The Promise to Haruhi Suzumiya
Disclaimer: I don't own any elements or characters from the Haruhi Suzumiya series or any elements from Doctor Who.
Chapter 6: Blast from the Past
The two figures walked towards the storage unit and easily opened the lock. Inside was filled with various alien artifact all collected by one person.
The shorter of the figures walked into the unit, "Do you really think we need to do this?"
"Yes," The taller of the two said walking in. "for the same reason we took the car, we're going to need it."
The taller one walked to a pile of news papers and looked to the one on top. It was an English news paper called the Leadworth Chronicle it was old and had started to turn yellow. The headline read "Leadworth's Crop Circle" and below had a picture a large field with the word Doctor across it. The figure grab this paper and pocket it.
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Yup, a yeti. I've only met one once before working for the Great Intelligence, I wonder if it has anything to do with the Data Overmind? I would try to attack with the sword in my pocket I really doubt it would do anything more than break my sword. It leaves me with one thing to do.
I run as fast as I can down the mountain as it chases me. Through all the snow I do manage to see a large Tibetan monastery at the distance. Funny enough it looks just like the one where we found the yeti in the first place. I push open the gates and jump through as the Yeti reaches for me. I force the gates close as it starts to make it's way in. It's claws are pushing the gate open I slap the hand like my mother would do to me if I took an extra cookie, I know it's stupid it's just a reaction. Some how it works it pulls back and I manage to close the gate. I expected to see a snowy monastery but instead I find myself in the same fateful park. Instead of that snowy mountain it feels like I'm in the middle of summer. I look back at the gate as it vanishes with a shimmer.
"Huh."
I let my hand each out to where the gate was, it stops mid air as I feel something like a wall as tiny ripples form. I decided there is nothing there and I walk into the park. I doesn't take long before I see a familiar figure sitting on a familiar bench.
"Hello Kyon." She smiles at me.
"Hello Asahina."
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Nagato taps her fingers rapidly on the invisible wall blocking her portion of the world and it begins to shimmer. Quickly she presses against the shimmer and passes through it. She finds herself in the company of someone familiar.
"Hello Miss Nagato." Koizumi smiles at her.
She knows that he is no threat and looks around scanning the area for pathway out of there. Koizumi follows her without a word. The area is desolate and the ground is sickly grey hidden behind a grey fog. Koizumi begins to talk about what Asakura intended to do and what happened nothing which Nagato doesn't already know, well mostly but she doesn't expect Asakura to know any better.
Soon a moan is heard as fog begins to part.
"What was that?" The esper asks.
As the fog lifts completely then they see it bodies littering a field, none move and none of them live. An explosion is heard the distance along with the sound of gun fire. It only takes them a moment to realize they are in the middle of some sort of war zone.
Koizumi begins to study one of the bodies, it isn't human, "They look like goblins."
"It's of an alien world." Nagato comments.
Koizumi notices how it's rib cage was ripped open and pungent smell of death fills the air.
"Hang on." A voice rings out in the air
They walk over toward the source of the sound and they find it. They find him, they find Kyon but not in the way they expect. He looks younger like how he looked like in high school he's even wearing that same uniform. He's holding one of the goblins hand.
"I know it hurts but a friend of mine is coming and he'll help."
"I'm dying." The goblin said. "I'm scared."
"Tell me about your home. Tell me about your life before the war."
"...it was peaceful. I owned a farm near here. It was my father farm and his fathers farm before that. I had a family before the war."
"Where are they now? You can go to them after this."
"I think I will be with them soon enough. It's getting dark..."
"Don't say that it's going..." Kyon stopped talking knowing the goblin was dead. "..."
His face was painted in sadness. He eyes widened and filled with tears.
"I'm sorry." Said a soft and gentle voice. "I'm so sorry."
A tall thin man in a dark blue pin stripped suit and brown coat placed a gentle hand on Kyon's shoulder. He knew that was the first time that he had seen someone die.
"He's gone." Kyon said his voice more of an echo that his actual voice. "And I couldn't do anything. I'm useless."
"Never say that." The man remarked. "You held his hand, comforted him when he needed someone the most." He sighed. "I know it's not easy but we have to go and stop the general and end this war before anyone else dies."
"Right." They headed off towards the sound of explosions.
"Interesting," Koizumi muttered.
Nagato turned and walked towards an exit.
"I can't just let you leave."
Nagato spoke to him, one of the rare few times, "Your abilities do not function outside of a closed space. There is nothing you could do to stop me."
With that she left leaving the esper quiet for once.
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"Mikuru?" I asked.
"Yes, don't worry I'm the real one." She said giving me that soft smile. "I know it might all be a bit confusing with what I'm sure you've seen. I bet you want me to explain it."
"No, not really." I tell her flatly. "I don't care about this. Are you so desperate to kill Haruhi that you've teamed up with Koizumi, who you admitted to me that you don't trust. And Ryoko Asakura another person I know you don't have reason to trust."
Asahina didn't have an answer to that.
"I want to believe you're doing this because your orders but I doubt that sweet girl in high school would ever be all right with killing anyone especially her friend."
She didn't say anything again. "You don't have anything to say? Then I'll leave, I have to find my real friends and my sister."
I left her sitting on that bench this instead of her leaving me.
I know I need to find Haruhi and the Doctor. As if answering my wish I find the Tardis in between the trees. As I push open the doors I don't find the interior but another place.
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Its been a hard day. I wake up on the moon with Kyon and then my friends are kidnaped by people I thought were friends. Now I'm being dragged away by silver robot men. I thought it was going to be cool but they were shooting at soldiers. They keep saying they are going to upgrade us into them. I'm not sure what that means but it doesn't sound good. They have me with a group of other people and they all look scared, they forced us all to my old middle school. They're getting us ready for something.
I can hear them talking, "Those that are incompatible will be deleted."
I'm not sure what their definition for in compatible is but I don't think I want to find out. I wish I could do something but how am I supposed to fight alien robots made out of steel that fire lasers. Kyon said I was special, that I had powers, that I could change the world but he didn't really tell me how to do it or really what it meant. I wish Kyon was here. I don't know but when ever he was near even with the magic blue box or being on the moon I felt safe. I just felt that it would be all right when he was near.
"You will come with us." One of the robots tell me.
"Like hell I will." I tell it.
Then it grabs me by my side and another one of them grabs me by the other. I try to get out of their grip but it feels like they're ready to crush my arms. They drag me to a room that must have been some sort of shop class but it looks like they're ripped it apart. That's when I see it an upright table with clamps and saws attached to the sides, it sort of looks like an operating table. Then I notice what on the side, their robot parts. They're not robots, they're cyborgs, that's what they meant by becoming like them. They want to put me in that suit.
"Do not fear. We will remove you fear."
"You don't feel anything, do you?" I ask them.
"We have no need for emotions."
"Well I do!" I tell them. "I like feeling things. I like being happy, I like feeling angry, I like being in love."
They pull me over to the machine as I try drag my feet. I think back to a conversation I had with Kyon years ago about love being a mental illness. I was wrong. I said being in love would stop me from doing what I wanted but I wanted to impress Kyon, love made me try harder. I'm fighting so hard because I still want to love Kyon. I don't want to lose this and that's why I'm fighting so hard. They are forcing me into their rig. I close my eyes tight not wanting to see what is about to happen.
"Kyon..." I never knew how much I could miss him.
Then there is a sound like lighting followed by the sound of one of those metal men falling to the ground. I open my eyes to see the other letting me go and point it's arm blaster at Kyon, whose holding a freaking huge gun. He pulls the trigger again zapping the other one with some lighting like blast. As it falls to the ground he tosses the guns to the side and runs up to me.
Hugging me, "Haruhi? Are you all right? Did the cybermen hurt you?"
I hug him tight, "No, I'm fine." Pulling away I ask. "Cybermen? Where did you find that gun?"
"In the back of an old crashed jeep. It works on the cybermen. I've met them before when I was with the Doctor. Last time I saw them it was just like this. If this is like anything like how I remember-"
He didn't finish as we could hear explosions all over the city.
"What was that?"
"The cybermen exploded. Something about my memories."
"What?"
"Not sure if we find Yuki or the Doctor I'm sure they can explain but I have to find my sister and the others."
"Your sister? Why are we still talking we have to find her." I tell him.
He gives me that smile of his and takes me back to my hand leading me through the school to a door. "I think I got this figured. Some doors lead to other places some are just doors and I think this is the one we need."
"How can you tell?"
"My teeth itch." He says seriously.
"That's stupid that can't possibly work."
"It's how I got to you."
He opens the door and it's not a school room but a whole new place like he said. It's odd to think that Kyon knows more about what's going on than I do.
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Nagato quickly find the outer edge of the space she's in and makes an exit towards another section leaving the esper behind. She finds herself leaving the barren landscape for a tropical paradise. It could easily be mistaken for a common beach resort if the sky wasn't purple.
She begins to study the area when she hears a voice call out, "Yuki!"
She turns to find the smiling face of Tsuruya quickly followed by Kunikida.
"I'm super glad to see you." Tsuruya tells her. "Things got all weird. I had to tell Kunikida that I knew you guys were a little different."
Nagato's eyes widen in surprise she had some idea that Tsuruya knew something but was never sure how much. "You were not the one's I was searching but I am glad your safe."
"So can you explain to us what's going on?" Kunikida says just letting a small fraction of his fear to enter his voice.
"You are safe for the moment." Yuki says in her usual monotone voice.
"Wait you said we weren't the only ones here?" Kunikida asks.
Yuki explains who else is there and that they are in areas like the one they are in.
"Then the other's are in danger." Kunikida responds. "We have to find them, they could end up somewhere worse."
"Look at you all brave." Tsuruya tells Kunikida. "I love it." She wraps her arms around him and gives him a kiss on his cheek.
"Very well." Nagato turns around the the edge again to make another exit.
The trio find themselves in a desert with Taniguchi lying on the ground staring up into the sky.
"Looks like he's fine." Kunikida joked.
"Oh I'm hallucinating now. I'm going crazy. First Ryoko Asakura shows up without aging and then I end up a desert and you guys show up."
"Nope, we're real." Tsuruya giggled.
"Really?" Taniguchi said his skin blistered from the Sun. "What's going on?"
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The Doctor found himself in the SOS Clubroom but it seemed emptied.
"Not like I remember it." He muttered to himself.
"Don't you like it." Ryoko Asakura said appearing behind him.
"No, not really. Why?" He turned to her accusingly.
"Why what?"
"You have this space under your jurisdiction and instead of capturing all of us you went for Kyon. You tapped into his mind and you flooded this space with his memories. Why?"
"The Data Overmind was curious as to how Kyon knew you? He shouldn't have. Also it was curious as to you and your species. Their ability to regenerate and not only reform their bio-data but create knew data by manipulating their own personal time line. Also your peoples mastery of time and space that has never been matched."
"Well very flattering but doesn't explain what is happening."
"I was originally planning on separating each of you in spaces manifesting Kyon's memories allowing me to study all he knew and his mind but it went wrong. The data was corrupted."
"Corrupted?" The Doctor murmured. "Maybe your not using the right hardware. His memories went out of controlled merging with the data of this space when you tried to change the area. It's out of control now it's like walking into his memories. Not even in your own control." The Doctor said smugly.
"Correct." Asakura said without even sounding upset about it. "I don't have control over this space anymore. If I do not fix the corruption soon this entire area will collapse and delete all of us."
"Delete?"
"Yes, the data is more volatile than expected. Something about Kyon is different. Drastically different, something I didn't expected to find so I was not able to adjust in time."
"But-" The Doctor started but found himself distracted.
Behind them a large crack began to form, the familiar smile like crack. It emitted an eerie white light.
"That's impossible." The Doctor said. "Those cracks didn't happen anymore. These are Kyon's memories he shouldn't be able to remember something that doesn't happen anymore. He didn't grow up with a crack by his bed, I would have noticed that."
"We are near the corruption the area near here will alter at random." Asakura warned as the clubroom was quickly replaced by the inside of and Egyptian Pyramid. "Like that." The alien girl said cheerfully.
"Looks Egyptian I would say one of the Great Pyramids. One of our trips to Ancient Egypt or maybe Mars." The soldiers with automatic guns walked passed them.
"Correct me if I am wrong but I don't believe they had guns in Ancient Egypt."
"No." The Doctor said like an annoyed child told he was wrong. "They didn't. But I was with Kyon for most of this and it doesn't seem like anything the Brigade did."
Then Kyon walked in with a familiar face, Mickey Smith. The Doctor studied them Kyon looked about 18 and besides both wearing military uniforms they both had eye patches on.
"Mickey? What's with the eye patches." The Doctor asked.
"The stronger the memories the more accurate they are. The more they will stick to what happens in his memories. These won't interact with us." Asakura explained.
Then a voice rang out from speakers. "All personal check all assigned containment units."
Mickey turned to Kyon, "Come on the boss man wants us to check on the scary fellows in the suits."
Kyon sighed, "He's here you know. They want him dead I'm sure they'll be active. He's trouble or trouble follows him."
"Yeah but you don't have to be so optimistic about it."
Kyon chuckled and followed.
"Something is not right with Kyon's brain." The Doctor realized.
"Then I think you should help me discover the source of his problems." Asakura said as cheerful as ever.
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I drag Haruhi through the door to find ourselves in a museum.
"Oh no." I muttered recognizing the place.
"What's wrong?" Haruhi asks me noticing my alarm.
"Something happening and this places are mimicking my memories. This one is a bad one. In the 1960's there were all these pirate radios in the coast of London playing rock and roll since the BBC wouldn't let them play it on the radio." Haruhi nodded giving an approving smile to the pirates actions. "They caught a weapon. A weapon made out of sound who looked for sound. It was made to fight in a terrible war to fight something evil that love nothing more than to yell and scream. It killed everyone on the boat simply because it could and couldn't get off after the transmitter was damaged. The Doctor told me he managed to capture it on a tape. And then let the boat sink hopping it got destroyed." I gulped. "It didn't and archivist, James Gauss, found the tape and fixed it up. He played it and it killed him and everyone in the museum in a minute. Then it went out into the city. We finally killed it my transmitting it into space."
"What does it look like?" Haruhi asked serious.
"It's living sound. It has no appearance it feeds off sound. Be quiet. If it hears you it will go after you." I squeeze her hand in mine. "We have to get out of here as quickly as we can. No matter what happens don't let go of my hand. It will want to separate us and then attack don't give it that chance."
Before she could say anything a scream breaks out and I recognize the voice belonging to my sister.
Haruhi squeezes my hand, "Let's go find her."
We run off towards the scream. I just hope we can help her. You know the funny thing is that with her holding my hand I feel like I can really do anything.
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Koizumi found himself in the empty streets of London in what appeared to be the 1960's.
"Extraordinary." He murmured in amazement.
"Isn't?" Asahina walked out of an alley towards him. "It appears Kyon was in past in some point. I something like this when I found out he was involved with the Doctor."
"Yes, I'm interested in him. But tell me are they in place and working properly or while this environment."
"No, they should work." Asahina said. "We might need them if the stories of the Doctor are true."
"Well good then." Koizumi said smiling. "We might need to have something against him."
Koizumi looked at a large blue phone box in the middle of the road.
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Captain Jack Harkness awoke up with startle as his vortex manipulator beeped. It just told him what he already knew, spacial disturbances in Japan. He was sure it had to do with the missing alien tech and he found out that UNIT was already mobilizing.
He wasn't sure how they knew he only was informed about it after he finished talking with Kyon. Someone called him telling him to run a scan and that Kyon was endanger and he need to get to Japan. They hung up before he could ask any question. He ran the scan but Torchwood didn't find any thing too bad just some minor spacial rifts. He decided to go just in case leaving the rest of Torchwood to mind things. He called Mickey and Martha to back up to find that they were already heading to Japan. They informed him about something upsetting. In the end he got on the first airplane to Japan.
Jack was surprised he fell asleep since he never felt comfortable on planes since that time he almost actually died on one. Either way something was happening and Kyon was likely to be in the center of it. He tried to call is cell but his calls weren't getting through so he did have reasons to worry.
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It doesn't take us long to find my sister as she runs out of a dark hall way in tears. "KYON!"
She crashes into me. "Are you all right?"
"Kyon? Something is happening. There something in there." She pointed to hallway.
I held her close to me as Haruhi stared into the dark hallway, "I don't see anything."
"Well, I don't hear anything." I tell her. "No sound. No buzzing of the lights. The hush is coming."
"Is it really that dangerous?" Haruhi asked.
"It's an invisible weapon we can't even hear coming and it's attracted to sound. Which we're are making. I think it's time to run."
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"We are about to reach the corrupted data." Ryoko Asakura announced to the Doctor.
He didn't answer, he just watched the area around them change hundred of times, each the same August that Kyon had to repeat along with his friends. Fragment memories deep inside Kyon head.
That's when it started, the drumming. Both aliens fell to their knees in pain a sensation Ryoko was used to feeling and the Doctor was far too familiar to. The world around became the time vortex screaming and endless drum beat to them.
"It's only a fraction." The Doctor tried to explain as he forced himself up. "The vortex when Kyon sacrificed himself to fix the rift. We're feeling what he felt."
The Doctor was surprised, timelord evolved to the point to withstand the vortex but staring at it could still drive them mad, Kyon managed to come out of it mostly alright. The Doctor with a great deal of forced out his screwdriver and pressing the button to nudge the data stream around them.
Else where these actions had a larger effect. Cracks began to form. As Kyon, his sister and Haruhi were running from something they were not sure was following them a crack opened up to a large snowy waste land.
"No." Is all that Kyon muttered as the Yeti jumped out of it.
The hairy creature bellowed at them.
"What that? What's that?" Kyon little sister yelled out.
"A yeti." Kyon told them.
"That's a yeti!" Haruhi said excited.
The yeti roared again as it rushed at them when it stopped and suddenly the fur was ripped off it it metal body. The creature screamed but it didn't make a sound.
"The hush got it." Kyon told them as the watched the yeti get ripped apart by an invisible force. "Let's go."
As the started to run another crack opened up below them and they fell into it.
As the other brought Taniguchi up to speed in the desert a crack opened up before them. The Silurians stepped out followed by one of their dinosaur pets.
"Apes!" One of them yelled as they aimed their weapons to them.
As they began to fire Nagato raised her hands creating a shield deflecting the blasts.
"DINOSAURS!" Taniguchi screamed.
Just then Kyon, his little sister, and Haruhi fell into the sand. Nagato kept the shield up to protect them.
"Yo." Kyon said getting up.
The world around them started to change an twist looking more like a broken computer screen. Suddenly Koizumi and Asahina materialize next to them with the Tardis. The time traveler tumbling to the ground.
Asahina grabbed the first thing she could to help her up. What she grabbed was Kyon's lower half. She laughed it off, "I'm holding onto your lower half in the middle of a desert again. Bring back any memories?"
"Lower half!" Haruhi yelled. "What is she talking about?"
He face-palmed as he came to grips with what would seem to be the last few moments of his odd life.
Nagato kept the shield up, "The data stream is becoming unstable. All micro spaces are collapsing onto this point."
All sort of creatures began to appear around them only kept away by the shield.
"Let's just get into the Tardis." Kyon suggested.
"The blue box? The door appears to be locked. We can't open it." Koizumi told them.
Kyon was about to pull out his key but stopped as the world changed. They found themselves in the park once again. A crack in the middle of the park as a figure floated out.
"Exterminate! Exterminate!"
Kyon froze in terror as did Asahina and Nagato's eyes widened.
"Kyon? What's wrong?" Haruhi asked worried.
"It's my nightmare all over again." He muttered.
Author's Notes: Sorry for the lack of updates. Just got back from Anime Expo and now I'm getting ready for comic con. This summer is busy for me. plus this chapter turned out longer than I thought. Anyway I gave you guys plenty to chew on tell me what you think.