"Was this kind of resistance part of the plan ?" I asked Laura.

"It was included as a worst case scenario." Laura said unfazed by the amount of enemies in front of us.

"I see… you guys are pretty optimistic if this is a worst case scenario." I commented while counting heads. We were in a large hall where the main entrance was and the guards decided to rally here. It explains the lack of resistance that we had when we ran through the facility. We planted the bombs at the designated places and we had one left that should've been planted here. But 35 guards and 2 IS pilots made it kinda hard to do that unnoticed. Both the pilots were piloting a Raphael-Revive.

"Drop your guns and put your hands in the air, or we will shoot!" a guard yelled at us. He seemed kinda nervous.

"Wow, if I were you I would've shot on sight." I said in a relaxed voice and a smile that unnerved most of them. They probably haven't seen any real combat until this night.

"Do you have to be like that? They might shoot us for real this time." Laura asked annoyed.

"Meh don't worry, we have orders to take you alive so we won't kill you." One of the IS pilots said annoyed. I really feel like kicking her ass right now. But for now, find a way to get away. Let's see, we have one bomb left, are outnumbered and outgunned, we have two IS against two IS and gas pipes on the left wall. A plan started to form in my mind. Now let's hope that it'll work and that Laura will cooperate.

"Laura, comply for now. I have a plan." God, I really love that mental communication ability.

"And that is?" Laura kept her face straight, but I could hear the curiousness in her voice.

"Easy. I make a smoke screen and distract the guards. While I'm fighting them, you plant the last bomb near the gas pipes at the wall left of us, make a hole in the pipe and leave with Miyuki. I'll cover you, make sure nobody follows us and blow this shithole up." I told her.

"This is your last warning, DROP YOUR WEAPONS AND RAISE YOUR FUCKING HANDS!" the guard yelled agitated. He was desperately trying to cover how nervous he was. Not that I can blame him after the things we've pulled off here. I dropped my M-5 (I've put my Assault Rifle away. It's much easier to shoot with a pistol while quickly covering ground.) and raised my hands. Laura followed my example and Miyuki looked at us like we were crazy, but when she looked me in the eyes she started laughing and complied as well.

"W-what's so funny?" a guard asked angrily.

"Hey, hey, hey guards, hey." I yelled with a childish voice.

"What?" someone from the crowd yelled. They face were priceless when they saw what I suddenly held in my hand and the smoke that came from my back.

"GRENADE!" I yelled before throwing it into the crowd. It easily killed a third of the crowd, and only a few could keep on fighting. The two IS pilots opened fire at me, but I dodged to the right, forcing them to look to the opposite direction of Laura and Miyuki. I materialized my IS-armor and returned fire with my Assault Rifle and the BITs.

"H-How can a man pilot an IS?" one of the pilots yelled frustrated and shocked.

"I can because I'm more awesome then every IS pilot that there is!" I taunted them. And judging by their faces it worked. That, or it could be that time again. Either way, their fire intensified and I had trouble with dodging their barrage. I got hit a few times, but I hit them as well with the BITs and my rifle.

"I GOT YOU NOW!" one them yelled. Fuck, one got behind without me noticing. I got hit in the back with what felt like an iron boxing glove. It was far more stronger than that. I got hit hard a few times and I crashed into a wall. Fuck, I can barely get up after that punch and I'll be having some trouble with my back for a while. The two pilots stood right in front of me and one was grinning. She grabbed me by my hair and pulled my face on the same height as hers.

"Not so tough anymore, ain't ya?" she asked me with a grin. I wanted to make a smartass comment, but something refrained me. Instead I just smiled.

"What the hell is so funny kid?" the second pilot asked… right before she got hit in the back by Laura's Rail Gun. The pilot that held me looked away for a second, but that was all I needed. I materialized my Phantom Blades and I began a quick series of jabs in her abdomen. When she doubled over from the force, I grabbed her by her hair and kneed her in the face. The pilot grunted in pain and I'm pretty sure I heard a crack. The Pilot recovered quickly and tried to hit me again with that thing. I'll have to find its name later. I sidestepped to the right and punched her in the face. I know you should never hit a woman, but I think that this situation is an exception, don't you agree? The woman staggered a bit backwards and wasn't that steady on her feet. I kicked her in the chest and she fell down. I materialized my spear and took a crouching stance while the pilot got back up.

"My face. You'll pay for that you bastard!" the woman yelled furiously.

"I honestly think that it's quite an improvement." I said with a smug look on my face. She did not like that answer one bit. She charged towards me with something that was a mix of a battle cry and the roar of an pissed off, just awakened bear that saw his lunch skipping in front of his nose. Thanks to her anger, she blindly rushed towards me. as she came closer and closer, it seemed like someone muted the sound more and more, until I could only hear my own breathing.

Not yet.

Time seemed to slowed down.

Wait for it.

Man, in slow motion she looks like a rabid bear.

Almost.

NOW! I thrust my spear my spear forward with all my might. It broke right through the AB, the armor and pierced her heart. She looked shocked at me, and started to breath heavily. Tears fell from her eyes as she muttered her final words with a smirk.

"See you in… hell." She whispered in my ear.

"Keep a spot reserved for me." I told her. She chuckled weakly.

"Will… do." She slowly closed her eyes and would never open them again. I gently put the body on the floor and fell on my knees right next to it, not being able to anything anymore. How many lives have I taken this night. Ten? Fifteen? Probably even more. It's hard to believe that just two days ago I kissed the girl I liked without a care in the world. What the hell would she think of me if she saw what I've done here? And the worst part is… that's it only the beginning. I felt a pair of arms gently wrap around me. I didn't have to turn around to know who it is.

"Let it all out Haruka. The longer you keep it bottled up, the harder it'll become to bear in the future." Miyuki gently told me. I started crying without I realized it.

"Will it always be this hard?" I asked her.

"At the start yes. But after a while, if you've come to terms with yourself and what you've done, it'll get easier. You'll still feel some guilt over what you did, but you'll be able to keep on living your life." She told me the harsh truth, and I'm grateful for that. It's the path I've chosen, so I'll see it through until the end. After I cried for a few minutes and renewed my resolve, I got up and wiped away any leftover tear streaks.

"Let's go, we still have to blow this place up." I said while checking if the last bomb was planted by the gas leak. After I was satisfied with the result, we left the building and never looked back at the carnage we've caused.


"Laura, thanks for taking that second pilot off my back." I said in a tired voice. We were already a mile away from the factory and we'd have to walk another half a mile to get at the rendezvous point. Thank god that it's this close, my back is killing me!

"No problem, we've got to watch each other's back if we're going to work together." She stammered out with a slight blush on her cheeks. Miyuki started laughing at her reaction and they got into an argument. Well, it was more like Miyuki kept teasing Laura and that she responded to it in the way she wanted.

"I think we're far enough now to let it blow up safely." Miyuki commented. I took out the switch, pushed it and witnessed an explosion so big that Hollywood would be jealous of it… Not! Nothing happened! Goddammit, the switch must be broken. Miyuki took the switch out of my hands and started to rewire the whole thing. When she was finished, she handed it back to me.

"Here you go Haruka." She said with the smile of a mother who gave her son a really nice present… which is kinda correct.

"Thanks, Miyuki." I accidentally blurted out. Crap. She just raised an eyebrow and looked at me questioningly.

"Miyuki?" she slowly repeated.

"Well you know, I haven't seen you in seven and a half years so it's kinda weird for me to start calling Mom again." I said awkwardly. She looked at me with a gaze that seemed to pierce my very being. After a few seconds she just shrugged.

"you've got a point there."

Yes, safe!

"But…"

Or not.

"I get to call you Haru-chan." Miyuki told me with a childish pout. Damn I got a déjà vu. Didn't this happen with a certain rabbit? With slightly different circumstances of course.

"Why not? Now does the detonator work or not?" I asked Miyuki impatiently.

"Someone wants to desperately blow something up." she teased me with a smile.

"Yeah yeah yeah, now please give me the detonator." I said impatiently. Miyuki threw it at me. I caught me and looked to the building. I couldn't see it clearly in this darkness. Where is it again… Never mind, REST IN PIECES! I pressed the button and saw a mushroom made of flames emerging from the facility. So there stood the facility. Suddenly, a second and much larger explosion occurred. I heard a small bang and the second wave of mushroom shaped flames was a lot bigger. Hmm, I suddenly feel like having a BBQ. Weird. We watched the building burn and explode for a minute before we left to the rendezvous point.

"When are we going to blow up something else?" I asked to no one in particular.

04.40 07/04/20xx Location: Swarchzer Hase Military Base, Japan

When we arrived at the base, Clarissa stood there waiting for us.

"How did it go?" she asked to no one in particular.

"Pretty good. Not too much resistance, we have downloaded every piece of data on their network, we retrieved the prisoner, blew the facility up and did we forget something?" I asked Laura. She looked at me and just shrugged.

"I'll take that as a no then. Now is there anything else that we have to do?" I asked Clarissa.

"You just have to give me a copy of the data and then you can go back to the Academy and your girlfriend. Laura will handle the debriefing." Clarissa stated. Why do I have an ominous feeling? I just shrugged it off and walked towards my motorcycle while G was sending the data to the network of Swarchzer Hase. I turned on the engine and hugged Miyuki one last time before I left.

"We need to catch up sometime." I told her with a smile.

"I know a great bar where they have some delicious drinks." She joked. I faked a surprised look.

"Mom, you're not going to let your underage son drink alcohol?" I asked with a very well faked shocked voice. She gave me a look that meant 'cut the crap, I know what you've done.' I just shrugged.

"I'll be seeing you soon." Miyuki told me with a wink. I smiled and sped off towards the Academy. As I rode through the night I could only think of one thing, and that was that I'd see Cecilia again. With that thought in my mind, I think I went easily 50 mph over the speed limitation. It's 4.45 in the morning, so I'm pretty sure that there aren't any cops right now. I arrived at the academy around 5 o'clock. I travelled 30 miles in 15 minutes, so do the math if you want to know how fast I rode. I quietly made my way to my room, but I didn't expect what I'd see there. For some reason Cecilia was sleeping in my bed. Not that I mind, but it's kinda hard to understand how she got in my room. I locked the door and the locks here work with cards… Probably Nee-san gave her something that gave her access to my room. But I'll worry about that later, for now I'm going to bed. I changed into some comfy pajama pants and I laid myself right next to her. Before I fell asleep, I felt Cecilia move closer towards the new source of heat, namely me. I dozed off with a small smile on my face.


I woke up with Cecilia looking at me with an angelic smile. I slowly rose until our faces were on the same height.

"You like what you see?" I asked her, still tired. It seemed she caught on that part.

"We're already late for home room, so why don't you sleep a little longer?" she told me softly. She gently pushed me down the bed and laid her head on my chest.

"You really like being on top, huh?" I teased her. I saw her blush a little, but she still had a response ready.

"So what if I do?" she asked me. I flipped her over so that I lied on top and pinned her down on the bed.

"We're going to have a lot of fights over the dominating position then." I said softly in her ear before I left a trail of butterfly kisses on her neck. I heard her moan my name softly at my actions. When I reached her collarbone I bit there softly, giving her a hickey. She gasped at that action. When I looked at her face, I saw a mix of surprise and lust in her eyes together with a blush on her cheeks. To be honest I've never seen her so cute.

"What was that good for?" she asked me with a pout. I wouldn't be surprised if my nose started bleeding because of her cuteness right now.

"So that everyone knows that you're mine." I told her before kissing her gently. She returned the kiss and it grew more passionate with each passing second. After a minute we were kissing each other furiously and things grew a lot more heated. I slipped my hand under her negligee and slowly grabbed her right breast… at least that was the plan if the friggin door didn't open! When we heard the door open, we looked up to see a shocked Houki and Ichika. Awkwaaaaard.

"Uhm, hi." I tried to break the uncomfortable silence. Ichika just stared at our position that hadn't shifted since they entered.

"Wh-when did you came back?" Ichika tried to ask me in a forced friendly voice, like we just saw each other in class.

"Around five this morning."

"I see."

"…"

"…"

"So why did you guys come to my room?" I asked them with a forced, awkward smile.

"Orimura-sensei asked us to come and get you since she saw your bike standing outside, but I guess I'll tell her that you'll be at Arena 1 next hour for the practical lessons ." Houki said with a blush.

"O-okay." I stammered out. This is getting more awkward by the minute, especially because I haven't moved my hand yet.

"W-we'll see you there then." Houki stammered out as she dragged a petrified Ichika with her back to class. After she closed the door Cecilia and I remained silent for a few seconds.

"Are you going to move your hand?" Cecilia asked me.

"Oh. S-sorry." I stuttered while I removed my hand. we both got up and the silence came back.

"Well, that was awkward and kinda funny at the same time." I commented. Cecilia looked at me like I was crazy before we started laughing.

After we got over that awkward situation, we got dressed for the practical lessons. Apparently while I was gone, Cecilia moved her things to my room so that we could live together after I left to surprise me. It did work, but thank god that it was at least a pleasant surprise. After breakfast and a quick shower, we were walking towards Arena 1. I left my hair down instead of making a pony tail, because apparently I look better with my hair down. It fell until right under my shoulders.

"didn't you and Ichika have that fight yesterday for the class representative position?" I asked Cecilia. She look glumly when I asked her about it.

"You lost, didn't you?" I deadpanned her. She nodded.

"He only had 27 shield points left. I had won if I didn't fall for his feint." She stated depressed. I just pulled her closer towards me.

"Don't blame yourself. You still did well if you lost with such a small difference." I tried to cheer her up. She looked at me with hopeful eyes.

"Really? You won't laugh at me for losing after making such a fuzz about being represented by a male?" she asked me.

"No. He just had the luck to be able to observe your fighting style. Now that you know his, I'm sure that you can perfectly come up with counter measures against his moves." I told her with a smile. She looked reassured and gave me a quick kiss.

"Thanks for cheering me up."

"No problem, you're the most beautiful when you smile." She gained a blush after that comment and I couldn't help myself when I saw it.

"Wow, you still blush even after what we did this morning?" I teased her. Her blush intensified and she started to quick walk.

"L-let's hurry we're late for second period." She said embarrassed.

"Actually, we're ten minutes early."

"Shut up, Haru no baka*." She told me while blushing and pouting at the same time. I really might die from her cuteness someday.

*Haru no baka means Haru you idiot for those who don't know any Japanese.


And chapter 11 is finished. As you probably might've read, I've put a slightly lemony scene in it. If you don't want me to put things like that in it, I won't… but only if the majority of the reviewers want it. Anyway on with answering the reviews!

Cappa: first, thanks for warning that chapter 10 wasn't posted like it should've been. And I already have a devilish plan to bring Ichika and Houki closer a bit faster than in the series.

FangKing2: Kurasabe Miyuki is his mother. If I haven't stated that clearly, then please warn so that I can edit the chapter in which I revealed Haru's family ( I think that it was chapter 7)

Tony Stark: I'm pretty sure that Tony stark or Iron Man is a fictional Character made by Marvel. Or is that just one huge conspiracy of the government and if so, do Superman, Batman and Spiderman exist as well then?

Our Guild:

Minion: she won't come in between them… But in the future it might or might not happen.

Rose: of course he'll stay true. But maybe I could put in some temptation in the story to test Haru's resolve.

Haru: please don't. I like my life the way it is now.

I'll leave you alone then… for now.

Haru: you still owe me for letting Houki and Ichika barge in my room.

Hmph. Fine

Minion: Hey, don't push Rose! You should treat a girl with respect!... wait, she's a girl right? Sorry if my doubt is considered rude, but names can be really deceiving.

Utah: I believe that this chapter answers your question.

That was all. As always, I hoped that you enjoyed the chapter. Please review and have a nice day.