Memory of the Babyish CPU (Private for Shirayuki)

[Purestarfall]

Having caught her breath by now, Blanc looked back over to Plutia and answered her "It's close to here, so not far away. I'll lead the way mommy." She then took the lead and walked them through the winding canyon for a little bit, before the group came across a more enclosed area that held a large deactivated core of some sort there.

"This defiantly looks promising." Noire then let out once she saw the large core, recalling that Histoire had told her about how a large portion of CPU Memories were found around such structures. Heading up to it, Noire scanned the ground with her eyes for a bit before she let out a rather loud "I-I can believe it! I found one!" in excitement over finally finding what she wanted to find for quite a while now. She quickly went to it and picked it up, before then doing a quick examination of the entirety of it. Once she did though, the two goddesses would then overhear as Noire let out in a more unhappy tone "...Really? You have to be kidding me! Why did I find this one?" as she clutched the CPU memory within her hands still.

[Shirayuki]

Seeing no monsters or anything in the vicinity, Plutia herself began searching each little nook and cranny of the place around, finding nothing - though, she was pretty supprised when Noire had found the CPU memory so fast, judging by her voice - in turn, the Lavender-haired CPU quickly made her way to her friend's side, her diaper squelching a little audibly now with each step. "Oh, what's wrong?" Plutia looked at her confused, then again at the CPU memory "Is there something wrong with it?"

[Purestarfall]

When Plutia came up to her and asked her what was wrong, Noire went and showed her the CPU memory. From Plutia's memory of the one she ate, it looked just like it...expect that there was a large crack running down the entirety of it. "It's a flawed CPU memory..." Noire begun explaining to Plutia "I don't know much about it, but Histoire told me about these. They're CPU memories that ended up having a problem when they were created. While I'd still become a CPU if I took it...Histoire thinks that it would lead to the new goddess to be made to become 'flawed' somehow. Though she did also say that no one, not even her, knows for sure since no CPU yet has taken one of these so for now, it's mostly just thinking about what could happen. Either way, it would be a bad idea for me to risk taking it when I could try to find another...right?"

Even if Noire didn't tell Plutia, there was still a side of her that was still temped on taking it. After all, CPU memories were very hard to find and there was no telling how much longer it would take for her to find another one. Even with it being a flawed one, she at least still had a CPU memory now...so maybe she should accept her losses and use it even if it wasn't perfect?

[Shirayuki]

"Uhm..." Plutia looked at it, a little confused. While she doesn't remember much about CPU memories, a crack isn't normal, right...? "Are you really going to use it?" She asked inquisitively, looking around the place. It is true that there's no other CPU memories around right now, but they could always find another one - she looked over to Blanc, trying to see what her opinion was on the matter; She was the one that told them where to find it, after all.

[Purestarfall]

"I-I don't know. We could go look at some other spots that might have them. Even if this is the only memory here, I'm sure there are others elsewhere." Noire replied to Plutia to answer her. Though she was still very much debating it even if she was leaning against it at the moment.

Meanwhile Blanc, who had been a step away from them as she kept an eye out of anything that might could distract them, looked over to Plutia when she motioned for her to come over to them. Doing so and slowly walking over to them, the calm goddess would look upon the CPU memory and let out to the other two "Oh...it's a flawed CPU memory. I...I don't know that much more about them, which I know from what some of what I read in a book once, only that they're not...whole compared to other memories." After a moment to think on how to explain further, she then told them "At the very least, you'd have to give Noire some share energy as she wouldn't be able to..."

However as she was in the middle of telling them that, the group would be cut off by a loud noise, almost like a creature menacingly squeaking at them, coming from nearby. Turning back towards the cliffside and looking up, Blanc was the first to find the source of the noise...a giant pixelvader-type creature was now standing on the cliff just above them. And it seemingly must have spotted them as well. "Noire, Mommy...I have a bad feeling that this is the big, scary monster that I told you about..." Blanc somewhat nervously told them as she got her hammer readied in case she would have to use it.

"Now, of all times!" Noire let out more in exacerbation over how yet again over how her bad luck showed up. In any event, she herself got herself prepared as the monster came coming down the cliffside so that it was now straight ahead of the group and blocking off their only land-bound exit. Even though she had her sword ready in one hand, she was all too aware of how tough this monster looked for her. Plutia and Blanc could probably take it on and easily win if it were just them...but they were likely going to have to hold back so that they could protect them. She'd only be slowing them down basically. With that thought in her head, Noire then glanced at the CPU memory she was still holding in her other hand and seriously thought about it...even if it wasn't going to be perfect, she did now have the means to become their equals and help her friends out here if she only took it. She wouldn't be holding them back then...right?

[Shirayuki]

"Other's elsewhere..." Plutia mused, before deciding her answer as she turned her eyes towards the other parts of the Ruins "Then let's go find them quickly. I think something bad will happen if you use the broken one...". Combined with Blanc's insight, it was a little more than obvious that she didn't trust something like it, especially with how it looked. Not being "whole" sounded way too suspicious in regards to something like this... what if it regressed her more than it did herself?

She was just about to dart off to an area she hadn't checked yet before a deafening screech covered the air, catching her off track. Staring at the large creature, she prepared herself "It looks real scary... but I think we can win!" Plutia said, instinctively raising her hand up as if to shield the rather defenseless Noire. With her eyes fixated on the beast, she didn't really pay much attention to what Noire was doing at all as she prepared to engage it.

"I won't let you hurt my friend!" The Planeptunian CPU stated, already prepared to transform into her other form if needed - though, she really didn't want to use it much anymore, especially seeing Blanc changing... a little.

[Purestarfall]

Even though they hoped that the pixelvader would peacefully head off and leave them alone, the monster instead reacted by casting a lighting bolt spell at them...primarily aimed at Plutia. Blanc, who had decided to transform at the moment right before the magical attack was casted, jumped in front of Plutia in order to take the hit for her as she let out to her "Stay back Mommy, I'll take it!". Which she did, and took a hard hit as the lightning crossed over her body. Once the lightning dissipated, the now winded White Heart could only lightly crotch down a bit and planted her free hand on her knee as she panted a bit to catch her breath after that attack.

As the pixelvader started to move in to try to physically ram them with its large body after that attack, White Heart turned her head towards Plutia and told her "I'm fine Mommy, you don't have to worry about me! Just go in and punish that meanie!" to try to urge her to go on the attack now before it could attack them again. Seeing what Plutia's HDD form had been like earlier in the day and how much more intense she became in it, Blanc was confident that the Planeptunian goddess would be able to make that monster ever regret choosing to pick a fight with them.

Once Noire saw the strong lightning attack aimed at Plutia, her body simply acted on its own to back up and get her away from it as fear momentarily won out. Even though Blanc was able to somewhat safely take it, Noire felt the power of the attack even from there. There was no way she could even try to help them, not without having the power a goddess, if even Blanc was having issues here. Even more, the tsundere's body backed up until she ended up hiding behind the large core enough as cover. And it ate at her, leaving her friends to fight that thing alone to fight it while she had no choice but to hide in cover.

And it was then that Noire made her choice one what to do. While the other two were fighting it, she muttered to herself "hold on you two...I'm coming to help..." as she held the flawed CPU memory up to her face, before then opening her mouth as she begun the process of consuming it to become a goddess...

[Shirayuki]

As Plutia saw the arc of lightning shoot right towards her, she didn't exactly know what she was going to do. She would survive it as a Human... but that was about it. Transforming, though? She wasn't sure if she'd want to do it again - thankfully, Blanc did so herself and quickly protected her from the strike. "T-Thanks!" She quickly said to the rather exhausted White Heart now.

While preparing her next move, Plutia was... rather surprised with what Blanc said, however. Noire always said to almost never use HDD (or, at least, voluntarily) except for certain situations... was this one of those? Whatever, she didn't have much time to think; With the Pixelvader barreling right towards them, she would have to do it now or never - she can deal with the consequences later!

Though, where was Noire? Wasn't she supposed to be protecting Noire?

[Purestarfall]

Swallowing the flawed CPU memory, Noire felt as it traveled down her throat and into her stomach where it instantly started to affect her. Once it was settled, it started to fade away harmlessly though not before it started to flood her body with a babyish energy. Though unlike normal CPUs like Plutia and Blanc who had a lesser amount of that energy end up affecting them as the crystal kept most of it from getting out and affecting them before it disappeared, the crack that was on Noire's simply allowed more of that miasma to leak out into her. And so she ended up being affected by an even greater amount of that goddess energy than either of them...which ironically would only cause her issues since it was erasing even more of the maturity and independence that she had the other two were still able to largely keep, while offering her no other special powers for it. In other words, she was being more strongly affected by her babyish powers to the point that it was starting to strongly lock her out of being able to be mature.

As Plutia was wondering where Noire had gone off to, the Planeptunian goddess caught a bright flash of light from behind both her and Blanc. Before she had time to wonder what could have caused it, something then rushed out at a breakneck speed out of it and through the two goddesses to charge the pixelvader. The figure thrusted her rather large sword into it to stop it's advance fully, allowing the two to see that she had long white hair done into two twintails and had on a grey-colored onesie...that did nothing to hide the fact that she was wearing a diaper underneath it due to the fact that it didn't cover her legs so her diaper lightly peeked out from around them and that the crotch to it had snaps for easy access to said diaper. "Hey you bully!" The woman let out in a deep yet unexpectedly childish voice tone towards it. "If you wanna treat us rough, then don't be surprised when we don't wanna play with you!" She then let out as she pulled her sword out of it before giving it a swift kick with her boot at an angle upwards, and with such force that she caused it to be knocked back and flying out of the area.

With the Pixelvader gone...as in at least no longer in the area itself...the woman turned towards the other two which allowed them to finally see her lightly glowing blue eyes. She was a CPU just like the two of them were. The mysterious goddess just flashed a big, almost uncontrolled smile at them as enthusiasm overtook her quite easily once it was now peaceful, as she told the other two goddesses "You two don't gotta worry about that big bully anymore!" However, the new goddess then looked down at herself before then catching a sight of one of her twintails, which led to her then blurting out loud quite childishly "Whoa! So this is my big girl form? It's so cute and awesome!"

For her part, Blanc was quick to catch onto what was going on even as she was still trying to catch her breath from that attack she took. And with it, grave worry at what she realized was likely next if what she hand learned was indeed true. "Oh no...Plutia!" Blanc then yelled to the other goddess in worry "I-I think you're going to have to get Noire some of your share energy now! Otherwise, she's going to die!" She then told her in a practically panicked tone.

[Shirayuki]

The surge of strength from behind the Planeptunian CPU was, in one way, reassuring... if only it didn't mean that Noire didn't ingest the rather fractured CPU memory. Alarmed, the lavender-haired girl stepped out of her way as the newly-born CPU launched herself towards the Pixelvader and piercing through it's exterior. Her CPU form was rather intriguing, though what was more noticable was the thick diaper around her waist... which means that she really was just like them now. At least, with the monster vanquished, they had a chance to take a small breather and evaluate the situation.

Really, looking at Noire's Goddess form and her innocent and childlike expression, part of her wanted to laugh alongside her and admire her new divinity as well as what it entails, but there was no time for that as of now.

As Blanc and Noire said before, Crystals like that have some weird issues, right? So what could it be...? "Share energy...?" Plutia looked at her, rather confused, before slowly piecing together the puzzle. Was it that she couldn't sustain that form without share energy, since she didn't have a nation yet? She wasn't sure, but judging from Blanc's voice... something bad was probably goign to happen. "O-Okay..." Plutia nodded as she tried to quickly approach her, beginning the process to give her some of Planeptune's share energy.