Noire found Neptune to be interesting, the short lilac haired girl fell from the sky after all and apparently it wasn't her first time
And then claims that she was a CPU, but she couldn't transform despite her confidence in the fact that she called herself a CPU, much to her amusement
Then she sends that brat Abnes away by… insulting her?
It worked, admittedly it's an odd way to deal with her
Noire would have dealt with that girl herself by verbally tearing into her however, anything she or Plutia says gets twisted into whatever narrative that Abnes wants and it always puts Plutia in a bad mood afterwards (Noire knows that its part of the reason why Plutia sleeps so much since she can't really do much when she's in a bad mood and wants to bully someone to get in a better mood)
Then came Nepgear, who is every bit as interesting as Neptune is, if not more so
But before she had the chance to interact with the younger (how she is the younger one when she's physically older than Neptune, Noire does not understand) Lilac haired girl, Neptune had grabbed both her and Blanc as she left with Plutia following behind
All the while dumping the three babies on to her little sister
there was a promise to get her a souvenir from Leanbox so there's that, but why does Nepgear look resigned like she's sure she will get nothing?
Apparently the CPU of Leanbox was busy and unable to see them
…
'why did she invite us if she wouldn't be able to see us" Noire thinks to herself with a frown
They had split up to go sightseeing in Leanbox, Noire supposed that Neptune will be getting Nepgear her souvenir
But she also feels bad for leaving the younger lilac haired girl to take care of the babies by herself
Maybe she can get something for the lilac haired girl as an apology (despite the fact that she was dragged away by Neptune)
Chocolates are a good gift regardless of reason but which would she prefer: Milk, White, or Dark?
…might as well get her one of each, chances are she'll give away the ones that she doesn't want
Nepgear was moody when they got back, everyone was saying that she was depressed but as she is right now, she reminds Noire of Plutia when she is moody and wants to bully someone
There's also a suppressed killer intent lightly radiating off of the girl, though it seems like the girl herself is unaware of it (Noire's history with Plutia that the pair of them would prefer to keep to themselves makes itself known to her, although it seemed like Plutia is aware of it as well)
And boy did Neptune really put her foot in her own mouth
Apparently Neptune forgot to get the souvenir that she promised Nepgear (if this has happened before it would explain why she looked so resigned back then, now that she thinks about it)
Noire is glad that she put the chocolates in the room for Nepgear that Histoire had assigned her with a note from her saying that she's sorry for leaving the babies in her care without giving her anytime to adjust to being in this dimension while making sure to sign her name on the note
She really has to wonder how badly Neptune messed up with Nepgear when the younger girl called her older sister a liar (of all things) for saying that she loves her
Something that Noire noticed the days following their return (whenever she is in Planeptune) is that the Babies have come to love Nepgear and are very well behaved whenever Nepgear is in the room
In fact the children throw a fuss when its someone other than Nepgear that's feeding them and refuse to sleep unless it's Nepgear that's putting them to bed
Because of this the children's things have been moved to Nepgear's room
though hearing them call Nepgear "mama" for the first time, was a time and Noire was more than glad to have been there to see Neptune and Plutia stumble over themselves
It's not surprising especially since Nepgear makes a phenomenal mother
Noire notes that both Neptune and Plutia also make impressive mother figures for the children, at least when they are tending to the children while Nepgear is busy
It wasn't long when they received another invite from Leanbox's CPU and Noire wasn't looking forward to it
They were brought there to meet with the CPU once only for the CPU in question to be a no show
What's stopping the same from happening again?
Noire supposed seeing Nepgear in action was a reward in of itself
The younger of the Nep-sisters was calm, calculated and perfectly timed (as far as she could tell anyways) all the while completely outdoing Noire in the way that Noire herself tries to fight
It's a little annoying how Nepgear makes Noire look like a child flailing her arms around in comparison
It does make, however, make her wonder, just how many hours had Neptune's younger sister spent training and practicing over and over again for her to be this close to perfect?
Meeting Leanbox's CPU was an experience to say the least
Turns out the the blond girl that they met in Lowee was in fact the Leanbox CPU
The same girl that took Neptune on a date
She, Plutia and Blanc just learnt the girl's name is Vert, that was expected as none of them bothered enough to learn the girls name after Neptune came back from the date
And Nepgear's surprise is understandable since her dimension's Vert is probably different from the girl in front of them
But Neptune's surprise was uncalled for in Noire's opinion, just what kind of nitwit wouldn't get the name of their date?
…
A Neptune kind of nitwit seems to be the answer, because what kind of excuse is "i was too focused on the food"
At least the blond isn't taking that response negatively (although It does make her question if the blond girl is ok in the head)
Fighting Purple Heart wasn't easy
She didn't know if it was because she knew her and White Heart's counterparts in her dimension or if it was something else entirely different but neither of them were able to do much against her
Throughout the entire fight it was Iris Heart that was the one that was hitting Purple Heart the most and doing the most damage
Either way Neptune was defeated and they can now turn their attention on the CPU of Leanbox (Green Heart as she announced her goddess name to be)
Only to be taken aback by the sight of the still untransformed Nepgear not only pushing her back but also doing damage, Just what are these Planeptunian girls made off?
Sure Plutia's terrifyingly strong and Neptune has proven herself to be very capable, especially when she's transformed, but Nepgear? The girl was fairly tense when interacting with them and has only shown nothing other than her practiced near perfection in blade work until now
And now she's essentially tearing apart a CPU without transforming, looking over to White Heart and Iris Heart she sees that White Heart is just a astonished as she is while Iris Heart looks like she's interested in seeing who will win without them interfering
She looks back towards the ongoing battle to see Green Heart dive for something, she rolls and stands up looking proud about the fact that she… just picked up a CPU memory?
…wait…
Is that the CPU memory that she had given to Nepgear earlier? And why doesn't Nepgear look at all bothered by this situation?...? Is she transforming!? HOW!? SHE HASN'T USED A CPU MEMORY YET!!!!
But sure enough Nepgear transformed into CPU Candidate Purple Sister and used what she called her "Hyper MBPL" which was essentially a massive downward slash from her gunblade turned impromptu Beam-sword
Green Heart, like the rest of them was caught off guard by Nepgear transformation, was left wide open for Nepgear's attack to strike true
Except it didn't
It hit right next to her, clearly Nepgear had missed on purpose and from the looks of it she got what she wanted to happen
Vert, now back in her human form, completely unconscious while frothing in the mouth
Looks like she passed out in fear
Nepgear dismissed her gunblade and took off in the direction of Planeptune before any of them could say anything to her
What happened after
Will be revealed another time
AN: brainrot came back with a vengeance
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if any of this chapter seems weird, it was originally ment to be Plutia
it worked well initially but flopped hard towards the end