Chapter 3: Another one!
I quickly went and answered the door.
"Yes sir, how can I help you?"
"We need to have you sign of another Vocaloid."
"Which one?"
"CV-08, Haku."
"Sure thing." I said taking the pen and offered paper, quickly reading through it. This contract matched the one I had to the letter. Apparently Yamaha had seen reason and submitted to the changes I made, good, I signed the contract and returned it to the employee who turned and walked over to his car and opened the door, unlike Miku, Haku was already active and seeing me ran over and wrapped me in a massive hug, squishing my head in her boobs. The employee took that as his que to leave.
"Who are you? What are you doing to Mack?" Miku asked stalking forward.
"Oh whats this? There was another one? They never told me I had to share." Haku said pouting rather cutely.
"LADIES! Lets continue this inside." I barked, they nodded and obidently went inside, Jackson came running over and let himself in about 30 seconds later. "Your late." I said to him as he walked in
"You have two of them now?"
"Yeah, they've been arguing since Haku got here. Hang on, Ranger: Do I need to do that bonding thing with each of my Vocaloids?"
"Yes sir."
"Alright, Jackson, Miku, go entertain yourselves somewhere else for a few minutes, Haku and I need to deal with something."
"Umm I'll just come back after you to are done fucking each others brains out." Jackson said, I sighed and looked at him
"It's only wrong if you make it wrong. It a kiss is what the bonding is, but I'd like a little privacy." Jackson nodded, blushing. "Miku…" I said, she nodded and grabbed him by the collar and drug him away.
"Now it's just you and me lover boy." Haku said from the position on the bed.
"Ya it is, so Haku, tell me a little bit about yourself. Given that your too old to go to school I'm gonna have to make up for that on the weekends." Haku smiled and told me everything about herself, everything. Some of it I really didn't want to know but oh well. Turns out she enjoyed a nice drink so Mom would get along with her fine. And then when she was finally done, snatched her up and kissed her, the 08 on her arm bursting into existence. I could feel it again, those sparks. What did this mean? Would I be dealing with having to choose, I didn't want to choose! Haku finally submitted and I was able to enter her mouth, my tongue feeling its way around the inside of her mouth, savoring every inch of it. "Your mine now." I said withdrawing, Haku was gasping for air
"Now and forever." She said, I smiled and stood back up, turning to see… Jackson with a video camera and Miku standing right there next to him with a heavy nosebleed.
"JACKSON!" I bellowed running after him, Haku and Miku just stood there laughing until Haku realized what that camera had on it.
After wrestling the camera away from Jackson it was to everyone's amusement that we discovered the lens cap was still closed. My mom came home, I kicked Jackson back out and went about explaining Haku's arrival to Mom.
"So let me get this straight, there are a bunch more of you guys and one that still hasn't been deployed? And this CV-03 could go to anyone?"
"Yes ma'am, the person who gets Luka is the person who impresses the director the most."
"So if I want her I'm gonna need to do something crazy?" I asked
"Just the opposite, make yourself to known and he'll look right over you." Haku said, I nodded. As the school year ticked by Ultimatum became a more prominent member of my life, very much so when that trouble freshman I had to deal with way back at the beginning of the year tried to kidnap Miku, let's just say that he can no longer have kids, pee standing up, or stand up for that matter. Ultimatum and I destroyed him. Excessive, yes but oh so very necessary and entertaining. It was finally the end of the school year and I was walking home with Miku, my car was at the shop. Pulling up the holographic display on my right arm I asked Ranger to get some phone numbers for me.
"Call from: Yamaha Inc." My phone said, I pulled it out and answered.
"Hello?"
"Mr. Bator, we have a mission for you. We are aware that you are going to be holding a concert in Denver in a few days."
"Yes I am." I had held several concerts in Texas and was now preparing to widen my range to Colorado
"One of the Possessors lives in Denver, however she has forgone and abandoned two of her Vocaloids. We need you to retrieve and bind them to you."
"Ok so what pattern? I know it's the one with the Kagamine twins."
"She has abandoned Len and Neru."
"Roger, I'll grab 'em as soon as I can."
"Sir one word of advice. Neru trusts no one and she also can't talk."
"Thank you I'll have Ranger log that for me." I said before hanging up.
"Ranger, get Dad on the line. Tell him I'm gonna need a car when I get there, preferably a van."
"Yes sir." Ranger responded, sending the text message to my dad. When I got home I hugged Haku, giving her a kiss, the 08 on her arm glowing
"Haku, my dad doesn't have any alcohol. What are you gonna do?" I asked.
"I'll live, I'm not an alcoholic."
"Yet." Miku muttered, thunk, was all I heard as Haku had gone all ninja and neck chopped Miku, again.
"Good god, alright, it's time to pack." I said. As I was packing my suitcase a thought crossed my mind, I only had a single person bed at Dad's. 'Crap… oh well we will figure that out when we get there.' I thought to myself. Fast Forward a day and Miku and Haku are setting off the security scanners.
"Officer they are with me, here are the papers you are gonna need." I said the TSA official took the papers, scanned them and then X-rayed the two of them and they were clear to go through security. I walked through without ever getting a second glance.
"Mommy look, it's Miku and Mack!" a little girl said, Miku stiffened and shrank into me, I gripped her arm comfortingly. Turning we saw the little girl approach us and walk up to Miku. "Miss. Miku, are you scared?" She asked smiling, Miku looked down and I could tell she was debating running and hiding in the nearest bathroom stall.
"Y-yes I am, I don't deal well with large groups of people from this close."
"Oh." The little girl said, I smiled.
"She's got me around, nothing is going to happen to her as long as I'm here." I said, the little girl beamed brightly.
"He's right Miss Miku. Smile, you look so much better when you do!" She said jumping up and down, her mother had come over and was apologizing to me
"I'm sorry she got away from me."
"It's perfectly alright. I have no issues with greeting a fan." I said, Miku smiled and nodded. The girl and her mother left and Haku returned, with a bottle of beer. "How did you get that?"
"I went and bought it."
"Well I'm not letting you buy any on the plane."
"They let us buy alcohol on the plane?"
"No."
"Rats"
"Ranger: Is our flight on time?"
"Yes sir, boarding should begin in about 5 minutes."
"Good, I was worried we might not make it because of the stuff at security."
"No sir, you will be just fine."
"Alrighty then lets get going." I said as we all stood waiting for boarding to start. I got a bunch of funny looks, having two women hanging off my arms, one my age, the other about 5 or 6 years older than me both with obviously romantic intents, ya it didn't look good for me, I sighed and sat down. The plane took off and of course, Miku had a small panic attack. "Hey, your fine." I said gripping her arm, right over her number, giving her a quick peck on the lips causing the symbol to light up, yeah that's a lot of heat right there so it kind of burned my hand, didn't see that one coming. Once we had landed and disembarked Dad was waiting there for us at the gate. Let's just say he was quite surprised to see me coming off the plane with two gorgeous women.
"Mack, do I even want to ask?"
"You know that concert that's going to happen in a few days?"
"Your avoiding the question but yes I do."
"This is the star of that performance. I will explain everything once we are in the car and on the way home." I said, Dad realizing that he had no way of winning this argument nodded and we all proceeded to the baggage claim. We only had three bags. All of our concert equipment was already at Denver waiting for me to help set up. Once we got to the car Miku blurted out 'Shotgun!' and hopped in the front seat. Haku just rolled her eyes and I laughed, Dad was still looking over the two women with me.
"I know you told me you were bringing friends but these two look to be more than just friends, Mack."
"I know it doesn't exactly look good on me but I'm under a contract with Yamaha and Crypton Future Media. I'm helping field test their Vocaloid androids."
"Hmmmm, how are you going to handle sleeping arrangements?" Dad asked, he and I had finished loading the luggage and got into the car, Haku piped up and offered her two cents at this point
"I will be sleeping with my husband." She said, I sighed
'Did she really have to say that?' I thought to myself
"Anything else you want to tell me Mack?"
"Did Mack not tell you what we are?" Miku asked
"He said you guys were androids." They both nodded.
"That we are." Haku replied. "But I will still be sleeping with him."
"No, you won't," I said, "We had the rules in Texas Haku, you are not allowed to sleep with me except on the weekends. Miku doesn't have an onboard heat generator so she needs an external source of heat at nights." Haku pouted and Dad just looked lost, I chuckled. "Hey Dad can you drop me off at the symphony hall? I need to help the rest of my band set up all our gear for the rehersal tomorrow."
"Ok, can I come to the rehersal?"
"Yes you may, just come in and be prepared to lend a hand to the stage hands."
"It'll be my pleasure." I nodded; we pulled up in front of the concert hall.
"Alright Miku, let's go."
"Roger that." She said and we both piled out of the car.
"Come back at around 7:00, get something to eat before that. Haku needs to eat before 6:00 or she will shut down from lack of energy intake" I said.
"Master, you worry too much. I'll eat."
"Ya, sure you will." I said with enough sarcasm to float the city of Denver. "Make sure she eats."
"Can do." Dad said before driving off.
"Alright let's get everything set up." I said walking inside. Breezing past the security and walking up onto stage. "WHERE IS OUR COORDINATOR?" I barked
"I'm up here Mack!" Came the voice of our stage coordinator, Jonathan, he was responsible for well, coordinating everything on stage.
"What is our lay out?"
"We have a piano that is bolted to the floor to work around but I figured I would make the most of it and put it as a semi focal point. We will have Miku sing most of her pieces from her usual position here," He said indicating the stage's "Green Zone", the spot where the whole audience has an un obstructed view of the singer. "But a few of the songs will be from here at the piano. I want the romantic pieces to be from here."
"Alright, Miku… Miku?" I said turning around, she was MIA 'How did she get away this time?' I walked away "I'll go find her." I hollered, I walked around, asking the stage hands and quickly deduced that our costume cooridinator had kidnapped her… again. "Julia, you have too warn me before you… I'll comeback in a few minutes."
"Master please stay." Miku pleaded
"Miku YOUR NAKED! I can't stay in the same room as a naked woman."
"You know you've always wanted to see her like this." Julia said, I snarled. Miku walked over and hugged me.
"Please Master?"
"YOU ARE NAKED!" I yelled again before walking out and closing the door. As I walked away I heard crying, I paused. "Miku." I breathed
"You shouldn't be so hard on yourself. Let loose, so what if she's naked? She is an android, she won't care and besides we all know you've wanted to see her like that." Jonathan said walking up behind me. I sighed nodding before turning and walking back to the room, knocking on the door.
"Miku? Julia?" I asked knocking the door
"Come in." Julia said, I walked in and Miku was at least wearing pants now.
"Master?" She said looking at me, I smiled
"Well at least you're not butt-naked anymore." I said she smiled and nodded. "Julia you need to stop running off with her when Jonathan is talking to us."
"Awww, but I wanted to try out theses new costumes on her!"
"Yeah which you know comes after we figure out where she is going to be." I said sighing with mild annoyance, Julia knew her stuff but she was a little sporadic and unpredictable at times. She nodded and Miku was put into the rest of her costume.
"There, go walk around in that for a while and tell me how it feels." Julia said, Miku nodded and I lead her back to the stage.
"As you were saying Jonathan?" I said, everytime I see the man he's on a different level and sie of the stage.
"Ya, well I intend to… wow, Julia really did a good job this time." He said looking at Miku, I sighed. Sure she was cute in the white mini skirt and red tube top, but still 'really man?'. "Anyways, I intend for you to be in the GZ for most of the performance. However your more romantic pieces are going to be sung from," He drifted off as he jumped off of the level he was on and land on the stage floor. "Hmmm, hollow, remind me not to do that again, here is where you will be singing the other ones from." He said indicating the piano.
"I can't play piano."
"You aren't he is." Jonathan said, indicating me.
"Me? ARE YOU INSANE! I can't play piano, violin yes, but the piano no." I said, Jonathan's eyes bugged.
"What, I thought you could play the piano!"
"No, look I know someone who can I'll call him and see if he can but you better be finding a piano player incase mine doesn't come through." I said, Jonathan started laughing hard.
"I knew you couldn't play piano but I wanted to watch you squirm a little. I'm sorry man but that was funny. I have a piano player." Jonathan said, still laughing. "I wish you could have seen the look on your face." I chuckled it was hard not to, my face was probably rather funny. "Regardless…" He said and began telling us the exact lay out for the stage and what we were going to be doing. After that Julia was finally able to get her hands on Miku and I, she had us both try on several outfits before deciding that I should probably just stick with my suit for the slow pieces that required us to dance and my "Rocker" outfit for the fast stuff, essentially a pair of jeans and a tshirt. After all the planning Miku and I went outside, it was 6:50 and Dad was already there waiting with Haku, who had a bottle of beer. 'Damn it old man.' I thought as we walked up.
"Why did you give her a beer?" I asked as I got in the car
"She had them in her suit case."
"Told you I'd manage Master."
"Ugh, that's not what I meant Haku. How many changes of clothes did you bring?"
"Three and seven pairs of shoes, and 47 bottles of beer!" She replied happily
"On the wall! 47 bottles of beer on the wal-!"I clapped my hand over Miku's mouth
"Haku those are all going in the safe. Miku shut up. Dad please get us home I need some food." Dad laughed and nodded firing up the car and we took off. As we were driving home I pulled my sleeve up and checked my email and texts on the holographic display
"What is that thing?"
"A mobile computer, it was Ranger's idea. I was able to build it and I did. Now I can check my emails and texts, among other things on the go. I can also work on my stories."
"Nifty, way over my head but nifty." Dad said, I nodded
"Call from: Yamaha Inc." My phone said, I pulled it out and answered
"Hello? Mack Bator speaking"
"Mr. Bator, we have picked up on Len and Neru's tracking signals they finally have enough energy to run them. Your near them, they are at the intersection of 23rd and colonial."
"I'm on it. Dad turn left here. Yamaha, send me the directions."
"Already on it." Sure enough my Holo beeped and I looked at the directions. "Thank you Mr. Bator" The employee said and hung up.
"Turn right at the next street." I said Dad nodded
"Why are you going this way?" He asked
"I have to pick up a couple of strays, its why I asked you to rent a van." I said "Next street turn left and then I need to get out and walk. They are inside a pedestrian zone" Dad nodded again and once we reached the intersection my Vocaloids and I jumped out and took off. "I'll get a cab to take me home." I said before taking off after Miku and Haku. We entered the area and started looking around.
"There, that's Len, where is Neru?" Haku said, her red eyes beginning to glow as she searched for the "unique" energy signature that Vocaloids give off. Each Vocaloid apparently had a unique ability, Miku's we had yet to discover, Haku's was her scanner. "Got 'er. Len is checking on her now. She's not moving her lips but Len seems to be carrying on a conversation."
"She can't talk, I thought you knew that." I said walking towards them. "Miku lets go." I said, she nodded and we both walked over. "Len, Neru? I'm Mack, Yamaha sent me."
"Your another Possesser. What makes you think that we are going to believe you?" Len said glaring at me.
"I can't prove or disprove any doubts you have about me but I will not abandon you like the last one did."
"Neru say's you can't be trusted. So I don't trust you."
"Ugh, you little brats listen to my Master? He is trying to help you! He isn't like your last master. He won't abandon you."
"Yeah he oonly has you so of course that's what you would say. Our master only wanted one Vocaloid but she got three and ditched us because of it!" Len yelled. People stopped and stared
"Company business, go about your business." I said, some people nodded and left other pulled out phones and I only saw three presses, damn it the cops are the last thing I need right now. "Haku, its time for us to leave." I yelled, she dropped down from the ceiling and made a smoke screen with… well something. We grabbed the kids and moved with a purpose back to the street. "Ok, now that we are out of there. Are you willing to listening?" I asked. Len nodded meanwhile Neru just gave me this 'fuck you' look
"Yeah well up yours to brat." I said
"Wait, you can read her?"
"Yeah its like a book." I said, looking at her again. "So you really think that do you, that only your chosen ones can read you." Her eye's widened and ran over hugging my crying. I was a little taken back by her actions but hey, if she was going to go home with me. "Len, are you coming with us now?" He nodded
"I go wherever she goes. I can't let her go. I just got her." I nodded understanding his conviction.
"Then let's go home." Haku said grabbing Len's hand and we all started walking, Miku had passed out on my shoulder so I was giving her a piggy back ride and Neru was walking next to me holding my hand. I flagged down a taxi and with some help from Haku got Miku in to the van along with everyone else. Once we arrived home I greeted Dad and Grandma. Trying to explain to her that they were all some friends that had come with me to perform at a concert tomorrow to which she was invited.