Authors notes: Well, here's my first proper, really for realy this time, non-OC fic. Apparently OC is bad, as I found out later on.
Anyway! This one's... okay, I guess? Please reveiw, let me know what you think.
A busy city street…
A well-worn road…
A familiar bridge…
Another day in Mabase…
Another ordinary day in Mabase.
But maybe not. Perhaps not today. The streets seemed… different today. The people seem agitated. As if they expect something to happen. Not Naota Nandaba, though. He only expects normal things today. As with every day. But that's okay; he's grown to accept this. It's fine.
Today's normal day is a Sunday, so Naota has nothing but free time. Trouble is, he's got nothing to spend it on. Gaku, Mashashi and Ninamori are all busy. And he can't stay at home. If he did, he would go mad…
Today's normal moment has Naota ambling slowly over Mabase's bridge. Yawning, he remembers the time he and Mamimi had spent under the very same bridge. It had been a frustrating time, but at least He'd always had something to do. He thinks of the day he'd met Haruko… and smiles. In the odd, crushing silence surrounding him, he can almost hear her voice, and his forehead twinges. It'd taken to doing that when he remembered the… interesting period he'd spent with Haruko.
Crossing the bridge, Naota continues along the street, grinning widely as he reminisces. ' I wonder how Harukos' doing, wherever she is…' he thinks.
He turns a corner….
It's a pity, too. If Naota had looked to the sky, he would have seen a rather suspicious ball of white light tumbling towards the earth, seemingly out of control. Perhaps he would have made the connection. But he keeps walking, and the ball keeps falling. However, it's not alone for long. Another light is in pursuit, and it's catching up fast. Oddly, the street is empty, devoid of activity, with the exception of a pair of cats, one black and one white…
The original light impacts into the ground with a mighty boom. Street signs explode from their moorings, and the cats flee, with a frightened ' NAAAH!'.
Smoke blows out from all sides, followed by the distinct smell of burning rubber…
A Vespa speeds out from the smoke, it's driver clad in riding gear, a helmet and goggles clamped over their… her face. A telltale spray of short pink hair extends from the sides of the helmet. But Naota sees none of this.
Haruko speeds through the city, the ball of light streaming through the sky behind her, homing in on her.
" Not gonna catch me this time, Superior. Ain't gonna happen. No way" With this Haruhara revs her Vespa, accelerating hard in a blast of thick smoke.
The pursuing light hits the ground at a slant, almost horizontally; it doesn't even bother to slow down upon impact, the roar of a motorcycle preceding an actual motorcycle leaving the smog ball. Haruko chances a look behind her, and sees a mirror image of herself racing behind her. Haruko pulls her bike into a sharp turn, rounding a corner into an alley with surprising speed.
Superior Raharu looks on with consternation. Attempting the same move, she barely misses the wall, and-… Haruko is nowhere in sight. Superior speeds along the narrow stretch, pulling out into the adjacent street, and narrowly avoiding an oncoming car. Her head pivots on her neck, desperately attempting to catch Haruhara's trail. She was nowhere to be found.
" Dammit! "
Superior Raharu pulls a small phone from a pocket, and dials a number:
" Yes, I've lost the target. Permission to deploy? Yes, sir. Immediately. Certainly… " Superior closes the phone, and sighs….
Elsewhere, something rumbles to life within the abandoned Medical Mechanica plant…
But Naota knows of none of this. Naota is going home. But a Vespa is coming closer.
Naota's forehead twinges painfully. Simultaneously, something can be heard thrashing around in the bowels of the colossal iron. Naota's head feels as if it's going to explode… It couldn't be, surely? Not again, not now. And then it happened.
The channel reopened.