Miku (?)

The chauffer drove on, taking us onto a military base. When he asked for everyone's id, we gave them up without asking. It was pretty much midnight, and Meggy was sort of nodding off. I gently shook her shoulder and she lifted her head to look at me, and leaned on my shoulder to rest. I petted her head softly until we stopped and the five of us, Kaito, me and Meggy, and Kaito's two handy men.

Kaito pulled out his cell and dialed a number, leading us toward a crowd of dispersing soldiers. When the person Kaito called didn't pick up, he motioned to a soldier and pulled him aside to have a quick chat with him about something interesting. When they finished, the guy hurried inside and Kaito led us to a parking lot with a lone jeep.

He herded us into the shadows and told Meggy to load her gun that he had told her to bring along, which she did, before recalling the number. The operator picked up, and Kaito told him to get Mikoto, which the operator put him on hold for a moment. I brought Meggy close to me to hug so I was occupied, and Meggy turned around so she could hug me back and rested her head on my chest while I leaned on a tree for support.

When Mikoto picked up the phone and Kaito answered, the two men began engaging in a colorful conversation, as Kaito tried to ring him in for some shenanigans he was pulling and Mikoto spat atrocities that made Kaito feel the need to continue to troll him. Mikoto quickly calmed down enough to hang up, and that made Kaito very pleased, seeing how his face showed that everything seemed to be going as he planned.

We stood there for a while, waiting for something. Soon, a group of people, one of them so very obviously drunk, came out with the private and started toward the jeep. Kaito redialed the number into his phone and pulled out his gun, and then motioned us to follow.

Meggy jumped into the jeep and told Mikoto's group to leave without him, then got out and returned to my side. His group followed directions and left, when our ride arrived to pick us up. Kaito motioned him to enter, and reluctantly he entered first, followed by me and Meggy and then Kaito's handy men. Kaito didn't enter himself, as his men closed the door behind them and the chauffer drove off, leaving him.

Mikoto still had his phone on, which Kaito kept speaking through for a bit before closing it. But rather than just that, he opened it back up and turned it off, then looked at our really interested eyes, giving us the unintended signal to jump on him and pin him down, or rather hold him down as when I went for his hands he showed me the strength of a Colonel and flung me away.

When we managed to get him under control, or rather eased him into giving up, he looked at the two others with slight interest before turning back to us. "Are they used to your antics?" Mikoto asked.

"Pretty much," Meggy said, rolling her eyes.

"Did Kaito say something about being a wife?" I asked. Mikoto said nothing, and out of curiosity, I reached up and grabbed the zipper on his jacket and unzipped it, to find something really interesting.

The chauffer honked his horn suddenly, and the two men barreled out the door that they opened. I was hooked onto what I saw, a mixture of confusion and strange fascination running through my head, that I couldn't react at all. I felt Meggy gently stirring behind me, trying to break our focus and failed, sitting upright but motionless.

Mikoto looked over out the front window to see why the chauffer had stopped and ditched the limousine so suddenly, much to his displeasure. He quickly zipped up his jacket and went through the open door, leaving us behind. We sat there for a moment thinking emptily to ourselves when a speeding humvee came out of the dim light ahead of us and totaled the limousine.

Tei Sukone

"Leave, girls!" the green haired girl ordered, and Luka put the jeep in reverse. Satisfied, the girl exited the car and with one last glimpse at Mikoto, Luka drove off. Everyone but Haku stayed quiet, content on listening to Haku incoherently babble about how she had messed up so bad that night and other times, including how she couldn't find a good hiding place for the dead cat we had a while back. I had nearly forgotten about that, and looked at my cousin, though I doubt she took heed since she continued to blab her faults.

We dropped off the private first before too long and started on towards Haku's bunker, when a familiar figure came into view. Luka stopped and Mikoto opened the door and entered, nodding to her to continue.

"So, how'd it go?" she asked.

"Not overly bad. It could have gone worse," he said, sighing. He looked back at Haku, who faded into just opening and closing her mouth and letting out sounds. I tapped her shoulder and shook her out of it, and she looked at me.

"Submit!" I heard the governor shout faintly in the darkness, and Mikoto's phone rang again. He ignored it, and when it didn't stop, he tossed it out the jeep window into the sidewalk.

"I'll get it in the morning," he said nonchalant. Suddenly, the jeep door on Mikoto's side popped out of its socket and started to fall away. He quickly grabbed the door handle and tried to hauled it back into place when the seat itself, seatbelt disengaging, jumped a few inches from where it was, prompting him to drop the door. He reached down and disconnected the electric cord from the door as it touched the ground and gave Luka one last glance before somersaulting out the door, seat following him.

"Col!" Luka shouted, before slamming on the brakes. However, the car that appeared out of the darkness in front of us, without their headlights on, didn't seem to particularly mind colliding with the jeep at full speed.

Mikoto and Kaito

Mikoto rolled out of the jeep as it collided with the car coming out of the darkness. Kaito, sensing the opportunity, walked swiftly to her side and pulled out his gun.

"Well, does that make two failed attempts on your life?" Kaito grinned, as he pinned Mikoto to the ground. "I wasn't even expecting the second. Guess things just go my way."

"Bull shit," Mikoto said, lifting Kaito's foot off of her. Kaito pressed down on his foot, and it slipped from Mikoto's grasp back onto her stomach.

"If you have any hope to escape my grasp, you have to put forth effort!" Kaito lectured.

"Why? I am putting forth all the effort I need," Mikoto challenged. Soon enough, several sergeants and a certain first lieutenant arrived at the car wreck. Mikoto lifted Kaito's foot off her body and then away with some force, causing him to flail for balance, then she sat up before looking up to seeing Kaito's gun pointed at her. She reached up and covered the barrel of the gun quickly when he pulled the trigger.

The force from the bullet blew the tip of the gun apart, much to Kaito's disappointment. A look of shock appeared across the governor's face, before he tossed the broken gun aside and backed away laughing.

"What is this? It doesn't make sense anymore! I've won! Submit! Ah ha!" he cried, hysterical. He fell to his knees as Mikoto stood up and brushed the dust from the tip of the gun off.

"You okay?" First Lieutenant Kamui asked, helping Mikoto stay up.

"Wonderful. I'll leave him to you. I've got something to check on," she replied.

"Right," Kamui said, before calling to the sergeants to take Kaito into custody.

Mikoto

I hurried to the jeep-convertible smashup and found the convertible's front bumper too close for comfort in the backseats. I heard the unfathomable babble coming from somewhere in it, hoping that it was Luka, but someone still alive was better than the other result. I grabbed something and, with my family's dominant trait, tore it from the mess and tossed it aside, then reached in for another piece.

I opened a pocket and found someone I didn't recognize with short brown hair and worked around them to get them out, opening other pockets in the process. Wondering where half the material came from, I removed the brown haired person, a woman and her two blonde children, none of them completely scathed, before I felt it was necessary to take bigger chunks.

A few privates and sergeants, all medics thankfully, came and retrieved the people, while a couple more lingered behind me, waiting for more.

By the time two thirds of the pile was separated, I stopped to get my bearings when I saw the civilian's leg gently slide out of the side. I tried once again, and found the three girls all together, but not to my liking. They were mostly battered in what appeared to be where the engines were. I gently lifted the civilian and placed her on the ground for the medics, followed by Corporal Yowane. I had to dig slightly more for Luka, but when it comes down to it, the last person will be in the worst condition. While the civilian and Yowane did get bloody with a few broken bones, they can recover from it.

I tentatively lifted Luka's mangled body from the wreckage and placed her on a stretcher. She coughed weakly to show me that she was alive, but from her missing left hand and lower leg, she probably wasn't going to serve anymore. I sat back onto the wreck and waved off the remaining medics, who were standing at attention by their supplies. I brushed my head of the slight amount of sweat that built up and looked up when a familiar private, wearing a staff sergeant insignia, walked up to me to hand me my phone.

"You got a call," he said, then absconded.

"I know I have a call. I always have a call," I muttered before opening my cell. And just like that, it rang, but instead of Kaito's number flashing across the screen, it was my brother. I hit the talk button and raised up to my ear. "Hello?"

"Yo! Your future, past, whatever self said you needed someone who can repair lost limbs and bodies, so I'm going to be over there sometime when it's light to drop off someone who can. Don't worry, I'm not going to kidnap them from some other world, but I did find someone from your current one that is willing to do it. I am going to say you're going to have to pay the bill though. Stable time loops, you know, so see you then!" Mikaru said, hanging up.

"Yeah, yeah. I'm sure we can deal with the bill alright," I muttered getting up, cheered up. I looked at the wrecked jeep and started walking home, giving a curious First Lieutenant a friendly smirk.

This was the life I chose, and I, personally, wanted to keep it this way. In the short stretch between my place and the base, I entered a completely dark space where I could see all the astrological bodies in good definition in the sky, including the partial moon and the second binary world on the other side of it, and saw a flower-like design out of the visible landmass on the surface. These human worlds are so perfect for them, I thought before continuing on my way.

Megurine

It was fairly early in the morning when I woke, and checking the clock it was long before Gakupo was supposed to be awake. It was even earlier than the time he woke up yesterday. I simply thought it was that I needed a drink of water, so I quietly got out of bed and walked over to the kitchen to get a glass when someone knocked on the door.

Really? I looked at the clock to see it was three fourteen in the morning, and if it was someone like yesterday then I wouldn't want to make the same mistake again, so I grabbed a frying pan and answered the door. It was a smaller version of the soldier from yesterday, having a stumpy white ponytail, spectacled red eyes, and a dark gray unbuttoned shirt and a striped red tee and simple black pants.

"Yes?" I asked, frying pan at the ready.

"A frying pan? He wasn't joking," the kid said under his breath. "Anyway, I need to talk to you about engineering."

"Really? This early in the morning? It can wait until the sun comes up!" I told him, closing the door. He grabbed the edge of the door and with unnatural strength, as I can easily beat Gackt in an arm wrestle, hauled it open, carefully making sure not to slam it the other way. I backed away from the door and held the frying pan poised to strike.

"That's not going to do much," he said, leaning on the doorway.

"Why do you want to talk about engineering at midnight? Is someone dying!" I yelled, wanting Gakupo to wake up.

"Yes, several people actually. And it has to be now because my future self told me it needed to happen now because it's the only chance to do so! You can beat the crap out of me later, like you already did to him, but we need to get on the road!" the kid told me.

"And why should I believe you? I know it's the generic story line to half a dozen anime and rpgs, but there's the off chance the guy's pulling a fast one. A pretty big fast one," I pointed out. "And don't give me a replica of myself! It could just as easily be a cosplayer!"

"Yeah, yeah. Well," he said, reaching into his pocket to retrieve a note and scanned over it before getting a strange look on his face. "Well, this was a waste. Should have complied, it would have spared you."

"Pardon me?" I said, when a girl appeared behind him, who looked exactly like me, but was wearing my purple sweater and pink skirt, along with my plush doll-hat.

"Alpha timeline Luka was killed by Beta timeline Luka for incompliance and sent into Beta timeline to replace Beta timeline Luka, therefore first Alpha timeline Luka becomes second Beta timeline Luka and vice versa," the girl said, confusing me for a second. When the meaning came to me, there was no time to dodge first Beta/second Alpha timeline Luka's knife.

"What was different in Beta?" I asked her, and she smiled wickedly.

"Simple, I complied the first time around, but it was too late because we found your body on the side of the road and tried to save you from us," she told me.

"Stable time loop math is hard," I said, giving in to death.

"I know how you feel, I'd rather not think too hard either, but someone has to."