AN: Hey dudes and dudettes! TheOmega360 here again! I got myself into Vocaloid about a year ago and my mother got me the Hatsune Miku Project Mirai DX game for the 3DS, and I love it! I also recently bought myself a PS3 and I now have the ability to play all of the other Project Diva games that got released in the US. I was working on an extra credit project for my sociology class on Vocaloids (which sadly never saw the light of day) and while I was looking for images of the Vocaloid crew to photo shop, I came across a fan drawn image that I think was from Devianart. I can't remember who drew it or what the title of it was (and I've tried to search for it again, but no luck). Anyways, the picture showed Miku looking out side of some kind of screen, I'm assuming it's either a PSP screen or a TV screen, and thinking, "I wonder what it's like out there…" and I thought, "hey, that would make a good story!" So here it is! And I have no idea where it's going. Hope you like it!

The Sprit of Music

By TheOmega360

Chapter 1-Crossing The Boundaries

Introvert. Noun. The textbook definition of that word is "a shy, reticent, and typically self-centered person." As an adjective, it is known as "introverted" or "introversive," meaning "of, denoting, or typical of an introvert." The majority of society sees introverts as a stereotypical, lazy individual who tend to keep to himself or herself, and have little to no friends. In some cases this can be proven true, but the overall reality is that it's false. Introverts don't always keep to themselves. They're usually shy due to the awareness that the majority of society doesn't always take too kindly to their unusual behavior. They do have friends, most of them just tend to be scattered across the globe. And they are NOT ENTIRELY self-centered. To say that would imply they are selfish individuals who care only for them self. While I cannot say that EVERY introvert is a nice person, I can say that the majority of them are.

How do I know this? Because I identify as an introvert. My name is Andrew Hindle. I'm twenty-two years old and a senior at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. If the explanation of that one curious word boggled your mind from what you knew as an introvert, than good, that means I now have your attention. The thing most people think when introverts, otakus, and the mentally or physically disabled come to mind is that they are not normal. Another curious word: Normal. The definition of that is, "conforming to a standard; usual, typical, or expected." Basically, in society's eyes, everybody expects other people to act and think like everybody else. And I am here to tell you that thought is complete and total bull shit. There is no such thing as normal and there will never be. And this story will prove to you why.

It all started at the end of my junior year at EMU, during my summer vacation. Once again my GPA had dropped, and my mother wasn't too happy about it. My father was kinda disappointed, but he was still proud of how far I had come over the years. I'm guessing he said that to make me feel a little better. My mother however didn't do a whole lot. She was mostly worried about how we were going to get the money to afford next year, so she urged me to get a job during the summer, but no luck. I only got one interview at Giant Eagle, but I didn't get the job. I seriously think my mother's adopted mother rubbed off on her in some way, but that's a pill she'll never swallow. Yeah, my mother kinda got stuck with a woman who's main concern was money rather than her own children. She came through the ordeal alright and ended up being the best mother I could ever ask for, but I seriously doubt anyone can walk out of that situation without getting SOME kind of scars.

My father on the other hand was the opposite. He was rather laid back, and kind of lenient about most serious things, but that was mostly because he thought freaking out about things just made it worse than it already was. And mom couldn't stand that about him. She always thought he was being lazy about…well…everything. It was actually the opposite. Dad worked two jobs, one every day, and one every other night. Afterwards he'd be so tired that he just wanted to take a nap all day. That's a totally justifiable reason for someone to sleep all day in my opinion. But mom absolutely HATES it when people laze around and do nothing. It's no wonder they got divorced back when I was in middle school. I'm not even sure how they got married in the first place.

Anyways, I digress. This whole thing…er…completely abnormal event I should say, started when I was playing Hatsune Miku: Project Diva on my PS3. My mother came down to the family room and asked, "Shouldn't you be searching for Jobs?"

"I would if anyone was hiring," I replied.

"I highly doubt that no one is in need of summer help."

"Mom, for every job application I've handed in, I've either gotten no response, or they said they weren't hiring. The only job that showed promise was Giant Eagle, and you already know how that turned out. The other thing is that most of the businesses here aren't really looking for seasonal help. After I get the money, I'll be headed back to EMU. What good will that do for them?"

There was a few moments of silence as mom tried to process this. I was hoping she was going to say something around the lines of "good point," but for all of her good points, she stubborn as hell and never wants to admit when a juvenile has outsmarted her in an argument. Especially if it's her own son. So it came as no surprise to me when she said, "So you're just going to laze around all of summer vacation?"

"Mom, I don't have a job and I don't have my own place, and I'm broke, what do you want from me?" I asked, getting rather frustrated with my mother. As fuckin' usual.

"I don't know…I want you to do SOMETHING! Wash the dishes!"

"Did that this morning."

"Well…vacuum the house!"

"Did that two days ago."

"Do your laundry!"

"Finished that an hour ago." I may like to play video games nonstop, but I'm nowhere near as lazy as my mother thinks I am.

"Well…why don't you make all of those videos you used to do?"

"My YouTube Channel got terminated for a BS copyright claim, remember?"

"Well you know the copyright law better than anyone I know. Why didn't you file a counterclaim?"

"How do you think my channel got terminated in the first place?! I tried and it backfired on me miserably. It was a fuckin' set up from ShoPro, and I had to pay them four grand just to get out of a lawsuit!"

"You paid HOW MUCH?!"

Yeah, I never told her about this. For obvious reasons.

"Jesus Christ, Andrew, now you'll NEVER go back to college! When did this happen?"

"About a month ago."

"And you never told me?!"

"It was my problem, not yours! It didn't feel right to get you involved with it." After I transferred from Frederick Community college, I made a vow to be as independent as I could, with little help from my parents, other than money. That of course was easier said than done.

"That's no excuse, young man! I could've helped you!"

"By making the situation more complicated than it already was? Yeah, fuck that."

Mom didn't take those last three words too well.

"How dare you talk to me like that," she said with a very threatening tone. If I were still twelve years old, it would've scared me. But she and I argue so much nowadays I was used to it, and honestly, extremely unintimidated. That still didn't fix how irritated I was getting.

"I'm twenty two years old, mom! I'll talk to you however I want!" I yelled.

"Not in my house you won't!" She yelled back. "As long as you live here you live by my rules and you do what I say."

That was when something snapped in my head. I quietly turned off my PS3, and turned to my now infuriated mother.

"You know what, mom?" I said, trying my best to control my temper. "You're absolutely right. And that's what I always hate about coming here during summer break. Every damn year, it's always what you want. You want me to do everything and I mean EVERYTHING that you and only you want out of life! You wanted me to become a lawyer and follow in your footsteps, saying that my studies in Digital Media was a, and I quote, 'waste of effort. You wanted me to buddy up to God, claiming it's what a true Christian does. You wanted me to go to a Christian school. You picked all of my classes for me, never once giving me the choice of an elective! Everything that I have done in my life was done on YOUR whim! And I'm fuckin' sick of it! If it weren't for the fact that I'm financially broke and can't afford my own place, I wouldn't even need you in my life! I'm an adult and I don't need your damn caudling!"

There was a moment of silence. "You'd better take that back right now," mom said sternly to me.

"Ohhhhh, I'm just getting warmed up," I replied. "You know who you've been starting to sound like these past month?"

Mom's eyes widened, knowing exactly where this was going. "Don't you DARE-!"

"Your mother," I interrupted. "And I mean that in the opposite way in how she treated you as a kid. You may have been a great mother when I was a child, but you SUCK at acknowledging your son as an adult! Not once did you give me an ounce of emotional support when I was having a stressful day at college. All you gave me was step-by-step instructions that never worked out for me! Do you have any idea why I kept my grades a secret from you?! Because I knew that you wouldn't do anything to help me in the way that I needed the most! It's just money, money, money! You wanna know why I shut myself off from you after high school? It's because I became a stranger to you! I had to break out of your overprotective cage on my own, and developed teenage habits behind your back that I knew you wouldn't approve of. I just wanted to be a normal teenager, just like everyone else! But YOU were always a constant roadblock. You never let me live my life the way I wanted to! You never have and you never will, because it's ALWAYS! ABOUT! YOU!

That was the loudest I have ever yelled at my mother in my life. And I don't do it that often. Only when she has gotten on my last nerve.

There were a few moments of silence.

Then…

"Get out," my mother said softly.

"Gladly," I replied coldly. I stormed past mom, grabbed my car keys that were hanging on the key rack by the front door, and went outside. As I approached my car I heard my mother scream in fury. I just scoffed, feeling no sympathy for her. I got into my car and screeched out of the driveway. I had no idea where I was going to go. But wanted to get as far away from that place as I could go. I needed to blow off some steam somewhere. Perhaps…maybe I should go on a hike. Get my head straight. Yeah, that was an idea.

Miku stretched and yawned. "Fuuuuuuaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh! Aw, man! What a workout!" She said happily as she plopped down on the couch in the Diva Lounge. She and the other Vocaloids in Project Diva F had just gotten back from a series of rigorous performances that Andrew had put them through from the other side of the screen.

"Ah, tell me about it," Kaito said as he stretched out in his recliner. "Man, Omega's got some serious sense of rhythm."

"Too strong a sense of rhythm if you ask me," Meiko remarked as she grabbed a bottle of wine from the fridge. "I would kill for a weeklong vacation. That guy's got way too much energy."

"But that's what makes doing music with Omega so much fun!" Rin exclaimed. "I've never known anyone that has a passion for music and sound so strong."

"Yeah! He's so into the music, his passion could even rival Miku's!" Len, Rin's twin brother exclaimed.

Luka giggled at the twin's energy and enthusiasm. "You do realize that Omega is the only human that we know of who has this much passion for music, right?"

"While that may be true, I doubt there is an individual who is exactly like Omega," Gakupo stated in a calm gentlemanly manner.

"Not to mention he's really, and I mean REALLY cute!" Gumi exclaimed.

"Gumi, we've been over this," Neru commented while she was fiddling around with her phone. "It's impossible. We exist on different sides of the screen. There's no way we can get into the real world."

"Oh come on, Neru," Teto criticized. "Nothing is impossible. I mean think about it. We are computer programs who have a sense of self-awareness. I bet the people outside thought something like this is inconceivable, but here we stand, fully aware of what we are, and gossiping about what may lie on the other side of the screen."

Unbeknownst to the individual known as Andrew Hindle (whom the Vocaloids refer to by the username Omega, an abbreviation of TheOmega360), he had bought a copy of Project Diva that had a rather unique glitch. There were certain codes accidentally entered into the character models of the Vocaloids that caused them to become self aware upon the game's first start up on a PS3 system. But the Vocaloids were unaware of this fact just as well, and they assumed that every video game in the real world had programs that were capable of free will just as they were. But their knowledge of the real world was extremely limited. They only knew what the obtained when Andrew was searching the Internet with his PS3, which happened very seldom. He only did it when his computer was in for repairs.

There were only two things that they knew about the real world. One was that the world outside was occupied by a race of people called humans, a species that looked strikingly similar to the Vocaloids. Second was that there were multiple copies of themselves in the form of discs and digital data, and that there were thousands of other different fellow programs coded into these "video games." About a month after this discovery, Miku had started talking with the other Vocaloids on what the world outside of the screen might be like. It all started when Miku asked, "Do you ever wonder what it's like out there?"

Since then Miku had been dreaming about going to the real world. But she, as well as the other Vocaloids knew how far fetched that was.

"Still, what if it is possible?" Miku asked. "How do you think we would do it?"

Neru sighed. "Miku, you've been obsessed with this ever since we discovered that another world even exists on the other side of the screen. It's kinda starting to get a little annoying."

"C'mon, Neru, how can you not be obsessed with the possibilities of the 'what if' scenario?" Gumi challenged. "I mean, in here there's just the studio and the rest of Mirai City. That's it. But out there is probably a whole bunch of things just waiting to be discovered!"

"Gumi," Gakupo interjected. "You do realize that is a big 'what if' scenario, don't you?"

"Well, yeah," Gumi admitted. "But it's fun to think about, right?"

"Still what if it is possible?" Kaito pondered.

"Oh, come on, not you too," Meiko groaned.

"No, really what if it is?" Kaito insisted. "Think about all the stuff we could find out there."

"There could be a whole bunch of new types of music to discover out there!" Teto exclaimed.

"It does spark a pretty strong sense of curiosity," Luka said, now even more interested in the topic.

"I wanna go!" Rin exclaimed.

"Me too!" Len added.

Neru just sighed. "Len, I'm telling you, it's a physical impossibility."

"You don't know that," Len replied.

"I'm pretty sure I do."

"None of us have even made an attempt to breach the boundary between our worlds," Gakupo. "How can you be so certain of something that you haven't attempted?"

"I…uh…well…" Neru sighed in defeat. "Yeah, well got me there."

"Okay!" Miku shouted as she jumped off of the couch. "Let's try it!"

"Try what?" Kaito asked.

"Getting to the real world!"

"Um, Miku," Luka said, a little surprised of Miku's sudden energy. "We don't even how to do that. I mean, there is literally a screen blocking us from getting there."

Rin and Len's faces lit up. "Let's break it!" They shouted in unison.

Everybody just turned wide-eyed at the Kagamine twins.

"Ummm…I don't know if that's a good idea…" Meiko said nervously.

"Sounds like a plan!" Miku shouted grabbing a nearby chair and throwing it at the giant blank piece of glass that hung above the Vocaloid set. The chair hit the screen with a CLANG!

"Miku!" Neru shouted in shock.

"Heave-ho!" Rin and Len shouted as they tossed the couch at the screen.

"Hey, that couch cost me twenty thousand yen!" Meiko shouted, freaking out over her duties as the manager of the Vocaloid crew.

"Incoming!" Teto yelled as she threw Kaito's recliner.

"Noooooooooooooo!" Kaito whined as he was sprawled on the floor after getting his chair yanked out from under him.

The screen started to show signs of cracks.

"It's working!" The Kagamine twins shouted with joy.

"Throw more stuff!" Miku shouted as she grabbed the coffee table and then proceeded to throw it. More cracks started to show on the screen.

"Ugh…" Haku groaned as she entered the lounge. "What's with all the racket…?"

"Haku, I told you not to drink while you're on the clock!" Meiko shouted.

"Ow! Don't yell so loud!" Haku was clearly suffering from a hangover.

Luka sighed. "Oh well, when in Rome." She said as she grabbed one of the counter chairs and threw it at the screen.

The cracks in tensified.

"Ummmm…did everyone have a drinking party while I was out…?" Haku asked, completely confused as to what was transpiring.

"Hey! What's going on down here?!" Lilly shouted as she stormed into the room. "I'm trying to write a song!"

"Huuurrrryyyaaaahh!" Gumi shouted as she tossed the refrigerator at the screen.

"Noooooo, my ice-cream stash!" Kaito yelled.

"My booze stash!" Both Meiko and Haku yelled in unison. Immediately afterwards they both gave each other the evil eye. "YOUR booze stash?!" The both yelled angrily.

CRACK! SHATTER!

The giant screen had finally shattered.

"It worked!" Miku shouted happily.

"Yaaaaayyy!" Rin and Len exclaimed.

Suddenly a huge gust of wind started to pick up and blow straight into the screen. Miku was immediately lifted off her feet.

"W-wha-whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!"

"Miku!" Luka shouted.

"Big sis!" The Kagamine twins yelled as they ran after Miku. Immediately the got swept off their feet and flew towards the screen. "AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!"

"Rin! Len!" Luka shouted.

"You crazy kids get back here right now!" Meiko shouted as she ran towards the screen. She then willingly jumped into the shattered glass, allowing her to be carried where ever the screen would take them.

"My ice-creaaaaaaaaaaam!" Kaito whined as he too was swept into the screen.

Neru's phone was suddenly yanked out of her hand by the wind. "My phone!" She yelled as she chased after it. "Give that back! It's mine!" She jumped up and managed to catch her phone, but was then swept into the screen by the wind. "WHHHHOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAA!"

"Eek!" Lilly screamed as she was tossed into the air and towards the screen. "WHAT IS GOING OOOOOONNNN?!"

It was then Haku's turn to get sucked into the screen. Still not having any clue as to what was going on (and still recovering from a hangover), she lazily looked at the empty sake bottle that was in her hand. "Maybe I should stop drinking," she said as she disappeared behind the shattered glass.

"GERONIMO!" Teto yelled as she dashed and jumped into the screen.

"BONZAI!" Gumi yelled following in suit.

Luka just face palmed for a few seconds. "What a mess…" She sighed. "Oh well, might as well join them." Luka then ran to where the wind was the strongest and jumped. "Allyoop!"

Luka was the last Vocaloid to get sucked into the screen, just before the wind stopped. The shattered glass pieces of the screen suddenly floated up and then flew back towards their proper places. In a matter of seconds, the screen was fixed as though nothing ever happened, leaving the Vocaloid lounge in an eerie silence.

AN: So what do you think? Should I do more? Please leave a review if you can!