This is the OVA episode, and there's a special guest in today's cast of characters. Although she does not make it all the way through the episode, let's give her a warm welcome.

"Yay! Let's have some fun in this place!"

Yup. She's very excited.

Disclaimer: Don't own Love Live.

With the filming over with, the group had returned to their normal lives. For Honoka, that meant catching up on all the anime and game events she missed during her time as an actress. She was in the middle of doing so when her phone vibrated with a new message. Sighing, she grudgingly paused the episode and picked up her phone. "Ah. It's from Eri-chan." Honoka tapped the message and quickly read it, hoping that it wasn't urgent enough to leave her anime. "Eh? Now?!" Cursing her luck, she left her laptop open on the paused video and scrambled to get changed out of her pajamas.

"Why now? We shouldn't have anything to do for at least a few weeks before the next season!" Honoka complained as she sprinted down the road to her school. It was the weekend, so there weren't any other students there. Sweat rolled down the sides of her face as she panted, having finally arrived at the front gate.

"Yo, Honoka-whoa, you're really out of it, huh?"

"And whose fault do you think it is?!" Honoka snapped, but she was too out of breath to do anything more than that. Eri smiled apologetically, though she still radiated an aura of mischief. "Jeez...telling me to go to the school because of an urgent request from the production company...nobody's even here!" The courtyard was completely empty except for the two of them. Honoka scowled, slowly recovering from her sprint to the school.

"Well...we're supposed to meet at Maki's house but I didn't think you knew where it was. Ah, but we're going to be filming here! Honest!" She sighed at her senior's hopelessness. So they were going to film something after all, even though the season was already over. She felt as if she would never understand the people who made their show, or the people who watched it and held influence over it. But there was no helping it; she had signed up for her part in the project months ago. Eri looked surprised as Honoka took her hand.

"What? Aren't you going to take me to Maki-chan's house?" Honoka asked. "This is just failsafe so you don't run too fast and leave me behind."

"I'd never leave you behind." Eri said with a smile. "At least, I don't intend to."

"Yet so many of the things you do are without intention, right?" She started walking, going slightly ahead of Eri so that the third year wouldn't see her face and call her an idiot again.

"That's not true!" Eri protested, picking up her pace to catch up with Honoka. But as soon as she felt the change in pace, Honoka sped up a little bit. "Hey, slow down!"

"No, you speed up. I thought you were leading me to our destination." Honoka turned around just a bit to glance at Eri. She stuck her tongue out and then faced forward again, walking faster as Eri tried to catch up.

"You asked for it." Honoka's moment of confusion was erased once she started being dragged, stumbling, behind Eri as the third-year began running. "Who's slow now?"

"It's still you!" With a grunt of effort, Honoka pushed herself into a faster pace than Eri, slowly edging past her on the sidewalk.

"Not bad for a NEET!" Eri commented before falling silent as she saved her breath for running.

"I'm not a NEET!" Honoka protested, her breaths coming in short gasps. She hadn't fully rested up from her earlier sprint and her muscles were now complaining from the exertion. Despite it, she pushed herself to beat Eri in terms of speed.

"So...what you're saying is...you both got too into beating each other in a race and forgot where you were supposed to go? Are you idiots?" Nico sighed as the two girls lay on the couches in the Nishikino's reception room, gasping for breath.

"It's...not my fault!" Honoka retorted, her chest heaving. "I didn't...even know where...this place is!"

"I...humbly beg...the accuser to...refrain from commenting until...the guilty party is fit...to respond…" Eri pleaded in between gulps of water.

"By the way…" Honoka said, sitting up as she slowly recovered her lost oxygen. "Why am I always last to find out about new scripts?"

"It was emailed to us at the same time though, Honoka-chan." Kotori answered, somewhat unhelpfully as Honoka hadn't been checking her email recently. She hadn't thought that the company would be trying to contact her through it, and was more interested in anime than trying to figure out her next part in the project.

"That aside, the episode's mostly focused on Maki, so it's not like we have a lot to say." Umi handed Honoka her print-out of the script for her to look over.

"But how are they planning to get a child version of Maki-chan for this?" Honoka asked, somewhat startled by the sudden change in tone from normal school life to something similar to fantasy.

"You can ask me all you want, but I have no idea how this happened either." Maki caught everyone's attention as she walked into the room, balancing a tray of tea cups and cookies. Behind her, Rin carried a teapot and a thermos filled with extra hot water. Hanayo followed behind the two others, carrying a small child.

"Why do I have to carry her?" The girl complained. Maki set her tray down on the coffee table in the center of the seats.

"Because you're the most suited for baby-sitting." Hanayo scowled and took a seat on an empty chair. The child in her grasp looked around, curious but unafraid of the strangers she was surrounded by.

"This is Ki. I don't know how she got here, but she's going to be a part of our extra episode." Maki said as she poured the tea for the other members. "That's the best explanation I can give for her right now."

"Ki-chan, huh? Strange name." Nico commented, taking a cookie from the plate.

"It's not strange! It's my half of the name." The girl said loudly, climbing down from Hanayo's lap to help herself to a cookie.

"And what's the other half?"

"Captured by a demon." Ki nibbled on the cookie. "In a weird shadow dimension."

"Children have such vivid imaginations." Nico leaned back against the wall, a cup of tea in her hands.

"It's not made-up!" The child protested. "But it's not like it's something any of you would understand anyway. You're different from the ones I know." She sighed. For the first time, Honoka realized that the child was speaking with a vocabulary much larger than she should have for a girl of her age. There was something off about her, but it was as Ki had said. She wasn't able to grasp what it was that felt different.

"Anyway, do you know your lines for the episode?" Rin asked, trying to get the conversation back on track to what it should have been.

"Yeah, I do. Kinda hard not to, when that actually happened to me." Ki shrugged. "But life happens."

Having the child on set was a bit unsettling for the normal cast, especially after the strangeness of the conversation they had with her. It was almost as if she had come from a different world, where Muse wasn't a fake idol group and everything they did was part of their actual life in comparison to the scripted Muse that existed in their reality. Honoka was on edge the entire shoot, unable to calm down for a reason that she couldn't exactly outline clearly.

"Honoka." She straightened herself, not wanting to be caught and accused of slacking even though she was no longer needed for the filming. Her part had been already filmed, and she was just waiting for the crew to dismiss her so she could go home. But she had even more reason to worry, as she was being addressed by the exact person she had just been deep in thought about.

"What is it, Ki-chan?" Honoka tried to keep her tone light, even though she wondered at how the child had been brought up to call her without any honorifics.

"I was just wondering about your relationships to the others. It's different from what I know, so I figured I'd ask the leader." This child was even more impudent than Hanayo, and that was saying a lot considering the first year's normal behavior.

"We're pretty good friends, I think..." Honoka said, not really sure what Ki wanted to hear from her. And the unsettled feeling in her chest increased with the proximity of the girl. Something about her was making Honoka frightened, and her rationality couldn't pinpoint the cause for the fear. Ki looked like a normal little girl, even if she looked exactly like Maki and spoke about strange things.

"Hm...this is a pretty weird dimension I've escaped to…"

"What do you mean? Where are you from?" Honoka asked, figuring she had earned the right to question the child after being questioned.

"Like I said earlier, none of you would understand. Because 'that' isn't reality here." Ki shrugged. "But If you want, I can explain a little bit."

"Please do." The child rocked on her heels for a moment before talking.

"The best way of simplifying it is that everything you know as being scripted episodes is real life for me. Even this...really weird episode of meeting Maki's younger self. The only real difference is that after this, I get captured by a demon. Muse is currently in the middle of trying to save me."

"A...demon?" She was more inclined to believe that it was all just a creation of Ki's imagination.

"You don't have to believe me, but do me a favor and believe in yourself. It'd really help the Honoka in my world if you could. Now, I'd better get back to the fight, and you need to wake up. Eri's calling."

"Wait!" Honoka shouted, then groaned in pain from hitting her face against the floor of the Nishikino's reception room.

"Honoka, I know you're tired from our race-"

"Enough to fall asleep on us." Nico interrrupted but Eri continued anyway.

"-but we have to get started on the filming so that the production crew can edit in the special effects." Honoka got to her feet, still testing her nose gingerly to see if it broke. She followed the rest of her friends from the room. She felt like there was something important she had forgotten in the process of introducing her face to the floor. It probably wasn't that important, if she had managed to forget about it after taking a hit to the face. But she was getting more fired up for the filming after her fall, or rather, for her life in general. It felt like electricity was running through her body, increasing her desire to succeed in her task, if only so she could go home and continue watching her anime.

Which she really needed when the producers announced that there would be a second season to their show. As much as she was starting to enjoy being an actress with her friends, she really didn't think any of them were up to going script-less for the second season, especially while still maintaining the personalities that they had displayed through the first season. And on top of that, their goal was to get into the real Love Live, taking place that following spring. Honoka sighed. There went her hope for a return to a normal life.

"I would have stayed longer...but I can't keep sleeping when Honoka needs me! Oh well, at least I got to talk to this dimension's Honoka, even though it was only through a dream. Now I'd better get back to my Honoka's side and protect her! See you!"

And there she goes...makes you wonder how they got through the episode without a child Maki, huh?

The OVA made no sense to me so this was the best I could do with it.

And with that, Documentary comes to an end. Until the second season! (Comment a title, please. Or if not, it will be titled Documentary 2. Look at my great naming sense. :D )