Chapter 9: I Still Love You

A few hours later at Road Rover Mission Control Briefing Room, the group was being debriefed by Master.

"Well Rovers," Master said from behind the podium. "Parvo's plans for his new canomutator have been stopped, and the hostages have been returned to Kennedy Space Center. Thanks to you. You did great job."

"J, I got a question for you," Ice Blaze said, looking at J. "Chris n' Dylan said tha' the ninjas took the updated plans from the Compute' Research n' Development Facility. Howeve', while I was lookin' for you back at home, I noticed the updated plans for the compute' in your room. Wha' plans did Parvo take?"

"Let's jus' say I gave the compute' more bang for its buck," J said, smirking.

"You sly dog you," Ice Blaze laughed, lightly punching his brother's arm.

"Care to fill us in?" Dylan asked with a confused look on his face.

"Parvo's ninjas actually stole a fake plan of the updated compute'," J explained. "I made some changes to the heat sink. It would still cool the compute' down, but I rigged it to explode. For it to detonate, I've added a hidden command."

"A hidden command?" Master asked.

"In some of the lines, I add a part of the hidden command into each command line of the program. In one of the command lines, I put a command to execute the program."

"Let me guess, when the canomutator started, the computer exploded," Briggs said.

"Exactly."

Everyone laughed for a few minutes. While everyone else was still laughing, J stopped laughing and let out a sigh. Master noticed J's sad expression.

"Is something the matter J?" Master asked, looking at J.

J let out a sigh and told Master everything about him and Ayame. Ice Blaze walked up to J and placed a hand on his shoulder. He reassured J that there will be more opportunities in the future, and everyone else agreed with the white tiger. J cheered up a bit and nodded his head in agreement.

"May I be excused?" J asked.

Master nodded his head, and J left the Briefing Room to head to his room. He arrived at his room. He opened the door and walked into the room. He closed the door behind him and headed over to his bed. He plopped down on the bed and stared at the ceiling. He pulled out the ring he gave Ayame from his pocket and stared at it.

Long ago and oh so far away
I fell in love with you...
Before the second show
And your guitar
And you sound so sweet and clear
But you're not really here
It's just the radio

He reached over to the nightstand and grabbed the picture of him and Ayame smiling. He stared at it for a long time.

Don't you remember you told
Me you loved me baby?
You said you'd be coming
Back this way again
Baby, baby, baby, baby, ohh baby...
I love you...
I really do

Ayame sat in the back of Parvo's ship alone. She took out the duplicate picture of them on their first date from her uniform. She looked at the picture.

Loneliness is such a sad
Affair sad affair
And I can't hardly wait
Baby no I can't
To be with you again

She and J were reflecting on their past experiences with each other.

And what to say to say to
Make you come again…mm
Ohh honey
Come on back to me again....
I wanna be, I wanna be anywhere you are
Ooo....

Don't you remember you told
Me you loved me baby
You said you would be coming back again
Baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby,
baby, baby, oooh baby

I love you

Oh baby don't you remember
You told me baby??
You said you'd be coming
back this way again
Baby, baby, baby, baby, oohh baby
I love you, I really do…
(A tear rolled down Ayame's cheek and fell onto the picture.)

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