Chapter 1: The American Tsundere Returns

If anything is true in this world it's the fact that anything and everything is possible. While a goal might be unattainable in our world it has already happened in another. We can't look at the universe with a set of laws and theories that we observe because the universe is everything, our world and the others. If something is impossible here and possible there is it a law or a limitation? The universe is a sandbox, if you want to accomplish the insurmountable, you must merely ask yourselves. Somewhere sometime, you've already done it.

Keragi Tasuba
The day before his and most his families murder.

30 April, 2012 (Monday morning 8:00)- Tokyo central airport

"CHRISTINA!" Kurisu Makise heard a loud man yelling annoyingly as she entered the welcoming ramp. She hadn't been able to sleep since leaving America at 5 AM and due to time zones it was practically the same time in Tokyo as it was when she left California, 11 hours ago. She needed sleep and it was time to wake up for most of Japan.

"CHRISTINA!"

"That's not my name..." she mumbled to herself, too tired to yell at her friend and his stupid nick names.

"Maki-chan Maki-chan!"

"Hi Mayrui, how have you been?" She said using all the kindness she had left after her flight. She could never be rude to Mayuri but if anyone else pushed her right now they wouldn't survive. "How's your morning?"

"Mayushii has had a great morning! Okarin got his driver's license a while back and picked me up! Then we had breakfast with Feris-chan and he bought me this Upa doll. Tut-turu! Then we came here and he went on and on about how excited he was that Kurisu-chan was coming back and now you're here!"

'So he can say my name behind my back but not to my face? I guess it's a start,' Kurisu thought, about to pass out. "So how is everyone else…?"

"Mayuri what are you doing?!" the man yelled at the young woman.

"Saying hello to Kuri-chan…?" she responded somewhat guilty as if she had actually done something wrong.

"We have no idea if this is the real Christina! She never used the pass code! She could be some imposter sent by the Organization to thwart our plans."

"El Psy Congroo and all that stuff," Kurisu responded without giving Okabe eye contact. "So Mayuri, do you wanna stay with me tonight? It's been a while since I've been back in Japan and I wouldn't mind having someone with me for the day."

"Hahaha! Funny Christina but as my assistant you have obligations to lab. You will stay with me."

"No way, so Mayuri-chan, want to stay with me?"

"!" Okabe almost burst in anger by the way he was completely blown off.

"Mayushii would love to sleep over!"

"Then it's settled, I've already called a taxi. We can stop by your place on the way to the hotel."

"No need Christina, the agency has already provided transportation," Okabe interrupted.

"No thanks…"

"!" Okabe stared at the ground embarrassed of himself as his friend and the girl of his dreams left him alone at the airport.

"No matter assistant! Report to the lab by 13:00!" Okabe proclaimed making a pose.

"No way, I'm going to bed. See you all at Feris' at 20:00. They have air conditioning," Kurisu replied coldly wanting nothing more but to fall asleep.

"…zombie…" Okabe grumbled to himself.

30 April, 2012 (Monday morning 9:00)- Tokyo central airport

"I feel guilty for leaving Okarin-kun…" Mayuri said quite sadly as Kurisu and he sat in the back of their taxi, driving through Tokyo's early morning busy streets. Kurisu, still tired, tried vigorously to stay awake.

"I'm sure he'll get over it. He should learn to be a little less crazy when welcoming a friend." Truth was Makise was actually happy to see him again. If she had been able to sleep on her way to Japan she might have even gone along with Rintarou's alternate reality.

"Okarin is weird but he really missed you. All year he has been waiting for you to come back. He keeps talking about the old days and while most of those memories are really fuzzy to Mayushii I know he really cares about you."

Kurisu could understand. Okabe did have a problem with accepting reality. How in the world he had gone so long in his life thinking that he was some kind of mad scientist secret agent completely puzzled even her mind. He had created his own little world to protect himself from both his and Mayuri's insecurities all the while bringing all his friends together in his little fantasy. "So your still 'remembering things' too?"

"Yeah, like dreams. Actually Mayushii has nightmares a lot thinking about it." She did die countless times as Okabe tried to save her. He never gave up and eventually saved everyone. Something Kurisu was thankful of, but because of the science behind Mayuri's deaths it would probably be countless nights before she was done remembering. "But I'm fine really. Okarin has been waiting forever for the team to be back together. Don't be mad at him"

"Don't worry Mayuri, I know he cares," she said reassuring the pleading girl ", he just needs to grow up a little."

"Hehe so Kuri-chan likes them mature. That's not what Okarin told us about you," she added with a smile.

"Wait…what?! Ew not with that weirdo no!"

"But Okarin said that you two…"

"He's crazy Mayuri! No, we are not together and we did not kiss in LA!"

"Okarin didn't say anything about kissing in LA…" Mayuri responded quite confused.

"He didn't?"

"No just that you two both love evil science stuff."

"Evil Science..?"

"I don't know but Okarin made it sound romantic…No, you didn't!" Mayuri yelled loud enough that she practically scared the taxi driver into an accident.

"Didn't what?!" Kurisu said scared by the girls outburst.

"You two did what in LA?!" she demanded, eyes filled with joy. Mayrui loved seeing people hook up, especially ones she liked to match up in her mind.

"We didn't do anything!" Kurisu lied, looking away trying to hide how nervous she was.

"You said you and Okarin kissed in LA! Did you did you did you?"

"Of course not," she stuttered still looking the other way ", I was just making an example of one of the outlandish things he would have said is all…"

"Oh my gosh, you did kiss! You did you did you did you did!" Mayuri cheered, pointing at Kurisu as if she were guilty of lying in court but in glee if that were possible.

"Mayushii has female's intuition remember. You two kissed and confessed your love in LA and were too embarrassed to tell us. You two are trying to hide it! Okarin is growing up and he's going to leave me behind," Mayuri began to cry realizing her friends were all getting older and that it was only a matter of time till they were 'too old' to be friends with a kid like her. She didn't seem to understand that she would mature with them.

"No, Mayuri don't cry we'd never leave you. Plus Okabe-san and I are not…"

"You are in love, don't try to hide it, that makes Mayushii even sadder!" she interupted with a little sob since her friend was trying to lie.

"Ok we like each other," sheesh I forgot how innocent she is ", but Okabe and I would never leave you or the others. It's just that we haven't had enough time together to know if we really mean anything yet."

Truth was they hadn't really been able to talk other than a few Skype meetings though the year. She'd been really busy with extra schooling and giving lectures herself. She wanted to talk more but it had always seemed that there was never enough time, or maybe that she was too afraid to make time. She liked Okabe a lot, especially now that she could remember most of what had happened in other world lines. But were her feelings real or just emotions sparked from their past life or death situations?

"Then Golden week is the perfect time! Okarin and you could go on your first date! You can dress up, eat dinner and have Moe Moe with one another!"

"Huh? Moe moe with one another. What does that even mean?"

"Mayushii isn't sure but she thinks it's like moe but doing moe."

"Doing moe? Who taught you that?!"

"Daru-kun!" she happily said not understanding the perverted term her Otaku friend had told her.

"Mayuri-chan, promise me you won't repeat new weird things they tell you to say before coming to me about it first."

"Hehe got ya!"

"And one more thing…"

"What is it?"

"Don't talk bring up LA to the others, please."

"Nu-uh no promises hehe!"

"What why?!"

"Only if you and Okarin go on a date!"

"But!"

"If you don't Mayushii is telling the entire future gadget lab about LA mwahahahaha!" she tried to see in an evil laugh. The affect wasn't the same a her older friend's Okabe. Probably because her voice was too accustomed to cheer.

She's been spending way too much time with Hououin Kyouma. Kurisu thought.

"Ok," she sighed ", but in one condition. None of the others can know about it and Okabe mustn't mention the Agency or the Organization."

"But those are his life."

"There a crutch to make friends Mayuri. He needs to learn that he doesn't need them. He has us."

"Well, if you put it that way it would be nice if Mayushii didn't have to be incognito all the time. It's a deal!"

"Uhg…so why did Okabe want me at the lab at 13:00 Mayuri?"

"Oh to throw a surprise party, but you turned it down"

"!" Kurisu felt guilty now ", was everyone gonna be there? I had no Idea!"

"Okarin has been planning it for months. He calls it Operation Zombie Hunt!"

"He still thinks I'm a Zombie? Never mind, text him and tell him we'll be there at one!"

"Righty oh captain! Tut-turu!"

30 April, 2012 (Monday morning 9:30)- Secret Gadget Lab a.k.a. All that their money can buy

"All hands on deck team! We have an operation to conduct and failure means certain death," Okabe shouted as he entered the 'lab', sloppy as ever but covered in welcome streamers.

"What is there to do dude," Itaru stated sitting in his computer chair. "We just wait for her to walk through the door and yell surprise. It's not world line theory."

"You miss the finer point!" Okabe yelled, angry that no one seemed to understand the importance of his plan ", Operation Zombie Hunt cannot just be handled as some kind of event but as the beginning of a new age!"

"Um I'm sorry to poke around but what new age?" A very shy Ruka asked embarrassedly as he tried to hide his feminine discomfort in not having understood Okabe.

"Is it not obvious? Today the Future gadget lab returns to almost one hundred percent attedence. From this day forth we will plan and accomplish our world take over, a world under one government led by me and my council. If you're all loyal I will consider having you appointed."

"Get a hold of yourself man," Itaru interrupted having had enough of Okabe's nonsense ", you know if you keep doing that alternate reality stuff you're going to scare Kurisu-chan away. You barely got her to stay the first time man. It's not every day that girls just come out of the blue saying 'Okabe you saved me in my dreams I had to find you'."

"It wasn't a dream, it was real, Super Hacka!"

"It's Hacker damn it!" Itaru yelled once again enraged by the common miss pronunciation he knew Okabe loved to over use as Ruka nervously coward, uncomfortable to be alone with the two men.

"And it wasn't a dream!" Okabe retaliated. "It was a complicated mesh of space time reality. The mind struggles to make memories were they do not exist and recover memories from which has already obtained them!"

"Where'd you hear that, channel?"

"No some guy posted it on the Bioshock infinite forums. I can't wait for that game. What does it matter anyway?! What matters is that what happened back then is real!"

"I know I know," Itaru assured him ", Girl Ruka, us getting shot to death, Mayuri dying a thousand times, Kurisu dying, Sern, time machine, Suzuha…"

"Wait you remember everything?!" Okabe shouted.

"Well we were all remembering that stuff over a year ago. It was only a matter of time until we remembered the rest."

"Ruka, you too?"

"Well…yeah. I, asked Daru-san about it and he helped me fill in the blanks."

"AND YOU REMEMBER SUZUHA?! Your entire future is at stake, now that you're in search of your future wife you could make a mistake and Suzuha will never..!"

"Calm down you loon, Suzuha never told me what my future wife looked like and on top of that I only met her because we were on the run from Sern. Now that we don't have that problem we might not ever see her. At least knowing what Suzuha looks like will help me find her mother."

"I never thought it through like that," Okabe noted seeing how it helped him meet the future mother in LA himself. He then realized what bringing peace to the world had done to change their future ", WHA! You guys have known about the past this long and never told me! Ever think I might want to talk about that stuff."

"Frankly man, rather not, I would figure that most of us would like to leave that stuff behind. Just think about Ruka-san dude."

"Ruka..?" Okabe suddenly realized how hard those memories would be for someone like him to come to terms with. He was gifted with almost unparalled beauty, problem being he's a dude. A slender body, a bright smile and a fragile personality, but he's a dude. All he had ever wished for was to be what his body had tried so hard to copy but sadly, he was a dude.

In another world line he had been a she. This was all thanks to the microwave time machine that had brought both pain and happiness. In order to save Mayuri's life, Ruka was forced to give up her gift and become a man once more. While the others only lost memories of good times, he had lost all he had wished for. "So you remember?"

"Yes…Okabe-sensei. But I don't regret my decision one bit!" He responded with a proud smile. "If I remember right I got to be a girl and even go on a date with you…well not that I feel that way as a guy…I mean…"

"It's fine Ruka-san. I was just worried you might be mad at me about other things."

"Like what?" Ruka asked slightly puzzled but oblivious. When Okabe had first traveled to that world line he hadn't known that Ruka's sex had actually changed. In anger that no one believed his insinuation of Ruka being a man he had done something rather Rash. Best he doesn't remember then.

"Then if everyone remembers what happened in the other world lines with some degree then it suffices to say that I Hououin Kyouma and Christina are inseparable!"

"As if man," Itaru interrupted throwing the mad scientist off balance.

"But but, I saved her life and we confessed our undying love to one another and…"

"That was another world dude. The rules don't apply, if they did then you'd still owe me a date with Faris-chan."

"As if even I could accomplish such a feet."

"Exactly man, and that's why Kurisu doesn't have to stay with you. In that world you were going to leave and never come back and she thought she was gonna be erased from the universe dude. In this one she's scott free of all of that stuff. If you wanna catch her you're going to have to cut down on the Organization stuff. She's been in America for a year, those people cling to reality and don't even like Gundam let alone whatever world you came from. You need to calm the hell down and stop acting like your phone has service."

"You don't have to be so harsh, and excuse me if I decide to cut back on spending every month."

"More like skip on bills every month…"

"I heard that Daru! Urg where is everyone anyway?"

"Well for one doctor evil, 005 has work to do downstairs today so we won't see much of her," Daru explained.

"Probably for the best, she's getting better but I still remember getting bit and shot at more than once by our little Shinning Finger, and it's nice to finally have people to share that with. I would hate to see such a dark person's party side."

"Feris is working too so no go on her till later tonight."

"But but, 007 was supposed to accommodate supplies for the operation. An army without nourishment is doomed to defeat against even the most worthless of rabble!"

"Have you seen this place dude? I'm pretty sure we're the rabble and if you don't remember, Feris has a reputation to uphold as a pop culture Icon in this town."

"Ruka-san, you're coming with me!"

"But what about the party?" she stammered.

"Without fresh flesh there is no chance that we will capture our zombie target. We will have to use emergency lab funds!"

"Dude, there are no emergency funds."

"What the hell, what about the 75 hundred yen we had stored in the cabinet?!"

"We spent it on the Code Geass box sets remember."

"Those materials will work just fine in teaching future lab members how to conquer the world," Okabe added trying to make it seem that his anime purchase was worth the money. "Then it is settled, we will have to use future gadget #13, The ATM Deceiveanator! Mwahahahaha!"

"You mean your credit card?" Ruka added trying to be in the loop.

"No it is not a mere credit card!" Okabe argued as Ruka coward in fear about to cry.

"Dude lay off, and yes Ruka-san it's just his credit card. Chances are it's almost overcharged and it's his last option."

"Correction," Okabe retorted ", I simply didn't want to risk the organization finding our secret bank accounts…"

"Oh they'll find them alright and take your car away too."

"…Super Hacka!" Okabe shouted in insult.

"Hacker!"

"Hacor…" Okabe responded with a smile and French accent earning a grumble from his annoyed friend. "Come Ruka-san. We have food to buy."

"If you don't mind Kyouma-san," Ruka shyly asked ", I need to stop by the shrine. My father called and asked if I could help him sort out the fortune telling's at the shrine before noon. I'll be back before the party."

"Operation!" he shouted before calming down. "Ok I'll go myself. What a shame that only I seem to care about the return of our star pupil!"

Okabe stormed out the door and down the stair.

All I want is for this to be perfect. He thought, I've barely talked to her this past year. If I don't do something now I might lose her forever. I…just need help.

30 April, 2012 (Monday morning 11:00)- Junes shopping center

"Gosh darn it," Okabe mumbled to himself as he roamed through the grocery store ", what good are lab assistants if they can't get food. The Agency needs to stop being cheap and send me some professionals."

He roamed through the isles angrily grabbing bags of chips, dipping sauce, microwavables, and packs of soda. "Ah Dr. Pepper, a drink for the intelligent…"

Okabe stood in wonder of his favorite drink until his eyes began to focus on the shelves behind it. Their stood the refrigerated stacks of beer, Mike's hard and Chuhai. He looked at the Dr. Pepper and then back at the Alcohol. Okabe had drunk a few times in his life; it was easy in Japan seeing as alcohol was in the vending machines and it was legal to drink on the streets. Though, he had never bought legally before. He was 20 as of last December so there would be no problem even if they carded him at checkout, a very uncommon thing in Japan.

"Hmm, I wonder if Kurisu drinks or if Mayuri would even take kindly to this stuff? She was always a little naïve. I know Daru drinks, hell, he's the one who got me into it. If Feris-chan appears later she'll be fine too, she serves the stuff at the café and I've heard more than once that she's a party animal. Hmm, it should be fine; a future ruler should know when to treat his peasants if he wishes to avoid revolt."

He smugly began to fill the cart with Alcohol before leaving Junes with a smile whistling Every Day's Great at Your JUNES.

"Target leaving, do I pursue?" a sunglass wearing man with a long thin metal case asked through his cell phone as he watched Okabe get into his trashed vehicle.

"Yes but at a distance, the target has been classified as quite resourceful and even more paranoid. Do not allow him to think he is being followed," a female voice said through the phone.

"You sure this guy's a scientist? I mean he's driving an old yellow 2000 Toyota Cedric, looks more like a taxi driver to me.

"Don't underestimate him, there's a lot of paper work leading to this man. Don't let him out of your sight."

"How about you? You gonna help at all?"

"I have matters to deal with regarding our precious cargo. You just focus on him."

"Will do," the man hung up and casually walked over to his motorcycle to follow Okabe. Before driving off he opened the case that had been strapped to his back.

"Mmhmm, the toys we get to use." The man smiled before locking the hidden sword back in its case and ridding off after Okabe.

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