AN: Hey guys.

Due to some encouragement from others (shout-out to FF member Jackthebean and FF guest Dude 101), I'm going to put a large amount of effort into posting chapters daily. School is a pain in the ass, however, and will make it difficult for me to do so. Regardless, I will now post new chapters as soon as I can. But be warned: because of this, the story will most likely come to an end much faster. But there will still be plenty of chapters on the way.

By the way, in chapter 6 I changed another thing about Tycho (Achos' cannon). If overcharged, the cannon will no longer have the potentiality to destroy the user, but will instead have the potentiality to critically damage the user.

Nine days after the battle between the 4 angeloids, things were progressing regularly, and any suspicions that the other 3 angeloids had about Achos were lifted. He was beginning to adjust properly to life on Earth, and was also learning to make his own choices. He'd become much less hostile and had become good friends with Tomoki, Nymph, and Sohara. He had gotten along the best with Nymph, so they considered each other best friends. Everything seemed to be going fine.

However, there was one problem.

Ikaros was no longer suspicious of Achos, but the fact that both of them had a similar quiet demeanor at times made it difficult for them to establish a connection between each other. Not only that, but Achos' reactor was beginning to feel strange whenever he was near her. He didn't know what the feeling was or why it was happening, he didn't know if any of the other angeloids had experienced the feeling (which they all did), and he hadn't talked to anybody about it.

One day, exactly two weeks after the battle, Achos sat next to Ikaros at the dining table during lunch, and his reactor felt strange again. Occasionally he would glance at her, and the feeling would intensify temporarily. Tomoki eventually noticed that Achos was looking a bit uncomfortable.

"Hey, Achos. You alright?" he asked. Achos snapped out of his trance and looked at Tomoki, nodding his head.

"Yes, I'm fine. Thank you," he answered, looking back down at the table.

Maybe I should talk to him about it... he thought. Ikaros had already talked to Sohara about it before, and now the same thing would happen between Achos and Tomoki. However, it would be much more different than the girls' talk. After lunch, Achos confronted Tomoki and placed a hand on his shoulder.

"Hey. Can I talk to you for a second?" Achos asked. Tomoki looked curious for a moment.

"Sure. Why not?" Tomoki asked. "Let's go to my room." The two headed upstairs and went into his room, Tomoki closing the door behind him. Achos, as usual, spotted Tomoki's pile of porn magazines and gave it a disgusted look (unlike the first time he saw it and karate-chopped Tomoki repeatedly like Sohara). Tomoki walked over by the window, turned and sat down on his knees.

"Take a seat," Tomoki said, and Achos sat the same way as Tomoki.

"So what's on your mind?" he asked, wondering what Achos wanted to talk about. Achos didn't respond for a moment, looking down at the floor in thought, then he looked up at Tomoki.

"It's about Ikaros," he answered. Tomoki gave a surprised look, but continued to listen. "I don't understand it, but for some reason whenever I get close to her or talk to her, even for the briefest moment, I feel something strange in my reactor. When I look at her, sometimes it feels as if it's going to explode. Do you think you know why this has been happening?" Tomoki glanced awkwardly to the side, scratching his head.

"I'm not sure," he responded, still averting his gaze from Achos. "I haven't felt the same way when I'm around anybody in particular... but I think you might be in love with her." Achos gave him a curious look, then looked down at the carpet.

"Love," he said, trying the word out. "Is... that what this feeling is? Love? Wait... what is love?" Tomoki was given a rather uncomfortable reminder of Chaos, who initially misinterpreted love, believing it to be pain.

"To be honest," Tomoki said, "I don't know what love is either. But if I were to try and describe it, it's when you have deep feelings for someone else." Achos thought about this for a moment.

I'm... in love with her? he thought. He was so unfamiliar with the word and the feeling associated with it. He didn't think angeloids could have feelings like this.

"Maybe you should tell her how you feel," Tomoki suggested, and Achos immediately looked at Tomoki, a deep red blush coloring his cheeks. He quickly shook his head.

"No, I'd rather not," he said. Tomoki smiled.

"Don't worry, I was just kidding. Look, if you need any help, just come talk to me, okay?" Tomoki said. Achos stared at the floor for a moment, then nodded, looking at Tomoki.

"Okay," he said quietly. He then stood up and left. Tomoki had a look of sadness on his face as he left.

Poor guy, he thought. He doesn't know that Ikaros is already in love with me... However, Achos did know that she was in love with him. He just wasn't conscious of it.

Unbeknownst to both Tomoki and Achos, Nymph was standing right outside the room, listening in on the conversation with her P-Stealth System turned on. She looked at the floor as she leaned against the wall, deep in thought.

So, Omega is in love with Alpha, huh? she thought. Maybe she should know about how he feels... maybe they could get closer to each other, even if they aren't actually together...

Nymph then went downstairs, turning off her P-Stealth System as she reached the hallway.

Later that day, Achos leaned against a wall, thinking about the conversation he and Tomoki had earlier.

Look, if you need any help, just come talk to me, okay? Achos smiled to himself as he remembered those words.

He's such a kind person, he thought to himself.

"You don't need them," a voice suddenly said in a whisper. Achos looked around, wondering who was there.

"Who said that?" he asked, turning his head in every direction. He heard the voice again, but it didn't answer his question.

"You don't need any of them," it said, repeating itself. Achos then stopped looking around, and decided to ignore the voice, heading towards the door. But suddenly, he was stopped in his tracks when he saw an image in his head. An image that disturbed him. There was a face staring at him, with two violet eyes and a jagged mouth that was also violet on the inside and was twisted into a sadistic smile, every other area in black.

"You have a mission," the voice said, its tone darkening. "COMPLETE IT." Achos placed a hand to his head and stepped back, feeling a bad pain and hearing a static buzzing in his head. The pain worsened by the second, and soon Achos screamed, collapsing onto his knees with both hands over his head. A moment later, Tomoki, Sohara and the angeloids rushed into the room.

"Achos! What's going on?" Tomoki asked, leaning over to see Achos' face. He continued to grip his head with both hands.

"My head," he groaned. "I don't know what's going on but... I heard a voice in my head... and then I saw something..."

"Saw what?" Tomoki urged. Achos suddenly let out a yell, and fell forwards on his hands, breathing heavily. The pain had come to an end, and so had the static buzzing. Nymph then initiated a scan of his system.

"Initiating scan," he said aloud, scanning for any signs of a fault within Achos' system. A moment later, she finished.

"Is he alright?" Tomoki asked. Nymph turned to him, looking uncertain.

"I haven't detected anything wrong with his system," she said to him. "I'm not sure what's wrong with it. It could have been something temporary."

"Do you think it could happen again?" Achos asked. Nymph then turned to him and nodded.

"Possibly. In that case, you need to let me know the moment you experience the slightest bit of pain," she said. "If I can get a chance to scan your system while you're experiencing the pain, I might be able to determine what's going on in your system."

"Okay," Achos nodded. With that, everyone left the room.

Just what was that? Achos wondered as he followed the others out of the room.