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I got some alright! One fight for now! Neptune and Nepgear

These two sisters have unified and the battleground itself is a 2 layer field - one layer on the bottom with a flat surface, while the layer above is several seperate platforms which will move off the screen and re-appear on the other side if they leave the screen.

Before the battle, the player(s) are placed on a platform which lies in the middle on the top layer. Neptune, on the left, spins two swords in her hands before getting in a combat stance and gripping them. Nepgear, on the right, seems to be using her hologram device to make a roulette wheel which soon turns into a skull before fading, and she also goes into a battle stance.

Phase 1

Neptune: Neptune will remain on the left throughout phase 1 and will be tossing spinning swords towards the player's direction - some of them will be pink, which can be parried. She is also making it rain purple flames from the top of the screen in a scattered pattern. If they are shot, they will vanish, but they will dissapear upon contact with any surface, like the moving platforms.

Nepgear: Nepgear stays on the right during phase 1, and will frequently make portals on the ground below the players before making them constrict below them. If they do not jump as the portal constrict, they will take damage. Like with Neptune, this is not her only attack - as she will occasionally fire a laser beam to the right of her, past the screen. It will then re-appear above the platforms to sweep over them, then re-appear again slightly above the previous location. The second beam has a chance to be pink, which can be parried. To avoid the first, the player(s) must be on the ground level, and the second requires them to be below the beam itself. This would be easy if the beams didn't produce digital sparks which can be blocked by the platforms, so you can't stand anywhere.

Phase 2

Phase 2 begins with Neptune and Nepgear leaving the screen from their respective sides, and then re-appearing in their transformed forms - Nepgear in the center of the screen, and Neptune on the ground level. It is in this phase they have seperate healthbars. Phase 3 will be different depending on who you take down in phase 2.

Neptune: Neptune stays on the ground level, and will rush at any player foolish enough to step down there. Her dashes are pink, which can be parried off of, but the sword slashes that follow are not, and are thrown to the sides of the screen, bouncing thrice before shattering on the fourth bounce. Neptune will sometimes lift her two swords up, bash them together, and make them erupt into a purple flame which sweeps across the middle of the screen, requiring the player(s) to be on the left or right to avoid it. This also protects Nepgear, as the flames block projectiles.

Nepgear: Nepgear will stay flying in the center of the screen, and will use portals in a greater way. She will sometimes have a portal above her, shoot a projectile into it, then the portal will vanish. It will then re-appear on the left 'and' right, and soon meet in the middle, where it can be parried while 'on' Nepgear to deal damage to her. She also has a second attack, and Nepgear's second attack sees her create a digital clone of Cuphead which stays motionless on the ground level with Neptune. If Neptune would take damage while this thing is alive, the clone shoots at the player who dealt the damage - one shot per point of damage, essentially making a laser beam of shots. Some shots can be pink, and thus parryable to escape the wrath.

Phase 3

The final phase - and depending on who you defeated in phase 2, this can either be really easy or really hard - but it all depends on how difficult the player(s) personally find it.

Neptune: If Nepgear was defeated, Neptune will borrow Nepgear's powers, and make a slice down the middle of the screen. Not only that, the platforms stop moving in this phase if Neptune is the one you are fighting, and the slice made down the middle of the screen acts as a wall which will sometimes vanish and then re-appear later. Neptune has a range of slash patterns to horde the screen with, with some patterns always being pink, and some giving off purple flames. The patterns are randomized, and so are their properties, but when selected, you will see the same patterns over and over again as Neptune can only use 4 patterns. She also has two more attacks - she has borrowed the portals, and they link one side of the screen to the other for her projectiles to travel through, and players, too. Sometimes, the portals will emit laser beams, or even purple flames. But as if that's not enough, her sword rain fills one half of the screen which cannot be blocked apart from going through the portal.

If Neptune loses, she will revert to normal and find herself stuck on her two swords in the wall, struggling in pain to get free, and unable to continue because she is trapped.

Nepgear: If Neptune is defeated, Nepgear takes her sister's swords to use and immediately combines them and makes a laser clock with them which orbits the screen in a circular motion. One side is parryable, the other is not - but the un-parryable side has a gap in it to avoid the damage. The parryable side emits purple flames which burn away the platforms, so there is nowhere to hide from further attacks. Nepgear once more uses the portals, but is now combining them with vortexes, to pull the player into the range of the laser beams which fly out of the portals from the top and bottom. These are unparryable, and will cause damage upon hit - although, the portals never move. They are stationary in the bottom left and right corners. Nepgear's final attack is a roulette, with the numbers 1 or 2 on it, and then a pink or a blue shot. 1/2 means the player it will target, and the pink/blue means the colour of the shot. It's a homing shot when fired, and can only be diverted by jumping over it and under it in a cycle.

If Nepgear loses, she will revert to normal and fly down to the surface of where she is and lie unconsious, with xs in her eyes and ducks over her head.

Death screens

Phase 1: "You forgot that there were two of us, did you? Nobody simply forgets us, and you learned it the hard way!"

Phase 2: "Behold, our 'true' CPU powers! They are too strong for your plastic wits to handle!"

Phase 3 (Neptune): "You have just been nepped black and blue - congratulations! Now don't do that again."

Phase 3 (Nepgear): "I hope you learned your lesson - NEVER harm my sister. I will make it my mission to crush you personally."