"So Yuujin, how was practice?" A green haired youth with blue eyes about average height and slim build for an eighteen-year-old with yellow goggles perched on top of his head asked his friend. The young man's name is Haru Shinkai.

Yuujin Oozora was the same age as his companion but significantly taller and had more muscular frame to his body than Haru. He had spiky looking but fluffy ginger hair and comforting green eyes. "Um same old same old, nothing unusual." Yuujin flashed a smile at his green haired friend. "What about the book you have been reading these last few days, what was it again?"

Haru giggled. He remembered telling Yuujin a couple times earlier that week what he was reading, but it seems he must have forgotten. "Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future, it's by Martin Ford, an American scientist that discusses the great societal impact and possible revolutions that AI will introduce to our world."

"Oh, so like Leviathan?" Yuujin raised his eyebrow suggestively at Haru.

"Not exactly, the book actually argues against the possibility of singularity." Both snicker after Haru finishes talking, because if it wasn't for them and their fellow Appli drivers, that same "impossible" singularity would have destroyed humanity.

The two friends kept walking to their destination. They were headed for Haru's house. The two best friends wanted to spend more time together because they were going to different universities once high school was over. Haru had been accepted to University of Tokyo, the most prestigious school in Japan, while Yuujin was accepted to Yokohama National University, the alma matter of his mother. The distance between them was not too far, but it made interactions limited to the holidays or through technology. Their friendship could easily survive this challenge. Nonetheless, Haru was a little worried about Yuujin being alone, until he found out Wato was also accepted into Yokohama. And even if Yuujin somehow was unable to interact with Wato, the redhead athlete always had his cute buddy Appmon Offmon.

But as they were joyfully talking and laughing at each other's comments about the silly antics at school, they were interrupted by a strange purple light. The two friends were enraptured in the glowing light for a few seconds and could see nothing but it. But just as suddenly it appeared, it vanished instantly, as if it had never occurred.

"What happened?" The redhead teenager pressed his best friend for answers. "Did we get momentarily stuck in an AR field?"

"I'm not sure, but let's head back to my place and see if maybe Gatchmon can gives us some insight on what happened."

Yuujin nodded his head at Haru. "Good idea."

The two walked to the familiar house with blue roof tiles that distinguished Haru's house from the other houses in his neighborhood. The two went to the door and Haru pulled out his keys. However, when he tried putting the key into the slot, the door wouldn't open.

"That's odd. My key doesn't seem to fit."

Yuujin looked at the doorknob and then Haru. "Maybe the doorknob is stuck? I remember mom had an issue with that and called a locksmith only to find out that the problem was a stuck doorknob, and all she had to was twist the doorknob before inserting the key to get the door open."

The blue-eyed boy shrugged his shoulders. "It's worth a try." Haru placed his hand on the door knob and twisted it. He was about to place the key in the doorknob when he realized that the door wasn't locked.

"Huh guess it wasn't locked."

"But that shouldn't be possible. Mama isn't home, she went to Hokkaido for a blogger's retreat." Haru's mother had won a contest that only bloggers could participate. She wouldn't be back in Tokyo for another week or so.

They both walked into the house. Yuujin asked his best friend, "Whelp let's go look for Gatchmon, is he appliarised?"

"He should be. He didn't want to go to school today and instead wanted to play in the park, so he might not be home. Gatchmon!" Haru cried out.

"Hey Haru, did you hear that?"

"Hear what Yuujin?" Haru looked dumbfounded on what his best friend was asking him to hear for.

Yuujin made a gesture to Haru to lower his voice so he could hear the commotion. "What the? That's coming from upstairs. What's going?" Haru was now starting to get a little nervous.

"I don't know, but it seems we might not be alone."

"It might be Gatchmon." However, Haru thought to himself if it was him, why didn't he lock the door. The Search Appmon never failed to lock the door when he got home.

"Maybe, but we can't take anything for chance. Do you still have my bat?"

"Yes." Haru grabbed it from the living room. Yuujin left it there the night before.

"Good bring it with us."

"Eh!? Yuujin aren't you being a little excessive?"

"Maybe, but it never hurts to be cautious." Yuujin looked at Haru with a reassuring smile.

"Okay fine." Haru held on to the bat. The two walked up the stairs and went straight for Haru's room. They stopped when they reached the door to Haru's room. The both crouched down on opposite directions of the wall adjacent to the door.

Yuujin spoke first, "I hear two voices, neither of them sound like Gatchmon."

"It sounds like whoever is in there is having trouble breathing and moaning, possibly in pain. Yuujin someone is in trouble. We must go help them now!" Without thinking, Haru sprang into action and flung the door wide opened and barraged into the room as swiftly as he could.

"Haru!"

Author Note: Hello everyone, I'm still working on my other work, but I have decided to create another Harujin work. This is one is almost done, but I have yet to decide how many chapters it will be. Enjoy!