"Hey, U-1. You think you can pick up some donuts while you're out?" a small, black and white talking beagle said while watching the latest episode of "Drama King", a popular soap opera TV show. The owner of this dog, U-1, or Uichi, as he is sometimes called, was much older now. Twenty-five years old, he had yet to get a job for fear that Lord forbid his home planet needed help, he would have to rush out of his work to go there immediately. Even though he was ten years older, nothing really changed about him, except the fact he was much more confident, though still a little nervous. Physically, he looked just like his alter-ego, Gitaroo Man, without his android-like uniform, he also had a small beard stubble. Puma, his lovable little sidekick, did not change at all despite it being a decade, he was not able to age for he was a robot disguised as an Earth dog. He was the same, smart-alecky, donut-loving pup U-1 always knew.

"Sure. Regular glazed like always, right?" he said as he grabbed his jacket and put it on. The pup nodded without even looking at the screen. U-1 grabbed his keys and walked out the door, locking it behind him. An hour passed, Puma's favorite show was over, and he was getting quite bored, he always was bored easily when his best buddy was not around. He sighed out of monotony, desperate for something to do. He shut off all the lights and left U-1's room, however, something pinged in his mind that gave him the urge to check on his home planet. Going back into U-1's room with the lights still turned off, he started to link a transmission between where he was and where Miranda was.

"STARTING TRANSMISSION" was what he saw in his eyes while he was forming a connection. Suddenly, his head started to pound a bit, meaning that the transmission was successful.

"LINKING TRANSMISSION: AC30/MIRANDA"

"TRANSMISSION SUCCESSFUL. COMMUNTICATING..."

His eyes widened and out came a projector, which soon had Miranda right there in the middle of the white fuzzy screen.

"Do my eyes deceive me?" he said, his voice a lower quality from the projector. Puma shook his head, "They don't! It's been a while, hasn't it?"

"Too long!" he exclaimed happily, "You haven't changed a bit since I last saw you!" he took a look around, "Where is U-1?"

"He's out. Gettin' me donuts and.. doing other things, I don't know. All I heard was "donuts,"

"I see." Miranda replied, "Now why have you called in this time of day?"

Puma shrugged to the best of his ability, "I'm not really sure. I felt an urge to call over, is everything alright? Because I normally never get an urge this bad to check on you and the Gitallines."

"Everything is peachy-keen, my good pooch!" the elder said, "However, Miss Kirah does miss Gitaroo Man terribly. She wishes that he could come visit for once, if not to see her than to see the city that's developing!"

"The Gitallines have made a city?"

"Well, almost. It's very close to being done, just a couple of buildings here and there," Miranda replied.

"I still can't believe they actually built a city in such a short notice. What about...that place?"

Miranda shuddered a bit, "Oh yes...It is now a ghost town. Kirah visits the area from time to time to practice her Gitaroo more, hoping to get stronger,"

"But she's one of the strongest Gitaroo warriors besides you and Gitaroo Man!"

Miranda sighed at Puma's remark, "And I wish she could believe that, but every day I see her practice on the crumbling towers we used to be held captive in, and she never feels stronger, she would always tell me. I think with Gitaroo Man not here, it's made her lose a little bit of her own confidence," Puma was a little worried when he heard this. Kirah, of all people, losing her confidence? What was the world coming to?

Meanwhile, U-1 was at the grocery store, getting all of his necessary items from bread to butter, probably one of the only times he would really go out somewhere and spend money, he wanted to save up for something nice, but his mom, who was almost never around, always had the time to write him a grocery list. Sigh. However, when he was about to grab the donuts for his man's best friend, he felt a small shock in his head, like someone just punched him in the temple. Shaking it off, he grabbed the donuts and walked away. He felt it again, and this time he saw a split second of someone's eyes, as red as rubies, and its glare as sharp as knives. The pain got a little worse after that. He rubbed his head and made his way to the checkout counter, as he was waiting for his turn to pay, he heard an unfamiliar voice call out to him.

Gitaroo Man...

Shocked, he looked around and checked if there were no threats around him. Puma was not here, and he was too far away to call out to him, so right now, he was defenseless. He wondered who was talking to him, though. No one on Earth knew who he was, not even Pico nor Kazuya (not that he wanted them to know), so who was it? When his turn came to check out, he tried to concentrate on paying, but his mind was somewhere else. He was really confused as to why he had these recent flashes of headaches and illusions. Better yet, why was he getting them? He did not have these usually, so why should now be different? Maybe Puma would know, he obviously seemed to know a whole lot more than he did about these kinds of things.

He walked out of the store, it was almost night time, and Puma was probably impatiently waiting for him.

"Puma, I'm back!" he said while opening the door, "Sorry I made you wait, the lines were long, and Mom gave me a huge list, and-" he was cut short when he saw his dog wrapping up a meeting with Miranda. Kirah had gone away to train some more.

"Farewell, little pup! When you see U-1, tell him I said "hi!" Miranda happily said, Puma nodded and barked in joy, "Same here, old-timer! Bye!" and then turned off his projection. U-1 still was not used to Puma doing all of that weird stuff while he was still disguised as a dog, but he was even more surprised to see him actually talking to Miranda after ten years! He put the bags down and went in his room, "Puma... Was that Miranda?" he asked him, even though he knew the answer already. Puma turned around, and instead of answering him, said, "Finally! I thought you would never come back and I would be left donut-less!" he woofed happily, though it did not answer his question, he knew Puma would never talk to him about anything unless he got what he wanted, in this case, a warm, glazed donut. He got the box of his dog's favorite food out, opened it, and gave it to him. After he munched on a couple donuts, he finally answered.

"Yep, but I didn't call just to say "hi", I needed to call them, for some reason. I felt that something was wrong over there, but it seems as if everything's okay," he munched on another donut, "Oh, and Miranda says hi."

"So you had something strange happen to you, too?" U-1 asked, "When I was getting your treats, I had three headache episodes; one was just a headache, the other, I actually saw a pair of eyes stare at me, even for a split-second, and the third...Someone was calling out to me..."

Puma looked worried, the box of donuts were already gone, "This seems serious. I don't even think we had something like this when we were facing Zowie, but then again, you were a little inexperienced at the time," Puma muttered, "However...Not even I had those bouts of anxiety when Zowie reigned..." he spoke up towards his owner, "We got to be careful, I'll be calling Miranda more often now, there seems to be some sort of trouble that no one else but us knows about, and I want to find out what it is as soon as possible."

U-1 nodded and then yawned, "I agree, but right now, it's really late. We should both hit the sack," he grabbed some night clothes from his closet and went in the bathroom to change. Puma sighed, he really hoped everything was alright back at Planet Gitaroo. He missed his hometown very much.

Night fell on Planet Gitaroo, and the scientist who invaded the Great Cathedral walked towards the beach where U-1 first landed on this planet, and met up with a sinister but familiar black cat, who sat on a branch of the only tree on the beach.

"No wonder Zowie never hired scientists, they always fail," she hissed, "If I don't get at least a single strand of my master's DNA, I'll never track his location in space, making bringing him back a lot more difficult than it already is, and with him," at "him" she looked up at the top of the island where the Great Cathedral was located, "still alive, it's making this mission impossible, mew." she jumped down off the branch of the tree and continued to look up at the cathedral, "I mean, I tried going in there once. I have never seen a person so insane." the cat slowly walked forwards, "It was like he dismissed everything in his brain and replaced it with one command: kill." the black cat's eyes widened; she thought of something so risky but so worth it that she had to try it out, "Kill, huh? Heheheh, if he wants to kill so bad, I have a plan that will make Zowie's resurrection so much more interesting for that Gitaroo Man..." with this plan, she began to run towards the base, towards the Great Cathedral, fully believing that this plan would be foolproof.

11:00 at night, and U-1 could not sleep to save his life, still thinking about the episodes he had at the grocery store, he worried if he would have the headaches again.

"Puma?" he whispered as he peered down next to his bed to where Puma usually slept, "Hey, buddy, you awake?"

"Barely," the dog replied as he turned to face his owner, "I keep on getting weird feelings in my gut, like something bad is going to happen. I tried blaming it on the donuts you gave me, but I don't think that's it." he jumped on U-1's bed and sat right next to him, "Tomorrow, we gotta go and see what's up, whatever is happening, Planet Gitaroo needs us."

"True, but I find that hard to believe. That place has been crime free for years, the last time Miranda called, he was at a party and had a lampshade on his head, apparently he had too much Gitaroo Alcohol or something." U-1 turned his back on Puma, "but it would be nice to go there and see what changed and Miranda and-"

"...and Kirah?" Puma interrupted.

U-1 sighed, a little sad that he left Kirah alone for all these years, "Yeah...and Kirah...who probably hates me for leaving her or something..."

"Actually, when I talked to Miranda this afternoon, he said she misses you a lot."

"Really?" U-1 asked, then chuckled, "All the more reason to go, I guess."

Puma looked at the alarm clock next to U-1's bed, it was 11:45, way too late for them to be talking, "We gotta sleep, buddy," he said.

"Yeah...goodnight, Puma." U-1 replied as he closed his eyes and finally went to sleep.