April 15, XXXX

Gamindustri

Planeptune

Midnight

"Am I prepared? Let's see… Puddings, Nep bulls, guns, swords, Handheld gaming stuff, phone, and most importantly, puddings." A purple haired petite, Neptune, said it twice since she's always into pudding.

The items that Neptune described are in front of her on the table as they're waiting to be packed up. For someone who refused to go outside, Neptune has to do her solo mission as well as risking her life for Gamindustri, the world of gaming. And that sucked for her.

"Geez, I bet Histy's pissed that I left the tower without permission. I hope Nep Jr's alright on her own." Neptune is showing her concern towards both her oracle and her little sister.

There's one thing she never forgets.

"The share crystal. Heh, I always needed it for safekeeping." Neptune felt her chest after knowing that Purple heart is leaving her nation without anyone, even her friends knowing.

Grinning as Neptune zips up her parka hoodie but this time, it's black instead of white.

It's as Histoire said to Neptune a long time ago: "Being your true self which is Purple heart is highly dangerous as it is very limited to your energy. Overuse your HDD and your CPU crystal might malfunction and overheat, therefore can fatally damage and make you go out of control. Be careful."

"Don't worry, Histy. I'm saving my sexy body for something necessary." Neptune had already heeded her words as she usually goes to Compa's for some healing.

This time she'll be extra careful or else she'll be saying Goodbye to Gamindustri and her Goddesshood. Luckily for her, the shares are helping the nation as well as herself.

Neptune packed everything up and turned off her lamp. After that, she'll check up on her taller but younger sister, Nepgear. Neptune attempted to open her mouth but was trying not to make her worry too much.

Then she left without saying a word.

By the door, Neptune looked back to see if no one's around. But luckily for her, no one's around.

"See ya later." Neptune speaks out while closing the door.

Leaving a letter which reads: Nep Jr. Take care of Planeptune and Histy for me.

Strolling outside in a city which has so many lights on like people are having a night out, making Neptune curious about their activities, despite following her priorities.

Humming to her own tune, Neptune is lifting her bag up as well as dragging a suitcase since her swords are the heaviest altogether. Keeping her hood up and covering her face from being noticed, the petite is making her way to a different nation by taking a train to either Lastation, Leanbox or Lowee.

Inside a train station where a few people are waiting, standing next to Neptune is a huge person in a thick coat and a hat, knowing that a fat guy is innocently waiting for the train to Lowee.

"Hey, kid. How long do you think a train to Lowee will arrive?" Asked the big guy with a funny voice and accent.

"Hm? Oh, mister, it's arriving in ten minutes. Great… This'll be a waiting game." Muttering under her breath, Neptune is disappointed with the timing if her HDD wasn't so fragile and limited.

Unlike the other Goddesses who're strong and can last so much with their HDD, Neptune's is overpowered, yet at the same time causing self harm as well as dehumanizing herself.

That's the reason Neptune's not pleased with going by foot.

"Ooh! Hurry up!" Big guy whimpers while waiting to go to the train.

What caught Neptune's attention is a missing poster featuring a couple of girls in a photo.

It says:

Missing

Rom and Ram

Appearance: both brown hair, one wears pink and the other wears blue, they wear winter coats and hats on.

Personality: Rom is an introverted type who's shy, Ram is an extrovert and is energetic towards others, both are little pranksters.

Reward: 200000 credits

P.S. If you don't find those pranking little brats, I'll haunt every single one of you until I'll make a pile of corpses out of you!

"Yep, that's Blanc alright, always miss grumpy panties. Come to think of it, I haven't seen them in a few months." Neptune had caught up her memory of how long they've been in Planeptune.

Or how long they've been in Lowee. Something's not right to her.

Turning towards the same fat guy as people usually go out and search in order to be rewarded with cash, Neptune is curious about this guy's unusual tone.

"Excuse me, mister, are you also searching for these two?"

"And you're not?"

"Nah… Too much of a drag." Neptune admitted it after hiding her dark truth.

What if Neptune gets both Rom and Ram hurt or worse: killed by her Goddess self.

But Neptune can smell something that is not exactly right.

"You sound familiar. Do I know you?" Neptune suspiciously stares at the guy while loosening her wheel suitcase.

"U- um… No?"

"I see… Boy, I thought you're that same dude who diddles on Rom and Ram." Neptune sighed after assuming that this guy is Trick.

But the guy's reaction is making it easy for him to identify as Neptune non stop sniffing out of suspicion. But it snapped Neptune as she finally figured out who that guy is.

"Hm? You're…"

"GRAAH! Take this!" A tongue that is unusually long has come out of his coat as it's trying to swing at the petite.

Before getting hit by a tongue, Neptune leaped after instantly picking out a katana from her bag.

"Yep, I was right! Man, you need to put up a better disguise than wearing a hat and coat." Neptune yawned while leaning on her katana. "Also where's Rom and Ram?" Neptune then gets serious when raising her katana and points at Trick in a swordsman position.

"Enough talk! I am CFW Trick the Hard and I'll never tell you where those cuties are!" Trick shouted after getting caught by the people in public.

The people are evacuating from the station after Trick revealed himself.

Neptune knows what his weakness is, but it's going to cost her her own life.

"Time to transform! Purple, go!" Neptune cheered while flashing into a purple light.

Her body grows more womanly, her hair darkens and grows while braided and her hoodie vanishes into a tight suit with processor units by her head, back, waist, shoulders and legs, and finally adding claws on her suit. Neptune has become Purple heart.

"Transformation complete." Purple heart opened her flashing blue eyes while glaring at Trick.

"Wah!? Ew! Why do you have to be an old hag!?"

"Because, it's better to be safe than getting molested. Now, Trick, face me and you'll lead me to Rom and Ram!" Purple heart walks towards Trick while sliding her purple katana on the ground which intimates him.

It's no secret that they feared Purple heart due to her overwhelming power as normal Neptune can't reach that much power.

Raising her sword, Purple heart could no longer hesitate while swinging her sword diagonally and slid past Trick in a flash, turning around to know if she did cut him.

Unfortunately for Purple, an invisible barrier had saved his life but was shattered into a broken staff.

"Hm?"

Surprised by Trick having some backup, Purple heart turned around and witnessed her surroundings. A horde of men and little girls are marching around as they're holding weapons such as bats, knives, daggers and other weapons as well as guns.

"Tch. I see you bought an army of your own." Panting as Neptune is put under her own pressure in her HDD form.

She doesn't want to kill them, but a flying horde of monsters are her only targets in order to dive onto Trick. Neptune's only choice is to go upwards.

"Boss, do you want us to capture this lady and take her somewhere you want?" A young looking man asked while spinning his grappling hook.

"Do it."

Now's her que to leap away and create a purple line as a lot of monsters are diving towards a shattering ceiling. The moon shines as these shattered glasses are reflecting a light which also makes Purple heart's processors shine like a purple light.

After getting piled up by a horde, Purple heart drilled through them and diagonally cut 5 dogoos at the same time with her katana.

There's more except they've been through some insta kills as well as being maimed and slaughtered into splashes of water, blood, guts, wires that are turning into pixels.

With all of them defeated and Purple heart is low on energy, she then dives downwards in a speed of light towards Trick, in order to save those being possessed.

A bang inside a train station as if Neptune had dived into Trick.

But unfortunately, Trick is left unharmed while shivering in fear.

A different type of claw is pinning Purple heart down as well as holding her arm that holds a sword.

"What the…"

"Master, are you okay?" A familiar voice asked, but her face is unknown.

"Why yes. Phew! Thank you for saving me!" Trick's charisma is already dropping but thanks to a couple of unknown faces.

Neptune hasn't much time or else she'll go out of control and then overheat which means death. What scares her the most is that someone is overpowering Purple heart as someone was controlling something as overpowered as an uncontrollable, yet controlled Purple heart.

"Wait! Let me go!" Purple heart begged before she reached her limit.

"You boys will have fun with Purple once she turns back to her young self again." Trick chuckles.

Purple heart's eyes are flashing from blue to crimson colour, causing her expression to slowly calm down and stop struggling.

"What about her womanly body? It could be of use for us boys." A gruff looking man asked while one of the familiar girls was moving towards Trick.

"Yeah. Sure whatever." Trick couldn't care less about Neptune and the boys, as long as he has some children with him in a total of 6.

Before that happens, a katana instantly impales a man and slides diagonally by decapitating another boy, staining herself in human blood.

"Foolish one… I've been trapped in a void time and time again. But now… I'm free!"

Her tone is different yet her voice is the same, Purple heart is no longer Purple heart as she murdered 2 people and was up against more.

Neptune is no longer herself.

Outside of the train station and watching the sky, a mysterious long black haired girl in an eastern traditional robe is watching a purple light that is spreading out so much data.

"You're from the outside world, am I correct?" A silver haired woman, Chrome asked while travelling around Planeptune.

"Hm… You know, I enjoy the part where Neptune goes bloodlust against her opponents without knowing her surroundings." The mysterious girl grins while witnessing a purple line diving downwards.

"To be fair, her opponent is one of the strongest enemies and what she's doing is suicide." Chrome is staring at a building which is flashing and making noises. "You're taking her to the outside world?"

"You know too well. We are about to teach her a lesson about overcoming her HDD's power and control."

Chrome noticed something that could save Neptune's life, turn around and leave the girl to it.

"Go. If you want to save Neptune's life, now's the chance to stop a boss from killing Neptune as well as her getting consumed by something uncontrollable."

"With pleasure, Chrome-san." The mysterious girl is continuing on while strolling down towards the train station.

The station looked like a riot had been in there; guts and gore with mutilated corpses all over the train and its station with those inside afraid to come out, Trick cornered himself with a couple of little girls as a bloodstained Purple heart slides the ground her bloody sword towards the trio as her glowing red eyes are glaring down.

"L- leave the master alone!" One familiar girl shouted.

"Huh? And why should I? Oh let me guess: he's a lolicon? That's rich coming from a loli herself." Purple heart denies that demand as she'll target and massacre the three altogether. "Now perish like the scum you are!" Purple heart raised her sword horizontally while looking to behead 2 girls and open the guy's stomach.

Trick has a trick up his 'sleeve' and it's something he's saving up to win against 4 CPUs altogether.

Nothing…

"NOOOOOOO!" This is the end of CFW Trick the Hard.

Freeze.

A clanging noise means that her sword had landed on a floor. Purple heart's irises are fading to blue as well as flashing by reverting back into a petite.

Finally landing face first to the ground, unconscious.

"Honestly, it's going to be a drag to carry all her luggage as well as her tiny body." A girl in a robe is carrying all the things that belonged to Neptune as well as her sword and her body.

Sheathing her katana and ignoring the citizens and Trick, the girl is taking Neptune out of the station while taking her somewhere she was requested to go; the outside world.

It's getting dawn and she's dragging Neptune outside away from the mess Neptune made.

April 16, XXXX

Early Morning

Inside the tower, yawning and stretching in her pink buttoned top and trousers, Nepgear has awakened from her slumber and scratching her long messy (bed) hair.

Nepgear thought that it's unusual for Neptune to get up early. Probably playing games this early.

"Morning, big sis."

Putting a couple of breads into a toaster, Nepgear is twice as confused about her sister's disappearance.

"Sister?"

Nepgear glanced at the table with a letter that Neptune had written. Picking up the paper, another one has dropped on the floor.

"'Take care of Planeptune and Histy for me.' What's that?" Nepgear has become worried about her sister's disappearance and picked up another one that shows a request. "'Dear Neptune. We're giving you an important request to meet me at the station and make sure to go alone. And be prepared because you'll be staying there for a long time. And don't forget to bring Purple heart as well, because you need it for something important. Don't forget. From your secret admirer.' NEPGYA!? HISTOIRE!"

Dashing with the papers that Nepgear is carrying, she shouted while banding her room door so hard like an ape or drummer.

"Alright! ALRIGHT! What do you want!?" Histoire asked bitterly while rubbing her bagged eyes.

"Read this! It's Neptune! She's gone!" Nepgear desperately handed a couple of papers over to a pint sized oracle, Histoire as well as dropping down to her knees.

After the letters, Histoire dropped them and silently comforted Nepgear.

"I see… don't worry Nepgear, I'll bring IF and Compa and we'll discuss what happened to her. Okay?"

"Okay…" Nepgear nodded while shivering in fear, knowing that she'll never see Neptune again.

"Good. Now get prepared." Histoire lets go of Nepgear and turns to pick up a phone on a table and call IF as promised.

Ringing on the phone, Histoire is suspicious about that letter which was sent to Neptune and Neptune alone.

It's finally picked up.

"Yo, this is IF speaking from the guild."

"IF. I know it sounds strange but please come over with Compa."

"Histy? Why at that time? And why bring Compa along?"

"I'll tell you once you both arrive."

"Alright then. See ya later."

IF finally hung up as Histoire took a deep breath before trying to identify Neptune's whereabouts. Histoire thought she couldn't have gone that far, or else she'll be sending out a search party to find their lady.

"Don't tell me… Oh Neptune. You're in the outside world are you?" Histoire is worried that Neptune's at a place where no Gamindustri citizens know about.

That's one thing she'll tell Nepgear and the others about.