On the last chapter of Hyperdimension Overclocked... Andrew showed his identity to the girls and they were shocked! What does this mean for him now? Let's see...

As the dogoo rests happily on Andrew's head and not worried about any fast speeds, Andrew asks, "So... anyone knows about those three or am I going to be lost in the dark?"

IF replies, "Yes, we know them. We have faced them before and they gave us trouble."

Neptune adds, "Not if the player overleveled us, then it would be pretty easy!"

Andrew stays mute from that as IF continues, "They captured the CPUs so the candidates and I had to go on a mission to rescue them."

Compa adds in, "Don't forget about me, Iffy!"

IF nods, "Yes... you too, Compa... anyway, it took us three years to save them and to save you the long anecdote, we defeated them and saved Gamindustri. It seems like we have to do it again with your help as a GPU, Andrew."

Neptune says, "Won't that be fun?"

Andrew draws silent, Compa says in a whisper like voice, "I think you broke him, Iffy."

IF checks on his condition, "Hey, Andrew, are you alright?"

Andrew doesn't say anything as he is in deep thought. Neptune looks at him and waves her hand across his face, "Yo, Andy... are you feeling alright?"

ZAP!

Xelor knocks Andrew out of whatever trance he was in, "I'm alright now." Andrew says from the shock.

The others makes an exhale of relief with Nepgear saying, "Thank goodness... what's the matter, Andy?"

Andrew says back, "Nothing's wrong, I'm fine."

Neptune says not buying it, "Are you sure? Because to me it's like something is trying to steal your mind or something."

Andrew shakes his head, "No, it's not that. It's just... I'm realizing that I'm getting so much responsibility in the short about of time I have been here. I just don't know if I can do it."

Neptune smiles, "You'll do just fine! With that form, there will be nothing to stop you!"

Compa nods, "Yessy! And you got friends to help you along the way, Drey Drey!"

IF says trying to be a part of this, "You are not doing this alone. We're behind you."

Nepgear says something also, "I know it sounds too much but trust me... that's how I felt when I became a CPU candidate."

Andrew can't help but break into tears, "Guys... thank you."

Neptune smiles, "No prob! And quit crying, ya big softy! Let's go find the goddess!"

Andrew wipes his tears of joy and nods, "Right."

They eventually find where the Bascilicom is and it seems that the same guard from before is standing there and gasps, "I-it's you again!"

Andrew stares at her trying to remember, "Do I know you...? Oh yeah, you're the guard that wouldn't let me in."

The guard nods, "And I don't know how you got passed last time, but you aren't going in anymore. You are forbidden!"

Andrew repeats, "Forbidden?"

She shouts, "Forbidden! Now leave!"

Neptune asks, "I recognize you... Chika?! What are you doing dressed as a guard?"

The supposed Chika pouts, "You recognize me... drat! I thought I was perfectly disguised!"

Neptune shakes her head, "Nope! So what are you doing guarding the Bascilicom?"

Chika points at Andrew, "To keep people like him away from my Vert! He's some kind of master stealth artist!"

Andrew and the rest of the girls gets a puzzling look, Andrew says, "W-what?"

Chika nods, "What is your devious plan with her? Tell me!"

Andrew keeps that puzzling face, "Um... to be friends with her?"

Chika chuckles, "That's what you want her to believe. But I can see that you want even more with her. Admit it!" She points at Andrew again.

Andrew looks at the others, "And she's the oracle?"

IF replies, "She's... protective of Vert. Like a lot."

Chika also says, "And I don't know how she likes you more than me." She points at Nepgear.

Nepgear gets the same puzzling look, "What?"

Neptune says, "I know... right? It's strange, isn't it?"

Andrew tells Chika, "Um... I think you are overreacting a bit."

Chika blurts out, "I'm not overreacting! Oops... that's a bit too much there, I apologize."

Andrew sweatdrops, "Err... yeah."

IF tries to say something, "Not to be stepping on your toes, but we need to see her."

Chika replies, "Oh, you can see her... but I don't want him going anywhere near her ever again!"

Neptune tries to defend Andrew, "But you don't understand... it's for the fate of the world for you see... he's a GPU!"

Chika replies, "A what?"

Andrew explains, "A goddess' aid. Their guardian angel if you will."

Chika denies, "Nope! There's no such thing! You probably made that up so you can get a free pass here. It's not going to happen!"

Andrew replies, "Well... that's what I used to get in here before."

Chika says, "Prove it! Show me this GPU form that you speak of."

Andrew nods, "Glad to." Andrew touches the watch screen and he transforms into his GPU form, "Is this proof enough for you?"

Chika frowns, "Yes. It's not fair that you get a job involving to bond with Lady Vert."

Andrew says, "I'm sorry. I also get to help you so maybe I can give her some free time for you to spend some time with her."

Chika perks up from that, "Really?"

Andrew gives her a thumbs up, "You got it!"

Chika goes to hug Andrew, "Thank you! You are not so bad after all and... I'm sorry."

Andrew smiles and hugs her back, "No problem."

IF is amazed by what Andrew just did, "I can't believe he just turned her around in just a few seconds."

Neptune says, "He just made a promise to her, do you think he can keep it?"

IF replies, "Let's hope so or otherwise he'll meet a very angry Chika."

Chika lets go of Andrew and leads them the way, "I'll take you to Lady Vert's sanctuary."

Andrew transforms to normal and thinks to himself, "Oh god... what did I just promised?"

Xelor explains, "You are giving the goddess some free time, that means helping her beat the countless games that she's happen to have and all the mountains of paperwork that a goddess must do. Are you comfortable of fulfilling this promise?"

Andrew eyes widen, "Oh god! What did I just promised?!" He shouts in his head as he follows the group.

They get to the same door that Andrew sneaked in a day or two ago, Chika says, "Here she is, I'll leave you to your business now." She seems to be happy now that Andrew made that promise to her.

Andrew knocks on the door, "Hey... Vert. Are you busy?"

It takes a moment or two before Vert opens the door and smiles at Andrew, "Ah... my little gaming buddy."

Andrew blushes a bit and smiles, "Good to see you, too. I brought my friends with me."

Vert looks over at his friends and as soon as she sees Nepgear, she immediately clings onto her, "Oh, my little sister is here! It's been ages!"

Andrew's eyes widens as he can clearly see that Vert is suffocating Nepgear with her breasts. Nepgear tries get out of it, "V-Vert... can you please let me go? I can't breathe."

Vert lets go and apologizes, "I'm deeply sorry, Nepgear. It's just that your darling big sister Vert hasn't seen you in quite some time."

Andrew asks, "But isn't Neptune her big sister?"

Vert frowns hearing that, "Yes... but she hasn't shown her as much affection as I have."

Chika frowns too, "But... I'm here..."

Andrew asks trying to change the conversation, "Oh, so I have something to tell you, Vert. Have you heard of GPUs?

Vert thinks for a moment and say, "No... I don't believe I have. What are they?"

Andrew explains, "They protect the CPUs as their guardians and of course spend time with them or help them with tasks. That kind of thing."

Vert smiles, "Well, that sounds lovely! I'll be happy to have a GPU to be helping me with my work." She lets the others in and Andrew sees the piles of games stacked up to the ceiling.

Chika whispers to Andrew, "Remember your promise?"

Andrew eyes widen, "Um... yeah."

Chika tells Vert, "Well, you are in luck because Andrew is a GPU! And he is more than happy to help you with your work! Isn't that right, Andrew?"

Andrew nods, "Y-yeah..."

Vert claps, "Great! You don't know how happy I am to hear you say that, Andy! You are hereby given the task of helping me with my paperwork! It's in my computer, you know how to work it, right?"

Andrew nods, "Yes..." He walks towards it and sees the multiple screens on it, "Why do you need this many screens?"

Vert replies, "Well, I multitask with certain games and paperwork so I'll leave you to decide what's comfortable with you."

Neptune asks Andrew, "Since you are helping Vert... can you help me with my paperwork, Andy?"

Andrew freezes in overwhelment, "Uh..."

Vert adds on, "And the other CPUs will be delighted to have you help them as well!"

Xelor says, "Forgot to mention is that when you want to help a CPU, they are more than welcome to have them do whatever they want with you."

Neptune smiles upon hearing that, "That's the best thing you've ever said, Xelor!"

Andrew is still frozen but he replies, "You don't say..."

Vert says to Andrew, "I'll leave you do your work, Andy!" She smiles saying that.

Neptune says, "How about we play some games while Andy helps you?"

Vert nods, "Yes, that will be divine."

Andrew says under his breath, "I want to play some games, too..."

They started without him and it seems that everybody is playing and Andrew sighs, "I guess I'll get to work, then..."

He clicks on the folder with the paperwork inside and it is a giant list of documents. The scrubber is so thin that it would be hard to even click on it. "Ugh... why me?"

After hours of typing and clicking, he sighs, "That's only three of them..."

Xelor suggests, "You can just go inside the computer and have your programming do it automatically, you know."

Andrew shouts in his head, "Why didn't you tell me sooner?!"

"Because I love seeing you struggle with CPU documents." Xelor beeped.

Andrew transforms and that catches everybody's attention. Vert asks, "What's wrong, Andy?"

Neptune suggests, "Maybe he's planning to ditch us."

Andrew shakes his head, "I got a faster way of doing this!" He brought out his armcannon and connects it to the PC and he becomes a stream of blue light and gets sucked into the computer.

Everyone gasps, Vert seems to be in awe, "Where did he go? Is he in my precious computer?"

Chika points to an icon running around on the screen, "It looks like he is! Do you see his sprite on the monitor?"

Vert looks closely and sees the 8 bit representation of Andrew, "My... he is! Not even I can be this close to my computer."

Andrew's sprite looks at the screen and does a little wave, he seems to notice them.

Neptune seems to get an idea, "Hey! Let me see the mouse!" She grabs it and moves the cursor to Andrew, "I wonder what I can do here?" She clicks on Andrew and a subwindow opens showing a list of icons depicting actions. She clicks on the one that looks like a blue fireball and Andrew's arm glows.

Andrew shoots an 8 bit enerblast and some of the documents gets filled out, Neptune shouts out in excitement, "Coolness! He's just like an old school RPG!"

Vert looks at the screen an amazement and says, "Let me have a turn."

Neptune denies, "No way! I'm playing first! Go back to your awesome modern games!"

Vert says back, "But I don't think you have appreciation for these types of retro games."

Neptune sighs, "Fine... it is your computer anyway." She goes back to the others.

Vert clicks on an action and Andrew casts a cool spell that throws a blue spike of energy at the documents. "If only filling out documents was this fun."

Chika asks Vert, "Um... I think Andrew can do that on his own. Why not you relax for a bit and I can get you something?"

Vert denies, "Nonsense, Andrew could use some assistance from a goddess." She sits down and continues clicking on the screen and cool sound effects comes out of it.

Chika frowns but gives in, "...Ok." She returns to the group.

From Andrew's perspective, Andrew is in a 3D space with weird objects floating about. "Phew! She's working me hard, Xelor."

Xelor beeps, "Yes, she's doing well. No wonder she's the best gamer in Gamindustri."

Andrew looks over at the screen and sees Vert concentrating hard. Andrew brings out moves that was out of his control, "Now I know how it feels being the main character in a video game." He throws out more moves.

"You can still move on your own. She cannot do that." Xelor tells Andrew.

But of course, as if on cue, Vert asks, "How do I move you over there, Andy?" She points at a spot.

Andrew sighs, "I'll get over there for you." He runs over to that area that Vert says.

Vert exclaims in excitement, "My, such immersion! I actually feel like I am contributing in the video game without actually being there."

Andrew chuckles, "Heh! Almost as if you are some kind of goddess ruling over me."

Andrew could hear her but Vert cannot hear him so whatever Andrew said did not get through to Vert as she is having so much fun, "My, even if this is Andy's little programming, I'm having tons of fun." She moves closer to her monitor.

Andrew who is still using moves without his involvement says, "Wow! Were you aware that this might happen, Xelor?

"Yes. But not this intensely, I feel sorry for the oracle that you promised, though." Xelor responded.

Andrew can almost see her in the background feeling glum that she isn't hanging out with Vert. "Is there any way I can clear these at light speed? I do go very fast." Andrew asked.

Xelor beeps, "You need to use bandwidth mode, but only the user of the PC can activate it."

Andrew nods and jumps up and down trying to get Vert's attention. Vert catches this, "My, what's troubling you, Andy?"

Andrew points at the move in his actions window, "Please use this, Vert!" Even if she cannot hear him.

Vert looks at it, "Bandwidth mode? So it will let you take care of these documents in no time?"

Andrew nods. Vert shakes her head, "I cannot allow myself to do that. I am having incredibly large amounts of fun here, don't you agree?"

Andrew falls over comedically, "Well... she has decided." He gets up and thinks of something, "Maybe if she looks at Chika's mood, she'll go to her." Andrew points at Chika or trying to.

Vert asks, "What are you pointing towards?" She looks over and sees Chika looking sad, "Chika... what is the matter?"

Chika tries to mask it, "No, Lady Vert... I'm fine. Please continue playing with your sprite GPU."

Vert sighs, "I know you too well to not believe that. Now, are you upset that I'm not paying attention to you?"

Chika looks over somewhere, "Maybe..."

Vert walks towards Chika and forces her gaze over to her, "Would you like it if we did something together?"

Chika smiles, "Yes. I would like that very much."

Vert nods, "Alright, then." Vert walks back to her computer and clicks on the 'Bandwidth mode' icon.

Andrew feels large amounts of energy surging through him, "What's going on?"

Xelor explains, "Being in bandwidth mode means that you are using the speed of the WiFi that the PC is connected to."

Andrew shouts, "Yeah! So cool!" He trails off around in the PC doing things to it, mainly filling out the documents and something else.

Neptune watches it, "Wow... Andrew is going turbo fast!"

IF nods, "I wonder if he can search on the internet with that kind of speed."

Nepgear warns, "There's horrible stuff on the internet, he could get hurt or worse..."

Andrew stops speeding around, nods, zips out of the PC and projects his being back into the real world. "Whoa! What a rush!"

Neptune asks, "How is it? How did it feel?"

Andrew replies, "Way past cool!" Presenting a thumbs up.

Neptune laughs, "Wow! I gotta use that line!"

Andrew replies, "By all means!" Andrew notices Vert and Chika hugging, "So, I assume everything turned out alright?"

The stop and looks at Andrew and Chika nods, "Yes, thank you so much, Andy. Can I call you that?"

Andrew smiles, "Sure you can!" He transforms back to normal, "I guess I ran out of juice now..."

Vert says, "First, I'm going to see what you did, Andy." She looks over to her computer and gasps, "What did you do to my computer?!"

Everybody is surprised by the sudden shock in her voice, Chika asks, "What did he do?"

Vert replies, "It runs so much faster now! It never used to run this smoothly after putting thousands of games onto it."

Andrew explains, "Well, after finishing those documents, I noticed some issues with your PC so I cleaned it, defragged it and improved the overall performance of it. That's all." Andrew notices that Vert is walking towards him and asks with a sweatdrop, "Something wrong, Vert?"

Vert shakes her head, "Heavens no, there's nothing wrong. It's just that... you are so wonderful!" She hugs Andrew in a similar fashion that she hugged Nepgear which means... yep.

Andrew's face gets flushed with every kind of emotion possible in this situation. Neptune asks, "Hey... I don't think Andy appreciates that you are using him as your boy toy."

Vert looks down at Andrew and smiles, "He seems to be enjoying it."

Xelor replies, "Until he lacks proper oxygen to stay conscious."

Chika notices something and then asks Vert, "But, aren't we supposed to do something together? Please..."

Vert lets go of Andrew and nods, "Alright, then. What do you wish to do?"

Chika replies, "Oh! How about we take a spa bath together? You might need it after that intense game time."

Vert nods, "Alright, that sounds lovely. Maybe the others would like to join us?"

Andrew suddenly freezes up again upon hearing that but IF straights things out, "We are on a busy schedule. We need to help Andy here to bond with the goddesses and I think he had enough here for today. Isn't that right, Andy?"

Andrew who is still trying to recover from that hug nods, "Y-yes, that's right."

Vert frowns a bit, "Aw... that's a shame. Perhaps next time, then?"

IF replies, "Maybe... Andrew, let's go."

Andrew nods, "Y-yeah..."

Neptune helps him turn to the door, "Come on! Let's go, you goof!"

Chika says something to herself but the others didn't hear, "The way that she hugged him... I need to keep an eye on him just in case."

Vert asks her, "Coming, Chika?"

Chika replies ecstatically, "Coming, my goddess Vert!"

After that whole thing ended, Neptune asks Andrew, "So... feel any better?"

Andrew nods, "Yeah, why?"

Neptune asks trying to tease him, "Because of that Vert incident... how was it?"

Andrew freezes on that question, "I-it was just a hug... that's all."

Neptune replies not believing it, "I saw your face! It was so red that you looked like a tomato!"

Andrew tries to make an excuse, "W-well... I get nervous when I'm close to new people."

IF replies pointing out, "But, she isn't new, you've met her before. She called you her 'little gaming buddy'".

Andrew chuckles nervously, "Ah... so I did... uh... hey! Let's see what Noire is up to."

Neptune walks towards him, "Hey, don't change the subject!"

Andrew touches his watch and transforms quickly, "Sorry! I can't hear you by the sound of me going fast!" He runs off.

Neptune shouts at him, "Hey! Don't ditch us! That's a criminal offense to leave your party behind, you know!"

Andrew teases her shouting, "Who said it was my party?" He runs back, "Just kidding! But, let's race again and if you beat me I could answer your question."

Neptune nods, "Okay!"

IF tries to talk them out of it, "Don't pressure him, Neptune. If he doesn't feel comfortable saying his... opinion, then let him be."

Xelor states, "I agree. Besides, it will stall our objectives even further. We still have to stop those three once Andrew has acquired enough power to do so."

IF is impressed, "Well put, Xelor. It is actually Arfoire that we have to worry about, really."

Xelor asks, "Really?"

Compa nods, "The other two isn't a problem, Arfoire is the nasty one behind all of this."

Neptune agrees, "Yeah! Underling and that mouse is just her weak little minions. You could probably take them on your own in your human form, Andy."

Andrew transforms back, "OK... then. Also, should we recruit Vert once they are done bonding?"

Neptune nods, "Why not! She might be more than welcome to join us... and try to take my sister away again."

Nepgear replies, "Goodness..."

Andrew says, "Yeah... and I got a feeling that Chika will feel left out again. So much for helping her."

IF replies with a nod, "It can't be helped. So, are we ready to shove off?"

Neptune exclaims, "Heck yeah! Onwards to Lastation! Full speed ahead!" She runs off.

The others follow her leaving Andrew in the dust, "Oh... I'm going to get leg cramps one day..."

And so the group heads to their next nation, Lastation. I'm pretty sure that it's going to be a fun one just like this one is. What might happen? Find out next time!