I hope everyone is doing well, I had to replay Re;Birth 2 in order to get the future game into this, along with I might continue this onto the future games, maybe even a spinoff for Megatagmension, but I'm not sure whether or not to do Re;Birth 3, it feels like it would take so much time and work to try and rewrite the story around Excel, so I might just skip it and go to Megadimension, and of course I like the happy ends, so it would of course be the True End.

Anyway, let's get on with Chapter 3!

Leanbox Basilicom, Leanbox

The night had passed, it was a bright and sunny day in the tropical nation, Excel was sitting in the meeting room, wearing a sleeveless white shirt and a pair of black and green shorts, looking as if he just woke up... which he did... cause Chika thought it would be funny to wake him up a mini before the meeting.

Everyone else had already gotten cleaned up, Nepgear sitting next to the him, Compa and IF sitting across, Broccoli and Red sitting next to the Duo and Cave standing beside Chika like a body guard.

"Now then, now that we've taken a break and composed ourselves,I shall properly introduce myself.

My name is Chika Hakozaki, and don't any of you forget it~!"

Nepgear leaned over to Excel, whispering to him.

"Is she always like this?...Excel?..."

Excel had already fallen asleep! He was too tired to listen to stuff he's already heard before from their walk through the dungeon to find Chika in the first place.

The Oracle took quick note of his tired nature, blowing an air horn right near his face.

All of the girls already had their ears covered before she let it rip.

"FUCKING CHRIST!"

He jolted awake as if he just woken up from a nightmare, causing him and his chair to fall onto the floor. All of the girls letting out some giggles at the display.

"What the fuck Chika? I could have gone deaf."

"Oh please, you know how fast CPUs heal from injuries, even blindness and deafness are removed."

Nepgear thought about something, but quickly dismissed it.

"How is that possible?"

IF spoke up, curious how such things were even possible, she understood physical injuries, but things such as blindness and deafness could also be cured?

"I have no clue, I didn't create them, if you invent time travel, you go back and ask."

It took a few minutes for Excel to calm down from the airhorn blast, but he recovered enough to be able to listen in. It was at least twenty or so minutes for Chika to understand everything Nepgear and her friends had been through, meeting the Candidates from Lastation and Lowee, along with Linda/Underling and Warechu.

"I see...so my Darling Vert and the other CPUs are stuck in the Gamindustri Graveyard, but the crystal wasn't pure enough to recover the CPUs, so only you were able to come through, is that correct?"

"Y-Yes it is, I'm hoping to gather up the power of the Mascots in order to help out cause and be able to help our sisters."

Excel sat in thought, quiet, trying to reprocess everything he heard.

"So, we just need to figure out where the Mascot is, right?"

"Well...all I know is after they kidnapped me and that Underling took my place, they managed to capture the Mascot and have it held somewhere."

"But how are we supposed to know if they didn't already destroy it or not?"

"Well, looking at the crime ratings and everything, it either seems that they have no clue what they are doing or this is the weirdest plan ever. They are probably just scrambling to get by, so their priorities are off."

Everyone thought over on where they could possibly have taken the Mascot to, before Excel spoke up.

"Remember how that dungeon looked? As if it was refurbished and updated, they might have hidden a base somewhere down there."

"That's at least a place to start looking, let's gather our things and head out."

Everyone went off to gather their things, Compa and IF, along with RED went off to buy some supplies at the Shop, Broccoli went off to gather some of her things, and Chika and Cave went off to do their jobs, leaving Nepgear and Excel all alone.

"So...whatcha wanna do?..."

Nepgear spoke, her cheeks a little red as she looked up at the taller blonde, him rubbing the back of his head as he thought.

"Well, I'm gonna hop in the shower right quick and get dressed, maybe try and find a better spear to use, I'll see you in a bit Nepgear."

He smiled, walking towards his bedroom, Nepgear for some reason, felt a little saddened watching him walk away from her, she had no clue what was going on with her!

About an hour later, at the end of the Dungeon

Excel and his friends had finally made their way to the end, looking around before landing their eyes on a girl with a mouse looking costume with gray skin and lime green hair, conversing with a short gray mouse with similar coloring, they seemed to be arguing like crazy.

"Those are the ones that are giving you trouble?"

He looked a little surprised, the girl looked like she had noodles for arms, but she kept managing to get away? Maybe she's either tougher than she looks, or his new friends weren't as strong as he thought they were.

"Well then, why don't you guys just hand over the Oracle? I'd hate to have to hurt a cute girl."

Excel yelled over to the Duo, snapping them out of their argument.

"I'm a mouse chu! I'm no girl, I am infact a gentleman."

"He was talking about me you idiot, but I don't think I'm that cute."

Excel rolled his eyes as he readied his spear, all of the others getting ready to fight.

Like, not even 5 minutes later.

Linda and Warechu were sitting on their asses, having them thoroughly handed to them.

"Damn it, I hate it seeing you broads win."

"Haaaa~ Getting smacked around by my angelic Compa~ This is bliss, chu."

He sighed, not really getting much of a work out from their bout, walking a little closer to the Duo, Red close behind.

"That was easy, why don't you two just hand us the Mascot, or else I'll just have to stick this spear up your asses."

He put on a fake devilish look, trying to intimidate them into giving them the Mascot.

"Goodness, are you ok Mascot?"

"Yes I am quite fine, and who are you all?"

"Well I'm Nepgear, and these are my friends, along with Leanbox's Candidate, I'm the CPU candidate from Planeptune, and I'd like your help to save the world and our sisters."

"Wow, right to the point nyu..."

"Ge-Ge... I think that was a little too much summarizing... "

The Mascot took a few seconds to process what it was spoken to about, before replying shortly after.

"No its quite alright, I can sense the powers of the other Mascots within her as well, rescuing the world and your sisters huh?"

"Oh! So you understand that we need your help right? So then..."

"Hold! It is protocol to gain Chikas approval in order to take the Mascot with you."

"Cave... I'm pretty sure I outrank her in pretty much every way possible."

She rolled her eyes and tugged on his ear lightly, causing him to yelp in pain.

"While it may be true, she has done much more work for this nation than you have, so we need HER permission."

"Ow! Fine, whatever"

Linda got up, wiping the dust off of herself.

"Hey! Don't ignore me just cause the battle ended!"

"Well, this is a new pattern, I thought you would have run away by now."

"How fast can this chick run if she can outspeed you guys?"

"I don't know, but we need to figure out what she's up to, and fast."

Red, didn't really care for the change, speaking up soon after.

"Keep bugging us and I'll take you to the cleaners again."

"Shut it squirt! I still have an ace up my sleeve~"

Excel immediately readied his spear once more, he'd hate to have to go into HDD, but if it called for it, then he would.

Linda soon pulled out from her jacket a small disk, nobody knew what it was, but apparently the Mascot did.

"A Mascot disk?! Where did you get such a thing?"

"From my totally badass boss~ She always has a way of getting things~ She told me to use it to get all of you out of our way!"

Linda crushed the disk in her hand, glowing with a bright light, although, when it disappeared, she didn't look too different.

"Woooooaaaaaah~! I can feel the power! All of you little broads, and the kinda cute guy over there are all dead!"

Of course, Warechu somehow managed to absorb some of the strength as well, cause boss bs?

"Oh well, guess I have no time waiting around, time for force, chu!"

"I hope you know a crime like that is punishable by something worse than death..."

Excel spoke up, his spear glowing slightly, Red thinking a similar idea.

"Underlings are always gonna be underlings! So it doesn't matter if she powers up, I'm gonna win!"

Red and Excel dash at her, Red landing a hard kick to the head, which didn't really do much to her, but him slamming the butt of his spear into her stomach at least staggered her a bit.

"Woah, my kick did nothing! But your attack was super strong!"

"Well, I work out almost everyday, not even a power up will help them against me."

He smirked a bit, twirling his spear around a bit, preparing for another strike. Dashing up, he prepared a stab, but she somehow managed to grab onto his hilt and slam her fist into his stomach, knocking the wind out of him, sending him back a few feet.

"Excel!"

Nepgear ran up to her new found friend, holding out a Nep Bull for him to drink to heal him up, but she couldn't give it to him if he was having trouble breathing, each of his breathes sounding like he was wheezing, barely able to contain any air in his lungs.

"How dare you abuse the powers of us Mascots like this?"

Compa tried her best to help get air into his lungs, but it wasn't working too well, her healing was working, but it was like a snails pace.

"Hehe, I can totally win like this! Finally! It's payback time you bitches!"

"Mmmmm~ My lovely, sexy, cute angel Compa~"

Warechu began to lick his lips, which totally grossed everyone out, they couldn't really fight back, but they didn't want this to happen!

"Ewwwwww... Please stay at least six feet away from me Mr. Mouse..."

"It seems like Underling activated her Limit Break Nyu... "

"I wish we could run, but I highly doubt Underling would let this chance slip by her so easily..."

"And just after we were able to find and rescue the Mascot... "

The sounds of rapid foots steps filled the hallway behind them, before a voice shouted out to our main party.

"Never give up! Never surrender!"

The party turned to see the source of the voice, even the bad guys turned to look. Standing there was a cute blue haired girl, her hair went down to her waist, she had nearly pale white skin and what most 'normal' people would call a slightly skimpy outfit, she had a tattoo of a music note on her stomach, wearing a pair of black and silver headphones.

"That heavenly voice... 5pb.?! What are you doing here?"

" Well... Miss Chika asked me to come help you guys out... so... here I am!"

Excel smiled as he looked at the blue haired girl, he had a long past with 5pb., they used to play with each other all the time, before she became a popular and successful idol, he even knew her real name!

"Well, we couldn't have asked for better reinforcements."

"Haha! Your that tone-deaf idol broad! What the hell are you gonna do? Sing us to death?"

Linda and Warechu both began to laugh, not even the allies, aside from Excel and Cave, knew how powerful her music was.

"Well... yes actually! Please listen to my song!"

5pb. pulled out a guitar, beginning to play a very popular song on it, which sounded absolutely lovely.

But, its effects started to take action, Excel felt the air slowly returning to his lungs, allowing his to chug down the Nep Bull like an average Frat Boy. The enemy duo eventually calmed their laughing, feeling their strength being sucked away from them.

"W-What the hell is going on?!"

Nepgear and party stared in awe at 5pb.s abilities, feeling their strength return and feel even stronger than before.

"W-What the goodness is going on?"

"It's her songs...They have the ability to strengthen the just and her allies, and weaken those that are evil and corrupt."

Excel spoke, standing up, rolling his shoulder as he felt better than he ever had!

"Alrighty, who wants to kick their asses?"

The party yelled,"YEAH!" before initiating another battle.

A time frame so fast that it doesn't even need its own line-later.

Excel and friends stood in victory, Nepgear approaching the Idol.

"Thank you very much for the help and support 5pb.!"

The idol's inner switch flicked, letting out a soft help, dashing into Excel's arms, holding him like he was some teddy bear or body pillow. Nepgear was a little upset and jealous.

"D-Don't misunderstand that Nepgear, when she isn't on stage and singing, she tend to be immensely shy and soft spoken... "

Excel spoke up, trying to not cause a scene in the middle of a dungeon. 5pb. looked up at the Candidate, blushing before quickly letting him go and walking back towards Nepgear.

"I-I'm so sorry... I didn't mean to run or anything!... but..."

"A shy girl can sing that well infront of a packed stadium, nyu?"

Broccoli and the rest didn't really understand how 5pb. worked, but Excel and Cave sure did, giggling a bit from the girls shyness.

"A-Anyways... Excel you meanie! I texted you earlier and you didn't respond at all... "

"I-I'm sorry 5pb...I was a little busy at the moment, you can understand that right?"

"And what have I told you about calling me 5pb.? I told you to call me by my real name."

5pb. pouted a bit, a little huffy as Excel tried to come up with an excuse, he still wasn't used to calling her by her real name after so long.

"I-I figured you didn't want a bunch of random people you haven't met to hear your real name..."

"... Fair enough, you get a pass on this one... "

5pb. stopped being a bit huffy and began to walk back towards the Basilicom, Excel chasing after her, the rest of the party talking with the Mascot on their way back.

Back at Leanbox Basilicom

Excel let out a sigh as he took a seat on his bed, overhearing the other girls talk about a way to try and get the people to forget about ASIC and try to put their faith back in the CPUs, he changed his clothes to a blue t-shirt with 5pb. on it (5pb. gave him lots of free merch) and went to grab a snack from the fridge, pulling out a granola bar and a soda.

He walked into the meeting room, after hearing them decide on a concert, Chika claiming to know a band she can get to play for them aside from 5pb..

"So, did you give them permission to take the Mascot yet?"

The blond spoke up, getting a few weird looks from the girls as he took a seat, for some reason he was wearing blue framed glasses, which matched his eyes perfectly.

"You look like the stepping stone to most hermits who live in their parents basement... "

Excel took this comment to heart, a little stunned that the Brunette would say such a thing. Which this is also were two short brunettes hopped onto the chair, apparently these twins were the Candidates to Lowee.

"Yeah! Big Sis told us to look out for people like those, and that they like little girls!"

Spoke the one in pink, who's name was apparently Ram, being the more outspoken one of the two, as the one in blue, Rom, being the more quiet and docile one, slowly nodded her head.

"Uh-huh, uh-huh. Weirdos..."

"I am no weirdo, she just gives me a lot of free merch, it at least means I don't have to pay for clothes."

He retorted, before taking a drink from his soda, before listening to one final conversation, about how the Mascot was allowed to go, but they had to start setting up the concert, and wanted to help.

Hours later, in Leanbox's Main Stadium

Excel stood beside Chika, a bunch of sweaty and kinda tired candidates, along with IF, Compa and Red, panted, trying to regain their strength.

"Why didn't you help us Excel? Your the one that works out."

"Nobody asked."

He simply said, before turning to the sound of 5pb.s song ending, and ready to call out the next band.

"Now everyone, please give a warm welcome to Leanbox's most popular boy band, Juniper!"

5pb. walked off the stage as a curtain rised, showing off a band of 'pretty boys' talking about how they were bi and probably how they thought they were better than everyone else.

"Chika, what have you done?! You can't give a bunch of Otakus a boy band! They need cute girls to sing songs!"

That's when an idea clicked in Nepgear's head, huddling up with the other candidates, whispering about something, before all nodding and running out onto the stage, the curtain quickly covering up Juniper.

A little while later.

Excel stood amazed, staring at the female Candidate's that had just performed an amazing song for the crowd, the entire stadium erupting with excitement and happiness, all chanting, "Long live the CPUs!"

Excel smiled as he handed each of them a small hand towel, to wipe off all the sweat they've accumulated from dancing around and singing out their.

"You all did great! That was absolutely amazing!"

Uni and Nepgear each blushed a shade of red, while the Ram just puffed out her chest in pride, Rom quietly thanking him for the nice words.

"Of course me and Rom did amazing, we are the Candidates of Lower after all~!"

He chuckled as 5pb. ran up to them, berating them with compliments, before being struck with the realization of her shyness, nearly tackling Excel once more, which cause both Nepgear and Uni to blush and pout oh so cutely.

"Look, you all can stay at my Basilicom for tonight, I'll have the maids prepare some spare rooms and you all can eat whatever you want, my treat!"

The twins lighted up, before their phone began to ring, Uni's phone also ringing, each one of them picking it up.

After a short conversation from each of them, Uni, Rom, and Ram were all asked to come back to their respective Basilicoms, which saddened them but they soon transformed and left, which, Excel definitely though Uni in HDD was rather cute.

"Alright, well, I guess those are a few bucks off the check."

He chuckled, before beginning to walk with the remaining girls, and 5pb. back to his Basilicom, which they were each asked to join their quest, inorder to help bring balance back.

"Sure, I'll go, Chika already does most of my work, I'll be sure to put plenty of effort into it!"

"W-Well... I would like the rest of the world to hear my songs and everything... S-So I'd like to go as well!"

Nepgear smiled and was happy she got some new friends and party members to join them, and they proceeded to party all night long... or at least until they crashed from their sugar highs...

That is this chapter over with! I hope the wait was worth it, I really had fun writing this chapter and I hope you all really enjoyed it, I have been a little on edge and also got to see Heavens Feel part 3.

I hope you all enjoy looking forward to the development of this series! Also, if you guys would like to, I could really use some help in deciding what personality change (if any) I should give to Excel's HDD form.