Authors note: I'd rather just have this story get started, but I wanna leave a fair warning to people clicking on this for the first time: this fic is sort of a sequel/'what happens next' to Flip Flappers, yes, but it's got a LOT of refrences to my previous fic 'Pure Voice' and is probably mostly a sequel to that, rather than the anime itself. I STRONGLY recommend reading 'Pure Voice' before moving on to this fic, as you will probably miss out number of refrences or callbacks to events of that story. You can try reading this as a standalone, but there'll probably be quite a few things that'd be out of context, or might not make too much sense without it, so although you can try it, I don't think it'll be a good idea.

That's up to you though. To new readers, welcome! To old readers, welcome back! To new people who click on this, read the warning, check out the original fic, and then come back to read this story, welcome, goodbye, and welcome back again! I hope you enjoy this sequel to 'Pure Voice' and therefore (in a way) sequel to Flip Flappers.

This story continues pretty much from where Pure Voice left off.


I thought I could keep those thoughts at bay...

But no matter how hard I tried, they were always at the back of my mind..

((Switch with me...))


I don't know how long it was after Cocona and Papika fought Mimi in Pure Illusion. All I knew is, when I finally woke up, the sky was dark, I was lying in a field of white clovers, and I was surrounded.

Get up!

Instinct pushed me to my feet, maybe a little too quickly as I almost lost my balance. There was no need to worry though, despite having people all around me. They turned out to be friendly faces.

"Toto...? Yuyu?" I felt kinda groggy, and had to rub my eyes to try and get things to be less blurry. It worked a little, as the twin's faces became less fuzzy, and I could make out silver hair, red eyes, and… is that a scar on Toto's head? I was about to ask about that, when I noticed there was another person with them, a smaller kid with strange orange-brown-yellow eyes. I felt like I should have known their name too, but it wasn't coming to me, in fact, the only identification I could think to give them was, "…third kid?"

"No! I said before, I'm Nyunyu!" they responded. That's right… "And nyu're sixth kid!"

Sixth kid?

I wanted to ask her what she meant by that, but I had a more important question on my mind.

"Where the hell are we?" The white clovers suggested Pure Illusion, or at least somewhere Mimi has been before, but the sky… No, it wasn't the sky…

"Real world. Asclepius building" Toto answered. Wait, we're back at base? I had another look around, but all I could see was white clovers littered thickly all over every surface. Hardly any stone or concrete was showing (it also explained why the sky was black: the ceiling of the building). Eventually my eyes fell on something I recognised. Well, something I would have recognised. When it stood, it looked like a Y shaped stick, with wings coming off the edges at the top, and there was a red glow which made me feel like I was being watched by a giant eye… But now, the red 'eye' was gone, and much like the rest of the place, it was covered in white clovers. It only stood out to me because there was a hole in the roof, casting a circle of daylight over the plinth where the structure once proudly stood.

But beyond that, pretty much everything else here was just… gone. Destroyed. I walked over to one of extremely few things still standing: a lone computer terminal, and brushed a hand along the side of it, which much like the rest of the place, had patches of white clovers all over. The screen was on, which suggested the computer was used pretty recently, although by the amorphous kids, or an Asclepius member, I don't know.

"What happened here?" I asked the twins. Whatever happened in Pure Illusion, not much time could have passed in the real world. I felt like the computer should have been completely rusted over or something, with the sheer amount of plant life in the building. Hell, just seeing the plants here was pretty weird, no one at Asclepius had one, not even a single flower just sitting on a desk.

"Mimi attacked," Yuyu answered.

Mimi did this…? What Yuyu said made sense, I mean, I've seen some of Mimi's power beforehand (Or the darker side of Mimi at least. I called her Yamimi in my head to help separate the two)… but this… I had an idea of what she could do, and that she could probably influence the real world just as much as Pure Illusion, it's why the head priest of Asclepius wanted to try and find all the amorphous after all-

"Asclepius is dead." Toto added, interrupting my thoughts.

"Dead?" I asked, turning back to face him. I mean, looking around me, that should have been pretty evident. I couldn't see a single living person here beyond the four of us… "How are you guys alive?" I asked.

"Arrived after Mimi's attack," Toto answered. My eyes fell on his scar again. I remember now… he and Yuyu came here to fix Toto's head wound. It looked like it worked at least.

"I'm glad to see you're both safe" I said, with a little smile. Toto's mouth twitched, in an attempt to copy me, and Yuyu continued to just stare at me. Wait a second, that's a good point. I turned my attention to Nyunyu.

"What are you doing here, Nyunyu? I thought you stayed with the others at Flip Flap Zero…"

"Nyunyu came here with Flip Flap to investigate! Salt wanted to find something here, so we all came! They all went back, then I found Toto Onii-sama and Yuyu Onee-chan and then we found nyu!" She replied. Once again, I couldn't help but be a little puzzled by Nyunyu's… energy. She was definitely livelier than Toto and Yuyu, but why did Asclepius make her like that? Well, even if I wanted to ask someone about that (although I doubt they've have answered me anyway), there was no one to ask any more. I looked around at the white clovers again and shuddered. Some of those used to be people...

"Do you know how I got here?" I asked.

"Hole. Fell from above," Toto answered. He walked up to the computer terminal and began typing rapidly on the keyboard. Streams of information flashed along his eyepiece, but I noticed, it seemed to be going at a much slower rate than it used to. Toto was made to process lots of information quickly, much faster than any regular human was capable of, but there was definitely a difference in the pace he seemed to be able to register it all compared to before. Must be because of that head injury… Yuyu and Nyunyu didn't seem to be hurt at all. I guess at least, regardless of what happened here, they didn't get injured after coming here. Although, now I look at it Yuyu's giant metal arm seemed a bit dented, but fine beyond that.

"What're you guys doing here now?" I asked. It was clear that Toto was all healed up, and no one from Asclepius was around… A thought hit me then, which made me a little sad. If they were just made to come back here after Pure Illusion, no matter that happened… I mean, the twins didn't need to eat or drink, but still, if they came back here after everything and found it like this… Where could they go now? Asclepius and Pure Illusion were all they knew. I mean, they could still go to their school I guess, but what about after school? Would they just come back and sit here all alone?

Another thought hit me then: Asclepius was… well, I'd be hesitant to call it 'home', but like Toto and Yuyu, beyond school and Cocona all I had was… here.

There was nowhere for us to go…

Toto's eyepiece beeped. "Data recovered. Deleted on source console," he announced. The screen he was working on had now turned blank. He stood away, as Yuyu approached the computer, gauntlet raised, before she crushed it with a single punch.

I guess they were also made to destroy every scrap if information of Pure Illusion if something happened to the rest of Asclepius… They didn't want anyone else to get there after all.

"Current mission: destroy remaining evidence," Toto said, finally answering my question. Well, that confirms that

Wait, what about the stuff in my room? Have they already been there?

"I'll be right back," I told them, before rushing off.

My room looked exactly how I remember it looking last time I left it (including lack of white clovers, my room was completely untouched)… was it really only a few days ago I was last here? Fighting Yamimi, Flip Flap's base, white expanse, Pop's World, the alternate Pure Illusion… Yeah, at least four or five days… Wow… So much has happened in all that time…

My room was pretty bare, there was hardly anything of note in here at all, a bed, and a shelf containing a few books, my metal leaf from a previous Pure Illusion I went into, and a brown and blue disc of highly polished rock, the size of a music record (another souvenir of another world in Pure Illusion. I picked it up in the first place, thinking it was an amorphous. It wasn't but I kept it because it reminded me of Cocona, my only friend at the time). Looking at all the swirls of colour, tracing my fingers around where they mixed together, I remembered my time in the alternate Pure Illusion, where I was seperated from Toto and Yuyu, and all I had for company were a variety of different Coconas. That was the time when I realised just what exactly Asclepius were planning: to find a way to harness Mimi's power and take over the world, potentially destroying everything in the process. I ran away to Pure Illusion then, intending to stay there forever if I had to, but the longer I stayed, the more I thought about how Asclepius would just find another way to get to Pure Illusion, drag some other poor kid into all of this, or if not that, then they'd go after Cocona and take her. I returned to the real world, because the only way to save the world from Asclepius was for Cocona and Papika to find all the amorphous. If I stayed with Asclepius, I could slow them down or sabotage them from the inside, they wouldn't go after Flip Flap (and therefore Cocona) directly if they still had someone who could go to Pure Illusion, and I could try and help keep Cocona safe...

But yeah, that place wasn't a bad world. Everything echoed like hell there, and there was phantom birdsong if you stood on certain patches of floor, but it was pretty harmless otherwise.

I guess the four of us could just go live in Pure Illusion if we had to... It's not like we have anywhere else to go. I took the Cocona rock from the shelf, and put it on my bed, along with the metal leaf (the colours of which shifted between silver and gold depending on the lighting).

I mean, I don't think the twins would actually come in here and smash these things too, but they were some of the very few objects I actually owned. There as also a jacket I had, which was sitting on my bed, which I admit I was kinda surprised to see. I reached a hand into one of the pockets on my weapon belt at that point, and pulled out an exact replica of the one I could see in front of me. In doing so, something else tumbled out of the pocket and rolled along the floor: a blue gemstone.

No, not a gemstone. An amorphous. I kinda forgot I still had it on me, I put it into one of my weapon belt pockets at some point during the battle with Yamimi. I had no idea if it still had any power to it, whether Yamimi taking it away was permanent, or if regular Mimi had given it back somehow... Either way, I picked it up. There was no green light as I touched it and put it back in my pocket, along with the copy of my jacket, which made me think Yamimi taking the amorphous power away might still be the case.

I'll figure all that out later. There was another reason I came in here after all…

Much like my copy of the jacket, there was a copy of something else I had on me: in the pockets of my weapons belt was a silver chain, the remains of a necklace given to me by Cocona not long after we initially became friends. She heard I'd gotten hurt, and gave me the necklace, which looked like it had a tiny orange dragon egg on the end of it, saying the egg would hatch and the dragon would protect me… But yeah, the copy of the chain was in a pocket on my belt, and the real one was tucked away in the pages of one of my books…

I opened it up to the page, and slowly pulled out the silver chain, which attempted to dribble through my fingers.

And then I came to the end of it.

And the 'dragon egg' was cut in half.


It was probably a bit dumb of me to take the metal leaf and the Cocona rock out of my room, as they were heavy and a little cumbersome to be carrying around in my arms, but I wanted to stop Toto and Yuyu from destroying them (I was also wearing the dragon egg necklace around my neck). I was making my way back to the place where I'd left the three of them, when as I was walking through the corridors, I found myself stopping outside a door. It took me a second to realise why exactly. It was identical to all the other doors in the building. There were no signs or labels anywhere to be seen...

I nudged the door with my shoulder, thankfully it was unlocked, and had a look inside. It was just as bright as I remember when I saw it in the alternate world Pure Illusion, and I had to squint my eyes to try and cut out some of the sheer... whiteness of it. It was a little easier to look at than it was before, as some of Yamimi's white clovers had made their way in here too, but beyond that, it was still pretty bright in here. The patches of white clovers helped me get an idea of how big the room was, compared to the last time I was here, and it was definitely big. A fragton bigger than it needed to be, when you consider the only two things in here were a double bass and a piano.

I've not actually seen this room in the real world before, I only learnt of its existance in the world identical to this one in Pure Illusion, but from what little I knew of the twins, I wonder how they'd feel when they came across here. Yuyu (or at least a Yuyu in another world) seemed... fond, I guess, of this room. Would the real Yuyu be able to destroy this place if she had to? She liked music and wanted to be able to play the piano with her brother one day. If she had to, could she destroy something that she loved?

I should get going. I walked away from the room and made my way back to the room where I woke up. Yuyu was the only one here. She watched as I approached, and her eyes went to the two large objects I was hugging to myself, before her eyes flicked back up to me. Her head tilted to the side, like a curious dog.

"You can destroy everything else in the building, but I'm keeping these," I said, answering her silent question. She nodded, before turning to look at an empty doorway. It was a little odd to be back in the presence of the amorphous kids, after being around Cocona and Papika for the past couple of days or so. I mean, I was used to the twins, I've known them for years after all, and I saw them pretty much every day, but... there was something missing, being back next to them. I'd started to learn a little bit about them in our most recent adventures in Pure Illusion, and I'd just about started to consider them friends, but... I spent so much less time with Papika, and I felt a lot closer to her, than I did to either of the twins, despite all the time we've spent together, working for Asclepius.

Maybe that was something I should change...

"Toto and Nyunyu through there?" I asked her.

"Portal room" Yuyu answered.

That sent a shock of alarm through me. I cursed, before rushing off as fast as I could, leaving Yuyu behind me. If they take that out, we won't have anywhere to go.

Despite the fact I'd just told Yuyu I wanted to keep my Cocona rock and the metal leaf, I dumped them on the floor, knowing they'd only weight me down. Even though I was blessed with agility and was pretty light on my feet, as quickly as I was running, I felt like I was being far too slow, as if instead of running through a corridor with no resistance at all, that I was trying to wade through a tar pit.

I found myself at the entrance, panting heavilly, hand on the door frame, and barely managed to yell "Hold it!" between heavy breaths. My feet hurt from them pounding the floor so hard in trying to get here, and I was pretty sure I was getting a headache or something, from lack of oxygen in my system from overexcerting myself. My bangs were in front of my face, blocking my vision, and in my current state (being doubled over and tired out), it was kinda difficult to raise my head to see what was going on.

Toto, who was midway through typing on another computer terminal stopped, his eyes facing me, but his head turned towards the screen. His fingers were frozen in the air, as if he were a statue with his hands were carved to be that way, as they hovered over the keys. Nyunyu was watching him, eager and curious, before she turned to me. Where Toto and Yuyu's gaze made them look like they were almost always half-asleep, Nyunyu's eyes were constantly wide open, like an owl's. Man, that stare is really gonna take some getting used to... Much like the rest of the Asclepius building, the place was covered with white clovers. Apparently though, the electronics in here were unaffected.

Seeing the both of them standing so still after I gave them the command to stop, I kinda wondered if I left the room, if they'd still be standing like that, even if I never came back. You know, a part of me wouldn't be surprised if that was the case, but I'm not gonna do that.

Either way, when I eventually recovered, I asked them, "What're you doing?" I mean, I was pretty sure I knew exactly what they were doing, but still, the amorphous kids seldom spoke of their own accord unless they were asked a quesion. Normally this was the only way to get a response out of them.

"Destroying evidence," Toto answered. I was expecting him to continue tapping away on the computer keys, but he didn't move an inch. Whether that was because I gave an order, or because he could sense something urgent about me, I didn't know.

"I'm helping!" Nyunyu piped up. She sounded... monotone, but also energetic. A little loud. I'm not really sure if I can explain it just right, but those are the words I can think were best to describe it. "What are nyu doing?" She asked right back.

"Stopping you," I said, "if Asclepius is gone, and you're destroying everything that remains, then where are we gonna go?" I paused, waiting for an answer "Where are we gonna live, Toto?"

I wasn't expecting a response from him at all, I was just expecting silence, so when I heard him say, "Accounted for"... well, if I was sitting, I would have fallen right out of my chair.

Instead I just raised my eyebrows, "You have a plan?" I asked, and he responded with a nod. He's thought about this? I don't know why it surprised me so much. Toto was the one on the team who took all things into consideration and made almost-instant descisions, but I guess it was the fact that he'd thought about a non-combat situation like this... Even with his processing speed though, I couldn't help wondering, did he work out what to do the instant Asclepius was taken out? ...Or has he been thinking about this for a lot longer than that?

"Can we blow it up now?" Nyunyu asked eagerly. Toto's eyes went between her and me, and like Yuyu earlier, tilted his head slightly to the side in question. His fingers still hadn't moved in all the time we spoke, his hands didn't shake at all, despite having been in the air for so long.

"Not yet. We might still need this place. If Toto's plan doesn't work, we need a backup," I said, trying to sound convincing. I probably didn't need to put the effort into trying to persuade them, as Toto and Nyunyu seemed pretty happy to follow my orders in the past before, but still.

Thankfully, Toto nodded, accepting my answer. Nyunyu was watching his response, before she nodded as well. I'd already worked out that Toto seemed to trust me, and going by his reaction here, nothing had changed with that, but Nyunyu waiting to see how Toto acted... She seems to trust him quite a lot too. How long has Nyunyu been around? Is her trust in Toto something that was programmed in by Asclepius? Or is that just a thing of hers?

Well, she did call him 'onii-sama' earlier, so that showed she must view him pretty highly at least... I couldn't help but be curious, if Toto was 'onii-sama' and Yuyu 'onee-chan'... What was I to Nyunyu?

Think about that later, Yayaka, you have something more important to be worrying about. "Okay, Toto, what's this plan you have?"


Toto told me to wait outside the Asclepius building while he and Nyunyu finished wiping the hard drives of every remaining computer in the base, and then we'd carry out his plan. He didn't give my any details beyond that, which was odd, but if Toto could trust me with my descisions and commands, I figured I could try and trust him with this.

I figured it'd be a good idea to tell Yuyu what was going on, in case Toto hadn't told her. As I made my way back to the big room I found her in, we ended up running into each other in the corridor. I guess she didn't like waiting around on her own and had decided to follow me, or go see the others.

Actually, now I think about it, she was probably heading there to smash the portal now I'd given Toto and Nyunyu enough time to do what they were doing.

Either way, I was kinda surprised to run into her, especially when I saw her holding my Cocona rock and the metal leaf, both of them clutched in her gauntlet's fist. Upon seeing me, she held them out for me to take. "Found abandoned. Said you wanted to keep," she explained.

Even though she said why she took them with her, I was surprised to see her holding them, or at least taking them back to me. It was a simple gesture, one that probably any other person would have done in the situation really, but the fact it was coming from an artificial human made by Asclepius, probably one of the coldest organisations in existence, I couldn't help but feel a little touched, and smiled as I took the items from her hand.

She thought about me.

"Thanks, Yuyu," I said, gratefully. It was probably the most emotion I've ever really had in my voice when talking to Yuyu, beyond an angry command, or a shout of warning, and I think that showed on Yuyu's face. Her eyes were already open, but I swear they widened just a fraction, as if she was taken aback by someone speaking to her like that. She gave me a nod of confirmation, which seemed a little stilted, and then walked past me. I almost kept walking myself, and then I remembered that I was going to tell Yuyu where I was going.

I called out to her that I'd be waiting outside for the three of them, and she raised her gauntlet in a slight wave to show she'd heard me, before I left the building.


I sat with my back against a tree outside the base, with the disc of Cocona rock and metal leaf in my lap. Maybe an hour or two has passed, going by how much the sun moved across the sky. It was approaching evening, and light was turning everything a warm yellow. From the outside, the Asclepius building looked more like it resembled ancient jungle ruins after Yamimi's attack, rather than a high-tech research facility. It's probably better off that way. Just let it crumble on its own.

I wasn't really sure I had any feelings towards the base, and the fact everything and everyone in it was probably gone. I briefly wondered about the school nurse, as she was a part of Asclepius too, but she was probably called back to base when the attack on Flip Flap begun, and if so, then she was likely killed when Yamimi attacked. Although I didn't really care about most other people in Asclepius being dead, a part of me hoped the school nurse was an android, so at least they wouldn't have felt pain. She wasn't quite as bad as the others, and she let me hang out with Cocona in her room when we didn't have classes, it was one of few places I could be together with Cocona with no one else around...

((Switch with me.))

Those words came echoing back to me, from being tucked away in a deep corner my mind. I remembered my encounter with the red-eyed Yayaka I saw in the mirror (I need to come up with a name for her...) and the offer I was given: to have her take my place so Cocona would be mine. I guess I should be thankful I woke up when I did, because I felt if I stayed there any longer, that I would have said 'yes'... And I know I shouldn't do that.

But as much as I knew that... a part of me still wanted take the offer. It would be wrong to break up Cocona, when she's fallen in love with Papika, and they seemed so happy together... I can't help how I feel though. I'm in love with Cocona too, and I want nothing more than for her to be happy...

But I wanted her to be with me...

...Does she forgive me for lying to her all the time I worked for Asclepius?

I sighed, before I turned my attention back to the real world, instead of getting lost in my thoughts. The amorphous kids had left the building and were all heading towards me, their hair looking like strands of fire as they caught the sun. They looked a bit like they could have been ghosts, burning up in the daylight.

Although one of them, Nyunyu, kinda broke that illusion as had something, small, fat, and green wobbling on her head as she walked. I squinted, trying to work out what the hell it was, until it was close enough for me to recognise: Uexkull, Cocona's pet rabbit.

That's right, I went through the Hole from Pure Illusion with him... I felt a bit bad for forgetting he even existed. We need to return him to Cocona at some point...

The twins were wearing their school uniforms, as was Nyunyu, and all of them had backpacks, which I guess held all their combat equipment and maybe anything else they wanted to take with them. Yuyu's arm was in a cast, like it normally was whenever she wasn't in Asclepius' base/Pure Illusion, so her backpack was only slung over one shoulder...

Wait, that's not her usual backpack... It was metal and slightly battered... That's her gauntlet. Huh... it can do that? I guess it made sense, I had no idea how the heck else we were gonna get across town without turning a few heads if her arm was in plain sight... But since when could it do that? Now I think about it, it might well have been another feature, much like her being able to shoot bullets at short range, that she and Toto could have added when we had to fix our equipment at the yuri-hell-school. Or it's just always been able to do that, and I've never seen it happen.

Seeing them in their school uniforms, it just occured to me, I should probably be wearing mine too. Damn, I didn't even think to grab it before I left... I had my jacket though (or rather a copy of it that came from another world) tucked away in a pocket on my weapon belt. I took it out, to put it on, to disguise myself somewhat (or at least I'd probably get some unwanted attention if I was walking around in my combat gear), and as I did so, Toto had opened up his bag and pulled out a neatly folded blue skirt, white shirt, and sailor scarf. He packed my uniform? I was pretty confused for a second, but I guess it'd be better to just accept it, so I put the skirt on over the top of my combat gear, along with the shirt and sailor scarf, and tied my jacket around my waist, to cover my rocket belt. I could still access it if necessary, which was pretty nice, and I looked just like any other regular kid.

"Prepared?" Toto asked. It was weird that he was the one asking for once, normally I'd be the one to check that sort of thing, but since this was all Toto's plan and he was meant to be the one leading us, it made sense. Even though I could feel the weight of the Cocona rock and my metal leaf in my hands, I felt the need to look back down at them to check they were still there. Light caught the dragon egg necklace around my neck too, confirming it was still around, before I turned to Toto and nodded.

As we walked through town, I got a few strange looks from the people around me, as I clutched my things to my chest, and a few people glanced at Nyunyu as she walked around, with Uexkull balancing on her head, chewing at her silver-blue hair. I wondered if it bothered her at all, that he was just sitting there, merrily giving the kid a haircut. Maybe she couldn't even feel it.

The sun had pretty much gone down by the time Toto had guided us to a tall building. I wondered for a moment if it was a hotel, and he wanted us to live and stay here for the rest of our lives if it was. We don't have any money Toto, or I certainly don't at least... I went through the doors expecting a reception, some water fountains inside the entrance, maybe a couple of staff members or servants waiting at doorways...

Nope. It looked kinda like an office in here, which just confused me more. Well, an office, then corridors, and beyond every door, more offices. Computers on desks, and people in suits, packing up and going home for the night. Are we just gonna stay in here while everyone else goes home? I know the twins probably weren't too aware of how things in the real world worked (okay, I was kinda fuzzy on those details myself), but still, this wasn't really a good idea.

"Toto, are you sure about this?" I asked him, watching as someone else left a room nearby. The building was almost entirely empty now, just a few stragglers. Nyunyu started humming as we walked, which started Uexkull a bit, but he soon settled back down in Nyunyu's hair. Can we even trust a rabbit to be in here? He'd just chew through all the wires...

Eventually we came to a corridor that ended with a couple of elevators. The four of us waited, as the left one emptied, and the amorphous kids all walked inside. None of the people in business suits gave them a second glance as they entered. Have they been here before? Or do they see weird stuff all the time here? Seriously, can no one see the damn rabbit?

It took me a second to follow the three of them in there, I was feeling kinda uncomfortable doing all of this. I was with people I barely knew, being taken on some magical mystery tour on the inside of an unfamiliar office building...

I caught Yuyu's eye, and thought back to when she told Cocona the truth about our friendship being a lie, before I could, and I found myself hesitating further at the entrance to the elevator. I was trying not to think about the sadistic smile on her face as she tried to screw up the only friendship I had. Even though she picked up my stuff for me earlier, I was finding it hard to trust her right now. What if they were just taking me to some secret hidden Asclepius base? Do they even have a backup? ...No, why would they? They'd want the amorphous all in one place, why split up like that?

I don't know it Toto had picked up on what I was feeling, or if he was just waiting for me to join the rest of them in the elevator, but he looked at me and cocked his head in question.

Toto knows what he's doing. If he can trust me, I can trust him.

I took a deep breath, gathering my courage, before joining them. Nyunyu watched with her big owl eyes as I did so, and Toto turned his attention to the buttons on the inside of the elevator car, pressing a number of them in sequence, before pressing three of them all at once.

I flinched and looked around wildly as the elevator rumbled to life, half expecting a trap of some sort to be activated. Nothing happened though, and the twins didn't suddenly all jump me either. It was a little cramped in here, more than I would have liked, and I started to feel a little panicked.

The only other noises I could hear apart from the elevator was Nyunyu still humming a tune to herself, and the loud beating of my own heart, trying to calm down. Yuyu's head twitched in my direction. Can she hear it?

"Do you know where we're going, Yuyu?" I asked, trying to keep my voice even. Her eyes met my own, and much like before, she gave me a slightly stilted nod, before quickly looking away from me.

Is she hiding something?

There was suddenly a loud 'Ding!' and the elevator doors slid open. Blue light from many electronic screens bathed the room ahead in light.

"What the heck is this place...?" I mumbled to myself, as I followed the three amorphous kids out the elevator. No hesitation here, I just wanted to be out of that tiny space. I almost got burnt alive in a cage in Pure Illusion once, and although I was pretty sure that place wouldn't go up in flames, I really didn't want to find out if that'd be the case.

The room was long and thin, and there were thick cables snaking across various boxy surfaces. Piles of cardboard boxes, filled with various metalic junk were strewn all over the area. A couple of screws spilled loose from one of them, landing near my feet, and I hopped backwards. I was pretty thankful it was just me, Toto, Yuyu and Nyunyu around, if there was anyone else, they would have wondered why the hell I was so jumpy. Man, working for Asclepius and going to Pure Illusion has really messed me up...

A loud 'CLANG!' echoed through the room now, making my head twitch around in that direction, swiftly followed by a very loud voice "They've messed everything up! This will take FOREVER to rebuild!"

Wait a second, I know that voice...

We turned a corner then, and saw a woman with shoulder length brown hair, pressed against the back of her neck by a pair of red and white headphones... Wait, I know this person too...

"Sayuri?"

I wasn't sure if she'd hear me, as she looked pretty absorbed in her work, but sure enough, they turned around to face us all, after hearing her name.

For some dumb reason, it took me a while to realise what this meant.

They've taken me to Flip Flap.


Authors note: After having written a couple of chapters of this and coming back here, I feel I should say now, this story... probably goes in a different direction that you'd expect it to, or at least it'll probably feel more like a written story/book rather than episodes of anime. Well, even though my last fic was based on the anime/used it to write scenes, I have no idea if it came across that way, but yeah. This one might be kinda different.

Also, more importantly, I'll warn you now, that my update schedule for this story will probably be a lot less reliable than my 1 chapter a week format of my last fic, as my motivation for a number of things lately has been... scattered at best. I have 3 and a half chapters of this story written already, but progress is slow (I'm not kidding when I say my document that makes up my sequel story is half notes. Ok, some of them probably just repeat themselves, and some of those parts are scraps I've written and have no use for yet, but still I have a LOT of plans and ideas and I don't think I've had quite this many before all relating to one thing, it's hard to keep track off). I'm hoping I can finish this story at some point, but it might take a while.