Keep in mind:

Milli-nano = second

Nano = minute

Second = hour

Minute/cycle = day

Hour = month

Day = year

A/N: sorry for the extremely long delay. As previously stated, I'm working on other stories and this became more of a side story that I do. But here is an update for Enzo and AndrAIa. I'll try not to let this die off, Pinkie Promise.

This time when Enzo woke up, he knew why the two sprites wake up in each other's embrace. Enzo couldn't tell if AndrAIa was awake or not, and decided to just call her name softly to see if she'd respond.

"AndrAIa?" He murmured.

"Hmmm?" Came the sleepy response as AndrAIa snuggled a little closer.

AndrAIa would wake up as soon as she felt Enzo do so and was already expecting his question.

"Have I always had those nightmares?" The game sprite sighed and nodded as she snuggled against the other's chest.

"Yes, but if I notice fast enough, you normally don't remember or if we cuddle before you have the dreams you don't have them at all."

Enzo gave a big sigh in response to this upsetting news.

The rest of the cycle passed in the same fashion as the ones before it, with both sprites working hard. Enzo continued to use his messenger job as a means to get fit while AndrAIa went on rounds of helping at various jobs before moving on to the next temporary job. While this didn't please the young sprite, she was about to learn more about how a system works and other things living in a game cube didn't teach her. It also helped that she was rather fit and strong already from her life before meeting Enzo.

It was a few cycles later that Enzo finally had enough to get the upgrade. They scrapped and saved like mad, sometimes only eating only once or twice a day to save a few units, in order to help save up for it. AndrAIa was able to trick Enzo into using some of her bits by putting some into his stash every so often while he didn't notice, helping him save more of his own units in turn.

Once the moment came to get the upgrade, Enzo went to get it done first thing in the morning, wanting to get use to it as soon as possible. AndrAIa was nervous, he only just got better, and now he was doing something like this! Frisket, while being a dog, couldn't understand what exactly was going on, knew the young sprite was worried for his owner, and tried to comfort her in his own way, typically as leaning up against her and slowly wagging his tail. The merchant warned Enzo that it would take a cycle or two for the sprite to adjust, but instead he continued to work at his job and force his body to get accustomed rapidly.

He tried to do as much if not more jumps, rolls, runs and other feats of exercise while doing messenger work. He did have trouble at first, but he didn't let that stop him, especially since he had to start over on saving extra units that may be needed anything else.

AndrAIa had no knowledge of what Enzo did during that first cycle, though she was concerned when Enzo came back to their room completely exhausted but pleased. When pressed to answer, he only responded that he did some messenger work, to make up for having used most of his at once. AndrAIa didn't like how that sounded, but couldn't stop him, especially if it helped him overcome his own problems and not so depressed.

That cycle ended much like most would end for the two sprites, they shared the bed and snuggled for warmth and comfort. AndrAIa was pleased that Enzo wasn't trying to argue about it and pleased to have the young sprite so close by. Frisket wasn't sure about his owners new feature, but once he saw how happy the young sprite was, disregarded any worried thought and watched as his two owners slept peacefully.

Enzo had gotten the upgrade just in time. The next cycle there was an out break of bugs in the system that needed the weapon merchant's touch. After having learned about it from a few binomes on the streets, Enzo made his way to the weapon's merchant to offer his services. The binome was skeptical but after a demonstration from Enzo about how he was about to function with the new feature, he hired the young sprite who now had the chance to practice with Gun.

AndrAIa, on the other hand, ran into the system programmers who were having trouble fixing the bugs and needed extra help. Once they saw how quickly she learned and worked, they hired her for the day.

Because of the help of the young and eager sprites on both teams, the issue with the bugs running amok was quickly solve. Both teams were impressed with how the young sprites handled the situation and their quick reactions to difficulties.

The program team asked AndrAIa to stay and work for them, which she was glad to do, pleased to have a more stable source of units. This allowed her to learn the even more finer points of a system and programming, something she knew would go a long way in helping with everything the trio had to do.

Enzo was hired on at the merchant's shop as the sprite to go to if there was an issue with bugs or sudden viruses that occasionally appeared from nowhere in their system. But as an extra insurance against troubled times, Enzo kept the messenger job as a way to earn more and to get into better shape.

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While both sprites knew there was no helping it, they were both growing despondent at the lack of games or transport in the system. An hour later and Enzo was extremely depressed. They had units to pay for what they needed and lots saved away, but the prospect of no way home was getting to Enzo. He hardly spoke and was often grumpy, especially as his nightmares were getting worse with time and lack of ability to try and get back to mainframe.

In turn, AndrAIa tried to keep everyone's spirits up and became the chatty one to make up for Enzo's lack of responses. Though Enzo's negativity was slowly eating away at the young sprite's heart as she watched the lively happy young boy slowly turn into a depressed and withdrawn sprite who blamed himself for everything.

Just as AndrAIa was building up her courage to speak with him about settling down in the system, three magic works boomed from the sky as everyone paused.

"Warning, in-coming game..." the two sprites looked at each other in delight as Frisket barked happily. They flew off as fast as possible to the game, never once looking back.

AndrAIa worried for a moment that in their haste to get back Enzo would shut her out once more. Almost as soon as that thought finished in her mind Enzo grabber her hand and gave her a smile, which she gladly returned as they flew into the game cube's path.