Kohinata Miku looked up at the twilight sky from where she sat on the park bench, and sighed heavily. Her time was running out. She and Hibiki would be graduating in a few months, and that was going to mean moving out of the school dorm room. The room that they shared.
She wasn't going to get to live with Hibiki anymore.

There was a possibility that they'd get to live together if they went to the same university, but even that was going to come to an end eventually. And one day, Hibiki would get a boy- Miku shook herself, pushing the dreadful thought out of her mind. When that happened, it would happen, and there was no point in dwelling on it.

Someone sat down next to her on the bench, and handed her an apple, which she accepted graciously, grateful for something other than her impending separation from the woman she loved. "Thank you," Miku said without looking at the person who had handed her the apple, and she sighed once again.

She'd wanted so badly to go to, or at least be able to watch the concert that Tsubasa and Maria were doing that night, but she'd settled for recording it so she could watch it with Hibiki, as Hibiki was going to miss it due to class.

Whoever it was that had sat down next to Miku began crunching happily on an apple of their own, their red shoes waving back and forth in the air in front of them. *CRONCH CRONCH CRONCH*

Miku sighed again, and looked at the shopping bags that sat on the bench next to her. She needed to back home and get dinner started now if she was going to be done by the time Hibiki got out of cram school and came home. Hibiki was studying to become a paramedic - Not because she needed a job, her work with SONG took care of that - but because she wanted to be able to help people during disasters. The Symphogears didn't have to be weapons of war, they could be tools to help people, and that was the way Hibiki liked them best. Miku's eyes teared up involuntarily at this thought, and she felt a soft touch on her arm.

"Poyo?" a concerned voice asked from beside her, and she turned to look for the first time at the person who had handed her the apple. It wasn't a person. It was a pink beach ball with shoes. "Poyo!" It said brightly, patting her on the arm.

"Oh my!" Miku said in surprise, staring at the small being, "Now who might you be?" In response to this, the pink beach ball creature produced from somewhere a crude crayon drawing of itself that was labeled "Kirby." "Kirby?" Miku said slowly, and Kirby nodded brightly. "Well where did you come from?" Miku asked in confusion. "Poyo," Kirby said, pointing to the sky, and Miku accepted this without question, as it seemed that this was the best answer she was going to get.

"Oh my, the time!" Miku said suddenly, remembering that she had to get home, and she stood up abruptly. "Poyo?" Kirby asked her, giving her a concerned look, and Miku clicked her tongue. "Do you have a home to go to?" Miku asked Kirby, and Kirby nodded, pointing to the sky again. "Can you get back there?" Mike asked. She was concerned, as whatever this "Kirby" was, he was clearly a child, and she could not very well leave him unattended. "Is your mother with you?"

Kirby appeared not to understand the question.

Suddenly, Kirby lunged towards Miku, and grabbed her bodily, throwing the pair of them clear of the bench seconds before it was crushed by a huge metal sphere that had fallen from the sky. Wasting no time wondering what had just happened or why, Miku scooped Kirby up in her arms and tore off towards the school dorms. If she could get back there and hide until Hibiki got back, she'd be safe.

The sound of more spheres crashing to the ground behind her and ROLLING AFTER THEM IN PURSUIT caused Miku to pick up the pace and thank her lucky stars that she'd never fully given up track practice. She was also thankful for the track practice because it made the chances of her tripping and falling over randomly like a heroine in a horror movie become basically nil.

As Miku ran, she heard screams and explosions from all around her, but she paid no attention to them. Escaping with the child in her arms was all she could do. Miku had been through situations like this far too many times not to know what happened to people who stood around asking pointless questions.
They died horribly. And Miku did not want to die just yet.

Exiting the park, she ran along the sidewalks of Tokyo, keeping her eyes on the path in front of her. When she came to a busy road, she rocked up the steps of a pedestrian overpass - And then screeched to a halt as three spheres landed in front of her with a crash. Slowly the balls unfolded into squat robotic monsters that were at least twice her hight. Massive claws adorned their short, stubby arms, and massive tusks pointed upwards at the fronts of their jaws. Whirling around, Miku saw two more of the monsters approaching her from the stairs behind her.

"HIBIKI!" Miku screamed, holding Kirby tightly to her chest… but Hibiki did not appear.

Popping out of Miku's arms, Kirby expanded in size, and his mouth opening wide, he inhaled one of the monsters.
Miku did not quite know what to make of this development.

Kirby spat the monster out at another one of the monsters, only the monster he had inhaled came out as a glowing yellow star, and when said star connected with the monster, both star and monster disappeared with an almost comical popping noise.

Miku stared.

Running over to a third monster, Kirby slide-kicked it in the foot, knocking it into the air. Then he inhaled it, and fired it at the two remaining monsters that were coming up the stairs behind them. "I don't know what just happened, but I'll take it!" Miku said, grabbing Kirby back up in her arms and tearing off towards the dorms once again.

Once Miku reached the school grounds, she found an already transformed Hibiki desperately searching for her. "MIKU!" Hibiki shouted when she saw Hibiki. "HIBIKI!" Miku screamed, overcome with relief and terror that had been suppressed until this moment. "POYO!" Kirby shouted from his place in Miku's arms, not sure what was going on but happy to be a part of it. "Poyo?" Hibiki asked in confusion, but Miku didn't answer. She just hurled herself into Hibiki's arms. "Uwah!" Kirby said as he was squished like a pancake between them, and he floated gently to the ground where he popped back into shape, no harm done. Hibiki lifted Miku into her arms princess-carry style, and Miku flushed deeply, feeling her body temperature skyrocket. Sometimes Hibiki did things that made Miku think Hibiki might just possibly-

-No. If that was true, Hibiki would have picked up on it by now. Even Hibiki couldn't be THAT clueless.

…Probably.

"H-Hibiki, d-don't you have to deal with the monsters?" Miku stammered as her heart began skipping beats, but Hibiki shook her her head. "Teacher, Kirika-Chan and Shirabe-Chan dealt with them all already."

*CRONCH CRONCH CRONCH*

Hibiki looked around in confusion, and saw Kirby eating an apple. "Hibiki, this is Kirby," Miku said, "I don't know who he is, or how he got here, but he saved my life."

"Poyo!" Kirby said brightly, offering Hibiki an apple.

End episode two.