The Delusional Takeover
Planeptune Arc 2: Truth Atoning Lies
"Heaven Demon!" IF slashed rapidly at Neptune with her weapons giving her almost no chance to retaliate. When the mad goddess found an opening however, she was quickly denied by a bazooka shot to her face.
"Here's a clean sweep!" B-Sha cheered, firing her bazookas at Neptune to support.
Eventually Neptune clashed against back wall of the room. Several grunts were felt her mouth as she shook her head to shake off the dizziness. However before she could recover, the Gold Third jumped and denied her once again
"B-Sha kick!"
The heroic Gold Third sent her foot towards Neptune's cranium once more, using her head to do a backflip back to IF's side.
"That should do it! We've depleted her health bar!" B-Sha shouted.
Neptune was struggling to stand. The two had dealt too much damage for her to handle. Letting out one last cry, she fell back to the ground. She was out cold.
"Alright. Nep's out cold. Let's see what is wrong with her now…"
The two carefully made their way to Nep's side, taking caution in case she could possibly still be active. They placed Nep's against the wall, tapping her face to see if she would spring up. When Neptune did not react, IF signalled Histoire to come over.
"Neptune... What came over her..." The Oracle pondered worriedly. To suddenly go berserk and attack her own sister, it begs more questions as to why?
Their attention eventually drew them towards Neptune's left eye. Veins could be seen pulsing around it, like a scar of sorts.
"Her eye… it looks like something out of those evil infestation things from video games…" B-Sha commented. She slowly brought her finger close to it and poked one of the veins. Suddenly, the goddess's left eye sparked briefly and suddenly Neptune shot up.
"Gwaaaaagh!?"
"Uwagh!?" B-Sha shouted in a sudden shock, jumping backwards. "Nep-Nep!"
"Stand back everyone, we don't know if she's still hostile…" IF readied her Qatars, positioned to counterattack should Neptune lunge at anyone.
"Neptune…"
The goddess shook her head around and rubbed her eyes. She was still a little dazed, but she was not sure why. Her stomach suddenly growled, making Neptune shout out something she would surely say.
"WHERES THE PUDDING!?"
"Yep, Neptune's back to normal." Everyone sighed in relief, knowing their happy, pudding-loving goddess was back to her sense.
"Neptune, are you alright? Do you feel like something has taken over you?"
"Nope! Not in the slightest. All I really wanna eat at the moment is pudding though, mind getting some for the ye ol' Nepper?"
"No, Neptune. We need to ask you something first." IF stated, glaring at her narrowly. "Do you remember what happened?"
"Oh...?" Neptune paused and lowered her head as her mind tried to remember. "I woke up from bed, I went to the bathroom, then I went to the fridge to get some water and Pud-"
"Not... That Long ago." IF sighed. "What happened when Nepgear came in to your room?"
"Oh! I was playing games then I lost to the final boss, so I decided to take a short nap and... and..."
Neptune's expression turned sour as the memories began to form.
"and... I had a nightmare about... and... then..."
"And then what?"
"Where's Nepgear!?" Neptune snapped.
The three mentally gulped, afraid of telling her. IF, being the closest with Neptune, cleared her throat and stepped forward.
"Nepgear's being treated by Compa in the lounge. But Nep... You-"
Before she could finish, Neptune bolted past IF and out of her room. She sprinted down the corridor into the Basilicom lounge where she saw a tear-jerking sight
Nepgear laid on one of the couches, completely unconscious with several scratches on and above her shoulder. Some of the cuts had small purple pixels that floated from it, as if her body was decomposing. Despite how it looked, Compa managed to patch up most of them fortunately, with cute little plasters over her body.
Her neck was most severe, having turned ripe red. There were no fatal cuts, but it still looked gruesome to watch. Compa held some bandages and quickly wrapped them around Nepgear's neck, bearing her from staring at it any longer.
But even though Compa did her best, a massive feeling of guilt fogged Neptune's head. She did this? She caused this much pain to Nepgear? She couldn't believe it either. She did this to her own Sister...
"Nep-Nep...?" Compa found the goddess looking over the couch. Normally she would ask her for help, but with what she saw earlier...
She couldn't help but scream
"GAHHH! Nep-Nep... S-Stay away... Don't come any closer...!" Compa cried.
"Compa! No, I..." The goddess tried to explain until she saw Compa hug on Nepgear's body protectively.
"Don't come any closer... I won't let you hurt Ge-Ge..."
She saw her as a Monster.
"Compa... It's me...! Neptune...! Can't you see!?"
"The only thing I can see is that scarred eye of yours, y-you beast...! Where's Nep-Nep!? What have you done to her!?"
"Compa… I'm not a beast or a monster… I'm Neptune!"
"Eeek!"
As Neptune tried to approach her old Friend, the nurse's brave act fell as she clinged on Nepgear's body even tighter. Tears began to form from her eyes, she was going to protect the Candidate from harm.
And it was made absolute; Neptune was a monster from her eyes, no longer considered her friend.
…
Neptune felt an ache in her chest.
"What's going on!?" IF shouted as she made her way into the lounge. There she saw the frightened Compa and the motionless Neptune. Sh
Neptune now clutched on her chest, her vision began to blurr as the pain escalated.
"Neptune...?" Histoire floated by her side with a concerned expression. She tapped lightly against her CPU's shoulder, but Neptune made no reaction.
Within the goddess were words that tormented her mind, her body, her soul.
"Monster."
"Beast."
"Abomination."
A voice chanted venomously in her head to spark a delusion within the goddess. It sounded familiar, it was the voice of Purple Heart, only demonic in tone. "Your sister lies before you, wounded, protected by someone you considered a friend."
"She hates you, look in her eyes. Is it not obvious? She hates you, she despises you, she sees you as a monster."
"No one considers you their goddess anymore. You are but figment of their memory. The Goddess of Victory is dead. You're nothing. Nothing but a toy!"
"T-That's not true…"
"Look around. Your nation, your people, your friends. Shares are the faith of a goddess, and look at you."
"S-Stop…!"
"IF, Compa, Nepgear, Histoire, … Uzume. They've all betrayed you, double-crossed you. They've stolen everything from you."
"Y-You're lying! You're definitely lying!"
The words in her head made no sense, but the emotions she felt were true. She felt left behind, tossed away, considered an object. And now that she's "rebelled", they treat her like a dog.
In a way, they made sense to her. A part of her was believing everything. She was nothing… everyone used her… everyone…
"It's time to change that. It's time for them to repent for their sins!"
"S-Shut up…!"
"Let them know the wrath of the Goddess. Let them know the pain you've felt. Let them have your revenge!"
"SHUT UP!"
"UNLEASH YOUR FURY UPON GAMINDUSTRI AND BEGIN A NEVER ENDING BANQUET OF DESPAIR!"
"NO!"
The pain, the agony and the confliction that spiraled within, she could not bear any longer.
"Neptune!?"
The goddess sprinted out of the lounge, covering her ears from the sounds around her only focusing on getting out of here. She hopped into the elevator and quickly pressed the button to the ground floor, and the doors closed shut before her.
"Neptune..." Histoire could only trail off as Planeptune's childish goddess disappeared. Her actions worried the oracle greatly, for she was shouting to herself as if being tormented by her past. She wanted to pursue her, but first she needed to address the wounded goddess.
"Compa, how is Nepgear doing?" Histoire asked, turning to the nurse.
"W-Wha...? O-Oh...! I treated her the best I could, Histy!" She replied, trying to recover from her formerly frightened state. "But... Her wounds..."
Compa gestures towards one of the exposed wounds where purple pixels could be seen floating from it like emblems from a fire.
"I don't know why her wounds are like this..."
Histoire inspected it up close, where she gave a worried expression. "I've never seen anything like this..." She gulped. "Nepgear's body is... decomposing... as if it's fading from existence..."
"What!? Neptune dealt that much damage to her!?" Compa shouted in shock.
"I have no clue as to why it is so severe... but her feral state beforehand could be the answer."
"So... What overcame Nep then?" IF asked.
"That is what I want to find out." Histoire narrowed her eyes as she brought her gaze back to the wounds. "Nepgear's wounds worry me however. If we don't treat them, I'm afraid she might disappear…"
"I've done all I could, Histy. I'm not a good enough nurse for this…"
"You've done all you've could, and that's what matters. I have a theory however, that might work in healing Nepgear." Histoire begins to extend out her hand, which begins to glow blue. She was bringing out her shares in an attempt to patch up her wounds.
"This should work…" She placed her palm onto Nepgear's wound, and suddenly she felt a sudden shock throughout her body, forcing her to retract immediately.
"Ack...!" Along with that shock came a massive throb within her head. She put her hands on the side of her head in an attempt to ease the pain.
"Ahh! Is Histoire gonna act like Nep-Nep now!?" Compa shrieked.
"No... I'm... Fine...!" Histoire reassured. While she had the headache, certain influences were channelled into her mind. Words of malice; "Destroy. Despair. Delusion.", they resounded her head. Suddenly, a vision popped up in her eyes. A red light shaped of a "V", and a glowing power symbol just below it.
Then suddenly the vision changed. Now she found herself in a familiar place. She identified it as the Virtua forest from its surroundings. But suddenly, Neptune was seen running through it, panting heavily. Like a mouse being chased by a cat, but yet the predator was nowhere in sight.
Histoire swiftly turned to IF and B-Sha. "I… I believe I've found Neptune's location. Get to the Virtua Forest as fast as possible!"
"I'm not sure how you know all of a sudden, but hey! I'd trust my instincts. Let's go!" B-Sha and IF rushed out of the room, leaving Histoire and Compa to watch over Nepgear.
"I hope everything will turn out okay..." Compa mumbled, looking over the unconscious Nepgear once again.
"I have faith in our goddess. Everything will return to normal soon enough." Histoire reassured. Neptune had been through the dimension of the apocalypse and back, surely she would be fine. The oracle put her full faith into her Goddess. Everything would soon return to normal.
A blue light suddenly caught the Oracle's attention. It was from Nepgear's wound, and something was happening to it that made her ease up.
The wound was healing. The shares patched up the wound completely.
"Everything will soon return to normal…"
Neptune fled as far as she could from Planeptune, clutching her chest as she ran. She didn't care where she went; she just wanted to run. The nightmares that happened, her delusional state that made her critically harm Nepgear, and the pain in her chest...
What was going on...?
She brushed through several bushes as she ran aimlessly through the forest, soon ending up in an open field. Neptune looked around. No innocents in sight, just some wild Dogoos and Horsebirds.
Her heart felt like exploding. With every step she took, the greenery beneath wilted. Her eyes began to spark purple, electricity zapping out. The veins in her left eye pulsing quicker and quicker.
Until suddenly Neptune fell to her knees, gasping for air. The pain she felt could rival even the most brutal of beatings. She cried out for help, desperate for some company in her dire moments.
"N-Nep... Gear... Ugh... H-Histy... A-Anyone... H-Help…"
A shockwave was expunged from Neptune's body, a boom as loud as thunder. All the creatures around immediately squealed and fled.
She could feel it. The energies within her chest about to explode. She felt like she was about to explode, and at this rate she would.
"No... N-No...!" Neptune cried in utter agony. Tears could be seen forming within her eyes as the pain made her senses go null.
"No...! NOO-AUGH-!"
Suddenly, Neptune's began to glow immensely, her skin was shining with a light so bright it rivalled the sun in the sky. Streaks of lightning began to swirl around her, forming a circular orb of energy that surrounded her like an aura. The CPU's body could no longer be seen within, the cackles of electricity outside covering her up entirely.
The CPU cried one last time before her voice was distorted and silenced by the surrounding energy. The circular orb of energy began to steadily grow in size. It became bigger than a tree, then a large monster, than a building. It continued to swell and swell, larger and larger as the energies within grew.
Suddenly, the energies burst free from the orb, unleashing a massive wall of purple energy across the park. Ruin became of the surroundings, as the forest was made victim of the tidal waves of doom.
From where the orb was laid a figure that was silent, but it had a deadly aura surrounding it.
A giant, clad in black and purple metallic armor with pale skin stood knelt on the ground. She had long flowing pinkish hair that separated by a protruding fin from her back. She wore a helmet which covered the upper half of her face in an emotionless yet menacing red visor. Two horns extended from it, halves of familiar controller pads on each.
The Titan began to rise to her full height, her mere stature dwarfing her surroundings. She looked around. Everything about this place looked unfamiliar. The area around here had decayed of life, with wilted plants, leafless trees and brown grass.
She glanced at her hand, flipping it back and forth while stretching her fingers wide. Wearing red claws with tips as sharp as a cat's, this was her hand, but yet it felt strange, as if it was not.
The giant decided to walk about the area, leaving the brown patch she stood on and walked onwards. With every stomp she made as her heel touched the ground, a rumble could be heard from a distance away. Eventually she found herself in an area filled with greenery and life, with several monsters wandering aimlessly about.
However, she was not gentle. Something within the giant ticked as she saw how peaceful this area was. The birds chirped, the fauna florist and the monsters roamed about...
The life surrounding the giant infuriated her.
"Disappear…!"
The giant's first words were ones of malice and hatred, as she welled up and discharged a wave of energy from her very being. Immediately the wildlife around her was put to an end. Blue cracks began to form across the ground, the monsters that were engulfed in her blast decayed into pixels that wisped from their corpses.
Existence itself was being erased. Everything faded into nothingness, only fires were left rampant, burning as hot as lava. Her lips curled upward into a smile. This was her art.
"Directive Purple; Planeptune."
The Purple-clad Titan suddenly felt a resonating presence from the distance, and she turned her head towards that direction. A city could be seen from her gargantuan overview of the world. Planeptune was wide in her sights. The tallest building, a skyscraper that stood around her height. A faint signal. It called out to her from within.
Two purple wings suddenly formed behind the giant. They were metallic and flat, and floated loosely around her back. The wings gave the giant a look of a fallen angel, fitting for what her purpose was for.
The Titan began to thread towards the city, creating rumbles in the ground once more. The world would know of her wrath, the terror that would be recorded in history, along with the catastrophe she would bring. Gamindustri would know the wrath of a Dark CPU.
Dark Purple reigns supreme.
From the outskirts of the forest, the massive purple explosion could not be ignored. Reflecting in their eyes was the rise of a foe larger than either of them have ever fought before.
"... W-What is that...?" B-Sha said with quivering lips. "...W-W-What is that huge thing...!?"
IF widened her eyes as she looked at the monstrous Titan from afar.
"That's... That's what Nep told us about when she fell into that dimension... That's..."
Her legs trembled. She fell to her knees, dropping both of her Qatars.
IF gulped.
"A Dark CPU..."
"The first seed has awakened. Dark Purple has awakened in Hyper Dimension."
"Whoa! She's already there? I thought it'll take much much longer…"
"Don't underestimate my creations, fairy. They are products of my delusion after all!"
"This'll make some fine history to record…"
"You'd best prepare yourself. There's a lot more in store."
End