Excel or Die; Strike Back! Chapter 9; Ai (chuuseishin) part 2

Author's note; Ok, I've re-read all of my fanfic so far, to try and figure out if I'm doing something wrong. 'Cos before I got lots of lovely reviews. Now I'm not so much…I realized that Yomiko is turning out much meaner than I realized! That WILL change in this chapter-promise! Also I realized that Menchi had suddenly disappeared since chapter 6! So I'll include him in this chapter too.


In the City Of F, somewhere…

While chasing Excel out of the ACROSS headquarters, Menchi had been following the newly-visitor to the city, Yomiko. She had hoped to follow Yomiko in order to make sure the she gets rid of her owner once and for all! However, she had no idea her owner and Yomiko could run so fast! She lost the pair of them when they reached the park! She had been strolling around for hours now trying to find them again.

However, when she reached the apartments of where she and her owner lived-she found something else that caught her attention. She found a group of Puchuus waddling towards her way, or were they heading towards the apartments-she couldn't be sure…

Wherever they were heading, she hid in the nearest bushes, she knew how dangerous, and…evil they were-she wasn't going to take any risks! She watched, as she hid in the bushes, the Puchuus had two females following behind them. One female had purple hair and a bandana on, while the other looked more like a young teenager-she had purple and pink hair, with some sort of strange wire coming from the back of her.

The older female was walking in a normal fashion, while the teenager seemed to be 'skipping' rather than walking.

Menchi watched in fascination as she noticed the Puchuus and the 2 females walk into the turning where the apartments were located. At the top of the stairs, leading to the top floor of the apartments, were the 'very' high Jay, Silent Bob, Iwata, Sumiyoshi and Misaki.

"Where has the Watanabe gone to anyway?" questioned Sumiyoshi, using his very own subtitles

"Oh…he…" began Misaki, she head felt like shit and she found it hard to focus, "he jumped outta the window…I think"

"Well he better stop jacking off-we got a job to do!" Stated Iwata

"Oh do we have to?" asked Silent Bob, again using subtitles

Before Jay could protest, he slipped at the top of the stairs and landed flat onto his face in front of the crowd of Puchuus. As he laid eyes upon them, he could help but stare in wonder, "ohhhh! They're so fucking cute!"

The Puchuus knew that they had found their target, due to the inappropriate swearing. Silent Bob came down the stairs to help Jay up, but he was stunned by their cuteness too. However, Misaki, Iwata and Sumiyoshi knew better, but before they could warn the dirty duo-

"Puchuu!" (Translation; "kill them!") Said the boss Puchuu

The two females looked down at the duo and locked onto their target, "YEAH! GO! GET THEM BIG SISTER!" shouted the younger version of the Ropponmatsu as she skipped with joy

"Who's the tits?" asked Jay, referring to the older Ropponmatsu

"That would be the Ropponmatsu…" Said Iwata, trying to work out if them being here was a good thing, or a bad thing…

His worries were about to be answered, as the older Ropponmatsu bended her knee. A hole formed were her knee cap used to be, and a missile was found within the hole…

"What the f-" said Jay

The Ropponmatsu simply said in unison "Knee-cap missile…FIRE!"


Meanwhile, In the Alleyway where Excel, Hyatt and Yomiko are located…

All was still and silent as if all signs of life had left the world. But it was hard to know what to say without rivers of tears being formed, or without a death occurring…

Hyatt had aimed a gun and Yomiko's forehead, who had her papered machine gun aimed at Excel, who just stood their-trying to think of something appropriate to say.

Unfortunately, she could only say this; "Yo Hatchan! What great timing! This geek was about to pull that trigger on me! Now, finish her!!!"

The other two remained motionless, as if they dismissed-or had not-heard what Excel said.

"Well…I guess everything we ever said…everything we ever done to each other…all comes down to this moment, Yomiko…or should I say…'Agent Paper'?" Hyatt hissed; her voice was sweet, yet dry and cold at the same time.

Yomiko looked at the end of the gun, it gave her the chills knowing the fact that Hyatt was aiming it at her. She tried not to show any emotion across her face as she looked upon Hyatt; "How did you find out?" asked Yomiko, referring to her secret about being part of the 'Royal British Library Task Force'.

Hyatt shrugged; "Let's just say Lord Ilpalazzo likes to keep tabs on those who wish to enter his Headquarters."

"HAY! AM I MISSING SOMETHIN-" the confused Excel tried to interrupt, but the two of them were in their own little world

"Why did you do it? Was it some sort of game?" Hyatt's voice was shaky and weak; as if she was trying to hold herself together-but with each word said made it harder and harder for her to hold back her endless tears

"A game…? Of course n-" Yomiko tried to comfort Hyatt but she refused to listen

"Did you just use me to get what you wanted? Am I just some stepping stone towards your goal of taking down ACROSS?" the tone in Hyatt's voice made Yomiko shiver

"Maybe you were at first!" Yomiko shouted, desperately trying to get Hyatt to hear her out, "But not anymore…"

Yomiko dropped her weapon, forgetting Excel was there. The gun broke down into the thousands of pieces of paper it was 3 chapters ago. Most of the paper was carried away with the wind, as Yomiko tried to stand but Hyatt stepped towards her and the gun came into contact with Yomiko's skin. Telling her to remain stationary.

"Everything you said to me, and everything else you have left to say is a lie!!"

"Not everything…not when I said I loved y-"

"DON'T EVEN TRY!!" Hyatt let a tear fall down her right cheek; Yomiko could feel both of their hearts breaking

Excel kept asking herself 'what the fuck was going on? What the hell were these bitches talking about? Did I miss something here?' But these were questioned that were fated to be left unanswered

"I…" Yomiko felt a slight fear of trying to say the words that longed to escape her mouth; her heart and her soul-she feared that she would pain Hyatt more

"I never intended for this to happen…yes… I admit…I was meant to use you in order to get to ACROSS" a part of Hyatt didn't want to hear this, she wanted to cover her ears and scream at the top of her lungs until this anguish she was feeling had gone away. But another side of her wanted to hear anything-anything in order to prevent herself not to kill her beloved

"I was meant to use you, I expect you to lead me to the ACROSS headquarters-and I knew that you would fall for me, just like I planned…but I didn't expect for me to fall in love with you…"

"CUT CUT CUT! THAT'S ENOUGH OF THE CONFUSION! LETS TAKE A BRAKE SO SOMEONE CAN EXPLAIN TO ME WHERE ALL THIS LOVEY-DOVEY CRAP CAME FROM!" Excel shouted, but again she was not acknowledged of existence. She tried to run across the screen, and tried to do some property damaged (she even tried nudity) but nothing she did could make the audience take their eyes off the couple

"You're not in love with m-" Hyatt couldn't look at her, she tried to shut Yomiko's voice out of her head

"I am!" Yomiko was standing up now, hoping to stand her ground and to try and reach out to Hyatt

"You have to believe me…love, look at me, look into my eyes…you'll know that I mean it!" Yomiko removed her glasses so she could see her eyes properly

Hyatt refused to look at her, but images and flashbacks of their time together filled her vision. She remembered their first meeting-when Yomiko first came into town, she remembered their first date, their first kiss, the first time they had confessed their love to each other…and the first time they made love…

"HAY! NONE OF THAT HAPPENED! EVER!! YOU BARELY EVEN KNOW HER! YOU'RE JUST MAKING UP MEMORIES IN ORDER TO GET THE ROMANTIC 'FORBIDDEN LOVE' CRAPPY STORYLINE! IS ANY ONE ELSE HERE GOING TO SAY ANYTHING!?" Not a sound was to be heard in reply, apart from the breaking of Hyatt's heart

She tried to; she tried to hide her emotions towards Yomiko-in order to accomplish what her Lord Ilpalazzo had ordered. She tried to convince herself that she was being lied to all this time and that Yomiko had to die. Her heart and her mind battled out endlessly, but in the end, her heart-or more precisely her love overcame all…

Hyatt sank to her knees in defeat and dropped her weapon to the floor. She cried like their was no tomorrow-she couldn't kill Yomiko-her love was too strong. Yomiko got down on her knees so she was the same level as Hyatt; she wrapped her arms around her into a warm and loving embrace. Yomiko didn't seem to mind Hyatt's tears soaking her brown coat as she rocked her back and forth in her arms.

Excel was too dumb to care or understand what had just happened, she was too busy trying to get pieces of paper left over from Yomiko's gun. Excel tried to stick the pieces of paper together in hope of creating a weapon of her own-yet she failed miserably.

"If this geek can create a weapon that big using only paper-then so can I!" she comforted herself

Hyatt and Yomiko parted from their embrace, Hyatt wiped her tears away as Yomiko went in for the kiss…however their happy time was short lived-as they heard an explosion in the distance…


Ok, I got the whole 'Yomiko x Hyatt' idea when I watched episode 16 of 'Excel Saga' (the episode where the Ropponmatsus fall in love with Hyatt and Excel). But I didn't want it all prevey like, so I tried to make the relationship all romantic and beautiful, like Willow and Tara are (or should I say were) in 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer'.

Did any of that make sense? No? TOUGH!

Before I go, I just wanna make it clear that I have NOTHING against gay couples or gay people, I love gay people! I think they're really sweet!

Chapter 10 up soon…

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