Last time... something happened at Planeptune and even though Nepgear and Neptune tells Andrew to stay out of it but, that didn't stop him and he spied on them anyway. It actually turned into a threat as Arfoire returns to attack the goddesses and Andrew springs into action and helps them. But he had to rely on link up for the first time and that caught the general audiance's eyes and also the other goddess' as well. They are hiding from them now so let's see how that goes.

Neptune tries the best that she could to barricade themselves in her room by placing some of her various furniture against every entrance.

Histoire, Nepgear and Andrew just stand there staring at her while sweatdropping at her that she is doing this to begin with. "Um... I don't think that's going to help, Neptune." Histoire says to Neptune.

Neptune looks at what she is doing and smiles to them scratching her head, "You're probably right. They'll find us no matter what we do."

Andrew sighs, "Well... I'm just going to see what they want and hope it's nothing really major like we thought."

Neptune stops Andrew, "No! Let's not risk it! You don't know them like I do, they will stop at nothing to get what they want."

Andrew thinks about it and says, "Oh yeah... console war and all that jazz. Hmm... ok. Well, what do you have in mind, goddess?" He says jokingly.

Neptune replies cheerfully, "I'm just going to hide you in my closet until they leave!" She begins to push Andrew into her closet and says, "I'll let you know when they leave, ok? So just hide by my clothes until then."

She closes the door without Andrew saying anything about it, "Well, I didn't have a say in that one, Xelor."

"Yes, but you must do what she says as much as I don't like that. Hopefully, one of the other CPUs will find you so they can take custody of you." Xelor replies.

"As much as I like girls fighting over me I cannot do that to Neptune, I already promised her some game time so yeah." Andrew looks over at some of Neptune's spare clothing and says, "And it's not so bad staying here for a bit I mean..." Andrew tries to touch a piece of her clothing in the closet, "No... must... resist." He pulls back away.

Back at the outside, Neptune puts all the furniture back and opens the doors for the goddesses and greets them happily, "What's up, girls?! How goes it?!"

Noire can see through her act and says, "Don't play dumb! We know you're hiding Andrew somewhere and we aren't leaving until he tells us more about his special power."

Neptune tries lying, "Um... no, he's not here! He left already, yeah... with that special teleport he has."

Andrew scratches his head, "Was I supposed to do that?"

"No, because that will attract more attention and that would be called ditching." Xelor clears it out for Andrew.

Andrew nods, "Yeah, good point."

Blanc looks around and says pointing to the closet, "He's in the closet, isn't he?"

Neptune shakes her head, "No, no! Um... how about we play a game. How about it, Vert?"

Vert obviously says, "Of course I would, but I am also very intrigued by Andrew's power so I'm afraid I have to decline."

"Finally... my chance." Glue comes out of hiding and barks to try to get their attention. "Notice me... notice me!" Glue says in his native barking tongue.

Noire gets a wicked idea from the look of her smile, "OK... come on out and we don't have to do level grinding on your pet."

Glue sweatdrops, "Yipe!" Glue backs away in fear of Noire's idea.

Blanc says calmly, "I'm just going to open the closet. " She opens it which gets Neptune in a panic.

Andrew goes over to the side and hides in between a bunch of Neptune's hoodie dresses. "I'm so caught." Andrew thinks to himself while sweatdropping.

Blanc looks around in the closet and sighs, "He's not in there." She pokes her head out and closes the door.

Neptune sighs from relief, "Phew!"

Nepgear comes in from whatever she was doing previously, "Neptune, I boarded the- Oh hello..."

Vert looks over at Nepgear with that seductive look of hers, "Dear, sweet Nepgear... would you mind tell us where that Andy has gone to?"

Nepgear stammers, "Um... I would but I can't in regards to my sister's orders."

Vert brings herself closer to Nepgear, "But, I'm your big sister. Please...?" She bounces her breasts close to Nepgear's face.

"Goodness..." Nepgear says while blushing.

Noire says to Neptune, "How about it? You tell us or your sister gets it!"

Vert goes in to glomp on Nepgear giving her no room to breathe.

Andrew can see this from the cracks of the closet blinds, "No... I must not look." Andrew feels something coming from his nostrils, "What's this?" He then feels something dripping from his nose and he checks to see what it was, "Blood?"

Xelor can tell what it is, "It seems that you are aroused."

Andrew shakes his head, "How is that? I didn't do that when she pressed those things at my face."

"I don't know but you better keep it controlled or else you will lose your hiding spot." Xelor tells Andrew.

Neptune asks Nepgear, "Fight it, Nep Jr.! Do your sister proud!"

Nepgear nods, "Ok..."

Noire asks Neptune again, "Where is Andrew? I know he's somewhere here. You should save the trouble instead of making things complicated."

Neptune smiles, "But that's what makes it fun! And I found him first so he's mine!"

Noire chuckles, "Oh, so it's that, huh? Well, I'm going to make you spill it, Neptune!" She jumps Neptune and tickles her to death, "Reveal your secrets!"

Neptune busts laughing from the tickling, "No... stop! Hahahaha! I can't breathe!"

"You know what you have to do to make it stop. Blanc, continue to search for Andrew." Noire says as she continues to tickle Neptune.

Blanc keeps on searching which makes Andrew anxious, "What should I do?"

"Stay hidden. She already checked the closet so she's not going to look there again." Xelor beeps outloud.

Blanc hears this, "Huh?" She checks the closet.

Neptune keeps laughing, "No... not there! Hahahaha! I'm going to wet myself!"

Andrew gulps, "I'm so boned. Not really, but I'm going to have so much work to do."

Blanc says, "I know you're in there. I heard your watch, just come on out and you don't have to get hammered again."

Andrew sweatdrops, "Is she serious? She knew how much pain I was in."

Blanc brings out her hammer, "I'm only going to incapacitate you." She hits the closet door with her hammer which makes an indent in it.

Andrew gulps on how close that was, "Sorry, but you must be sacrificed." He takes off Xelor and throws him out from the indented door.

Blanc notices this and goes over to see what that was, "Yep, it's his watch. He's obviously in there, so what did that accomplish?"

Xelor shouts angrily, "Why did you do that, coward?!"

Noire looks over and says, "Oh good, you found his watch." She stops tickling Neptune and goes over to Xelor.

"I'm out of here!" Xelor moves himself like an inchworm away from the girls but Noire steps on his strap. "Yep. Was worth a try at least."

Noire picks him up and Blanc says, "So this is the device that makes it all happen. I wonder what will happen if I were to break it open."

Xelor tries playing nice towards the CPUs, "Listen... we all had our fun so I suggest we end this little game and settle down like respectful-"

Noire gets an idea, "We can use you and mass produce a series of watches for our soldiers. But first, we must buy the creator's license to make these."

Xelor beeps, "That's a rather horrid idea. No one but Andrew knows how to operate an advanced watch like myself. There are a series of tests to go through and whatnot and... Andrew is in southern corner of the right side of the closet."

Blanc nods, walks calmly to the closet and opens it, removing all of Neptune's extra set of hoodies and sees Andrew hiding in them. "Hello, Andrew."

Andrew waves, "Hey, Blanc. Fancy meeting you here of all places."

Noire commands, "Andrew... front and center now!"

Andrew nods, "Right away..." He walks towards Noire and asks, "Err... so you saw the news, huh?"

Noire nods, "Yes, and you are in trouble for not telling us that you can link up with CPUs."

Andrew shrugs, "I didn't because it requires a goddess' relationship with me to be very high."

Vert asks, "Then, it won't be much of a trouble for us to link up, Andy."

Andrew shrugs again, "I don't know, it takes a lot of XP to even level up. I'm still at level 2 with Neptune."

Vert nods understandably, "I see... does cuddling count as bonding because that's the best way of doing so, yes?"

Neptune objects, "Hey! He's my GPU! We had the most time together and we were about to play video games."

Xelor says making it clear, "It's fair game for every CPU to claim ownage of the GPU. Whoever can take him is granted his power to use."

Noire chuckles, "Good watch." She throws the watch back to Andrew and which he catches and puts back on his wrist, "I'll be next to use his power since my nation is the most targeted."

Vert goes in and says her rebuttal, "Who's to say that it would be you that's next to use his precious gift? My nation could be next in jepardy and he won't be there to protect it. I could use his powers to defend it." She pulls Andrew towards her and puts him in an tight embrace.

Andrew says strained, "Can't breathe... I need air."

This started to piss off Blanc and she says trying to keep her cool as best she can, "I don't think Andrew appreciates you shoving your gargantuan melons so close to his face..."

Vert keeps that calm smile of hers, "I don't hear him objecting. In fact... I can tell that this is actually raising our relationship a whole lot faster."

Neptune says her complaint, "Hey, no fair! Your boobs is like a huge cheating device!"

Blanc nods in agreement, "We shouldn't be able to raise the lily rank like that. Right?" She gives a look at Xelor while averting her eyes away from Vert.

Xelor says truthfully, "It doesn't matter how you raise it, dirty tricks like this is somehow acceptable. I don't agree with this but that's how it is according to the GPU."

Blanc sighs, "Very well." She transforms back into her HDD form, "Let's make this an act of battle! Whoever can capture Andrew to their nation gets complete control over him!" She then grabs Andrew and tears him away from Vert and that made him fly across the room, "Sorry, Andrew." She apologizes.

Andrew gets up dazes, "It's ok... ugh... just warn me next time when you are going to do that."

Blanc nods, "Alright, then."

The other goddesses step in wavered by the sudden challenge, with Vert being the most confident with it, "A little game, eh? Then it's something I can't lose!"

Noire shouts out believing in herself, "No way! It will be me who will be victorous in this little gamble."

Neptune says to the group, "Have you forgotten which nation we are already in?"

With everybody knowing that they are residenting at Planeptune, Blanc says, "It'll start once we are at least 100 miles away from every nation."

Andrew says something, "Do I at least have a say in this? I'm the one that you are using for this sudden bet."

Each of the four says in unison, "Nope!"

Andrew replies defeated, "Ok..."

Noire says to the GPU, "Ok, Andrew... teleport yourself away 100 miles and one of us will go and get you and take you to our nation."

Andrew sighs, "Fine..." He dials the code to teleport in and Glue hops on his shoulders not wanting to get left behind. He teleports away somewhere.

Noire says, "Well, he's obedient, I'll give him that. I suppose this will be worth the trouble after all."

Neptune asks Nepgear, "You'll be helping me, right sis?"

Nepgear catches surprise to her sisters question as she was focusing on something else but nods anyway, "Sure!" She gives her a smile to show her enthusiasm.

Vert sighs disappointingly, "I understand that it's for your nation, but it would mean the world to me if you helped big sister Vert out."

Nepgear replies with a sweatdrop, "Sorry."

Andrew gets teleported in the middle of nowhere, farther away from civilization than he's ever been and he cannot see his house from where he's at, "Welp... time for the hunt to begin."

Xelor beeps, "I suppose this was the most sensical way of settling things that doesn't involve a whole lot of physical debating."

Andrew isn't too sure of that, "No, trust me... there will be alot of that from how serious these girls looked. I wonder why I'm so precious to them that they have to make a game out of it?"

Xelor obviously knows the answer to that, "Because of how good your power is to them, of course. Now you should watch out for any incoming goddesses and for the sake of the world, I'd advise you to not let Neptune capture you."

Andrew shakes his head, "I'm not doing that, but what I'm going to is... well you'll see."

Xelor doesn't know what Andrew is planning, "I can't even read your mind about this plan."

Andrew nods, "I'm not thinking about it because it's my heart's idea."

"Alright, I'll go along with it but I hope you know what you're doing." Xelor tells Andrew.

Andrew smiles, "Yep, it's going to be fun and... here they come." He makes a hand like a visor to try to get a clear view of the sky. "How did they find me so fast?"

It was every goddess out on each points of Gamindustri locking onto Andrew's location, all are very fierce looking and very serious about this game. All for their own reasons, of course.

They circled around Andrew so he has no choice of trying to go to a side, Noire asks, "So, what's it going to be? Which side will you pick?"

"Because if you don't pick, we will play tug of war on you." Neptune continues on.

Blanc says with her pissed off tone, "And it may get mess if we play too rough."

Vert is the most level headed among the group, "Now... don't make him nervous, it will only lead to chaos."

Blanc laughs, "I was planning on it." She gives a sadistic grin.

Andrew sighs, "I can't pick..."

The goddess gets ready to dive at Andrew, with all their might, they dogpiled on top of him like fierce football players, but when the dust cleared up, he was nowhere in sight. Glue was the one they held on.

Andrew was over a few meters away from the display, "Good boy and now... grenade bomb."

Glue barks and he explodes into the goo that he was made from and got the goddesses trapped in it.

Andrew tries turning away as it looked quite suggestive to where he's at, but something doesn't add up, "Wait... where's Neptune?"

Before could react, something picked him up from the sky and is carrying him away from the other goddesses, "Don't fret, Andy. I'm here and I'll take you to my nation so we can play all the games we could ever want." It might have been something Vert would say but it was in fact Neptune because... they both like video games.

Andrew asks Neptune, "You didn't charge into me, did you?"

Neptune nods, "I didn't. I went for an aeriel approach and waited until the others were taken care of. I somehow knew you had something planned for us, that's one of the peaks of being level 2 with you and have been linked up."

Andrew nods, "I got an idea, how about we go to my house? I was thinking of having it a place of capture as well so if we go there then I could have control over myself. What do you say?"

Neptune thinks about it and shakes her head, "I'm afraid I cannot do that, this is an act of battle and since you declared yourself into this, then that means I must go up against you. No hard feelings, Andy." She flies herself towards her nation which is almost there.

Andrew sighs, "I was afraid of that..." He tries dialing on his watch but Neptune hugs on him tightly, "No use of dialing for your hero form. I got you on a lock that you won't break free."

Andrew blushes a bit, "I commend you on your effort to stopping me but I know your weakness. Xelor, now."

Xelor beeps and he summons the veggie of despair, the eggplant!

Before Neptune could find out what he's up, too the stench has already taken her, "What are you... gah! Eggplant!" She lets go of Andrew and he goes skydiving while she is covering her nose from the eggplant, gagging.

Andrew chuckles from his clever thinking there, "Sorry to jet, but I'm in a hurry." He dials for his GPU form but it doesn't seem to work, "What gives, Xelor?"

Xelor explains it, "When you spawn something from the store, there's a delay to when you can use your GPU form."

Andrew gasps, "Are you serious?"

"Yes, I am." Xelor bluntly says to Andrew. "I'm sorry."

Andrew chuckles, "Hey, Neptune. I'm in the middle of falling to my death so can you just help me out here?"

Neptune hears that but when she tries to get close to Andrew, the eggplant smell gets to her and she shakes her head, "Sorry, but that eggplant really stinks!" She covers her nose and flies off farther from Andrew.

Xelor commands, "Throw it away!"

Andrew nods, "Ok, it has served its purpose for long enough."

Just when he's about to throw it, a fast throwing object hits the eggplant he's holding and it explodes all over Andrew so now he's covered with eggplant smell. "Did that just really happen?"

Xelor sighs robotically, "Yep and now Neptune has fled away from you and now you're going to die."

Somewhere away from all of this, "Well, that shuriken has been lost forever. That was a mighty good throw." The penguin from chapter 4 says being proud of his throw.

Back to our hero, "I don't think I'm going to survive a 10,000 feet drop, and the ground is closing in as we speak."

"Just like I said, you are going to die." Xelor says.

Andrew frantically taps the watch screen, "Come on! Please work! I want to live!"

Neptune floats down to the ground and transforms to normal from the stench, "I'm sorry Andy, but that eggplant smell is like over nine thousand on the stench power level!"

Andrew notices the ground getting closer and closer, "What are the odds of me actually surviving this with my vital organs intact?"

Xelor answers, "None, I suggest hoping that you will transform or else you will cease to live."

Andrew gulps, "Yeah..." He continues to try dialing in to get his GPU form activated but it's being delayed.

Neptune walks back to the goddess group, "Hey, guys.." She looks incredibly sheepish for all the right reasons.

The goddesses are still stuck in that Glue goop, Noire asks, "Why did you stop trying to go for Andrew? Have you finally given up?"

Neptune laughs sheepishly, "Don't be silly! It's just that... Andy is falling to his doom and I can't get near him because he has eggplant cologne on him. Can you girls try to rescue him so he doesn't become a pancake?"

All of the goddesses gasp, each of them summons their respective weapon and slices the goop off of them and it forms back into Glue who is unharmed, wagging his tail happily.

Noire asks, "You should be disqualified for being so reckless towards Andrew."

Neptune replies, "What? I wasn't the one who sprayed that stuff on him, wait... are you actually worried about Andy?"

Noire blushes lightly, "Don't be ridiculous! It's that if anyone finds out that you let someone die like that then your nation will be screwed."

Neptune smiles, "Aww... you are worried about me..."

Noire blushes more noticeably, "No! I have more important things to do now! Like saving the GPU from sudden death!" She flies off.

Andrew sighs, "I'm still falling. And... here's the ground."

The goddess is almost there trying to cut it close to saving Andrew, the raw eggplant smell still recks but they can tolerate it more, "Hold on, Andy! We're coming!" Says Vert.

Andrew looks at from where they are at and how close he is from the ground, "No good, they can't catch up in time." Andrew inhales and dials one more time and... he transforms! "Yes! Victori-" He hits the ground but gets up, "Ow... ok, I'm still alive but that fall made me sore.

The CPUs sigh in relief, "We got worried for nothing?" Noire says.

Andrew smiles at them, "No! I'm very happy at the thought of you guys coming to save me so... thank you."

Noire huffs, "Hmph! You're welcome!"

Andrew says nicely, "Seriously, I'm really thankful that you care, Noire."

That almost got Noire in her soft spot, "R-really?"

Blanc asks, "So, since you didn't die does the game still goes on?"

Andrew laughs, "I suppose so, but let's wait for Neptune to catch up."

Neptune catches up to the group with Nepgear helping her out since she's still weaken from the eggplant smell. "Really cheap trick to have that eggplant explode on you."

Andrew shakes his head, "That wasn't my intention. It's just that something got flung at me and made it bust open."

Blanc looks around and points, "You mean like that shuriken over there?"

Andrew scratches his head, "Yeah. Does that always happen?"

Noire shakes her head, "No, someone was trying to either attack you or Neptune."

Neptune smiles at that, "Aww... you do care!"

Noire shouts at her, "Shut it! Anyway... this is a serious problem since this person could strike again. I say we find the attacker and lock him or her away!"

Blanc nods, "I agree. Especially if the attacker goes for our sisters."

Nepgear asks, "Why would someone do something like that?"

Blanc tells her, "It's for safety precautions. We must be ready for everything." She walks towards the shuriken and picks it up and looks for a name on it. "'This shuriken belongs to Ice the penguin, if found, please return to me, thanks.' Well, lets pay this Ice a visit!" She gets the sadistic look again.

Andrew asks, "Wait, what?"

Verts smiles, "We can't have this menace strike again and hurt you again, now, do we?"

Andrew tries laughing it off, "Now... I think it's just an accident and it's nothing to go over and attack an animal for. Even if this animal is carrying dangerous weaponry."

Noire says to Andrew, "You are talking like your human form! This is a reason to go and attack him! He's carrying these weaponry so that means he's a terrorist!"

Andrew shouts out, "What?! That's going a bit overboard to claim him as a terrorist! I think we can just continue our game and go after him afterwards if you all are really worried about it."

Noire tries to deny it, "I'm not worried! Goddesses' jobs are to keep dangerous people away from their citizens."

Andrew nods, "Alright! Whatever you say."

Vert wages in, "I think it is best for us to find this penguin and bring him to justice if he's going to make trouble again."

Noire nods, "And I expect you to help us."

Andrew sighs, "Let's vote on it. Hands up to catch the pen-"

Everybody raises their hands, including Neptune and Nepgear.

Neptune explains her desision, "He made that eggplant explode, he is asking for an act of battle!"

Nepgear does so as well, "I need to make sure that he won't cause anymore harm towards anyone."

Vert nods and claps her hands, "Now let's all split up and start looking for him."

As soon as she says that, something comes out of the bushes, the small penguin they are looking for, "It has to be her somewhere." He sees the shuriken in Blanc's hands, "Ah, you found it for me, thank-"

She throws it very fast next to him and almost hits him by a few centimeters.

Ice continues, "You..." He doesn't seem to be intimidated at all.

Andrew notices this, "He seems calm judging by how close that hit him."

Noire begins to ask him a few questions, "Did you mean to throw that shuriken at our GPU?"

Ice looks at Andrew and back at Noire, "Oh... great."

Noire gives him a stern look, "What do you mean by that?"

Ice inhales and grabs his shuriken, "I wasn't supposed to get involved with your kind but I didn't know that what I hit was one of you."

Noire continues with the questions, "What are you talking about? Do you have a mission? With what?"

Ice begins to walks away, "I've already said too much. I must return."

Noire and the other goddesses circle around him, "You aren't going anywhere, terrorist!" Noire says.

Andrew feels like he should just sits this one one, "OK..."

The penguin begins to laugh which Noire asks, "What's so funny?"

Ice explains, "I'm not a terrorist. I was just practicing my shuriken throwing, you girls got it all wrong. Listen... I need to go now so you can just go back to doing whatever you were doing previously."

Vert objects to that suggestion, "I'm afraid we cannot do that. You put our GPU into danger because if he didn't transform right then, he would have died and we would have held you responsible."

Neptune nods, "That's right! I would have guilt for the rest of my life if I have let Andy died like that." She transforms into her HDD form.

Ice clears his throat, "Listen... I know that this is an accident, I'll take the blame for this, but this is getting a bit overboard."

"How do we know if you make that mistake again to someone else if you toss those willy nilly?" Neptune asks the penguin.

Ice shrugs, "Just have this one incident slide and we can all just-" He throws down a smokebomb hoping to escape from this, but as this clears up, Blanc got him by his flipper, "I hoped that would have worked."

Blanc says to the penguin, "Escaping isn't the best idea because if you do, your flippers would have been ripped off."

Ice nods, "I wasn't planning on it."

Blanc nods back, "Good. Now please take this menace to one of the nations jail cells." She hands the penguin to Nepgear.

Nepgear accepts and nods, "I will. Sorry little guy, but it's better safe than sorry."

Ice replies with, "Whatever it takes to get me out of here faster."

They go off and Andrew takes a bit to process that, "So... anybody here fancy doing something else?"

Noire shakes her head, "Nope, but you aren't pulling that one! We all claim the usage of your power and we'll get it!"

Andrew laughs, "Still on that? OK! I'll race over to my house while you all try to get me to your nation and whoever manages to succeed wins. And if I win, then I just stick to how things are currently working for us."

The goddesses nods in unison and shouts, "Deal!"

Andrew smiles and rubs his hands together and prepares himself for the chase, "Great! We'll go on my mark and not a moment sooner, ok?" He picks up his trustworthy dogoo.

They all nod, which gives Andrew the okay for the countdown. "Alright! Here we go... ready... go!" Andrew runs off as fast as he could to his house.

Of course, the four goddesses are already on his tail with Nepgear returning and coming in from the front. They get ready with their weapons as they are planning to knock out Andrew so they can carry him out easier. Of course Andrew is ready to confront this. Noire shouts out, "I hope you're ready to serve Lastation because I'm not holding back!" She cocks her gun.

Vert shouts out, "That isn't going to happen because Andy is going to be with Leanbox!" She readies her spear.

Blanc scoffs and says with her vulgar language, "You bitches aren't going to get Andrew. He's all mine!" She readies her axe.

Neptune says the rest of them, "Need I to remind you that I'm the only one eligible to link up. It's going to take a while before you three to level up."

The three slams their weapons to the ground creating an earthquake heading towards Andrew.

Andrew chuckles, "Huh... they are planning to slow me down. Well... I can get away from this." He aims his arm cannon and shoots an enerblast and he uses the momentum to launch him far off from the earthquake. He sticks the landing and keeps on running.

Vert says commenting on that, "Wow, he's good."

Noire doesn't seem so, "Not as good as me." She aims her gun and shoots bullets at him. Even if they are energy bullets, they are bullets nonetheless.

Andrew looks to where Noire is shooting, "She's planning to shoot me? Well, I'll shoot right back!" He shoots his enerblasts but Noire's bullets just obliterates them. "Damn it! She's too powerful."

Neptune chuckles, "I got a good idea." She flies off somewhere.

Vert nods, "Hmm..." She goes off somewhere as well, getting an idea as well.

Andrew looks around, "What are they planning?" He almost forgot the bullets that are about to hit him and he sidesteps out of the way but sees that Noire is following his every move. "A lock-on, huh? Well then..." He makes Glue transform into a boomerang and throws it which makes a tornado surround him making it almost impossible to see him.

Noire tries to find him in that dust storm, "Where did you go?" She stops and scans her eyes around to find a visual contact with Andrew.

Andrew laughs from his escape plan, "Got her." He looks around for the other goddesses, "Where did they go? Did I finally lose them in this storm?" As soon as he realised something poked out in the dust storm, it was already too late. Vert's spear juts into the cloud mist and trips Andrew with it. "Whoa!" He tumbles over for a bit before coming to a complete stop.

Vert laughs, "You will have to do better than that to shroud yourself from me."

Andrew nods, "Yeah, but it's enough to escape those bullets, though."

Out of Andrew's viewpoint, something dings from the sky and falls very fast towards the ground, where Andrew and Vert are to be more precise. Vert notices this and moves a bit out of the way to make she that she doesn't get hit.

Andrew asks, "Why did you move? What's going on?"

Vert doesn't want to tell him as it could potentially give her an advantage, "Oh, for no other reason than this spot seems more comfortable than where I was previously."

Well... it was Neptune that is crashing down, but she didn't finish crashing until she shouts, "Nep-ular Bomb!" And she lands on Andrew completely unaware that this even happened because well... Vert didn't want Andrew to know that this happened. This created a nice mushroom cloud with a chibi design of Nep Nep's head to go along with it.

The cloud clears up and Andrew groans from the pain of that impact, "Ow... who goes and just 'nukes' themselves into someone?" Halfway in a joking manner and at the same time a serious question.

Vert laughs, "Only Neptune."

Neptune laughs with Vert, "This isn't the first time I cancelled out of HDD and crash into someone."

Andrew groans and follows up with another question, "Does this have an impact on your head? You could have landed on it and might have lost your memory and that would be bad for me since I would have to start over."

"Andrew's right for once." That came from Noire. "You have to be more careful when you do things like that."

Neptune says, "I'm always careful and once again you show that you care about me."

Noire keeps her calm and says, "No, because it would be too easy to take your shares if you had amnesia. And Andrew is the one that brought it up."

Vert reminds her, "We don't do that anymore, we would have gotten her memories back if that was the case."

Blanc asks already caught up with them, "So, what do we do now that we captured Andrew?"

Each of them is now in their regular form as they spent so long in their HDD for that they exhausted precious energy.

Andrew chuckles at that question, "Come on... you didn't capture me. This is just a setback. I'll get back on my feet and run off again."

Andrew is already has his energy drained from that attack that Neptune did and tries getting up even if Neptune is on top of him, he couldn't find the strength to do so. "Eh... give me a second here!" He tries again, but the same results happen.

Neptune laughs, "You ran out of energy, didn't you?"

Andrew tries to deny it, "No, I just need a bit to recollect it, that's all. And why can you stand me now? Aren't you bothered that I got sprayed with eggplant juices?"

Neptune shakes her head, "I can't smell it anymore. Your form must be blocking it. That's a good thing because now this is going to be easier when you can't run away anymore."

Andrew chuckles, "Well, now all I have to do is return to normal, right?"

Neptune sweatdrops, "D-don't do that! Who knows what could happen now that I'm right close to you."

Noire also adds in, "And you would be vulnerable to us and we can just take you to our nation now."

Andrew sighs, "Well, I'm done for." He laughs, "Just go ahead and escort me to your nations now."

Neptune laughs with Andrew, "That's the spirit! Just keep tight and I'll get you to Planeptune. Can you help me a bit, Nepgear?"

Before Nepgear to respond, Vert weighs in, "Hold on, just because you are saddling him doesn't mean that you are victorious. We can take him just as easily as you can."

The others agree, "That's right, so hand him over quickly so I don't have to bash your head open." Blanc says calmly even if it was a threat.

It doesn't seem like she was kidding so Neptune is kind of worried for her life and Andrew's. "Let's not do things that we'll regret later. You could accidentally hit Andy and all this effort will be for naught."

Andrew tries another attempt to get up but this time with more effort, "Grrrnn... almost... hah!" He stands back on his feet with Neptune on his back. "I told you I can do it!"

Noire comments, "It seems like Neptune was weighing you down. I thought you would have slimmed down by now, Neptune."

She was obviously talking about Neptune's eating habits, which Neptune takes offense to, "Hey! You shouldn't talk about people's figures like that! I'm perfectly fine!"

The other goddess' don't think about Neptune's response other than Nepgear obviously. Andrew replies with, "What are you talking about, Noire?"

Noire can't believe that Andrew doesn't know, "You spend the most time with her and you didn't realize how much she eats? Even with the dinner you made for us, she ate the most out of everyone! You can tell by just how pudgy she is!"

Whether this is to get Andrew to sway over to her side or to just insult Neptune more because Noire is Noire, Andrew shrugs, "I don't mind. Even if I had noticed, I would think it makes her look cute."

Obviously he has said something that he would never say in his normal form that openly and he can't get embarrassed about what he just said to since that is the benifant about the GPU form. Noire asks him a bit angrily, "How can you just say that so casually? Why are you giving compliments to only Neptune?!"

Andrew tilts his head in confusion, "Haven't I gave you compliments before? Unless you are talking about compliments on appearances, I didn't know you were into that sort of thing."

Noire blushes, "I'm not! It's just a nice gesture to do once in a while..."

Andrew nods, "OK, so I'm going off to Planeptune now."

All the goddesses says in unison from his decision, "What?!"

Andrew replies with casualty, "Yeah, I mean if I spend so much time with Neptune than it's clear that I should work with her. Besides, I'm closer to my goal with her than the rest of you according to my rankings. If you have any objections then you know what to do."

Noire objects obviously, "Of course I do! Why are you going to block us off for Neptune?! We can get up your rank just as fast as you did with Neptune!"

Andrew asks, "So, what are you saying?"

Vert says objecting just as much, "We're saying..."

Blanc, "We would like to keep it the way it is."

Andrew asks again, "You sure?"

The three nods, "We're sure!"

Just to show that they mean it, they transform into their HDD forms and flies Andrew to his house. After they arrive and the CPUs return to their human forms, that gives Andrew the opportunity to celebrate. "I've won!"

Noire asks, "What?"

Andrew explains, "Yeah, we were still playing so that means I am the winner! Now, the reason that I assigned myself is because I didn't want to restrict myself to just one goddess, that wouldn't be as fun. I love hanging out with you all and being your friend."

Vert replies, "We love being your friend, too! Isn't that right, everyone!"

Neptune obviously agrees, "You bet!"

Blanc nods, "Yes."

Nepgear nods, "Of course..."

Noire was a bit hesitant with her suggestion but nods, "Sure, whatever..." Trying to play it cool.

Andrew smiles, "Cool! Now if you excuse me..." He opens the door to his house, "I need to take a big shower to get rid of that eggplant smell!" He closes the door in front of the CPUs.

Noire take offense, "The nerve of him slamming the door in front of us!"

Neptune replies, "Hey! It doesn't mean anything! I bet he just doesn't want us to suffer from that smell, it might have taken over his home."

Noire asks, "So, are we suppose to wait for him until he's done?"

Blanc says, "It appears that we do."

Not too soon after, Andrew screams for some reason. That alerts the goddesses, "What's wrong? Is he in trouble?" The worried Nepgear asks.

Neptune opens the door and shouts, "Let's check up on him! It could be dire!" She runs in without a second thought.

Noire shouts after Neptune, "Wait! He might be undressed, what do you think you are doing?!"

The others follow Neptune as she tries to open the bathroom only for it to be locked, Neptune asks, "Strange... usually it would be open for us to enter."

Andrew says knowing that they are there now, "Are you girls out there? I have a problem."

Noire asks almost losing patience, "What is it? It better be important?"

Andrew says, "I have no other clothes than the ones that I came to this dimension with."

Xelor says to Andrew, "You could have bought them online..."

Noire says, "Our database clothing store works nationally, meaning that you have to be in a nation in order to purchase them. Because our sense of fashion is so different and whatnot."

Andrew asks worried, "Are you saying that I am stuck with these eggplant juice ridden clothes? Um... it's starting to make me gag so I would much like to have new clothes, thank you."

Vert says, "We might have extra clothes in our inventory but I don't think that they'll fit you."

Neptune suggests something, "My clothes are pretty much like a hoodie so I can just give you my backup hoodie if ya like."

Andrew blushes and mutters, "Just what I needed..." Sarcastically of course. "Um... I guess that could work since they seem to fit you loose."

Xelor says, "They will work. Just slide us your extra clothing then, Neptune."

Neptune cheerily says, "Okey dokey!" She takes her extra hoodie dress from her inventory and slides it under Andrew's bathroom door.

Andrew receives it and gulps in dread in what may happen, "Oh boy..." Staring at the outfit that is presented towards him.

If there were drumrolls, they would be playing right now, but we have to settle for dead silence as this isn't a video game nor an anime, but a fanfiction novel thing. Andrew comes out of the bathroom wearing what is iconic to Neptune's outfit. He is blushing red and his mouth is formed with a crooked frown expressing just how embarrassing it is for him.

The outfit actually fits him low enough to cover his boxer shorts which worried him the most but he still has something to worry about, the discrimination from others when he is wearing this. "W-well..."

Luckily, Neptune was there to break the ice, "Wow! It's like I'm looking at a mirror! You just have to dye your hair and have it styled like mine and you could just pass off as my twin!"

No one else had anything to say about Andrew's appearance as they are busy staring at him which didn't make what Neptune said help him. Glue is always there chilling with them and jumps on Andrew's shoulder and nuzzles himself into the hoodie's collar and just relaxes there. Andrew asks, "Please tell me this is also something that guys wear here."

The girls look at each other and shakes their heads which makes Andrew sigh and pulls up the hood, "Well... I'm not anyone recognise me, then."

The goddesses know that he is discouraged about wearing that so Noire had so say something, "Oh, come on... it makes you look... um... cute."

That didn't help at all as that wasn't what Andrew was hoping for, "I knew it didn't suit me as much as it does Neptune. I look like a girl with this on."

Nepgear tries to help, "No! That's not it! You do have that boy-ish charm, really!"

Andrew sighs, "I don't know about this, Neptune. Thanks for trying, though, but I think I want to call it a day." Andrew walks to his room shielding himself from everyone.

Neptune tries to call him back, "No, Andy, wait!"

Click! His door locks which gives the goddesses less options to deal with. Vert asks the group, "Well, this is problematic. What do we attend to do to help him?"

Noire suggests, "I say we blame it on that penguin."

Nepgear replies, "It's not the penguin's fault. He needs better clothing, we should go out and get him some nice clothes."

Vert smiles, "That's a splendid idea, Nepgear! Only my little sister could come up with a selfless idea such as that!"

Neptune reminds her, "She's my little sister, Vert. But, that is a great idea! Getting him some more clothes will definitely cheer him up! What do ya say, everyone? Ready to start our quest to get Andy some fresh dungarees?"

Everybody agrees and they all rush out of there as fast as possible on their own to hunt clothing of their choosing that they think Andrew will love. Possibly to just win over Andrew, but who knows!

What might happen? I know, but guess anyway! Or find out next time is good as well! And I'm sorry that this took so long as I'm very lazy and uninspired so give me suggestions and I might accept them.

Review Replies!

Magical-Death: Yep, best way to end it! And as I said in my outro, think of something I can do for my story to extend it a bit further until something I have planned for the future. It could be Neptune x Andrew moments but I need a way to get to that so think of an event I could do. I really appreciate your support and it has kept me going, thank you!

Jeitron: Yep! It's the big mechanic for the GPU which is why they are after him.

That's all, so happy reading!