The Hitchhiker's Guide to Mahora
Disclaimer: I do not own Negima, nor do I own any of the ideas in this story aside from my personal creations.
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to Mahora.
Chapter 1: Insomnia.
April 9, 2007 12:21AM
A dim computer light illuminated a small room as someone typed away at a computer. He occasionally chuckled as he read messages from the computer. Slowly, he rose after a click, accompanied by the creaking of the chair. The light from the computer dimmed down, until it turned off. He walked into another room with a small lamp lighting the corner of the room. Clothes drop into a basket and the teen slid into a sleeveless white shirt and dark red pajamas. He walked onto the bed, yawned, dropped onto it, flicked off the light, and begun to sleep.
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April 8, 2000 11:49PM
"W-what's going on?" In another building, with many windows, most dark with the exception of a few dimly lit ones. In one of the lit rooms, a young boy looked into a computer screen as well. Soft snores came from the top bunk of a double-decked bed. A small cup carefully set on a little plate filled with tea sat by the laptop on the table. He flailed his arms about his sides while he stared at a blue screen filled with white text. The boy wore pajamas, his red hair was somewhat scuffled as he placed both hands on his head staring into the computer. A small, white ermine desperately held onto his head by holding onto the boy's ponytail. His glasses were slightly crooked due to his sudden shock at the non-responding computer screen.
"Aniki, I think you've got one of those blue screens of death." A small voice from an ermine whispered into the boy's ear.
"They happen when a really bad error messes up the entire computer."
"Chamo-kun what do I do? I have most of my lesson plans in there!"
"Hey, you don't really need that right? You've probably got it all in your head anyway."
"I can't just do that! I might forget some things and then I don't know what I'll do! I can't just wing it for teaching! I'm responsible for the girls' educations!"
"Yeah, yeah, that's what you said the whole first week of school..."
"That's because I really AM concerned! I know I need to do this for my Magister Magi test, but I already know that you need a good teacher for your education because that's how I got this far! Sure I studied a lot, but whenever I had a question that was too hard to answer with books, my teachers would help me out whenever I needed it!"
"I'm glad you admire your teachers and all but calm down Aniki. I wish I knew more about computers to help ya out." The ermine shrugged, "Lets get someone who can help us with this problem then."
Negi Springfield paused for a little bit and mumbled to himself,
"Computers… right?"
He pondered for a second, reached for a little book and flipped through the pages.
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April 9, 2000 12:17AM
"Yes! Number one by over 50,000 hits and still rising! Hu-huu maybe I should commemorate this moment." In yet another room, a girl typed at lighting speed onto another computer. The frills on her maid's outfit slowly vibrated as the rate of the girl's typing speed increased. Her long, light brown hair was tied with a ribbon that the girl had grabbed from a nearby rack of various outfits after she had paused from typing.
"To commemorate my 50,000 extra hits at being the most favorite Internet idol, Chiu-chan will upload picture sets of her as a maid for everyone! So please enjoy, master!"
"Yes, do enjoy, and add even more hits to my popularity!"
A flurry of chimes came from her computer.
"Chiu-chan! Please serve meeeeeeee!!"
"Ah I'm so happy that Chiu-chan is serving me! D"
"Chiu-chan, can you feed me? I can't do it myself X3"
The maid at the computer smiled blissfully. "I'm coming master"
She took out a small camera set, with a tripod and an expensive looking camera and set it up before a white screen that looked to have been made as a background for pictures to be taken.
"Hasegawa-san? I'm sorry if it's a little late but I need some help from you regarding my computer."
At the entrance to the room the doorknob turned and the door slowly opened. Negi, laptop in hand, and dressed up in a suit, appeared behind the door.
"What?!" Several flashes from the camera occurred, taking pictures of Chisame Hasegawa's back as she turned to face the intruding child teacher. She quickly turned and tried to get a pose onto the camera before the camera stopped flashing. As soon as the camera stopped flashing, Chisame turned to look at Negi, and stared at him, annoyed at his interruption.
"At least knock before entering the room!"
Chisame turned back to the camera and hoped that some of the pictures taken at least had some of her attempted pose.
"Now I have to dele- Ah!"
Chisame's lecture was interrupted as a bright light from the camera's side of the room.
"Wah! Really bright!"
"My eyes! Negi!"
"Stupid teacher, brat, freak!"
"Hey! Someone's trying to sleep here!"
From the bed, a slightly tanned girl, with black, shoulder length hair, came up from under the blanket. Chisame looked from her camera, to Negi, to the girl, and repeated a few times before she said.
"W-what's going on?!"
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April 9, 2000 12:23AM
Negi looked at the clock across room and frowned.
"It's really late now. I better go after dropping off my laptop. I'm getting sleepy."
He looked at the girl on the bed, and then looked at Chisame.
"Oh Hasegawa-san, is she your roommate? Pleased to meet you! Sorry about the noise and everything, I just have a little problem that only Hasegawa-san can fix for me."
Negi gave a courteous bow and set the laptop down onto a nearby table.
"May I ask you to fix my computer, please Hasegawa-san?"
Chisame had her hands in her hair and constantly ruffled it while looking down on the ground.
"What's going on here?! First the brat comes up, messing up my photos, and now her?!"
Negi, now concerned at Chisame's actions moved towards her and slowly placed a hand on her shoulder.
"Uh Hasegawa-san? Are you okay?"
Chisame suddenly turned her head towards the boy and begun to grind her teeth, and after a few seconds of staring at the child's face, which begun to infuriate her more, she shouted.
"I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE! GRAAAAAAH GET OUT GET OUT GET OUT!"
Promptly, Negi, the other girl, and Negi's laptop flew out of the small room as the door slam shut. The boy achingly got up and then moved towards the door. He slowly opened the door enough to allow his voice to come through.
"I'm sorry Hasegawa-san, did I come at a bad time? Should I come back tomorrow?"
Chisame ignored the banter from her annoying teacher and looked closer at her camera as she fiddled with the buttons, but then she noticed something strange.
"Stupid kid teacher… and what's with my camera… Batteries? No… I just bought it…" Click
Chisame stared at her camera silently. Negi blinked unbelievably at what seemed to be a ghostly camera with wings and a halo flew into the ceiling.
Seconds passed in an awkward silence.
He slowly closed the door and slowly breathed in and out calming himself.
"Ooh… I hope she isn't too mad right now. I'll have to apologize. This might be one of those of situations Chamo-kun told me about when girls get really, really angry."
He begun to reach for the door and before he could reach the knob, it slowly opened and Negi looked up to see Chisame in her maid outfit. Something in the air seemed to make her seem much taller, or was it that he started to feel smaller? Outside, crows began to sing as the glow from the streetlight tried to illuminate Chisame's features from the window. The light lined her lavish costume, and made her seem less human than she really was. A camera dropped from her left side and smoke rose from the unfortunate item. The 3-foot prop carrot in her right hand slowly rose, nullifying all light that tried to go past it. It rose past what seemed to be her face where the only feature that showed were two red glows of bloodlust behind a pair of glasses. The carrot infused with manifested rage stopped, and pointed at its intended target: a now-quivering-with-fear, Negi Springfield.
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April 9, 2000 12:27AM
A girl silently traveled down the hall, and passed many doors. Her hair was tied to her left, and she was wearing a skirt and a red blazer, with the emblem of Mahora crested at the left side. Under the coat was a blouse with two buttons near the bottom and a small ribbon near the top. Strapped to her back was a long object, wrapped in cloth to preserve or perhaps hide the item in question.
"Tatsumiya-san's jobs are getting quite difficult lately… I'm glad the next job is just a reconnaissance. And not so far from Ojou-sama."
She stopped and watched a boy stepping back from a door and identified him as her homeroom teacher, Negi Springfield. She looked past him to see that a large carrot, raised towards him, is what seemed to be causing his fear. It would have not concerned the girl had she not noticed that the carrot was infused with a dark Chi. The girl quickly unwrapped the object on her back and unsheathed a nodachi.
"Demon? Why haven't I noticed this one before?"
"W-wait Hasegawa-san! I'm sorry for whatever I did to get you angry!"
"Hasegawa? She's a classmate in our homeroom."
A blast of dark energy soared from a doorway aimed at Negi Springfield as he ran past the girl with the katana while carrying another girl as well as a laptop tucked under both arms.
"Shinmei-style? No… its manifestation is unstable, did she perform that technique by merely amassing Chi and launching it at him without training?"
"Please excuse me Sakurazaki-san! I'm sorry Hasegawa-san! Please stop!"
Setsuna Sakurazaki, deciding that she did not want anything to do with this, sheathed her katana and stepped aside as more energy blasts chased Negi down the hall.
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April 9, 2000 12:34AM
Negi, exhausted and panicked, set down the girl and his laptop on a bench and fell over onto another bench, and gasped for what air he could get.
The girl looked around and stared for a few seconds at the giant tree in the background. She then looked at Negi.
"Ok… What… Kind of dream is this?"
The girl glanced over to Negi and stared in curious confusion.
"What a realistic dream."
She yawned and laid on her side on top of the laptop, and used it as an improvised pillow. Her sleeveless shirt was a bit too large for her body but managed to cover the unmentionables well enough. Her dark red pajamas however, showed off a bit of her underwear. The combination of the two clothing articles, quite strategically placed, would give any healthy male a certain overflow of a red liquid from his nose for her revealing form.
"Well it'll be something fun to talk about tomorrow."
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April 9, 2000 12:17AM
In another building, through the windows of double doors, came a violent amount of light.
"I'm getting strange readings from it!"
"This is what happens for its secondary feature?!"
A storm of electricity erupted within the room as two girls stepped back, and avoided the metal objects that were scattered along the ground. As the bolts attempted to reach the two, the bolts bent and twisted, shooting into another direction, faster each time. The multiple bolts' chaotic movements continued to accelerate, changing direction each time.
April 9, 2000 12:18AM
"Hold on! I'll get the static resistant suits so we can retrieve the experimental object!"
One of the girls dashed away from the room, her glasses and twin braids shifted violently as she rushed to the exit. The other girl stood in place as the projectiles' speed eventually formed into a perfect sphere. She continued to observe refusing to look away from the forming anomaly as her associate left the room. Seconds later, a blinking line appeared, projected from the sphere.
"…Action Performed : Dimensional Coordinate Alteration … Subject : Homosapien… Dimensions of Alteration : 1 , 2 , 3… Please keep any and all Electronic devices away from point of Relocation…" A computer-generated voice slowly read the text that appeared from the sphere half a second after each word created itself in mid-air.
"Coordinate relocation? So it can alter the position on the other dimensions as well."
April 9, 2000 12:20AM
The white sphere begun to spin even faster, after half a second, it came to a sudden and complete stop. The sphere turned red and slowly turned once again, shifting from red to white as it rotated.
"Error within Coordinates… Attempting to Reenter Coordinates… Dimensions of Alteration : 1, 2, 3, 4, 5… Error detected within Subject… Modifying Genetic Data in Attempt to ensure Safety of Subject …"
The ball discontinued from changing red after the voice finished the last word.
"Fifth Dimension?! Genetic manipulation?! No one back home told me of this!"
April 9, 2000 12:22AM
"Coordinate Relocation of Subject Complete : Percentage of Accuracy 99.99… Genetic Data of Subject altered .0005… Major Details of Modification : Y substituted with X to ensure stability…"
Once the voice completed the words the sphere shrunk down until a small clink was heard from the ground.
"I have the suits!"
The girl who stayed behind turned to look at the returning girl in a thick body suit, while she held onto a similar suit. She was bent down to her knees, clearly exhausted as the screen covering her face fogged as she gasped for air.
April 9, 2000 12:23AM
"Sorry Hakase, you were too late, it just ended."
"Drat! I ran through all that for nothing?!"
"Sorry, I tried asking it to wait for you, haha."
As the girl got out of the suit, the one who stayed behind explained the details of what happened with the sphere, the voice, and the generated text. When she was finally out of the suit, she walked over to where the center of the sphere should have been and picked up the test object.
"We only had enough resources for one attempt. What will we do now?"
The girl sighed. The one who stayed behind sat onto a nearby chair and stared at the spot where the projected text used to be. Her hair was kept tied by two braids and two buns on each side. She slid off her lab coat revealing a Chinese dress. Satomi Hakase, the girl with glasses, had walked over to a computer and typed onto its keyboard.
"Looks like the computer registered a text file of what the text was saying and extra details from the looks of it, Chao, what should we do with this data now?"
Chao Lingshen, the girl who stayed behind, got up and paced over to the computer where Hakase was and peered onto the computer screen.
"Coordinate listings using latitude and longitude. At least whoever it was, the person was teleported safely to Earth. I hope it didn't make too much of a mess."
"Simple, we find the test subject using this info."
Author's note: Whew my first story, thanks for reading to the end whoever you are. I hope I didn't confuse anyone too much with my writing style. A big thanks to Eternal-Longing, and The Ansem Man for looking through the beginning stages of this story and helping me fix up errors.