Chapter 6: The Truth Behind the Withdraw…Sir! Yes Sir!


Keroro walked home, embarrassed and disappointed.

"(Sigh) what am I going to do now?" Keroro groaned. "Everyone must be laughing at me for my failure on Pekopon due to the withdrawal. They'll think I'm a fraud, a totally scum!"

He passed by streets full of people in town. As he passes by, he could hear the people murmuring.

On the left side of him, he heard:

"Hey isn't that the "Great Sgt. Keroro?"

"Yeah, that's him. I heard that he got discharged from the Keron Force!"

"Yeah, I heard because he failed to conquer Pekopon, even though their military is so old fashion."

To his right:

"Mommy, I want to live in France on Pekopon!"

"Oh I'm sorry dear, you can't. The Keron Force withdraws their platoon from it."

"Why?"

"Oh well, because they waste money and bunch of slackers that can't do anything right."

Up front, he could hear:

"Look at me I'm rank Private!"

"So what, you're just a Private."

"Hey, at least it's a higher rank than that Sgt. Keroro guy. He no longer has a rank even though he is 'so great and awesome'."

"Hey you brought up a good point!"

From a behind, three street punks followed him and began talking as if they want Keroro to hear them. Keroro tried hard to ignore.

"Hey isn't that the stupid sergeant that was suppose to conquer Pekopon?" One snickered.

"Yeah, wonder why he's doing here, hmmm…" Another laughed.

"I heard that he keep getting his butt kicked by a 'scary teenage girl' known as 'The Devil Summer'." The last one chuckled.

"Oooh, I'm so scared. Maybe I should have not join the Keron Force and become a Sergeant. I might get the 'Sgt. Disease K' and get sent to Pekopon. I wouldn't want to face a girl like that." The second one said sarcastically.

"'Sgt. Disease K' what's that?" The first one asked.

"It's the disease that if you're a Sergeant, you will love stupid Gundam and can't do any mission properly!" The third sneered.

"The leader of the A.R.M.P.I.T sucks, their Corporal is in love with the girl, Private have anger issues and is a fat ass, their communication and hacker can't do anything right even if his bowl of curry depends on it, and their assassin is a lousy Pekopon lover. They even have the Lord of Terror, and they can't conquer one inferior planet!" The first one insulted.

"If I were them, I would take over the house, dissect the mom, capture and torture the red hair girl, and burn the stupid boy!" The second laughed.

"Yeah, why won't you the leader then? You will be a better leader than that stupid sergeant!" The third said.

They all laughed; other people around to begin to laugh as well. Coming by the corner of the street behind Keroro, Pururu came around.

"Oh my, what's this?" She said to herself. She looked ahead the three street punks.

"Oh Keroro-kun!"

Seeing that he bullied, she rushed in front of the street punks.

"Stop it! Leave him alone!" She cried.

"Hey, it's Chief Medic Pururu of the Garuru Platoon!" The second one cried.

"Stop picking on him! You're hurting his feeling, how could you three be so heartless?"

"Hey, back off missy. Know your place! You maybe a Chief Medic, but I'm a Sergeant, can't tell me what to do!" The first one barked. "I can say whatever I want. I should have my right to talk to him like that. All of us were waiting for his success to live on Pekopon. Now he fails, how are we supposed to live there? As the leader, it's his fault!"

"Yeah, but…" Pururu tried to explain. The surrounding people began to murmur again in agreement. People from behind began to walk up to them and began yelling at Keroro. The yelling continued for a minute as Pururu tries to calm them down. Suddenly, the green Keronian turned rapidly turned around towards the crowd, causing the Chief Medic to turn to him.

"Shut your mouths!" He roared back. His voice echoed through the whole street like thunder. A tremendous intense wind blew against everyone, startling crowd and Pururu. The voice of thunder lasted for a full three minutes. When it subsided, many Keronians collapsed to the floor, unconscious. Pururu, shocked from the massive shockwave and Keroro's tremendous voice, collapses to her knees trembling. Keroro shrouded face returned, glaring at the three street punks Keronians who flinched back in terror and fear. Keroro turn around again and continue his way home.

Whoa, incredible, Pururu thought, still trembling in fear. I swear, but Keroro-kun's voice suddenly has a tremendous force behind it, like…an imperial order from King!


Minutes later, Keroro arrived home, depressed and miserable. His dad heard him open the door and called on him.

"Oi, son, how's ya first day of work?" He asked. "I just made a call to the Fleet Admiral to see if he could put ya into a small patrol unit on Keron. Crime these days are getting high here, we need some patrol officer here to keep an eye on things. I can't do everything myself all time here, just getting a bit rusty here."

"Oh, um…" Keroro mumbled, "it was…tough…"

Keroro started up the stairs, but suddenly stopped by his father's voice.

"Ya got fired, did ya?" His father sighed. "Sigh, once in the military, always in the military. Once you start a normal life, ya can't just take a random job like selling ice cream ya know; it jus' ain't right for a military soldier to sell ice cream to kids."

"You knew that I would work as an ice cream frog?"

"Sure I did, ya kept yapping about it every since ya was little. ' When I retire, I would like to work as an ice cream frog so I could tell the kids about glory I had on Pekopon.' Don't ya remember that day?"

Keroro's mother came into the same room as his father and interrupted the two.

"Oh come now dear, at least he tried to find work." She said.

"Oh, well, I'm jus' saying that it is best not to work as an ice cream frog when ya just got fired from the Keron Force, not retire from it."

"Yes, but currently now, you're making our son feel bad."

"Oh really, didn't know that he had any. Thought he forgot about and man up to the job."

Keroro sighed in depression of his father's last comment.

"Hey I do have feelings dad, you're just too old to see them!" He yelled at his dad from the stairs.

From downstairs, his dad smiled in delight to his wife.

"Well, that went well, got him back to normal." Keroro's dad laughed.

"Yes, yes you did," Keroro's mother muttered sarcastically. "That reminds me, that what's-his-name that calls himself the Devil Corporal is on the line."

"Oh okay, let me talk to that old fart. Keroro, my son, take care of what you need to take care of, I'll be right back."

His dad rushed over to the phone. Keroro sat on the stairs and sighed again in depress.

What I'm gonna do now? Keroro thought.

"Kororo here, go on ahead." He heard from his dad downstairs talking. "Ah, hey wassup, so when we're goin' on another adventurous vacation, huh? I was thinking maybe we hang out at the Cosmic Maximum Security Prison just to get in shape again or something."

He heard his dad paused a bit.

"Oh, yes my son, by the way how's your two sons, they ain't giving any trouble or anything right? Oh I see, so why did you asked about my son, what so interesting?"

Hearing that he was part of the conversation, Keroro got curious, listened carefully, and discretely just in case.

"Oh don't worry, he's not here. So…" Keroro's dad said casually. Suddenly his tone changed into serious mode. "…so talk me, what's really going on?"

Now things just took a turn, which intrigued Keroro.

"They never actually fired my son without my permission, what's with the sudden change in plans without my consent…Pekopon, invasion? What's the meaning of this? Pekopon invasion is forced reserved to someone else?"

This fact was shocking news to Keroro, Force reserved. He thought, what does this really have to do with the platoon being withdrawn?

"Oh, I see so they were withdrawn for the sake of Keron. I see…"

For... the sake of Keron…

"Well, I guess this is big news, if we left my son there he could cause a lot of trouble that would bring war to both planets. Therefore, Keron Force decided this to avoid this war; well I guess I'll agree to that. It really is a good thing that the Fleet Admiral didn't tell him that or it could lead to rebellion of my son and his platoon!"

For…the sake of Keron?

Suddenly, Keroro dashed down the stairs and raced towards his dad.

"For the sake of Keron, what is the meaning of this?" Keroro roared in anger, startling his father. "You guys call yourselves soldiers or cowards?"

"Holy shit, my son heard the news!" Keroro's dad cried. "I call you back when I stop this uprising. Bye-Bye."

Keroro's dad slammed the phone and faced his mad-dog son.

"You, father, explain this instants, what's the meaning of this."

"Look son, calm down. It was Keron Force's and the Counsel that made this decision." His dad explained nervously. "The thing is, you guys got withdrawn because of another massive force are coming to invade Pekopon, an invasion that would wipe out all life on the planet. Therefore, the Cosmic Police already warned everyone to leave already so it won't lead to a chain reaction. If you stay, after Pekopon is conquered, they'll come to our planet to invade next. Therefore, for the sake of Keron…"

"— For the sake of Keron, what about Pekopon," Keroro roared, chopping a table in half with right hand, "what about the sake of Pekopon, the prized planet that is rightfully ours, what about the sake of my friends, I can't abandon them for the sake of my own planet! If this invasion force is so great, Pekopon don't stand a chance at all, they're not ready for this yet! We can't just sacrifice Pekopon for the sake of our own!"

"I know it's frustrating to you son, but we have no choice now. It's a direct order from the Fleet Admiral and the Counsel themselves; it's like the law of the land."

Suddenly, Keroro paused a bit.

"…The Fleet Admiral…" He mumbled, "it's his entire fault…he's the coward that withdrawn ARMPIT. It's his fault…"

"Uh, son what ya thinking?" His dad asked in fear. "Don't do things that will get you killed now, the Fleet Admiral have ten elite bodyguards during his tea time on Keron at this time. Now I suggest that you stop and calm down a bit."

"—Gero, Gero, Gero, it's so funny how you always tell me to face your problems and I never listen when I was a kid…" Keroro sneered; he looked at his father and smiled. "…guess what dad, I'm gonna make you proud…"

In a moment, Keroro dashed out of the house with a bat and raced madly towards the town.

"I'm gonna face my problems for the first time, just like you told me to, dad!" Keroro yelled while running. "Fleet Admiral~~~~!"

From a distance behind, his dad was chasing madly after him.

"Son, wait, I use that titanium bat in street fighting the last few weeks, and I always successfully use it to kill people and it never fails!" He yelled at him while chasing him. "Stop and come back here with my Bat That I Stole from Death Himself!"

The two ran the down the street and out of sight of Keroro's mother who stepped outside.

"Oh my, they're playing again, just like old times." Keroro's mother said casually. She began to walk back inside the house, clueless. "This makes me feel younger seeing the two, father and son, playing again."


Somewhere downtown, Pururu was sitting a café drinking tea with the Keronian known to be the Fleet Admiral. Like what Kororo described, there were ten elite Keronian bodyguards guarding the Fleet Admiral.

"Huh, you seriously fired him; you didn't bother giving him any chance or recommendation into patrol officer on Keron?" Pururu asked worryingly.

"Indeed, I did, it's a punishment he will regret for letting down Keron. Can you imagine how many times the Keron Forces have to cover up for his incompetence? Trust me, isn't extreme or cruel just to let you know. It could have been worse; we could have executed him, to me that would have been a better choice." The Fleet Admiral said.

"Admiral, sir, how could you say that about Keroro-kun. After all those times he had been trying to invade Pekopon for us, how could you say such things, wishing to kill him?" Pururu scolded.

The Fleet Admiral slammed his fist on the table.

"That's Fleet Admiral, sir, to you, Chief Medic Pururu, and it's because of those times, Keron was humiliated so many times, in addition of wasting so much time and money." He scolded back at her, causing her to flinch. He took a sip of his tea and continued. "As the Fleet Admiral, the Commanding officer of the Keron Force, I do not tolerate failures. I only approve the strong and successive, the weak minded and failures. Failures like those should not exist in my army. That's my way of expressing the power of the Keron Force."

Pururu turned her head away in disgust.

"Hmph, one day, sir, you'll regret saying those words. Karma will get its way."

"Is that a threat, Chief Medic? You know, I do not need arrogant medics in my army."

"No just warning, I gonna go now, you really disgust me."

Just as Pururu stood up, a large rumbling heard and approaching that grabbed the Fleet Admiral's and her attention. A silhouetted Keronian, racing towards them madly, was yelling out in anger.

"Fleet Admiral~~~!"

"Huh, Keroro-kun?" Pururu said, shocked that she recognized the enraged figure.

"Keroro, what are doing here?" The Fleet Admiral asked.

Without warning, Keroro somehow bypass the guards, whom startled by it, and bashed the Fleet Admiral in the head with his dad's bat. Everyone in the public area mouths dropped in fear.

"You…STUPID FROG!" Keroro roared as he finished his follow up swing.

The Fleet Admiral flew across the street, laying nearly dead.

"Keroro-kun, what have you done!" Pururu cried in fear. "Have you lost your mind, did realized what you have done?"

"I know exactly what I did," Keroro sneered in rage. "I'm facing my problem."

"You hit the Fleet Admiral!"

"Oh yeah… and it feels good to hit him."

The Fleet Admiral's guards rushed to their commander's aid as Pururu strangled Keroro.

"Have you gone nuts, how does hitting him makes you feel good?" She scolded at him.

"It feels good, because I used this bat." Keroro grinned, while holding up his dad's bat. Everyone around the area ran in fear; Pururu flinched and trembled.

"Isn't that's the Devil's Death Bat?" Pururu asked in fear, "There's only one of kind in this world, where did you get that?"

"It isn't mine; it's my dad's bat." Keroro casually said. His dad, who finally caught up, fell to Keroro's last statement.

"Oh my god, Keroro, that bat have enough strength to kill a normal Keronian. You're lucky it's the Fleet Admiral, or else…"

"—Uh, Chief Medic," One of the guards interrupted her nervously. "We're not getting any pulse readings!"

"Huh, that's impossible, Keroro is just an amateur. He doesn't know how to use that bat properly." She rushed over and tried to check the commander's pulse reading. " There's no way he could be…"

(No pulse reading apparently- By Narrator)

"Oh crap, initiate CPR now!" She cried.

"Yes, ma'am." The guards replied.

The guards began to perform CPR on their dead commander.

"He's alive, all clear. We have pulse reading." One of the guards reported.

Keroro dropped the bat and cracked his knuckles.

"Well then…" He began sinisterly. "I need to greet the Admiral…"

He approached the Fleet Admiral as the admiral began to regain conscious.

"It is time…" Keroro said.

"Keroro, why you…" The Fleet Admiral growled in anger.

"Revenge, I'm gonna give you what you deserve, you coward!" Keroro roared in anger again and jumped the Fleet Admiral again; yet again, his guards were powerless stop Keroro from touching their commander. Keroro's father finally came in and dragged Keroro out of the beat up. The Fleet Admiral somehow got to his feet after the beat up by Keroro. "Let me go dad, I'm gonna teach this bastard a lesson he won't forget."

"Son, you really over did it this time. You hit the commanding officer of the Keron Force."

"I don't care!"

"Shut up this instant!"

"Devil Sergeant, what is the meaning of this? Does your son want to be executed this instant." The commander roared. "I'll charge this a felony towards me."

"Well, uh, you see…" The Devil Sergeant began to explain.

"—what is the meaning of this? It's for being a coward and a selfish bastard!" Keroro roared while trying to break free from his father's grip, tears started running down his cheeks. "Using Pekopon as offering to save ourselves, do we not give Pekopon a choice but to be obliterated by this massive invasion force? Answer me you coward!"

"Hmph, so you know?" The Keronian commander began. He got up to his feet and sweep the gravels on shoulders off and began explaining. "Very well then, I have nothing to hide now. That's right; you've been called back because of them. Who are they: Keron's greatest enemies of the past that is nothing compare to the Vipers. To refresh your memory of Keron's history, they are the Heronians, Nocturnians, Mermanians, and Komodians, this quarter of the universe's most dangerous invasion forces. Not even the Cosmic Police can do anything against them. The last time we clashed, Keron was on the verge of destruction and total extinction. It took your father, his platoon, Angol Moa's father, and special Keron division known as Zeta, just to have them leave. Zeta is a secret division of special trained Keronians agents for Armageddon and that division is cease to exist now because all the agents have died protecting our planet. Therefore, in honor of their services, we will not go to war with these monsters every again, even if it means we must give up Pekopon in order to avoid it. Knowing your attitude and behavior, we are sure that you will ruin this and attack."

"Attack, therefore I will!" Keroro barked back. "We're just running away from fear of these mad beasts. Why can't for once Keron do something right for once and fight back! Has the Keron pride been lost ever since these monsters come back? What about the Pekoponians huh, do you have sympathy for them. They're primitive and clueless of other worlds like ours let alone an invasion! They're not ready for this and everyone knows it. Will we be like sheep and follow the flow of herd, or shall we make a difference and lead the herd? You call yourself a commander when you have no guts to back up your orders!"

"What was that!"

"You heard me clear, everyone of your soldiers must cowards like you. Well, this frog has enough of following the leader! It's time for a change, therefore I will return to Pekopon and stop this invasion myself even if it kills me!"

"Son, shut up and back off, that's an order!" Keroro's dad yelled at him, trying to drag him away.

"I must go back, Fuyuki, Natsumi, they'll be killed if I don't do anything! I must go!" Keroro cried, tears poured out of his eyes. "They'll die if I don't do anything, no, no!"

Keroro continue to sobbed as his father tried to drag him aside. Pururu stood in the middle of scene, feeling sad and uncomfortable.

"Keroro-kun." Pururu mumbled sadly.

"Oh son man up already, stop crying!" His father said to Keroro.

Suddenly the guards approached father and son from behind and shove the Devil Sergeant aside.

"Hey whatcha doing to my son!" Keroro's father gasped in fear.

"Punishment," The Fleet Admiral said. "I will teach him a lesson for insulting my power and army, and for the felony on the superior officer!"

In moment, his father and Pururu witnessed Keroro's horrible punishment that so horrible that I, the writer, cannot put into words; all except that Keroro is brutally getting beat up. After the punishment, Pururu rushed to Keroro's side.

"Keroro-kun, are you right? Please don't die!" Pururu cried. No answer from the former Sergeant, who laid in Pururu's arm nearly lifeless. "Fleet Admiral, sir, don't you think this is too extreme, he's nearly dead and I don't have any of my medical equipments with me!"

The Fleet Admiral turned to the crowd around them, currently in a parallel line up with Kororo.

"Let this be an example to you all for defying Keron's rule!" He announced. He walked up the Devil Sergeant and whispered, "You are lucky I'm in a good mood, or else that would be you on the floor unconscious and your son dead. Let that be a lesson to teach your son right."

"Y-Yes sir." Kororo said, his old voice trembling a bit.

Just as the Fleet Admiral thought he had won as he walked away, he heard Keroro's groaning voice. He turned to look back at his aggressor. Suddenly without a noise, he sent flying back by a fist, yet again bypassing the guards. He sat up to face Keroro standing before him; Keroro's face fully darkens again. The guards charged at Keroro from behind at full speed. With a turn of his head, Keroro's eyes flashed opened somehow causing the guards to lose conscious and collapse into seizures. Keronians around that looked into Keroro's eyes also collapse one by one. Pururu yet again trembled in fear seeing Keroro's face, this time joined by Keroro's father.

Keroro turned back at the terrified commander, revealing to him his shrouded face that put fear into anyone who sees it.

"This is not over…I will not stop you from making your choice to run, but you cannot stop me from making my choice to fight." Keroro said in a dark tone. "I will return to Pekopon and make sure we win. You will all soon beg me for forgiveness when we win. One more question though, are we going to keep running away from major problems like these?"

The shrouded face Keronians started his way home, his father followed him nervously and fearfully. Pururu rushed after them, leaving her trembling commander. The commander on the other hand suddenly pulls out a phone and dial.

"This Fleet Admiral to Grand Star, new order: set maximum security in all air space and around the Devil Sergeant's home in a 1-block radius. In space prepare all combat fighters and have them on guard. Objective is to contain the former Sergeant Keroro; eliminate if necessary or when trying to escape Keron. Whatever you do, do not let him off Keron!"