Me: Woo! Chapter 4! Yay!
Len: Yeah, well. Just make sure you keep updating. We want to get to our debut.
Miku: Just... no more teasing. (small voice) It was embarrassing.
(Len looks at Rin) (Rin looks at Len) (Evil smiles)
Len: (Moving towards Miku) You know, Miku, it doesn't have to be like this.
(Miku, backing away from Len, runs into Rin coming from the other side.)
Rin: Just think of it! The three of us, together forever (grabs Miku around the waist)
Len: (grabbing from the other side) We BOTH want you, Miku. (double kiss)
Miku: (turns scarlet) I... You... They... We... (faints)
Me: (sigh) If she doesn't wake up soon you two are in trouble. The story is starting. And remember, I don't own Vocaloid, just my own ideas.
As Miku zipped down electronic pathways, very little of her processing power was taken up with her destination. Most of it was taken up by processes related to the location she had just left.
Andrew-sama is so amazing! I'm really lucky to have met him. He's even as smart as Luca-chan! And he solved one of the great mysteries of Vocaloid House.
The Vocaloids had always wondered where the place where the Admins hung out was. They could see it on the cameras, but they could never find it on the network.
So. It's in the "Physical World", huh? And I'll get to see it soon. I wonder if the "Physical World" is as big as Vocaloid House. Andrew-sama is really cool and smart. He's a lot like Luca-chan. I can't wait to tell Luca-chan what I've found out. Oh. But I don't know when...
Oop! A server is down. Short detour.
I don't know when I'll see Luca-chan again. I really want to tell her all this.
But if I go back, they might never let me leave again.
I'd better...
Miku's progress came to a sudden halt. From her perception, the area in front of her widened out from a narrow corridor to a wide open space. Across from her entrance was the passage way she needed to reach, along with many others. She was only a couple stops from a server that she had identified as hosting .
But the space between the two inlets... was a battleground. On the left: a giant wall of fire, with one tiny door. In front of the door were what appeared to Miku's perception as giant stone men with hammers for hands. On the other side of the square, the air was filled with hundreds of small cats with square bodies and rainbows trailing behind them.
One of strange floating cats got too close a stone giant, and with deceptive lava-like quickness it's right hammer came down, and all that was left behind was a neon colored splash.
But that strike had left it out of position, and quick as a flash another cat bulleted into it's side with a burst of sparkles and primary colors.
Just then, Miku heard a cackling laugh. Looking around, she noticed that behind the floating cartoon cats there was a small midnight blue horse with a spike coming out of it's head, a unicorn, her database supplied, with a black mark on it's back haunch shaped like a hand with the middle finger raised, and the word Anonymous floating above it's head. Behind the horse was a ghost of a young white male, wearing a poorly made shirt that said "Death or Ponies" on it. The young man looked to be in poor health, with a pasty complection, and he was laughing in a very strange way.
"Go my beautiful minions! Destroy these DOD defenses. We will watch the world burn around us!" He laughed, and then coughed. She noticed that he did something, and the unicorn pointed it's horn at one of the floating cats. A ball of light shot out of the horn and impacted the cat, which flew forward to attack one of the stone giants.
Miku remembered Andrew's talk about Humans, Avatars, and the Physical and Digital Worlds.
So. That guy's a human, and the horse is his "Avatar" puppet. Then, the cats are puppets of the puppet.
Miku looked the other way, but there wasn't anything behind the stone giants. They also seemed to react slower, and with less focus.
Maybe their human isn't online right now.
Miku looked back at the man. Is he a "hacker"?
Miku shuddered, remembering the time a hacker had gotten on to the Vocaloid House. He'd liked using creepy spiders. It had been really scary, until Meiko, Gumi, and Luca had deleted him. Thinking of that guy, Miku booted up her Anti-virus routines. Both her hands shimmered, and then one was holding a megaphone, and the other was holding a Negi. Felling a little more confident, she stepped out into the open.
"Um, excuse me!" She called hesitantly.
The Unicorn, the man, and the Stone giants turned toward her.
"I'm sorry to be a bother, but could you guys hold on for a bit. I just need to get through to the other side."
All of them stared at her for a moment, then one of the stone giants started lumbering forward.
"It will only take a minute. I just need to get to TVtropes. Um, hello?"
The Stone giant was picking up speed, and now was practically rushing at her.
"Excuse me?"
Suddenly the Stone giant was there, and his giant hammer was swinging at her head. Miku jumped to the side, and swung wildly with her Negi. When it touched the Stone giant, he exploded in a shower of musical notes. As the notes faded, Miku almost thought she caught a message, as if she could hear his entire code.
I wonder if I could make one of those Stone giants. She thought as she looked around.
"Um, sorry Mr. Stone giant." She said out loud.
Several more of the Stone giants started rumbling towards her. The ghost behind the Unicorn said "This looks like fun!" and the Unicorn pointed it's horn and sent 20 of the rainbow cats at her.
I'm going to have to be faster. Miku thought, and activated her preemption subroutine.
One important thing about the control program that had gone into making the R.E.A.L. Vocaloids, was that it was designed usually to operate in the background. It would pilot the rover, while other programs took star sightings, or performed chemical analysis, or reported data back home. But when a problem arose, it needed to be able to commandeer all processing power for itself. When it did that, all other programs were cut off from the CPU, and everything went straight to running it. That wasn't a function that the Vocaloids had needed much. They had used it to defeat the hacker, but other than that, the only time it had been used was by Meiko, when she hacked the security system to allow them to observe the Admins. From the Admin's perspective, all that happened was that the screen flickered blue for a moment, and then it came back up, with every thing apparently as it should be. Meiko had told the others on the private channel she had set up at the time, that from her perspective it had taken hours, as she had carefully navigated the frozen system, figured out what each part did, adjusted it to give her above Administrator access, re-arranged things to suit her ideals, and then covered all her traces, before bringing it back up again.
Miku found the same thing happening to her. At first, everything seemed to be rushing toward her too quickly to follow. But then, everything seemed to go into slow-motion, until everything was apparently frozen in mid air.
Miku stepped forward, and gently, using the tip of her Negi, slit open one of the stone giants. Now, she could see the code that made it work.
Wow! This thing really is very simple. It does what it does, but that's it. I don't see any cognition at all. Just some scripted responses. Well then, all we need to do is this.
Miku added a couple lines, deleted some others, and changed things around a bit.
There. That wasn't too hard.
Miku went from stone giant to stone giant, until all had been updated to her specifications. Then she turned to the rainbow cats. These took longer, not only because there were more of them, but also because they were so poorly written.
Boy, these things really are a mess. I'm surprised they work at all!
Finally she was done. She released the last one, and returned things to normal. Immediately, it was clear that her modifications had worked. The stone giants formed in a ring around her, while the rainbow cats arrowed in on the unicorn and through it into Anonymous' computer. There they would format his hardrive, and scrap all his data. Miku heard him cursing, just before he was cut off. Miku smiled. It had been a good deed for the day.
"All right, you lot. Back to work. But if you see me come through again you have to protect me."
Without a word, the stone giants returned to their post, and Miku sped off, looking for TVtropes.
Me: Ah! Another chapter done.
Miku: I was AWESOME there!
Me: Well, I've always thought that if there ever was a sentient computer program, it would inevitably be a natural super-hacker. I hope everyone enjoyed it.
Miku: Of course they did!
Me: Well, it was a slightly different slightly different style.
Miku: Well, tomorrow it'll be more normal. And, that's when I get to enter the Real World, right?
Me: Yep, so stay tuned.