Hanging out with Noire

They had somehow managed to open a permanent portal between HyperDimension and UltraDimension to go face off against HyperDimension's Rei Ryghts whose been driven insane from the power from her UltraDimension counterpart

But that's not what mattered to Nepgear

No what mattered to her is that she was either bullied or ignored by the UltraDimension counterparts to Noire, Vert and Blanc along with Plutia and Neptune

She's fairly certain that they were joking around at her expense

And it didn't help her any when, when they finally got back her friends, Uni, Rom and Ram were more interested in Peashy than anything that could've happened to her

Really, even though she just got back she's being ignored again

At this rate she wonders if anyone will ever notice that she isn't the same Nepgear that unintentionally fell into UltraDimension

Maybe Histoire would

But with how Neptune regularly handles things, she doubts it

'they just walked past Hyper-Noire like she's their doormat' she thinks to herself

Nepgear just stands there while the party makes their way to Rei

"Aren't you going to go with them?" She was broken out of her thoughts by Noire asking her that question

She hummed softly, "do you mind if I stick around here, with you?" She didn't know what came over her to bat her eyelashes at the ravenette CPU

But she did, and boy was she glad she did because Noire started blushing really cutely

"W-w-what?" Noire stuttered out, "d-do what you want" she says with that tsundere huff

There was a comfortable silence between them

"So, why do you want to stay here and not go there with your sister?" Noire asked with a curiosity

"I've been basically ignored by or bullied by everyone recently" Nepgear says softly, "I just wanted to put some space between them and me right now"

Noire looks at her, then looks towards where the others had gone with a glare and mutters something under her breath

"Umm, miss Noire" she says timidly while poking her fingers together, "I don't think sis can teach me how to be a proper CPU"

Now she has Noire's undivided attention

"And since you're basically more popular even here in Planeptune, can you teach me how to be a CPU?" she asks with a proper 90° bow

"Work in Planeptune and Lastation are done very differently" Noire starts, "but if you're willing to put in the effort then I'm willing to guide you with the best of my ability"

Nepgear's eyes shined as she tackled Noire into a hug while saying "thank you" over and over again

'not how I intended for this to play out but I'll take it' thinks the lilac haired girl