StevieBond: This is it folks, the last chapter of the story.

Apricot: Awww, it's over?

Anise: No way, it can't be over already!

Nano: I want more!

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Kahlua: Oh, well that's a relief.

Lily: You better not be fooling us.

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The Ultimate Payback

Well I think everyone was in a state of dismay, the Chrono Gate had been shut down thanks to Verel. It had been a while since then and I was in the cafeteria with Kazuya, who was making a gateway design using plates and straws.

"So this is how the Chrono Gates are connected." He said. "The straws showing the gates, the plates representing the galaxies. Connected to this yellow plate, the Control Globe of ABSOLUTE, the two gates of EDEN and NEUE that are connected to this centre."

"I already get all that." I replied. "But how can it be possible for us to turn on the Chrono Gate if we don't have a gate keeper on our side?"

A beep went off in my jacket. "Yes?"

"Angel Wing, report to the briefing room, you're needed immediately." Tact said.

"Understood." I looked at Kazuya. "We have to go."

All of us angels headed on over to the briefing room. "We're here, Tact."

"Good…I have some good news for you…come on in."

In came another person…wait a minute. "Forte?!"

"Hi Angels." She replied.

"What are you doing here, I thought you were placed under arrest."

"No it's not too severe, I'm here to introduce you to someone important and he has two assistants."

Suddenly, two tiny fairies flew into the room and Lily gasped.

"I know these two, that's Kelsie and Santa Rosa." She said.

"Who are they?" Kazuya asked.

"They're the aides that accompany the royal family, which means…"

Another person walked in, cutting her off.

"This is Soldum Seldar." Kelsie introduced.

"The current emperor of Seldar." Santa Rosa added.

Soldum smiled, but he didn't say anything.

"This is a surprise." Anise said. "Are you one of those silent types?"

"Anise! You weren't supposed to speak out of turn." Lily lightly scolded.

"It's alright Lily." Kelsie assured. "Anise meant no harm by it, we know about her name."

Anise blinked. "Huh? How do you know?"

"We know about the name, Garam, which was how we learnt to know you."

"That's the name of my father…" she sighed.

"Anyways, we are getting way off topic here." I intervened. "Do continue, fairies."

"Our emperor prefers to not use his voice towards non-family members, so we speak on his behalf through a mental link." Santa Rosa explained.

"Soldum would like to thank you all for saving our planet." Kelsie said.

"But the real reason we're on board is that we're here to inform you of another way to open the Chrono Gate to ASBOLUTE."

"Really, there's another way?" I asked.

"However, it will require the energy that is formed from the power of the Emblem Frame's H.A.L.O system." Santa Rosa replied.

"We have concluded that Kazuya's and Lily's frames are the only ones powerful enough to help our emperor open the gates." Kelsie added. "We now kindly ask to have a word with Lily and Kazuya alone."

"We understand, Soldum." Tact replied. "Let's go everyone."

We nodded, leaving the room…I already had a feeling on what those fairies wanted to mention to them. It would probably be to do with the power of love, just like how Tact and Ranpha did when they pushed that Chrono Quake Bomb into another space with my help.

After a moment, we walked down to the hanger where a space shuttle was docked and Forte was there, she was smiling for some reason.

"Angels, I have company that you will be familiar with and will be joining you for the upcoming battles." She said.

The shuttle door opened and out came three people.

"Vanilla…Mint…Ranpha?" I asked. "What brings you here?"

"We're going to help rescue Milfie." Vanilla replied.

"But before we can do that, we need to get inside ABSOLUTE." Mint added.

I was about to ask something but then thought better not to.

"Is something wrong, Arnold?" Ranpha asked.

"I was about to ask if you needed me to help, but then I realised I can't." I answered.

"I'm afraid not." Forte said. "The Rune Angel Wing still needs you as their leader. Don't worry though, Chitose will be joining us with reinforcements once Milfie is rescued."

We stood well out of the way as Kazuya and Lily got into their frames and flew out. We all walked up to the bridge and watched a few ships from the Magiic fleet aligned in a circle with the merged frames and saw a huge light enveloped around the Chrono Gate…it was now active, showing the way to ABSOLUTE.

"Alright! The gate is open again!" I exclaimed.

"Quick everyone, let's move!" Tact replied.

The Luxiole moved forward after we picked up Kazuya and Lily's frames and we went through the Chrono Gate. Now in our view was a completely different galaxy. It felt a little unwelcoming and a little dark.

I felt a chill in the air. "So this is ABSOLUTE…hey I can see something over there."

"What are those spikes coming out of that sphere?" Nano asked.

"That must be the Central Globe." Tact replied. "Where Milfie is held captive."

"Tact…the Chrono Gate is closing behind us." Coco said.

She was right, the Chrono Gate had shut down…guess the power wasn't able to keep it open for long. It dawned on me that we were the only ones that made it through.

Suddenly sirens went off around the ship.

"Enemy Fleet detected around the Central Globe!"

"There!" I said. "Looks like this is all they have, they must be defending that globe at all costs."

Kazuya and Lily shortly joined with us on the bridge. "Alright Angel Wing, this is our situation." Tact said bringing up a map. "Our forces are located here, the enemy fleet has us surrounded like this."

"That's quite a large number of ships they have." Kazuya replied. "Can we really take them all down?"

"We'll have to, there's no other way." I responded. "Eliminating the enemy fleet is our only option."

"Once they're gone, the four girls will use the space shuttle to travel to the central globe and rescue Milfie." Tact said. "But we may have to do this quick, we don't know when Verel and his flagship will soon appear."

"Hold on Milfie…we're coming." Apricot said with determination.

"Just a little longer…I'll see her again." I added.

"We'll be watching you from the bridge." Forte said. "Make us proud out there."

"We will."

We left the bridge and rush to the hanger, it was time for perhaps the hardest battle we've had so far. I checked the radar as we flew out the dark purple space of ABSOLUTE. There were twelve cruisers, six battleships and four carriers.

"Angels, this is gonna be a tough one for all of us." I said. "I've been there for all of you since the beginning, I now I need you all to lend me your power and belief as I have done for you."

"Understood, Arnold." Kazuya replied. "We'll work together and overcome our enemies."

"For my sister's sake, let's win this one." Apricot replied.

"You can count on us, Arnold." Nano said.

"I'll swoop in and give those enemies the best bombs ever." Anise added.

"They will be no match for my superior range." Lily boasted.

"I've helped you a lot, I still wanna help you more." Tequila finished.

I smiled with faith and courage. "Alright, that's all of us fired up and ready to go, let's crush the enemy fleet!"

The battle had begun and the cruisers had us surrounded.

"I want three of you angels to cover the left side, two of you come with me and take care of the right side of the map."

Apricot and Kahlua came with me and we fire down the first three cruisers. Lily, Anise and Nano were swooping down the cruisers on the left. Lily was cleaning house once again since Kazuya was with her.

My side took care of the rest and now the cruisers were gone. The battleships were up next and nearly all of us had our specials ready.

"HYPER BLASTER!" Apricot yelled and the first battleship went down.

"HEXA-CROSS BREAK!" Kahlua yelled and a second one was destroyed.

"NEEDLE FLETCHETTE!" Down went a third one.

"GENEOCIDE BOMBER!" A fourth one followed quickly.

"EXTREME LANCER!" Another battleship down, one remained.

"I've got this last one." I said, aiming my drill at the last battleship "SPIKE DRIVER!"

That was the battleships gone, just the four carriers remained, they were gonna be tough to take down.

"Angels let's regroup and take these carriers down one by one."

We all grouped our frames close and took down the first carrier, then a second one went down thanks to our combined attacks. The last two eventually fell down, thanks to the power of hope and my leadership, the enemy fleet was gone.

"Enemy fleet annihilated!" I exclaimed. "We did it, Angels!"

"YEAH!" Kazuya yelled happily.

"Nice going, Arnold." Ranpha praised. "You are awesome!"

"Cheers…" I replied with a smile.

"We're on the space shuttle and about to approach the Central Globe." Mint said. "Stand by for updates."

"Got it…Angels, let's withdraw and wait it out."

We returned to the Luxiole and walked up to the bridge. There was silence for a while, the moon angels must be having a hard time…then after another moment of silence and hoping for good news, a beep went off.

"Incoming transmission from Forte." Coco said.

"Good news to everyone." Forte said on the big screen. "We have rescued Milfie, I repeat, we have rescued Milfie."

"Oh thank the stars!" I exclaimed. "Finally she's safe and away from that awful equipment."

"Milfie!" Apricot sniffed. "I'm so happy." She blew her nose on a handkerchief.

Forte wasn't finished. "We're retreating to the gate on EDEN's side that Milfie has opened up for us. We'll be coming back with reinforcements as soon as we can."

"That's good news." Tact replied.

"But we would like you all on the Luxiole to make a retreat to the NEUE gate that is also opened and fool Verel into thinking that Milfie is still captured."

"A bait and switch tactic, I like the idea." Lily replied.

The transmission was suddenly cut off and now it was Verel who was on the screen and he looked mad.

"I am livid at you, humans!" He exclaimed. "You have foiled my plans not twice…but three times! But do not get ahead of yourself, I still have one more trick up my sleeve."

Suddenly a huge shaped moon began to appear along with several ships around it.

"Wait…is that the Black Moon?" Tact asked.

"Correction…it is the Shadow Moon." Verel replied. "Not only is it powerful in both size and its ability to mass-produce fleets of my kind, but its true strength is the stealth field that makes it undetectable by radar."

"What do we do now, Tact?" I asked.

"We have to make a hasty retreat." Tact replied. "Let's turn this ship around and make a run for it to the Chrono gate to NEUE."

"Tact, we can go through the spiked constructs, that should throw any enemy ships off our backs should they pursue us." Coco suggested.

The Luxiole turned and it was going as fast as it could, once it arrived at the Chrono Gate, I saw something I hadn't seen before. The bottom half of the Luxiole broke off with Coco who had to go down there with several crew members and it flew away through the Chrono Gate to NEUE.

"Don't worry about them, Arnold." Tact said. "They're going to come back with our secret weapon. For now, we gotta hold these fast attack ships off, if any of them get past us, it'll be all over."

I nodded. "I understand, Angel Wing, let's move out."

We rushed to the hanger and out we flew to find ten fast attack ships coming towards us. We didn't have time to think of a tactic, so we agreed to just wipe them all out, that should do the trick.

The battle started and we wiped out the four ships closer to us, another four were closing in but we took them out as well. After eliminating the last two, more enemy ships came into contact, two battleships arrived but we split up into a group of three and took them out, now it was over.

"Huh…" I panted. "…that should give us enough time to rest up before we have to fight again."

We got back to the Luxiole and walked up to the bridge and everyone else was kind of worn out.

"Concentrate all the Luxiole's power on our offensive weapons." Tact said.

"Luxiole weapons ready to fire." Coco replied.

"Fire!"

The weapons on the Luxiole fired on the Shadow Moon but it had no effect.

Verel appeared on the screen and laughed. "Allow me to send more ships your way…but before I do, I have one last offer for you. Tact, this is your last chance to stand down."

"I gladly refuse." Tact replied.

"Suit yourself…"

Suddenly a huge beam fired at the Shadow Moon from an unknown source…until the source revealed itself…it was the Elsior with the Chrono Break Cannon!

Lester appeared on the screen. "Tact, your reinforcements have arrived."

"Nice timing, Lester." Tact said happily. "Then that also means…"

"Moon Angel Wing, deploy and assist the Rune Angel Wing!"

Verel cut into the transmission. "What? That is not possible!"

"Oh didn't you know, Verel?" Tact teased. "Our retreat to the NEUE Chrono Gate was just a diversion and since Forte rescued Milfie, they were able to get help through the Chrono Gate on EDEN's side."

"Grrr!"

"Angels, let's get back to the hanger, we have another battle coming." I said.

We rushed back and got into our frames, for the first time, we were be going to be working alongside the reunited Moon Angel Wing and I couldn't be happier.

I checked the radar, my group was on the left and the moon angels were on the right. There were sixteen fast attack ships and four carriers, the objective should be simple, eliminate the enemy fleet so that the Elsior can fire the Chrono Break Cannon again with its limiters removed.

"Moon Angel Wing, we're back together once again!" I said happily.

"I am so honoured…all of you are back together!" Kahlua exclaimed.

"Settle down girl, we're not out of this fight yet." Ranpha reminded.

"Milfie! I'm so happy you're free!" Apricot yelled happily.

"I am as well, sister." Milfie replied. "Let's win this together!"

"Mother, I've always wanted to fight alongside you." Nano said.

"Well enjoy this as much as you can." Vanilla replied.

Anise couldn't contain her excitement. "This is awesome, I've always wanted to see the Moon Angel Wing in action."

"Well of course, this is a desperate time." Mint replied.

"Forte…I won't let you down." Lily said.

"Stay strong Lily, believe in Arnold's command." Forte replied.

"It's been a while since you watched me train." Kazuya said.

"It has indeed, but I've heard of how far you've come." Chitose replied. "You remind me of when I first started out years ago."

"Alright angels, sorry I have to cut this short, but we have enemy ships in front of us." I intervened. "I wanna make the most of this moment…Moon Angel Wing, engage with the enemy ships on the right. Rune Angel Wing, engage with the enemy ships on our left. Let's move out and fight fiercely!"

"Yes sir!" All twelve of them replied.

My group swooped to the left, noting the four fast attack ships and the carrier behind them. The first two fast ships went down quite quickly and the other two followed, leaving the carrier left. Our combined power mowed it down.

I checked the radar to see the Moon Angel Wing clearing house, all these years and they've still got it, that made me beam with pride. We dealt with the next group on the top left and the Moon Angel Wing did the same on the top right.

"HYPER CANNON!" I heard Milfie yell, wiping out a fast ship, it had been long time since I heard that one.

"I've got two ships in my sight, let's go fliers." Mint said as the two ships exploded.

"This last carrier is mine…STRIKE BURST!" Forte yelled.

There was nothing left after that battle.

"Enemy fleet destroyed." I said. "That was awesome work from all of you."

"It's quite funny that you were commanding us old schoolers." Forte replied. "But you did a terrific job of it."

I laughed. "Hey I'm an old school person too."

"Arnold…" Milfie said.

"Milfie…" My heart sang…I missed her so much.

Tact appeared on my screen. "Umm sorry to break this up, but we're not finished yet."

We returned to the Luxiole whilst the Moon Angel Wing returned to the Elsior and the Chrono Break Cannon was ready to fire. With the limiters removed, it fired at the Shadow Moon, yet somehow it shrugged off the attack.

Suddenly, the Chrono Gate behind us opened and in came the other half of the Luxiole along with two huge cannons that locked on the sides of the Luxiole.

"What are those?" I asked.

"This is our secret weapon." Tact replied. "Everyone stand back…fire the dual-Chrono break cannon!"

Out came two enormous beams that fired at the Shadow Moon…the shield barrier went down and the Shadow Moon began to explode whilst Verel's flagship speeded away. The Shadow Moon exploded and all of the automated ships began to stop moving.

Verel appeared on our screens. "That is it! I've just about had enough of your desperate grab for control!" He exclaimed. "It seems I must deal with you humans, personally."

"Well good, because you're about to get all that you've done." I replied. "Now I'm gonna pay you back for kidnapping my fiancé!"

"Not if I still have a chance to kill you and everyone else first!"

"You are all that remains…and the last thing that's gonna go through you before you perish is the size of my silver drill!"

Verel cut the transmission, there was no more that needed to be said.

"Angel Wing, there is no need for an objective." Tact said. "Destroy Verel and his flagship!"

"Yes sir!" We all replied as the last battle began.

Refilled and re-energized, all twelve of us made the charge at the flagship. Getting closer, it was much bigger than I thought, so we all had to give it everything we got. The ship itself had countless weapons and the damage were doing to it was working but it was going to take a long while.

Even our specials were being fully tested as each and every one of us launched our specials on Verel's ship. When it was close to being heavily damaged, it began to grind to a halt, looks like its engines have ceased to function.

"Angels, the ship has stopped moving…it's time to finish this once and for all!"

"We'll set up for you to make the final blow." Apricot said. "Let's go, Milfie."

"Right behind you, Apricot." Milfie replied.

Their frames moved close together with their specials ready.

"HYPER CANNON!"

"HYPER BLASTER!"

Both lasers fired at the same time and the lights on Verel's ship immediately shut down.

"Alright, here's my payback." I said with my drill at the ready. "SPIKE DRIVER!"

My drill tore right through the bridge part of the ship and I flew away.

"Everyone get away, the ship is about to blow."

Explosives occurred around the ship before it all became engulfed in a huge explosion. That was the end of Verel, that alien freak who caused so much trouble and misery for everyone involved was gone.

We got back to the Luxiole and stored our frames as the Luxiole and the Elsior left the world of ABSOLUTE and into the safer galaxy of NEUE. I and the Rune Angel Wing had grouped together.

"Lily." Kazuya said as he walked towards her.

"Kazuya." She replied as they shared an embrace.

"Now that's what I call a good day's work." I said. "I am proud to have led you all to victory."

"And we couldn't be happier with how we did our part to make it possible." Kahlua replied.

"When you launched that drill right into that ship, I was speechless." Anise said. "You've got a lot of guts, mister."

A space shuttle arrived into the hanger and we stood well back. Out came the Moon Angel Wing, the girls who I hadn't seen all together for a long time.

Milfie was there, but I decided to let Apricot go first.

"Milfie…" Apricot said as she began to cry.

"Apricot…" she replied before they ran into a tight hug.

"Milfie!" she cried. "I've missed you!"

"I've missed you too, sister…"

Lily was close to crying at the scene before Kazuya held her hand.

Apricot blew her nose with her handkerchief again and pulled out of the hug.

Now it was my turn and I was a bit far away from her…the love that I had not seen for a while.

"Arnold…" she said.

"Milfie…"

She started running towards me. "ARNOLD!"

I started running as well. "MILFIE!"

She leapt on to me and I fell down with her softly. We were on our knees, but she wrapped her arms around me and started crying. I had my arms wrapped around her and I was in tears.

"At last…" I cried. "…Milfie, I finally have you in my arms again."

"Oh Arnold…it was horrible." She replied, crying. "When I was captured, I thought I would never…see you again."

We were still crying as I looked into her eyes, we had tears coming out, but I didn't care, I kissed her and we locked our lips in a long overdue moment of passion. We looked back at the others as we picked ourselves up on our feet.

Most of them shed a tear at our reunion, Tact soon arrived and Ranpha ran over to him, sharing a kiss in their embrace. "My darling!" she said.

"My honey!" he replied. "Everyone, I wanna thank and congratulate you all for pulling through yet another miraculous victory."

I held Milfie's hand tightly, she still had her engagement ring on her other hand which made me more relieved, we had wiped our tears away by then.

"See Arnold." Tact said looking at me. "I told you we would get her back."

I had cheered up. "And it's thanks to your hunches, right?"

He rubbed his head. "Well more or less." That made us laugh. "I have more good news, there's a victory party waiting for us in the cafeteria. But we're going to need desserts."

We all looked at Kazuya who realized why we were. "Wait, on my own?"

"Not really, I'll gladly help you with the desserts." Milfie said. "I could teach you a few cooking tips too."

"Then shouldn't we get going, I wanna start the party!" Nano said happily.

"Yeah, let's go!" Anise added.

We walked out of the hanger and over to the cafeteria where Lunti, Kazuya and Milfie began working in the kitchen.

The victory party was finally underway and everyone was having a great time, seeing the Moon Angel Wing back together and working with the Rune Angel Wing, it was priceless, a cherished moment to remember.

After getting a much needed group photo, I took Milfie with me to my room and showed her what it was all like and she was happy.

"Wow, so many pictures…oh look at this one." She said, holding on to a photo I had hanged. "That was on our vacation after we beat Nefuria."

"Yeah, there are so many memories that I wanna keep." I replied. "By the way…I got this for you." I suddenly remembered the name bracelet that Apricot gave me, I pulled it from under the pillow and wrapped it around her wrist.

"It's beautiful…thank you, Arnold." She kissed me.

"You're very much welcome." I held her tight. "I will admit, I was quite scared and alone when I was travelling on this ship, but thanks to the Rune Angel Wing, they kept me focused and I was able to overcome a lot of obstacles."

She sat with me on the bed. "Apricot told me about what happened to you a few days ago…what a nightmare that had to have been for you."

"It was freaky in all sorts of ways…but I was able to save myself from that curse."

"It's never going to happen again, here or far away, I'll will always be with you."

"And I will come for you, no matter where you are." I kissed her. "But I wonder, what's gonna happen next?"

"Well I have to return to my role as gate-keeper of EDEN, but since there is no evil left in ABSOLUTE, it's gonna be much safer to visit me there from now on."

"I guess that could be considered as a silver lining."

She looked at me. "But I want you and I to have a vacation and since I picked the location last time, I want you to pick where we should go."

"I've got a good location in my head…how about the planet resort of Hokkori?"

"Oooh, doesn't that sound expensive?"

"Not for this Angel Wing leader." I smirked.

"Oh you, Arnold…" she giggled.

We laid down on the bed and shared a moment of passion. With no more evil around, it was time for a long due period of peace and love. Would there be more problems should evil return, only the laws of time and fate would tell.

THE END

StevieBond: Coming soon, the second part of the GAII retold trilogy, Key to the Infinite Corridor!