Purple Heart and Vinaya stared daggers at each other for a second before a voice rung out from thin air. Filling the ears of both women.
Cool radio voice: Mankind knew that they Could not change Society, So Instead of Reflecting on themselves, they blamed the Beasts. But they saw Beauty in the Lives of Beasts, and could not Lie to themselves about it
Heaven, or Hell?
LET'S ROCK!
Those last 5 words appeared out of nowhere, floating in giant bold letters as they were called out. Only to disappear just as quickly.
"What?" Purple Heart blinked, asking no one in particular as the quote rang out.
Suddenly, Vinaya shot forward, going for the first attack. Giving her opponent almost no time to react as she did.
The lioness went in with a horizontal slash for the goddess's jugular, one with a deceptively long range. The wind up looked like it was a basic cross at first, only for the last minute gap closing dash to kick in mid swing.
The attack was promptly blocked by the longsword main herself, albeit barely in time to catch the offending wrist before the target could get some free neck deconstruction surgery. With her eyes widening at the sheer speed presented, Purple Heart subconsciously took a step back to brace herself better, believing a follow up was incoming.
A follow up she wanted no business with.
"No touchy feely!" Purple Heart exclaimed before retaliating with a Spartan kick to the VPU's stomach. Which landed without hinderance and sent the sin skidding back a foot or two away.
Vinaya, who'd collected that high heel right in the open chest wound- that was still bleeding for whatever reason, grunted as she put a hand on the affected zone. 'Who, no, what is this woman?'Purple Heart asked internally as her eyes narrowed at the oddity before her.
Then, she smiled, the VPU started grinning. Her lips curled upward, not to hide the pain she was feeling, but to genuinely reflect her current state of mind:
Neppy tried discerning the facial expression her enemy donned as they made their next move. 'Elation? Or at least enjoyment to some extent? Or perhaps it was satisfaction? Hard to tell.' Those were the goddess's baffled thoughts as the VPU removed her clawed hand from her stomach.
Out of nowhere, the area became just a bit lighter. Before, the air itself felt so tense you could almost visibly see the tension, like a thick fog slowly creeping in the distance. Now, however, it was more like a thinning mist, as if the two were on a mountain sunrise.
Not to mention there was now a number above Vinaya's head. 7, in an odd, eerie, and downright skin crawling red and black font. With the number randomly glitching as if it was an affront to existence.
For just a few seconds, there was a guitar riff in the air. At the same time, Vinaya did a "come here" gesture with a sharpened fingernail. Which did exactly what it was set out to, getting Purple Heart to go in for an attack. With the guitar cutting off as fast as it began playing. Leaving a silent gap in the area.
For some reason, that little action made the CPU drop everything, all just to throw a quick, powerful thrust to her adversary's chest. Complimented by a drum speedily getting beat.
"I know who I am!" Vinaya sang, her voice angelic in nature, perfectly catching the aura of the song she was covering as she raised a hand to block the thrusting motion. Resulting in her catching both the long sword by the blade and the user off guard with two fingers.
"The Moonlight Lake told me: 'This is who you are'!" She continued, darting forward with more of that breakneck speed she possessed to hurtle her way up to the other fighter.
In two twos, Vinaya was right in the goddess's face, grinning widely as she sent out a ridiculously fast swipe for the woman in black and purple's eyes.
Those big blue targets in her skull widened in surprise, with the owner have the time to pull her signature weapon back to block. Which is exactly why she instead threw the thing into the air instead, freeing her previously occupied hand up to redirect the blow sent her way. One out of the many.
While singing, the VPU went out on a full on assault. With her right hand going wide, she threw out her left, stabbing it forward for Purple Heart's lower chest.
"My fangs are so long-" She added more lyrics, sounding more like she was shouting them than singing them.
Blocked
Undeterred by yet another failure to connect, Vinaya simply kept pressing onward.
"My nails are sharper than ice!" The evil woman sung more, her eyes narrowing in a bit more focus as more attacks came out from her, keeping Neptune on the backfoot. Almost literally in this case.
Right jab to the neck-
A left hook to the temple-
Shin destroying Right kick
Overhead one handed left chop-
Right knee to the gut
'This blockstring combo is actual cancer ngl...' Neppy thought to herself as she had less than 5 frames on average to react to each one of those attacks sent her way. "She's trying to mix me up, but I won't let her!'
Right handed chin check palm
Sweeping right legged kick
Open left palm slap
Downward diagonal double slash
"That! Is! Meee!" The lioness pressed on with her lyrics, voice dropping an octave as she accentuated that final blow with her grin widening.
All of those attacks, mixed in order to try and bypass Perfect Heart's block, didn't connect. All while that number remained floating above her head.
"Nuh uh! Denied! I don't think so! Denied!" Seeing the opportunity, Neppy took her chance to throw in in a few verbal taunts of her own.
Which was also blocked by Purple Heart. This time by her taking a more defensive position before the redhead could have her attack connect. Resulting in a small but noticeable forcefield of purplish energy forming around the goddess
And it completely nullified the attack. Resulting in the sin looking like she just phased through planeptune's patron. Putting said lioness on all fours as if she had missed completely.With Purple Heart watching in the corner of her eye.
Unfortunately, that maneuver also put the defending woman in block stun, leaving her unable to turn her body around fast enough to stop the follow up attack thrown out.
"I... Wonder..." The antagonist continued, her pressure more relentless than a raging river's torrents in a steep ravine. Her voice now sounding as if passed through a filter to sound as if she was speaking through an old mic.
Vinaya, who didn't miss a beat, used the fact that she was now on Neptune's backside to toss out a low back kick. The target was an Achilles Tendon, her clawed toes reaching to stab into the cartilage and render it useless-
GRAZE!
Barely, Purple Heart managed to pull her foot away. Not fast enough to completely evade the attack, but definitely enough to still have a functioning heel.
The result was getting her right thigh high/boot damaged, alongside the back of her foot starting to bleed a little from the skin getting broken. Thanks to the chip damage received.
Luckily there wasn't anything other than that to whine about. At least for now.
With a hiss, the goddess jumped away from her opponent. Using the other leg.
"What... That... Will... Prove..?" Vinaya, who was still mid animation, now laying on her side due to over extending her nimble frame, refused to shut up.
Finally, she was negative. Only by 4 frames, but she was definitely negative.
With her dodge being mostly successful, Planeptune's CPU had enough positive frames to retaliate. And since her foot had just been attacked, Neppy thought it best to go for a basic combo. Three hits. A bread and butter combo, one can call it.
Neptune's first swing was a basic upward vertical slash, which had caught the sin while she was still recovering from her makeshift sweep poke, clipping her by the toes. 'Enough!' was the only thing running through the main character's mind in that instant, due to being too tired of holding the block button.
The attack would lead to Vinaya ending up with her chest getting slashed by Neptune's rising blade. Which sent the VPU into the air as a result, leaving her open for a plethora of blows. Including a classic SP skill of the patron of Planeptune.
COUNTER!
Letting out a pained grunt, Vinaya's singing had finally came to an end. Her chin managing to get slammed shut by the edge of Neppy's long sword.
That fact didn't stop the song from being covered, however. Because the Patron of Planeptune decided to take over as the singer.
"That is bullshit blazing!" Neppy shouted out, her vocals matching if not surpassing her enemy's in both accuracy to the original and overall quality. One of the benefits of being both leader and idol one can assume.
Purple Heart went in for a horizontal swipe next, smacking her square in the jaw with the flat side of that sword. With enough power to put the antagonist in a literal spin cycle.
Call the goddess of Planeptune an alchemist, because she had just transmuted a VPU into a wind turbine.
"Still my heart is blazing!" She kept going, holding the last few frames of her last attack to take in her handiwork. The move making the lioness continue to spin as if still being struck.
Keeping Vinaya in hit-stun and leaving her midair for another follow up..
That follow up being a-
"32 bit Megablade!" The main character of canon called as she stuck out her free hand, summoning a magic circle in front of her before a purple pixelated projectile came flying out at high speeds. Coming out just in time to smack the current antagonist in the face yet again. Point blank.
The skill's uneven and spherical projectile, whose diameter matched the height of the caster's torso, would drag both itself and its victim through the air before exploding violently. Sending her crashing into the nearby warehouse wall, and sending her flying through the brick wall like it was a curtain made of silly string.
The same warehouse that was being used as an industrial sized walking stick not too long ago was now embracing her in in a tight hug. The rubble falling onto the VPU's body like it was trying to give her a warm blanket.
With none of the products affected being native to Planeptune. Or even Gamindustri in general. Some of them were what looked like merchandise for a man in a bat costume, as well as action figures of some guy in blue spandex and a red cape. A little detail Purple Heart was too busy putting the beats on Vinaya to notice at the moment.
The sin would slam into a 1950's sewing machine, destroying it on violent contact before hitting a bunch of old textiles, getting wrapped in them as she flew, then landing in a puddle of highly flammable mystery liquids that got quickly soaked in before a nearby barrel exploded faster than she could even get up. Which set the woman and the textiles on fire as she got launched into a different sector of the warehouse from the explosion. Specifically the main office if all the little knickknacks and commodities was anything to go by. Such as a plastic toy replica of a black bat shaped shuriken.
Following Vinaya closely, watching as her enemy was flung about by the Rube Goldberg machine she'd accidentally triggered. Up until the lioness ended up faceplanting into the carpeted flooring of the warehouse's main office.
"I don't need a new world order- You, soon you will know!" Vinaya sang from the floor, jumping to her feet from the faceplant and dusting off her fit like we didn't see that entire debacle a few seconds ago.
While the sin was busy trying to recover physically and mentally from that little incident, the savior of Hyperdimension landed behind her, sword in hand and preparing to blow the lioness's back out. Perhaps revenge for that tendon tearing from earlier. 'Yep! That's dead on!' The Share user confirmed the suspicions with a cheeky grin as she dashed at her opponent from behind.
Too bad that redhead managed to spin around in time to retaliate.
"We already know the smell of the game!" Both women sang at the same time, perfectly in sync as they both went in for a thrusting attack. The two moves cancelling the other out and forcing each other into a struggle.
Vinaya, using her fingertips -or rather claw tips- struggled against Neptune's sword. Sparks flew about as the two entities clashed their attacks. Neither one getting past the other.
Both women narrowed their eyes in focus, taking the altercation at hand very seriously. 'This tryhard isn't going down easily... And these mind games she's playing are no jokes either... I know this song too well not to sing along, maybe that's her plan? Distract me with this banger while she goes for the kill...' Purple Heart thought to herself before back dashing to disengage with the clash. With Vinaya doing some kind of weird dance in the corner.
'Well it isn't gonna work! Because this banger is too goated with the sauce for me to fumble the W while it's playing on max volume! Even if I can't resist singing it myself!' She added before engaging her wings, or rather her CPU Cores as they're referred to in canon. All while the lioness was still doing some odd dance which involved her spinning like a slow revolving top. Similar to a specific Synth V singer with drill twin tails in her hair.
With her wings engaged, the patron goddess ascended into the air while spinning before slamming into the ground below, using Vinaya as a target for the slam, the woman spun repeatedly like a human torpedo on her way up and back down.
"Do you know who you are?
When you speak your words..." Purple Heart sung as she descended with incredible speeds despite her divebomb's low altitude.
At the same time, a gold aura enveloped the VPU as she spun. Right before Purple Heart's sword would've made contact with her enemy's skull.
"Don't sound like your own!" Vinaya throat sang as she suddenly stopped spinning, interrupting herself with an uppercut. With that god forsaken 7 dropping to a 6.
COUNTER!
Okay cameraman you had NO business doing my glorious queen dirty like that and zooming in to get all the angles of her chin reciting its vows to her upper jaw like that.
'Wait! That was a taunt?! Or did she animation cancel?!' Perfect Heart thought internally as she got hit with a nasty 2H to the face from her enemy. 'No! There's no way I'm selling right now! This shit is basically my theme song! Lowkeynuinely!'
Purple Heart why'd you fall for the obvious bait?! My perfect goddess cannot be this washed!
Not done with her adversary yet, the sin started a combo off of that disgusting uppercut. Throwing in a follow up roundhouse kick, it connected with the goddess's lower torso and yet the attacker's foot ended up making contact with Neppy's teeth as it landed true. The attack had made it the deity's turn to get her clothes spun dry with her in them before she was hit with a command grab. Punctuated with that 6 dipping to a 5.
A clawed hand snatched her out of the air by the leg, slamming her into the ground below. Making her bounce on it crazy style like the floor was made of rubber. And before the CPU could even blink, her ankle was seized by that very same hand. And like that, Neppy was given the same treatment a certain green loving asgardian god got from a big green beast in New York.
"You're trapped in a dark cell created by this world! That. Is. who you are!" The lioness chanted/sang as she flapjacked her enemy, smashing the CPU into the floorboards on every word before kicking her into the invisible wall on the final one. Which cracked into a spider web on impact, with Neptune's ass being the epicenter of the fracturing solid. unable to move her body.
The slams didn't even deal that much damage to either the recipient or the ground. But boy did it look embarrassing to go through though.
'Nepping OW!' Planeptune's protector grit with an internal pained grunt as she tried thinking up a way out of her predicament. Her body sprawled out on that invisible wall like a butterfly's corpse on display, neptune wasn't left with much options Especially since her adversary was less than a foot away. With a clawed right hand spiking in negative energies, surging with a dark and evil aura that seemed to form a whirlwind the naked eye couldn't detect.
'Is she about to drop her freaking ultimate?!' Eyes widening into the size of saucers, Purple Heart doubled her efforts to at least pull herself out of that invisible wall. Whilst she didn't move from that spot, the goddess did manage to wriggle a bit. It was kinda cute.
Cracking a confident grin, Vinaya cocked back her right hand, pointing her fingers right for Neppy's abdomen.
"This is gonna hurt." Were the words stated by our resident evil redhead, her face currently threatened to split in two from the smile adorning her face. "A lot."
Without further ado, the lioness plunged her hand forward. With almost no way to resist, Purple heart had to just lay there and take it, getting her guts dug out by her opponent's fingers.
With a squelsh, the attack landed, and with the contact brought a flash of lightning. For a second, the entire room glowed a sickening shade of red, adorned with black streaks. And the number above Vinaya's head depleted to a humble 2.
"Faaa!" Neppy screamed in agony before getting shunted through the wall, the thing shattering like untempered glass.
To describe what Purple Heart was feeling as 'painful' would be an understatement. It was like the woman was getting both lava and ice shot directly into her veins at once. A primordial anguish very little could compare to.
And while the contact was less than a millionth of a second, the damage and torment felt lingered as the goddess flew threw the air like a share-based intercontinental ballistic missile. Hurdling in the skyline above, she was gifted a beautiful view of her city from a bird's eye view. A truly magnificent sight.
It was too bad Neptune ended up falling unconscious as she was sent on her free trip through the Planeptunian stratosphere. Not to mention the deity now being in her purplish parka and wearing hre white hairclips. An obvious sign of no longer being in HDD.
The round trip didn't last long either, only taking a few seconds to go from the second storey of a building to the upper limits of the troposphere, then back down to Planeptunian pavement.
SLASH!!
A voice announced after Neptune's face ended up cushioning her landing back to Gamindustri, having her just shy of quite literally eating concrete as she landed ungracefully and without consciousness. The fall lead her to getting dragged a few feet due to the acute angle of her decent.
When it was all over she was left with her toes touching the back of her neck as her face remained glued to the sidewalk she ended up digging a couple inch hole into.