A/N:
This chapter is just for fun. It is not part of the main story.
Chapter 29: Omake: A Meeting in a Dream
I was sound asleep and having a pleasant dream. One can never remember how a dream starts, only how it ends.
It was shortly after dinner. I had put away the dishes and I was now sitting in my favorite chair while watching Haibane Renmei on the flat panel, thinking about Rakka and her Day of Flight. What will she discover beyond the wall? What is out there? Hey, what if Rakka flies out beyond the wall and finds that afterlife high school in Angel Beats! maybe? She would be the right age for attending high school by then. Hey, I like that, a nice crossover story.
I started to dream that I was a character in such a story. I imagined that I was Rakka and that I had just landed at the high school. There I had a joyful reunion with my best friend and mentor, Reki, another ex-pat from Glie who had landed at the high school a few years prior. Soon I learned that Kanade was an ex-pat from Glie too. She was the Haibane's original mentor, Kuramori, and had left on her Day of Flight years prior. The cigarette smoking Reki was still sour and angry because she still felt hurt and upset with Kuramori for abandoning her back in Glie, back when they were close friends. Reki told me that Kuramori was the original leader of the Haibane in Glie, and that one day she just up and disappeared without saying goodbye. Reki almost didn't make it because of Kuramori/Kanade's cruel abandonment of her (or so she thought), so there was a lot of tension between them now. Reki then dragooned me into joining Yurippe's quest to fight the 'angel', Kanade. Reki instructed me to keep secret from Yurippe the fact that she and I had hidden wings just like Kanade's. Reki then explained to me that Kanade's personality had changed, that she was now aloof and strangely distant. Kuramori was such a happy person back in Glie, so what had changed? Why is her personality so different now? What happened to her, and why?
Then I was back sitting in my favorite chair again. I was daydreaming trying to imagine how the rest of the crossover story would play out. Hmm. Yurippe would be creating havoc as usual. She would immediately begin to scheme how to exploit the arrival of the new girl, Rakka, to her advantage. Otanashi would of course try to gamely help the new girl, and in doing so he and Rakka might get close to each other. Then Kanade might start to feel jealous unconsciously. Was Rakka stealing the heart of the one man who can help Kanade move on? Does she have her own feelings for him? And what about Reki? Ooh.. I see major plot twists.. There's definitely a good story possibility here..
Such a pleasant dream. Then my reverie was interrupted. It was because I saw someone standing before me, blocking my view of the flat panel. It alarmed me because she seemed to appear out of nowhere. At first I didn't recognize her, which was ironic because I created her as a character in one of my other fanfics. I must still be dreaming...
Hello there!
Gaah! Who the heck are you? Where did you come from?
It's me, silly. Lind. You ended my fanfic story. I just popped up a level.
Stand back! And don't wave that crazy pole-axe at me!
What, this old thing? It's my number 15 halberd, my power limiter. I'm actually more dangerous without it. You want me to put it down?
Yes!
Ok, fine. There, happy?
Thank you. Ugh, I must be having a nightmare. It's gotta be that late-night pizza.
You are right, I'm just inside your head. I'm a blessing to some, a nightmare to others!
Wait, did you just quote a line from the film Excalibur at me?
Yeah. The character of Merlin. So?
Sheesh, now I'm doing crossovers in my sleep.
Hey, it was a good line.
Yeah, I guess. Anyway, why are you shoving yourself into my sleepy head?
I want to get in on some of that sweet crossover action you got going on over in your other fic.
Huh? Which one?
You know the one, your big honking huge epic sprawling galactic romance mystery fic. That one. The Final Act of Ha-chooky Soo-zoo-mee-ah.
You can't read, can you..
Yeah, you caught me. I'm functionally illiterate. That's why I never read Tyr's briefing folders. And why I hate paperwork so much.
You know, that explains a lot.
Shush, don't tell anybody. So, can I please have a crossover? Pretty please? Pretty pretty please? Pretty pretty please with sugar on top?
Ok, ok! Fine. I'll add you to the crossover pile. Dunno when I'd get to it though. That stack is getting so high, and the plot diagram is so spheghetti-ed up right now, I dunno how I'm ever going to possibly untangle it and hit the sweet, sweet, ending I got cooked up.
Nice challenge you set for yourself. Is it a good ending? I love good endings. I really liked the one gave me here in Fifth Kind.
Uh, you did? I killed you..
Naw. I just ended up in a higher reality level than *you*. That was a neat trick, by the way.
Oh? Uhm, thanks.
Yeah. Level 38 is keeping me pretty busy. It took a while for me to get a handle on the non-Euclidian geometry up here so I can finally fly straight.
Really? That's great. Anyway, the ending for your story was way simpler than the beyond-epic two-way parallel transfinite ending I got cooked up over in that other fic.
Is that ending good?
Oh yeah. Wow.. I can't believe I wrote that. I go through five hankies every time I read it. It's like I'm getting higher help from somewhere.
Oooh.. I'd love to see that ending!
I'm still working on it. It's an incredibly intricate story line.
Great! That means there is still time to work me in! What do I need to do?
It's easy. Just dive one reality-level down from this one and get inside. You should be pretty good at doing that by now. Here's the URL.
http colon slash slash fanfiction dot net slash s slash 9245566 slash 1 slash The-Final-Act-of-Haruki-Suzumiya
I can barely read, you idiot.
Oops. Ok, just go to the FanFiction website and set the Search box to 'Writer' and type in 'HuuskerDu'. You can type, right?
Yeah. I'll have to put my glasses on. Hunt and peck. I'll find it.
But you can't read..?
Hey, I might be illiterate but I'm not stupid. I use an audio HTML screen scraper.
Well, there you go. Get over to that fic. Oh, I forgot one thing: You will need to first watch about nine hours of animes in the Haruhi Suzumiya series. It's mandatory, otherwise the fic will make no sense at all. The introduction explains it. See the Author Notes at the top of the first chapter.
Ok. The anime has no subtitles I hope? I don't want to have to get Peorth to read them to me aloud. She's always ripping on me for only having a GED.
Relax, the prereq animes are all English speaking dubs. The dubs are really well done (IMHO). The anime otaku purists hate dubs, but I think a good dub beats reading a bunch of badly translated subtitles any day of the week. It's nine hours long, though. Mandatory.
Ok, cool. I'll pop extra popcorn. Bye!
She's gone, good. Sheesh, I thought I'd never get rid of her. I need my sleep. Feh, can't sleep now. Might as well stay awake. Hmm, I still got that pesky brightness problem in Haruki plot diagram. Gotta fix it. Hey, Lind! Yeah.. a crossover! Hmm..
