Welcome back to Birth of a CPU! Last time… a whole bunch of crazy stuff happened, we see for what the Phantom GPU really is, a crying little brat. Also… Andrew shrank at the end and got a little reward, yeah… Wait! I didn't mean for it to be worded like that! Crap! Ok, on to the chapter.

As they return to the Planeptune bascilicom, everyone looks at Andrew's diminutive state, even Histoire who is the most shocked of them all. Everyone else already saw it and only Neptune is smiling at it. "Isn't he cute like that? Gasp! Do you think he'll be this way forever?"

Histoire replies saying with a frown, "I hope not, he won't be able to get his GPU work done."

Andrew leaps onto the coffee table with a flea jump, "Hey cool! I didn't know I could jump this high at this size, maybe it won't be so bad after all."

Histoire goes up to him and shouts, "Easy for you to say, when your grandfather finds out about this, do you know who's going to be the one left to blame?"

Andrew comments, "Wow, I'm actually smaller than you."

Histoire shouts, "I don't care about that! You need to get to proper size, right away!"

Nepgear steps forward and looks at Andrew at eye level, bending down, "She's right, Andy. Do you want to spend the rest of your life looking up at your friends?"

Andrew thinks about that, "Err…"

Nepgear shouts at him, "Andy!"

Andrew shakes his head, "No! Of course not! Just, do you think this wears off eventually?"

Histoire nods, "It should, when it happened to Neptune, it just wore off; it would be ridiculous to try to fit a mushroom into your mouth at this size."

Andrew exhales in relief, "Phew! Good, I'm glad. I just thought that this would be my life for now on."

And… poof! Andrew goes back to normal size and he begins celebrating a bit, "Ask and you shall receive, yeah!" Andrew jumps around excitedly knowing he's back to normal size, "And… celebrating's over." He stops.

Neptune looks disappointed, "Aw… well, nice while it lasted."

Andrew shrugs, "Yeah, it was cool for a bit but it gets kind of depressing after a while. Almost made me feel like I would have been that way forever. Anyway… I just found out that Marvy and Tekken are back in the Ultradimension."

Histoire assumes what Andrew wants to do, "Do you want to visit them?"

Andrew nods, "Yeah, but that won't put a strain to you, right?"

Histoire shakes her head, "No, but it'll take a while for me to activate the portal."

Xelor clears his virtual throat, "Ahem!"

Nepgear knows what Xelor input is, "Are you going to help speed up the portal's activation?"

Xelor beeps, "Exactly, I just need someone to set us up."

Nepgear gets that crazy tech look in her eyes, "Ooh… let me help you with that!"

Andrew takes off Xelor and tosses it to Nepgear, "Knock yourselves out."

Nepgear then says to Histoire, "Now… let's set you up, Histy." She walks towards Histoire in a creepy way.

Histoire shouts, "Wait! I didn't agree to this yet!"

As Nepgear tries to set them up, Histoire begins shouting and Andrew could hear her shout, "Wait, not there!" But he can't see what Nepgear is really doing as she's blocking what she's doing to them.

"And… done!" Nepgear exclaims as she sets Histoire and Xelor up.

Andrew begins laughing, "Wow, that's a great setup."

It looks like Histoire is bound up around Xelor with cords coming out of him and into a nearby computer, possibly Nepgear's.

Histoire feels uncomfortable about this, "S-stop that! It isn't funny!"

Neptune begins laughing, "It actually is! Andy, please take a picture of this, this is uber hilarious!"

Nepgear asks, "Cord bondage is hilarious?"

Andrew shrugs, "Whatever it is. Anyway, Nepgear, what's next after that?"

Nepgear nods, "Alright, next I just have to activate the portal… and…" She types stuff on her computers and then Xelor and Histoire electrifies.

Andrew looks as this goes on, "She will be ok, right?"

Nepgear nods, "Oh yes! I have done this to her loads of times, she's practically like rubber."

Andrew looks over at Nepgear's computer and frowns looking at it, "How can you figure out all that jumbled mess of text?"

Nepgear explains, "That's code, Andy. It's a way where I can tell my computer what to do that isn't designed for it."

Andrew replies, "You mean hacking?"

Nepgear frowns, "Yes…"

A portal appears from Xelor's screen, it is glorious! "Wow! So, with this kind of technology, we can go anywhere we want! I really love your grandfather's invention, Andy!" Nepgear exclaims as she sees the portal activate.

Andrew tells Nepgear, "Well, he did give it to me so I guess if you really want to, you could figure out Xelor a bit more."

Xelor sighs, "You are calling me an it."

Andrew apologizes, "Oh, sorry, Xelor. I guess it would be up to you, then."

Xelor beeps, "I don't mind. I don't dislike Nepgear, if anything, I actually like her more than Neptune."

Andrew is surprised by Xelor's response, "Wow, I didn't expect to hear you say that."

Nepgear says to Andrew, "You should go in the portal now, and… I'm afraid that you can't transform while in there, I need Xelor to stay to open the portal back up when you're ready to leave. Here, this is to communicate with us." She gives Andrew a device similar to what she has, the N Gear.

Andrew looks at and nods, putting the device into his jacket pocket, "Alright, then. I guess I better take Glue along with me." He whistles for Glue and he rushes to Andrew and hops on his head.

Neptune shouts, "Wait! Can I go with you?"

Andrew shrugs, "If you want. I'm just going to see how they're doing, if you want to as well, you can go with."

Nepgear frowns saying, "I'm afraid that I can't go. I have to man the portal here."

Vert replies smiling, "Then I'll be here to keep you company, Nepgear."

Neptune furrows her eyebrows at Vert, "On second thought, I'll stay here to make sure that Vert doesn't 'distract' Nep Jr."

Andrew nods, "Alright. I'll leave you to it." He walks towards the portal, looks back at his friends for a bit or two before eventually going inside.

Nepgear says after Andrew already left, "Now, we'll just see what Andrew has to say when he gets back. I do hope he makes it out there alright."

Histoire asks, "Can you free me from this bondage now?"

Nepgear nods, "Yes, sorry." She frees Histoire and Xelor.

Neptune asks, "So, what are we going to do with Xelor now?"

Nepgear takes Xelor and suggests, "I might just tinker with him for a bit, if that's ok with you, Xelor."

Xelor beeps, "It's fine, I don't mind."

Nepgear smiles, "Thanks, I'll be going in my room to do so."

Neptune beams and says, "Ooh… whatcha going to do in there? Is it a secret?"

Nepgear frowns not knowing what Neptune is going on about, "What?"

Neptune says, "Maybe Xelly has something for my little sister, huh?"

Xelor shouts, "What made you think that I do?!"

Neptune laughs, "Oh, maybe that sudden outburst. You wouldn't react like that if it wasn't true."

Nepgear gets nervous, "X-Xelor doesn't have something for me. If he did, he would say it, right?"

Xelor clears his throat, "Yes. It's nothing out of the ordinary. She's just interested in my specifications, that's all."

Nepgear nods, "That's right, now if you excuse us." She goes off into her room.

Vert puts a finger to her chin, "My, my… this is interesting."

Neptune asks, "Should we see what they're up to?"

Vert shakes her head, "No, they might need some privacy."

Neptune groans, "But that only makes me even more curious!"

With that, the two of them leave to what Nepgear and Xelor are doing. Andrew is travelling in the dimensional vortex of awesomeness. "Holy crap… this is pretty trippy, and I'm still not used to this at all. Glue… hang on tight! Whoa!" And Andrew swirls around in the vortex as he makes it to his destination, the Ultradimension.

"Whoa!" Andrew shouts as he makes his way out of the vortex and into the Ultradimension, just like he remembered it. Andrew sighs in relief, "I'm so glad that I didn't have to fall from the sky again, that's seriously gets old." He looks around the area trying to find out where he is. "It looks to be… oh, this is the field that I met Noire of this world and Plutia, I hope that they're doing ok."

It seems like Andrew is forgetting something crucial that Plutia told him but he doesn't remember and keeps going trying to see if they're here. "No one yet, I wonder if she's just at the Bascilicom."

Glue hops off of Andrew's head and sniffs around, "What is it, boy? Do you smell her?" Andrew asks his dogoo companion.

"Dogoo!" Glue begins charging ahead, Andrew runs off with him to catch up to him.

Andrew pants as he follows Glue, "Slow down, Glue! I'm not that fast in my human form!"

As Andrew runs all the way towards somewhere, he eventually finds himself back in the Ultradimension's Planeptune, "She's around here?" Andrew asks.

"Dogoo!" Glue nods to Andrew, he hops around in place.

Andrew walks next to Glue and look around, "So many people today how can I find… wait." He sees someone familiar and the crowd of people, someone like, "Plutia!" He tries going through the crowd but find himself some trouble doing so, "M-move, please." Plutia begins walking away from Andrew, to where he wouldn't be able to keep up with her with this many people.

Glue jumps on Andrew's hand and turns himself into a sticky hand and latches on a nearby building and pulls Andrew towards it, "Whoa! You have to warn me before you're doing that." He begins running against the building wall, with only Glue holding himself and he successfully have gone over the huge crowd and goes back down, "Plutia! Damn it, she probably didn't see us, Glue."

Glue barks hopping up and down, "Dogoo, dogoo!"

Andrew looks towards where Glue is barking at, "Plutia is still in sight! We still have time!" He runs off trying to catch up to Plutia and Glue hops on his head.

Plutia is very far away from Andrew, like several blocks, and as soon as Andrew thinks he has made it, Plutia appears somewhere else walking casually, "Pant… how does Plutia move so quickly?" Andrew says to himself. He then sprints trying to catch up to her again.

Same results all across town, with Andrew thinking he made it to Plutia but in fact didn't and she just moves somewhere else. The crowd of people don't help as he has to go over them every time and miss his opportunity.

"This is really bogus! I can't even get to Plutia no matter how hard I try. I… wha?" Andrew sees Plutia going into a building, "That's not the Bascilicom, is that like a supermarket or something? Maybe this is my chance to finally catch up to her." Andrew tries running inside but gets stopped by an employee working there, "Sorry, no pets allowed."

Andrew tries explaining himself, "But, I have to see the goddess, I'm the GPU and-"

The employee asks, "Prove it."

Andrew rises a brow, "Huh?"

The employee clears herself, "Show me that GPU form and maybe I'll let you in."

Andrew was afraid of that, "About that, I had to leave my watch behind in order to get to the Ultradimension, and that holds the key to my transformation. I'm afraid I can't show you, sorry." He shrugs.

The employee crosses her arms, "Then you're not getting in with that mob with you."

Andrew gets upset at that word, "Did you just call Glue a mob?"

"Yes, I did." The employee replies not caring that she made Andrew upset.

Andrew shouts, "Glue is my friend, not a mob!"

The employee sweatdrops, "Security…" She calls for backup on her walkie talkie.

Andrew shouts, "Screw your security!" He charges inside with his dogoo.

And of course, the security comes by, he looks back, "Yep, I figured." Andrew sighs as he brings his dogoo and transforms it into his sword, "Stay back, I'm warning you."

The security guards aren't intimidated by Andrew's threats which worries him, "Sorry, I can't stand around, I'm in a hurry!" He turns his dogoo into a boomerang and throws it at the guards, creating a cyclone of wind around it and it goes for the guards. Andrew makes a run for it. "That'll buy me some time! I better find Plutia before I get caught."

Andrew looks around the store for Plutia, searching as quickly as he can before he could get caught, he eventually arrives at the deli aisle, where he could see Plutia at the distance which is strange to him, "Huh, what's Plutia doing over here? Is she getting groceries or something? Did Histoire ask her to go here?" He says to himself as he thinks this to himself, he then remember, "Oh yeah, Plu-"

As soon as Andrew is about to call her name, he gets tackled by security guards, "D-damn it…" He looks over and sees one of them distracting Plutia and not even mentioning who they just caught, him. "Crafty, aren't you?"

One of the guards say, "You are coming with us right-" And Glue comes in and tries to help.

Andrew smiles seeing his pet, "Am I glad to see you."

Plutia tries looking over to where Andrew is wondering, "What's going on over there…?"

The guard talking to her smiles nonchalantly, turns Plutia's head back towards her, "Nothing that you should be concerned about, Lady Iris Heart. How about I help you with your groceries?"

Plutia smiles, "That's really nice of you."

Andrew sees what going on over there and tries to break free, "No… Plutia." He attempts to push the guards off of him, but instead, "Um…" He looks back and noticed that he grabbed one of their boobs. "S-sorry!" He sweatdrops.

The guard shouts at him, "Trying to get fresh with me?!" And she smacks him in the head knocking him out. The group took custody of Andrew and his pet and brings them over to them.

And the security guards kicked them out of the supermarket, "And take your mangy mob with you!" They throw Glue on top of Andrew's head.

Andrew groans, "Ugh… my day isn't starting out cool. It's like things are getting from bad to worse. All because I don't have Xelor. Is he like my lucky charm or something? I don't know…" He gets up and rubs his head, "Ouch, those girls sure pack a wallop."

He then sees a cop right next to him, "You sure are in a lot of trouble."

Andrew frowns, "What did I do?" He asks the cop.

The cop replies to him, staring coldly, "You very well know what you did, you assaulted the guards and resisted being kicked out."

Andrew waves his hands in defense, trying to explain himself, "Ma'am, you got it all wrong. I was merely trying to get to your goddess, that's all. I'm-" He obviously gets cut off from there.

The cop shouts at him, "We know very well what you're trying to do. You're stalking our CPU, we won't have that, you creep!"

Andrew's eyes widen, "I'm not a creep, I'm a GPU and her friend. I know her."

The cop grabs Andrew's wrist, "Likely story. We don't want you resisting me now or I would have to use force."

Andrew asks the cop with a sweat pouring down his face, "Am I getting arrested?"

The cop nods, "You figured that one on your own? And you can forget about getting bailed out."

Andrew mutters to himself, "I'm I getting the bad ending? What did I do wrong? Should I have just waited at the Bascilicom?" He then remembers, "Nepgear's tech she left me!" He pulls out Nepgear's secondary N Gear, "Wait, ma'am, before you arrest me, hear me out one last time." He turns on the N Gear, "Come on, please pick up."

The cop taps her foot impatiently, "I don't have all day. I have better things to do than to hull a lowlife pervert in jail."

Andrew nods, "It'll be just a second. Come on, Nepgear… my life is at stake."

"Hello?" Nepgear replies answering Andrew's call.

Andrew shouts at her, "Nepgear, I'm in big trouble here! There's been a lot of misunderstandings and it led to me getting arrested!"

Nepgear shouts, "What?!"

Andrew faces the screen at the cop, "Here's who's arresting me! Nepgear! Please help me out here!"

Nepgear sweatdrops asking, "What did he do?"

The cop replies, "Well, he assaulted the security guards at the supermarket and proceeds to stalk our goddess."

Andrew explains, "I was just trying to defend myself and I know your goddess."

Nepgear frowns, "I'm sorry to hear that. Andy doesn't mean any harm, he's our GPU and your goddess', we're all friends, honest."

The cop asks, "And who are you?"

Nepgear introduces herself, "I'm Nepgear, CPU candidate of the Hyperdimension's Planeptune. I'm a goddess, too."

The cop replies sternly, "Prove it. Transform for me."

Nepgear nods, "Alright." She then transforms into her HDD form through the N Gear so that the cop can see.

The cop nods, "It's true that you are what you say you are. But…"

Andrew frowns, "But, what?"

The cop finishes, "He let a dogoo into the supermarket and ran while being inside, that doesn't count for arrest but it sure gets him banned from within the store."

Andrew explains, "Glue is my weapon as well, look." Glue turns into a sword, "See?"

The cop lets go of Andrew's hand and thinks about it, "V…Very well." She swallows her pride, "You can go back in."

Andrew cheers, "Yay! Thank you, Nepgear! You really helped me out here!"

Nepgear smiles and nods, "It's my pleasure, are you okay over there now?"

Andrew nods, "I should be and I'll talk to you later, bye." He hangs up and puts the N Gear away.

The cop calls the guards through the walkie talkie channeling it to their station, "Let the creep in, he's clean."

Andrew frowns, "Creep?"

The cop nods, "Sorry." She calls over again, "I meant the GPU."

Andrew smiles, "Thank you." He walks inside with Glue following him.

The cop murmurs to herself, "So that's really the GPU. Huh, I thought he would be a lot cooler than that."

As Andrew returns back, he looks around for Plutia, "Err… oh, she's checking out now. I better wait for her here." And Andrew waits.

Andrew sees Plutia bows at the cashier as she pays for her stuff and carries the bags over where Andrew is, "Andy?" She says.

Andrew looks at her and waves, "Hi, Plutia." Giving her a smile.

Plutia rushes over and proceeds to hug Andrew, "I missed you. I haven't seen you in a long time!" She squeezes him tightly.

Andrew returns the hug and nods, "I know. I'm just not sure how much time here passed, I would say several years or so."

Plutia nods, "That's exactly right, so… why haven't you visited sooner?"

Andrew shrugs, "Well, I just recently returned to the Hyperdimension today and I just got here. Marvy and Tekken actually went back here."

Plutia frowns, "Oh, you came here for them…"

Andrew shakes his head, "N-no! I came here for you, too! I really do miss you a lot, Plutia!"

Plutia then says, "Prove it…"

Andrew raises an eyebrow, "Huh? Prove it? How?"

Plutia replies, "Carry my groceries for me." She hands over her bags to Andrew.

Andrew nods and gladly accepts them, "Of course!"

Plutia puts her hands together, "Thank you, Andy. Let us return to the Bascilicom."

Andrew nods, "Ok, that sounds… hey, what are you doing?"

Andrew can feel Plutia climbing on his back, "I want you to carry me. I've done so much walking today and I'm tired."

Andrew sweatdrops, "But… I don't know if I can carry you and the bags at the same time."

Plutia smiles at him, "You can do it… you are a GPU, right?"

Andrew nods, "Of course. I'll do my best." He exhales and walks out of the supermarket saying to himself, "You aren't the only one that had to do a lot of walking, I practically ran a lot just to catch up to you." As Andrew walks back to the Bascilicom, he asks Plutia, "So who are these groceries for, anyway?"

Plutia replies, "Oh, it's because Histy wanted me to go out on a shopping spree."

Andrew thinks to himself, "Freaking called it." Andrew nods, "Alright, then. Let's just head back there and we can start catching up."

Plutia starts cheering happily, "Yay…"

And let's see what the little mastermind is up to, Remy, I mean. Remy just stares off at the once lair he had, "What do I freaking do now?! I can't do anything!"

Rei shakes her head, "I don't know, sir. Maybe you can find another hideout like what you once had."

Remy sighs, "But I can't! That last one costed me a lot and now… it's gone!" He then looks at his watch, the prototype of Xelor, "Why does the GPU get to last longer than me?! If it wasn't for the stupid time limit, I could have wrecked his shit! This is all your fault, you stupid watch!"

"You are very rude, you know that?" An unknown voice rings out.

Remy looks around, "W-where are you? Show yourself!"

Rei guesses, "I think it's coming from your watch, sir."

Remy looks down, "What?! So, I have one of those talking watches, too?"

"Correct." Says Remy's watch.

Remy then asks, "But, why the hell is your voice feminine instead of-"

The watch finishes, "Like my younger brother? Well, that's a fairly long story but it's can be simplified as that my creator was very lonely when he created me, as a prototype."

Remy growls, "Don't interrupt me!"

The feminine sounding watch sighs, "You don't know how to treat a lady, do you?"

Remy roars, "I'll talk to you however I want to talk to you! I'm your master now, got it?!"

The feminine watch beeps, a much higher pitch than how Xelor beeps, "I understand… master."

Remy stands around with a confused look, "Why do you give in like that? Wouldn't you want to go back to your creator?"

The watch explains, "Well, not necessarily, my creator failed me, he gave up on his hopes and dreams of being a GPU and has shelved me. That is until my younger brother, Xelor has stepped in and Vox handed him over to his grandson. I felt absolute hatred toward my creator that he had forgotten me and I paid no mind if I get kidnapped, it was a blessing, honestly. Now, I found someone who actually wants to get rid of them all. And I couldn't be happier." The watch giggles creepily.

Remy stares at his watch for a moment and then shouts, "That does not excuse for your poor performance out there! I freaking almost died because of that f*cking time limit!"

The watch makes a pouty emoticon on the screen, the screen is an LCD monitor, the ones you find on really old PDAs which really shows its age, "I was trying my best! It's not easy with my limited capabilities. I'm a prototype, you know!"

Remy grimaces, "Your screen is so bad, I'm just noticing it now!"

The watch pouts some more, "Well, I'm very knowledgeable about the past so at least I got something. I'm sorry that I'm not attractive like my younger brother!"

Remy squints, "It's so hard to see your screen, it has that ugly green tint on it!"

The watch shocks him, "That's enough out of you! Now, let's follow that GPU, I've gotten intel that he's defenseless right now so it's the perfect time to strike him!"

Remy shouts at his watch, asking, "Why didn't you say so earlier?!"

The watch giggles, "Because it's so funny to see you get mad."

Rei joins in on the conversation asking, "What should I do, sir?'

Remy replies, thinking about it, "How about you find a cheap lair online and get it for us."

Rei salutes, "Right away, sir!"

The watch asks, "And what should I do, master?'

Remy shouts, "You do what I tell you! And don't f*ck up again like last time!"

The watch makes a frowning emoticon again, "Why can't you be nice to me like you are with your partner? I'm trying my hardest for you and this is how you repay me?"

Remy gets a headache again, "Ow… ugh… fine. I guess I'll treat you a little nicer."

The watch turns her emoticon into a happy face, "You're so sweet, master! Now… how about you give me a name. My little brother gets one and it's not fair."

Remy grumbles, "Fine… err… I don't know, how about… D…Demo? Because you are basically a demo of the GPU. Basically since you have a time limit and all." Grumbling to himself again.

The newly named watch, Demo exclaims, "I love it! Demo it is, then! Now… let's find that GPU and give him a piece of our mind!"

Remy laughs evilly, "Yeah…" He taps on his watch and transforms into his GPU form, "Your shit is about to get wrecked, GPU!" He flies off.

Oh, no… now that the watch that Remy has actually has an AI, it's going to be a bit difficult for Andrew to face against now that she probably could outsmart him, being really old and all that.

Demo shouts, "Hey!"

What can go wrong? Find out next time! Also, I got a DeviantArt account now and I'll appreciate it if you could check it out. I just made some sprite art and I'm not that good, let me know what you think.

Review Replies!

Geod Pony: Yep! ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Cobalroid: Yeah, I thought it was funny, too. Speaking of Peashy, maybe she'll be in the story sometime, can't say when, that's a secret.

JotAlfonso: Yes, he did! ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Sonicfanx1: Well, he's a GPU instead of a CPU.

Magical-Death: Ryan will get his time again; I just have to get Rei more involved with the story. How do you like the reveal of Remy's watch partner? I had this idea that his watch will too get an AI but she's not as hateful towards Neptune (Well, she is but has a very good reason. She was abandoned)

Starwolf3000: Glue is there the whole time; I don't know what you're talking about. It's not like I neglected him or anything.

Now, that's done… happy reading!