A/N: Man, been a while since we posted something here, well we aren't dead yet, so enjoy this new story that was made solely by me (Derek) to explain why Team MAD was late by a semester, hence the name. Also it's a crossover because I fell in love with HDN so much over the past few months.

Aquila was walking back to the Assassin Headquarters after a successful contract, the escape didn't go quite as well as he had hoped, but the job was done and that was all that mattered at the moment. He received his payment for the job and went to the market to purchase some food and water for later that day. When he stepped out onto the brightly lit streets of Mistral, he noticed an odd light emanating from a dark alleyway. -Can't be that bad, I'm sure that it's some odd collection of fireflies or something, maybe a rogue lantern someone dropped- He went to investigate anyways and after a short walk, he rounded the corner and was immediately blinded by the bright light, when it faded he found himself amidst a resort of sorts. -This is weird, totally weird, I'd better get to investigating-

Miguel sat around Vale, gazing over at the ocean, realizing that it is likely the last time he'll look at it as a combat school trainee, as he was recently accepted into the illustrious Beacon Academy. "Man, this view is still just as breath-taking as the first time I saw it entering Vale from Vacuo." He got up and started to walk back towards home before noticing a beautiful pond he walked by, noticing it was turning dark he hesitated to gaze at it's majesticness. He did it anyways and got a little closer, once he got close enough to see its shimmering waters, he looked down at his reflection. He noticed a small ripple forming along the waters, -This is amazing, normally leaves don't float this far- The ripple kept growing, and then Miguel had this odd sense of falling, he felt an unnatural force push him into the pond. -The FUCK!?- The pond was deeper than it looked at first glance. -Damn, not good, lungs filling up with water, need help- Almost as if sent by the goddess herself, a blinding flash of light teleported Miguel to an unknown area of sorts. It looked like a forest of sorts, and he got up and started to wander around, he heard three voices nearing his location, so he instinctively ducked under some bushes and waited.

Dusty was in his room, staring at Ocular attempting to cut down his time until he had to arrive at the port to leave for Beacon, constantly checking the time, progressively becoming more and more nervous, finally he heard his alarm go off and he grabbed his equipment and bags, and charged straight for the door. Upon opening his door to his room he quickly left for his mentor's house, Lilia Sythec. She was the reason he was even here in Vale, so he felt like she should be there to see him off, once he opened the door to her house, he noticed it was deserted. -Gah, maybe she's asleep, she's a bit of a late sleeper- He moved to where the door to her room was, knocking twice on the door, pausing for two seconds and then knocking a third time. he heard her voice from inside the room, "Dusty, I'll be there in a few minutes, just give me some time to get ready." Dusty was already fed up with waiting, but out of respect he didn't try to get her to move faster, instead he opted to wander around her house. He stopped to stare at a mirror she has next to her door. He delicately poked it and saw it ripple a little, -Wait, mirror's aren't supposed to do that- He went to look a little closer at the mirror before being slammed into it by Lilia opening the door. -DAMMIT LILY- He was suddenly in the sky and falling fast.

Meanwhile, back at Lily's house, "Alright, I'm ready, Dusty!" Lilia looked around before shrugging, "Maybe he left without me."

Miguel was waiting in the bushes, looking over at the three people chatting happily, -They're all pretty short, but damn those two have purple hair, must resist the urge to pet- His urge to resist didn't need to last very long before he heard a shout from above, "LOOK OUT BELOW, I'M FALLING AND I DON'T KNOW WHY!" The three looked up and moved back from his place of impact.

*CRASH*

"Ouch, how far did I fall?" Dusty stood up quickly and looked to the three girls curiously staring at him. "What? You all look like you've never seen anyone fall from the sky before, I understand that isn't normal, but still I don't think staring is very polite."

The first one, a girl with a long braid spoke up, "That's not truuue, we're used to people falling from the Skyyy." Dusty noticed her odd way to talking, randomly stretching out words. "Well, I feel like it'd be rude to not introduce myself, I'm Dusty Quintessence. You can just call me Dusty, unless you have a better nickname you'd like to call me by." The girl with the braid spoke up again, "My name is Plutia, but you can call me Plutie!" The short-haired girl with the two d-pad clips in her hair introduced herself after, "I'm Neptune, but you can call my Nep, or Neppy, or Nep-Nep." -That's too many nicknames to remember- The last, shorter girl with blonde hair was about to introduce herself, when the bushes rustled, giving away Miguel's location. Dusty instinctively reached for his weapon before Miguel stumbled blindly out of the bushes, "M-Miguel!? You're here as well?" Miguel looked up and smiled like an idiot to his friend, "Hiya Dusty, how goes the conversation?" Dusty was going to growl at him, but decided any hostilities could be dealt with later. "So then, what's your name?" Dusty turned and looked at the short blonde, "I'm Peashy!" the small child stated proudly. "It's a pleasure to meet you all, and a pleasure to see you again, Miguel, I suppose I should introduce you all to Miguel, That's the guy standing in front of the bush over there." They all looked over at him, "Dusty, way to throw a man under the bus."

Aquila blinked several times to confirm he wasn't delusional, and then punched himself in the gut to make sure he wasn't dreaming. The pain he felt was entirely there and hurt a lot. He stood up, still in shock of the beauty of his surroundings. "It's so great here, the sea breeze, the view, the skeletal fish staring me down on the platform, wait Skeletal fish?" Aquila stared at the fish only to realize it was alive and was threatening to attack him. The fish swam closer and closer before going for the kill. Aquila dodged the strike and retaliated with a very powerful kick followed by a knife toss into it's skull. The fish, which Aquila had dubbed as Fishbones, showed no mercy, immediately charging at Aquila before a bullet pierced its skull and killed it instantaneously. "The hell is a level one like you doing in a dangerous area like this!?" Aquila looked over at his savior, only to find a short girl with long black hair, she looked to be around 15-16. "Level one? Do you need to get your eyes checked, I'm 80% sure that I am older than you." He asked the girl with a bit of a menacing tone. She glared back at him with her red eyes. "You're crazy, a CPU Candidate like me has no such thing as an age!" Aquila's eyes widened at that comment, "You're an ageless entity, but you don't look any older than 15, and the hell is a CPU Candidate?" The raven-haired savior gave him the 'You gotta be kidding me' look before talking again, "Do you live under the ocean or something? The CPU's and the Candidates are the most well-known forces in Gamindustri." Aquila stared blankly, "Wait, but I could've sworn I was in Mistral not too long ago, in Remnant, none of this Gamindustri stuff." the Raven-hair had her eyes widen moment before narrowing them to glare at him even more intensely. "This place is too dangerous to talk in, the Fish Skeleton will respawn soon and I don't want to see you hurt, besides, maybe Noire will know something about what's wrong with you."

Aquila was dragged out of the resort by his odd escort, and was somehow warped into a large city area. "Welcome to Lastation, that building over there is where we're heading." She pointed at a large black building, undoubtedly where Aquila would have to explain what he knew. He thought about running away and trying to find someone who would understand his situation, but her grip on his hand was too strong and he knew getting away would be difficult with that sniper of hers. "We're here, wait for me to get my sister and then maybe you'll talk a lick of sense." She walked out of the room, leaving Aquila in complete silence to think to himself.

-She's the one talking nonsense here, but she seems so confident about everything she says, maybe she's an escaped convict from an Atlas experiment on humans?- The raven-haired girl returned with a taller girl, this one appeared to be older than Aquila and had her hair in twintails. -Damn, she's carrying herself with just as much confidence in this situation, maybe she's also crazy- She sat on the opposite side of the table facing towards him with the same red eyes as her younger sister.

"First off, what's your name, and what's with that purple get-up, you seem like you'd be working with Planeptune." The girl asked. "My name is Aquila. Aquila Ocular, this is my outfit I wear for my job, but I guarantee that I have never heard of Planeptune in my life." Aquila said, almost concerned that he couldn't tell her what he was in the event she was a templar, "So then, may I ask for your name?" "My name is Noire, I want to know exactly why you're spouting random things like a "Remnant" place and a "Mistral" city." -Wait, the girl only was gone for a few minutes, how could she have told Noire this much!?- "Well, I live in Mistral and it's located in an area called Remnant." Noire sighed, "I've never heard of this place called Remnant, maybe I should call on someone who might know more." She pondered for a moment on the best course of action before her phone rang, "One moment," She answered the phone and Aquila could hear most of the conversation going on.

"Noire, can you explain why we captured a Lastation spy in Virtua Forest?" a voice called out, "I never sent a spy to Planeptune to begin with, why are you accusing me?" Noire reacted, "We found a strange person who fell from the sky, he's wearing mostly Lastation colors with the primary black color of his clothes, and then a second person walked out wearing full black clothes, so we decided that you'd be the only person to send a spy wearing the color black." that voice seemed almost too cheerful about this.

A second voice spoke up, well more like shouted, "I've told you at least 15 times prior, I am not a spy and neither is Miguel, hell I don't even know what a Lastation is!" A third voice, commanded the second voice to stop immediately or else, almost cheerfully, but with a very clear edge of hate and the terror affected Aquila all the way here. "Well as a matter of fact, Neptune, I believe I've found one of your spies, does the name Aquila Ocular ring any bells in that empty head of yours?" "Noire, don't be that way, you might make Sadie excited." the voice said in a hushed voice. "Either way, I'm forcing this spy back to Planeptune right away, he's rambling on about random things like a 'Remnant' and a 'Mistral' place." "Wait, that guy is talking about a Remnant thing? Funny, your spies were talking about the same thing-"

Aquila was in a state of shock, -More Remnant people are in this so called Gamindustri?- He missed the rest of the conversation as a result of his shock. The only thing shaking him back to reality was a bright light in front of him, showing that Noire had vanished mysteriously and was replaced with a woman who had white hair and wore her hair down. "What!?" Aquila was left in awe at the fact she showed up out of nowhere. "You really must not know that we, CPUs, can do this, do you?" Before he could answer he was dragged onto a balcony by the Woman and was suddenly in the air and flying at high speeds towards a large purple building. Landing down at the site of the balcony, the light returned and Noire also returned once the light faded.

"WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!?" Aquila shouted very loudly, alerting 'Sadie' to their presence on the balcony. Neptune was thankfully closer to the balcony than Plutia's HDD form, so Aquila didn't have to experience the horror yet. "So that's the guy, kind of underwhelming, what made you think that he worked for us?" Neptune asked Noire. "Why else would he be wearing purple?" "Because Purple is the best color for fashion, obviously." Noire gave the "Now you're just plain annoying" look to Neptune. "I think you hit your head a bit too hard on your way back, besides, have you even tried to ask Histoire if she knows anything of this Remnant?"

"Yes, yes I have, she said it would take three hours to compile that results, and that was two and a half hours ago." An almost comedic toaster oven sound played, with Histoire flying in to tell Neptune that they were from a different dimension. "Ok, looks like the three were telling the truth after all, and I was off on the time I asked Histy, then again I had Sadie kinda occupying the time I should've spent watching for you and keeping track of time."

"God, why are you so air-headed Neptune." Noire sighed at Neptune's ditzy remarks. "Anyways, I have a plan, have Histoire find a way to get them back while we deal with our normal business, make those three do guild quests or something to occupy their time." After a bit of a pause from Neptune, she agreed that it would work. Calling back into the basilicom, "Plutia, you can let go of them, they're innocent people." A blinding flash of light placed Plutia back into the room, "Awww, but they were so fuuuun." Plutia sounded very disappointed at this statement. Dusty hesitantly spoke up, "So, does that mean we're free to go?" His voice still trembling from the terror he'd seen. "Yep, you're free to go, you just gotta take this other guy with you, I think his name is Aqui or something like that." Neptune said still just as cheerful as usual. "Actually, it's Aquila." Aquila attempted to correct Neptune, "Alright Aqui, you're free to go with these two people you don't know at all."

"What? I mean, it's better than the alternative, but still sending me with two strangers seems a bit odd doesn't it?" Aquila tried to reason with Neptune, but it proved to be impossible. "Well, I guess I'll go with those two, probably better than being stuck with people who don't make sense." Noire intervened, "We're making sense, you're the ones not making sense."

After the party of three left, "You know Noire, you could've actually made a friend, but you just had to go Lonely Heart on him." Neptune looked at Noire, poking fun at her inability to make friends, "What was I supposed to do, he looked like a spy!" an angry Noire responded.

A/N: I've had this chapter ready for a while, but I didn't want to post it for the longest time as a result. I hope you all enjoyed it, remember to leave a review so I know what to fix.