A lone fifteen-year-old girl sat in bed at midnight, still wide awake and looking up Vocaloid songs. She couldn't sleep that night for some reason, and was hoping their soothing voices would lull her into a peaceful slumber. She clicked on "Last Night, Good Night" by Hatsune Miku and pulled her headphones on so no one else would hear. The song was so comforting even though she didn't know what it was saying, and her eyelids started to droop as she listened to it. Finally she drifted off to sleep as the song came to an end and faded away.
The girl woke up in a strange place, certainly not her bedroom. She looked around her and saw all sorts of computers and other technology. She was in a circular room with a strange, tube-like device in the center with cords dangling from it in every direction. She glanced at the walls and saw all sorts of music note patterns and strange lines that looked like what you would find on a microchip. Everything was glowing an eerie light blue color.
The teenager finally spotted someone in the corner of the room. She started to shout, but held her tongue as she realized what she was doing. He could have been some crazed murderer that kidnapped her for all she knew! Suddenly he turned around and saw her there. He walked over and extended his hand, a smile showing on his face. He looked like a decent person with scruffy brown hair and gently blue eyes, but the girl was not one to trust him so easily. "What's your name?" he asked, the smile still plastered onto his face.
"A-Ayaka," the girl replied, wondering if it was okay that she just gave this complete stranger her own name.
"Don't worry," the man replied, "I'm not going to hurt you," he pulled his hand back and coughed, clearing his throat. "I am Tsubasa, but around here most address me as 'Master'. You don't have to of course, unless that is what you wish to call me. Now please, let me explain what this place is. I'm not quite sure how you ended up here, but everything happens for a reason, right?"
Ayaka looked at the so-called "Master" like he was insane, "Uhh, right, I guess?" she replied, still utterly confused as to what was going on here.
"This place is known as Vocaloid Tower. Here I, well, it's a bit hard to explain, but I train these programs I've created to sing you see-"
"Whoa, hold up," Ayaka interrupted him, "You're that 'Master'? As in, the mystery guy who creates the Vocaloids? I expected more than this, but okay…Anyways, where are the Vocaloids? When will I get to meet them?"
"Hold on now, you know who we are?" Tsubasa was shocked.
"Well, yeah. I guess you could say I'm from a different dimension though, where people write songs for the Vocaloids to sing. I know all about you guys," Ayaka was getting very excited at that point.
"So that's where the songs come from! You see, we have a machine that's been here from the beginning, and it always prints out lyrics and music for the Vocaloids, which I have them sing, then we input the songs into this computer," he pointed to a giant screen behind him.
"Where's Piko?" Ayaka suddenly got distracted and changed the subject, thinking of her favorite Vocaloid character.
"Oh, my most recently created Vocaloid you mean? Well, he should be downstairs in his room working on a song. You see, what I did with him was give him a USB port for a tail, so that way when he sings we can plug him in and it goes straight to the computer! Genius, right?" Tsubasa started going on about how he'd created Piko, and before he knew it Ayaka had slipped into the elevator to the left, disappearing from sight.