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 12: The Promise
The sky was filled with a dark blue light. There also happened to be blue giants swatting red globes of light so it was a weird sight either way. I don't know how to describe the Data Overmind, it might not about it having any certain of description. What I saw might just have been only what my mind could comprehend. It kinda looked like tendrils reaching out of the sky towards Tokyo Tower. Now I would like to try and figure out what that really was but at the moment I was dealing with an angry esper. Koizumi and I were fighting in mid air, so as much as this was a dream of mine to have esper powers to used in a fight, I never wanted to fight someone I would call a friend. What makes it worse is that Koizumi at worst was just messed up in the head, not really evil.
Basically me and Koizumi are fighting in energy balls and he slams into me. Damn, Freud would have so much to say about all this. I might have months of practice with these powers but Koizumi had three years of practice before I even met him.
One of his attacks gets through and I ended up blasted to the top of the tower. I barely manage to grab the top of the tower after the eerie esper glow fades from me. Since I'm no longer flying I grab one of the metal beam of the tower as tightly as I can.
"Lord Kyon?" Okdel speaks up.
The silurians just below me are trying to get the Yuki off the tower but stop as they seem me arrive. That's when I take in Yuki's state, she's not moving the metal of the tower wrapped around her keeping her trapped. It breaks my heart, after all she had to go through for her bosses and they treat her like this.
"Let me help you with that." I tell them.
I let that blue energy gather in my palm and with a little focus and even more careful shooting I blast off the metal off Yuki. Okdel catches Yuki as she starts to fall and her eyes flutter.
"Hey." I greet her, I know it's not the best greeting but I'm there. "Are you all right?"
"..." She looks up to me. "You came for me."
"Of course I did. You're my friend. Now these guys are going to take you down stairs and the others are waiting."
"Its too late." Yuki told me. "The Data Overmind is here. It won't stop trying to get Suzumiya's powers."
"Don't worry about that I have a plan. Okdel get her down from her."
The silurians do as I told them and help get her down. As they climbed down the tower Yuki reaches out to me. I wish I could make this easier for her but I am already at my limits.
"How touching." Koizumi shows up in his glowing red ball with more condensation that I would like.
It's still a strange sensation to feel that energy wrap around me but I let it as I have to face off against Koizumi.
"Let's get back to this."
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"Yes, the Data Overmind is here." Asakura speaks confident.
"Must be the first time it's manifested itself in the material world." The Doctor starts babbling." We've got a few minutes before it can really do anything."
"That still won't stop me." Asakura says with a cold smile on her face.
"Yeah, I don't think you can do much to stop us." That guy in the blue coat steps up, the one they call Jack.
Now that I think about it he was the guy Kyon met at the train station all those years ago but he really doesn't look any older.
And before he can even act she pulls out a huge knife and plunges it into his chest. I couldn't help but let out a scream and the others looked just about ready faint, especially that idiot Taniguchi. The strange thing was that those that knew him actually didn't flinch, what kind of people are they.
As Asakura pulls out the knife his body falls limp onto the ground and she starts to walk towards. But then she stops and the Doctor gives her a knowing smile.
She turns back to Jack's body, "What are you?"
He opens up his eyes and he sweeps hers legs causing her to crash to the ground.
As impossible as it seems Jack gets back up, "Thank you for aiming for the heart. Its so much easier to come back from those sudden death injuries."
"How did you do that?" Asakura asks.
But before anyone can even try to answer a red double decker bus crashes through one of the walls hitting Asakura and tossing her across the room.
"Oh the good old 200!" The Doctor cheered.
"Kyon said he found it abandoned by White Chapel." The woman called Martha explained.
"That would be your ride." The blonde woman with curls called River said. "Hop on that. Kyon should have left instructions for you there along with directions."
Tsuruya chirped excited, "Cool! It's like something out Harry Potter. A flying bus!"
"The bus didn't fly, they had flying car." The Doctor feels like he needs to point that out. "And what are you planning on doing?" He turns back to River.
"What Kyon sent me do to." She pulls Mikuru to her and pulls out a gun. "To make sure the time travelers stay out of his life." She takes the Doctor's screwdriver from her and tosses it back to him.
"What do-" The Doctor doesn't finish as she presses buttons on a wrist device and they both vanish.
Then those Lizard men started to crawl into the hole made by the bus and they're carrying Yuki.
I ran over to them, "Yuki!"
One of them tells me, "She is fading in and out consciences. We should leave this tower it won't be securable for much longer."
"All right everyone on the 200." The Doctor orders as he waves everyone in.
Tsuruya is behind the wheel already and with Kunikida they are going through the instructions to fly the thing. The others climb on board quickly and I help Yuki to a seat.
"Not so fast." Asakura starts to get up again.
"I'll keep her busy." Jack smiles at us blocking Asakura.
"We're leaving you with a teenaged Japanese school girl." Mickey smirks. "That's feels so wrong."
"Don't worry about it. He can't die and she won't die." The Doctor says climbing on board the ship. "Let's get-"
Before he can even finish that sentence the bus rips out of the tower making him tumble to the floor. For a second we're all screaming thinking the bus is about to fall out the sky but its flying, its really flying. It's not flying well, it's so shaky, but its flying.
The Doctor getting back on his feet looks at the tower that has tendrils from the sky grabbing onto it, "Right. The Data Overmind was using the tower as a transmitter. But without Yuki to channel the energy or Haruhi it can't do it. Which means."
Then something lands on top of the bus, it was already dented but I can actually hear the metal being ripped away. Suddenly the tear is big enough to see what is doing it. I look up to see the small smile of Kimidori.
"Kimidori!?" I end up yelling.
"She's an interface." Yuki mumbles.
I should have guessed she doesn't seem to have aged just like Asakura. Then I get what the Doctor was about to say, he was about to warn us that they would send others like Asakura to stop us from leaving. But then she's shot off the roof of the bus by Mickey and that huge gun he brought with him.
"Can't say I approve." The Doctor scolds Mickey.
"Oh she'll be fine."
"Wait she was interface too." I asked them. "How may other girls at my school were secretly aliens?"
Before I can get an answer to that question there is another crashing sound coming from the top of the bus. It's not the same as the last one, this one is followed by steps down the stair.
Everyone seems to be on edge until Kyon stepped out. "Can we land soon?"
I can see him holding his side.
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That last hit that Koizumi gave me knocked me out for a moment but I was lucky enough to fall on a flying bus. Maybe not since I did end up hitting the steel floor. Well, I suppose it was better than hitting the ground. It also did bring me back to the others. It still hurt dammit, especially my ribs. But since Haruhi looks so worried I decided not to tell her I'm in pain.
We land a little later, Tsuruya doesn't do a good job landing. It more like skipping a stone across a lake but with a bus instead of a stone and the ground instead of the lake rather than landing. Times like this make me wonder why busses don't have seat belts. Even not flying busses should have seat belts.
I really wish I had a second but judging from the blast hole in the roof I'm guessing the other interfaces have been called out.
I stagger out of the the bus and the others follow me.
"Kyon, are you all right?" Haruhi runs after me.
She does have to have those sharp eyes of hers. "I'm fine, Haruhi."
I keep walking to a UNIT temporary outpost I put up before I left. It's nice to see Tsuruya followed my directions and actually brought us here.
The outpost has a lot of computer screens and quickly work my way to the main one.
"Kyon." The Doctor says clearly excited. "What are you planning? You couldn't spend months planning this without some idea of this happening."
To answer his question I pull up on the screen a map of the city with certain marks.
"Oh." Is the Doctor's only response.
"What do you mean 'oh'?" Haruhi asks getting impatient. But then she notices something. "Wait are all of those the graffiti that someone's been putting up?"
"Yes, we've been putting it up for a while now." A deep baritone voice.
The others were all stunned to see my pet cat jumped onto the table is the one talking.
"Shami?" My little sister asks.
"Hello, long time no see." He continues.
"How?" Is Haruhi's only question.
I point to the new collar on his neck, "I was stuck with him in the Tardis for months and I got bored with having no one to talk to. So I got this from collar from the Osirians so he could talk back to me. It also extends his life span a few decades."
"You say that like you're disappointed in the fact." The cat snaps back.
"No, of course not. How could I be disappointed in having philosophical discussion with you for decades to come."
"What the whole thing suppose to do?" Haruhi asks.
"That relay! It shouldn't be possible for you to make this." The Doctor states with certainty. " This is carrionite science. This is science from the dawn of the universe, the science of form and energy. It will work on something like the data entity but it you shouldn't have this knowledge."
I pull out a black book, "I heard of it at the dawn of the universe but only found the book in the 51st century. The only copy of the Book of Form. I had to steal a copy from a Vashta Nerada infested library but I got it."
I know why the Doctor goes quiet. Lighting is heard over the city. Lighting from the sky starts striking all over the city, the giants begin to swat at the tendrils too.
"That would be the big boy getting angry." Mickey points out. "It looks like it wants to take out it anger on the city."
I'm already typing away at one of the computers. "That's where the rest of you guys come into my plan. Get behind the computers and think of it like a video game."
"Think of what like a video game?" Mickey asks.
But then the sound of several booms shatter the little silence left they all notice what's going on. Several space ships fill the sky. I had them parked on roofs on the city and cloaked but now they're starting to go up in the air.
"You're the one stealing all those ships?!" Martha yells at me. "And all that missing alien tech?"
"Yeah." I admit. "I needed to borrow them. Also start working the controls or they will crash." Hearing that they all jump on the computer that I've set to work easy enough like a video game. "Just fire upwards at the the things. It won't do too much damage but it should keep it distracted so it can't try to stop my plan."
I really just have to keep the Data Overmind over the city. I had grabbed all those pieces of aliens tech to help built the relay and power it up, even the Mona Lisa is being used to power it, I couldn't believe that it had so much energy in it. Mister Smith will keep everything monitored so nothing goes wrong on that end but there is still a lot to do.
"So you just want us to shot at that thing?" Kunikida questions.
"Yeah, don't worry if you crash one we have a lot of ships left over. Just try not to crash it into a building."
Its not to much of a worry anyone being hurt since UNIT got everyone out of here already.
"Come on Doctor. It's time for you and me to finish this."
"Wait you're going again?" Haruhi shouts at me.
"It's almost over. I promise once this is all over tell you everything."
Haruhi gives me that look that says, 'You'd better.'
They seem to be handling well enough and I led the Doctor to where the Tardis is waiting for him under a tarp.
The Doctor pulls off the tarp quickly to give his Tardis a hug. "Oh did you miss me?"
"Come on we have to get going now."
"Kyon," his voice is serious and calm so very unlike him. "You know. You know what happens to River. You were in the library and you gave Jack that gun. You have to know and you met her before that. Did you..?"
"Don't worry I didn't tell her."
"Thank you. She must never know what happens to her."
"I get it."
River explained it to me in the Library, I know what happens to her. As we step into the Tardis I just hope she is doing what she is supposed to.
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Centuries into the future a pair of time traveler appear in a white corridor. Both would be described as beautiful women one with the fire of devotion and danger in her eyes and the other with a sense of fear in hers. Guess which one is holding the gun.
"You brought me back here?" Asahina asks.
"Yes, back at your work place." River comments with confidence.
"But why?"
"I made a promise." River pauses. "I made a promise to Kyon. When I was back in school Kyon arrived in the Tardis. He told me something, something to gain my trust. He also promised me that someday I'd see the Doctor again. He also asked of me two things. One was I had to come here to hack your network after I had gotten my vortex manipulator and it started to malfunction. That was a while ago. The second thing I promised was when you tried to come back I would have to bring you here and do one more thing." River Song pointed to a steel door at the end of the corridor. "I need you to open that door."
"I can't." Asahina said. "That's the temporal directional oscillators for the TPDD. Without that none of the TPDD's will work."
"Yes, I intend to destroy that machine. It will destroy this building and prevent anyone else from traveling back. Especially with all records for that machine having already been stolen by me. Without the machine all your endeavors will not be funded and humanity won't even bother with time travel again for centuries."
"That was Kyon's plan?"
"Yes, free will. He thought it best for the people of the past to make their own futures free of those from the future shaping it."
"And he sent you to make sure it happens, to make me open the door. There is some irony there."
"No, he only asked me to ask you."
"What?"
"After everything you did he still has faith in you. He asks you to help him here and now. He is asking you as a friend to help him and Haruhi."
"He really does love her."
"Yes, he told me about what he did just to get back to her. All he wants is just to get back to her and marry her. He really is very sweet once you get past all the sarcasm."
Asahina chuckled remembering how kind Kyon was the first time they met when she was so scared to be pushed into her mission.
"So what are you going to do?" Was River's final question.
Asahina looked right at the door, she could open it easily but she wasn't sure if she would.
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The Tardis materialized in the sky near the tower. I opened the doors to looks out into the city. It quite a sight seeing blue giants batting away red glowing gnats and space ships firing at tendrils coming from the sky. It really seems like something Haruhi would come up with. But it's good to see things are going well. Whenever the entity knocks out one of the space ships the Celestials seems to be catching them before they cause any damage. And some of those ships seem to be working very well, my guess is that those are being controlled by Yuki getting back at her old boss.
Anyway we need to get the last piece into place. Its something I actually something I picked up from Tsuruya's place. A small metal rod I found in her mountain. I made a few modifications to make it work by remote. The Tardis flies me back to the where Nagato was and with the Doctor's help we install it.
Like an elevator the Tardis lowers itself to the opening created by the bus.
I can see that Jack was keeping Asakura busy but seeing all the blood and his clothes rip also tell me he hasn't been doing such a good job avoiding her knife.
"Jack time to go." The Doctor yells at him.
"Well if you insist." Even bleeding he still manages to smile.
He quickly leaps onto the Tardis.
"Go, go, go!" I shout at the Doctor.
the Tardis begins to pull away from the Tower.
Asakura stands at the edge with her knife bloodied, "You really think I can't follow."
I take out the remote for the rod device to activate just as she's about to leap after us. Suddenly the sky is filled with light as the relay and all the symbols I made around the city start to glow. Last but not least the tower glows and a sound like a tuning fork is heard. The world goes white and I'm overcome by the sensation of falling.
Authors Notes: Okay one chapter to go after this. I started getting back in the groove near the end of this chapter. I also have an idea for one more story about this series where we find out the source of Haruhi's powers and we get to see more character from the novels. Would anyone be interested? Leave me a review if you liked this or have suggestions or whatever. Any please let me know how I'm doing story and characterwise I feel something is off and I'm not doing my best
