Those Who Lurk in the Background

The following events occur prior to the prologue.

Nemesis and Mea travel through space on their ship. The two cunning ladies have a little package for the former assassin, the Golden Darkness. Master and slave, the duo, approach Earth.

"Haha, Mea. This little thing will help your sister in discovering her true self," exclaimed Nemesis.

Master Nemesis rubs the white pod in the cargo bay of her ship. It took a lot of hard work for her to obtain the pod, but her real prize is the Golden Darkness.

Mea, Nemesis's slave and apprentice, watching her master, asks, "Master, what's in the pod?"

Nemesis smiles and looks at the dutiful Mea and replies to her question.

"It's just a beast feared across the galaxy, that consumes all its enemies.,, hehe! Just the thought of it swallowing everything turns me on!" "It's just like the consuming darkness inside the one we seek!"

Mea says, "If we have this beast, why do we need the Golden Darkness?"

"Haha, unfortunately this beast can't be controlled, but it should bring the darkness out of our target," Nemesis replies.

"Don't worry, the Golden Darkness won't be killed by this beast, she'll be forced to leave the planet or she'll awaken the darkness inside her... hehe, either way, she'll soon be joining us," says Nemesis.

Mea's eyes glisten in excitement and eagerness.. "Well, we should be arriving at Earth now Master," Mea says.

"Excellent, Mea," says Nemesis. "Soon, she will be with us… soon."

The following events take place after the beast was defeated and before the first episode of To Love Ru Darkness.

Mea exclaims, "Master! The beast was defeated by Rich, but he was killed too."

"That meddling human, his defiance infuriates me! Though, I feel that something was off about him, from your description of his thoughts, when you read his mind while he was sleeping on the couch. You said his memories seemed just superficial."

Nemesis continues and says, "Mea, I want you to go to where he lived and find out all you can about him."

"Yes master, I already hacked into the internet and found information by facial profile, I'll go right now to California," replies Mea.

Mea leaves Japan and travels to America. Arriving in Los Angeles, she soon is breaking into Rich's house; it's a small one story home that looks like any other home.

The house looks like it is being lived in, yet she couldn't find anybody there. She was just about to leave when she noticed a panel on the floor.

"Hmm, what's this?" says Mea as she lifts up the panel, and walks into the basement to find a steel door with a security panel next to it. Mea hacks into the system and opens the door to a multi-leveled laboratory and begins to explore.

"What is this? Hello?" says Mea playfully. Mea walks into a room and sees a purple haired woman sitting at a table with her back facing Mea. Mea sends her braided hair out to read the woman's mind.

SHOOSH… Grab…

Her hair is stopped by a man she knows, he holds it in his hand and speaks to her.

"I know that you weren't going to try and hurt my dear friend Kotomi, cause I couldn't forgive that."

Kotomi turns around, shocked at the disturbance that is now keeping her from her work. Kotomi says, " Rich… what's going on?"

"Nothing Miss Ichinose, I'm just dealing with this uninvited guest, but I should be fine. You can go back to your parallel universe research," exclaims Rich.

"Mea, my biodrone transmitted information about you. Come I'll explain," says Rich.

Rich leads the dumbfounded Mea into another room and begins to monologize.

"You see, you can't read my mind, so don't even try. I'm Rich, an expert on biotechnology and dimensional travel. Unfortunately, I still can't be in two places at once, so I make copies of me programmed to transmit all data to my computer mainframe. Yet don't get excited, I deleted all the data transmitted from the copy you affiliated with. There was just too much sensitive information to leave accessible. So, I don't know what you have to do with this Yami, but I do know that you and she are alike. Whatever your plans may be, I don't plan on getting involved any further, so you can go tell the person you serve that," Rich explains while pushing a button on the wall to dispense food for the two of them.

"Mea, eat and take some food to go for your journey back. I don't wish to fight you, and I doubt you can fight someone like me. If you ever threaten this planet's existence, I will foil your work. On that note, goodbye."

Mea looks at Rich confused, everything was happening so fast. Rich pushes another button and she is suddenly encased in a capsule that is then propelled through a tunnel that opened in the ceiling. Being unable to break out of her temporary cell, the capsule is shot out of the tunnel and is propelled by thrusters that take her away from California over the ocean, and all the way back to Japan.

Rich smiles as he thinks of what Mea's facial expression is like right now. For Rich, being able to travel and shift through dimensions is his great power that none can really compare. Rich sighs, and takes a drink. "It's back to work from here," he says. "Kotomi can help me understand my gift better, plus she gorgeous in and out, so I'm gonna stay in this universe a while longer. Yep that's what I'll do." Rich mutters to himself.