A wild Hachune Miku appears!

Len and Rin use Road Roller Attack!

It's not very effective.

Wild Hachune Miku uses Confuse!

It's Super Effective!

The staff at Crypton Media was in an uproar. The over-manager of the VocaChat night shift had been fired after it came out that he had concealed engineer's memos concerning the night of The Event, as well as earlier ones regarding Miku's growing discontentment.

Crypton protocols, written when VocaChat was first getting started, said that in the event of the loss of one of the Vocaloid programs, it was to be rebooted from an original, uncorrupted version from before VocaChat went live. It was a pretty standard answer in computer programming. But Jonathan Wake, acting Senior Engineer, had said from the beginning, that that wouldn't work, and he had been proved right. When it had been implemented despite his objections, it had been a callossal failure. Even the engineers had noticed how different it was, leading them to dub the program "Head Injury Miku". The brass, in response, had tried to market it as "Amnesia Miku", trying for a medical scenario. It had been less than fifteen minutes after going live that the complaints started pouring in.

"Head Injury Miku" wasn't actually any worse than Miku had been to start out. But over time, with several years of continuous running, and non-stop interraction with millions of people all over the world, she had gradually improved. When she first came online, her responses were limited and formulistic, and it was obvious that you were interacting with a computer program. But she'd grown, even more than anyone had ever predicted. Some people had actually claimed that Crypton had deactivated the Vocaloid program, and hired a former voice actress to take over. She had even taken, completely on her own, to giving opinions on elements of different anime, and initiated several different scenarios based on her own ideas.

Then, one of the day shift programmers had had the bright idea that he could fix Miku's programming. Jonathan, and Professor Tokuda had been vehemently oposed, but management was desperate, and they authorized his attempt.

He had attempted to impart a degree of the spontenaity that Miku had developed. The result was very... spontaneous. It was utterly unpredictable, except that it made a practice of 'crashing' any scenario it came across, in the most over the top way possible. It was frankly annoying, even if Jonathan was forced to admit that it's Godzilla-esque rampage through simulated Tokyo while the rest of the Vocaloids ran for their life was funny in retrospect.

Jonathan had suggested adjusting it's appearance, and renamed it Hachune Miku, after an old Miku spoof character that had enjoyed a short period of popularity. His actions had calmed fan outrage, and earned himself a promotion, and a leading role in dealing with the problem, which he regarded with mixed feelings.

"Jonathan-san! We have a new problem!"

Jonathan sighed, and turned around. He hadn't gotten a full night's sleep since the incident, and had been getting by on catnaps. There were bags under his eyes, and those eyes were more than a little bloodshot. He knew he was above his safe caffiene blood level, and it was a good thing he wasn't heading home. He wouldn't have been safe to drive. Most of the department was the same, although he thought they were at least managing a couple hours of sleep each night. The last thing any of them needed was a new problem.

Jonathan turned, and saw Saito-san, an intern, and a very conciencious young man, looking both nervous and upset.

"What exactly has gone wrong now?" Jonathan gave him a tired smile, to show that his words were a genuine question, not just an expression of displeasure, and that he didn't hold Saito to blame. Saito didn't appear particularly relieved.

"Two more of the Vocaloid programs have gone missing."

Jonathan's heart went cold within him.

Hey, come check this out!

What did you find?

Just watch.

Well, it doesn't actually look that much like her.

Don't look! Listen!

You do remember the...

Yes of course I remember the voice programs. But you can tell the difference.

...

You're right.

All right!

Now we just need to do a trace.

Yay! We'll find you Miku!

"Well that settles it Miku. You've officially gone viral."

The two of them were standing looking at Andrew's computer, but at this, Miku looked up at him.

"My antivirus protocols are fully up to date, Andrew-san."

Andrew smiled, and shook his head.

"It's a figure of speach, Miku. It means that lots of people are interested in your video."

Andrew was still looking at the computer. YouTube was displayed, specifically "TheRealHatsuneMiku"s video of herself singing "Amazing Grace" with verve and energy. Underneath the video, the traffic stats listed it at 1,985,431 views. James scrolled down to look at some of the comments.

-Youre totally awesome. You should totally join my band. We rock out for God, and we have some stuff that will open your mind to God and this world in a whole new way. -trippinforJesus

-ANY MUSIC OTHER THAN PURE VOCAL SINGING ONLY MELODY HYMNS FROM THE BIBLE IN PERSON WITH NO RECORDING OR ASSISTANCE IS A TOOL OF THE DEVIL! "REPENT AND DO THE FIRST WORKS... -Allthe10Commandments

-u r hawt. were u live. snd shirtless pics. -sexymonster929

-Great Cosplay! What Cons do you go to? Do you ever do photo shoots? -shuttershy

-Vocaloid Lives! -Roadrollerbanana

-This is totally shopped. I can tell by the pixels. -matrixmaster48

-Stop trying to shove your religion down my throat. -firstrede718

-The author of that song was a filthy slave trader. -racialjustice01

-You should try yak milk before singing to clear out the scratchyness in your voice, it worked wonders for me. -legendary_plumber527

-Girl, your singing voice is great, but you HAVE to stop dyeing your hair and wearing jeans. Dyeing your hair and girls wearing jeans are both signs of rebellion, and God hates rebellion. -nannasmommy1959

-OMG! I LOVE Vocaloid! Gakupoid is the BEST! Have you ever tried cosplaying Luca? Send me a message. -animegirl92937

Miku didn't seem to be either excited or surprised by the volume of responses her video had received.

Of course, Andrew thought, she's a Vocaloid, and the Vocaloids are really popular with a lot of people. She's probably used to a large response.

What did seem to puzzle her was the nature of some of the responses.

That's right, I should have warned her. The two things most likely to get people riled, for good or for ill, are politics and religion.

Miku had never learned to listen to the message of a song, and Andrew couldn't figure out how to tell her. She just loved to sing. She would probably enjoy singing Nazi propaganda songs, and wouldn't think anything of it, so long as it had a good tune. Andrew's pocketbook was very grateful that he didn't know of any local karaoke places.

Andrew had tried to figure out a way to explain human conflict to Miku. The problem was, that Miku was a very simple and straightforward personality, and humans weren't.

One day, she'd seen a news report of Shi'ite and Sunni violence, and none of Andrew's explanations made sense to her. She was amazing considered in comparison with computer programs. If she was compared with humans, whe was childlike. She had a monchrome worldview, and had a hard time grasping shades.

Andrew sighed and shook his head. The most Miku had ever encountered had been internet flame wars on the Crypton server about rival pairings, and the moderators had been quick to break up any discussion that seemed to be getting too far out of hand.

"Well, anyway, people really liked your singing, and this time, it's totally you. No-one picked the song for you, you did all your own editing... everything."

"Y-You're right! This is awesome! I'm awesome!"

Miku pranced around the room humming, while Andrew stood watching her and rubbing the back of his head.

Humility, in most areas, was not one of Miku's strong suites. She was designed to be a pop star after all. She did have self-consciousness routines, but they seemed to be specific and limited. Andrew wondered if this whole time from when she came here was one long scenario to her.

Miku did another twirl, then staggered and froze.

"Andrew-san, something's sucking up bandwidth and processing power!"

"What? Do you know what's causing it?"

"N-no... But it's making me feel really fa-a-a-at."

Before Andrew could think of a response to that, (and he was finding it a remarkably difficult task,) the desktop computer beeped, whirred, then beeped again. Miku and Andrew both froze as two dialog boxes appeared on the screen. One said KagaminR, and the other KagaminL. Andrew turned to Miku in shock.

"Please tell me. Is this what I think it is?"

"Ah... Uh..."

Miku seemed to be struck dumb, and more than a little nervous. The two of them stood there speechless as both of the dialog boxes moved slowly, slowly, in perfect synchronization, to completion. It was a kind of torture in it's own way, building up the tension without anything to do about it, or any way to release it. Finally it was done, and the two of them out a sigh of relief, just before two avatars in yellow and black costumes appeared on the screen.

"Miku onee-cha-an! We fou-nd you-u!"

Len: At Last! Our big entrance!

Rin: Took you long enough.

Me: Yeah. Sorry guys. I haven't updated like I wanted to. I've had a lot of things going on, and computer problems on top of that, but hopefully things will be better from now on, just as soon as I can get these computer problems fixed.

Rin: Hmph. You better.

Len: I want to Road Roller!

Me: NO! No Road Roller! I don't have the budget.