Hyperdimension Neptunia: Refrain Revive

The day started like it always has in the world of Gamindustri, so let's start our story with the daily endeavors of a certain purple haired simpleton named Neptune. Like usual she was spending her day playing games in her Basilicom called the Nep-Tower.

"Sonic Jump! Ah crackers I missed!" Neptune, a.k.a Lady Purple Heart, the CPU of Planeptune yelled.

"Neptune! You need to listen!" Histoire said.

"NEPU! Histy you scared me." Neptune said. Behind her was Histoire.

Histoire is the oracle of Planeptune, and the sacred tome of Gamindutri. She's a small, fairy like girl that always sits atop of a book, hair worn in curled pigtails and going in both directions, along with long curled bangs that frame her face. Histoire wears a big purple dress with spiked ruffle lining, along with gold along the sections. She also has a small green tie. Her hat consists of a white segment and purple and gold bows on the sides.

"What do you mean I scared you!? I was lecturing you until you got distracted by your games again!" Histoire said.

"Oh yeah, what were we talking about again?" Neptune said.

"We were talking about how you aren't doing enough of you job as the CPU of Planeptune," Neptune turned to see a brunette girl.

"Iffy! When did you get here?" She said excitedly.

"I've been here the whole time you little simpleton." Iffy (a.k.a IF) said.

Standing next to Histoire was IF, one of Neptune's close friends.

"They're both right Nep-nep, you have to stop lazing around and do your work or else your nation will suffer." A Compa said standing next to IF.

Compa was also one of Neptune's closest friends, and IF's childhood friend.

"But Compaaaa, it's been so peaceful lately so it should be fine if I take a little break." Neptune said.

"'Little Break?' You haven't done a single thing since you returned from the other dimension, and your shares have been suffering because of it!" Histoire interjected.

"Waaahhh! Everyone is against me." Neptune whined. Just then the door swung opened and walked in a certain CPU Candidate.

"Big Sis I brought you some tea." She said.

"Nep Jr. you're on my side right?" Neptune pleaded.

The girl was non-other than Planeptunes CPU Candidate, and Neptune's little sister, Nepgear. If you hadn't guessed from the context, a CPU Candidate is the one next to be CPU if anything ever happened to the current CPU.

"Hm? What's going on?" Nepgear asked.

"We are talking about her job as Planeptunes CPU." Histoire said.

"Oh, this again." Nepgear said tiredly.

"And you're on my side right Nep Jr.?" Neptune said, "The world is peaceful so there is no need to worry so much. We have plenty of shares so it's all good."

Histoire started to get annoyed, "It's not alright!" She yelled while pulling out her swirled glasses and a chart turning on her "Teach Me Histy" mode. "If you take a look at this chart, you can see this chart Planeptunes shares have been declining at a steady rate. If this keeps up then, just as Compa said, our country will suffer."

"How can this be? I haven't done anything to cause a major rebellion of my citizens have I?" Neptune said shocked.

"Well," Nepgear interjected, "you haven't done anything to make them hate you, but you haven't done anything to make them like you either so it's no surprise the people's faith in you has been dropping lately."

Histoire was still in her "Teach Me Histy" mode, "Now listen up Neptune! I am going to educate you on the importance of your job as CPU. As you know the CPU's, or the Control Patron Units, get there power by the faith that their citizens have in them also known as Share Energy, and in turn the citizens gain the goddesses protection. It is a very well balanced system; the job of a CPU is to keep their citizens happy so that their faith will remain. The other CPU's are doing their part, but you Neptune aren't doing anything for your citizens so your Shares are declining at a steady rate."

When they looked at Neptune she just sat there half asleep, which mad Histoire even more irritated.

"Neptune!" Histoire yelled startling Neptune back awake, "Did you hear anything I just told you!?"

Just then, the door swung open once more and walked in six more young ladies, "Well, well, well, if it isn't Neptune being lectured again." The twin tailed tsundere CPU of Lastation Noire said and walked in with the other CPU/Candidates followed.

"Like that's anything new." The short, brown haired, CPU of Lowee, Blanc said in her usual monotone voice.

"Hey everybody!" "Hello Miss Nepgear." The twin candidates of Lowee, Rom and Ram Said.

"I think it's presumptuous to think otherwise." The blond, bombshell, CPU of Leanbox, Vert said.

"Hey everyone, what's up!? Why's everyone here, is this a surprise party?" Neptune said.

"No it's not a surprise party! Did you even read the e-mail we I sent you?" Uni, Lastation Candidate and Noire's little sister said.

"Nope, she's been playing video games and eating junk foods all day, same as usual." Histoire said.

Then Vert decided to speak up, "Okay, why don't I explain why we are here. As you recall, Blanc and I are working on the satellite system called basil-View, a system where anyone can use the satellites camera to observe what is going on your own and/or other land masses."

Blanc stepped forward to continue, "While doing a beta test yesterday, we came across an abnormal energy disturbance on the outskirts of Planeptune. I thought we should investigate together, since it's an unknown phenomenon."

Neptune began to get starry eyed, "Oh! It's a mystery, sounds fun. Alright gang, let's all solve this mystery!"

"Great, all we need is a weird talking dog." Noire said, glancing at Neptune, "Actually, never mind."

"CPU's, Candidates, Iffy, Compa, let's go!" Neptune said.

So the party of heroines set out to investigate the unknown phenomenon. This journey them to a giant ominous cave on the outskirts of the main city of Planeptune.

"So this is the place huh? I'm getting some weird vibes coming from inside there; you think there's some rare weapon in there only for a true heroine like myself?" Neptune said.

"First of all, I highly doubt that, and second it's no use standing around here so let's go." Noire said.

"Rom, Ram, stick close to me." Blanc ordered.

"Yes Onee-chan." They both said.

The whole party entered the cave and started to scavenge around for anything suspicious for an hour.

"This is taking an annoying amount of time, and I don't see anything that could cause any weird energy. Maybe that satellite was just malfunctioning or something." Noire said.

Neptune yawned in exhaustion, "Yeah I'm getting sleepy, let's call it quits and go eat some pudding." She then leaned on a nearby stalagmite, which then creaked to the side and the whole cave started to rumble.

"Nep, what did you do!?" IF yelled struggling to keep her balance. Suddenly a wall on the cave opened up and reviled a metal door.

"Whoa, a secret door like in RPG games!" Neptune said

"What do you think is in it?" IF said.

Vert decided to add her two cents, "Well it cool be a rare item or treasure, I'm getting tingly just thinking about it."

"Let's stop with the game lingo and just find out for ourselves!" Noire said slightly irritated. She grabbed the door handle and swung it open. Inside was a spacious room the size of a school football field shrouded in darkness except for one source of light in the center. In the center of the room was a capsule like contraption with four rows of wires that connected to four pillars. As the party got closer to the machine they saw that someone was inside the capsule. It was a tall boy around 17 years old, he had midnight black hair and wearing a red short sleeved shirt and black jeans. Strapped to his back was a long sheathed sword. His body was just floating there with his eyes closed.

"Whoa, I didn't expect this, a new player has entered the game! Do you think he's alive in there?" Neptune said.

Noire walked closer to the machine and observed the screen under the capsule, "Well this screen has a heart rate monitor, he's alive but I guess he's sleeping."

"I'm willing to bet that he is the source of the strange energy." Blanc said. Suddenly the ground started to shake, and the steel door closed shut. The girls cautiously got battle ready, as the lights turned on it reviled a giant stone statue about 20 ft. tall. It looked like a terracotta warrior with a mallet, its eyes suddenly glowed red and it started to move.

"Damn, we better transform." Noire said. As if on cue, the statue shot red beams at the party but they seemed to be unharmed, until they tried to transform. They attempted to change into their CPU forms but failed. "It gave us a virus, we can't transform!" the statue forcefully swung its mallet downward on top of the party without giving them time to react. Everybody braced for impact, Neptune closed her eyes and said:

"Somebody help!"

After a moment, nothing seemed to happen. Suspicious, everyone opened their eyes and saw something unexpected. The boy inside the capsule was standing in front of them, sword unsheathed and holding back the statues mallet with one hand. When they turned around to where he used to be, and saw the capsule sliced to pieces. Back to the mysterious boy, he forced the mallet away from the party tripping up the statue. Without delay, he ran up to the statue and swiftly climbed up its body until he was above its head. He stabbed his sword strait into its head which then cleanly split the statue in half. The boy landed safely as the statue burst into data.

"Wow." Was all they girls could say as they witnessed the entire fight. The boy turned to the girls and started walking, but instantly fainted.

"Oh goodness, is he okay!?" Nepgear yelled. The girls ran up to his side, and Compa examined him.

"It's alright he's just exhausted, but we should probably get him to the Basilicom" Compa said.

The party carried the mysterious boy back to the Basilicom, "Histy we're home, and we have an unconscious guest!" Neptune said.

Histoire floated in, "What do you mean uncon-", but stopped when her eyes went wide when she spotted the boy Neptune was dragging. "T-t-t-Tiger!?" was all she said before she also fainted and Nepgear caught her. After that they laid Histoire down on the couch and put the boy in one of the spare rooms. The party was gathered around at a round table to discuss what has happened thus far.

"Well this was a surprising turn of events" Vert said

"Yeah, it's not every day you find someone inside a capsule in a secluded cave in the middle of nowhere. It also seems that Histoire knows him." Blanc said.

"Well whoever he is he's uber-strong, he sliced that statue in half like pudding!" Neptune said.

"Yeah but what if he's dangerous? For all we know he could be some android bent on destroying us or a mutant, we did find him inside a capsule." Noire said.

"Oh come on this is a set up for a classic harem story!" Neptune said.

"WHAAAT!?" Everyone said in surprise.

"Well come on, I mean you don't see any other boy in our rag tag group of heroines do you?" Neptune asked. There was a moment of silence when everyone came to the same realization.

"Nep-nep does have a point." Compa said.

"Well maybe it's like a dating-sim and he's the main character this time. I don't mind since he's pretty good looking but he's going to have to work pretty hard to raise my love points." Neptune said.

"Don't tell me you're including us in this too?" Noire said. Suddenly Histoire shot up from her sleep and hurriedly floated to the party.

"Where is he!?" The little fairy said.

"Oh you're awake; well we put him in the spare room." Nepgear said. Before anything else could be said, Histoire stormed off towards the boy. Curious, everyone followed to see the events unfold. When Histoire burst into the room, she saw the boy laying down still sleeping. She floated up to him and started stroking his cheek with her tiny hands. Her eyes started welling up with tears.

"So it is him… TIGER!" Histoire then started sobbing on his chest. After a few minutes she stopped sobbing and turned to face the party.

"Wow Histy, it seems like you have quite the relationship with him. Is he your secret lover?" Neptune said.

"Well it's probably time I explained who this is. Well this is…"

"(yawn) is it morning already?" Histoire was interrupted by the boy, now known as Tiger, suddenly sat up. After stretching and rubbing his eyes, he gazed upon the eleven beauties with his shining silver eyes. Confused he said:

"Um… hello."