A/N: Oh, helloww... After reading a few Bolt fics, I thought it was time I give it a go. My first Bolt fic. Enjoy =).

Disclaimer: I don't own Bolt.

The Computer

Chapter 1: The Computer arrives in Penny's House

As he switched the channels over the 'magic box' with his remote, Rhino slouched like a couch potato. He could not find any new program to watch get glued on.

"Boring…"

In other news, the stock market…

"Lame…"

Let's count to two hundred. Ready?

"Nah."

And that is where babies are born…

"Ewww. Gross." He pressed to change the channel, but it seemed that the remote was no longer responsive. Apparently, it was out of batteries, but a hamster would not really know that. Powerless to change the channel, he forced himself to watch how babies were born. "This isn't right." He started to make a face. Eventually, he could only take so much. "Enough of your lies!" He got out of his hamster ball and went down the couch to approach the television. "Turn off." He said. "Please, why won't you turn off!" He then noticed the wire that was connect to an outlet. He made his way there and unplugged the television. Pretty soon, the television turned dark and fell silent. "I think I've watched too much for today." He then thought of an idea. "I know, I'll go find Bolt and that cat."

He climbed his way back up to the sofa and got back to his ball. He rolled his ball to the ground and was on his way. He started to the kitchen. "Hey Bolt, what are you up to lately?" But no one was there to greet him. The hamster made fuzz. Bolt was not in the kitchen and so were Penny, her mom, Mittens. "They must be outside." He said to himself.

He then went outside to see for himself. "Bolt, this is crazy, I thought you were in the kitchen, but I realized that you're just here eh… you're not here." He said after realizing that they were not outside.

Rhino's eyes widened and hurriedly went back in the house. "Where did they go?" The realization hit him. He was all alone. "I seriously need to stop watching too much on the magic box…" A sound falling to the ground was then heard. It was pretty audible. It sounded like it came from upstairs. He approached the stairs and looked up. He then slowly exited his ball and climbed upward the stairs. The second floor was getting dark. The lights were not on. It felt silent, but he could have sworn he heard the sound from up here. "Bolt? You there?" He slowly made his way to a room with a door slightly open. It was Penny's room. The hamster grew a bit nervous. "Bolt?" He slowly pushed the door and entered the room.

Three weeks ago…

Rhino was watching over the magic box, watching his usual favourite cartoons on the magic box. He then heard knocking by the front door. Penny's mom opened the door revealing a stranger at the front. "Morning Ma'am."

"Is it here?"

"It's being moved from the truck." He then handed over a clipboard and a pen. "Sign here please." She grabbed the pen and wrote her signature.

"Thank you, Ma'am. By the way, the specs are listed here in this receipt."

Rhino wondered about what the fuss was going on when Bolt and the others arrived. "Rhino, what's going on?" Mittens asked.

"I don't know. Must be a package."

Bolt and Penny walked nearer to Penny's mom. "Mom, what's going on?" She asked. Bolt went to the delivery man and sniffed over the man's shoes. "It's the new computer I ordered from the computer store in town."

"We have a computer now?" Penny said excitedly.

"That's right little missy, but only use that for your school work, dear. Anyway, I got it from a bundle, uhm… sir, can you tell me what I bought again."

"Yes ma'am." The delivery boy replied. "You ordered the PC bundle with the MAD Phenom-2 X-4. 2.80 gigahertz with the NVIDEO 9800GT 1 GB VRAM ddr3 256-bit memory bus. A 500 GB EasternDigital SATA harddrive 7200-rpm. 4 GB ddr3 RAM. A Gigabit motherboard, and other PC accessories."

Penny and her mom looked puzzled. "What?"

"Wait a minute. That sounds expensive, are you sure this was what I ordered? I thought I ordered an office computer."

"Yes ma'am, it's the only bundle we have, coupled with our store promo, 50% slash on all prices, you get a performance computer for the price of an office computer."

"Oh."

Later, Penny and her mom watched as the technicians installed the brand new computer in Penny's room. "Sorry Penny, I could've sworn I got us an office computer."

"It's okay, mom. I don't mind. I mean, I'd sure love to play once in a while."

Just outside, the pets watched on looking at how things were going. "Mittens, what is that?" Bolt asked.

"It's called a computer Wags. It's where people do some computing stuff, play games, watch videos and all that."

"I don't know cat. It looks like a magic box to me." Rhino said pointing toward the LCD monitor.

"Yeah. It's kinda related to the magic box, except it does more."

"Interesting." Rhino said with a somewhat evil smile.

"Okay ma'am. The installation is complete. Oh and before I forget, here's the complementary game that came with the bundle." The delivery guy handed the game to Penny.

"Zombies4Life?" Penny said, reading the title.

"Yeah, it's a game where you're like one of the four survivors of a zombie epidemic and you like shoot zombies, you know, for fun."

"Really?"

"Yep. It's also one of the best games of the year. You should try it out." He then got his tools and headed to the door. "My work is done. If you have any problems, our number is at the receipt. We also have a one-month replacement policy."

Penny then looked at the game she held on her hand. "Zombies?"

Morning came and after installing the game, Penny thought that maybe she could have fun kicking some zombie butt. She finally makes it on the first chapter of the game. The character she played was a female character. A helicopter comes above them but is unable to see them. "If we can find something to signal the helicopter, then we'd sure be saved." Her character said. They started walking through an empty rural road and pretty soon the zombies started hording towards them. Penny tried the best she can spraying bullets everywhere while her AI teammates were doing the same. After entering a safehouse, she paused the game.

"Wow, this is even better than acting on the Bolt show." She said.

Soon her mother from the kitchen yelled to her. "Honey, come down here before the school bus arrives. You don't wanna be late for school."

"Coming mom." She said grabbing her stuff and headed down. Unknowingly, she left the computer on.

After just seconds of idleness, it was the pets' turn to wonder on the mysteries of the computer as they enter Penny's room. Rhino went up to the table with Bolt's help. He rolled the ball toward the screen. "Okay Rhino, get ready for one awesome computer session!" He said. "Computer, activate!" He ordered, waiting for something to happen, but nothing seems to be moving.

"Oh brother. Rhino, you gotta press the keys on the keyboard and move the mouse for it to move." Mittens instructed.

"You mean, I gotta move with… my hands?"

"What were you expecting, genius."

Rhino looked at his hands. The keyboard was over there. The mouse was over there. Keyboard, Mouse, Keyboard, Mouse, Keyboard…. "Hey, my hands aren't long enough."

"Oh brother." She approached the monitor. "See that. It says press esc to continue." She then moved to the esc key and pressed it. The game continued as it did.

"Great." Rhino said ecstatically. "So what now?"

"I don't know. I don't know how to play this game." She then jumped to the floor and walked out. "Hey, where are going?"

"This is your thing Rhino, but not mine." She then looked at Bolt. "Wags, you comin'?"

Bolt looked at Rhino and looked at Mittens. He then looked back to Rhino. "Sorry Rhino, but I don't think this is my thing either." He said jumping out and the two were now out of the room. Rhino sat in front of the keyboard and faced the monitor. "Okay then. Looks like it's just you and me, buddy." He stood high and mighty facing the computer. "I, Rhino the hamster, will find a way to master the computer! "