Project Sekai: Broken Experiments (ON HOLD AS FOR NOW)

Chapter 1: This Isn't School Anymore

Hoshino Ichika woke up and went to school. After all, that's what most children her age did. Wake up, get ready, and go to school. Ichika didn't feel like going to school, but she had to because the law said so. She paid attention in class like a good student would. She hung out with her friend Mochizuki Honami for a bit during lunch, then went to study. After school, she went to the library in a different school and bumped into a boy with split hair, half blue, half darker blue. "S-sorry," he said, keeping his eyes down as he walked past Ichika, not even giving her a chance to apologize. Ichika sighed, and she went ahead and continued browsing. After that, she went home and did her homework. Like she always does. And then she went to sleep early. Like she always does. Ichika was only in elementary school, but she acted as if it was high school. She never joked around with her studies. Sometimes, even her own parents had told her to take a break.

The next day, she woke up once again and went to school. However, today was different. She got pulled out of school.

"Will Hoshino Ichika please attend the office?" Ichika sighs, and she backs up in her chair and goes up to the office. She didn't do anything wrong, so why was she being called? Did something happen? "Hello, did something happen?" she asked, concerned. The principal looked up. "I'm not so sure. Someone came to pick you up," she says. Someone? Not Mom or Dad? Ichika thinks. Ichika then hears a door opening, and she sees a young woman with turquoise twin tails and a lab coat enter. "Hello, you're Hoshino Ichika, correct?" Ichika nodded, skeptical. "Good. Follow me, please," the woman says. The woman signs Ichika out of school. "Who...who are you?" Ichika asks. The woman looks at her. "That is not important." The woman then takes out a syringe, and she stabs it into Ichika's neck. Ichika stumbles a bit, and then everything goes black.

Ichika woke up for the second time that day. She sat up slowly. Her neck felt sore. She tried to recall what happened. I went to school...I hung out with...with... Ichika felt a sudden pang of panic. Why couldn't she remember who she hung out with? She recalled a girl with a side ponytail and nice personality, but she couldn't remember the girl's face or name. No no no no, this can't be happening, she thinks. Tears start to form into her eyes. She dried them, and then she crawled out of her bed and looked around. She was in a 12x12 ft. room. There was a phone with earphones connected to them on a small little stool, and she picked it up and turned it on. The only app on that phone was a music app. Strange.

Ichika looked at the other side of the room. There was an electric guitar, and a shelf with tons of music sheets. Ichika smiled a bit. Her smile wavered as soon as she tried to open the door. It wouldn't budge. She tried to open a different door in her room. It led to a bathroom. For the first time since she had left for school, she saw herself in the mirror. Her hair was a bit of a mess, but that's fine. Ichika looked at her outfit. It wasn't her school uniform anymore, but rather an orange hoodie with a white shirt underneath and gray jeans. Ichika didn't remember putting on this outfit. But then again, she didn't remember much of anything. Ichika walked around her room a bit, bored as hell.

Finally, there was a knock.

Ichika ran towards a corner in the room, away from the door that was previously locked. The door swung open, and she saw someone that finally looked familiar. A woman with turquoise twin tails and a lab coat. The woman put down a photo frame, and Ichika saw that it was a picture of her and...a girl. The girl had a side ponytail, but her face was scratched out, so Ichika wasn't able to tell what the girl looked like. "Will you come with me?" The woman asks. "It's time that you meet the others." Ichika stepped towards the woman. "A-aren't you the one who put me in here?" The woman's eyes narrowed. "Precisely. Anyways, let's go meet the others." Ichika reluctantly took the woman's hand and walked outside of her room. "I'm Hatsune Miku, a lead scientist at this lab. You have been chosen to be a test subject." Ichika nodded, unsure what to do. Ichika then asked a question. "T-there are others? Like me?" Miku nods. "Indeed. You'll see them...right about now."

Miku opens a door to what seems to be a cafeteria. The room had white walls with black tables and stools connected to the tables. Inside of the room, there were six other children, all wearing an orange hoodie and gray jeans. All of the children were talking, and then they all stopped once they spotted Ichika and Miku. Miku softly pushes Ichika towards the kids. "This is our new student and test subject. Do whatever you want with her, except kill her. Or at least get her into a near death stage." Miku then walks out of the room, locking the door behind her.

Ichika faces the six children. There was a boy with golden hair, and he seemed to be somewhat holding back a girl with blonde hair and pink tips. There was also a pretty girl with cyan hair, and another girl with short gray hair holding onto the pretty girl's arm tightly, facing Ichika with skeptical glare. There was then a ginger and a brunette both facing Ichika, glaring at her like she was annoying them. Ichika swallowed. "Uh..." she starts, before the six children start speaking in a language she doesn't understand.

"The fuck is this?" The ginger asked, his eyes twitching.

"Hey, don't curse!" The golden haired boy said, his face filled with worry.

"Shut the fuck up Tsukasa, we can't get in trouble for it so we might as well just do it," The brunette says, her eyes narrowing at Ichika.

"Don't be mean, Ena," The pretty girl says, her face also filled with worry.

"We shouldn't get near her," The gray haired girl says, still skeptical of me.

"Oh, come on! We should at least give her a chance!" The blonde haired girl with pink tips says. She was the only one who wasn't afraid or skeptical of Ichika, instead she seemed actually excited.

Finally, Saki says something that Ichika finally understands. "Hello! I'm Tenma Saki, sister of the world future star!" she says, and extends her hand to Ichika. Ichika takes it slowly. "A-ah...Hoshino Ichika. It's nice to meet other people in this place..." The golden haired boy stepped forward. "I'm Tenma Tsukasa! The World Future Star!" The ginger stepped forward. Mockingly, he says, "I'm the world future star! We get it. Jeez. Anyways, I'm Shinonome Akito, the unfortunate brother of Shinonome Ena." The brunette, Ena, looks at Akito. "YOU-" she exclaims, before she's interrupted by the gray haired girl. "I'm Hinomori Shiho. That, over there, is my sister, Hinomori Shizuku." Shizuku bows her head. "Pleased to meet you," she says. I smile timidly. "N-nice to meet you as well," I say.

"Where...where am I, though?" Ichika asks. Everyone looked at each other. Saki sighed. "We're in a lab in Death Valley," she says. "D-Death Valley?! Isn't it in C-California, far away from Japan?!" Ichika exclaims, surprised. Tsukasa smirks. "Unfortunately, yes! We are in California!"

Ichika's eyes widened.

She was definitely not in school.