Hyperdimension Neptunia and all its games do not belong to me, they belong to the companies: Idea Factory, Compile Heart and other supporting companies in league with its spinoffs such as Sting, Tamsoft, Galapagos RPG, etc.

Only I own most of the OCs written the fic, the rest are from their respective owners.

This will be written in the POV of the Protagonist. This will shift into Third Person sometimes.

If you wish to skip to the part where the entire fic starts, Ctrl F and type "00:00"

Sankasha Family Apartments – Sankasha House, Yoyogi District, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan, 13:01, Saturday

It was another afternoon in Shibuya City, we were the Sankasha family of four living in a decent apartment that my parents own, complementing the modern Japanese lifestyle of the city itself.

There was my father, Sankasha Shiso, who works at Idea Factory just a few blocks away as the script writer for the stories of a game my big brother plays.

My mother, Sankasha Shirei, who works at Compile Heart, part of IF as a Parent Company. Her office is far away from our apartment and she has to take a train ride there early in the morning, so I don't see her much often except for when she and dad come home at the same time in the evening. She's the director of several of the main games created every whenever the company allows it.

Then there is my Big Brother, Sankasha Toriosai or Sai-onii-chan, he's kind of… perverted..., I mean despite the high grades he has, the popularity he's gained, apparently he's not comfortable in showing his "otaku" side towards his so-called "fans" in school. Don't get me wrong, I love him in the family kind of way, not the jealous incestuous little sister you people watch in anime and play in several anime-esque games. I just think that if he were more open, he'd have true friends instead of people willing to ruin him.

Though, I do get annoyed from time to time with that Neptunia game he always plays. I mean, sure, my parents were in collaboration of the game, but drooling over 2D women with the risk of those idiots trying to grab dirt on my brother is pretty high and I always cover for him.

I guess that's all of it…? Oh right, there's me. Sankasha Nanoko, Nanoko or Noko-chan for short, a freshman girl in high school. It's a bit cliché to be a sixteen-year-old protagonist in a story like this, much less a girl… I think? That's probably in the yuri anime that my brother is interested in too, but that's another story.

I stare at the caramel-colored ceiling of my room, cemented obviously, there was a part of the AC sticking out from my field of peripheral vision, but let's not talk about the miscellaneous details. I just woke up from my nap and as I stare at my alarm clock, Sai-onii-chan, it's… 1:01 PM… tch, knew I couldn't nap. I was too full of energy… if there's even a sentence or phrase like that.

I jumped off my bed, literally, and land on my slippers, rubbing my eyes as I do so while approaching the mirror rather annoyed at the fact that I couldn't sleep and had to get up. It's a boring weekend and all my friends have clubs… I'm in a club too but the Prez said something about a day-off so might as well "enjoy it" …at least that's what she said.

Looking straight into the mirror, I see myself ,well duh, that's what mirrors do, I smile at myself… my long light pink-peach hair was reaching my back, getting long but I guess that's the trend, my skin looks so clear and white, guess Mom was right when she said I should use whitening cream every club meeting, my eyes are a bright green and I think I gained a few inches… plus weight… I think…

Now that I look at myself, I do look a bit like Mom…

It seems I still had these girly headphones on -they were way too pink for me for my taste- so I took them off and wrapped them around my neck, which also had a red collar that I like, since it's stylish and keeps my neck warm. I was currently wearing a light brown jacket with thick red lines in the middle, I rolled up the sleeves all the way up to my elbow because it had this "boyish" flair and it complements the "cute girl in boy's clothing" ideal I had going with my classmates, underneath the jacket is a white blouse that I really like and the one I got last year on Christmas Day, I am wearing pleated shorts, a pair of long black stockings, each of them having a different design; my right leg has pink strikes and the left one has stars, and of course, I am wearing black sneakers with white trim, that glows different colors ranging from red to violet in the dark. The designs on the fabric of my sneakers had controller pads in different colors.

What? I can be a gamer too… I mean if my entire family can. Why can't I?

Of course, not to a degree Sai-onii-chan has. In this case… any game containing severe nudity or any close-fanservice game.

I gave myself one more sigh as I walk out my room, giving it one last look… it's a small-medium space, the paint in the walls of my room are as bright as orange, white patterned tiles covered by a soft red carpet the size of my bed… I have a long desk with a flatscreen computer monitor on it, along with the actual computer below it, it seems to be mounted with a cooler up top and a fan in case the AC no longer works.

My bed looks like a little girl's to be honest. I don't really care, it reminds me of home, plus it's really warm and fluffy.

With that, I close the door to my room and gave a knock to my brother's room just across mine.

"Sai? Sai-onii-chan?" I called out, blinking for a few seconds. I kept knocking on the door, gradually increasing the frequency and strength of my knocking.

"Is he not there? Or is he asleep?" I mutter to myself as I reached for the doorknob, twisting it to the right slowly. To my surprise it's unlocked, so does that mean he's out? He usually tells me when he's out by knocking on the door and yelling about it. Nevertheless, once I opened it fully, I immediately pinch my nose -it still smells like a mountain of dirty socks- since he never cleaned his room. Seriously, he just leaves a pile of dirty clothes on the side next to his bathroom, and the rest of the clothes he just scatters across the room. He puts his rug underneath his huge gaming system, which consisted of every single console interconnected with each other… in fact… how is that even possible? I'm pretty sure that's a fire hazard! But... it seems he knows what he's doing, and it looks like he's been keeping that setup since he got the consoles. I sigh in disappointment as I shake my head.

"When is he going to clean this?..." I said to myself. Well he may be all-perfect outside of the house, inside, he's still a lazy, run-of-the-mill gamer boy that does his studies and exercises at the least, wouldn't call him a NEET but whatever. I was about to close the door right after looking through the room, but before I did so… something else stopped me momentarily by force, it was as if a streak of lightning sped past me, causing me to flinch and preventing myself from closing the door half-way, I blinked for a few seconds, turning in both directions to see if anyone or anything just zoomed past and…

…nothing. I guess it's just a random feeling.

As I turned back to the same room however, I noticed something off, like… something was just added on brother's desk right next to the console controller… it looked like a DVD case with one of those "Neptunia" games on them, the cover had several females doing poses, all in plugsuits, unnatural hair colors, and computer buttons for pupils, and -oh! It has the PC mark on the bottom left side of the DVD case! Maybe this could work on my computer… hopefully the specs aren't too much.

I felt weirded out that my brother is getting way into these games way worse than I thought…

…but then again, it can't hurt to try and play it right? I mean… it's just to test as to why my brother and a bunch of his online friends like the game, it's in no way in my interest! Yeah! Okay!

I stepped into his room and quickly grabbed the game, before dashing out the door, closing it swiftly behind me. I made it across my room in less than a second, plopping myself down in my chair as I gave myself some room to breathe and turned on the computer.

I took a look at the disc one more time before popping it open from the side, placing the still-warm disc inside the compartment of my computer. While it was installing, I couldn't help but wonder how brother got his new game and left it there… didn't he leave just hours ago? Or maybe I just wasn't looking clearly enough, meh... Either way, I'll just try this; he won't be coming home until five in the afternoon so I should be in the clear when I'm done playing for a few hours.

*PING!*

The installation sounded as it finished, and I found a grin of both curiosity and excitement forming on my face as I clicked on the game for the very first time.

But only one thing popped up really… it looked like one of those sign-up sheets like those MMOs I play… so does this mean it's an MMO game? Whatever it is, I filled in each designated question with an honest answer, from the looks of it, it might generate some sort of character creation screen with the details I placed.

First Name: Nanoko

Last Name: Sankasha

Height: 5'6 (66 inches)

Weight: 35kg

Gender: Female

Measurements (if female): B80-W60-H75

Cup: B

Birthday: February 14, 1997

Horoscope Sign: Aquarius

Is this right?

Yes – No

As obvious as it is, I clicked yes. My predictions were right; it is an MMO game! But wait… why didn't it require me to connect me to the Internet? The WiFi was off the entire time… so is this a parody of an MMO? Sweet… I think I'm liking it a bit already.

Some time passed, and I had finally finished my character to look like an anime version of me, also adding in extra set appearances as to how I look in every situation to make it seem immersive. I giggled to myself for a bit as I clicked the confirm button.

A loading bar showed up, but then the game suddenly closes once it was complete. I was dumbfounded at the fact that my brother likes a faulty game… huh… maybe that's why he left it there. I clicked on the application again to see if it worked, and all I got in return was a message that said:

"Welcome to Gamindustri! Transporting you now…"

There was no loading bar, no nothing… instead just a bunch of what seems to be error codes, I found this really freaky and frustrating so I tried to eject the disc from the computer, but just as I pressed the button, I was electrocuted. It felt like several jolts of electricity were entering my body as I spazzed out and screamed in pain. I fell to the floor, my vision fading as I reach out to the open door… with my last words:

"…Oka-san (Mother)… Otou-san (Father)… Onii-chan (Big Bro)…"

Complete darkness filled my vision and I couldn't feel or hear anything at all, it was pure darkness and silence all around.

Third Person View

Sankasha Family Apartments – Sankasha House, Yoyogi District, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan, 17:12, Saturday

The door leading to the living room opened gently, a young man with short brown hair, blue eyes entered the room before yawning, he was wearing a thin black sweater along with black jogging pants with white trim linings on the center of their sides, he also seems to be wearing slippers while wearing gray socks on either side of his feet.

"I'm home…" He said lazily as he puts what seems to be, two bags of groceries on the table. He would blink for a few seconds as he stared towards the stairs located just a bit further from the dining table. "Noko-chan?" The young teen said as he carefully walked up the stairs, to him, it was weird, usually his sister, who seemed to be Nanoko from the nickname, would greet him whenever he gets home alongside an important rule in the house…

...never leave the house undefended, at least one person should stay behind, so it was either her, or him.

The young teen would slowly approach the door to his sister's room, giving it a few knocks, but also noting that the door opened the moment he did so, as soon as he saw what's inside, his expression overcame with shock and fear… his sister was on the floor, almost as if she shows no sign of life, he would rush toward her, kneeling down just to lift her up over his shoulder and gently place her on the bed as he yelled out her name:

"Noko-chan! Noko-chan! Wake up!"

Just like that, the sister finally stirred, blinking towards her brother as she groaned. "Sai-onii-chan?"

"Yeah, that's right... it's me… what… what happened?" Sai seemed to have panted out of fear.

Protagonist's Point of View

Sai-onii-chan looked like he saw a ghost, he was sweating all over, and had this really scared look on his face. It was then when he asked the question regarding about what happened, I nodded and calmly opened my mouth.

"...I… there was an accident with the computer while I was ejecting the game…" I had to think of an excuse on what game, but just before I could do that and was about to quickly pick up the DVD case of the game… it was gone… just like that, did he know? Oh man, I'm screwed. I shut my eyes tight, getting ready for my big brother's lecture.

"...game huh… what kind of game?" He sounded as if he didn't know what I was talking about, is he making fun of me?

"You know… that game… one of yours?" I asked once more, he replied with a tilt of his head as he blinked.

"Noko-chan… all my games are bought through the internet via console… I don't know what you're talking about… what game put you in an unconscious state?" Huh? Wait… if he didn't get the game… then… who did? I internally slap myself and thought of a better excuse, just hoping he would just forget it.

"O-oh… w-wait...it was a game that I got from a friend… turns out it was wet so… umm… it electrocuted me, like a whole lot. Hehe… sorry for worrying you." I said in the most convincing way possible, scratching the back of my head in a silly way as I give him a slurry smile. Hopefully my participation in the Drama Club back in middle school paid off.

It seemed to work, as my brother just sighed in relief as he put both his hands on my shoulders.

"Thank God… I thought you were dying back there… next time, don't drench your flash drive when drinking, Mom and Dad already told you that, geez." He chuckled a bit to lighten the heavy atmosphere around us. Of course I had to giggle too, otherwise he'd be serious.

After a few minutes of banter and interesting exchanges, my brother left to his room and closed the door to my room just after exiting. I sighed in exasperation as I lied on the bed, all limbs flat and separate. "That… that really hurt though…"

I took one more look at the computer, and the place where the DVD was…

"I wonder if it's still there…" I rolled off the bed, gently dropping to the floor thanks to my control. I stood up afterwards, walking towards the button, out of fear, I was reluctant to open it, constantly reeling back my index finger whenever I get too close, I think I may have developed some sort of trauma or something.

Still, no matter what I do, I keep reeling my finger back, sighing in defeat I would climb back to my bed, then I realized something… I had these latex gloves from the several laboratory lessons I have currently in my curriculum, I slapped my forehead at my stupidity and started shuffling under my bed for them, as I picked them up, I slapped both of them on one by one and continue my little curiosity experiment, crouching down once more and pressing the small button, as soon as the compartment opens up, I blink at what was in front of me…

...surprise, surprise, it's empty, the disc was no longer there. Which brings me to a better question. How long was I knocked out? And how powerful was the voltage when I touched the eject button? This is getting really creepy, I backed off at the moment and went downstairs to see if I could cook some food, Mom and Dam should be home in an hour…

Sankasha Family Apartments – Sankasha House, Yoyogi District, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan, 18:23, Saturday

All four of us are eating at the table, I sat opposite to brother, adjacent to both my Mother (left) and Father (right). I know it's supposed to be the great part of my day, but my body can't help but feel somewhat chilling after what I had just gone through. I was visibly shaking and it seems my mother was the first to notice.

"Is something wrong dear?" I stare into her bright green eyes, her short hair with a similar color to mine shone pretty brightly at the heated light above our dining table, seems she's still wearing her office suit, a sleek black with short skirt, some transparent black stockings and heels. I answer her back with a sigh.

"It's… nothing… just really bored… yeah. Sometimes days like these make me sigh and I'm shaking for a need to have fun, yeah." I turn to my brother, who seems to get the gist of my idea, leading to a discreet thumbs up and wink across. My father, having noticed this not later than my mom, always wearing his glasses and his short snow white hair would gleam just as bright as mom's, unlike her, he was wearing a sweatshirt with the Idea Factory logo on the front and back.

"Well dear, life has those hurdles, you just have to find a way to make fun go your way. Like your brother." He would chuckle as my brother would let out a chuckle back. Having taken our bait, they weren't suspicious anymore and we continued to eat our dinner.

Several minutes later, Mom was washing the dishes, and dad was off to check out our neighbors in the apartment complex before coming back to us and locking the doors. My brother had already went to his room, obviously playing games due to his constant squealing, meanwhile I had just entered my room and flopped towards the bed on my back, sighing.

"Today was such a weird day…" Indeed it was… hopefully when I get a good night's sleep, it'll all blow over in the morning…

...right?

Unknown Location, Skyline (800 feet or so), 00:00 Nightfall

So, remember that part in your sleep when you feel like falling then suddenly you wake up once you think you've landed in your bed? Well… this is different really, it's like I'm in an actual dream where it feels like I've been falling in an endless pit, I can't seem to open my eyes for a bit, but later on I do, and I was greeted by a low blue dark sky, and looking further down, I can see a large, dark green area, a faint one rather since it was covered by the many clouds on my way down… and from the way it looked...

…

...oh crap..

Naturally, I screamed and cried out to my family in fear of falling, fully knowing that it won't work since it's literally impossible for them to hear me.

"Onii-chan! Oka-san! Otou-san! ANYOOOOOOOOOOOONE!" I screamed all the way down.

Yep, they can't hear me, but there's still a chance this would be just some random dream right? I looked downward, and unlike the dream-like state of having wind resistance, tears are immediately flowing and my eyes freaking hurt.

"Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!" I closed my eyes, bracing for impact as I near the ground, not wanting to see what happens when I reach it.

*Cluttering sounds of splatter*

"...huh? Is that the sound of my blood splattering all over the ground? Heh… I guess this is the end… when I open my eyes I'll probably be in Heaven right now… I just know it."

At least that was what I though, though as soon as I opened my eyes I seem to be lying on the ground. I pushed myself up into a sitting position, and found myself facing a beautiful city full of lights in the distance. I wondered what the heck just happened? Did I just survive that fall or something? I stood up from where I was and I could feel something sticky and slimy sliding off my butt. I felt a chill in my spine at the thought of crushing someone, however, as I turned around this slimy sensation came from an actual blue gel-like slime-thing or whatever it is that I landed on.

Upon closer observation, it seemed to have had furry ears and a furry tail, not to mention that this isn't any small slimeball… it looks like whatever I just crushed is pretty huge and the impact from my fall must've killed it. The only problem left? How do I wash this thing off? I took a sample from the back of my pleated shorts, giving it a tentative sniff before recoiling. It smelled like dog slobber so I whipped it off my fingers immediately. I looked around to see if there were any campers to help me… or some passer-by.

"U-umm, anyone here? Hellooooooooooooooooo~!" I called out and didn't seem to get any sort of response at all, I realized I was indeed alone, neither my parents nor my brother is here with me. I started walking through the green fields while watching the beautiful night sky, now this is really dandy and all but…

"How did I get here? Worse… WHY am I here? It doesn't make any sense… I was just asleep in my room… and then all of a sudden I'm falling from the sky, and I just confirmed that this isn't a dream of sorts." I would yell to myself, why if someone saw me, they might look at me funny and call me a crazy person on the spot. Taking a few steps in the direction of the distant city right in front of me, I hear squeaks… yes, literal squeaks from a dog's chew toy, but... from the rate it was going, I would assume it was approaching towards me.

"Who's there?!" I positioned myself into the basic karate stance from the Martial Arts Club… yes, I go there too, I aspire to be like my brother educationally… but I find my intimidation wasted when a small white stuffed toy, resembling a mouse with its sharp ears, long tail, and stubby limbs, wearing a small cyber bracelet on the left arm popped up. I was so dumbfounded at such a thing that I realized that I might be going "coo-coo" here. I mean… a walking stuffed toy? This is way too freaky to be real or to be a dream.

It seemed to raise its little stubby right arm at me, as if it was waving at me or something… and judging from this little guy's smile, it looks like it couldn't even hurt a fly.

I wave my right arm back at the little guy and opened my mouth to see if it could respond to me.

"Umm… can you understand me?" I kneeled down in case I was scaring little mouse-thing, though it apparently didn't seem fazed either way.

"Of course! Why wouldn't I?" The mouse-thing spoke, sounding a little offended as it flailed rather adorably, swinging both his stubby arms in the air as he jumped up a little… wait, did that thing actually just talk to me in a high-pitched voice?

"Okay then… I have a bunch of questions I want to ask you, good thing we're alone or else I'll be rever as a weirdo." I said before taking a look around the area one more time and confirming that no one else was around. The little mouse-thing though just sweat dropped at my request.

"Umm… sure…? I don't see how talking to me is that weird." The mouse-thing replied as it sighed, he gestured with his stubby arm as if telling me to bring on the barrage of questions I have ready for it, and I nod in return as I inhaled deeply before exhaling.

"One: Where in the heck am I?"

"Two: What is that city in the distance?"

"Three: What even are you?"

"And Four: Are you a boy or a girl?"

I said each question at the count of my fingers, before crossing my arms afterward as I awaited its response.

The white mouse-thing bounced once and attempted to answer all my questions.

"You are in Gamindustri... and right now you are somewhere in the Green Fields, also that city in the distance is Planeptune, the Land of Purple Progress. I'm what I call myself a moglin or a rare Warechu…. And I'm a guy."

Oddly enough, this little guy didn't seem like he was kidding around, so I guess I ought to trust him too. What other choice do I have? Normally I carry a notebook with me to write some notes but I'm empty-handed as is, so how am I gonna take note of what he just said? My memory lasts an hour before I refresh them again by reviewing an-

*PING*

Huh? That sounded like a message bubble... but where was it coming from?

*PING*

It sounded like it came from my… pocket…? Didn't know pleated shorts have those… or maybe it magically popped up on my way down here. I shuffled through my seemingly small pocket right behind my shorts only to find the space to be really large… like… as large as an entire storage depot, I blinked in surprise for a few moments before shuffling my hand through the empty space, only to touch what seemed to be the cover of a book. I pulled it out and looked at the cover, which had the title: "Noko-chan's Journal".

This is officially the craziest and strangest experience I have now, so hopefully the little guy can tell me more. I popped the journal open and it conviniently seemed to have some sort of pen in the center of the fold. Picking it up, I began writing what he said until one very important question came to my mind when talking to an adorable stranger.

"Oh right… what's your name?" Smooth and simple Nanoko.

The white moglin raised his stubby little arms.

"They call me Techie! I'm the most peaceful Warechu-slash-Moglin out there! Nice to meet you!" Techie said to me. I have to admit, that is pretty darn cute… I kneeled down and picked him up, he squeaked as I did so, and placed him on my shoulder.

"So… since you're friendly and all… and you seem to act more like a normal person rather than a weirdo or a monster… mind being my guide in this… err… Gamindustri?" I said with a bit of uneasiness, before realising I didn't introduce myself.

"Right! I forgot… my name is Sankasha Nanoko… you can call me Noko-chan I guess… so long as you don't turn out to be an evil guy with the nerve to take me to a strange place and eat me." I bet all of you could be wondering how I'm keeping my cool… well… I'm actually a bit afraid and confused, but I didn't show my fear towards Techie for the sole reason of not giving him a reason to freak out too.

Technically speaking, I have to endure all this and then freak out when I'm alone inside a room. Right. Yeah. It's not like this 'ware-chu' is gonna eat me, hehe. Too much anime gets me thinking about this sort of stuff.

Barely even a few steps after I started moving onwards again, a dark blue, holographic and semi-transparent dialog box appeared in front of me with the following message.

[Welcome to Gamindustri Noko-chan!]

After reading that title, my eyes widened in shock as I questioned how that dialog box knew my nickname. I looked to Techie to see if he knew anything about it, but he just shrugged and told me that he couldn't see what I was seeing…

...Oh God…

...Is this like a personal interface from an MMO game that I played on my brother's console.

Which means...if I'm seeing all this… am I in some game?

I sighed in confusion and continued reading the rest of the message as I walked to this… Planeptune…that Techie spoke of. He also said something along the lines of it being purple, hopefully it isn't that purple.

[It seems you have fallen from the sky right outside Planeptune and smashed a Giant Dogoo along the way to break your fall. Your adventure is just about to begin Noko-chan!]

[Techie has joined the Party!]

I just stared at the dialog box, awestruck by it. It seems that whenever I ask someone to join me… they join my Party. A HUD full of menu bars would appear on the left side of my vision, and it seems that I can swipe it left, right, up, and down… I can even swipe it away then bring it back into the same position. I have to admit… this is kind of cool and makes me feel a little at ease.

I clicked on the Party Statistics menu to view mine and Techie's stats… the little guy seems thinks I'm doing some kind of sorcery.

The stats of Techie would show:

[Techie the Moglin]

**Level 1 - Support Technician**

**HP - 50/50**

**SP - 1/1**

**Weapon: Gadget Cubes**

**Skills: Transformation Skill. (Mecha Morph)**

It appeared to only show the basic statistics… at least he has one skill, that's hopefully threatening at least. I clicked on the next arrow to my statistics.

[Sankasha Nanoko]

**Level 0 - Human**

**HP - 10/10**

**SP - 0/0**

Equipment:

**Helm - None**

**Upper Clothing - Leather Jacket with Blouse**

**Lower Clothing - Brown Pleated Shorts**

**Leggings/Footwear - Gamer Stockings and Sneakers**

**Weapon - None**

**Accessory - Beats by Nep (Pink)**

**Skills - None**

Wait… Beats by Nep? The ones I bought were Beats by D** oh, wait… I guess it doesn't allow me to speak out the product name… and with good reason too…

*Sound of a wall cracking*

I took out my notebook and wrote something in it:

Surviving Gamindustri - Tip 1

Never say the name of any sort of copyright brands from Earth. It seems to break what I assume is the Fourth Wall and anyone who reads this should show great concern to it.

I sighed and trudged on towards the city of Planeptune, guess with my level being zero and being incredibly useless at the same time just made this trip a whole lot worse for me… hopefully someone in the city can get me home before morning arrives…

...I don't want to worry my family… though that's not what I'm primarily worried about right now…but...

...what happens if I die in a game-like world?

A/N: Hello there, you may not know me that much (except when I was reviewing some fics in this category) so this would be my first fanfic in the franchise.

I'd like any sort of opinions and some constructive criticism from you guys.

As for Noko-chan, she will have her sheet on my Author Profile soon. I'll announce it in the next chapter when I'm done.

Techie belongs to NagaJule

Editing and Grammar Check done by A Hipster Goat with Glasses (Requested Name)

Helpful Content Addition by NagaJule