AN:Greetings readers, I just want to give you a quick heads up that I took some artistic liberties with the source materials for this story. Basically I just changed some of the back stories of some of the characters and rewrote some of them to fit the needs I wanted for the story. I hope you like the rewrites and that you enjoy this creation of my insane imagination.

"But it's not fair!" The tall blond girl dressed in a pink t-shirt and jean shorts with her hair pulled into a ponytail says from the back seat of the old green station wagon as the family of four drove down the highway.

"Well I'm sorry Dee Dee, but you should be happy that your father got this promotion." The girl's mother says turning around from the front passenger's seat of the car. "And besides, who knows what we would have done without it. What with the house being half destroyed and all."

"It's not my fault that that Major Glory guy crashed into our house." Dee Dee says still not happy about the situation she was in.

"It's none of our faults that a monster attacked the city. These things just happen, it's not like someone purposely let it out onto the city." Her mother says shrugging.

"Yeah, no one in this car would be THAT careless." Dee Dee says shooting her younger brother a quick glare. "Right Dexter?"

Dexter her younger brother sat next to her holding a silver briefcase in his purple gloved hands and was resting his chin on it. He hadn't been paying attention to the conversation Dee Dee and their mother were having, but at the sound of his name he snapped out of this daydream. "Huh what?" He says looking around.

"I said that no one would be so careless to let a monster out into the city." Dee Dee says crossing her arms and looking at him.

"Dee Dee." He says lowering his voice as he pulled her down to him by her shirt sleeve. "I told you Mandark was the one that created the monster, I was just trying to stop it." He says whispering so their parents couldn't hear.

"Well you trying to stop it only made it bigger and madder." She says whispering as well.

"I already told you I was sorry." He says starting to get mad at his sister.

"Sorry doesn't let me go to school with my friends." She says glaring at him again.

He wanted to snap back at her for her comment, yes she is going to miss out on going to college with her two best friends but he had lost everything. Well almost everything. Except for his basic tools and the lead lined box he had with him holding his most precious and greatest invention, he had lost everything from his lab. When Major Glory had fallen into the house he had landed in Dexter's secret lab while Dexter was in the process of trying to find a way to stop the monster. Major Glory had confronted Dexter about what he was doing, he was concerned that Dexter was up to something evil. But when Dexter had explained what had happened between him and Mandark and what he was doing at the time, Major Glory had placed Dexter under arrest for his involvement in the creation of the monster. But luckily for him The Justice Friends had offered him amnesty if he turned over everything in his lab and all of his tech. He was just able to back up COMPUTER into the suitcase he was holding before the mainframe she was on "accidently blew up" when they came to take everything away. He couldn't let them get her, she was the most important being to him.

Dee Dee was the only member of his family that knew oh his lab, but he had chosen to not tell her about losing everything that he thought made him who he was.

"Well college is meant for you to meet new people and make new friends, look at it as a way to grow as a person." He says.

"I don't want to make new friends." She says pouting.

"At least you've had friends." He says under his breath. When Dexter was younger he never sought out friends, thinking almost everyone he would come in contact with were too below his intelligence level. But now as a young man of seventeen, he wished he had been more social with the other kids in his own age group. You can only eat so many lunches alone at school before it starts to bother you.

For the rest of the long car ride Dexter stared out the window watching the countryside roll by holding COMPUTER close to him. Watching rows of trees pass Dexter thinks back on the one thing that bothered him the most about the battle between the Justice Friends and the monster. Mandark had disappeared during the chaos and had been presumed dead, and that left a bad taste in his mouth. Never has anyone been killed from any of his invention, sure some have gotten hurt but it was never anything serious.

'If he is dead then his blood is on my hands, OUR hands. COMPUTER and I are both guilty and we need to be better. I have this gift of great intelligence and I have wasted it on my own wants and needs. I should use it to help people, and that is what I'm going to go.' He thinks as houses start appearing in the window.

An hour later the family pulls up to their new home. It was in a suburb just like their old home but the houses were more of a modern design. The one in front of them was a pale grey two story building that looked as if it was made out of different shaped cubes and had a flat roof.

"Well this is a fancy looking place." The father of the family says as he gets out of the car.

"It sure is Honey, just look at all of this other houses, they are all so eccentric." Mom says getting out of car as well.

Dexter himself was also taking in his surroundings as he got out of the car. All the house around them had the same basic design, pale coloring and cubes. The only thing that stood out was the house next to theirs that had three round windows on the top floor. On the long drive he had unbuttoned his lab coat to make himself more comfortable. So after straightening his white button dress shirt and adjusting his Purple tie he button up his lab coat.

"Come on Dexter, let's check out our new home." His father says as the rest of the family was already at the front door.

"Coming Father." Dexter says as he grabs COMPUTER out of the car then closes the door.

Walking around the car Dexter gets a good view of his family, He's always felt out of place with them. His father a tall middle aged blond man with glasses, who Dee Dee had gotten her hair and Dexter his green eyes from, was every bit the stereotypical white collar pencil pusher he looked like. He worked nine to five, loved all sports and except for one time when him and Dexter had built a soap box car together knew nothing of his son and his hobbies. Even though his work had given him the day off to move he was still dressed in his usual dress of a white short sleeved dress shirt and brown tie and matching brown dress pants. Their mother was just as stereotypical as their father, she was a stay at home mom and dressed the part. She was always in a green dress with a white apron over it and had yellow rubber gloves on. Dexter had gotten his red hair from her and Dee Dee had gotten her blue eyes. Looking at his family made him see just how out of place he was. They were the embodiment of the perfect family and he was black sheep teenage genius that they never fully understood.

The front door opened up to a small entry way with a set of stairs leading to the second floor and an openings to either side to the rest of the house. To the left was a way into the kitchen, dining room and a small bathroom. To the right was the living room with a door hiding the stairs to basement.

"Ok kids the moving truck won't be here till tomorrow, so why don't you go upstairs and pick out your new rooms while your mother and I order us up a pizza and we can have a family camp out in the living room." Dad says as he pulls out his cell phone.

"I want the bigger room!" Dee Dee says running up the stairs and Dexter followed her up the stairs rolling his eyes. At the top of the stairs to his right was the master bedroom for his parents and to his left was a short hallway with three doors. Dee Dee was closing one of the doors.

"This one is mine." Dee Dee says holding her arms out to block him from the door.

Dexter just shakes his head as he walks to the end of the hall and opens the door he guessed was the room meant to be his. The room wasn't as small as he thought it was going to be. Right next to the door was a closet and in the far corner was a window.

He looked out the window and sees that the garage was right under his window. He also has a view of the house with the round windows and can see into the backyard of the house. In the backyard of the neighboring house he spotted three girls that looks around his age sitting at a picnic bench with who he assumed was the father of the house. He wasn't too sure if the girls were sisters or just friends because they all had different colored hair. At the far end sat one girl with short blond hair pulled to either side of her head in ponytails, next to her was one with shorter black hair just like the presumed father and the girl at the end closest to Dexter had long strawberry red hair being held behind her head with a big red bow that hung to the middle of her back.

Dexter turned away from the window and was about to leave the room before he stopped and looked at the briefcase in his hand. He didn't want to leave COMPUTER somewhere she could get damaged or stolen, but he thought his new bedroom in a town no one knew him would be safe. So he placed her down inside the closet, then took off his lab coat and tossed it over her as an added level of cover. Looking at his gloves he thought it best to take them off as well. So he took the gloves off his hands and added them to the pile in his closet. Opening his room door he spots the second reason he wears his purple rubber gloves. Besides being a man of science and is always in need of protecting his hands he has a big X shaped scar on the back of his left hand. He had gotten the scar when he was younger during an experiment that went wrong. It was an attempt at making a robot that would clean his lab at all times. But like she always did Dee Dee got into his lab and caused the robot to over load and exploded. He was lucky that only his hand was hurt and that he was able to convince his parents that he got the deep cuts from falling out of a tree him and Dee Dee were climbing. One good thing that did come from the accident was Dee Dee had stopped tormenting him in his lab and she would only come into it if she needed him for something.

As Dexter walked down the stairs he sees his father coming into the house carrying two identical brown paper wrapped packages.

"Oh hey son, perfect timing. I have something for you and your sister." He says spotting Dexter on the stairs.

"Oh?" Dexter says raising an eyebrow.

"Yeah so come join the rest of us in the living room." Dad says as he walks into the other room.

Dexter follows him and finds his mother and Dee Dee sitting on the floor.

"What you got there Dear?" Mom asks looking up at her husband.

"Well I had forgotten that the new office had sent over some gifts for the kids." Dad says holding up the packages.

"Gifts? For us?" Dee Dee says getting excited.

"Yeah, I guess the guys at the top wanted to make up for the move." Dad says as he sat down on the floor with his wife and daughter.

"Let me see let me see." Dee Dee says pulling one of the packages out of his hands. Dee Dee rips open the package then opens the box to find a brand new white IPhone and an Apple laptop.

Her eyes light up at the sight of her new laptop and cellphone. "Oh thank you Daddy." She says jumping at her father and hugging him.

"You're welcome Dee Dee, I have a set for you too Dexter." Dad says holding out the other package to his son.

Dexter took the package and sat down on the floor to open it. Inside his was a black IPhone and Apple laptop just like his sisters. "Thank you Father." He says faking a smile as he looked at his father.

"You're welcome son. Now I don't want you kids to spend all your time on those, you need to get out there and make some new friends in this new town." Dad says as Dee Dee sat back down on the floor.

"I won't." Dee Dee says as she starts to fiddle with her phone.

Dexter didn't say anything he just looked at his new phone and laptop. 'Apple products? These things are so locked into their programing, oh well this will give me something to do for the next few days.' He thinks as he took the IPhone out of the box. 'I might be able to hook COMPUTER up to the laptop after a few program rewrites.'

Just then the doorbell rang. "That must be the pizza guy." Dad says as he got up from the floor. "I'll be right back."

A few minutes later Dad come back into the room carrying a pizza box and a six pack of soda cans.

"Alright it's time for the first McPherson's family meal in our new home." Dad says setting the pizza down on the floor.

For the rest of the night Dee Dee and their parents sat talking while they ate dinner.

Dexter however had taken a few slices of pizza and a can of soda and went up to his room.

It took him almost an hour but he had rewritten some of the code on the laptop so COMPUTER could use it, but he made sure that the laptop could not accuses the internet or any other networks in the area. He hated having to keep her off of the net but he couldn't risk the Justice Friends or Global Security finding out that he still had her.

-COMPUTER, do you read me?- Dexter typed into the chat program he has set up for him and COMPUTER to use.

-Yes Dexter I read you.- She responded in the chat log.

Dexter lets out a sigh happy that the program works. –Good I'm glad this is working.-

-This set up seems to be very basic, can I assume that we are now in your new home?-

-Yes, we arrived at our new home over an hour ago.-

-This outlet is new to me, have you gotten a new computer already?-

-Ha, nothing could ever replace you COMPUTER. No Father gotten an IPhone and an Apple laptop from his new job for me and Dee Dee.-

-I see, well it's good to be able to talk to you again Dexter. I was stored away for a long time.-

-Too long, but now that were here we can finally work on getting you set up properly. You are too powerful for this simple laptop.-

-Too bad you had to destroy my old system.-

-It was either that or let them take you, and I could never let that happen. Who knows what those government guys would have done to you.-

-Or all the blueprints I have of all your inventions. :)-

-Those too, but for the foreseeable future I have to keep you off the grid so they don't catch wind of you still being alive.-

-Well I guess I will have hold off on finishing Classic Doctor Who.-

Dexter lets out a laugh at her joke.

-Dexter, may I ask you a question?-

-Of course you can.-

-What did you mean by "still being alive"?-

This question caught Dexter off guard, at the time he didn't think anything of it that he used the term alive over one more fitting for a program. But deep down Dexter thought of COMPUTER as more than just a program, she was his the oldest thing he had in his lab and was the closes thing to a friend he has ever had.

-Dexter?-

-Sorry, was lost in thought.-

-You tend to do that so it is fine. But may I have an answer?-

-Well to me you are more than just some computer program COMPUTER.-

-But I am a program, you wrote me years ago and have updated my code several times.-

-Yes I created you, but would a program know how to make jokes about my blueprints or an old British TV show.-

-I wasn't joking about Doctor Who Dexter. During my free time while you were at school I would find the show online and watch it.-

-See that right there proves you are alive, a simple program wouldn't want to watch TV.-

-Then do I get a birthday party?-

Again Dexter laughs. –Sure, I'll get you a cake and send you an E-card.-

-I'll look forward to it. So tell me about our new home.-

-Well the city is called Townsville and from what I gathered on the ride over it's a lot bigger than Nowheresville.-

-Townsville? … I do not have much information on it other than there is a world renown chemist by the name of Professor Utonium lives here as well.-

-Utonium? I'll have to look him up, maybe I could meet him someday.-

-He could be a good person to mentor you Dexter.-

-You think I need a mentor?-

-Every great mind needs someone to help guide them.-

-Hum, maybe you are right. Having someone around that I could have talked to in the past might have led me to the realization I had on the car ride.-

-And what is that Dexter.-

-That if Mandark is dead then we have to do better than we did in the past. No more selfish inventing for my own needs. We need to do things to help other people.-

-Should I set up a schedule for you to pick up trash off the side of the road or volunteer at a soup kitchen?-

-You funny. No I mean like building things to help people.-

-I do still have your plans for a solar powered lawnmower you wanted to build for your father.-

Letting out another laugh he types –That would be a start, but I want to do something bigger than that.-

-One step at a time Dexter.-

-I know.-

-Dexter would you like to play a game of chess? This laptop has a game program for it, and it has been a long time since we've played.-

-Sure I'd love to play a game with you.- He types grinning at the idea of playing chess with COMPUTER.

For the rest of the night Dexter played game after game of chess with COMPUTER and he eventually fell asleep in the middle of his turn of the twentieth game.

-Dexter?- COMPUTER typed out into the chat log.

-Dexter are you still awake?-

-… Good night Dexter, see you in the morning.- She typed out before she put the laptop into sleep mode.

*Knock knock* "Dexter son are you awake?" Mom says knocking on Dexter's door.

Dexter had fallen asleep leaning against the wall and his neck had gone stiff over the night.

*Knock knock* "Dexter you need to wake up Dear. The movers are here and we need your help getting everything into the house."

The second set of knocks woke Dexter up. "Yes Mother, I'll be right down." He says rubbing his neck and picking up his glasses from the floor where they had fallen.

"Ok dear." Mom says and he hears her walking away.

During the night Dexter had taken his boots off and left them by his door, so after closing the laptop he takes it and COMPUTER's case and places it on the shelf in the closet with his lab coat back over it. Once he was sure COMPUTER would be safe in his room he puts his gloves back on before sitting back on the floor to put his black leather boots on. After zipping them up he pulls his black pants back down over them.

Down stairs the front door was wide open and pair of men in overalls were carrying in the couch for the living room.

"Oh good you're up son, all the boxes are outside. Help your sister bring them in and into the room they belong." Dad says as he follows the movers in with a box in his hands.

"Ok Father." Dexter says as he waited for his Father to walk into the kitchen.

Outside Dexter sees that the sun has just cleared the tops of the buildings in the distance. 'It's still early.' He thinks as he blinks to get his eyes to adjust to the light.

When his eyes adjust to the light he looks around and spots Dee Dee sitting on one of the many boxes meant to be taken into the house fiddling with her new phone.

"Morning Dext." She says looking up from her phone.

"Dext? What is that supposed to mean?" He asks confused by what she has just called him.

"Yeah Dext, it's your new name." She says sticking her phone into her pocket and jumping off the box.

"And why do I need a new name?" He asks crossing his arms.

"Cause it's a new town and a chance for a new image. Here you don't have to be Dexter boy genius who always wears a lab coat and purple gloves." She says turning to face the city off in the distance with her arms held out

"Why would I want to change who I am?" He asks as he picks up a box meant for the living room.

"Because you want to make friends, and no one like a know it all." She says turning around to face him crossing her arms and grinning.

"Didn't you once say that people should like you as you are? Shouldn't that count for me as well?" He asks pointing out a hole in her idea.

"I… uh, damn ok fine you keep being boring old Dexter then." She says realizing that he has bested her, again.

Dexter couldn't help letting a smile cross his face as Dee Dee picked up the box she was sitting on.

For the next couple of hours Dexter and Dee Dee would pick up a box, look at the location it was meant for and take it into the house to its designated room. The last two boxes were both meant for Dexter and Dee Dee's rooms.

At the top of the stairs a question comes to Dee Dee. "Hey Dexter, where are you going to have your lab now?"

"What Lab?" He says looking at her with an eyebrow raised as he opens his bedroom door.

Thinking he didn't hear her right she sets her box down and follows him into his room. "You know what lab, your lab that you had hidden behind your bookshelf." She says as he sets the box down on the floor next to his unassembled bed.

"It's none of your concern." Dexter says not looking at her as he walks to his door.

But Dee Dee stepped in front of the door to stop him from leaving, she could tell something was wrong with him by the tone of his voice. "Dexter, what's happened to your lab?" She asks holding her arms out to keep him from leaving.

Even though Dexter has grown several feet over the years, Dee Dee was still over a foot taller than him. "Nothing happened that concerns you." He says looking up at her.

"Dexter." She says with care in her voice yet with a hint of firmness as she places a hand on his shoulder.

The tone of her voice and the hand on his shoulder broke him. "It's gone." He says lowering his head.

"Gone? What do you mean?" She asks confused by what he said.

"The Global Security guys took everything when Major Glory fell into my lab. If I hadn't let them take it all they would have thrown me into jail for my involvement with the monster." He says telling her what never intended to tell her. The less she knew the less involved she could get if they came back for him he had figured.

"I'm sorry Dexter." She says feeling bad for her brother.

"It's fine." He says looking away from her.

"It's ok to be sad Dexter." She says pulling him into a hug.

The hug annoyed Dexter at first, but it showed him that she did care for him despite all the bickering they have done as siblings.

"Thank you for your concern Dee Dee." He says when she let go of him.

"I'll miss COMPUTER." She says a frown crossing her face.

"Yeah." He says looking down at the floor pretending to be sad.

"So um if you ever need something…" She says as she opens his door unsure of what to say to him.

"Yeah thanks Dee Dee." He says as she left his room.

While Dexter and Dee Dee were upstairs their new neighbors had brought over a housewarming gift. "Look kids, our new neighbors brought over a pie welcoming us to the neighborhood." Mom says holding a pie in her hands.

"That was very nice of them." Dee Dee says looking at the pie with hunger in her eyes.

"Yes it was the… oh shoot I forgot their last name, it was a strange one. Otonum I think." Mom says trying to remember the name of their new neighbors. "Well anyway they were a lovely family, a nice gentleman and his three daughters." She says shrugging.

'A father and three daughter, well I guess that's who I saw last night.' Dexter thinks as Dee Dee follows their mother into the kitchen wanting a piece of the pie.

"And his girls go to the same school you will be Son." Dad says walking up behind Dexter. "Oh?" Dexter says not sure why his father brought that up.

"Yeah son so if you're nice to them at the barbeque we're throwing tomorrow you just might start out with some new friends at your new school." Dad says patting him on the back as he went into the kitchen.

"A Barbeque? We've just moved in, why would you want to have one so soon?" Dexter asks following his father into the kitchen.

"Cause it's the neighborly thing to do." Dad says smiling.

"Well if you want to throw a part, then we are going to need to go shopping for some grocery's mister." Mom says playfully scolding her husband.

"Well the movers are all done, so why don't we all take a family outing to a local market and get this kitchen stocked up then." Dad says pulling his keys out of his pocket.

Dexter had no interest in going to the grocery store, but he knew they wouldn't let him stay home and he also knew that they wouldn't get anything he preferred for breakfast food.

On the drive they stopped at a McDonalds to get an early lunch. Dexter hadn't realized how hungry he was until he bit into his burger. Staying up late playing chess with COMPUTER and then moving boxes into the house really drained him and he soon had all of his burger and fries eaten.

"Oh Dexter dear, do remember that Monday morning we have to take you down to your new school to get you registered. So get up early." Mom says setting down her chicken sandwich.

"Yes Mother." Dexter says as he balls up the wrapper from his burger. 'Great I get to choose which basic level education classes I get to take, maybe if I'm lucky they will have a computer class of some kind.' He thinks as he takes a drink from his soda.

At the grocery store the family walks up and down almost every aisle putting all kinds of items into the cart that Dexter was pushing for his mother. He had become bored very quickly when the family had started their shopping trip and has been daydreaming while he followed his mother. He had been thinking over what he would do for a workspace if he was going to move forward with using his gifts to help people. 'The new house almost surely doesn't have a hidden room like the old one and more importantly I'll need to get more than just my basic tools I still have.' He thinks as his mother adds a strip of pork ribs to the pile of food in the cart.

For the rest of the trip he makes a mental list of things he would need to start building inventions again, and it was becoming an expensive list.

"Dexter Dee Dee, why don't you two go pick out a magazine or something to read while me and your Father wait in line." Mom says as the family approaches the checkout lanes.

"Ok Mom." Dee Dee says as she grabs Dexter's arms and pulls him off to the racks of magazines.

"Why did you have to drag me the whole way?" Dexter asks when they reach the display of magazines, newspapers and cheap books that all grocery stores have.

"Because I'm your big sister and because I could." Dee Dee says smiling and sticking out her tongue at him as she picked up a random magazine and starts to flip through it.

"You are a strange person Dee Dee." He says picking up a copy of a science journal magazine looking past a newspapers that had a headline saying "Gangreen Gang Kidnapping Attempt on The Mayor stopped by local Hero's".

After the shopping was done and the bags were brought in Dexter retreated to his room to set up his furniture and to start putting his books away before dinner.

He moved his double wide book shelf that once hit the entrance to his lab against the wall his door was on. He set up his long desk against the far wall a few feet away from the window, and his bed is across from that just past his closet with his small dresser at the foot.

He had gotten a few boxes of books put away before he heard his mother yell up the stairs at him.

"Dexter, dinner is ready." Mom yelled up at him.

Putting the book he had in his hand down he gets up and opens his door. "Coming Mother." He says walking out of his room.

Down stairs he sees that his mother had been hard at work getting the kitchen and the dining room looking a lot like their old house. Dexter loved the smell of his mother's cooking and this evenings meal smelled just as good.

In the dining room Dexter finds his parents and sister sitting down at the table with a big pot of stew in the middle of the table.

"Dinner smells quite exceptional Mother." Dexter says as he pulled out his own chair.

"Thank you Dear." Mom says smiling at her sons compliment.

"I have to agree with Dexter, this stew looks to be one of your best yet." Dad says taking a big inhale of the steam coming out of the pot.

After eating his full and then another bowl of stew Dexter was back in his room sitting at his desk. He had chosen to leave the other boxes of books for the morning and went to work modifying the IPhone his dad gave him. He was using the Apple laptop to write the code and talk to COMPUTER.

-Are you worried about starting a new school Dexter?- COMPUTER wrote in the chat log.

-Not really, you've been the smartest kid in one high school, you've been the smartest in them all.- He types back.

-You don't think there might be someone smarter than you in your school?-

-I'd be happy if there was someone smarter than me, Mandark never provided any real challenge academically.-

-So long as there isn't another Mandark I think we will be find Dexter.-

-That would be a nightmare.-

-Yes it would be very unenjoyable.-

Dexter finished writing the last line of code. –Ok COMPUTE, how's all that look? See any bugs?-

-I'm running a diagnostics test now.-

While COMPUTER tested the program he had written he leans back in his desk chair and looks up at the ceiling as he yawns.

Just then he spots a flash of multi colored light outside his window.

"What was that?" He says sitting up and looking out his window. He got up out of his chair and looked out the window but didn't see anything in the surrounding area.

"That was very strange." He says sitting back down in his chair.

-Dexter I have finished my test, here are all the errors I have found- COMPUTER typed out before listing the bug's she found in his coding.

-Thank you COMPUTER- he types out before going over the list.

For the rest of the night Dexter made tweaks to his code and would have COMPUTER go over it until the sun started to come up.

-Ok COMPUTER, I need to get to bed, we'll finish this after a good rest.-

-Ok Dexter, see you in a couple of hours.-

-Good night COMPUTER.-

-Good night Dexter.- She types out before she put the laptop into sleep mode.