A/N: And Unpause. Hello everyone! I am back to play-I mean work on this story again. Sorry about the delay but I was busy working on another story (Gee I wonder which one would that be?). Now let's continue on. BTW I am aware of Vol 3 being out now but please, no spoilers. I haven't watched it yet.

Disclaimer: I do not own RWBY and/or Hyperdimension Neptunia. They belong to their original creators.

RWBY: Press Start

Level Fourteen

Weapon Upgrade

"So what exactly are you doing here again?"

"Analyzing the composition of your dust."

Noire and Weiss were at the research and development lab. The first though the heiress had about the building was that it was very impressive. Right now the two girls were observing all of Weiss' dust being scanned on a platform and multiple lasers coming out of machines hitting the dust all over quickly. There were monitors that showed the data from each dust. As impressive as it was, Weiss still had no idea what was going on. "Ok but that still doesn't tell me what this is all about. You said you'll help me with my dust shortage problem. What do you mean by that?"

Apparently, Noire had to explain further about what she was doing. "During the fight in your first quest, I noticed you were the only one who didn't have any kind of gun combo weapon like Ruby and the others even though you have a rotating chamber in yours. When you struck on of the monsters, ice came out of the attack. You also mentioned previously how Dust was very important in your world so I assumed that attack of yours was you utilizing your own dust with your weapon. Unlike the ammunition the rest of you team uses, you're the only one who has a finite supply and our world doesn't have dust. So I'm helping out your situation by creating artificial limitless dust for you to use by using your dust as the blueprints."

After that lengthy explanation, Weiss was impressed how observant Noire was. There was something else she was impressed about. "You're creating limitless dust?! Is that even possible?"

Noire smiled and puffed up her chest proudly. "There hasn't been anything I couldn't make yet. With this, you shouldn't worry about running out of dust ever again."

Hearing about the idea of limitless dust was something the heiress never thought of or dreamed of before. The very idea of it sounded impossible. Then again she was in a world where a girl who looked to be Ruby's age drop kicked a giant monster wolf and is also a deity. "Well then, thank you for helping me out. I appreciate it."

The goddess smiled at the heiress. "Well if you're going to be in our world for a while, you have to be prepared. Plus this limitless dust will probably be a tad more powerful than what you're used to."

Weiss smiled back at the detail. "Sounds promising. In fact, you can say there hasn't been a challenge I have yet to overcome."

Both girls giggled at each other. "Come on let's go find Neptune and the others before they stir up any trouble while the dust is still being created. It'll be a great way to pass the time." Noire suggested.

"Agreed but it's not like they'll encounter a giant berserk robot that is on the run or anything of the sort." Weiss joked. "I mean what are the chances of that happening?"

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Neptune and the others were walking in one of the streets of Lastation. Ruby, Blake, and Yang were taking in the sites and enjoying them too. Especially Ruby. "Wow, this place really does look industrial! It looks so much more awesome up close!"

Yang had to agree with her sister. I'll say. I'm digging the whole steam-punk vibe it's giving off."

Neptune giggled. "Yep. That's Noire for you. She really does show off her stuff time to time. People call it the Land of Black Regality whatever that means."

Uni was glad everyone was enjoying themselves. "Funny enough there was a time where Lastation was really smoky and dark. It was around that time Noire decided to do the better of the nation and clean things up a bit. Her shares went up by a lot as a result."

Blake admired the goddess' efforts. "Looks like it was for the better then."

Speaking of the CPU… "That reminds me, when are Weiss and Noire going to meet up with us?" Yang asked.

"That's a good question. I wonder what Noire wanted with Weiss in the first place?" Nepgear was curious about what the two girls were up to.

Her sister didn't seem to mind though. "Ah don't worry about them. I'm pretty sure the monochrome duo will catch up to us sooner or later."

"Monochrome?" Both Ruby and Blake spoke at the same time.

Neptune laughed. "Yeah because their color schemes are black and white." A fun thought came to her to the CPU. "Hey, that sounds like a shipping name between Weiss and Blake."

"What?!" Both Blake and Yang shouted.

A question mark appeared above Ruby's head. "What does shipping mean?"

The Planeptune goddess gave a playful smile and was more than willing to explain. "So glad you asked my young grasshopper. You see it's a term used in a of fanfiction sites that pairs up two characters in a romantic sort of way. It's really super-duper popular."

All three girls tried to imagine a scenario between the two girls. "No father you must understand! I cannot live without Blake! I do not care if she is a Faunus, we belong together! I love her!"

"Don't waste your time my love! He is an evil man who will not understand but our love will overcome any obstacle!" Blake took out her weapon. "I will make sure we will live happily after all of this!" All of that resulted in different reactions.

"Huh. I guess that would be a dramatic and ironic idea of Weiss and I together. Even more so since her family is targeted by the White Fang and me being an ex-member and all." Blake could imagine how pissed her dad might be if he found out his daughter was dating a Faunus and a girl at that.

Ruby's thoughts about it? "Weiss and Blake together?! I already have enough worry about her!"

Yang's thoughts? "Not going to lie here. I have thought about that and now that I think about it, I may have more competition than I thought. Well, that's just great. Just when I thought this couldn't get any worse."

Another great idea came to Neptune. "Ohh what would a shipping name between Weiss and Yang be called? How about Freezerburn? Get it? Because they're fire and ice?" She laughed at herself at that one.

The other three girls weren't laughing. In fact, it made Ruby worry more. "I don't need my own sister in on this!"

Her sister was a bit skeptical. "Me and Ice Queen together huh? That'll be hilarious if someone can make that happen."

Blake's thoughts on the matter? "That would be interesting but why don't I like it for some reason?" She looked over at the blonde and a strange feeling grew a bit within her chest. "I can't be jealous can I?"

And yet another idea came to Neptune. "Wait wait! What about a shipping name between Ruby and Blake. Hey Nepgear, got any ideas for that?"

The younger sister started to sweat a bit at that question. "Who me? I don't know. Maybe…Ladybug since you know they're black and red?" She really didn't want to be a part of the conversation.

Ruby and Blake looked at each other not knowing what to say or even think about that while Yang was looking back and forth between the two girls. She groaned. "Come on! Not my sister too!"

And Neptune had one last thought. "How's this for an idea? A ship between Ruby and Yang?"

And that's where a record scratch could be heard. "Whoa whoa hold on there. You do know we're sisters right? Why would I enable Ruby?"

Her sister giggled nervously. "Y-Yeah. Me and Yang together? That's just silly."

The CPU didn't think so. "All right I guess we'll go with Enabler then. Besides you'd be surprised that the internet has all kinds of ideas."

That brought up a question from Blake. "Like how there are ideas for you and your sister?"

To their surprise, Neptune nodded happily. "Yep, that's right. In fact, there are some folks in a fan club back in Planeptune that ship me and my sister together."

Nepgear felt rather embarrassed remembering hearing that for the first time. "Please don't bring that up again."

Uni sighed at where the conversation was going. "Okay, can we please change the subject already?"

Neptune had to agree. "Yeah, Uni is right. Besides the title of this chapter is called Weapon Upgrade. Not Pairings." The other three girls didn't understand that. "So let's just do that."

"Do what?" All three asked.

The CPU sighed "Uni? Can you please take over from here?"

The Lastation CPU candidate was unsure how to feel about being put on the spot like that. "Uh ok sure. First off can I see what kind of ammo all three of you use?"

All three gave one bullet from what their weapons use and gave them to Uni. "What do you think of them?" Yang asked.

Uni was looking at the bullets closely. She sighed. "I'm sorry to say this but these bullets won't cut it if you're going to be on quests. The best they can do here is just stun the enemies for a few seconds.

Blake already knew that when she saw her bullets not having much an effect on the weaker enemies here. Ruby looked appalled. "Even my ammo?" She was proud of what her weapon can do so hearing that came as a shock to her.

The candidate observed the leader's ammo carefully. "Well yours at best will sting a little but that's it." Ruby gave a small whine. "But I do know a place that can help out a bit."

That seemed to perk up the young girl a bit. "Alright let's go then! I'll do anything to make Crescent Rose stronger!"

The other two members shared their leader's enthusiasm. "Ruby is right. We gotta buff ourselves up if we want to stand a chance in this world."

Blake smiled at her partner. That outgoing personality was one of the things she…admired about the blonde. In fact, she was glad to finally spend some time with Yang since she would always avoid her at times. The Faunus girl also remembered IF's words about her. "Just what are you afraid of Yang? I wish you can tell me so I can help."

The goal was clear now to all of them. Uni took the lead of the group. "All right then I'll take all of you there. You're going to love it. Especially you Ruby."

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Various gaming noises could be heard in the room. It was a mix between a shooting range and an arcade. Uni was right. Ruby did love it. "This place is awesome! What is it?"

The Lastation Candidate smiled at the other girl as she knew the young leader would love this place. "This place is a shooting range that also doubles as an arcade. You can test out your shooting while trying to get a high score too. Pretty cool huh?"

Yang just laughed. "Cool doesn't even describe this place. We don't have anything like this back home."

Neptune grinned. "Well, you came to the right world girls. Now let's see what you three can do with ammo from our world."

Blake had some doubts about this. "Are you sure they'll be compatible with our weapons?"

"I don't think it'll make a difference. The bullets here should work with your weapons." Nepgear reassured.

That was good enough for Yang. "All right then. Let's get the lead out and beat some high scores!" The group went up the front desk and the team was presented one round each to match their weapons since they were new. Sure enough, Nepgear was right. The ammo did fit in the chambers of their weapons. The blonde of the group went up first with Ember Cecilia ready to go. "Time to test this out!" Her target appeared in the form of a hologram. The head was worth fifty, the chest twenty-five, and the arms ten each. She pulled back her arm and smiled. "Boom head-" As soon as Yang fired off her round; the recoil of the shot flung her back and hit the wall. Her shot did hit the head though.

"Yang!" Both Ruby and Blake ran over to her.

Neptune didn't expect that to happen. "Huh. I guess that had a lot more kick than she thought. Guess you can say she got a Yang outta of that?" She laughed at her own pun.

Her sister wasn't though. "I don't think this is a good time for jokes."

Uni had an idea of what just happened. "I think she wasn't used to the power the shots give off even if they are standard issue. That just further proves how different our worlds are."

Yang groaned and shook her head. "Ok. I wasn't expecting that. Man, that was some recoil."

"Are you alright Yang?" The blonde opened her eyes only to stare at Blake's golden ones. She couldn't look away and felt like she was getting lost in her partner's eyes. "Yang?"

The blonde snapped out of her trance. "Yeah, I'm fine. Don't worry about me."

There were the last words the cat girl wanted to hear from her partner. "Yang are you ok?" Ruby asked.

The older sister smiled at the young leader. "Yeah don't worry about me." She stood up and dusted herself off like what just happened to her was no big deal. "I'll say this. That was something else. I guess you can say that really packed a punch?" Yang was laughing at her own pun as was Neptune. Ruby and Blake weren't laughing but were glad to know the blonde was alright. Yang finished laughing. "Ah, that was a good one. So who's next?"

The cat girl sighed and decided to give it a shot. (No pun intended.) She walked up to the range and took out Gambol Shroud in gun form. Blake loaded the bullet and pointed her weapon at the target. At least she'll expect what would happen if she fired off her shot. The Faunus girl fired off Gambol Shroud and was taken back quite a bit from the recoil. "Such power." Her shot did hit the head. She sheathed her weapon and rolled her shoulders while massaging it with her hand. "These bullets are a lot stronger than what we're used to. I can see why they would injure the monsters here so easily."



"That was great Blake!" The cat girl turned around to face her leader. "Is your arm all right?"

Blake gave a comforting smile. It's fine. I just need to get used to the power that's all. You should be careful when firing Crescent Rose."

Ruby nodded at the warning. "Don't worry. I'll be extra careful." With that said, the two girls switched places and Ruby took out Crescent Rose in sniper gun mode. She loaded her weapon and steadied her line of sight while taking in a deep breathe. Ruby pulled the trigger and fired. The recoil was strong enough to knock the young girl onto the floor. Her shot managed to hit the head as well.

"Ruby!" This time Yang and Blake ran to their leader.

The blonde kneeled to her sister with a worried look on her face. "Are you alright sis?" Say something."

The younger sister groaned. "Something." She giggled despite the pain Ruby was going through at the moment.

Yang chuckled at the joke. "You had me worried there for a second." She offered her hand to her sister.

Ruby gladly accepted it and her sister brought her up. "Now I know how you two felt after firing your weapons. These bullets are really strong." She set Crescent Rose in its holster on her lower back.

"Yeah, no kidding and that was only one round of ammo." That part kinda saddened Yang a bit. "Are we even strong enough to handle this sort of thing?"

"Eh I wouldn't worry too much about it." The three girls turned to Neptune while had a smile on her face. "There are two ways for you three to get pass this without a hidden move. Either level up or know a wise old sage."

They didn't understand any of that. "What my sister is trying to say is that we may be able to help out on that part." Nepgear explained.

It seemed things didn't seem as hopeless as they thought. "Plus my sister can help out with your ammo problem. She'll create some specifically for you. Noire could probably make your weapons stronger too." Uni explained.

That would solve all of their problems but… "Thanks for offering that last part but if it's all right with you, I don't want anyone else to work on Crescent Rose even if that someone is your sister." Goddess or not, Ruby won't let anyone else work on one of her prized possessions. If she was going to make her weapon stronger, she'll do it her own way.

Uni understood how the young leader felt. "I understand. Your weapon is your pride and joy after all."

"Yeah, same goes for me." Yang spoke up. "I would still love to take up that ammo offer."

Blake raised her hand. "As would I."

Everyone made up their mind. Neptune chuckled. "Well, that settles that. I guess we can leave this chapter on a happy note then."

"I don't know what you mean by that but ok." Ruby still didn't understand the CPU's way of thinking.

Neptune didn't seem to care. "Eh don't worry about it. There's still plenty of Lastation to look around. Who knows, maybe we'll see a giant robot or something."

The other three weren't sure if that was a good thing or bad. "Well alright then. Let's get outta here and enjoy some of the sites more." Yang suggested. With that said, everyone left the room.

While they were walking in the streets again, one question remained. "If that place was also an arcade, who holds the highest score there?" Blake asked.

Uni smiled proudly. "Me of course. My high score is 10,000"

And the team just stared at her with their mouths hanging open. "10,000!?" All three girls shouted at once.