Disclaimer: All Azumanga Daioh and related character's are property of Kiyoho Azuma and Mediaworks. This is my first fanfic EVER. I didn't even know that you had to post disclaimers. So please criticize constructively.

Also, since I watched the English subbed version of the show, the language they are speaking is, approximately, translated Japanese.

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The stormclouds rumbled up above. They had only cut the Special Search Force off an hour ago the before the local coast guard had started on their trail. Reiji clung to the windshield desperately to keep himself from falling into the sea. He felt as if he were the Greek legend Prometheus stealing Fire for mankind, under the pursuit rained down by the gods, although the only other passengers in the boat were his colleague Yoshio Matsumoto, and the Yume-Shutsuen, and the bitter-salt water spraying on them was purely the boat splashing through the waves - it wasn't raining at all.

The Yume-Shutsuen they were so lucky that the neural holographic display engine took such a simple design. It could hold all the power one could imagine and yet had only the size of a small freezer. That awe was quickly broken. "We can't hold the fuzz off much longer. We need to get into port!" Yoshio yelled at him over the rumbling of the motor and wind. "I told you! That's 15 kilometers away. We'll have to stop sooner than that!" He frantically searched, holding the beige and sepia colored machine to his stomach. "You know how to beach this rig?" Reiji asked, pointing to what looked like a safe beach ahead, surrounded by dark, rocky cliffs. Reiji thought he could see the roof of a house in the low light.

"Bust in to the shore..." "STOP! THIS IS THE-" "Now!!!" "-COAST GUARD! I REPEAT! STOP YOUR..."

Yoshio tried to cut the motor and tried to run the boat sideways across the sand-shelf. They heard a long scraping noise, followed by the boat tipping over.

Reiji smashed his head and right arm on the Yoshio's askewed chest. As the boat returned to its upright position, sea-water splashed all over the tumbling Yoshio and Reiji and the plastic bag covering the Yume-Shutsuen. Damn it! Their dream device could not get wet.

They jumped out and rushed through the knee high water, despite the cold, the cops, and the fact that they could barely see from the salt in their eyes.

Once they reached that house by the beach they immediately broke in through the lowest window. The lights of the coast guard's ship shined bright into the house. There now remained only one option - hide the Yume-Shutsuen in the house, so that no one would be able to trace it to them.

The Yume-Shutsuen, the thing that could make anyone's dream into reality. They rushed upstairs, hearing the sound of sirens in the distance. "Surround the house, surround the house!" Somewhere, God, Not now, they could not let anyone, no this thing was too dangerous to let anyone else get.

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The sunlight reflected on the side of the school.

Kagura's sudden feeling of warmth due to the thickness of the humidity outside was drawn away by the presence of her friends waving to her from the distance. The sound of cicadas in the trees and of students talking filled the courtyard. Kagura walked past Sakaki, her tall, quiet rival, and stood between Ayumu, or "Osaka" as everyone called her, and Tomo, the one who had been calling for her loudest while she walked over.

"Kagura! Ready for summer break?"

"Yeah, I have been setting up my new schedule"

"A schedule? How meticulous!" Tomo-chan replied, swinging her blue school uniform about.

"How about Chiyo-chan, Osaka-san, Yomi and you all"

"Yeah," Chiyo and Yomi replied. "I've already forgotten to set my alarm clock," added Osaka.

"Ooh…What are you guys going to do?"

"We're discussing another summer vacation-trip to Chiyo-chan's summer house" Tomo explained.

"Oh, a summer trip, huh?"

"We were going to invite you too" Chiyo chirped in.

"Wow, that sounds fun. Is Sakaki coming too."

"We haven't asked her yet but I'm sure she'll agree to it."

Wow, I really am one of them, Kagura thought, wondering where she had thought of Chiyo-chan's summer house recently. Chiyo's summer house...

"That's where the break in happened!" suddenly burst out of her mouth.

"It's okay, we've updated security; the place is safe now" Chiyo-chan reassured them.

"But aren't you worried that our vacation place is a burglar's target?" Tomo-chan asked.

"Tomo," Yomi scolded her.

"I-i'm sure they were just trying to find something valuable, summer houses are usually th-thought of as expensive" Chiyo said, not without revealing some anxiety in her waving hand motions.

"But they we're recently fired scientists." Tomo added.

"Maybe they were testing for radiation" a voice popped in from direction nearest the wall.

Hm?

"In hot places UV rays create lots of radiation," Osaka explained. Everyone's face suddenly turned blue with disbelief; Osaka always somehow managed to bring everything back into reality.