IMPORTANT!

Hello everybody! Lyrical Bane here (formerly known as Death Melody).

I have rewritten or restructured or re-whatever this story. I deleted the original and the one you see now is the new and improved version. This version is completely different to the one I originally posted and I really do hope that it's better. I'm really sorry for the really long hiatus and my not-so-great writing back then.

Updates won't be regular because life.

There might/will be mistakes as you read.

I do NOT own Gakuen Alice.

But I do own OCs.

Mikan was given two choices after her Stealing/Insertion Alice was discovered and the AAO debacle finished: stay and endanger her friends with her uncontrolled Alices and future AAO-like wars, or, leave to train. The choice was obvious but choosing it was still hard. So she was given a week to make the choice, and she spent that time acting normally and creating memories to last.

With her decision made, she packed her things and left behind an empty room. She made her way towards her uncle's office slowly and sullenly, wanting to remember (as silly as it sounded) the interior designs and memories created. So much had happened in the two years she was in the academy, but everything was just so complicated now and she wanted nothing more than to leave it all behind. She was tired with the weight on her shoulders and it was time for her to go.

She walked straight into her uncle's office and found him and Persona conversing in hushed tones. They stopped when they spotted her.

"I'm ready…nii-san."

It was still weird to address Persona in a way. It was even weirder that the man was her adopted brother. But she knew in due time, their sibling-ship would become close.

Persona nodded at her before looking to the HSP.

"Remember to look after her."

Her uncle warned and Persona merely nodded.

"Let's go."

They walked out of the building and down the main entrance. Each tree they passed had her feeling sadder, and once they stepped out of the gates, she felt lighter due to the freedom. She looked back one last time before going into the limo.

"Goodbye."

The Alice Guardian Headquarters was located on the ocean floor of the Pacific Ocean. It was designed as a clock with twelve buildings branching out all interconnected with a bridge. The base was large with a total of twenty kilometers in radius.

The main building acted as a mass meeting hall and the mess hall. From twelve to three, were the offices where they gather intel, maintain security, keep track of the above world, of the pressure of the ocean and find faults on the base that need repairing, and find jobs for Guardians. From four to six were the labs and hospital. From seven to eight was the armory filled with a large variety of weapons. From nine to eleven were accommodation for all Guardians.

Above the underwater base, more specifically above water level, was an Alice-made island ten kilometers in radius. It was created solely for training and transportation by air (but a majority got around through the teleportation pads situated around the world). It was made to be invisible to the world, shrouded by a permanent Invisibility Alice. The only way to get onto the island was a pilot who knew their way.

And Mikan was excited to see her new home.

"Where is she?" Hotaru demanded from the HSP one week into Mikan's disappearance with her baka gun pointed directly at the man. Behind her was the gang and a stuttering inchou telling her to put her gun down.

The HSP looked at them all with a blank expression. "That's classified."

Hotaru glared. She'll just have to hack into the systems then.

"Mikan's whereabouts aren't recorded anywhere." He added, knowing exactly what Hotaru was planning. "And don't threaten your teachers, Natsume."

Said boy scoffed. He turned and left the office and the gang soon followed after. Natsume had an inkling as to why Mikan left but still, she didn't have to. She must've been given difficult choices to make her leave.

"Do you think she'll ever come back?" Anna asked sadly.

"When I see her again, I swear to god…" Hotaru trailed off. She just didn't understand and she hated that. But if she did see Mikan again, she'll give the girl hell.