Chapter. 1

Gamindustri. A reality shift world of four nations fighting for superiority. Land of purple progress, Planeptune. Where development thrives. Land of black regality, Lastation. Where machinery rule. Land of white serenity, Lowee. Where harmony is king. Land of green pastures, Leanbox. Where community stands on top.

Each of those lands fight for their peoples faith, to be turned into share to supple the goddesses with power they need to compete. Unknown to the goddesses a gathering of people has formed outside the nations.

A new nation was being born.

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Vert opened her room door with arms full of energy drinks and snacks. She set everything down at her deck and sorted them as her computer started up.

When she was finished, Vert logged into her game and checked her clan list. "Still offline? It's been over a mouth now." Vert sighed dishearteningly all of her online friends have been disappearing until . "Guess I won't be doing any raids today." She closed out of the MMO and loaded a fighting game to play.

It was early in the afternoon when Vert let out a yawn, she looked at her timer to find she have only been playing for an hour. "This is odd, the marathon has barley started and I'm this tired?" Vert continued playing her game but was quickly losing focus until she lost the match. "No! That was a ranked fight too!"

She stood up from her chair then felt her legs give and fell back into her seat. Vert grabbed one of her energy drinks and drank the whole thing. With renewed energy Vert stood up again, she went to her office.

She opened the door to find tons of paperwork and data chip scattered around the room. "I really need to get someone to do this for me." Vert pushed most of the work onto the floor to find a laptop underneath and opened it.

Turning it on the first thing Vert saw was a chart show that Leanbox's shares were in a free fall.

"Goodness, my shares are dropping fast!" She transformed into her HDD form. "If the others think I'm take this lying down they got another thing coming!" Vert opened her balcony doors and flew off into the sky, headed for Lastation.

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In the black nation of Lastation's basilicom Noire and Uni were getting buried under piles of paper, signing everything that came in hoping it would stop soon. The sisters didn't stop even look up when they heard a knock at their door. "Busy!" Shouted Noire, not looking up from her desk.

The door opened and Vert stepped in. "Hello Noire, playing catch up I see."

Noire put down her pen to see her visitor. "No, I actually work for my nation. Not sit around playing games."

Vert looked around the room, seeing all the paperwork scattered around. "You do look busy; if it's too much for you then maybe you should stop stealing my shares."

"Stealing you shares? I'm not stealing, if anything I'm trying to keep the ones I have!"

"Keeping what you have?" Vert picked up some of the paper to see they were forms for shutting down factories and businesses.

"Give me that!" Noire got up from her desk to take the papers back. "It's rude to read other people's work!"

"Why are you closing so many of your businesses aren't you worried your nation will collapse?"

"I'm doing what I can! People have been disappearing in Lastation so I have to close down everything that doesn't have enough workers. I need them to keep what still works in Lastation intact." Noire rubbed the sides of her eyes. "This whole disaster is giving me a headache."

Vert tilted her head as she remembered something. "That's right! Many of my raiding friends have also gone dark as well. I just thought they couldn't play for a while."

"I have an idea!" Uni spoke up to get the CPUs attention. "If you're both losing shares why not go see who's taking them and beat the crap of them!"

Noire changed into her HDD form. "That's an excellent idea Uni! You stay her and keep signing, I'll sort this out!" Noire opened her window and flew outside.

"Hey wait!" Vert changed as well and gave chase.

"Norie!" Uni watched her sister leave; she turned back to the work ahead of her and drooped. "I just wanna die right now."

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At the top of the Planeptune basilicom Neptune opened her refrigerator to take out a pudding cup. "Mmm, pudding. This will give me the super charge I need!" As she was about to open it her balcony door burst open.

"Nepture!" Noire and Vert shouted, both still in their HDD forms.

"Whoa!" Neptune jumped in surprise, dropping her pudding. "No… How can I go on with nothing to live for…?" Neptune fell to her hands and knees over the fallen dessert and saw the lid on it was still closed. "Oh it's fine. Everything's coming up Nep!"

Noire was losing her patience. "Could you be serous for a moment?!"

The door opened as Nepgear and Histoire entered. "Sister we've got trouble!"

Vert changed back into her human form, run to Nepgear to give her a hug. "I've missed you so much Nepgear. Why don't you can see me anymore?"

"Goodness. I'm sorry Vert it's just that we've been having trouble with our shares."

"You as well?" Noire also reverted to her human form. "I came by thinking you two were stealing my shares."

"Mine as well." Commented Vert.

"Could you let go, please Vert?"

Vert held Nepgear tighter. "No. We have so much time to catch up on!"

"A mystery you say?" Neptune brought her spoon to her mouth, acting like it was a smoking pipe. "Three CPUs lose their shares, an unknown thief aims to cut us down and rule the world!"

Noire shook her head in disbelief. "Do you even listen to what you're saying? We already know who the thief is."

The balcony windows shatter as Blanc burst into the basilicom in her HDD form. "Neptune, you're dead!"

Neptune's face went deadpanned. "I'm the thief? No, it wasn't me! It was the seven fingered ghost controlling my delicate body as I sleep!"

"How can you be the thief? You're losing shares like the rest of us!"

Blanc slammed her large axe into the floor, breaking through to the room below. "One of you bitches is stealing my shares and ruining Lowee. So I'll just kill you all, that way I know I got the right one!"

"Everyone please calm down and listen to me!" Histoire spoke with such authority that everyone stopped to listen. Blanc changed to her human form but still held her weapon that also changed into a hammer while Vert let go of Nepgear.

"This is a problem that all the nations of Gamindustri face. Someone or something is draining the shares from all the nations and people are disappearing."

"Maybe they're all falling into-"

Noire put her hand over Neptune's mouth. "You don't get to talk!"

"Thank you Noire." Histoire cleared her throats. "As I was saying, I've been following this matter hoping it was nothing. Shares disappear now and then but always come back, but now a third of Gamindustri's shares are gone."

"They can't just up and vanish, they have to be somewhere." Blanc pointed out.

"Yes. It's taken three weeks but I've found where they are. I can teleport you there but I don't know what you'll find."

Neptune pulled Noire's hand away from her mouth. "Looks like it's another call from adventure for Neptune! I'll find who or whatever's doing us wrong and slam them to dust!"

"The hell you are!" Blanc held her hammer over her shoulder. "You're just going to take all the shares for yourself! So I'm going too!"

"Some of those shares are mine too so I'm going as well!" Noire patted the rapier at her hip to leave out any question.

Vert laughed a little, seeing the other CPUs banding together. "My, this is turning into quite the party. I'll go along as well."

"Nep jr, you hold down the castle. Histy take us to parts unknown!" Histoire transported the four CPUs out of the basilicom.

"Be safe." Prayed Nepgear.

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The four CPUs reappeared in an open field. Neptune drew her katana then gave it a few swings. "So where is it? Where's the dark creepy fortress in the middle of a lava pit, home to a mean old witch that just wants friends?!"

"Neptune, turn around." Said Blanc dryly.

Before the CPUs was land sprawling with nature. Large trees fused together with buildings and walkways made of light connecting them all. On the ground there were roads with shops on the sides of them as cars drove by. In the sky were ships with multiple lights underneath them to keep them afloat.

People walked around as if everything was normal in this place where nature and machines were in harmony, as they stepped on stepped on large panels and a beam of light shot down on them from the trees and carried the up to the higher levels and carried others to the ground.

As the goddesses gazed upon the wonderment Blanc was the first to speak. "What is this place? It couldn't have existed for long or it'd be all over the net."

Neptune cut in with star gazed eyes. "This place is so cool! Nep jr would faint if she saw this place."

The CPUs entered the hybrid city to find whoever was in charge. As they searched Noire spotted some people and pointed at them. "Look! Those are some of the missing people form Lastation!"

Blanc looked around and found some from her nation as well. "Looks like were found where the kidnapped being held."

"Maybe the witch like, took people of the streets and mind controlled make this place." Neptune's body shook. "My brain isn't ready for a thinking battle!"

"Why don't we just ask someone if they know who's in charge? That way we can get back home ASAP." Said Vert.

Neptune jumped with excitement. "Right, and while you're all being brainwashed I'll swoop in for the kill! Genius Vert."

"Hey you're not gonna be the hero!" Shouted Noire.

"Yes I am and I'll prove it! The first person I talk to will lead us to where we need to go for plot convinces." Neptune took off running towards the first person she spotted.

It was young man in his late teens speaking to an NPC. He wore a dark grey shirt and pants, a sliver coat that reaches down to his knees and white boots. His eyes were grey and had shoulder length hair with a sliver streak in the front.

"So take a part of your game and make two copies, one in eight bit and one in sixteen bit. Play them both and use the one you like better. In fact…" The teen took a phone from his coat and started search through the contact list. "I know someone who makes their own music, as long as you credit her she'll help you out."

"Thank you sir!"

"Just keep up the good work; along as you put your heart into it others will love it." The young man shook hands with the NPC and watched them leave.

"Hey buddy!" The teen turned to see Neptune, with the others with her.

"Ah, more newcomers." He placed his hand over his heart and bowed to greeted them. "Welcome to the nation of In-D. I am it's CPU Sliver Heart, but you can call me Quincy."

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