The Lastation Arc (ConceptTopic, 12)
From Compile Worlds
C♥W Segment 2 is the second (unnamed) arc of Compile ♥ Worlds. It starts in Episode 59, and is the current plot arc of the RP. It involves the characters of Madou Monogatari and Puyo Puyo being teleported to Gamindustri, where they join forces with Neptune and friends to solve mysteries and kick ass! ...and also eat pudding.
Characters
While the main cast is still mostly comprised of Puyo characters such as Arle Nadja, Satan, and Ringo Andou, the main cast of Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;birth1 also appears. Since it is post game, Arfoire does not appear. However, the evil Ganache of Avenir is set to make a return, along with many of the other supporting Neptunia characters.
Addtionally, the introduction of some new original characters is set to happen as well, in order to keep the plot interesting and moving forward. Additionally, some of the RP's older OCs will return after a long absence to cause mayhem for all.
Kanon, the leader of the Planetary Gods of Gaias, may have something to do with the deepening mysteries and the magical worlds' connection to the Neptunian ones.
Setting
The plot arc, rather than focusing on the rebuilding of the original Compile Worlds, instead moves into Gamindustri, the main setting of Neptunia. Many characters have crash landed in Planeptune, though others still are in Lastation, Lowee and Leanbox. All four lands will serve as significant settings during the course of the RP.
Episodes
Hyperdimensional nonsense from another world!
The new plot arc kicks off with Episode 59 on Planeptune, where Neptune has once again neglected her Basilicom and CPU duties to reminisce about the place she fell from the sky. She is joined initially by Compa. They both notice however that someone is stuck in the ground. That someone becomes two people, then three! While Nanako and Arle Nadja were stuck in the ground right side up, poor Feli was not as lucky, and she was trapped upside down, with Lemres burried even further beneath her. Calling Plutia and Peashy over, the Neptunia girls pull the gang out of the earth and introduce themselves. Once out of the ground, the Puyo gang quickly realize they're not even in the vicinity of any of the worlds they know. Compa invites them to her room to figure things out and eat pudding, and who are Neptune and Lemres to say no to a good bowl of pudding?
When they arrive however, not much figuring things out goes on, as Neptune doesn't seem to have a clue what's going on herself. Peashy meanwhile, must have seen Nanako's accidental noncanon breast enlargement art, as she latched on to Nanako's chest and screamed about her "large boobs", and even the RPers were mystified and in disbelief at the little girl's obsession with female breasts. While Feli and Nanako spend the remainder of the conversation trying to dislodge Peashy, Arle tries to see if anybody knows anything about their world or how they may have gotten there. No clues are offered, and Lemres becomes rather obsessed with Compa's Delicious Pudding. Compa suggests visiting IF in Leanbox to see if IF knows anything about the situation or their distant homeworld. Everyone agrees, dragging Lemres away from his pudding (and Nanako away from Peashy). Neptune stays behind however, afraid the Planeptune Basilicom Staff will catch her skipping out on her work again.
Meanwhile, in Leanbox, Vert and IF are enjoying a nice couple's gaming session when RanRan arrives and informs them of the arrival of Compa and the Puyo gang. One more awkward introduction later, and they get right to business. While IF doesn't recognize anything about the other worlds or Eldora, she does recognize Kanon due to some old legends about another world removed from their own. Feli, Nanako, and Arle are excited that there may be some connection after all. IF looks up the source of the rumors on her phone while Vert sends RanRan to go dig around in the library for anything about Kanon. Before their investigation can take off however, Yvoire begs for Vert to take care of a mysterious man belegierently screaming about buying the Basilicom with more DIAMONDS than you could fit in a chest. And we all know who would use DIAMONDS as a currency for bargaining.
Arle begins to lament because she knows exactly who they're dealing with. Lo and behold, it is none other than Satan, who has also conveniently crash landed right here in Leanbox. Satan claims he and Arle will live in the Basilicom together after their wedding once he purchases the building, but Arle once again rejects him, and this time without being chained to the wall. Vert and Plutia decide that Satan has caused enough trouble and dont want to get kicked out of their own Basilicom like Noire, so they transform! ...Which Satan completely ignores while he rants about the Angel Academy meeting room and casually slips that he let the evil Angol Mois escape from his custody. Oops! Arle gets angry hearing this, while Lemres and Feli comment on Vert and Plutia's HDD forms, like finally. Satan realizes he's being threatened (also finally), and he flees, swearing that he'll become the main villain of the arc somehow.
Nanako suspects that the evidence left behind of a connection between Kanon and Gamindustri is fake, and the Puyo gang becomes concerned with the safety of Gamindustri and the other Compile Worlds as they contemplate Angol's escape from Satan's custody. And they still haven't solved the mysteries of Arle and Auriol's "destroyed power", Eltia and Chitose's appearances, and the puzzles of the shrine maidens Aoi Azuri, Midori Mizuri, and Akai Suzuri. Oh, Arle, you just can't catch a break.
The sugar-coated trail of a sweet conspiracy
Episode 60 picks up right where the last one left off, with Arle and co. explaining the dangers of Angol Mois to the Neptunia gang. As if by cue though, Alpha shows up, irritating IF. Alpha declares he has created a means of blocking off Angol's magic more permanently: a clone! Nanako dislikes the idea of a potentially evil clone, but Alpha swears he put it through rigorous moral testing to ensure it would not act evil of its own free will. Trusting in Alpha, the large group decides to venture to his "Temporary Lab" to meet the clone... only to discover the FGF Arcade is his temporary lab. What its doing in Leanbox is anybody's guess at this point. Nanako marvels at how it's still in pristine condition despite the fact that Ecolo accidentally the entire Primp two arcs ago. Alpha introduces them to Sigma, who is apparently baking a cake for "Alpha chan". Lemres does the most epic exclamation ever as predicted, and suddenly IF turns on an old computer and manages to contact Juichi. Juichi, confused why he's wearing an unfitting outfit and also inside an FGF computer, remembers he has a very important message to send to everyone: Noire and Lastation are in trouble again and need help! Apparently Historie is locked away, and the Basilicom has been cordoned off. Arle and IF don't like the sound of this, so its decided everyone will go to Lastation and settle business.
Some epic transformations later, White Feli and the HDD!CPUs fly everyone to Lastation (much to Sigma's discomfort). When they arrive, everyone is gathered around one of the many TV Screens in Lastation. The TV turns on and an enthusiastic woman dressed in Avenir colors appears. She calls herself Praline and begins to hype up the new Mois Praline chocolates, which has everyone going nuts on the ground below our heroes. Her buzz for the candies creates a litteral stampede as she closes the advertisement of a TV show, and everyone believes Angol is pulling the strings of the Mois Praline company, apparently headed by Praline herself. The group decides to visit Chian, as she would know if Mois Praline is really shady or not. Unfortunately, when they arrive at Chian's house, they find Chian, Noire, and Singe all tied up. Noire shows she's still her tsundere self after she's untied, and Chian offers drinks while Noire explains she was tricked by Praline into being kicked out of the Basilicom so Mois Praline could take over with their candy craze.
However, in the kitchen, Chian yells in surprise when someone is there. It turns out to be a girl named Fresa, whom Neptune seems to think is an air freshener. Fresa explains that "Mr. Ganache" will be "oh so cross with her" that she didn't keep the Lastation Basilicom staff tied up. Additionally, she seems irritated that the others have found out a little piece of the conspiracy that seems to be happening in Lastation. Using her cybernetic eye, Fresa deduces Arle is there, and that she has "orders higher than Ganache" to kill Arle. So then she completely destroys Chian's house with a barrage of bazooka casings, some of which can go right through magical force fields. The gang gets split up by the attack as they try to escape her trigger happy madness. The episode closes ominously as Fresa yells that the Neapolitan Trio and Mr. Ganache will get them yet.
Divisions and Reunions
In Episode 61, the focus is on the small groups the party separated into during the escape from Fresa's attack. Neptune, Compa, and Noire end up by themselves. They contemplate their situation, learning that Fresa had led a rather sneaky ambush on Noire in order to subdue her so easily. Nevertheless, the trio swears they will save Lastation once again and fight back against the Neapolitans. This prompts an exhausted Gypsum to emerge from the shadows of hiding, explaining that she is also wanted by Fresa on the premise that she has defected from Angol. She goes on to (rather pessimistically) explain that Fresa is a dangerous foe because her Cybernetic Eye allows her to shoot a Perfect Snipe, which is a shot so deadly accurate there is a less than one percent chance of it missing. Gypsum continues to say that it is both impossible to coerce Fresa with money or disable her Cybernetic Eye, but Noire remains determined to find a weakness in her new arch-nemesis. At that moment, CyberConnect2 appears, and has even more dirt on Angol's schemes to share. Firstly, Histoire has gone missing because she has split into Key Fragments again, in order to prevent Angol from using her knowledge and power for his own gain. CyberConnect2 just happens to be in possession of one of the four fragments. Furthermore, she spreads rumor that a Fake White Heart is working with with Angol to collect the Fragments for him, which Noire realizes is why Ganache is also working with Angol and attempting to silence the Lastation Basilicom's authority. The new party of 5 decides that between Gypsum and the Key Fragments being targets, that it would be dangerous to stay in Lastation. CyberConnect2 takes them to the Azuri Shrine in Planeptune, where Aoi Azuri is peacefully sleeping unaware of what's happened...
Meanwhile, in Leanbox, Alpha and Nanako have just finished tidying up everything in the Arcade, with Alpha sharing another one of his cringe worthy puns. Before they can get uber excited about science and what not, Plutia and Peashy show up, having fled from Lastation entirely. The two explain the situation in their frazzled state, which riles up Alpha because Sigma is missing from their party. Alpha furiously explains that it is dangerous for Sigma to be alone because Sigma becomes overwhelmed by the anxiety and depression of being alone, and therefore vulnerable. He need not remind the party of all the horrible, terrible things Angol will be capable of should Sigma die. Nanako realizes the severity of the situation is actually as bad as Alpha has made it out to be, but before the four of them can move to Lastation to rescue Sigma, Schezo Wegey and Mitsuki attack them, mishearing their conversation and desiring the "power of angels" that Sigma has. They go for a Pair Attack and a meteor strike, which initially catches the group off guard, but Plutia, Peashy, and Nanako are able to subdue Schezo with little effort, forcing them to retreat. Mitsuki muses that it would've just been easier to go look for Sigma themselves in the first place. Alpha takes Plutia and Peashy to a room containing the Regeneration Chambers of the clones to heal their wounds, only to be startled by the sudden appearance of Beta. After some more silly puns and ear twisting, Beta agrees to watch over the Arcade while Nanako, Alpha, and the CPUs search for Sigma in Lastation. Plutia an Peashy take off like jets an go WOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH with Nanako an Alpha, barely even letting them say goodbye.
Back in Lastation, Sigma is still running from the threat of Fresa's attack. Once he is a safe distance, he stumbles around, and begins to cry after realizing he is alone in the large city of Lastation with no way back to Leanbox. However, before his loneliness completely overcomes him, Tech appears and comforts Sigma, explaining that he's lost from his friends too and that they should search together. This manages to cheer Sigman up, and Nanako and Alpha and the others arrive just in time. Sigma embraces Alpha aggressively, happy to be reunited. Tech reveals he is in possession of the second Key Fragment, which Plutia and Peashy recognize. They realize that Histoire has sealed herself to prevent her power from falling into the wrong hands. A mysterious figure appears however, claiming they should give him the Fragment. Tech identifies the man as Vanille, his old teacher. Vanille bitterly responds by pointing out Tech's interest in his male classmates, which Tech defends (though Peashy insists that boobs are better, much to everyone's chagrin). Vanille quickly makes his move, swarming in several large, modified Protectors made of Angolium to attack the party and even the numbers. At first, they attempt to overwhelm him, but Vanille reveals that he has Magic-Piercing Cannons installed on the Tectars to remove their barriers, and then uses his "All Seeing Eyes" to conduct a Forsight and prevent Tech and Plutia from attacking. Nanako tells Tech to take Sigma and the Fragment and book it. Meanwhile, Nanako tries to outwit Vanille's Forsight by launching a sneak attack on his Tectars with IF and Vert. However, Vanille had also predicted this, for while the Tectars were destroyed, Vanille himself was a body double, and the real Vanille had been safe all along. Just when things look bad though, Satan rolls in in a Carbuncle Tank, and Ms. Accord and Popoi roll in in their own tank. Satan and Accord perform a Pair Attack of their own, completely obliterating Neo Tectars Vanille had summoned as reinforcements. Accord then threatens to exploit Vanille's allergy to Hee Hee Tea, and Vanille retreats to regroup and refocus on the Key Fragment that Tech took with him. Satan wheels away to find Arle after being thanked. The rest of the characters file into Accord's tank to return to Leanbox, apparently leaving Sigma and the Key Fragment behind...
Trivia
- This will be the first arc in which a clone not created by Ecolo will be introduced.
- This is the first arc to feature Compile Heart properties and references, namely Neptunia.
- This is also the first instance in which Neptunia canon is taken into creative license, since Ganache's loyalty to being good is somewhat questionable and convenient.
