A/N: I know, it's pretty bad to start a third fic with two WIPs still but this one I know will be short. It's based of an idea I had for NaNo.

I don't own any of these characters or any of the songs referenced here.


Track 01: Harajuku Beats

"Once more please, just the last chorus this time."

The girl gently held on to her headphones as music played. A fast paced, pop beat flooded her ears. She looked at the gaggle of men and woman in front of her. They stared back, expectant and focused. The crowd's fierce glower unnerved her so she closed her blue eyes.

Now she could only see herself and the words. Kanji glowed bright gold against a background of azure zeros and ones the floated pass, like a river. She focused on the gold and couldn't help but smile. She opened her mouth, and sung.

The glow faded from the first line and moved to the next, each time she sung a lyric the next would shine in her mind, almost impossible to not belt out. Her voice was deep but somehow fit with the upbeat drums and electric guitar that accompanied it.

She opened her eyes when she finished, the men and woman nodded their heads and chattered excitedly. She groaned. Happy now?

Only when she removed her black headphones and let them hang around her neck did she hear the door swing open. A young looking man entered, but unlike the audience outside he wasn't clad in a white coat. Instead it was a black tank and matching sweatpants. The gray armband did nothing to hide definition in toned, cream-shaded limbs. She rolled her eyes.

"I still can't believe they got you into that Gakupo - san. You look too normal."

"I know," He said mournfully. "I miss my samurai get-up already. At least they let me keep the ponytail." Said ponytail, purple and nearly as long as her own thigh-length blonde locks, swayed behind him as he walked towards her. "Great set Lily - san!" He said with a smile.

"Thanks." She said with relief. She played with the wires that enwrapped her as a part of her "get-up". "You gonna ask the Tuners to make that tattoo permanent?"

Gakupo laughed. "No, they seem more your style." As if to prove it he traced the black design on her left hand. He then tried to snake his arm around her waist – where another tattoo laid incidentally – but Lily scooted out of it and walked out of the recording room. "Ah! You never let me get close."

"And that is also my style." She quipped.

"Hey, good work today Lily, Gacktpoid." One of the white coated women said. "The finished song is going to take a bit of time but do you want hear the track so far?"

"Sure thing!" Gakupo's purple eyes gave Lily the same expectant gaze the audience had given her before. "Sound good to you Lily - chan?"

Lily groaned. "I –"

The CD by her hip beeped. A wide grin spread across her face. She ran off. Gakupo blinked before going after her. She skipped past the white-coated people, others in suits, others in odd clothes like hers and her purple-haired tail. She slid down the stair rails, her long yellow-and-black boots skated down three floors. She was hardly winded when she and Gakupo entered the parking garage. Lily got a glimpse of a black motorcycle with a sunny yellow painted frame, affectionately dubbed B. B, and hopped on to the seat.

"Wait!" Gakupo called out. "What about our song?"

She hardly heard him over the roar of her motorcycle's engine. "I'll hear it soon enough, later Gakupo - san!"

She drove off. The lights of Tokyo zoomed pasted her like a blurry neon rainbow. At a red light she put the CD in a slot near the center of the bike's handles, plugged her headphones into a circular port, and placed them over her ears again. A transparent blue screen appeared at the corner of her eye but she knew to the numerous car drivers surrounding her it wasn't there.

"What's the story now Mosh?"

A booming, less melodious male voice than Gakupo's answered. "It's a small fry Virus but you how they are, only as big as their buffet."

The light changed and Lily sped forward again. She glanced at the blue sparingly, long enough for the map to tell her where to go but not long enough to cause and accident. She frowned. The road she traveled was well-lit and swarming with calm, leisurely people on the cramped sidewalks. "Please don't tell me it's Harajuku."

"Alright, it's in a place in Japan that is sometimes called Harajuku." Mosh quipped. "If you get here fast we can kill it without too much damage." The line was silent for a bit before he added. "Try not to make a big show Miss Celebrity. Otherwise the humans might think it's for a video and stick around instead of running."

Lily laughed. "I'm still you're same old partner Mosh, being a Vocaloid makes me no more theatric than usual." She stopped. The road was headed by a slow moving truck. At the back of its seemingly endless train was a wooden ramp. Lily leaned as far left could without tipping over. There was a creature in the distance. A muddy purple and brown colored mass, it reached for a young couple in goth loli and they screamed. The creature grew three feet in height and began pounding on the windows the building closest to it. More shrieks were heard, more people got dragged by their heels to inside the monster. Lily clenched her hands on the handlebars. Come on, come on, move already!

"Theatric? You?" She heard him snicker softly to himself. "That's partially what I'm afraid of."

"Screw it!" Lily cried. She snaked past car after car, ignoring the blare of horns. She drove up the truck's wooden ramp. She pushed the gas harder, the ignition roared and she soared into the sky.

Lily held on to her bike for dear life as she felt gravity remember her. The metal machine sunk and bounced as she landed on the Virus' back.

The creature roared in pain. "Well it wasn't so easy for me either." She said through gritted teeth. She pressed the petal harder and harder. The wheels spun and stopped, spun and stopped, tendrils of murky color bubbled beneath her and clung to her boots. A transparent pop – up flashed:

Project Lily plus V2 – Status Report

Minor Damage

Power: 97 %

Recommended: Sustain Attack

A 'BOOM' resounded, the creature wailed again and the motorcycle was released. Lily nearly flew again and ended up wheels-first onto the ill-treated building's rooftop. She slammed on the break and the vehicle skidded. Black tire marks painted the ground. A broad-shouldered, figure appeared out of nowhere and held the motorcycle down so she didn't manage to fall off the roof.

"See?" Mosh grinned a bright, white smile. It was even lighter than his spiked gray hair in fact. However, Lily was less than pleased.

"Whatever." She dismissed, but internally she could feel her gears winding faster than they ever had before. Calm down you idiot, Vocaloids are supposed to be stronger. She steadied herself held out her tattooed wrist. In a flash of golden squares a microphone stand materialized. Instead of pointing it towards herself, she aimed the mike at the Virus. "Hey, listen up!"

The creature was momentarily distracted by her and Mosh, but soon went back to swallowing a girl in Visual Kei through its skin.

Lily beamed. "Your funeral."

She closed her eyes and a different set of golden words flooding into her digital sea. She sang. Music notes made of blaring gold light were surrounding her when she opened her eyes. They fired themselves at the Viruses. It cried out again but this time, the damage made it shrink. The stereo that made up Mosh's upper torso amplified Lily's voice and thus made the shining notes bigger. The Virus shriveled more went they hit. Humans ran out, tendrils attempted to follow them but this time their screams were drowned out by her song or by the crowd's cheering. Finally the Virus vanished completely and Lily halted her song.

"Great set, Lily." Mosh patted her shoulder. "If you stop Viruses as well as you sign autographs, you'll fit in with your fellow Vocaloids in no time."

"As if." Lily snorted. "Why would I want to fit in anyways?"


When she left the studio the sun was in just barely setting. Now the moon hung high in the starry sky as she slowed B. B. to a halt. As quietly as she could, she unlocked a shed and set her motorcycle inside. After she locked the shed back she looked to the adjacent house. It wasn't huge or colorful, but large enough to fit four comfortably. She went for the door, but then promptly turned on her high heels and went to the left wall instead. She climbed the large vines that grew against it, knowing that at the second floor there was a window that was closed but not locked.

Project Lily plus V2 – Status Report

Minor Damage

Power: 85%

Recommended: Sleep Mode or Consumption

When she reached the sill tiredness finally got up with her, her limbs felt heavier than usual as she dragged herself up the wall. Damn, battery's going. I might actually have to sleep tonight… She lifted the glass and swung one leg inside the dark room before the light clicked open. A young boy stared at her. Damn, again…

"Lily- nee - chan, you're back!" He cried. His buck teeth stood out even more when he beamed at her. Lily shushed him.

"Quiet Ryuto - kun." She rolled into the room, landing on her back. Ryuto rolled too, landing as she did and laughing. "I said quiet! I'm not playing a game! Go back to sleep mode."

"But –" Ryuto started.

"Go!" Lily barked. The child got up and walked out, dejected. "Ah, wait, but don't tell–"

"Gumi – nee - chan!" Ryuto called out. "Lily – nee – chan won't play with me!"

"Lily - chan? She's back." Lily sat up and groaned. Footsteps thundered closer to her and the door opened again. This time Ryuto was with a girl who seemed around Lily's age, but she shared his bright and short green hair, albeit hers when to her chin instead. They also both had bright green eyes. Gumi had her hands on her hips. "Do you know what time it is? Where have you been?"

"Geez, you never let me have any fun." Lily quipped nervously. "I was with Gakupo - san. We told you we had a video to shoot this morning."

"And I told her you ran off out of nowhere." She jumped when Gakupo, now in a more comfy looking kariginu, suddenly appeared. "What's going on?"

"None of your business." Lily spoke curtly. "I finished the song and I left, and now I'm going to sleep mode so if you'd all kindly get out." She starting shoving the trio away from the door.

"Hey Lily – nee - chan, you're hurt!"

"What?" Before Lily could stop her, the verdette started fussing with buttons on the headphones she had on, which were merged to the goggles over Gumi's head rather than over her eyes.

"Can we get a Tuner to the Limited Co. House?" Gumi said in a panicked tone, Lily groaned once more and waved her hands, signaling for the green haired girl to stop. "Lily - chan got hurt, her ankle, it looks like someone ripped the skin off it!" The moment right before she was saved by Mosh on the roof flashed by. Lily uselessly attempted to cover the breach in her synthetic skin, where metal and wires were exposed. "In the morning? Lily - chan need's help now!"

"I'm fine, I've gotten in worse fights than this." Lily blurted out.

"You have?" Gakupo asked, causing Lily to cover her mouth too. "Is some loony fan boy after you?"

"Lily — nee - chan, can we play the rolling game again?" Ryuto asked innocently.

"…I know it's late but this is an emergency!"

"…Why was your CD beeping before?"

"We can invite Miku - chan to play too…"

"…Lily - chan!"

"Lily – san!"

"Lily – nee - chan!"

"Alright, alright, everyone just shut up for one second!" Lily yanked Gumi's headphones off. "Cancel the Tuner." The blonde growled, and then pressed the button for ending the call before tossing it back to Gumi. Lily plopped on her bed. "If you want the whole story sit down, 'cause it's kinda long…"