A new story with one of my favourite ships! It was interesting to write this.
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Len POV
I woke up to find myself lying on the side of a pathway with many people walking past me, some glancing my way and giving me pitying looks, others just hurrying past me or giving me disapproving looks. I got to my feet and looked out at the road next to the path. Many strange objects were on the road, with people in them and wheels on them that rolled very fast. I gathered that they must be a form of transportation. Then I remembered what I was here to do. I grabbed the locket that hung on a necklace around my neck and opened it up. Inside was a compass with two arrows, one showing north and the other supposed to lead me to the person I was looking for. I started walking in the direction the arrow was pointing.
Nearby a child tugged on his mother's skirt, pointed at me and said, 'Mummy, that man's wearing weird clothes.' She steered him to her other side and replied, 'Don't look, he woke up on the street earlier, he's probably a dangerous man.' I blushed as I heard their conversation and started to walk faster.
The compass couldn't show how far I had to walk, so I just kept walking until I reached a crossing. I had to get across the road, but the wheely objects I saw earlier were still driving across at high speed. Suddenly, people started to walk across. 'Stop! That's dangerous!' I yelled at them and grabbed the person nearest me, so at least one person would be safe. She glared at me and pushed me off. 'Get off me! It's a green light, so it's safe to cross. Weren't you looking? Weirdo,' she said, pointing at a black rectangular box with a light green man on it, then hurried across the street. Come to think of it, that person looked like me. My eyes widened in realization and I glanced down at my compass which was pointing at her. 'Wait up!' I shouted, 'Come back, I need to talk to you, you're the one I've been looking for!' I quickly ran across the road and grabbed her before she could finish crossing.
'What are you doing? Get off me! Who are you anyways?' she yelled, struggling to get out of my grip. 'Look at me carefully. You know who I am, and we have to talk.' I said. She continued to struggle. At that moment I heard a honking sound and I turned to see one of the wheely objects coming at us. The last thing I saw before I shut my eyes was the green man who had now turned red.
Rin POV
I felt someone behind me grab the collar of my shirt and yank both the boy and I to safety. A man had pulled us out of the car's path just in time. 'Thanks! You saved our lives. Can I repay you?' I asked gratefully. He told us that he just wanted us to be more careful in the future before walking off. I then turned to be boy and narrowed my eyes. 'So, who are you and what do you want from me? First, you stop me when I'm walking across the road, then you chase after me again and almost get us both killed. Not to mention, what's with those weird clothes? Also, you look a lot like me.' We were both around the same height and had the same coloured blond hair and blue eyes. He was wearing what looked like a medieval beige-coloured peasant shirt and plain pants made out of a green cotton.
He replied, 'That's because I am you. I come from a dimension parallel to this one. That's probably why my clothes are quite different to yours. As for just now, I'm really sorry! I didn't know about those lights.' I looked at him, stunned. 'So let me get this straight. You're me from a parallel universe, which makes you an alien, and you happen to not know about traffic lights, which is why you almost killed us both just now.' I said. He smiled brightly and spoke. 'I'm not really an alien. I'm just not from here. You could say I'm a foreigner. Plus, my universe is quite different from yours, so I'm unfamiliar with a lot of things, like the lights, the wheely boxes out there and other things too.' I sighed, trying to take in all this information. Everything was happening too fast. Until now everything I my life was plain and boring, and now it felt like something out of a fanfiction.
'How can I believe you? You might just be a creepy murderer who failed to kill me just now, so you're playing innocent,' I said, disbelieving his words. He grabbed a compass hanging from his neck and opened it up to show me. It was gold and on the outside there were decorations engraved on it, and inside it looked like a normal compass with an extra hand pointing at me. 'Tada! This arrow points to you, because it senses that you and I are the same. I definitely wouldn't want to kill you because we're linked.' He exclaimed eagerly. I wondered what he meant by linked. 'I'm not sure if I can believe your words. I mean, how can the arrow sense me? What is it, magic?' I asked. 'Yep,' he replied instantly. I sighed, told him to go to a lunatic asylum, then walked away. 'Wait! You need to help me! I found you because I need your help to complete my quest!' he shouted running after me. I ignored him and continued walking.
Len POV
I continued to follow Rin, whose name I knew because of our link. I walked after her as she continued ignoring me, and I looked at the sights around me. She turned around and yelled 'Stop following me!' but I had to keep on following her until she would hear me out and help me on my quest. I continued to follow her while looking around at everything. This world had a lot of new things, from the clothes people wore to the huge buildings that towered up into the sky. 'How do those buildings balance?' I asked Rin, who only sighed in response. I tried thinking of other ways to get her attention, when after a while I saw an old lady pushing slowly pushing along what looked like some metal sticks melded together with wheels attached at the bottom.
'Ah, let me help you with that. It looks heavy and it must be slowing you down. Let me push it for you,' I said, walking up to the old woman. Just as I was about to grab the object, Rin grabbed my collar of my shirt and yanked me back. 'What do you think you're doing?' she hissed as she quickly walked away dragging me with her. 'I was just trying to help the lady with that heavy-looking object,' I replied. She sighed. 'Look,' she said, 'I guess you really must not know much about this world, because that 'object' you were trying to help carry for her is called a walking frame, and she needs it to help her walk. Rin's Rules No. 1: 'You do not try to take walking frames from old ladies.' You got that?' I thought for a moment then nodded and blushed, realizing what I had just been trying to do. 'Good,' Rin said continuing to walk, 'Come with me. I'll be your guide around this place and hear you out on your supposedly important 'quest' thingy. I'll try to answer any questions that you might have, and in return, you have to do what I tell you to and stay out of trouble. Okay?' I nodded with a smile, glad that she'd help me around this place and possibly help me on my quest.
'Also, my name's Rin. Rin Kagamine. What's your name?' she asked. 'My name's Len Kagamine,' I replied. I decided not to tell her that I already knew her name. If she decided to help me on my quest she'd learn to use the link as well. 'So, any questions about this world so far?' Rin asked me. 'Well, what are those metal boxes with wheels going around at fast paces, how are these buildings around us so tall and balanced, and what are the small metal boxes some people are holding up to their ears?' I asked, speaking quickly with excitement. 'Those 'boxes with wheels' are called cars, and people drive them around to get to places faster, or if they just can't be bothered walking. These buildings being tall is a normal thing. They were built tall using cranes and things and can balance because they have solid foundations. As for the 'small metal boxes' they're called phones. I'll tell you more about their functions later, because it'll probably be quite a long talk,' she answered.
'So, where are we going?' I asked her, curious as to where we had been heading for so long. 'We're going to my apartment. You don't have anywhere else to live, do you?' she said. That was true. I only just arrived in this world recently and I didn't have anywhere to go. Plus, it was better that we stayed together since I needed Rin to complete the quest. 'By the way, what's an apartment?' I asked her. She groaned in frustration and slapped her palm on her face. I mimicked her, slowly bringing my palm to my face as well. 'What does this gesture mean?' I asked as I did it. She groaned again and replied, 'That gesture is called a facepalm. If you want to know when people face palm, go search it up online or in a dictionary. As for what an apartment is, you'll see when we get there.' I tilted my head in confusion. 'What's a 'dictionary' and what's 'online'?' I asked her. I heard her mutter some words under her breath that I couldn't catch, then she said, 'I'll go buy you a pocket dictionary later and teach you how to google things.' 'Google?' I said. She sighed and ignored me.
Rin POV
What a troublesome person. I sighed and continued to walk, reflecting on the day's events and wondering what I had gotten myself into. I knew my life would probably start to get quite interesting now though. With a guy like Len around and the promise of a 'quest', that was guaranteed.