A/N: After reading and watching The Disappearance, I thought, "What if the DITE took Yuki and what could someone do about it?" Some spoilers are present from the Disappearance and Rampage novels. Please enjoy the story and remember to review.

The events expressed in this fiction are those of the author. Characters related to TMOHS belong to Nagaru Tanigawa. All other characters and organizations appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons and organizations, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

Rated M for Adult Violence, Themes and Language


Prologue: No Choice

"You know why you're here, Yuki Nagato?"

Three people were standing in front of the humanoid interface that was sitting in a chair. Strapped to the chair by her arms and legs, her hands lay flat on a palm reader, which was reading data from the humanoid's brain. Her face lacked expression as she stared at the people hovering over her. The room was very bright white and almost looked large enough to hold a large grocery store, but was actually a small room with a tall ceiling. There were no windows or signs of appearances in the room, just bright white including the chair. If one was to look very close at the ceiling, they could see the vents sticking out. A large screen that was almost a story tall was suspended behind and above the chair, and had a series of data flowing around on the bottom and top along with the image of a man speaking to Yuki. To the corner of the image was the timestamp indicating DECEMBER 21, 2010, 10:17PM. The man hovering over Yuki knew who the man onscreen was; he even knew about the girl, the esper and the time traveler. The following came from the man's voice:

"If they have any complaints, I will take Haruhi and recreate the world completely. We'll make a world where you're here, but the Integrated Data Sentient Entity doesn't exist. It would be a piece of cake for Haruhi. We will get you back, even if we have to recreate the universe from scratch. Tell that to your boss."

The image of the man who had spoken froze. The man who was hovering over Yuki, almost 6 feet tall with a medium black razored hairstyle drew his face closer to Yuki. He was angry. "Do you know what will happen if that man gets that girl to recreate the world? Even if he and that girl could recreate the universe, not only would we still exist, we will make you not exist."

Yuki, still with an expressionless face, tilted her head down. "I understand," she said in a monotone voice.

The man arose from being close to her face, his face still showing signs of anger. He was almost on the verge of slapping her but thought against it. She could manage to keep a low profile by following protocol within the Entity, but she had made a terrible decision that could have jeopardized the Entity. In other words, she blew it. The events that happened last winter when she changed the universe to give the man who spoke on the screen a choice at life were against the Entity's orders. She should know, because Ryoko Asakura did the same thing when she tried to kill the same man and went against her orders. It was why Yuki terminated her for going on her own. That man, who he knew as Kyon, would not understand why the Entity made Yuki without emotions. Emotions were a flaw in a humanoid's system and there were still issues of creating humanoid interfaces that wouldn't try drastic measures from having emotions. Now the Entity, rather this man who appeared in charge, made a determination that Yuki herself went on her own against the Entity for her radical decisions and had to suffer the consequences.

"I don't know what you were thinking Yuki," said the man, "But you will serve your punishment for what you did. If that kid has the balls to save you, he has another thing coming."

"..." Yuki didn't say anything but continued to look towards the floor.

He turned to the other man who was standing next to him. "Stay here and watch over her. When I feel the need to terminate her, I'll let you know." The man, dressed as if he was a member of the military nodded, and escorted the man and the woman towards the door out into the corridor. The man closed the door behind him and pressed a hidden button before standing like a vertical statue as the man and woman, more like a couple, were walking down the corridor to another room where they would make contact with a new humanoid interface. She would replace Yuki when the Entity terminated her, but her mission would not be to observe; her mission was to make change. Those said changes meant eliminating certain things... certain people.

"Do you think we can put our trust in this girl?" said the man who lowered his voice as he was talking to the woman.

"We should be able to," said the woman, "You don't have to worry about anything. She can do better than what Ryoko and Yuki couldn't do."


25 feet above from the ground, a man was hiding in the vent as he overheard the man speaking to Yuki about terminating her existence. The man was a mercenary time traveler who had to save Yuki from the Data Integration Thought Entity. There was more to this special mission but right now, he had to get down there and release her before that man did decide to terminate her. Once that man made decisions, they were never withdrawn. The mission so far was somewhat working but he needed assistance in order for it to work. Otherwise, this mission would be a failure, they would terminate Yuki anyway and his life was on the line. He remembered what they told him before he began this mission.

"You have to assure us that you will save Yuki Nagato. Without her, who knows how that girl will react or better yet, if that guy will do what he says. We are counting on you."

He overheard the man's voice onscreen and remembered what the boy known as Kyon said. He also knew the personalities of him, the girl known as Haruhi, the esper and the time traveler, and the alien who was strapped in the chair below. Kyon's own words had jeopardized Yuki's safety when he challenged the Entity's boss. If only that kid understood, no one should ever challenge an agency of any kind.

As the man along with his companion and security exited the room, he looked into his sack to grab the magnetic screwdriver and began to unscrew the bolts to the vent so he could sneak down into the room. Luckily, the vents were large enough for him to descend into the room, another fault of the security surrounding the Data Integration Thought Entity. Already in a harness, he looked towards the two people who would help him descend the vent down into the room. Time was very thin, but they had to do this or that guy could come back at any second.

"Alright, let's do this quickly, and don't let go of that rope!" he said. He was putting his trust in these people and had second thoughts about them holding that rope to lower him down. He couldn't prevent what would happen if they let go of that rope.

"Alright, but we have to hurry," said one of them holding the rope.

He positioned himself into the vent and began the 25 foot descent into the room below. With more assistance from his resources, he would be able to get into the room without detection. The room itself had a high advanced alarm system that indicated temperature change by a tenth degree, movement and sounds of all sorts, and color and infrared visibility. He was hoping that device they provided him was working; otherwise, that door should have opened along with men rushing in already but hadn't as he was midway into the room.

The girl in the chair noticed changes in the environment and looked up at the man who was coming in from the vent shaft. He put his finger to his mouth, warning her not to make a sound. He made it to the floor quietly and approached the girl sitting in the chair. He had seen her picture of what she looked like, and quickly got used to her emotionless and expressionless face, even in her large yellow eyes.

"Yuki Nagato?" the man whispered.

It took her a few seconds to respond before saying, "Yes." Her voice sounded strained.

He went into his sack again to get a device resembling that of a motorized screwdriver. The device would kill power and any security systems inside the chair to avoid intrusion. He drilled into the chair, pushed a button, which sent a virus or electrical spike into the chair, and stood up to see if the device did its job. Sure enough, the blue glowing pad where Yuki's hands were on dimed out. His intense hearing indicated that the chair was no longer running on systems. Getting a knife, he cut the straps off her arms and legs and freed her from the chair. But there was a problem. Somehow, the Entity managed to modify Yuki's weight to that of probably beyond a ton. Not able to pick up the heavy girl, he had a device to reduce her weight to normal to move her quickly in case that happened.

"Wait here, we'll get you out of here." the man said.

As he went to turn around to grab another device from his sack, the man and woman along with ten armed men behind them stood in front of the door. He did not hear them come in, and forgot they left the room without making a sound. The man by the door next to the woman stared at the man hard: first with shock, but then recognized him and showed a smirk on his face. "You didn't think you'd get off that easy. This is an advanced facility. Your devices would never outsmart our equipment."

Shit. The device didn't work.

The time traveler shielded Yuki, who was still in the chair behind him. The man walked closer to the stranger in front of Yuki and left five feet between them. Determination on the stranger's face began to fade away as he stared at the man.

"Higashiyama... We meet again," said the man.