Hello and welcome back to Hyperdimension Overclocked! Last time, Andrew came back to Gamindustri and they had a welcoming party. In the shadows, new evil emerges to ruin things, there has to be conflict in this sort of stories. Also, I'm just going to write whatever story I feel like and not worry about a pattern, it's too much for me and it's not that fun doing it that way. Now, let's get it on!

Everybody meets up into Planeptune's Bascilicom, taking in that Andrew returned and Neptune couldn't be happier, "Yay! This is so awesome! Now that Andy is back, we can do all the fun stuff I wanted to do that you ditched out on!"

Andrew looks at her saying, "Hey, it's not like I wanted to leave. I had school and that made me have to leave you guys."

Neptune raises an arm, exclaiming, "Screw school! You don't need it, Andy! You are plenty smart as it is already!"

Noire says to Neptune, bluntly, "I disagree. It was a pretty wise thing to do, Andy. Even if it means to leave us for a bit and don't tell us when you'll be back."

Andrew nods, "Yeah, but I really didn't know if I could come back."

Vert says to everyone, putting her hands together, "Now that we have our GPU back, we can play a new game I have developed at Leanbox."

Neptune looks at Vert with interest in her eyes, "Ooh, a new game! Tell us, Verty! Is it any good?"

Vert gives her a look, "Of course it's good, Neptune. Why else have I told you about it?"

Andrew shrugs, "I don't know… I had my fair share of crappy games that people say it's good."

Vert frowns, possibly feigning it, "I am hurt, Andy. Why would you say something like that?"

Andrew actually falls for it, "Hey, I was just joking, Vert. I'm sure it's going to be a big hit when you show it to the people."

Vert smiles at Andrew and then shows them the console that they'll play the game on, "Here it is."

Andrew looks at and notices something, "It looks like a pair of goggles."

Vert nods, "Yes, it does. Would you like to do the honor of testing it out?" She then hands the piece of tech to Andrew.

He looks around it, trying to figure out how it works, "Nope, I'm not like my grandfather." He then puts them on his head and says, "I can't see anything, Vert."

Vert smiles but Andrew can't see that, "That's because you haven't turn it on yet." She presses a button on it and the goggles turns on.

Andrew's eyes widen as he sees it activating, "It's… familiar."

Vert nods and says, "So you've noticed, this specific game I have is inspired by when you went into my computer a while ago. I'm trying to get it to work like that as well, so I don't have to call you in to do it all the time."

Andrew nods, "That's good, not that I don't mind doing that for you, it's just that I might be busy or something so it's always good to have something that simulates that." He looks around seeing everything, "Freaking 8 bit everything. This feels so trippy."

Neptune gets interested and goes over to Andrew, "Really?! Let me see!" She tries to take the goggles from Andrew.

Andrew grunts, "N-Neptune! This isn't a toy, don't be so rough on it."

Well, Neptune grabs it from Andrew and tries them on, "Cool! So retro-ie! Maybe I should just walk around wearing this!"

Vert shakes her head at Neptune, "Honestly, Neptune… Andy?" She then turns to Andrew who has a pale look on his face.

Andrew's eyes are swirls and he looks pretty wobbly, "Ugh… I feel sick now."

Vert then nods, "There are side effects, like having sensory deprivation." Mentioning that at the last minute.

Neptune then looks at Andrew, "Whoops, sorry Andy. But you look pretty cool in 8 bit!"

Noire then takes away the goggles from Neptune and turns them off, "You deserve it, too!"

Neptune now gets what Andrew haves, "Whoa… switching from 8 bit to real life is… ugh!" She gets all wobbly as well.

Vert frowns saying, "It should wear off in a bit… I suppose I should check the bugs on this thing."

Andrew and Neptune sits down trying to let the side effect wear off gradually, "So… since I'm back and all, what about the other girls that followed us on our journey? Like…"

Vert nods and lists them, "Well, Plutie went back to her own dimension, and we haven't figured out a way to contact her again. As for Red, she's off on her own journey, Blaire is still working with me but I have let her do what she wishes, being in combat as well much to my dismay."

Andrew asks, "Why is that bad that Blaire is fighting?"

Vert then replies, "I worry too much about her."

Andrew nods understanding, "Oh, what about Marvy and Tekken?"

Vert looks down and shakes her head, "I honestly have no idea where they went, they could have returned to the Ultradimension with Plutie but I'm not so sure."

Andrew looks at her, asking, "So, you guys haven't seen them since I left?"

The four shook their heads, "Who knows where they could have gotten, I'm sure that you'll find them soon enough, Andy." Vert says.

Neptune asks, "Why did you want to know so badly, Andy?"

Andrew shrugs in response, "I dunno. I guess I just thought that they missed me or something, they seemed to be so loyal to me."

Noire then says, "Well, I have to return to my nation now. Stop by if you ever want to visit or something." She then transforms into her HDD form and flies off.

The other three does the same as well and they take off, that all leaves with Andrew and Neptune sitting next to each other. Compa and IF already left by the time they went back to Planeptune because they have work to do as well. "Well, what do you want to do, Andy?" Neptune says as she wants something to do.

Andrew replies asking, "Don't you have to work as well?"

Neptune slumps down feeling bad from that question, "Well… I don't wanna. I want to just lay around and play video games with my bud!"

That cues a Histoire card as she flies into the room shouting her head off once again, "Did I hear that you don't want to?! It's your job, Neptune! Honestly, I can't believe you! Andy seems to be more responsible than you right now!"

Andrew shrugs, "Hey, I just assumed because the others went to do the same thing."

Histoire nods, "That's completely correct and you should follow their example and do better. Don't you want what's best for Planeptune?"

Neptune nods, "Of course, but…"

Histoire crosses her arms, "But, what?"

Neptune tries to come up with an excuse, "I… have to catch up with Andy! That's important to do with a GPU, right?"

Andrew snickers as she said that. Histoire says, "That's true but once you complete all of your work, you can do that as much as you want."

Neptune groans, "But it never gets done! There's always more!"

Histoire nods, "Exactly."

Neptune goes to Andrew and shakes him by the shoulders, "Help me here, Andy!"

Andrew shrugs, "Err… can I just help her with it, Histoire?"

Histoire nods, "Of course, but I don't want her to burden you. She might make you do most of the work."

Neptune then says to Histoire, "Don't worry! That's his job anyway!"

Histoire then gives her an angry look, "Like what you aren't doing, Neptune!" She looks furious right now.

Both Andrew and Neptune sweatdrop, "I-I think you should do what she tells you, Neptune!" Andrew suggests to Neptune.

Histoire says to Neptune threateningly, "Now… I want you to go out there and do your work and don't come back until you do and I don't want to see Andrew helping you at all!"

Andrew points to himself asking, "Then, what am I supposed to do?"

Histoire returns to her calm voice, "You could see where your team mates have gone." She then turns back to Neptune with the threatening voice again, "Do I make myself clear?"

Neptune looks really intimidated from her, "Of course…"

Andrew asks Histoire, feeling the same way as Neptune, "Was that really necessary?"

Histoire flies over at Andrew's face, "Of course it is, Andrew! Neptune won't get any work done if I don't talk to her this way!"

Andrew holds up his hands, "Alright… got it." He then points at the door, "I guess I'll be letting myself out, then." He gets up slowly and walks out of the door.

Andrew then says trying to go over what he should do next, "Well, I'm out of ideas. I probably should go back to my house in this dimension and think about this some more." As he begins to walk, he remembers, "Oh yeah! That woman I saw earlier! What was her name again...?"

Xelor replies to Andrew, "Rei Ryghts, Andrew."

Andrew then snaps his fingers, nodding, "Of course, I should do something to make her not hate us."

Xelor beeps, mentioning, "Which you could also do at your house. I believe that's where you should go next to clear your mind and mull this over."

Andrew nods, making that his final decision, "And that is decided, then. Take me there, Xelor."

With that, Xelor teleports Andrew back to his house way off in the outskirts of Gamindustri. Andrew looks around as it all looks familiar to him, "Wow, this is a blast from the past, I really can't believe I'm back here."

Xelor beeps saying to Andrew, "Well, now that you're back, you have a whole lot of work to do."

Andrew asks him not getting it, "Why is that? Didn't I max out their lily ranks?"

Xelor replies to Andrew telling him, "Not exactly. I actually got an upgrade which increased the lily ranks to ten. You got a whole lot of work to do."

Andrew smiles at that, actually excited, "Wow, that's really cool. Can't wait to get started." He then opens the door and sees two people in his house, "Erm…"

They are the two DLCs that Andrew ordered, "Can it be? It is! Andy has returned to us!" Marvy says as she lunges at Andrew at ninja speed, embracing him in a hug.

Andrew didn't prepare for this and gets knocked over, "Ow! Good to see you, too, Marvy…" Groaning from the impact.

The other girl, Tekken, looks over at Andrew and says, "It's really nice to see you again. We have protected your house from intruders."

Andrew gives them a thumbs up, "Good job, girls…" He then passes out from the blow that Marvy gave him. He actually hit his head on the floor as he fell.

Somewhere in a place completely different, in a completely desolate place that looks to be a ruins of a once thriving civilization a long time ago. In a pile of its rubble, emerges a young man, "What… happened here? Where is everyone? Where is… I must find her!" He then busts out of the rubble with a leap and rushes off to who knows where.

Back at Andrew's little abode, he wakes up on his bed, "Ugh… that freaking hurt. Man, I think I should get some endurance training so I can handle those blows a bit easier." He looks around to see if the two girls are around, "Huh, where did they go?" He gets out of bed to look around, "Maybe they're in the living room." He goes out to check.

As Andrew goes to the living room to check, they aren't there but instead a note, Andrew picks it up to read it, "Dear Andrew, we have left while you were sleeping. Since you have arrived, our job has been done so we decided to return to the Ultradimension where we belong, you are better off with the goddesses. It has been fun and you were a great boss. We might see each other again someday. Love, Marvy and Tekken." As Andrew finishes reading, he feels a little sad, "Oh… how sad."

Xelor beeps, "Yes, rather sad. But they were supposed to be there only for a short time anyway, so it's probably for the best."

Andrew shakes his head, "Don't say that. I see them as my friends just as much as Neptune and the other goddesses. Anyway, that goodbye isn't forever so I have nothing to worry about, I just gotta keep going with my GPU duty."

Xelor mentions, "Don't forget Compa and IF, they are your friends, too."

Andrew nods, "That's right. See, you understand. Well, anyway, I think I've spent enough time here so I'm just going to see where my path takes me." He then transforms into his GPU form, "By just running until something eventful happens. The so called plot convenience, if you will." He runs out of his house and goes on his merry way into whatever he comes across.

A brilliant idea came across him to return to Planeptune for whatever reason, Andrew might be onto something here. As he arrives, he looks around town in his GPU form, "Sure is pretty populated today." On the account of a lot of people walking around the nation.

Most of them noticed him right away and… fangirl, I guess. "Look, it's the GPU! He's so handsome!" Most of the citizens are female, and by most, I mean almost all of them.

Andrew is surely spotted and just shouts out, "What's up, ladies?!"

They being sighing dreamily, "He noticed us!" They begin chasing him.

Andrew's eyes widens and says, "And that's my cue to leave! In a completely badass way, of course!" He does a flip and jumps high into the air and lands on top of a building, "Tah dah!" He does a bow as he completes the flip, impressing the ladies.

They all swoon as they see that, Xelor reminds Andrew, "Earth to Andrew! We got something important to do! And I thought you didn't like popularity."

Andrew regains his senses and nods, "Right! I don't! Something must have gotten over me and I don't know what." He continues his travels. "And I'm not entirely sure what I want to do, maybe Rei is still doing her propaganda business around here. When I find her, I gotta be acting more carefree and friendly towards her without looking like I'm mocking her." He looks around the place even scanning with his visor, "Nope, nada!"

Xelor mentions something to Andrew, "I sense two sources of share energy."

Andrew replies nonchalantly, "Oh, that must be Neptune and Nepgear. Sweet! It looks like she's done with her questing. I can finally return back to the Bascilicom!" He rushes over there in a flash, "I'm home!" He then notices something, "Oh! It's definitely not Neptune!"

Of course it is Vert who is cuddling with Nepgear, "My, Andy! You startled me!"

Andrew taps his foot saying, "Spending quite the quality time with Nepgear, I see?"

Vert fidgets a bit and says, "Look, you don't have to tell Neptune about this. It can be our little secret, right?"

Nepgear nods fidgeting a bit more, "Yeah, I mean… I don't mind, really. I mean…" She nuzzles close to Vert's breasts.

Andrew being in GPU form isn't embarrassed by this in the slightest but is still concerned, "Well, now! I honestly don't think I could do that, can I? Neptune is my friend and she's your sister. Can't really keep secrets, can we?"

Nepgear frowns, "N-no…" Feeling kind of bad now.

Andrew can see that and replies, "Oh, no, no! I didn't mean for it to be like that. It's this personality talking, likes to be a cocky dude! Look…" He returns back to normal, "Maybe we can compromise here."

Vert likes what Andrew is saying and replies, "I'm listening, go on…"

Andrew clears his throat and continues, "Well… I really have a feeling that I have to look after you now that your sister is away, Nepgear so I'll do that. But, Vert can tag along and we can have some fun exploring or something."

Nepgear replies to Andrew, "You… want to look after me?"

Andrew nods, "Of course! You mean a lot to me just as much as Neptune does. I'm just not as envious as Neptune is about the whole Vert trying to steal you thing."

Vert smiles, "Oh, I suppose that you actually like what you saw, then."

Andrew blushes and flails his hands, "I-it's not like that. I just trust you enough not to do anything to Nepgear."

Vert nods, smiling, "Ok… I believe you." She finishes it off with a laugh.

Nepgear then asks Andrew, "So… you won't tell Neptune?"

Andrew nods, "Yep, I won't tell Neptune."

Vert laughs again, saying, "That's my little brother! I knew I could count on you! Maybe I'll invite you in."

Andrew sweatdrops, "I don't know about that… let's just see what happens."

Nepgear smiles, asking, "So, what should we do then?"

Andrew thinks about it and says, "Maybe a picnic. I dunno, I'm kind of hungry anyway."

Nepgear nods, agreeing with that, "That's a great idea, Andy. I'll set it up for us!" She heads off to the kitchen to make food for the picnic.

Andrew then relaxes himself on a chair, putting his arms behind his back and stretches his legs, "I'm just so glad that I can kick back more often and not have to put up with the fate of this world again."

And then… Nepgear suddenly screams. Vert looks over and says to Andrew, "Looks like you spoke too soon."

Andrew, answering Nepgear's call for help, he rushes over to the kitchen and asks worryingly, "What's the matter?"

Nepgear looks at Andrew and says, bowing her head, "Oh sorry, I didn't mean to startle you. I was just surprised by Histoire. She's acting funny today."

Andrew looks over at Histoire and says, "How so?"

Histoire looks pretty distressed and is making weird noises, "Abababababa!" Shaking while doing so.

Andrew pokes fun at this and says, "So… is she broken or something? Do you have to fix her or restart her?"

Nepgear looks at Andrew and says, "She's not a computer, Andy. Anyway, something is obviously wrong otherwise she wouldn't be making those noises."

Andrew waves his hand across Histoire's face asking her, "Yo, Histoire, are you fine? Can we ask what's up?"

Histoire finally have gotten to her senses and says in a panicky tone, "N-Neptune… she's…"

Nepgear suddenly gets the same feeling or up to it as Histoire, "What's wrong with sis? Is she hurt?"

Histoire then says, "I don't know. I can't sense her, that's why I'm worried. I fear that something bad happened to her."

Andrew replies to Histoire, "You have nothing to worry about, I can easily find her with my trusty GPU skills."

Xelor replies mentioning, "And by that, you mean my CPU tracking app?"

Andrew looks at Xelor asking, "You have an app for that?"

Xelor makes a confirmed beep, "Of course, I am always prepared if anything goes wrong in your duty as a GPU."

Nepgear smiles at Xelor, "Xelly… you're the best!" Getting her confidence back.

Andrew taps on Xelor's screen, bringing the app up, "Let's see… goddess Purple heart… find." As he navigates the app on the screen, "And… no results?!" Being in shock by this.

Histoire says, "But, she's only doing some quests that locally in her nation, that can't be."

Andrew gives her a wave, "Now, hold on… maybe it glitched or something. This might be still in beta." He uses it again and tries searching for her, "Uh… Xelor, tell me if you're glitching or not."

Xelor replies, "I'm afraid that I'm not. For some reason or another, I can't find Neptune and no, it's not because I hate her. I literally can't find her as she's out of bounds for this app. It scans them only as far as Gamindustri's map expands."

Vert goes over and says, "This is really odd. How on earth could Neptune be gone?" She then says, "Now, that Neptune is practically missing, that means that I would have to take care of you from here on out, Nepgear."

Andrew looks at Vert saying, "This is serious. I think that something bad happened to Neptune and if it did. It perhaps means that something is after CPUs… again." He frowns as he realizes this, sighing, "Recycled plots are recycled."

Nepgear mentions, "But Arfoire reformed, didn't she? She wouldn't have taken my big sister."

Andrew nods, "That's right. That means that someone else is doing this."

Well, let's see what really happened to Neptune. "Ugh… where am I? The last thing I remembered is that I was killing a really huge monster and being really awesome at it! Wait… did I get amnesia again?" Neptune then makes straining noises trying to remember stuff, "Nope, I still remember everything. That means that I was kidnapped. Which explains why I'm in this nifty little cage." She looks at the container she was in and it looked like a big box which isn't little at all and it has four techy looking corners and it is covered by an energy field. "Ugh… this wall looks like anti-share energy."

"That's right, little goddess." A voice shouts out.

Neptune looks around in the dark room, "Wha?! Who's there? I'm not really good at guessing games."

The voice reveals himself to be the Phantom GPU but Neptune doesn't know that, "Greetings, Purple Heart. I take it that you are comfy in there?"

Neptune looks at him and says, "Well, I could use some pudding. Wait, what am I saying?! You are the one who locked me in there while I was snoozing, aren't you? Did you try to have your way with me while I was knocked out?"

The phantom GPU shouts out angrily, "No! Don't be stupid! Look! You're in a dangerous spot, CPU! Can't you just be a little intimidated by this?!"

Neptune shakes her head, "Nope! And why do you look like Andy? Are you his twin brother? Gasp! He has a brother?! And he hasn't told us? For shame!"

Phantom facepalms, "Stop with these idiotic false accusations… stop it before I get a migraine from all this stupidity."

Neptune looks at him saying, "You're not very nice. That's probably why you are all alone in this dark room, which is why you probably kidnapped me."

Phantom groans, "You're doing it again. Speaking of which, it was very easy to do so when you were just sleeping in the middle of nowhere."

Neptune tries to defend herself, "Hey, I get tired sometimes! A goddess needs sleep, too, you know!"

Phantom says to Neptune, trying to threaten her again, "Well, this is the last time you'll be sleeping, because what am I about to do to you… you won't sleep ever again."

Neptune points at Phantom, "See?! You are going to do something to me! It's not my fault that I'm so attractive!"

Phantom falls over anime styled, "I can't deal with her anymore. Rei, can you deal with her, my 20 minutes are about to be up, anyway."

Rei walks over and nods, "R-right…"

Neptune looks at Rei, recognizing her, "Hey! You're that chick with those flyers the other day! You made my buddy upset! Why did you do that?"

Rei shakes her head, trying to keep her confidence, "I-I have no idea what you are talking about. This is the first time we met."

Phantom groans, grabbing his head in pain, "Ugh… just shut her up, please!" He then says under his breath, "I should have grabbed the candidate instead…"

Rei nods, "Roger, sir." And she activates a computer which is hooked up to the container that Neptune is in.

What will happen to Neptune? Something good or something bad? And just what the Phantom GPU's plans really are? Find out next time!

Review Replies!

Angeldoesmc: And that will actually happen to Andrew later on in the other stories.

Titanwaffle: Yep, and hope you stick around! There will be more to see!

Magical Death: And he's in, I just need more information about his personality and such. Maybe you could email me those with my email address if you want. You probably won't like the Phantom GPU that much since what he's doing with Neptune.

Now that's taken care of… happy reading!