IMPERFECT SKY
A MacGyver x If My Heart Had Wings Crossover

Starring

Richard Dean Anderson as Angus MacGyver
Bruce McGill as Jack Dalton
Max Mittelman as Aoi Minase
Xanthe Huynh as Kotori Habane
Kira Buckland as Amane Mochizuki
Faye Mata as Ageha Himegi
Shelby Lindley as Asa Kazato
Carrie Keranen as Yoru Kazato
and
Michael McConnohie as Mr. Tobioka

MacGyver created by
Lee David Zlotoff

If My Heart Had Wings created by
Pulltop / MoeNovel

It has been twenty-two years since I have resigned from the Phoenix Foundation to spend some quality time with my son, Sean. In this length of time, I no longer look for trouble. But trouble always seems to creep its way back into me. That's just how a person's life goes, right? So to present some proof that there is still trouble lying around, here's what I've been up for one score and two years now.

In 1994, I teamed up with my former archaeology instructor, Professor Atticus, in discovering the truth behind the mysteries surrounding the lost continent of Atlantis.

That same year, my investigation of the murder of an old friend of mine in the UK was the catalyst in preventing a nuclear apocalypse.

The rest of the nineties was spent quietly back in my California home, teaching Sean to become a model citizen of the world. Of course, he has to inherit some of the deeds I do best. By 2003, he eventually graduated from college, was able to have a wife, and raised a family of his own. He and his family still visits me on holidays.

And in 2005, the inevitable yet expected happened. My best friend and confidante, Pete Thornton, passed away due to pneumonia. He was 77 years old.

Even with his glaucoma-induced blindness, he still performed his duties to the best of his abilities. His leadership skills were second to none in spite of his condition. But then, age had caught up with him, and he had to eventually accept his mortality. Naturally, I attended his wake, and even lifted the coffin he was in towards his burial site. At the funeral, many relationships became stronger. Notably, Pete's ex-wife Connie finally decides to reconciliate with their son, Michael, who already served his sentence for selling classified information years ago and re-joined the Foundation doing software engineering.

Fortunately, Pete has already named a successor as the director of operations for the Phoenix Foundation before his passing: Matilda "Matty" Webber. While she may have a serious disposition due to her previous work at the CIA, she has great fashion sense and can act casually when in light-hearted situations. It is said that her IQ reaches 500, similar to a physicist-slash-masked superhero with the best-matched bottles. Naturally, I wished her nothing but the best, because ruining her predecessor's memory is the last thing I, and everyone else at the Foundation, wanted.

The next year, I decided that my skills should never succumb to anything, even old age. So, together with my daughter Caitlin, I established a handyman business, Mac's Pro Repair. The most dangerous mission I encountered with my gig... was with a lawnmower.

And in 2012, during a weekend, I stopped an illegal weapons trade while doing maintenance work for Consolidated Insurance.

So, as long as I still live, trouble will always find a way in coming back to me. But I'm used to this long ago.

Now let me tell you everything about what the Phoenix Foundation is up to ever since I left it on good terms.

The Foundation still anchors on its main strength: research and development, both military and non-military. It also still actively engages in charity and social welfare work, as well as environmental protection initiatives.

Naturally, the Foundation would expand its wings to the rest of the country, and eventually, to the entire world; staying steadfast to its mission of helping humanity rise from the ashes, like the namesake mythical creature.

Which brings me now to the Japanese branch of the Foundation.

I was given one more task by Matty as a token of appreciation and goodwill for my former employers, and it also was included in Pete's last will and testament. I turned her down several times in the past with the usual excuse of "sorry, I'm still busy with my handyman business". Even on weekends and holidays.

But now, in 2014, I finally found some free time. I entrusted my business to Caitlin, as I told her simply: "I'm back for one last ride."

The mission given to me by Matty is simple: assist the Japanese branch of the Foundation in helping Keifuu Academy secure approval for mass-production of gliders originally designed and perfected by the school's Soaring Club.

Keifuu Academy is an engineering-focused high school located in the town of Kazegaura, which is just three hours away from Tokyo on a car. Kazegaura itself is far from being a backwater town, as it boasts modern architecture, as well as a host of windmills situated on the hillside facing the town's lake. The hillside is appropriately named Windmill Hill.

The Academy's Soaring Club is notable for its two feats: it was able to produce a glider without outside help, and it was able to fly the glider over a rare formation of clouds dubbed "the Morning Glory".

Those two feats are the products of the students comprising the club that made the impossible possible: club leader and ex-PWD Kotori Habane, club advisor and ex-"super repeat student" Amane Mochizuki, former Robot Club tinkerer Ageha Himegi, the twins Asa and Yoru Kazato, and the lone significant male in the club, Aoi Minase.

Together with a representative from the Phoenix Foundation, I have to give a courtesy call to the Soaring Club's members, who mostly live in Flying Fish Manor, a dormitory for Keifuu's female students. Mr. Minase acts as the Manor's dorm mother.

And something unexpected happened.

Jack Dalton, con-man extraordinaire and still a great friend of mine, wanted to go along for the ride, so to speak.

The fact that he heard me talking about a glider made by a bunch of Japanese students to help his still stillborn aviation business has him seeing dollar signs. Or in this case, yen signs.

And so, I reluctantly said yes.

In this brand new adventure of mine, I will extend my little wings... and fly in this foreign sky highly.

Author's Note: Here's to the very first non-M-rated and first crossover entry for IMHHW. It was a matter of perfect timing, watching both the TV series and playing the visual novel in the recent day. I've just finished Kotori's route, and is currently working on Amane's. This way, I can fully flesh out the story and determine where Mac, Jack, Aoi, and the rest of our crew will go. And by the way, I'm also working on a brand-new visual novel myself for the Yuri Game Jam, as well as preparing for the Philippine leg of the Gundam Builders World Championship, so September's gonna be a pretty busy month for me. Tune in next time.