The Nendoroid Story

Chapter 4: The Soul Gem of Resistance.

After a long fall, Kyousuke finally lands on the surface of the underground. After he gets off from the fall, the first thing he does is open the violin bag he still has strapped around him and checks if his violin broke.

Just a couple bricks disassembled. Nothing I can't fix.

Kyousuke put all the bricks into place before he remembers what Hitomi said:

"Is your violin more important than your girlfriend?"

Kyousuke sighs as he realizes that what he did didn't help him feel better about that statement.

Is Hitomi right? Is this Violin all I care for?

Kyousuke closes his bag and looks around the newly discovered area. Bricks, debris and dust covered the whole place. Something ahead of Kyousuke though, caught his eye. He walked closer to it until he sees an object resembling the gem that blue girl was holding, but bigger. It was glowing a bright pink, beckoning him to come closer. When Kyousuke neared the gem, he felt the curious need to touch it.

Once he touched it, the gem started floating towards him, glowing even more radiantly until Kyousuke couldn't take the brightness and passed out. The Soul Gem goes around his unconscious plastic body and latches onto the peg hole on his back. Once fully pegged in, Kyousuke started to have visions, flashes of blue, grey and pink, and even people. The first person flashed by him who seemed to have short hair with pig-tails and another with much longer hair. They looked like people he recognizes but look so much slimmer, taller, with heads that aren't twice as big as their own bodies. Kyousuke then sees a giant hand coming towards him until everything just goes all black with only two sounds playing in his head:

The Special has arisen…

Now's your turn to be the hero…

Kyousuke started to open his eyes, swearing he could hear sounds of another person.

"WAKE UP!"

Kyousuke fully wakes up, completely alert as he comes face to face with a female Nendoroid, with an orange and black suit with a fully white clown-like face with a sinister monster like voice. Kyousuke couldn't tell her age as all Nendoroids are the same size. Kyousuke tries to struggle away but realizes his hands are restrained onto the chair he's sitting on with handcuffs.

"Where did you find the Soul Gem of Resistance? Where are the Magical Nendoroids? Where are they hiding?" The crazed girl asked Kyousuke.

"What the?! Where am I?" Kyousuke asked back to the girl, looking around the place. The area he is held captive in seems to be a grey interrogation room, as if he's in a prison.

"Where am I?" The girl said, mocking Kyousuke. "Playing dumb, Magical Nendoroid?"

"Magical Nendoroid?" Kyousuke asked.

"Oh, so you've never heard of the prophecy?" The girl asked.

"No."

"Or the Special?!"

"No!"

"You liar!" The girl yelled as she grabs her own Soul Gem, making bricks float in the air and build themselves into mugs, chairs, plates and other objects and launches them at Kyousuke.

Kyousuke managed to dodge most objects but got hit by some bowls, leaving a couple scratches on his hair. "I watched some Cop shows on TV, isn't there supposed to be a Good Cop?" Kyousuke asked the girl; assuming that she's a police officer, a really strangely dressed police officer.

"Oh yes, but we're not done yet!" The "Cop" says before her head spins a full 360 degrees with a changed faceplate, revealing a more innocent and normal girl face, looking like an 11 year old girl. "Hi, buddy! I'm your friendly neighborhood Police Officer, Nagisa Momoe! Want some cheese?"

Kyousuke, not wanting to upset the suddenly nice, under aged cop, decided to accept her offer for cheese. "Sure."

Nagisa spins her head, reverting back to her sinister, insane face and personality. "Too bad!" She yells as she slaps the cheese away. "Security cameras picked up this!" Nagisa says, grabbing a remote and pressing a button, causing a television to pop out from the wall. The television turns on, showing what appears to be Kyousuke sleepwalking with the Soul Gem on his back glowing, supposedly possessing him as he has those visions. "You were found at the construction site, reacting to a powerful object."

"I was not doing any of that!" Kyousuke says, pointing at the television.

"Then why is that Soul Gem permanently stuck to your back?!" Nagisa exclaims.

Kyousuke looks behind him and notices a pink gem pegged onto his back. Kyousuke's eyes widen and starts to panic, trying to shake the gem off. "Listen, I have no idea how this thing got on my back!"

"Of course, buddy! I believe you." Nagisa says, with the kind face on. "Really?" Kyousuke asks before he's interrupted by Nagisa who appeared beside him, crazy face engaged. "I believe you too…" Nagisa says sarcastically, with her hands doing the motion of making quotation marks. "You see the quotations I'm making? It means I don't believe you! Why else would you have the Soul Gem of Resistance on you, three days before President Homura is going to use the power of the goddess to end the world?!"

"President Homura is going to end the world? I knew that there was something fishy about her but why would she do that? She made this city a better place! Instructions to tell us what to do, threatening all of us to follow her rules, not allowing us to interact with Madoka Kaname for some reason… Wait a minute."

Nagisa goes up to Kyousuke and slaps him in the face. "You can't be this stupid to believe that Homura is innocent and be the Special!"

"Special? No, I'm just an ordinary guy! The only thing I can do is play the violin! Ask anyone!" Kyousuke panics.

"Oh, we asked them all right!" Nagisa says, grabbing her remote and pressing another button, causing the TV to play another video showing several of his classmates.

"Kyousuke is nothing but a violinist." One kid says.

"See?" Kyousuke says to Nagisa.

"But I mean nothing but a violinist." The same kid says.

"Huh?" Kyousuke realizes that kid was insulting him.

"He seems to have nothing to his personality other than being a cold jerk and skilled at music." Another kid states.

Kyousuke starts to look sadder.

"I mean, he never interacts with anyone except for Hitomi, and even then it's not that often." Kazuko Saetomi, Kyousuke's teacher says.

"He drove Sayaka into depression, she was truly hurt by him and he never seems to notice." Nakazawa says

"All he does is fool around with his violin and nothing else." Another one of Kyousuke's "friends" says.

"Sometimes I even wonder if he even has a heart. If it weren't for his skills in music, he's just nothing." Hitomi says on the television, hurting Kyousuke even more.

The television turns off, leaving an utterly broken Kyousuke, staring at the ground with tears in his eyes.

"There you go, told you I was a nobody." Kyousuke mutters.

"That's the perfect cover!" Nagisa says.

"Cover?! Cover for what?!" Kyousuke yells.

"I can't break him! Take him to the melting chamber!" Nagisa says to a couple robot guards who enter the room.