"W-What?"

"You heard me silly." Plutia said and giggled a little afterwards. "We're throwing you a birthday party."

"Why? First off, how do you even know when my birthray is? I never told anyone. Not even Uni."

"Um. Uni told me she had asked Roy so he told her."

'Of course Uni asked Roy." Thought Alex knowing how easy it was to get info out of Roy.

"Anyways, youe party is almost done. So enjoy the rest of today."

Plutia smiled one last time before turning around and walked away.

Alex watched this and looked at his Alex plush Plutia had given him.

He chuckled and sighed.

"Oh well. No use going against it."

He held onto the plush and walked away from the makeshift grave and walked back to his apartment

Along the way, Alex kept thinking back to the vision he had when he was sleeping.

That person, who ever it was, it felt ominously familiar.

It gave Alex massive amounts of doubts it. As if it wasn't bad enough that Admin Book made Alex doubt whether or not his mother was dead or not.

Alex swore it felt like his head was about to burst at just all of the thinking he was going through.

Had he been lied to his whole life?

It was a question that would stick with him for now.

He eventually made it back to his apartment to an immediate hug from Kaitlyn and a nice greeting from the maid.

"Welcome back Alex. Kaitlyn's been waiting for you." Said Rita as Kaitlyn nodded.

"Really? What for?"

"I wanna tell you Happy Birthday!"

'Is everyone now asking Roy about my birthday!?'

"Um, it's tomorrow Kaitlyn."

"Yeah but Uni told us that you'd be busy at the party so I figured I'd tell you today!"

"Thank tou Kaitlyn. I appreciate it."

Kaitlyn had a wide smile and hugged Alex more as Rita giggled at this display.

"So sweet to see two children like this."

"Rita in less than 24 hours I'm gonna be a teenager. A young one but still a teen."

"Then why don't we go out? Make your last day as a child memorable?"

Alex thought about it for a sec. He honestly didn't have any plans so he went with it.

"Sure. I'd like that."

"Splendid. Let me go ask Jackie if she'd like to come."

Though, the moment Rita had turned around to ask, Jackie was suddenly at the door.

"I heard hang out with my cat ears and I IMMEDIATELY was in. Let's go!"

Jackie immediately went outside without a care as the three watched.

"Is Jackie okay?" Asked Kaitlyn.

"Yeah she is. She's been real energetic since she reclaimed Base Kamno." Said Alex.

"She just wants to move on and live her life now." Said Rita in response.

The three eventually walked off and tried to catch up to Jackie.

Soon, they caught up and after a quick apology from Jackie, the group of four proceeded to have a wonderful time to end Alex's child years.

Night time had come as Alex was on his bed sitting and looking through and old photo album of pictures from ages 10-12.

Alex had four of these old photo albums. Ages 1-3. 4-6. 7-9. And 10-12.

All four albums were always kept safely tucked neatly in a drawer only Alex could access.

Soon he finished going over the last album and placed it away with a sigh.

"Teenager huh? That just meand life's only gonna get more stressful."

"But your maturing." Chimed in Admin book.

"I doubt it. I'm still gonna be a brat at 13."

"Yeah. A brat who saved a young girl from an abusive father, helped a girl get her life back together, AND helped another control her powers."

"Okay fine. A nice brat."

"Good enough for me."

The clock struck 12 Midnight.

"Let me be the first to preperly say, Happy 13th Birthday Alex Mustang."

Alex chuckled and smiled.

"Thanks Admin."

With that, Alex slept the night away, ready for the afternoon.

[Later that day: Morning]

Alex was currently on the phone as he had gotten happy birthday calls from Roy, Riza, and Bradley.

For the first time in a while, Alex felt happy inside.

After eating a special breakfast that Rita had prepared for him, he bid farewell and walked back to the makeshift grave and kneeled down.

"Well, today's the day. It's been 6 years now. I, really miss you, but, your, still here for me." Said Alex pointing to his heart. "I know if you were still here, you'd be giving me the greatest party ever. Keep the heavens nice, Akari."

Alex got up and wiped a single tear that had fallen.

Once again he heard snow crunching behind him only to see Uni this time.

"I expected you to be here. Especially today."

"I always come here. Today felt real important."

"I can tell." Uni walked up to Alex and kissed his cheek with a smile holding his hands. "Happy Birthday."

"Thank you Uni."

"No problem. Now come on."

Alex wrapped his arm around Uni as they intertwined their fingers and walked together back to the Basilicom.

Eventually, they made it and had already arrived at the CPU Living Room.

Uni had Alex sit on the couch and ran off to get ready.

As Alex sat there, he heard the door open to Plutia walking in with a smile as she walked over to Alex and the two shared a hug.

"You better watch out~." Playfully warned Plutia.

"Why? Is Sadie gonna pop out?" Jokingly said Alex.

"Sadly no."

"Then why should watch out?"

Suddenly, a new voice was heard.

"INCOMING!"

The moment Alex heard that voice, he was screwed as he was suddenly tackle hugged down to the ground by non other than

"Ahah! I stuck the landing! Right Ally!?"

"Using me as a landing pad doesn't count."

"Of course it does!" Neptune laughed and got off the now thirteen year old child as Neptune's younger sister helped him up

"I-I'm really sorry for Neptune." Said Nepgear as she bowed.

"Don't be. I should've seen that coming."

Out from the hallway came out Noire stirring something that Alex assumed was for the cake.

"You three! Help and get ready!"

Plutia and Nepgear waved Alex later as they went to help while Neptune followed Noire to make her work difficult.

It had been a decent while since Alex got together with all the CPUs.

Once again, the elevator opened revealing Vert and three other guests

Rom and Ram immediately ran and double hugged Alex and said happy birthday before running off to find Nepgear and Uni.

"They're really energetic." Said Alex.

"Yeah I can't blame them. Blanc doesn't give them sugar." Said Vert giving a playful look at the bookworm goddess.

"Shut your ass up we just got here. Last time I fed them sugar they were hyper for 15 hours. Especially Rom for some reason." Replied Blanc.

"Well thank you two for being here."

"I wouldn't miss it for the world!" Excitedly said Vert.

"What about you Blanc? You sure you can be here?"

"Yeah. Kunsil(Reference shoutout for Hooded_light) currently busy working overseas so I can come. That and Rom and Ram wanted to be here."

"That's reasonable."

"We're gonna go help get ready. Just be patient Alex."

With that, Vert and Blanc walked off to prepare the party as Alex sat back down.

Full of joy and excitement as he thought to himself.

'Happy Birthday, Alex Mustang.'

Chapter 22: End