Neptune was having a tough time with her new allotment in life. She and the other CPUs found themselves roused from their healing and forced to challenge a threat to all Gamindustri. A witch named Arfoire had sprung up while the goddesses were injured, planting rebellion and ruin in the goddesses' absence. Despite their injuries, Histoire, a magical tome girl tasked with recording Gamindustri's history, begrudgingly woke Neptune from her rest and urged her to wake the other goddesses to save the world. After a long and difficult adventure of uprooting Arfoire's influence and corruption, the four CPUs found themselves now faced with the difficult task of facing down a now more powerful witch while they themselves were weakened.

Neptune, safe to say, was having a hard time dealing with all the damned stairs that lead to Celestia. She looked to her right to see Noire, the raven haired goddess of Lastation, was seemingly doing better than Neptune with the stairs. The normally black themed goddess took care of her looks, making sure everything was perfect. But right now she looked rough, covered in bandages, caked in dirt and grim from a previous battle, and of course the occasional wince of pain and her injuries made themselves known to her. Neptune looked over her shoulder to the two behind her and Noire. Vert the blonde, beauty CPU of Leanbox and Blanc the elusive, lithe CPU of Lowee. Those two were having an even harder time than Neptune and Noire, Vert limping something fierce and Blanc occasionally bumping into Vert due to her wounds. This is why they were behind and by a good distance.

Neptune found herself finally at the door into the heavenly realm. She put her shoulder against the door, ready to throw it open, with Noire across from her ready to do the same. Vert and Blanc came up behind them and nodded they were ready. With a great heave the purple and black themed goddesses threw the doors open and all four flooded in. Neptune stood as tall as she could, weapon at the ready as Noire on her right, Vert on her left and Blanc on Noire's right all did the same, ready to fight.

Except the fight was over before the main combatants even arrived. Because standing above the very dead Arfoire, was the same woman the goddesses encountered in Celestia before. There was a pool of blood surrounding Arfoire, her chest having been cleaved open, leaving her innards, outards. In her cold grasp was what appeared to be a sort of saber with a blood red blade that made Neptune's stomach turn and filled her head with quiet indistinguishable whispering. The woman pried the weapon from Arfoire's tight grip and seemed to examine it. Then without warning, she grabbed the sword by the grip and the blade and proceeded to snap the weapon in half. The fragments of the sword quickly disintegrated before hitting the ground, broadcasting a final quiet, distant scream before disappearing from this world.

Neptune looked to where the sword would have been had it still been there, then back up to the woman, straightening her temporarily laxed stance. In a flash the woman had her broadsword in hand and was charging faster than Neptune could properly react at the CPUs. She raised her sword to block, only to find her weapon smashed out of the way as a silver blade made for her face.

10 years later

"AH!" Neptune woke with a scream as she shot up in bed. She was breathing quickly, and her heart was slamming against her rib cage as she frantically looked around for her assailant. Except she was alone in her room, another nightmare, the someone she had been having for years. Neptune closed her eyes as she slowed her breathing and willed her heart to slow down.

"Sis? Are you ok?" Neptune opened her eyes and looked to her bedroom door to see the source of the voice. It was Nepgear, Neptune's taller, older looking younger sister, dressed in purple pajamas, and rubbing sleep from one of her eyes. She of course didn't look too bothered that her older sister woke up screaming, it had become her normal a long time ago.

"Hi Nep jr. sorry did I wake you again?" Neptune replied, slumping slightly as her adrenaline ran out, and the embarrassment and shame of waking her baby sister flooded in. Nepgear simply walked over to the bed and sat down next to her older sibling, the tiredness gone from her face replaced with concern. An expression that made Neptune feel worse, not only had she woken Nepgear but now she had gone and made her worried, she felt like the worst sister in the world. The younger purple themed girl reached out and grabbed Neptune's left hand, and, well, what was left of her right arm, little more than a stump that came out of her shoulder.

"It was that same nightmare again wasn't it?" Nepgear asked, as she looked into her older sister's one purple right eye and one dead gray left eye. The scar went from just below her left eye, through her eye and ending just above, making it obvious she was lacking vision on her left side.

Neptune simply nodded as she looked away and slumped further under her sister's concerned gaze. At this Nepgear, let go of her sister's hand and stump and pulled her into a comfortable embrace as she let her older sister use her more bountiful chest as a pillow. Neptune simply let this happen, the pervy CPU more than happy to let her face be squashed by her sister's boobs, but more importantly more than happy to be wrapped in the warm embrace of her younger sister.

"Are you ever going to tell me what your nightmare is about sis?" Nepgear asked. The older purplette simply groaned as she tried to bury her face deeper while trying to pull her sister in closer. Nepgear for her part simply sighed as she laid them both down on the bed.

"Fine. But I'm sleeping with you the rest of the night. And no buts." Nepgear said as she pulled the covers over them. Neptune didn't offer any objections, happy to have something warm and living to hold tight to. She was amused and somewhat saddened by her sister's antics. Amused because it was cute that Nepgear thought she could just hug her older sister's problems away, but saddened because she wanted to tell her little sis everything, but felt she couldn't, and saddened that the adorable innocence of her baby sister would one day have to be shattered.

Soon Neptune heard Nepgear drift back into sleep, but for the older Nep, no more sleep was to be had that night.