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This is my first time using this website; I wrote this for u/kuletxcore's writing prompts on Reddit and decided to post this here; I will continue this some time soon.
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"What do you mean she's lost her memory?!"
"I dunno, ask the dude who wrote this prompt."
"No, Neptune! Don't you remember what happened? You were the only one with her, so you really ought to explain it to Ram," Noire yells.
"Uh, honestly, I wasn't exactly looking in her direction when the whole shtick rolled out. She seemed A-okay the last time I saw her...But hey, look at these cool Lego set I bought from a random passerby while we were questing!"
Before Ram or Noire could escalate the situation due to Neptune's blatant inattentiveness, Nepgear interjects. "Um, I was there too, you know-"
"Then tell me already! Don't just stand there, dummy!"
"Ah- okay! Well, there was a report by the guild about some strong monster roaming around Lowee. I mean, it didn't look that bad; it was bright green with a big nose and a tree on his head and it kept saying 'I'm a Chuckster' or something like that. We didn't even bother transforming, either. I guess Blanc was underestimating it, too, because right when I was chasing Neptune when she ran off, I saw her get paralyzed, then it chucked her really high into the sky!"
"Is...she okay?" Rom asks, who was anxiously observing from outside the room.
"Well, she seems fine…"
"Of course she isn't! She lost her memory!" Noire refutes.
"Er-, I mean physically she's fine! She's really good at enduring physical attacks, so she doesn't have any serious injuries."
"Are you sure about that, Nep Jr.? After she landed and we beat up that guy, she was all quiet and like 'Eh...uh… who..are you?' and then passed out," Neptune adds as she dramatically imitates Blanc's "last" words.
"Sounds just like a concussion...but are you sure that she has amnesia?"
"Of course she does! Take it from me; it happened to me before, so I would definitely know the cause."
"No it hasn't, I don't remember you ever losing your memory, big sis…"
"Yea it has! When I was fighting with the other CPUs years ago in Celes…" As Neptune realizes her mistake, she tries to divert the group's attention. "Uh, anyways, hey you two snow gremlins! We oughta check up on your big sis! She should be fine to see!"
"Yeah, let's see her!" The twin CPU Candidates say together as they run into Blanc's bedroom, with Neptune, Noire, and Nepgear following suit.
When the three foreign goddesses make it to Blanc's room, Rom and Ram had already started making noise, with an unfamiliar whimpering responding to their yelling. "Please, stop yelling at me like that!" One comment sticks out to the three.
"Uh, oh, sounds like Blanc is getting on edge with Rom again," Noire notices as she runs into the room.
"I'm pretty sure Rom doesn't sound like that," Nepgear tries to clarify when she notices her standing silently at the door frame. She looks past her shoulder, joining in the silent reaction.
When it was Neptune's turn to silently stare at the apparently surprising scene, she accidentally bumps into her sister and Noire. "Hey, watch it you-"
"Wh-who are you all? what are you all doing here?!" They all hear. Naturally, they turn their attention to whoever shouted that, who just happens to be Blanc. Instead of an irate foul-mouthed disposition, they find a shy and intimidated look, which further worsens when she notices them all looking at her. It also doesn't help that no one doesn't immediately knows how to respond.
"Uh...looks like I was right the whole time, guys! Heh…" Well, no one except for Neptune.
"Come on, big sis! You gotta know those guys! You gotta know us, your own sisters!" Ram tries to reason, shaking Blanc's arm, further worsening her timidness.
Instinctively, she jumps and pulls her arm away from her own sister. In fact, she jumps away so far to distance herself that she falls off the opposite side of the bed. "Please don't do that! And I already said it already: I don't know anyone! I don't know anything, either! Stop asking me so many questions..."
"Jeez, it looks worse than amnesia. I didn't even know concussions could cause a complete personality flip," Noire says. "Looks like it can't be helped; we need to find out how to restore her memory…"
"Whoa, Miss Loner taking the initiative! I didn't think you had it in ya!"
"Can it, Neptune. Don't you see what kind of problems can come up if we just leave her here like this?"
"So...does anyone have ideas to restore her memory? It seems like her memory has reverted to when she was born..." Nepgear starts the discussion between the other CPUs minus Blanc in another room, which gives the amnesiac her much-needed solitude.
"We could give her another bop on the head," Neptune reactively suggests.
"No! I wouldn't be surprised if she ends up dead from that. I think we should just try to refresh it by talking to her about whatever stuff she has lying around here. It wouldn't hurt if we started with the standard stuff," Noire suggests back.
"Yeah, but boring cliche tactics like that never work in a trope like this. It's always something exciting or unexpected," Neptune counters.
"You have anything better to try, smarty pants?"
"Bop her-"
"We said no, Neptune! Besides, that's probably an even more cliche method." Noire had already begun to try using Blanc's paraphernalia. "Ram! Rom! Get some of her stuff!"
"Like her clothes?"
"No, Rom. Get items that when you look at it, you immediately think about Blanc," Nepgear clarifies.
"Oh, okay!" The two run off, eager to help her older sister. Before the three can say a word, the twins return with two large armfuls of various knick-knacks. "Wow, I thought you two had strength as your weakest stats!" Neptune gets up to help carry some of the stack. "Alrighty, let's get to it!"
"Wait!" Nepgear interjects. "We're going to scare her again if we all go together."
"Then what? Just one of us goes in or something?"
"Um...I can go, then," Rom says as she raises her hand. She had the idea that being the least intimidating one out of the group could help. She grabs some of the books and walks back into Blanc's room.
Once inside, she says calmly, "Um...hello! I wanted to share something with you."
"Oh my, how kind of you, little Rom. What could it be?"
"Hehe, thank you. It's...wait…" Looking at where Blanc should be, there lies a second figure with no visible reason for how she arrived.
"Looks like a nice stack of books. Bouquet and I would love to read a story with you." The newcomer gives "Bouquet" a gentle pet, who seems to be genuinely enjoying it.
"Wh-what?! That's Blanc, Vert? W-What are you doing here?!" Rom manages to stammer, standing in complete surprise.
"I heard something unusual in there, Rom. Is everything alright?" Nepgear calls out from outside.
"Umm...uh…"
"Our little Rom is in trouble; she needs our help!" Neptune follows up, probably already bored from waiting for her, before slamming open the door.
"Neptune! Did you already forget what your sister said? Don't startle- Vert?!" Noire yells in surprise louder than Neptune. Like before, Blanc instinctively winces at the noise, but this time she reaches for Vert.
"My, don't be so crude! You're scaring Bouquet."
"Vert, could you at least explain what you were doing here?" asks Nepgear as she walks in.
"Well, I was strolling by in my secret Leanbox-Lowee tunnel that connects our Basilicoms together when I saw her wandering around, looking so scared. It is a CPU's duty to provide hospitality to not just her own citizens, but to all inhabitants of Gamindustri!" orates Vert, seemingly gaining Blanc's respect at the same time.
"Are you seriously that much of a degenerate for little sisters that you would take advantage of your friend's amnesia?" Noire chides. The other CPUs also look at Vert with contempt.
Vert sits on the bed silently before giving a small chuckle before escalating into a full-on laugh. Even Blanc joins in, too "It was all just a jest. Blanc here is fine!"
"What? This was all just some stupid late April Fools joke?!" Noire angrily looks at Neptune to see if she was in on the act.
"Heh…" Neptune gives a small chuckle.
"You are all such a waste of time! I knew I should have just stayed home with Uni!" She yells, stomping out of the Basilicom. "The next time you all ask for help, consider yourselves on your own!"
"...Wait, this was all a prank?! I swore I saw Blanc get hurt; there's no way she didn't not lose her memory!" Nepgear finally realizes.
"Well, the prank was pretending that I was this "Bouquet" person, whoever she is. I still am not sure about my memories…" clarifies Blanc. There is still a sense of shyness in her speech.
"Then, what were you laughing at, Neptune…?"
"...I just thought it was the funniest thing to do at the moment, eh heh…" admits Neptune.
"Hey idiots, my big sister still doesn't have her memories! Get back to helping us!" says Ram.
"Yeah, just what I was about to say, too. It's already bad enough that Vert already altered the Blanc memory time-line by making her all lovey-dovey with her. I bet she even hypnotized her into accepting her chest size inferiority!" adds Neptune.
"No, I realize how important this situation is; I wouldn't do such a thing," denies Vert.
"W-what's wrong with that? She is clearly older than me, so it would make sense…"
Looking guilty, Vert excuses herself, "Well, that was becoming an overused character flaw; it was getting time that she got over it. You also should thank me for at least getting her to warm up to you all. She looked so scared of everyone when I first saw her...Anyways, Rom! You said something about bringing her something; what was it?"
Unknowingly helping Vert get out of that situation, the older Loweean candidate responds, "Oh! Yes." She remembers the items she brought and picks up a thick book with what looks like hundreds of loose leaf papers stuck inside. Slowly walking up to Blanc, she hands her the manuscript. "Blanc, please...read this."
She takes it, and just as slowly examines all the pages: the story outlines, the rough drafts, the writing notes, and the many pages with childish scribblings. "What...is all of this?"
"It's your writing book thingy, dum dum! Don't you remember writing all of this and-"
"It's...kind of childish. Why would I write all of this? And I definitely am not proud of drawing thes poor pictures...Ah, I must have made this in my childhood, right? That makes sense…"
Everyone collectively gives a disappointed sigh. "Man, I told you it wouldn't work…" says Neptune.
"You only said that to Noire, and she's already gone…" clarifies Nepgear. "What will we do now?"
"No! We're not finished with this! We have to keep trying!" Out of desperation, Ram brings more junk from the pile "C'mon Blanc! Look at all of this! Doesn't this all look familiar?!"
While she should answer no, Blanc can't find it in herself to do so. She initially saw this girl as just a bratty nuisance that would continuously bother her, and she kind of still is, but she was too endearing to let down. "Not reall-, er, I mean, yes, but actually not completely…" She gets increasingly flustered, trying to come up with an answer that is both true to an extent and will satisfy Ram's expectations.
"Look! Her inability to deal with kids! Her personality is going back to normal!" points out Neptune. "Blanc, don't you remember being a foul-mouthed badass CPU and probably one of the first badasses in the world? Y'know, leading all your people and beating up giant monsters with your hammer-axe thingy?"
"W-what? Lead people? I couldn't possibly do such a thing; I don't have it in me to be a leader."
"No! You were so close! Come on, get your memories back!" cries out Rom in shock, realizing that they just lost their lead to finishing up this problem. Neptune really needs to bring out something serious to bring this back.
*I got it!* Neptune suddenly thinks of the perfect tactic. Her eager grin raises the hope of everyone around her, knowing that as the protagonist, she knows exactly what can perfectly solve this conundrum.
Neptune grabs Blanc's writing book from Blanc and gives her a swift downswing, creating a perfect bonk sound effect.
"NEPTUNE!? What in all of Gamindustri were you thinking?!" shouts everyone. Instead of trying to come up with some witty excuse, she continues to carefully gaze at Blanc, awaiting her reaction.
"Wh-what- whyyy?" Expecting her to get angry, Neptune starts to feel awful when Blanc insteads starts to cry, hugging Vert as if she is hoping that embracing her would make the mean purple-haired girl go away.
"Uh...um…"
Neptune is about to apologize to her, but then Ram comes from behind her and whacks her with the same book in the same fashion. "Shut up! I don't wanna hear your stupid excuses!" cries out Ram.
Looks like she's out cold. No one can find it in themselves to chastise Ram for her brash actions, instead feeling sorrowful as she lets out silent tears. "I don't want big sis to lose her memories forever!"
"Ram, please cheer up! It's not gone forever, we just have to keep looking…" says Nepgear, trying to comfort her.
"Uh huh...in the end, she's still our big sis!" adds Rom.
"But how can she be our big sis if she doesn't remember us?!"
"Ram, was it? Please...calm down." When she checks who said that, it was the person she least suspected. "It makes me feel...very bad seeing you cry about losing your older sister, so I'll be your older sister! ...So, um, please don't cry…"
"But you're not really my big sister without your memories!" sniffles Ram.
"I know that, but I...really would want to. You saw me be really scared of you before, but...I want to get to know you all...er, almost you all…" She shudders when she swears she saw Neptune's body twitch while her sister tries to tend to her. "It looks like the old me were really good friends with everyone, and I would like to befriend you all. And you two...seem like…" Rom and Ram wait in suspense for her answer, not noticing that her sister is getting increasingly flustered and embarrassed speaking her thoughts out. "...like...the best younger sisters one...could have…"
Trying to hide her face from the others, she does not see the two running up to embrace her. "Blaaaanc!" Their cries are enough to break her from her embarrassed state, clear enough to return the hug. Nepgear and Vert both can't help but be heartfelt at this moment, giving the three enough space to hug it out.
"While this is a sort of happy reunion, do remember that we'll keep looking for ways to safely restore her memories…" reminds Nepgear after the Loweean CPU's moment.
"In the meantime, we also need to begin introducing this new Blanc to her previous role, which will prove to be a challenge. Blanc will eventually also need to tell the public about her situation sooner or later." adds Vert.
"W-what? In front of...everyone?" Blanc suddenly looks a lot less ready to relearn her life.
"Oh my...looks like we might be helping out for a lot longer than we thought, my dear little sister," says Vert as she holds Nepgear's hand. It seems that the more mature CPU came out on top of this situation.
"Um, please don't do that…" whimpers Nepgear. Perhaps during this time, Blanc will start diverting some of Vert's "affection." "We really should call Mina back…"
