Hikari gives a tiny squeak of horror as her television goes black, scrambling over to start pressing buttons and checking plugs.  A cursory glance around the room shows that everything else has gone cold as well--a power outage?  The teen instinctively grabs her phone to call the company, only to find that her cell seems to have run out of battery (So scatter-brained!  Hadn't she charged it...?), and like many families hers doesn't bother with a land-line since they have cellphones and high-speed internet.<br/><br/>Not seeing much other option, she throws on a bathrobe and fuzzy bunny slippers and sets off to check with her neighbor.  Living this far out of the city center is nice, if only for the sake of not being crammed into a too-small apartment complex, but it does mean she has to go cross the street to get to her nearest neighbor, to see if their power is out--which seems likely, since the whole city looks kind of dark!--and use their phone.<br/><br/>"Brrr!  Right at midnight!  Do you think it's an electromagnetic pulse, bunny-san?  Like in Appleseed!  Or was it Ghost in the Shell...?"  (Bunny-san appears to be, well, her slippers, as no other sentient creature is present that she's aware of.)