I do not own Hyperdimension Neptunia or their characters. They are owned by Idea Factory and Compile Heart. I only own my characters for this story.

"Phew! Another day of school finally over!" A young lad says with a sigh. "No more of these teasings for one day. Now to stay in my house until tomorrow."

He opens his bag, pulls out his agenda and opens it to today's date. He then notices the date on the calendar, "What?" It surprises him, "That was the last day of school. I'm out for the summer..." He says this with a monotonic voice as he didn't expect this.

He fist pumps an arm, "Yeah! I get to play video games all day long without a worry about curfews!" He would then rush home if he wasn't so lethargic, "Ugh... now I gotta walk home from school, joy..." This boy's name is Andrew McIntosh, he is... not so popular, you could say.

After thirty minutes of walking, but more like shuffling his feet along home from school, Andrew opens the door panting, sweating from the soon to be summer heat, "Boy... why does it need to be so hot of all days? And why can't my parents let me ride the bus?"

With these questions never to be answered he climbs upstairs to his room, hangs his bag and begins to rest on his comfy bed, "Ugh... am I tired... I need to play me a game." He looks through his collection of games and sighs, "I've beaten all these games already. I guess I better get a new game."

He looks out the window and sees the sun blaring out there and he gets up and gets on his computer, "No way I'm walking to the game store, I'm going to find a game online." He clicks away on his standard mouse, he unfortunately cannot afford a powerful computer due to the fact that his parents don't really have the money to get him such things, so Andrew must make the most of what he got.

He opens his window browser and begins to surf the web of its millions of games to play. Andrew also likes to play web games when he is really bored but they don't give him much of a challenge.

One thing that Andrew is good at that he's proud of are video games, he doesn't have much confidence in anything else and he can just do at least average at everything, except gym class. Only because if he doesn't keep his grades up, he will be banned from his games until they are brought up. This gives him the motivation to keep going through school even how much he hates it.

"Enough looking back at school. Time to see what the internet has to offer." Andrew begins to search the web and types in 'Extravagant games' and gets a bunch of stuff that he didn't want, games priced at ridiculous prices plus tons of other unwanted results. After an hour of searching, he suddenly gets frustrated, "Damn the internet and their rip-off games!" He didn't shout it loud enough for anyone to hear as he is a pretty quiet person, but it's enough to make him feel better.

Andrew sighs and takes a look in his inbox to see what he got in his email. He remembers that he has subscribed to a bunch of video game sites and magazines. Maybe something from those sites will pop up in his inbox, "Here we go."

He checks his inbox and notices something interesting, "A winner at a sweepstakes, huh?" He clicks the email for further information. Andrew reads at what and how he won this sweepstakes, "Best video game ranking in the leaderboards for this month... well I knew playing almost every type of video game will pay off one day. What did I win?"

It didn't say what Andrew had won but it did say that it will ship later today, he thinks of the possibilities of what the prize could be, "It could be a new game that hasn't been released yet or a new limited edition game console or... a new computer."

He looks at the time on his wind-up antique watch that his dear grandfather had given him along with a bunch of retro games. "4:15. I suppose I could just catch up on sleep until it arrives, huh." He gets up from his chair, jumps on his bed, shuts his eyes and drifts off into dreamland. Hours later and... BAM! Something loud smacked his front door in his house that jolts him awake, "Holy crap! What the hell just hit the front door?"

Andrew sighs and rolls off his bed and heads downstairs, his parents haven't made it back from work yet so he's alone in the house, just like he is used to. Andrew opens the door and sees a small package on the doorstep of his house. He didn't know how it could make that loud of a noise and couldn't be bothered to care, "It's here. Here we go."

Andrew didn't sound too enthusiastic but he is anxious to see what's inside the package. Andrew picks up his package and closes the front door, sits on the couch in the living room and tries to tear open his prize. He grunts trying to tear the flap open, "Stupid packaging... why can't it be a box or something." He gives up and opens it with his teeth and spits the ripped portion on the coffee table, "Bleh! Now what's inside this thing?" He reaches his hand in and pulls out some kind of watch looking device.

"What is this? What is this? What the... the hell?" He rotates the watch all around and tries to figure out what it could be. "I never seen this device before online or any articles about it, it looks like some kind of mobile device." Without any clue on what it could be, he straps it on his left wrist while his grandfather's watch is on his right wrist.

"How do I turn this on?" Andrew gives the little screen on the watch a poke or two and the screen glows blue followed by the circuit like pattern all over the watch.

The watch started talking to him in a robotic male voice, "Caucasian male; Age: 15; Color of hair: Brown; Color of eyes: Brown; Academic skills: Average; Athletic abilities: Below average; Gaming skills: Supreme; Social skills: Abysmal."

Andrew just gives a wide eyed expression on his face. Obviously not talking to it as he has a bad time talking to anyone. The watch started speaking again, "Give me your identification, please." Andrew keeps on staring at the watch while blinking a few times.

The watch repeated itself, "Give me your identification, please." Still Andrew won't reply to the watch and just stares at it.

The watch then shouts, "Give me your freaking name!"

Andrew jolts, "Um... An-Andrew McIntosh."

The watch sighs, "The social anxiety will need to be dealt with as soon as possible."

Andrew then says to the watch, "M-mind explaining to me how you can be talking to me?"

The watch says, "Well... about that. I'm not your everyday watch as I possess a superior intellect. Far superior to yours and anyone else on this world."

Andrew gulps, "W-what does that mean? On this world?"

The watch explains, "You can say that I come from another place from this world... or universe. It's more like a different dimension to be more precise."

Andrew nods, "I s-see... why did I get a hold of you?"

The watch sighs, "Well... unfortunately, I was in possession of a competition. But fortunate for me, however, it was a gaming competition so I could easily find a being worthy enough to borrow my power. That would be you, Andrew."

Andrew asks the talking watch, "W-why is it good that it was a gaming competition?"

The watch answers, "Because the dimension I come from consists of relying to video games. It's complicated if you haven't been there, but trust me."

Andrew nods and feels a bit more better with the situation, "I think I get it. What is your name if you have one?"

The watch says, "I don't have one."

Andrew replies, "Well... can I give you one if you don't have one?"

The watch agrees, "Very well."

Andrew thinks it over and comes up with a good one he hopes, "How about Xelor? It's the reversed name of an extravagant watch in our world."

The watch processes it over and says, "Very well, I will be named Xelor. It will be added to my database."

Andrew smiles a bit, "Good. You will be a welcomed part of my family."

Xelor beeps. "That's right. I haven't told you your purpose yet."

Andrew gives a puzzled look, "Huh? Purpose?"

Xelor explains, "You will report to my dimension and assist me there. I will tell you the details as we go along. And you won't return to your dimension for quite a long time. Will you still go along with this?"

Andrew looks downs sadly, "I won't... return? I won't see my parents and they will be worried."

Xelor states, "Take your time. If you refuse, however, I will find another being to take this responsibility."

Andrew says, "So, no matter what, you will take a kid from their parents."

Xelor replies, "That's of no concern to me."

Andrew gasps and says in a dull voice, "For shame. Are you sure you are a high tech watch from another dimension and not some kind of alien probe? You are doing a similar job of you ask me."

Xelor gets offended and beeps loudly, "I'm not taking insults from a mere human!"

Andrew snickers a bit, "You are getting pretty mad about it."

Xelor replies, "This is for the sake of my dimension and you will do it a huge favor if you partake to this. Now, no more of this childish behavior."

Andrew shrugs, "Ok. I'll do it."

Xelor beeps twice and replies, "I'm glad you see this in my perspective."

Suddenly, Andrew started to have glowing ones and zeroes appearing all over on his body and sees it that he is fading away into nothing, "What's going on, Xelor?" He doesn't respond and Andrew vanishes from this mortal realm. Andrew then appears in a grassy field with nothing but nature surrounding him.

He looks around and comments, "It's like I have stepped into a RPG fantasy land or something."

Xelor beeps, "Exactly. Andrew... welcome to Gamindustri."

Andrew's eyes widens and he gulps, "Um... Game industry? Like... the video game portion of the industrial products?"

Xelor replies with, "I have no idea what your incoherent interrogative sentence means nor does it concern me, but this is where I will tell you your purpose."

Andrew replies, "Ok, but less of the intelligent sentences or whatever that was."

Xelor beeps, "If that's what you will prefer, I will comply."

Andrew looks around, "So this is Gamindustri... what does someone like me do around here? There doesn't seem to be anyone around here for miles."

Xelor tells Andrew, "We are in the outskirts of Gamindustri, there are four sections of Gamindusti that are controlled by the four nations. Once we come across one, I will explain it to you so you will get the idea."

Andrew asks to the all knowing watch, "Why can't you tell me now?"

Xelor sighs, "So many questions... well, to make it seem to be reasonable to you... it's to leave a feeling of wonder when you explore. You play video games, don't you? You don't want anything to be spoiled, right?"

Andrew nods understandably, "Good point and well made, too." Andrew continues to walk around the grassy field and sees plants and small animals that don't seem to be like the ones back home, "This place seems very massive, how long is it to one of those nations you said?"

"I would say about 100 miles or so."

Xelor replied to Andrew which he lets out an exasperated sigh, "Great, more walking. Just what I like in my RPG world."

Xelor beeps, "You won't walk into a nation just yet, we will have to train your mind first."

Andrew tilts his head with confusion, "Huh? Well, if that means no walking then I'm all for it."

Xelor scans the area, "This seems like a preferable area, we will have our home here." He makes a small house appear out of thin air much like how Andrew disappeared and reappeared.

Andrew lets out a small, but audible gasp, "How did you do that?"

Xelor gives a small robotic chuckle which is more enthusiastic than Andrew is, "Impressive, isn't it? I just bought a small house off one of the nations' datashop."

Andrew blinks and replies, "So... I have money?"

Xelor beeps, "That's correct. I gave you enough to get by, use it wisely."

Andrew smiles, "Sweet. Can I buy me some video games for entertainment?"

"I don't see why not. But be wary on how much you spend."

Xelor warned Andrew and he waves and then lays a hand on the doorknob, "Yeah, yeah. I got it." He opens the door and sees that the house already has stuff inside, "This is like so cool. I've got my own place to call my own."

Xelor makes a pinging sound, "It's time to get started on your training."

Andrew is surprised by the sudden suggestion, "R-right now? But we just got here."

Xelor isn't going to have Andrew do anything else, "Yes, but we need as much training as we possibly can." Andrew sighs, "It will take me forever to do this. I struggle with my gym class as it is and you expect me to do this level of physical work?"

Xelor can tell that he's dealing with a true pure grade weenie, "It's not that kind of training, Andrew."

This relieved Andrew slightly and he asks wishing to get more clarity from this, "Oh... so what kind is it?"

Xelor explains, "It's virtual. You won't get any physical exercise but you will get the experience of a real fight."

Andrew didn't expect this, "Fighting? I'm actually going to fight things? Like monsters and bosses?"

"That's correct. You didn't think I was going to summon you for anything less, did you?"

Andrew shakes his head, "Had the feeling but didn't know that's going to be the reality of it all. This is all so surreal to me."

Xelor begins to glow and engulf the room in his blue bright light, "Well, get ready because this is going to be the most difficult two months of your life... until we get to the real difficult part that is... reality." Andrew gasps in awe of the brightness of Xelor's light and the sheer wonder of it all.

What will happen in this young lad's life? Find out next time for more of this thrilling story! Also, this chapter is going to be the introduction to the story before we get to the real good stuff. Let me know what you think of this, I'm trying to make this as good as possible on my own. Any advice will be helpful as well, thanks.

EDIT: Fixed the wall of text problem so it's going to be easier to read. You're welcome :)