Infinity Chapter 2: Kokoro, a vocaloid fanfic

Author Notes:

Once again I write this great story about Hatsune Miku. I was supposed to write it every two weeks, but times have changed, and lol...I only managed to finish this after a month...almost two? What the heck? Now for some self question and answers...

1. What is Infinity?
Answer: The only details I can provide you right now...is the Module of Hatsune Miku in Project Diva 2. Everything else is classified information.

2. What do you mean by a side project?
Answer: In a fan fiction side project, chapters are usually updated only around 2 weeks (so...it means this chapter was highly delayed =P), unlike a main fan fiction project where the target is always 1 chapter per week. Oh btw...all my projects turned to semi-haitus mode, so that's why it took me this long. XD

3. Why this story plot?
Answer: How should I say this? I'm kinda bored with many of the fanfics around here. I'm being honest! It's just that yuri / lazy (or common) slashes / twincest stories aren't really my type. Besides, I've already planned on having this kind of story a long time ago...

4. Is this a song-fic?
Answer: Technically this is, but to keep this story alive (meaning put down by the site due to putting lyrics not present in the public domain...whatever that is), I'll simply leave the finding of lyrics to you.

5. What songs exactly are you basing this whole story about?
Answer: Good question...and at the same time it actually presses an issue why I haven't turned this story into a full project. The idea is in fact...based on the Hatsune Miku no Shoushitsu album listing. In fact, my story would most likely be arranged as such. But the problem I have is when a song in the album hasn't been translated yet. I can't finish the story in that. Now each milestone (may it be a chapter or a series of chapters) is separated by my special Japanese border.

Note:the milestone counting starts with 0 not 1.

0. Kokoro –A Background Story-

1. Let's Play with Hatsune Miku!

2. A.I. - -Untranslated-

3. The Rampage of Hatsune Miku

4. The Confusion of Hatsune Miku

5. The Division → Destruction of Hatsune Miku

6. Goodbye Common Sense Space!

7. 0 -ZERO- (The Beginning)

8. The End of Hatsune Miku -Worst End-

9. The Disappearance of Hatsune Miku -Dead End-

10. Hyper (Infinite)Lation –Untranslated-

11. Infinit-Y -True End-

12. The Singing Passion of Hatsune Miku

13. -Untranslated- (Most probably Epilogue)

6. I saw Hatsune Miku in one of your stories. Is it related to this one?
Answer: The story of K-ON!: The InterD Chronicles and this story are plot related.

7. What kind of technology exists in this world?

Answer: Well...I wanted it to be around 2100, but with a little twist. While there were vocaloids now throughout the world, I didn't put much emphasis on other technologies in use. Seeing Miku still needed a world tour, let's just assume it's not as advanced as you think. (No warp drive okay...no teleport...that sort of thing...just Mach 10 airports and advanced computers...and no aliens.)

8. What does ロネルム mean?

Answer: If you know Katakana, it means ronerumu, or in short, my username in Japanese. I wanted to add the 2000 but well if I did that you'd know what it means immediately, right?

Caution:

Do not read if you hate sad endings. Because, although this really has a happy ending, you need to cry for long periods of time. XD Really.

Disclaimer:

"Onee-chan!"

"Hey! Onee-chan!" Kagamine Len was trying to whisper to Hatsune Miku, but with no avail.

"Man, what's happening with her?" Len was curiously looking through Miku's face. With Miku's face being as blank as a hypnotized person, Rin said, "We need to help onee-chan!"

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Kokoro
[Heart / Soul]
The Story of the Kagamine Twins

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"Alright, never take your eyes of her. Scan her every movement, every activity." Prof. Shin ordered the 20 or so people in the spacious room full of monitors. "So, Prof. Ryu...why am I getting the feeling you regret removing Miku's restriction in the program?"

"I'm not. Okay." Prof. Ryu's stature didn't even budge. "I'm just … worried about her. All this time she'd been driven without-"

"A father?" Prof. Shin asked. "a master? I'm sure Miku's just fine."

"But when will we tell her the truth?" Prof. Ryu's eyes were filled with conviction.

"Look, Prof. Ryu. Let's just admit it." Prof. Shin's blank face stunned Prof. Ryu. "She's a robot. A robot with an experimental AI discovered over 10 years ago...she's not...your...your-"

"Please stop." Prof. Ryu blurted out. "At least I treat her as somebody special. Everyone in here simply treats her like some guinea pig!"

"Professor Ryu!" Prof. Shin watched Professor Ryu Miku walk out the room, his tears welling up from his eyes.

A short silence swept throughout the room, that is until one of the supervisors asked Prof. Shin, "Sir, I can't help but being rude, but, what's with Professor Ryu?"

Professor Shin paused for a moment, probably thinking if he was worthy of being noted of the history of the vocaloids, and finally he spoke.

"Oh it's fine. It's a long history, actually...but...let me tell you first the history of the Kokoro AI." Professor Shin and the supervisor sat down in a nearby couch at the back of the room.

"Sorry for the delay everyone." Kagamine Rin was on the microphone. "It seems that Hatsune Miku's pretty speechless right now with all you guys in here!"

"Alright, Rin, are you ready?" Kaito asked Rin, who was in somewhere in the backstage - actually the bottom of it, which was quite low for both people and vocaloids like Kaito and Rin to stand without hitting the metallic roof.

"As ready as I'll ever be, don't worry." Kagamine Rin held her beautiful pose. "You worry too much."

"As you all know, Professor Ryu Miku created Hatsune Miku, Kagamine Rin, and Kagamine Len." Professor Shin started narrating, "It was all an experiment for us, but to him, they were her children...It was just like what happened in the creation of the Kokoro Program..."

Everyone cheered as Kagamine Rin entered the stage from below, and as Hatsune Miku was still frozen like ice, while Kaito made a not-so-dramatic and clumsy entrance (imagine him tripping twice as he saw the crowd) and drag Miku into the backstage...

"Thank you that we're here today on this wonderful stage." Kagamine Rin's uniquely moe voice initiated various reactions from the crowd, but mostly moe overload. "Now, let me hear my song for you – the title is Kokoro."

"It was over 110 years ago...when only simple computers existed this world and real AI was just science fiction, a prodigy professor lost her daughter to cancer. We all know cancer is now curable in this era, but back then, it was impossible.

"So...the heartbroken professor shut himself in...and when I mean that, it included shutting himself from the world. I couldn't blame him. His wife died in a car accident. His only daughter...the only one he had left, died. So he created a robot. That robot...is now called...Kagamine Len."

"Unbelievable..." the supervisor looked at the monitor for a while, but seeing not much anomalies, looked back to Prof. Shin. "Continue on, professor."

"She [the robot] already had one of the most advance technology at the time, most probably 20 years advanced from her present time...but there was something missing. He knew she needed emotions. So, he spent her entire life creating a program called Kokoro – the only AI in this era. In around 80 years, he did the impossible, create a full-pledged self-upgrading AI, but sadly, he died before even realizing his dreams. Poor man I say.

"But the robot he created lived on, and even as the laboratory was left to ruins, both the valuable program and the robot stayed intact."

"Hey...Miku?" Kaito was waving her hands at Hatsune Miku, who was still as frozen as ice. They were in her dressing room, which is not really much other than a normal dressing room in a concert.

"This is hopeless...What has gotten into onee-chan recently?" Kagamine Len was obviously worried. "I really hope she didn't do something stupid again..."

"Oh, don't worry," Kaito said, "I'm sure she'll be fine..."

"I didn't really know why, but it took until around 10 years ago when that robot self-installed the Kokoro Program. It probably must be from the the prototype AI she had that she found the curiosity to install the AI unto herself. And that's when it happened. As the AI short-circuited due to lack of processing power, a huge one-of-a-kind AI-Induced EMP shot out of the laboratory, of which I should note is around 250 meters deep underground."

"AI what?"

"An AI-Induced EMP is different from the primitive EMP. While a normal EMP forces machines to stop. This one sends a portion of the AI's programming into a highly flexible programming snippet in the form of electron radiation capable of making any machine known to man think for itself at least temporarily."

"A-Amazing..."

"That's what I thought...even now, that program is still upgrading itself...inside Miku...Yes...the miracle program that was Kokoro...has been upgrading itself for more than 20 years until we discovered it, and an additional 5 years since we took it back in time..." Professor Shin looked at the large monitor as as she looked upon one of the programming strips of the original Kokoro program he sighed, "Is...in fact...inside Miku. And even though we've been monitoring the AI, and even though we had explored most of its programming – around 95% – I always fear...that something inside of that monster program...will cause the world to its knees."

"I still don't get why did Professor Ryu built the twins from the robot in the first place."

"Later on that..." Professor Shin glanced at the the monitor, and a large alarm beeping reverberated throughout the spacious room. "Quick...! We need an analysis on the program being used!"

"Thank you...thank you!" Rin smiled as she smiled through the appreciative crowds, some of whom are real Japanese who wanted to meet them in a concert, while many others are natives of the land.

"You were beautiful and cute there, Rin Kagamine!"

"Ehh..." Rin blushed for a bit as the big crowds complemented her with such cuteness and uniqueness that is unlike no other, and, after looking at some of them, speedily walked to the backstage. "Well...I hope onee-chan's ready now..."

Meanwhile, back in Miku's dressing room...

"..."

"W-Where am I?" Miku finally said as she snapped out of her silent trance.

"Onee-chan! We were so worried!" Len tightly hugged Miku in response. "What were you thinking? Standing still in front of all those people who came to see us!"

"O-Oh yeah!" Miku finally remembered it: the events, how her mind went blank for around 5 minutes... "But...what was I thinking back then?"

"Maybe we should call Crypton?" Kaito suggested. "For all we know, they might know the problem."

"That creepy company?" Miku responded, almost involuntarily.

"Creepy...what the heck are you watching these days, Miku, Geez. You know they're the expert when it comes to vocaloid."

"I-I-I didn't...never mind." Miku sighed. "So...where's Rin?"

"Oh! I think she's over there!" Rin Kagamine almost literally dragged Miku (did I mention the weight of vocaloids is very near that of a normal human?) out of the room, into the hallway, and turned right passing through a couple of doors (around 5 on both the left and ride sides) into the very back of the concert stage, where Kagamine Rin was waiting.

"Oh! Onee-chan! I was worried about you!" Rin too hugged Miku tightly, just as Len did, but in Rin's case, it was a bit different. Rin's of Miku's best friends, and vice versa.

"Thank you, Rin."

There was something in Miku's voice that changed. Not that it matters to her vocaloid friends, but her voice portrayed more emotion than ever. For the first time in Miku's life, those simple notes and words used as a medium of communication now has an attached emotion to it. Is it the work of the override beta?

Meanwhile in the depths of the Crypton Inc., efforts made to supervise Hatsune Miku's AI actions simply returned normal or harmless codes...and false alarms.

"Except that seemingly dangerous code messing around the AI arguments, Nothing out of the ordinary, sir." one of the maintenance employees reported. "Everything seems to be normal, and Miku's splendid machinery seems to be handling the program quite nicely."

"Good...good," Professor Ryu looked at the records, smiling as he saw the great results of the observation. "But please look more on that argument. We wouldn't want an apocalypse now do we?"

"Aye, sir," said the employee went on his way into the Main Miku Supervision Room, where most of the supervision of Miku's AI is being held.

"Sigh, where did I go wrong, my sweet Miku?" Professor Ryu said to himself as he started to walk back into the Main Miku Supervision Room, passing through around 2 doors, one named Kagamine Len Supervision Room and another named Kagamine Rin Supervision Room.

"Are we ready?" Kaito looked at the Hatsune Miku, whose eyes are shimmering brighter than before.

"Oh don't worry, don't worry!" Hatsune Miku smiled in response. "I know I can do this."

"Oh where the heck you got that confidence from, onee-chan? One time you were busy daydreaming, and now this. What the heck are you thinking? Anyway, we'll be with you, all the way!" Kagamine Rin said, displaying every bit of support to the one who supported them in the first place. "Just as you supported us at the start, when we were just simple vocaloids waiting for something to happen, we'll support you all the way we can, isn't that right, onii-chan?"

"Sure, onee-chan." Kagamin Len responded just as quickly. "I remember it. Our creators didn't matter what we would do, as long as we do what we think was good. But, Miku, didn't you tell us how singing should be our dream?"

"T-Thank you..." Miku couldn't help but cry a bit. "I...I'll do my best."

Miku headed off for the panel, waiting as Miku makes her first real debut appearance in Manila, with hundreds of thousands of fans waiting for the scope of her new line of songs...

"What?" Professor Shin responded with an utmost urgency.

"H-He just left! Professor Ryu!" the security employee said, handling over an envelope to the now mad professor. "He said he has to know Hatsune Miku the truth...!"

"Damn!" Professor Shin exclaimed, slamming one of the computers in the Main Miku Supervision Room. "That stupid idealist! We're still not done with the preparations yet! What if he activates another forbidden section of that continuously evolving code? Did you sent out agents already to track him down and stop him?"

"N-N-No, s-sir..."

"Then send one already!" Professor Shin slammed the computer again, producing a couple of sparks in the computer which he slammed with full force.

"Y-Y-Yes sir!"

Just as the employee left the room, running to the security department, the supervisor whom Professor Shin talked to earlier went back to the professor, displaying signs of curiosity.

"What just happened?"

"He went out to come to Manila to reclaim her reborn daughter..."

"GAASP! You mean..."

"Let me tell you more about the near past. You see, Professor Ryu Miku had a family...a pretty perfect one indeed. Honestly, if there was an award for best family of all time, he'd probably win it. She had a hard-working, yet calm wife, and a beautiful daughter."

"You mean...Miku...is..."

"She is. It wasn't long though before that thing happened. Professor Ryu Miku got involved in a car accident while on a vacation with her family. I don't really know the details, but even with the damage the car took, only he survived."

"B-B-But how do you know that? I mean...you seem to know much about his life, compared to most of us here."

"That's...because...I was her partner in creating the ultimate bearer of the Kokoro AI. And a very good friend. I was the one who encouraged her to go to Crypton Inc. The reason we re-created Kagamine Rin from the original robot was that to look on the reason why the Kokoro AI broke down on her, but he created Kagamine Rin's sort-of twin, Kagamine Len as a remorse for her fellow professor...and now...her ultimate creation, Hatsune Miku...is in fact, fashioned after her daughter."

"So that's why..." the supervisor felt sympathy at Professor Ryu, who just wanted some fulfillment of the void in her heart that was lost with the loss of her family. "I guess I never knew why he was so dedicated to this work until I figured out the story behind it. Thank you, Professor Shin."

"Eh? What do you have to thank me for? I just wanted somebody to share my burden, that's all."

"Ok...let's do this." Kaito breathed in, and out, and finally ran from the bottom of the stage through a few short corridors into the stage where the fans were anxiously waiting for Miku.

"Thank you for your waiting, everyone, now here...with the song you've been waiting for...it's Hatsune Miku with the title-"

"Let's Play with Hatsune Miku!" Hatsune Miku said in a microphone.

Everyone, including Kaito, was shocked.

No one expected this.

Not even with hundreds of vocaloid computing power in some of the people's hands, they didn't expect a song like this...

"Eh?"Miku?" Kagamine Rin wondered as she tried reading through the data Miku was talking about. "I thought you were gonna do another song? I mean...where did you get that song from?"

"I don't know exactly, but I'm pretty sure it's worth singing." Hatsune Miku responded, she herself unsure of how the song will go.

"Professor Shin! Another set of codes has appeared." one of the employees looked at a couple of codes that is being executed by the program.

"What's this? A melody and lyrics composer program?" Professor Shin responded with a grin. "Umm...this might get interesting."

"Without...further ado." Kaito declared. "Your world favorite idol...HATSUNE MIKU!"

The whole stage was filled with claps, shouts of Hatsune Miku, and an artificial fog signifying the official start of Miku's reconquering of the music world.

But meanwhile in Japan...

"Oh damn...now an agent's after me. I must get to the airport, quick!"

It was Professor Ryu, who was using a technically-advanced car (it can reach the speed of sound without causing sonic boom, and it floats. =P) drive his way into the nearest airport, when suddenly, a large plasma-based explosion almost touched the car, but it didn't affect the car much, due to its propulsion system being built upon air pressure (in layman's term, by blowing air into the ground), so the car simply responded by gliding over to the right.

"Whew...that was close." Professor Ryu simply went off the roadside to avoid the explosion, but suddenly, a series of explosions surprised Ryu, who was trying to get to the airport.

"AH! What the heck are with these agents...I guess I'll just have to use the system in here, even if it means breaking the law..."

Almost suddenly, the car went to total overdrive, almost going as fast as sound. But he's always able to manipulate though the track through the use of some of the Kokoro AI mixed in the auto-drive mode of the car, which he just activated.

"Please...I need to get...to Manila! Ah...I could simply go there with this car, but I'll miss Miku before the concert ends...!"

But just as the car was driving through the skyscraper-filled city, at an intersection 600 meters away from the car (in the car whose speed is the same as the speed of sound – around 600 m/sec) 3 explosions went on the left, right, and forward intersections...it means that in 1 second, the car would collide with the explosion. (and with a controlled temperature of around 1,000 Celsius, it just means that in one second, the car, and him, will turn into molten ashes.)

"Oh damn...Stop!" Professor Ryu Miku detected the explosion from the car's real-time GPS and tried stopping the auto-drive system, but to no avail. "Oh damn...STOP! STOP!"