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“Miku! Miku! Look! They’re coming!” Rin squealed, pointing at a silvery patch of grass in the field-like SEKAI they were in. The patch of grass was currently glowing, and a few SEKAI triangles were circling it.
“I can see that,” Miku said, amused by Rin’s excitement. “But this isn’t really a situation you should be excited about, you know.” Miku tapped her foot impatiently, even though she tried to mask it. Why was it taking them so long to press the Untitled?
“Yeah. yeah…when are they actually gonna get here though…” Rin groaned. Her counterpart, Len, laughed and patted Rin on the shoulder.
“It may take a while, Rin. I mean, it’s 20 people in this SEKAI. They’re gonna take a while to teleport here, right?”
“True…” Rin frowned, then immediately brightened up. “Miku! Miku! What if you start singing? That could get them to click it!”
“No need,” Miku sighed. “Most have already pressed it and are currently hovering in the lobby. We’re literally waiting on one group.” Miku lifted up her hand and a glowing ball appeared. The ball shone a bright orange, and an image appeared on the surface, showing four kids. The image began to move.
“Are you sure we should press the button…?” asked one of the kids, the girl with green hair. Kusanagi Nene. Of course it was her who was stopping them. She always worried too much.
“Come oooon, Nene-chan!” another one, the girl with pink hair, begged Nene. Otori Emu.
“Lighten up a little, Nene,” the boy with purple hair said, smiling. Kamishiro Rui. “What’s the worst that could happen?”
“It could blow up Tsukasa’s phone and we could all die,” Nene deadpanned. Tsukasa slapped his forehead.
“Nene, don’t be so dramatic!” Tsukasa yelled, annoyed.
“Says the king of drama,” Nene muttered, rolling her eyes.
“Wonderlands x Showtime…” Miku muttered, waving her hand and making the ball disappear. “That’s it. I’m forcing them in here.” Miku walked over to the glowing patch of grass and waved her hand over it, causing a strange glowing hole to appear. She held her hand over it and a bunch of colorful triangles began to rise out of the hole. Miku smirked, satisfied as the triangles completely left the hole and began to spin around the hole. “Let Project NEO begin.” The triangles spun around, faster and faster until they were just a colorful blur. A huge flash of light burst out, blinding the Vocaloids for a second. When their vision returned, they were greeted by 20 confused teenagers, all standing in the place where the glowing circle was.
“Finally!” Rin cheered, jumping up and down. “They’re here!”
“W-What is this?” Ichika was the first to speak out of the 20 members, looking around, confused.
“Why are we here?” An asked.
Everyone seemed to have some sort of question, and the air was filled with questioning murmurs amongst the group. Eventually Miku cleared her throat and clapped her hands. Everyone looked at her.
“Well, why don’t we explain why we brought you here?” Miku said. Everyone nodded in unison. “Well, all 20 of you…did I count right? Yeah, all 20 of you are here to take part in,” she took a breath, “Project NEO.”
Again lots of questioning murmurs of “Project NEO?” and “What does that mean?” filled the SEKAI.
“Wait, wait, let me explain!” Rin jumped in. “Basically the world is in danger and it could be destroyed and you guys are the chosen ones who will save us all and we need to give you powers so you can save the entire world!”
Everyone was silent.
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“You’re terrible at explaining, Rin, but yeah, what she said,” Len said, breaking the silence. Miku sighed and crossed her arms.
“If you want a better explanation, everyone here is here because you have your own SEKAI, and your true feelings are pure. You were therefore chosen to save the world, which sounds scary, but don’t worry, we’ll help you.”
More silence.
“H-How are we expected to save the world?” Minori asked, wide-eyed.
“Remember what Rin said about the powers?” Len asked, smiling.
Silence again.
“WE GET POWERS?!?!” Tsukasa shouted at the top of his lungs.
“Tone it down, Tsukasa!” Nene scolded, smacking him lightly on the shoulder.
“Well, what did you expect, we’d have you kick evil's butt as is or something?” Miku said, trying not to laugh. “And as for how we’ll give you powers, well, why don’t we show you? Luka, MEIKO, KAITO, it’s time!” The three mentioned Vocaloids appeared out of nowhere, causing a few people to jump. “These three, plus Rin and Len, will give you your powers.”
“I-Is it safe?” Kohane piped up meekly.
Len looked at her sternly. “Well, what do you think?” Then he laughed. “Of course it’s safe! We wouldn’t want to endanger the lives of our last hopes now, would we?” The words ‘last hopes’ sent shivers through the group. What did Len mean? Why were they the last hopes?
“Well, let’s begin, shall we?” Luka said calmly. “Leo/need, follow me.”
“And MORE MORE JUMP to me!” Rin squealed, buzzing with excitement.
“Vivid BAD SQUAD will come with me,” Len said, beckoning to his group.
“Wonderlands x Showtime, you’re with me,” KAITO said.
“And…Nightcord at 25:00 will come here, with me,” MEIKO said.
“Everyone, follow your Vocaloids. I’ll be watching from here,” Miku smiled, forming a ball in her hands again, except bigger this time. “Good luck. You’re our last chance.”