Eleven: Sci-fi AU
Kisaragi Momo's hand hovered less than an inch from the wall of translucent blue energy that trapped her and her comrades in their cell.
"Who are these people?" she asked softly.
"They're wearing the same uniforms as those Daze faction nutjobs that captured Hiyori and me!" the civilian boy answered.
She glanced back at him, sympathetic. A few days ago, the war had just been something he heard on the news. But now he'd fought his way out of a Daze prison with help from an unregistered military robot, one of their experimental Subdermal Neurology-Altering Kinetogenic Element implants still his body. If he wanted to survive, he'd have to join the Blindfold forces. But he clearly wasn't ready to accept that.
"Well, whoever they are, they don't want anyone to know they have us," Captain Kido said. "They took our communicators."
The civilian—Hibiya, Momo remembered— cursed and slammed a fist into the wall. "I don't have time for this! I need to go get Hiyori-chan back!"
Momo understood his frustration. She had things to attend to as well—namely a piloting-program dropout brother who was still alone in HQ with a half-alien girl she barely knew
Mary seemed nice, true, but this was the first time Shintarou had left his quarters in two years and Momo wouldn't forgive Mary if she gave him reason to return to them. Not that a simple idol singer with a boosted S.N.A.K.E. implant could really stand up to a girl with a better implant and alien genetics.
But…maybe there was something that an idol singer with the ability to hack into other people's attention could do in this situation.
"Captain, do you know the effective range of your implant?" she asked, turning to face the C.O. of the ship she'd been travelling aboard since she joined the Blindfold forces.
"…I'm not certain," Captain Kido replied. "But it works better on defined ranges like buildings or ships."
"Then, could you use your S.N.A.K.E. on everyone in this building?" Momo asked.
Captain Kido grinned. "I see what you're planning," she said.
Momo smiled back and waited for the Captain to give her the signal, as Hibiya looked on in confusion.
She glanced back at Hibiya. He was a bit too young for her, and scruffy to boot, but there was something attractive about those intensely narrowed eyes of his.
"I'll get us out of here and cheer you up, all at once," she declared, turning to grin at him.
She closed her eyes, and the music filled her mind as she started to sing.
"'Mo dou yattatte demo muda kamo na,' nakisou na kao miteta…"
A/N: Based rather heavily on giant robot sci-fi anime in particular, this is one of the first AUs I thought of. The medusas are aliens, Shintarou was in a giant-robot piloting training program with Ayano until she died and he dropped out, and Hibiya stole Konoha from the enemy when he escaped from them. Momo is the obligatory singer/politician, naturally.