Last time on Hyperdimension Overclocked… Andrew and Nep Nep sparred and it ended in an 'interesting' way… much to Andrew's surprise. Anyway… some punk ass mouse broke in and stole Andrew's watch so he's good as screwed right now. Let's see how that goes down.

Next day arrives, the same day as the festival. As promised, Neptune wakes up extra early but Andrew is still asleep, of course. She tries nudging him awake, "Come on! We got a big day ahead of us! Get your lazy butt out of that couch!"

Andrew mutters, "Groan… five more minutes…"

"Don't give me those clichéd mutters! Get up! Nep Jr. is making us delicious breakfast right now! Can't you smell it?" Neptune says continuing to nudge Andrew awake.

Andrew turns over on his belly and continues to sleep, "Can't… get up… sore from fighting last night… I hurt all over…"

Neptune grumbles, "Hmph! Alright… you asked for this!" She wraps Andrew in the blankets like she did last time.

Andrew doesn't seem to care, "Ahh… that won't bother me anymore…" He continues to sleep away.

Neptune goes over to the side of the couch and grabs Andrew's hand and tugs on it, "Get up! The food will be cold if you don't!" She notices something off with Andrew's wrist. "Where did your watch go?"

Andrew replies in a yawning fashion, "Nice try…"

Neptune shouts pointing at it, "I'm serious! Where did Xelor go?!"

Andrew opens his eyes and sees that his watch isn't there, "Ahh! Where did it go?!" He rolls off the couch.

Neptune laughs, "Hey… that's a good way of getting ya out of bed."

"This is serious! Where did it go?!" He gets up and looks around. "It can't just come off, there's a special way to do that and it's as complicated as lockpicking a door."

Neptune suggests, "Maybe Xelor woke up early and decided to go for a walk."

Andrew looks underneath the blankets, under the cushions and under the couch, "It's gone… Xelor's gone. I'm screwed."

Neptune tries to calm him down, "Oh come on… it's not that bad… maybe it'll turn up later."

Andrew takes a deep breath and exhales, "Sure… right. It'll turn up… I just have to hope."

"There you go! Now, what do you say about eating Nepgear's delicious pancakes?" Neptune says cheering Andrew up.

Andrew nods smiling slightly trying to gather up hope, "Sure… that will be nice, yeah…"

The two of them go into the kitchen and sees Nepgear cooking breakfast for them, "Oh, good morning, sleepyhead!"

Andrew says calmly and kind of upset, "Good morning…"

Nepgear sees this, "What's the matter?"

Neptune explains it, "He lost his watch thingy."

Nepgear frowns, "Oh… well after breakfast, we can help you go look for it. Just please don't look so sad and enjoy breakfast." She turns her frown into a smile to try to cheer Andrew up.

Andrew perks up, "Ok."

Andrew sits down in a chair, Neptune sits right near him and pats his back, "It'll be just fine! You just gotta cheer up, kiddo, and everything will be all right!"

Andrew nods, "OK."

Nepgear serves Andrew and Neptune's plate, "Here you go! I hope that you like it!"

Andrew looks at his plate and sees that Nepgear cooked pancakes, eggs and bacon. Pretty much a basic breakfast meal but a great classic. "Looks good." Andrew says cheering right up.

Nepgear smiles, "Well, dig in! I got some more if you are feeling it for seconds."

Neptune cheers, "Alright!" She eats some and she blushes at the taste of it, "So delish, sis! How's yours, Andy?"

Andrew gets some maple syrup and pours it on his pancakes and eats some, his eyes widens, "So… good."

Nepgear smiles, "I'm glad that you like them, Andy. Although, I might have messed up a bit while making it."

Andrew gets it now, "No… you didn't. They're delicious."

Neptune smiles, "You chefs certainly down on your food, don't you?"

Andrew gets eats some more and gets more feels going through him, "I truly think that these are the best pancakes I ever ate."

Nepgear laughs, "I'm glad, but did you try the eggs and bacon yet?"

Andrew tries them, too and gets the same reaction, "Same goes for those as well… normally eggs don't taste as good as these."

Neptune eats some more and says, "I gotta agree with Andy here, these are the best pancakes ever!"

Nepgear gets nervous a bit, "Aw… you're making me embarrassed, guys!"

They continue eating breakfast and having a good time, we return to the dark side of the story. Arfoire unties Vox and demands him, "Make that machine do my bidding and I better not see any tricks, you hear me?!"

Vox grumbles, "As you wish… my grandson better not be part of the destruction of the goddesses."

Arfoire laughs, "We'll see… we'll see if he gets in my way!"

Pirachu says, "Enough talking, old man! Get to work!"

Arfoire gives Underling a gun, "Make sure that he doesn't pull anything."

Underling gladly takes it, "With pleasure!" She brings Vox towards the working station and puts the gun to his head, "You heard the boss! No tricks… it better be by the book!"

Vox grumbles again, "I've been in a war, this is the oldest threat in the book."

Underling replies shouting at him, "Just get to work!"

And so… Andrew's grandfather is forced to make their machine how they want it. Xelor is left by the side of the work station getting ready to be used at the completion of this machine. The blueprints tell that it's going to be a robot of some kind. How original.

Arfoire commands Pirachu, "And make sure that no one interferes with our work."

Pirachu sighs, "Sure, make the mouse be the watchdog…" He goes to his post. "And I could be scheming on how to get rid of that mangy cat…"

Of course, Scratch is sleeping by a window side just like all cats do, he yawns and gets up, "This day marks the best one of my nine lives… I get to go on a date with the most beautiful girl of all time… Compa!" He flies off.

Ice continues to trek through Gamindustri on foot, "Ugh… why do these nations have to be so disconnected from each other? Why can't they be one? If these goddesses rule this place, couldn't they just rule one giant nation and save me the trouble of crossing the outlands?"

He continues to walk, he checks his electronic map, "Walking is no trouble but my patience wears thin. And also this place lacks snow." He checks his surroundings and sees something, "Ah, there's the snowy nation. I need an energy recharge and this is the place to do it." He goes off as fast as his penguin legs can carry him.

Andrew finishes his breakfast up, "I feel so much better. I forgot why I was upset."

Neptune reminds him, "Because you lost your watch thingy."

Andrew is reminded, "Oh, right. Well, I won't let that ruin my day because it's festival day."

Nepgear gasps, "Oh, did you get a partner for the festival yet, Neptune?"

Neptune replies with a smile, "You're looking at him!"

Nepgear gasp even more, "Wow, for real?! Well, I hope that you will have a wonderful time with each other."

Andrew asks, "Did you find someone to take to the festival?"

Nepgear thinks for a moment, "Well… I heard that Vert is taking Chika so it's surprising to hear her not taking me for a change."

"What about Compa or IF?" Andrew says.

"Well, Compa told me that she's going with this cat that she met so I'm going with IF." Nepgear says.

Neptune says, "What is Compa doing and asking a stray cat to go out with her? She's too trustworthy for her own good!"

Andrew says suggesting, "It's probably that cat we know. I guess they hit it off just fine."

"Oh… so, anyway… we should get ready to go to that festival!" Neptune says changing the subject.

Andrew asks, "Where is it at?"

Nepgear shows Andrew a map, "The others said it's right here."

Andrew sees that it's between Leanbox and Lowee, "Oh… I guess that's how you get Autumn. Just have Summer and Winter between it."

Nepgear tells Neptune, "I think you should change out of your usual outfit, you need to look a bit more formal than that."

Neptune looks at her outfit and asks, "What's wrong with what I'm wearing?"

Nepgear waves her hands, "No, there's nothing wrong with it! I just think that you should wear something nice for a festival."

Neptune nods, "Ok! Be back in a jiffy!" She runs off.

Andrew asks Nepgear, "So, is what I'm wearing fine?"

Nepgear says, "It is but that particular one isn't, maybe you should get extra sets of that outfit just in case…"

Andrew sighs and says jokingly, "What am I, a two dimensional character?" Andrew thinks for a moment, "Wait…" Andrew tells Nepgear, "Ok, I guess I can do that."

Nepgear nods, "Alright, please hurry up, you two!"

Andrew and Nepgear get ready to go to the festival, Nepgear sits down and waits for them both.

Andrew gets ready first as he had other sets of clothes waiting for him, "Welp, the jacket's fine so I'm pretty much taken care of. Thank god, I didn't leave the clothes in that digital inventory now that I don't have Xelor anymore."

Neptune meets up with them in a new outfit that's kind of similar to her old one. She now wears a purple dress, a short sleeved variation of the hoodie she wore over it and cuffs on her wrists, "Is this better, Nep Jr.?"

Andrew can't help but stare at Neptune's new outfit, everything seems to go in slow motion as he does so. "Wow…" Andrew says to himself as he keeps looking at Neptune.

Nepgear smiles, "Yes, that's better, Neptune! Thank you!" She looks at Andrew, "What do you think, Andy?"

No response from Andrew as he keeps staring at Neptune which she knows something's up, "Are you ok, Andy? You seem to be focusing deep into something." Neptune looks close at Andrew's face.

Andrew quickly snaps out of it, "No, I'm fine… yeah."

Neptune asks, "Are you sure? You looked like someone was trying to steal your mind again."

Andrew gives a smile to show that he's sure, "Really. I'm fine. I just… err… you look nice, Neptune."

Neptune smiles at the compliment, "Daaww… thanks! Are you trying to change the subject or is that what's really on your mind?"

Andrew nods, "That's what was on my mind. Should we be going now?"

Neptune shouts enthusiastically, "You bet!" She transforms into her HDD form, "Let's get this date going, shall we?"

Andrew nods, "Yeah…"

Neptune offers her hand to Andrew and he accepts it and they take off to the Autumn festival.

Let's see what the other nations are up to, how about Lowee first? Rom and Ram are waiting for their big sister to get ready.

Ram impatiently shouts, "Hurry it up! I wanna go before the lines to the games get too long!" Rom nods in agreement, "Yes…"

Blanc tells them, "You girls go on ahead without me, I'll catch up soon. I need to finish up my work."

Rom asks, "Are you sure?"

Blanc nods, "Go. Have a great time."

Ram tugs on Rom's arm, "You heard her! Let's go!" The twins run outside and into the town of Lowee.

Of course, Ice is there as well looking at the nation, "Well… this has to be my favorite one because only one thing… snow! Glorious snow!" He dives into some and absorbs the coldness of it, "Yes… I feel stronger!"

He sees the twins run by and says, "They look familiar… oh, are they relatives of that white goddess? What was her name?"

Ram runs ahead of her sister and she asks her, "What's keeping you?! The festival is this way!"

Rom nods, "I know, but I heard something…"

Ice knows what she's talking about, "She must have heard me. These goddesses have very good hearing." He feels something nudge him and quickly darts towards it, "What was that?"

It was a penguin that nudged him, a normal one. Ice talks to it, "So, you know anything about those twins?"

The penguin replies, "What is it to you? I don't even know you! What are you doing here?" It says in its native tongue.

Ice says, "We're brethren so you need to explain to me things that I don't know."

The penguin turns its back, "I don't need to if you are not from here. I can tell that you up to no good."

Ice sighs, "Are you on the goddess' side? Look… I am just doing business and you better talk or else…"

The penguin turns around and puffs up its chest at Ice and nudges it at him, "Or else what?"

Ice grumbles, "This!" He grabs the penguin and kicks it near the twins.

The twins turn towards the kicked penguin, "What happened?" Rom says at the penguin.

The penguin squawks angrily at Ice which blew his cover. Ice shouts in penguin language, "Oh yeah… same to you!"

Ram shouts, "It's the penguin that Blanc told us about!" Rom says, "Let's catch him!"

Ice looks at them and waves his flippers, "Now… girls, please not resort to that. Let's talk this out like mature…"

Too late! The chase starts! Ice has no choice but to run away from them on his stubby penguin legs, but they are not as stubby as the regular penguins'.

As Blanc is finishing her work, she hears commotion outside and grumbles a bit and checks what's going on out there, "Do you mind?! I'm finishing my…" She sees Ice, "You!"

Ice stops dead in his tracks and dives into the snow. The twins stop chasing him and cheers, "Yay! Blanc is coming with us!"

Blanc transforms to her HDD form and aims her axe at Ice in the snow pile, "Alright, you little shit! What are you doing out of jail?!"

Ice raises his flippers and pops out of the snow and says, "I would tell you if you lowered your weapon down."

Blanc doesn't do that and sticks it at Ice's chest, "You better spill if you know what's good for you!"

Ice takes a deep breath and says, "I was let out. I am not a terrorist or anything of the sort. I was sent to gather information about this dimension and that's it. And no… we are not planning to attack it, just learn from it."

Blanc asks, "Who's we?!"

Ice says, "The agency I work for. We are a secret agency of penguins who go to different dimensions and learn from them. I am one of them, I am just an espionage sent here to gather information to improve our agency's technology."

Blanc asks, "And you are improving it by stealing ours?"

Ice shakes his head, "We are being inspired, so to say. And honestly, I was the one who chose this dimension, well… me and my friend did and we just want to see how you do things as it sounds cool. Much like your snow and your hat."

Blanc lowers her weapon and transforms to normal, "Very well."

Ram says, "Can we go now?! We will be late for the rides if we stay around here for too long!"

Blanc shakes her head, "I still have work left to do, I'm sorry."

Rom frowns, "Aw…" The both of them look disappointed that their sister can't go just yet.

Ice asks, "Go where?"

Blanc tells them, "To the Autumn festival. I promised to go with them, but I have more work to do."

Ice thinks for a moment, "Well… I guess I could take them for you."

The three of them gasps, "What?"

Ice nods, "Just until you finish with your work. I'll keep an eye on them and go with them on the rides or games for you."

Rom cheers, "Yay!" Ram cheers as well, "You're not as bad as we thought!"

Blanc thinks about it for a moment and says, "Are you sure that you can take care of them?"

Ice nods, "Yeah, I got a sister, too? See?" He pulls out a photo of a female emperor penguin wearing a scarf and she looks to be about five.

That makes Blanc feel more for Ice, "She's cute. Ok, you can take them to the festival."

Ice puts the photo back into his hat, "Let's go, then!"

The twins transform into their HDD form, Rom grabs Ice and they fly off to the festival. Blanc waves goodbye to them.

Let's see Leanbox now… Chika is obviously that Vert decided to go with her, "Let's go, my goddess Vert! The others are waiting for us!"

Vert seems to be upset about something, "Alright."

Chika sees this, "What troubles you? Is it something I can take care of?"

Vert shakes her head, "It's nothing. Let's go, shall we?"

Chika brings a checklist, "First of all… is 5pb.'s concert set there already?"

Vert says, "Check."

Chika looks at something else entirely in the checklist, "Did we ask for HER to bring a booth? We never used her for other things than modeling and dance videos recently."

Vert nods, "She insisted me and I couldn't say no. She's already stationed there so we're all set to go."

Vert transforms and takes Chika with her to the festival.

Back with Arfoire in her schemes. Pirachu is still doing guard duty, he asks, "Chu! How long is it until that old man is done? I wanna get to that festival and steal Compa away from that cat!"

Underling asks Vox, "So, how long until it's done?"

Vox replies, "It's done. I just have to download all the content from the watch into the machine." He takes Xelor and brings him to the computer which is attached to a chamber containing a robot that's the same size as an average human. He attaches Xelor to the computer, he whispers to Xelor, "Make sure you backed up your program."

Xelor beeps and the thing starts. No one catches what Vox said to the watch and he says, "It should be done soon."

Arfoire laughs, "Excellent. And with this, I can control Gamindustri and the goddesses!"

Pirachu says, "Whoa! Major spoilage! Wouldn't the readers want to find out what this thing can do?"

Arfoire shouts, "I don't care! I'm gloating!" She continues to laugh.

Back with Andrew and the Neps. They finally arrive to the festival and a whole sorts of games awaits them. Nepgear is already separated from them so it's just Andrew and Neptune. Andrew looks around and observes the attractions, "Wow… so massive. I don't think I have anything like this in my hometown."

Neptune asks, "Oh, really? What is your hometown like?"

Andrew sighs, "Not like this, that's for sure. It's pretty quiet and has a better balance of the male and female ratio."

Neptune grabs Andrew's hand, "Let's go check out the fun games!" She takes Andrew to the excitement.

Neptune takes Andrew to a cotton candy booth and the two gets one of their respective color, blue and purple. Neptune eats some, "Yum! Isn't this scrumptious, Andy?"

Andrew eats some too, "Yep, blueberry is pretty good."

Neptune asks, "Can I try some? You can have some of my grape cotton candy."

Andrew thinks about it and says, "I don't see why not."

The both of them try each other's cotton candy, as they do so, they look into each other's eyes and then they back off, "Why are you looking at me like that for?" Neptune asks.

Andrew replies, "You looked at me the same way."

Neptune ignores that, "Anywho… let's look at some of these games!" She grabs Andrew's hand and pulls him to the festival's games.

The first one that they came across is a Gamindustri rendition of whack a mole. Andrew reads the sign for it, "'Whack a Dogoo'. Do they have to be dogoo?"

Neptune nods, "Yep! Do you want the first go?"

Andrew shakes his head, "No… I'll let you go first."

Neptune grabs the mallet, "Alright! Say your prayers, dogoo! I'm gonna Nep you up!" She whacks the dogoo as they pop out of their holes. She has precise aim and was able to hit them all as they rise up.

Andrew watches her play and keeps a steady eye on each of the dogoo that have been risen up, "Damn… you are really good at this, Neptune. I guess that's of no surprise considering how many monsters you kill."

Neptune shushes Andrew, "Be quiet… I am in my zone here. Greeeeen hill!" She smacks a dogoo that was in a plastic hilltop. "Extra points!" She cheers.

Andrew claps for her, "Great job, "Nep-" He sees something pop out of the hole that looked too real, "Look out!" He grabs the mallet that Neptune is holding and tries to stop her.

"What are you doing?! You're messing me up!" She tries smashing the suspicious dogoo. Of course, this action that Andrew did messed up her game. "Thanks a lot! Why did you have to go and stop my amazing streak?"

Andrew points at the dogoo, "Because that one is real."

The dogoo barks happily which can mean only one thing, it was Glue.

Neptune realizes this, "This naughty dog just snuck into the festival! We need a mad scientist to come in here and fix this!"

Andrew tells her, "This one is Glue. Can't you tell?"

Glue barks happily at Andrew and Neptune. Neptune replies, "They all look the same to me, but it isn't attacking so I guess it is him. But we can't have three in our party!"

Andrew asks, "Why not?"

Neptune says, "Because that's the festival rules. And besides… we are on a date and your pet would be a third wheel."

Andrew says, "But, isn't the festival supposed to unite us or something like that?"

Neptune explains, "Yeah, but during the end we are going to do that! Sorry, but you need to shoo!" She shoos Glue.

Glue whines and bounces away, but still in the festival.

Andrew tells Neptune, "Well… let's find something else that we won't mistake for my pet."

Neptune smiles, "Okay, but let's have it based on our strength! I wanna see how strong you've gotten!"

Andrew nods, "Alright, let's see if we can find something like that."

They walk around for a bit and they find a test of strength kind of game, Andrew reads the sign, "'Cactus of Strength'. Why does that sound so eerily familiar?"

Neptune grabs Andrew's hand, "Who cares?! Let's try it!" She pulls Andrew towards the game.

The host running this game calls out for players, "Come one, come all, mates! Don't be shy! Come and have a go if you think you're hard enough!" She has dark brown hair, much darker than Andrew's, she is wearing a light blue hoodie that has a golden symbol on the zipper. Her hair is bunched into a barrette that is the same symbol as the one on the hoodie zipper. She wears bright yellow booty shorts and white and red sneakers. She has blue eyes and wears white gloves.

Neptune calls out, "Yeah! We're hard enough!" She waves at her.

Andrew notices that she has a red bird resting on her shoulder, and it looks kind of fiery, "Is that a phoenix?" He asks.

The hostess of the game responds to them, "You're right, mate. They're rare, don't you know?" Andrew notices that she has a British accent.

Neptune says, "Hey… I think I recognize your model advertisements in Leanbox. What's your name?"

The hostess introduces herself, "My name is Blaire Whitney. And this is my trusty phoenix friend, Bree."

The phoenix squawks, "Bree!"

Neptune recognizes her, "Yeah! You are who I think you are! What are you doing at a place like this?"

Blaire explains, "Well, I heard that there's going to be a lovely festival that's going to be set up so I asked Vert, 'Wouldn't it be marvelous if I could attend? I would very much appreciate it and I would set up my own booth and everything.' She said 'yes' and here I am!"

"Suh-weet! Now, we would like to try your game, please!" Neptune says enthusiastically.

"Of course! Step right up, chaps and see if you can ring the bell!" Blaire presents the cactus of strength which is actually designed like a cactus.

Neptune steps up with Andrew following behind her, "Coolio! What do we get if we ring the bell?"

Blaire gasps, "I haven't really thought that far…"

Andrew asks, "Isn't the achievement of ringing the bell good enough?"

Neptune denies that, "No, it's not! This is one hell of an achievement. Not just anyone can ring this bell, I'd imagine."

Andrew mentions, "I'm guessing goddesses can, though."

Neptune ignores Andrew's comment, "Alright, Andy… I'm gonna go for it. Wish me luck."

Blaire hands Neptune Bree which transforms into a hammer, "Give it all you got, mate."

"Alrighty! Hammer smash!" Neptune brings down the hammer and she hits the bell no problem. "Hey, look at that! I rung the bell!"

Andrew says, "I knew you can do it. You are a goddess, after all."

Neptune smiles, "Thanks for believing in me, Andy!"

Andrew sighs, "You didn't even listen to the last bit, did you?"

Blaire asks Andrew, "You want a go, mate?

Andrew sweatdrops, "I don't know…"

Neptune tries to encourage him, "Come on! You can do it! With or without that watch, you are strong! Now's the time to show it!"

Andrew nods, "Alright. It can't hurt to try, right?"

Neptune beams at Andrew, "There you go! Ring that bell like a pro!"

Neptune gives Andrew the hammer and he gets ready, "Alright… here goes something." He smashes the hammer down and tries to ring the bell… for it only to go quarter way. "No… I failed."

Neptune thinks about that, "I wonder why that is…?"

A voice that isn't either of them says, "It's because he isn't as strong as my wifeys."

Neptune recognizes it apparently, "There is only one girl that would say that… Red!"

A girl with red hair with white tips appears. She wears a Chinese floral red and black dress and she's accompanied by a golden dragon. "Hello!"

Andrew gasps, "And that's a freaking dragon. Wow…"

Neptune asks, "Hey, Red! What brings you to the festival?"

Red answers, "So I can find as much wifeys as possible! This place is a gold mine for them and I just found the two I have been looking for!"

Andrew sweatdrops, "Eh, what?"

Red looks at Andrew, "I won't let you get away with them! I will defend them with my life!"

Andrew asks again, "Again… what?" A bit louder this time.

Red explains, "It's my goal… to find as much wifeys as possible and build the ultimate harem."

"What does that have to do with building… a fish?" Andrew asks.

Blaire says to Andrew, "I believe you have that confused with herring, chap."

Andrew laughs weakly, "Right… it's one of those terms again."

Red says, "So I declare an act of war! You will not take away my dream, GPU!"

Andrew asks, "You know about me?"

Red nods, "I've seen the news. You are trying to gather the goddesses for the same exact reason. Well… I will stop you!"

Andrew scratches his head, "Umm… are you serious?"

"I am always serious when it has to do with defending my wifeys!" Red shouts giving Andrew the fiercest look she can do.

Andrew nods, "Ok, then."

Red is surprised, "Why aren't you intimidated by fear?"

Andrew shrugs, "Should I?"

"Yes! I had this all planned out! I call for an act of war while giving you threats and you get scared but we still fight and then I claim victory over you!" Red shouts feeling disappointed.

Andrew nods, "Oh."

Red asks, "Can't you just give me one satisfying reaction?"

Andrew thinks about it, "I still don't understand your motive."

Red shouts, "Do I have to spell it?! I am gathering wifeys so I can build my harem! What part of that don't you understand?"

Andrew says, "I don't know what a harem is."

Neptune whispers it to Andrew's ear which he says, "Oh…" His eyes widens which probably means that Neptune also told him what she wants to do with them and such.

Red smiles, "Now that you understand… are you threatened now?"

Andrew says, "So… you want romantic relationships with a bunch of girls?"

Red nods, "Shall we fight for them now?" She's getting ready to a battle.

Andrew shouts, "Oh my god, you're a lesbian!"

Neptune sighs, "Oh boy…"

Red gets mad as he says that, "Are you making fun of me?"

Andrew shakes his head, "No… I'm just surprised. I never met one… I think."

Neptune says, "Aw… look how innocent you are! That's adorable!"

Andrew begins to blush as he imagines it, "OK…"

"I didn't think I would get this reaction." Red says a bit shocked by what she's seeing.

"I didn't either. I guess his mom didn't tell him much about it." Neptune says.

Andrew says, "This dimension… is crazy."

Red asks, "You're not from here?"

Andrew nods, "Yep."

Red replies, "That explains your strength just now. I don't think I have to worry about taking your wifeys."

Andrew looks at her, "I might not be from here but I take that offensive."

Neptune asks, "Let's all get along! Andy is my friend that I'm taking on a date for the festival."

Andrew nods, "Yeah…"

Red nods, "Alright, but I'm keeping an eye on him just in case he tries something."

"I guess that's fine… I think." Andrew says.

Blaire asks trying to break the tension, "Do you fancy a go with this cactus of strength, mate?"

Red smiles, "Does that mean we are mates? I have achieved my goal of obtaining a celebrity wifey!"

Neptune says, "What about the prize?"

"I can't really think of one, I'm afraid." Blaire asks.

Red gives a suggestion, "How about the prize being to grabbing your marvelous boobies?"

Blaire sweatdrops, "I'm not sure if-"

Without letting Blaire finish, Red goes to try to ring the bell. She actually hits it and says, "Yay! Booby time!"

Blaire sweatdrops, "I didn't agree to this just yet."

Red says, "Come on! When will there ever be another opportunity for a fan to grope such perfect boobies as yours?"

"Well… if you put it like that…" Blaire thinks it over.

Before Blaire could completely decide, Red just goes for it and gropes her breasts. Andrew is in shock at what he's seeing.

Neptune says, "Well… there won't be another time like this again." Neptune goes for it as well!

"Et tu, Neptune?" Andrew says as he sees his friend does the same dirty act. He feels his nose running and he checks it, yep, it is blood. "Again?"

After that incident is over, Red smiles feeling satisfied, "Breast prize ever!"

Andrew sighs, "Interesting friends you make, Neptune…"

Neptune replies, "Hey, I just go with the flow! It's not my fault I attract everyone around me!"

"I guess I can't blame you." Andrew says.

"You really missed out, Andy." Neptune says.

Andrew chuckles lightly, "It doesn't really matter as long as you are having fun."

Neptune says, "Let's see what else this festival has!" Neptune pulls Andrew towards where she wants to go.

Red asks, "I'm coming with you guys!"

Andrew mentions, "But, the rules say that it has to be a party of two until it's time for us to unite."

Red says to Andrew, "What are you, an intense rule follower?"

"Should I? I mean… they are the goddesses' rules, right?" Andrew asks.

"They are but it doesn't say that I can't spy on you two." Red says.

Andrew nervously says, "OK…"

Neptune pulls Andrew, "Come on! I think the uniting part of the festival is starting, let's meet up with everyone."

"Oh, already? Ok." Andrew says as Neptune takes him to where everyone is gathered. Red, of course follows.

It seems like everybody is gathered at a concert of some kind, Andrew asks, "So… what is this?"

Neptune tells him, "This is 5pb.'s concert where everybody is gathered. Histy will show up and link two worlds together so we'll really be united! Afterwards, 5pb. will sing for us."

Andrew says fascinated by this, "Wow…"

Neptune nods, "Too bad we couldn't catch the rides but at least we played some games and made a friend, right?"

Andrew chuckles, "I don't know if she is my friend… she doesn't seem to like me."

Red shouts, "Hey… I hear you, you know!"

Andrew apologizes, "Sorry…"

"I guess I can forgive you. You aren't like how I'd imagine a boy would be. Really horny and rude to girls." Red says.

"Where did you get that from? All guys aren't like that. I've seen jocks that are like that but they are bad so I don't follow their example." Andrew says.

"I'm still going to keep an eye on you just in case. I don't trust boys just yet." Red says.

Back with Ice and the twins. They seem very happy, "Thank you so much for taking us on those rides!" Rom says. "They were awesome and thanks for all the candy and sweets!" Ram says.

Ice gives them a wave, "You're welcome. And there goes my paycheck. Good thing I know my way around currency conversion."

Rom frowns a bit, "It's sad that our sister can't go." Ram pouts, "It sucks! I wanted to spend time with her, too!"

Ice gives them a smile, "Chin up, girls. I know that work can be difficult, trust me. I had moments where my sister wanted to play with me and I couldn't. Just believe in her and maybe she'll finish her work in time."

Rom and Ram tries that, "We're believing…" They strain as it seems to require effort.

Ice looks at them and scratches his head, "I don't know if that's what I had in mind. But, I'll tell you this. I'll play with you girls while I'm here whenever she's busy."

Rom smiles, "We'll like that!" Ram says, "At least it'll keep us from being bored."

They continue on, Scratch and Compa are there playing games. Right now, they're playing a balloon dart game.

Scratch observes Compa throwing the darts accurately, "You have great aim! I'm guessing that's why you work with needles all the time."

Compa smiles, "Thank you, Mr. Kitty! Your turn!" She hands Scratch some darts in his paws.

Scratch says, "I'm not very good with throwing, that's Ice's deal. I'm good at aiming with a slingshot or something along those lines…."

Compa grabs Scratch's paws, "Let me help you!"

Scratch can feel his heart beat faster, "Ok…"

Compa helps Scratch throw darts for a bit, "There, it's easy peezy."

Scratch gulps, "There's something I have to tell you…"

Compa ask curiously, "What is it?"

Scratch says it, "When I'm around you, my heart begins to jump around happily and I can't help it. I never had experienced anything like this and I think I know why. It's because I l-"

A voice appears in the speakers of the festival, it sounded like Histoire, "Attention! Would everybody please go to 5pb.'s concert at this time for the uniting? Thank you."

Compa smiles, "Looks like it's time to go." She walks off.

Scratch sighs, "Oh well…" He follows her.

Everybody that is at the festival heads over to the center where the concert is held. Andrew can see the stage and 5pb. assumedly is there. Andrew smiles, "Oh, we're going to hear a song. That's pretty cool."

Neptune shushes Andrew, "It's starting!"

5pb. says to the audience, "Thank you all for coming! Before we start the concert, we would like you to turn your attention to Histoire."

Everybody claps and Histoire appears on stage, "Thank you. I will be opening a portal to the Ultradimension and we will have everybody who has joined the festival over there to listen to 5pb.'s music."

Everybody cheers, and just before Histoire could open the portal, something appears in the sky, Andrew ask squinting at it, "Is that part of the festival?"

Neptune shakes her head, "No! That's something crazily new! What's going on?!"

Everybody looks at the mysterious figure looming in the sky hovering. It wasn't a goddess or anything of the sort as every goddess is accounted for except for Blanc but this thing isn't white. It's dark blue with glowing red mixed into it. It flies down on the stage, it's a humanoid robot! Its eyes are glowing red, has metallic claws, has red lines all over it and it seems to be modeled after Andrew's GPU form.

Histoire can sense its evilness, "Oh no…"

5pb. looks at it and says, "W-what is that?"

Histoire says, "Nothing good. Neptune! Get up here and take care of this!"

Neptune smiles, "Welp! Looks like my time in the spotlight has arrived!" She does some cartwheels and jumps in the air with some flips and land on stage, "Let me have a look at this robot!"

The robot looks at Neptune, scanning her. It says robotically, "Goddess."

Neptune gasps as the voice sounded familiar, "Xelor?"

Although the voice is deeper in pitch, it sounded exactly like Xelor. Andrew gasps, "It can't be…"

Neptune takes lightly on it, "Well… I just knew you would come to the festival! And I see that you got yourself a body! What are you doing up on stage, though?"

The other two goddesses run up on stage and stand in front of the robot, Noire shouts, "Don't talk to it! This is brimming with pure evil! We have to destroy it!"

The robot scans the other two goddesses and says the same thing, "Goddess…" Although a bit longer than last time.

Vert asks, "Did it just scan us?"

Noire shouts at it, "What your problem, you perverted heap of scrap metal?!"

The robot doesn't say anything after that, just stands there looking at the CPUs.

Neptune points that out, "It's not attacking… what the heck is up with it?"

Noire shouts, "If it's not attacking then fine by me!" She transforms into her CPU form. "I'll destroy it in one slash!"

The robot springs to life, "Goddess!" The robot launches itself at Noire and aims an armcannon at her.

Andrew gasps, "That's my move."

Noire shouts, "Lace ribbon!" She slashes at it with one of her specials.

The robot makes an unnatural dodge from it and shoots her with a turret of red bullets, and got her.

Neptune shouts, "Noire! Alright! Time for you to get Nepped up!" She transforms into her CPU form. "Vert, let's team up on this. This robot isn't what meets the eye."

Vert nods and transforms, "I was waiting for a reason to fight, anyway." She flies up with Neptune and tries to take on the robot.

Andrew looks at them, "I can't help them… I'm defenseless."

Red asks, "So… are you gonna go and fight with your wifeys?"

Andrew tells her, "As much as I want to, I can't. I lost my watch. That's what has my power." He sighs sadly.

Someone appears beside Andrew, "I'll take your place, mate!" Blaire appears with her phoenix.

Red asks, "You can fight? But, I thought you were just a sexy model."

Blaire shakes her head, "I used to be part of the combat. It was my killer instinct. I'm afraid that Vert had different plans with me."

Andrew asks curiously, "What do you mean by that?"

Blaire shouts, "I have no time for chatting, ol' chap! I must be on my bike!" She makes Bree transform into a fiery sword. "Talley ho!" She runs off.

Andrew gets inspired by Blaire's spirit, "No matter what, I'm still a GPU. With or without that watch." He whistles for Glue which he arrives and transforms into a sword. "Now is the time to prove it." He runs off following Blaire.

Red shouts, "What am I doing waiting around? My wifeys need me!" She runs off following the group.

Nepgear looks at the robot and asks, "What should we do? Should we help?"

Ram says, "Let's kick that tin can's butt!"

Ice disagrees, "Stay where it's safe for now. That robot is too powerful."

Nepgear says, "But, our sisters…"

Ice tells them, "They won't be able to stop it and neither will you. We have to stay low for the sake of this world."

Nepgear and the others find this hard to accept, they eventually nod, "OK…"

Uni, on the other hand disagrees with the penguin, "Why should we? Who put you in charge of us?"

Ice replies, "Blanc did. I'm trying to keep you girls safe even if it means that your older sisters won't. If anything happens, I'll do something about and so will we."

Uni asks, "How do you even know that we don't stand a chance?"

Ice replies, "Trust me, I build robots too and I can tell how powerful it is just by looking. This robot got a deep secret that you candidates don't want to get involved in, for the sake of your nations."

Uni gives in, "Fine."

Nepgear asks, "What should we do?"

"Stay low until it's clear. I'm certain that your sisters will be put into danger, but you girls won't and there's nothing you can do to help them." Ice says.

Uni says, "That sounds very selfish if you ask me."

Ice nods, "I know. As I said, we have to come up with a strategy to help them instead of assisting them to fight. We can't do that now. We must do it when it's clear."

Rom says, "We trust Ice…"

IF says, "Me too. It sounds very thought out and I agree with him."

Everybody puts to an agreement to follow Ice's plan.

Back to the battle, each goddess tries to put a dent into this robot but couldn't do so. They were in the air so anyone who can't fly can't attack it. This make Red pout, "This sucks! We can't help our CPU wifeys out!"

Andrew transforms his weapon into a boomerang, "Well… I'm going to distract it." He throws it at the robot. "Come on…"

As soon as Glue makes contact with the robot, he transforms to normal and tries to goo him up. The robot retaliates by giving off a red electroshock attack and hurting Glue. Glue reforms back to his normal self and then the robot slashes him with one of his robot claws and kills him.

Andrew is in shock that his pet just got killed in front of his own eyes. He goes in anger. "I'll kill you!" He tries going for it and charges at the robot.

The robot sees him and lowers himself down. The goddesses see Andrew's reckless behavior. "Andy." Neptune says worried.

As Andrew tries to land an attack on the robot's cold metal face, the robot grabs that fist and puts it into a death grip.

The goddesses land and worries about the fate of their GPU. "Andy!" Neptune says.

Noire shouts out, "If you hurt him, you will face my wrath!"

Andrew groans in pain as the robot squeezes his hand. Just then… an axe appears in breaks the grip as it hits the robot's claws dead on and made him let go. It was Blanc!

The robot scans the CPU and says, "All CPUs accounted for."

Blanc steps in front of Andrew and shields him, "I don't know what piece of crap metal you are, but if you try to hurt Andrew or anyone else then I will end your miserable life!"

The other goddess step in front of Andrew in shield him from the robot. The robot laughs, "Now that we got all CPUs accounted for." From afar, the robot shoots red wires at them and wraps them up tightly, all at once. "Prepare to be serving under me!" He zaps them with red electricity and doing something to them.

Everybody gasps as they see this happen. Red and Blaire at once chops the wires with their respective weapons before anything major was going to happen to them. The goddesses take a moment to rest up before they strike the robot again.

Vert notices that Blaire saved their life and says, "Blaire…" In complete shock to what she did.

Blaire says her name, "Vert…" She then sees Blanc and frowns, "Blanc." Saying her name as well but a bit sadder.

Before anything else could be explained, all the goddesses turn their attention to the robot just standing there. Neptune asks the robot, "What is it that you want?"

The robot says, "For you to step down and serve me. If you don't comply. I will be forced to destroy your nations one by one. And you loved ones as well starting with him." The robot points to Andrew.

Blanc shouts out, "Over our dead bodies!"

The robot laughs, "That's what I intend on." The robot pulls out something. It was the watch that Andrew had. "You won't be needing this anymore." He tries to crush it with its claws but for some reason unable to. It gives up and flies off and circles around and creates a dimension portal in the sky. "You don't even have the choice in the matter, goddesses." The robot throws the watch into the portal.

Neptune asks the robot, "Why are you doing this? Who are you working for?"

The robot replies, "That will be explained in time whenever I feel like telling you." The robot flies down and continues talking, "You can either surrender or continue to fight me. But rest assure you, the battle will be futile."

Andrew walks towards the robot, Neptune tries to stop him, he says, "No. I need to. This robot is my fault and I have to fix it alone." He walks towards it, "Do whatever you want with me, but leave the CPUs alone."

The robot scans Andrew, "Former user. I do not have the need for you. Only the CPUs you hold dear."

It is clear that this robot is indeed Xelor, or at least was. The robot grabs Andrew. The CPUs hold out their weapons but the robot points its armcannon at Andrew's head, "Move any further and former user dies. And drop your weapons, also."

The CPUs drops their weapons forcing to go with the robot's demands. "We won't obey you and never will!" Noire says.

The robot turns its head towards the portal and throws Andrew into it. "I'll deal with him later. If you goddesses are so eager to waste your lives trying to stop me then be my guest. Just to remind you that this won't go into your favor!" The robot charges at the CPUs and they begin to fight!

What is going to happen now that Andrew is warped to where ever in a random dimension? Well, not that random but who cares? Will the CPUs fight this evil robot and save Gamindustri or will they fall into its claws? Find out next time! Also… RIP Glue: Chapter 4-Chapter 16? Died trying to stop the robot. Here's hope that something will make him come back… hopefully.

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Magical-Death: Well… as you see, Vox didn't have a choice to trick them. And as much as I liked having the Ultradimension girls in the festival, it almost happened but didn't because of story reasons. I really wanted to send Andrew into the Ultradimension because I planned some stuff to happen there. Sorry, I didn't include Tekken this time, I really didn't have no clue on how to add her with the exception of having her own booth but I didn't think it would work. She'll be in the story trying to help fight the robot or something. I actually hope you liked what I did while it was all happy and such before the robot came in.

Albertrojas: Ok.

Now that's done… happy reading!