Hi guys! Needle Gunner here, and I'll be posting my Mirai Nikki fanfics from Instagram here! I'm no good at writing, so please bear with me! Constructive criticisms and suggestions accepted! Enjoy!

"YUUUNNOOOOO!" I screamed as I suddenly rose from the bunk bed I was laying in. All those memories, man... All those memories... Yuno... Where are you right now, Yuno? I really need you right now... "Ey, Yukiteru! Having those weird nightmares again?" "Y-yes, Aleksey. Sorry if I woke you guys up." "You really need help, man. It's been afrecting your performance lately." I then gave him a nod and checked my vest before putting it back on. I then grabbed my ever-reliable AK-74 and headed out into the permanently scarred city of Tarkov.

Ever since I won the survival game and became this timeline's god, I kept sitting in the void, staring at my diary wondering what I could've done to save Yuno. Mur Mur kept reminding me to just move on and rebuild the world. I reluctantly reset the world to the point when we jumped timelines. Basically, everything went back to normal.

Except for the fact that I couldn't bring anyone who was killed in the course of the Survival Game.

I tried my best to forget everything and finish my schooling, but I only managed to get past senior high. I then saw an opening for BEAR, a Russian PMC which offered good pay and lodging, but I had to pass rigorous tests and months of Spetsnaz-ish training before I got my first contract.

There I met Aleksey Kuznetsov, a dude who just got out of service as a paratrooper. We immediately got along. He introduced me to his other paratrooper friends who were in the same unit as he was.

The language barrier was actually not that tough to break through as I had studied Russian in my spare time during senior high. They even said that I sounded like someone from St. Petersburg.
Our first assignment was a joint raid with Ukrainian forces in Luhansk. The old regime that supported the separatist movement was overthrown by a peaceful revolt which happened before I first got into Russia. The targets were separatist leaders and old regime diehards.
I was tasked to take point, knowing full well that I was the new foreign guy.

Memories of the past flooded my head as I struggled to focus on the mission. Eventually we managed to assault the place with zero casualties. All targets were neutralized (but only some were killed), with the Ukrainians taking custody of their targets. The Russians we got were immediately extradited. The new, Euro-friendly regime has made it clear that the remnants of the Soviet and Tsarist mentality were to be tried and put away.

Then things started to weird out. TerraGroup, a massive corporation, set up shop in Tarkov. With it came USEC, another PMC, but this time it was US-based. I heard from the guys that Russian intelligence linked it to European neo-Nazis and hard-rightists. The same folks the old regime supported.

Rumors began circulating about there being secret experiments in TerraGroup facilities around Tarkov. Intelligence also suggested that USEC operatives regularly harass locals. Local officials were either paid off or threatened by TerraGroup, with the police too underequipped to do anything. Eventually reports of armed clashes between locals and USEC contractors began to spread. Fighting then got to the point where UN forces and Russian Internal Troops had to seal the city off to avoid the spread of the fighting.

Our unit was sent in to investigate what was going on inside Tarkov, rescue any remaining civilians and get out. BEAR PMC was under a government contract for said mission. However, we were warned that armed gangs of scavengers were roving the city looking for remains of firefights to loot anything they could find.

We got inside the city a few days ago. Our base camp was at an abandoned civilian evacuation site which was taken over by USEC when the crisis started. We had to fight our way in before we had to set up camp, as we arrived right after a scavenger attack. The entire city looked like it had gone through the apocalypse twice, with ruined buildings, debris littering the streets, dust on top of things, dead bodies, some of which were stripped of all clothing, shell casings, empty magazines, bullet-riddled walls, and gloomy skies over the city. Gunfire could be heard all over the city. We were always under attack from USEC recon teams and scavenger gangs looking to steal our supplies.

Our mission for the day was to reconnoiter an abandoned sawmill on the outskirts of town which was claimed to have a TerraGroup lab underneath it. USEC presence was heavy, with snipers placed along the heights. That last bit was only known to us when we were already attacking the building.

"Shit! Snipers on my three! Vlad, give me cover!" "One on my left! Cover me!" I immediately shifted my fire to the heights while the others tried to move closer to the snipers so that they can get easy shots on them. I then saw some USEC operatives open fire from the sawmill itself. Aleksey and his pals dispatched them, with hin urging me to go with the others and dispatch the snipers. "Come on, Yukiteru, get moving! We have the sawmill covered!" Just as I was turning around, a round grazed my cheek, then went on to lodge itself in a tree. I saw the shooter through my holographic sight. He looked a bit older than Grandpa Oleg, the oldest man in the unit. He had a sadistic grin on his face as he picked off other BEAR operatives in the combat zone. I pulled the trigger, causing my AK to let a burst loose. The rifle bounced in my hands as I saw the dude's head turn into raw hamburger. I then realized that a lot of guys also shot him in the head.

I immediately pushed towards the top of the hill and threw a grenade on the snipers below. The firing stopped immediately afterward. Our unit leader quickly ordered us to the sawmill to see what was underneath. There was no laboratory, but we did find a massive amount of documents and money, all of which were TerraGroup's. We then arranged for a government helicopter to pick the confiscated items up, along with some prisoners we have managed to take.

We were about to leave on our APCs when I heard a commotion not far behind me. I heard a girl's voice. A very, very familiar voice, or so I thought. I moved towards the commotion. Then I saw her. "Ey, Yukiteru, I don't speak Japanese, but I think this girl here is looking for you. I think she looks like that girl who you say pops up in your dreams and nightmares. And her phone keeps on making weird static noises." I moved closer to the girl to make sure. "Y-Yukki? Is that - Oh my god! It is you, Yukki! Oh, I missed you so, so much!" "Yu-Yuno?! How did you - How could you-" And then I felt her lips on mine, the first kiss I've had in a very long time.

ESCAPE FROM TARKOV - MIRAI NIKKI EDITION