it's gonna be a little hectic." Uni and I looked at each other and nodded. "Alright… by the way, are you two married yet?" We shook our heads. "Huh, I thought you were. My bad." With that, Neptune looked at Blanc. "Yo, Blanc. Call your sister and bring her over. She probably doesn't have time to make food again." Blanc nodded and took out her phone, dialing her sister's number.

"Ooooh, Other-Me! I want omelette rice!"

"You had that yesterday, so no. We're gonna have curry." Neptune placed Plutia in her chair and began to prepare her bottle when opened one of the cupboards. "Aw, crud. We're out of carrots." I stood up.

"I can get it for you."

"Ah, thank you. Wait, I need to make sure that we're not missing only carrots so hold on a bit alright? In the meantime, can you warm Plutia's bottle?" I took the food from my brother and placed the bottle in the microwave, setting the correct time. Meanwhile, Uni was making funny face in front of Plutia, distracting the child from being hungry. Once the bottle was warm, I used my elbow to check the temper- I don't know if this was right.

"Neptune?" My brother looked up from the refrigerator and saw the bottle in my hand. Immediately, he took the bottle and rolled up his sleeve, letting a drop fall onto it.

"Hmm, let cool off for a minute." Neptune pulled a notepad from his pocket and grabbed a pencil from a cup of pencils nearby the fridge. Quickly jotting down what I needed to get, he handed me the piece of paper and checked the bottle's temperature again.

"Alright, Uni let's go." Uni looked from Plutia.

"Kay." Uni poked Plutia on the nose before going, causing the girl to squeal. Anything makes this girl happy, huh? As Uni moved away, Neptune took her place and picked up Plutia, holding the bottle close to her.

"See you when you get back!"

Uni and I walked out of the house and into the car. As Uni started the engine, she looked at me.

"So, what do you think of them?" The girls?

"Well, they're cute and all." Uni laughed and drove into out of the driveway.

"They are, aren't they?" Come to think of it…

"Uni?"

"Hmm?"

"When are we going to have kids?"

"Bwaa!" Uni screeched to halt, her face turning bright red as she face me.

"Neeeeeepgeeeeaaaar!" Owie! Uni pinched my cheeks and began pulling them.

"I'em sowwwwy!"