KeroGirls VS

by Z2

Some time ago, the Keroro Platoon was involved in an accident that transformed them into human girls. However, even if their body and mind changed, the invasion still continues! Fuyuki sees Earth's fate in his dreams while a shadow looms over it all. Other forces are moving to take Pekopon, and the mysterious goal behind the invasion begins to come to light.

2. Chapter 2

CHAPTER – 2

The green haired girl stood in front of the mirror, sporting a long sleeved white dress that hugged her body just enough to accentuate her curves. The long sleeves almost covered her slender hands, which held onto a green sailor collar with a yellow bow. She also sported white socks and green slippers. Keroro touched the yellow star tying her hair into a ponytail with a confident smile while looking at her reflection, hands on her hips, "I look so cute."

Keroro put both hands in front of herself, her eyes still looking at the green haired girl behind the glass in front of her. "And everything started with that accident…" Keroro's dark eyes shone as she looked at the young girl in the mirror, "Well, I guess there were actually two life changing accidents. The time Fuyuki and lady Natsumi saw me, and well, when I became like this." The green haired girl smiled, while looking at her green hair, reaching her back. It had visibly grown since she had ended up with that body, in spite of it not being so long ago. "Pekoponians grow so quickly." She held strands of her green hair, holding it while looking at her mirror image with a tender smile, "Still, somehow, it really makes me feel like this is really me."

"Ku, ku, really, leader?" the words of a certain mad genius echoed in Keroro's head, like a haunting warning. The voice was high, feminine and carried a teasing tone, very different from the one that person would have a few months before, and yet it was still unmistakably coming from that one person... "The mind isn't something separate from the physical body. The only reason you feel like this, the only reason this transformation feels natural to you, is that your own mind also changed due to that event. Are those really your thoughts? Are those really your feelings, leader?"

One of Keroro's eyebrows twitched, while she looked annoyed at her mirror image. "Thank you for nothing Sergeant Major Kururu. It's not like saying that will help fixing anything!" She closed her fists, looking decidedly at her own reflection.

/Encounter 02 – Amefurashi, Innocent Sin/

The sun rose over the skies and a new day started. However, gray clouds hovered over the city's skyline. A thick fog fell over the whole city, making seeing even beyond a few feet an arduous feat.

A flying steel crate broke through the dense haze around the town, seemingly challenging any rules of gravity or aerodynamics known to humanity. Even though it was a highly advanced alien aircraft, it resembled a container, with small metallic wings on the back of its top side, and thrusters slapped behind it. A yellow star emblem was on its front, and two large round eyes on the upper side above it. It was the Keroro Platoon's Aerial Transport Dock, a custom flying ship often used in their missions on Earth.

Keroro, in her white dress, stood next to a wall inside a dark room in the vehicle, arms crossed, while smirking confidently. "Is everything ready, Corporal Giroro?"

"What's with the outfit?" The redhead muttered, before answering, "Of course!" She stepped in front of her leader, saluting her. Contrasting with her commander in that casual dress, Giroro sported her standard red uniform, "I must say that you surprised me this time Keroro." The redhead smirked, like a hunter bearing its fangs to attack a prey, "Operation costs are rather low, and this might actually work."

"Right, right!" Keroro held up a piece of paper with her right hand. In spite of the dim light, it was perfectly visible. It was a promotional paper with dark skies, and several flying saucers spread around it. In the center, there was a colorful yellow text, 'Join the Occult Club!'; With her left hand, she held a second sheet, showing a similar paper, but with Earth in the center, and a different call, 'Join the Invasion Club!'.

Space Pamphlets! There are rumors through all of space of the power of their subliminal messaging! "Once the kids down there see this, some will certainly join Lord Fuyuki's Occult club… and others will become willing soldiers for a large scale invasion force!", the sergeant boasted, "Gero! Gero! Gero!".

"I'll prepare the pamphlet launchers." Giroro said, opening a metallic door and leaving the room.

"Fuyuki…" The green haired girl muttered, putting her hands together with uncertain eyes, "I'm helping you, so, there won't be a problem this time, right?" She thought, before sighting, "But yet," drawing a soft smile, she touched her lips with her soft fingers, "I guess I can't complain, eh?"

"Where are we again?" Giroro asked herself, an eyebrow twitching. She was in what looked like a well-lit and large cockpit room. She sit on a gray chair with a reddish cushions. There was another empty one to her left and three behind her, two turned to the sides, while another one sit on the center of the room, facing forward. They reminded her of the absent platoon members, although that was not her worry at that moment. She held a metallic control wheel and around her, there were buttons and levers. In front of her, there was a round window, although she only could see the gray fog everywhere. She grit her teeth, annoyed, "Why today out of all days?!" There were two windows on the sides of the cockpit, and both only showed the same blinding mist too. After pressing a round green button on a gray control panel to her left, however, a holographic window appeared in front of her eyes. It showed a map of the city, a large area labeled Kishou right under a yellow star icon, which indicated their location.

The flying box came to an abrupt halt, small red thrusters on the bottom blazing in the opposite direction, and then turning downwards while it hovered still. The school bellow them, Kishou, was a fairly standard for a Japanese school building. In the middle of that dense mist, there were two rectangular gray buildings, connected by an intersection, with a gymnasium behind them, a grand open entrance in the front, with paved floor, and a large open sand yard beside the buildings, with a swimming pool, and a sports field located there. Trees and smaller plants surrounded the building's outer walls and the main class buildings. Soon, a rain of pamphlets started falling from Keroro's airship.

However, in spite of it being school day, the papers just fell on empty grounds, with not a single soul around to pick them up.

Two holographic screens appeared around Giroro, showing the empty schoolyard from a closer view. "Keroro, something's up down there, I'm landing." She shouted. The thrusters of the flying box lost part of their strength, and it slowly descended, landing in the middle of a sand field beside the school building. A faint colorful light around the airship was the Anti-Barrier, hiding its presence from most humans. The back of the Transport lowered to the ground, and soon the two invaders stepped into the school grounds, now mostly empty, aside from the pamphlets they had just attempted to distribute.

"Wha-What is this?! Is it Sunday?! A sudden holiday?! Why did no one tell me about it?!" Keroro grabbed the collar of Giroro's vest, but the corporal just brushed her off.

"If it were one, it'd be your fault anyway!" Giroro retorted.

Keroro glanced at her with annoyance, quickly turned back to the field before them. "Still, it seems completely empty."

"Maybe everyone is inside the school building?" Giroro pondered, raising an eyebrow.

"Sergeant…?" Fuyuki approached the two girls, followed by an angry Momoka behind him, both sporting Kishou uniforms. Fuyuki's blushed slightly when the green haired girl's dark eyes turned towards him. What was with that dress? Keroro seemed rather cute, but also strangely out of place...

Nishizawa's fringe sprouted spikes to the sides, while she furiously crushed some pamphlets of the invasion club in her hands. "That stupid idiot! She did this on purpose!" Momoka thought, glaring furiously at the green haired girl, but before she could yell it aloud, she stopped, a second voice in her head holding her back. "Stop! Keroro wouldn't go out of her way to sabotage Fuyuki like this!"

"Of course he would! That's an invader! You can't just-"

"Let me handle this, please! Do you think Fuyuki would like it if we fought right now?" Momoka's calmer voice pled, while her second voice silenced. "Let me handle this, please." The spikes on her hair disappeared, while her expression calmed down. She held both hands in front of herself, in a distinctively more composed stance.

Fuyuki sighed, eased after a fight did not start right there. He looked at the green haired girl with inquiring eyes, "There were people here like usual earlier, but after we left the club room everyone had disappeared. This… has nothing to do with your space pamphlets, right sergeant?"

"Of course not!" Keroro protested, crossing her arms. "They haven't done anything yet!"

"So they were going to do something weird if there were other people here…" Fuyuki muttered with a defeated smile, glancing at her. The boy turned his eyes to the large school building, half hidden by the thick fog. "We didn't see anyone inside either while returning from the clubroom…" Oddly, the building seemed rather weary from outside now, with many cracks on the walls and even broken windows on ground level. Yet, they had not noticed anything odd before coming out "This isn't good… Let's take a look outside."

"Wait." Giroro muttered. Two flashes of light covered her hands, quickly fading away to reveal what resembled small sub machineguns, but with odd round spheres covering their barrels. "I guess I don't need to say it, but at this point it should be obvious that there'll be some kind of invader alien behind this. Maybe they want to attack us, or Pekopon itself is their target… Either way, this is clearly not natural, or something Pekoponians could cause."

"Right," Fuyuki nodded, while the group started walking towards the front gate, "This fog would help them hide their operation… or trap us here and ambush us."

"Fuyuki…" Momoka muttered, walking behind him, holding her arms against her heart.

When they approached the exit, a worn down and broken apart, half-open gate became visible amidst the gray fog. "Ge-Gero… Is this really a trap?" Keroro muttered, hiding behind Fuyuki, while placing her hands on his shoulders.

"There's something wrong here…" Fuyuki muttered, continuing to walk forward to Keroro's surprise.

"He-Hey, Lord Fuyuki!" Keroro cried, but received no attention.

The usually gray gate had pieces of brown rust over it, while its structure was not only damaged, but also clearly weakened, "This isn't just damage. It looks like this gate has been in ruins for years." Fuyuki said, placing a finger upon the gate.

"This fog… isn't doing anything, right?" Momoka muttered, glancing at Giroro's weapons, while the redhead did the same.

The group walked past the gate, approaching the street in front of the school, the buildings around them finally becoming visible. However, to their surprise, everything was in ruins. The large buildings had broken windows and walls. Some had completely fallen unto themselves, leaving only rubble. Even among the standing ones, plants had overgrown around them.

They all looked at the scene in front of them with astonished eyes. Was the entire city like this? When exactly had that happened? What had happened? Those questions flew around their heads while confusion filled them. "Let's go back… Let's go back home!" The green haired girl's eyes trembled, while she suddenly leaped in front of the group, running in distress.

However, soon she lost her footing, and started stumbling. However, an angry Nishizawa held onto her color, while the blue spikes sprouted from her hair. "What are you doing, stupid?!"

"Gero?" She muttered, before her eyes looked bellow. Rather than the street continuing, there was only a huge, seemingly endless black abysm. "Geeeerrooo!" She screamed pedaling in the air for a moment, before calming down, her feet back on the ground.

"Thank goodness," Fuyuki muttered, catching up with them right afterwards, sweat dropping around his face, in spite of the short sprint, "Let's… go back to the school. At least it wasn't like this."

"I've got a bad feeling about that building." Momoka mentioned, while looking sideways at the school block. Although she was seemingly calm, she still carried the angry glare from her second self.

"We'll leave now." Giroro stated, putting a hand over her ears, "Kururu, do you copy me?" Of course, only static answered back, not that it was odd recently, considering how Kururu lately barely gave them attention. "Still, in a situation like this I'd expect some reaction from him."

"Her." An annoyed Keroro corrected the corporal, who just stared incredulously.

"This isn't time for stupid semantics!" Giroro screamed, holding onto her commander's green vest.

The green haired girl smiled, "Somehow, I'm surprisingly calm about all this."

"My cell-phone isn't working either." Fuyuki looked disappointedly at the screen of his blue phone.

"Let's stop wasting time here and get out then." Giroro said, crossing her arms. Keroro glanced at her, her eyes glinting in recognition.

"Of course! We can just get out of here in the Aerial Transport!" Keroro exclaimed, receiving eased looks from the others. However, before they could move, a faint, almost muffed, step broke the eerie silence surrounding them. She raised her weapons towards the top of the school building, from where the sound had just come. Even though she could not see through the thick fog, she knew something was there.

"Are you the one behind this?!" Without even waiting for a reply, while receiving surprised looks from the others, she fired upwards. Two yellow streaks of light instantly burned through the fog, dispersing it for a moment, and revealing a large humanoid figure standing on top of the school.

"Gera, gera, gera!" A familiar voice boasted from the shadows above. It leaped forward, quickly crashing against the ground, breaking the pavement while the entire ground shook. A cloud of dust soon emerged around the figure

"A Viper, eh? Stand back, I'll take care of him." Giroro said, pointing both of her weapons to the rival alien. His form slowly appeared as the dust dissipated, even among the thick fog. Like usual, it resembled a stocky human clad in form fitting red spandex, his head replaced by the one of a large gray viper, although with human like lips surrounding his large mouth. On his back, there was a large carapace extending from his reptilian head. However, when the dust cleared completely, it became obvious that was not just any Viper.

The right side of the reptilian monster resembled a usual Viper, however, there was a vertical line splitting his body into two, and the right side resembled a machine more than a living being. Gray armor plates and joints formed a mechanical mirror of his organic body, with a shining red eye blazing through the dark school grounds and a crimson scarf, wrapped over his shoulders flapped with a gust of dramatic wind. Contrasting with his futuristic garb and mechanical implants, he sported rather antiquated green boots and a similarly colored glove covering his armored arm, while oddly carrying Viper's usual black arm cannon on the opposite side.

"Mecha Viper?!" Giroro exclaimed. Thoughts raced on her mind about the first Viper the Keroro platoon had faced on Earth years ago, who returned from seemingly dying as a powerful cyborg, bent on revenge, doesn't matter how many times he was seemingly killed.

"There's… something odd." Keroro muttered, while hiding behind Fuyuki. "Did you change the sides?"

"Eh?" Giroro blinked, "Sides? There's… something off here…" The redhead muttered, suddenly looking confused at their enemy, who seemed to get rather annoyed.

"Idiot! I'm Mecha Viper #2!" The cyborg alien shouted angrily. "I used to be just Viper the Young Man… but thanks to a stupid red Keronian I lost my girlfriend, because he didn't let me buy a simple strap as a make up gift!"

"Giro…" Giroro smiled nervously. She was the one that Viper was talking about. Of course, that was before she had become a human, so he should not recognize her… but he was there, so it's likely that he did recognize them.

"Then, while depressed, I lost my job! I was kicked out of home by my parents! I tried to become a freelancer reporter, but I was kidnapped by an evil organization and transformed into this!"

Everyone just stared in amazement for a while. "It sounds like the Keronian had nothing to do with all the later stuff." Fuyuki said.

"Everything begun thanks to him! Anyway, I joined the Viper Space Force and I've been assigned by the high commander, Ambassador Viper, to finish off the Keronian's advanced invasion force! After waiting for so long, I'll have my revenge!" Viper angrily cried.

"It was just your own fault, snake head!" Momoka angrily shouted, stepping forward while glaring at the alien.

"Argh! Shut up!" The angry Viper fired his arm cannon towards Momoka, who jumped away, barely escaping the explosion. Giroro immediately rushed forward.

"A high ranking Viper is too strong for these weapons…" She dropped both machineguns that she had just summoned, while quickly pulling a metallic hilt from a pocket in her shorts. She held it tightly right hand and a pink flame sprouted and solidified into an energy blade.

"What?!" The Viper turned to the corporal just in time to see her already standing right in front of him. Giroro quickly swung the beam saber towards the alien's mechanical chest, but it moved its arm, somehow stopping the beam weapon on its tracks as both clashed, sparks flying about. "Gera! Gera! Gera! Unexpected, eh? I guess I have to thank those idiots for something after all!" He moved his arm forward, quickly launching Giroro's slender body through the air. She spun and landed on her feet, but quickly fell down, holding onto the grass. The beam saber fell on the ground next to the Viper, its blade quickly turning off.

With an angry battle cry, Momoka jumped ahead, spinning through the air quickly with her legs open, kicking Viper's scaly face twice. The alien cried in pain but stood in place, grabbing Momoka feet with his hand and slamming her against the ground. She tried to brace against the impact, but it still hurt a lot. "Stupid Pekoponians! I'm not here for you! Just come and become bait for the Ke-"

Before he could even complete his sentence, an energy projectile blew up on his face, covering it in a yellow cloud. Although that would be a dangerous shot against a human or Keronian, his face was merely dirty afterwards. "Idiot, that- Huh?" Viper noticed the green haired girl was stand in front of the other one, holding the two weapons that the redhead had dropped before. "Gera! Gera!" Stupid Pekopon-"

"I'm not a Pekoponian. If you're looking for a Keronian, there's one right here." Keroro announced, looking firmly at her opponent, "I'm Sergeant Keroro. I'm the leader of the Space Invasion Army Special Tactics Platoon from the 58th planet of the Gamma Galaxy, Keroro Platoon!"

"What kind of joke is that?!" Viper protested aiming his arm canon at Keroro, "Those toys can't hurt me!" However, the green haired girl started smiling with a big grin. The confused Viper then soon felt to feel something hot on his back. "GERA?!"

"Are you the one who did this?" Fuyuki stood there looking at Viper with cold eyes. He held a beam saber on Viper's back, a faint light emanating from it tip, while the first signs of smoke appeared around it.

"That's the saber the girl dropped…" The reptilian sweated, before looking angrily at the three girls standing in front of him, "I haven't done anything yet! You didn't even give me enough time to say that I'm going to kidnap you!"

"So… the crater outside, the weird school, this fog… It has nothing to do with you?" Keroro wondered, raising an eyebrow.

"No, you idiot!" The Viper answered angrily, while Fuyuki remained behind him.

"Well, even so, I guess we can't just let you free now, right?" In spite of still holding the saber on Viper's back, Fuyuki's eyes were distant. Just, what was happening there?

"So, what do we do now?" Giroro wondered, standing with crossed arms. Momoka slowly dusted herself off while standing too, her face having relaxed, although still worriedly looking at Fuyuki.

A heavy silence fell over the area, while everyone tried to think about their next step. They needed to get away, but what about the Viper? Meanwhile, Viper himself expectantly waited for a mistake from the boy in order to have a chance to escape. In that tense and confusing atmosphere, soon they noticed that the area was not actually as silent as they thought.

One by one, they heard soft steps hitting the athletics field next to the school. The thick fog made looking at that open field impossible, but something was certainly coming.

"Are those more Vipers?!" Keroro shouted, sweating cold, although the Viper's own surprised expression clearly showed that the answer was negative.

"Eh… May-mayb-Of course! So, release me now if you want to…erh… live!" Viper's failed threat just got an annoyed glance from everyone. However, they quickly turned to the forms coming from the field. The fog seemed to twist and move as they approached, almost as if somehow it was part of the unseen creatures.

As they approached, it became clear that they were small, about two feet tall. There seemed to be a large number from them, as the fog seemed to twirl towards the group.

"Should I fire or not? Should I fire or not?" Keroro trembled in hesitation, sweating cold while holding Giroro's weapons and pointing them towards the strangely moving fog. However, before she could even make a decision, the corporal pushed her aside, also taking one of the submachine guns.

Hesitating herself for a moment, Giroro opened fire targeting the ground right in front of the fog. The burst of light and sand pushed away the gray matter, exposing the creatures that approached them. There were many small humanoid beings with a purplish skin, large heads, thin limbs and rather large stomachs. Their large round white eyes stared at the group, while they kept their mouths open, saliva dripping from their mouths.

"Gero?" Keroro blinked. "They look like…"

They had dried up skin and thin limbs. They resembled dried up Keronians in a way, although it looked like they did not have one bit of humidity on their bodies. More and more of the creatures marched from the fog. "No way." The green haired girl concluded.

"Gera! Gera! So, you've appeared, eh, Keronians!" Viper laughed, while Fuyuki silently stepped back. His eyes almost shone while he observed the strange creatures approaching them.

"They aren't really-" Momoka cut short Keroro's comment, holding her mouth while angrily glaring at her.

Viper fired from his arm cannon at the creatures, blowing them up and sending them several of them flying through the fog. However, the mist itself flowed back, revealing more and more of them.

The three girls quickly ran next to Fuyuki, while a bright flash came from his cell phone. "Lord Fuyuki, it's not time for that!" Keroro protested, while the boy just gave a sorry smile.

The larger reptilian alien had a large smirk on his face while punching the purple creatures that flew through the air, disappearing into the mist. However, when he lowered his arm, Viper noticed a single one still latched onto his hand. "Gera?! Stupid Keronian, I'll- GAAAHH!" Without warning, the creature's mouth opened, revealing a bizarrely large grin, decorated with many rotten teeth. Without a word, right after one drop of its saliva dropped on Viper's glove, the small monster bit it. One second later, his mechanical arm was broken off, apparently swollen completely by the creature, sparks flying from the broken limb and from the creature's mouth.

"GAAAH!" Viper yelled in pain, but even in the middle it all, he turned his arm cannon to the creature still latched onto his arm, and fired. The explosion covered the creature, and ate through a few more chunks from his mechanical arm.

"Wha-What are these things?!" Viper yelled desperately, while two other small creatures latched onto his lower legs, their large mouths open, read to bite again. Two streaks of light flew by, hitting their heads and pushing them away, right before a third one landed in front of Viper, exploding. The hot hair blown by the explosion pushed back the snake alien, while the small monsters flew in the opposite direction, fading out of view.

"They aren't Keronians, fool." Giroro retorted, running to his side. "Let's go to the school building, it's too dangerous here!"

The group started running, but Fuyuki stood still snapping a few more shots of the monsters. Keroro and Momoka quickly stopped on their tracks, when the monsters abruptly jumped in their direction. "You can't let those things touch you, lady Momoka." Keroro said, getting an annoyed glance for a second, but Momoka's eyes soon trembled.

Almost like waking up from a spell, Fuyuki's eyes bulged and he trembled while the creatures advanced. He attempted to run back, only to see himself surrounded as more appeared from the fog that surrounded them. The monsters' eyes all lied on Fuyuki, ready to jump in his direction.

Suddenly, various yellow streaks flew exploding or pushing away many of the creatures. "Lord Fuyuki, what are you doing, sir?!" The green haired girl held the weapon with both hands, looking fearfully at the enemies beyond them. The others had already disappeared in the fog, and, the only thing they could see aside from the monsters emerging from the mist was a wall of the school building, alongside a few broken windows. Without hesitating for once, Keroro turned towards a window and fired, "Come, lord Fuyuki!" The window was blow open, leaving a round crack into the wall. Holding his hand, Keroro ran towards the broken wall, Fuyuki stumbling after her, barely able to keep up. Rushing through broken chairs and a messy classroom, they soon made it to the exit door opening it and quickly forcing it closed.

The boy held his hands against the door, sweating cold, while Keroro held a hand next to her heart, while gripping the weapon with another. After a few seconds where they could only hear their own heartbeat, silence seemed to have returned.

"Let's go up the stairs, just in case." Fuyuki mentioned, and soon both started walking through the school's corridors.

There were multiple glass windows to outside, but they pretty much could see nothing beyond them aside from the gray fog. Once in a while, it seemed like the mist was twisting around itself, but they could not see or hear the creatures anymore. The school building itself seemed to be like usual, without all the destruction seen outside, somehow. Some of the glass windows were cracked, and it seemed like the building hadn't been cleaned in a while, with dust spread on the floor and walls, but it was still in a much better condition than what they had seen outside. Lights were on, but seemed to be low on power. The light seemed barely enough to make the corridor visible, leaving many dark corners around the building.

"Gero…" Keroro sighed, "What was up with those aliens?! 3rd rate Keronian rip offs!" Keroro complained.

Fuyuki smiled, "I don't think they were aliens at all." His eyes almost seemed to shine while looking at his cell phone. "See?" Fuyuki turned the screen to the green haired girl, whose eyes opened in surprise.

"What… happened to the pictures…? They're all blurry…" Keroro muttered, before correcting herself, "Not that they're bad or anything, but-"

"These seem like spirit photos. Like what happens when someone attempts to photograph a ghost." Fuyuki said. "Small creatures with large heads and deadly thin bodies, an endless appetite… Spirit photos… Those things aren't aliens or Keronians, they're Gaki! Probably."

"Gaki?" Keroro raised an eyebrow, "Some legend from Pekopon?"

Fuyuki continued enthusiastically while they started walking up the stairs, "Thin bodies, large heads and bellies, unsociable hunger… Hungry Ghosts. It's a legend originating from other countries, like India and China, and eventually made it here to Japan. It's said that the souls of greedy humans who can't ascend after death eventually become those creatures."

"So, they're ghosts?" Keroro touched her cheek with one finger, looking puzzled, "They seemed pretty solid back there."

Fuyuki stopped for a moment after climbing the stairs. The first floor's corridor seemed to be in a similar state to the ground level, dirty, and a few cracks in the windows, but mostly fine. "Well, there's something odd happening, but-"

"We didn't all die in our sleep, right?" The green haired girl's dark eyes suddenly trembled in front of Fuyuki's face, while she held onto his collar, cold sweat dripping from her panicked expression.

"Well, I don't think so." Fuyuki laughed it off, getting an annoyed glance from her.

"Hmph. Aren't you too calm about this?" The annoyed girl wondered, crossing her arms and pouting.

"I'm starting to think that this isn't really Okutokyo or Kishou. When you think like that, isn't this kind of exciting?" Fuyuki's eyes and faces carried a genuine warmness. Somehow, looking at his face, that sensation soon spread to Keroro, whose mouth drew a confident smile.

"Monsters, ghosts, aliens… If you think about it, it's like there were multiple worlds existing right alongside each other." Fuyuki looked at a nearby window, the gray fog covering everything outside.

"And you want to know these worlds, right… Fuyuki?" The green haired girl leaned on the boy's shoulder. His face became reddish, but after a moment of hesitation, he just smiled.

"I've been thinking lately… One day, not only my club, I'd like reveal everything to everyone. It's crazy, but I'd like to see how that world would turn out." Fuyuki held onto the green haired girl's hand, "And this all started thanks to you, Keroro."

"Gero, gero…" Although usually that cry came with an evil cackle, this time they carried an unusually soft voice, "I promise you, when I've conquered Pekopon, I'll unveil everything that there is to know about Pekopon…"

Fuyuki glanced sideways. She was smiling with closed eyes. "Keroro…" The pony-tailed girl opened her eyes, and quickly spun towards Fuyuki, her black eyes shinning while locked in his own gaze. She held her arms around Fuyuki's shoulder and their faces approach each other. Blushing both closed their eyes again. Fuyuki's hands held onto her waist. They hesitated for a moment, but soon their faces moved towards each other…

"What do you think you're doing!?"

Both Keroro and Fuyuki opened their eyes, noticing an angry redhead with her arms crossed standing next to them. Behind her, there was Momoka, glaring furiously at the pair, and Viper, with one raised eye in mild confusion. The pair quickly turned around their backs facing each other, also looking away from the others with reddish faces.

"Ge-gero!"

"This is…"

"Anyway…" Giroro said, breathing heavily, "None of those things followed us inside, but I guess you've already noticed it. They don't seem to be any aliens we know either. Do you know anything about them, Fuyuki?"

"Huh?" The youngest Hinata pondered for a moment, Giroro wasn't good with ghosts, after all. "There are some legends that speak about creatures similar to those. I'd guess they're Gaki, ghosts controlled by a hunger that can never be satiated."

"Then why aren't they following us, genius?" Viper complained, showing his broken mechanical arm, still sparking.

"Maybe… they're feeling the same thing that I am?" Momoka wondered aloud, glaring at the ceiling. "Do you really don't notice it? This heaviness… dread…?"

"Well, I wouldn't be surprised if an enemy appeared from anywhere here." Giroro mentioned.

"That's not it!" Momoka said, frustrated, closing her hands into fists.

"I- I don't feel it either." Her own voice, but with a milder tone echoed inside her head.

"The sensation that you're feeling… it comes from up there, right?" Fuyuki pointed to the ceiling of their school. "Something in the terrace?"

"If I had to guess it's probably there." Nishizawa said, glaring upwards at a lamp that weakly illuminated the corridor.

"Then, maybe whatever created this place must be there." Fuyuki concluded, receiving surprised looks from the others, but replying with a smile. "It's just a guess, but… Outside of school grounds, there were only ruins and a seemingly bottomless abyss. Outside of school, and near its entrance, it looked like the building was broken and falling apart. And yet, deeper inside, everything is closer to how it should be, just seemingly abandoned for a while."

"So, something created this space and the more we walk away from the center, the more unstable and chaotic this world gets?" Giroro pondered, before smirking, "Makes sense. I think there are alien races able to invade through copying and replacing locations through dimensional manipulation."

"Is it an alien after all?" Keroro scratched the back of her head, "If you're correct, this seems to be some kind of subspace, like that time I attempted to rebuild your home with larger rooms inside." She smirked, "Although, obviously this one is extremely badly done, since this is obviously some second rate invader, sir."

"Tch. I didn't notice anything when I was up there, although there was that annoying fog." Viper snarled, "Still, if you think there's some idiot attempting to trap us all, let's go get him!"

"Can we really trust him?" Keroro wondered, holding her hands on the back of her head while turning to face Mecha Viper #2.

"Don't say that right on his face, idiot!" Giroro muttered. "Don't let that green idiot bother you."

"I've already told you, I only planned to use you as bait to make those Keronians appear! I want to get out of this hellish place too!" Viper grit his large teeth, looking at his arm cannon.

Soon the group walked up the stairs, leaving the corridor behind. They walked up one set of stairs, noticing that in the next floor, the lights were stronger, and the floors themselves were cleaner too. The corridor's windows were not scratched either. Everything seemed almost strangely normal.

"So, it seems like we were right." Fuyuki concluded.

"And the enemy, whoever he is, is up there." Keroro crossed her arms, "although it'd be better if there were no one up there." She said with a smile.

"He needs to be up there, if we want to get out." Momoka held her hands together while trembling lightly.

The group proceeded to go upstairs twice. There were ever-stronger lights illuminating the upper floor, before finally getting to a locked gray door. There was also an increasingly thicker fog, sounds of raindrops hitting the ceiling and a small puddle coming from bellow the door.

"It's raining?" Giroro questioned. This seemed rather sudden, but, at the same time, it also seemed like it had been raining for a while there, considering the humidity.

"It seems to be only on the rooftop." Fuyuki answered, "If I was right about those creatures bellow, and they're really Gaki, then this could be another legendary monster of some type." Fuyuki held the cold doorknob with a small smirk on his face. He had climbed up there occasionally to play with the Keroball in secret. Going up there, he could not help but remember those moments where he broke the school rules to play with alien technology. The chance of meeting some unknown monster just made his heart beat faster.

Faint gray mist came through the door, covering the area around it with a thin layer of fog. "Aah." Keroro sighed, twirling a hair strand with her slender fingers, "Some time ago I'd be happy with all this humidity, but if I get drenched fixing my hair later will be annoying."

"What are you saying?!" Giroro angrily retorted, only to see Keroro smiling towards Fuyuki.

"Maybe I should cut it? What do you think, lord Fuyuki?"

"Eh?"

"Keror-" Giroro was about to complain once again, but she was cut short.

"Can you stop talking about pointless stuff?!" Momoka glared at Keroro angrily, holding onto her dress, but she just received an evil smirk as a reply.

"Shut up all of you!" Viper yelled loudly. "Can't any of you take this situation seriously?!"

"And you want to warn our enemies too, idiot?!" The redhead soon yelled at the snake-like alien.

"Hey, guys, stop it." Fuyuki interrupted them.

"Roger! I just wanted to cool the air around here." Keroro saluted Fuyuki with a playful wink, just to get another annoyed glance from Momoka.

"You're the one heating things up…" The Nishizawa heir muttered.

"What we're searching for should be right beyond this door. I'm opening it." Fuyuki glanced back at the girls and the Viper standing behind him, before pushing the door open. The fog flew into the room in a completely unnatural way, almost blinding them for a moment. However, one instant later, it dispersed, leaving only a thin layer covering the area in front of them.

There was a large open area, hit by heavy rain, with metallic fences on its edges, and thick gray fog beyond it. The fog seemed to strangely gather and swirl right beyond the borders of the building, leaving the path in front of them open. In the distance, they could see through the thin layer of mist someone standing there. It was the silhouette of a human, wearing some kind of hood, partially covering his face.

"Let's go." Fuyuki muttered while walking into the cold rain, "But first we'll try to talk, of course."

Momoka's hair spiked while she held her fists, Keroro and Giroro pointed their rifles at it, while Viper, standing behind the group, raised his arm gun

Keroro shivered when the first raindrops hit her skin and hair. "This is so weird… Anyway…!" Putting on a brave front, she yelled loudly, "Why are you just standing still there? Are you the boss of this dungeon or something?"

"What are you saying, idiot!?" Giroro complained, but soon stopped. Everyone focused on the one in front of them, but there was no reply, only the sound of the rain continuously hitting the building.

As they approached him, it was easier to make out his features. A boy with a built similar to Fuyuki's, wearing dark blue pants and a closed black jacket with long blue sleeves, the jacket's dark blue hood covering his head. His face although obscured, seemed strangely familiar.

"Why do you look like me?" Fuyuki asked, looking inquisitively at the one before them, who raised his face, dropping the hood on his back, confirming everyone's suspicions. His face and hair looked identical to Fuyuki's, only his oddly pupil-less red irises showed that it was someone or something else.

"I'm Fuyuki Hinata." The stranger spoke with Fuyuki's own voice, but it seemed to echo through the air in a rather unnatural way. He opened his arms, with a large smirk contorting his face, "This is the world that I long for. A world without all the ones who scorn me, ignore me. All the ones that drag me down."

"What is this thing?" Fuyuki muttered.

"I don't know what's going on here… But you clearly aren't Fuyuki!" Keroro aimed her weapon at the other Fuyuki and fired, but the rainwater contorted around him, creating whirlpools that dispersed the shot into armless light.

"An empty clubroom. A school that laughs at the truth. Everything should disappear and be swollen by the darkness of truth!" Like it was answering his phantasmagoric voice, lighting streaks crossed the skies, and hit the ground, creating several explosions. In a flash, their shockwaves threw Giroro, Keroro and Momoka against the outer walls of the room leading back into the school. Viper, however, stood his ground, only barely getting pushed back.

"So, I just need to finish you off, right?!" The alien reptile raised his arm cannon and fired, only for his shot to shatter and disappear into the same water shield seen before.

"What was that attack?!" Giroro muttered, attempting to regain her footing.

"I hate people who are better than me. I hate people who are happy when I'm unhappy." The red-eyed Fuyuki continued speaking. "My eternal rain will blot out the sun and stop myself from ever be humiliated again!"

Upon hearing those words, recognition started dawning on Fuyuki. He knew those words and feelings very well, in a way.

"I get it now." Fuyuki looked at the one before him, staring directly into his eyes, "When I was smaller, I disliked sports and hated the school's sports festival for forcing me there. There was a cryptid that I drew wishing to ruin the sports festival. After all, every time I participated, I only failed, humiliated myself and disappointed everyone. That animal was… an Amefurashi, the snail that brings rain."

"Amefurashi?" Keroro muttered, her eyes lighting up in recognition. "Wait… you mean that thing that escaped from your memories and went to the real world when we tested the Soul Diver on you? That was so weird. Thoughts shouldn't be able to take a physical form out of nowhere like that!"

"Then, it's all your fault like always!" Momoka complained, while staggering to stand up.

"I remember that… We met him that day, but he wasn't like this back then…" Fuyuki muttered.

Without warning, a water cyclone suddenly burst forth, hitting Fuyuki and pushing him onto the wall, alongside the others. "I am truth. I am your actual wishes that you kept away from the world. And soon, I'll be you. The only you."

"Hey, you!" Momoka glared at the shadowy Fuyuki, unknowingly to her, small sparks blazed around her fist. "Stop speaking for someone else!" Lighting bolts quickly sparked through the air, but somehow Momoka's furious fist clashed against them. Sparks created by the clash flew through the air and harmlessly faded away.

"Someone else?" The red eyed Fuyuki smirked. "So, who is the one talking with me right now? Aren't you Momoka? Or are you also someone else?"

"Shut up, don't compare us!" Rushing through the rain, Momoka jumped over a water cyclone, almost reaching the dark Fuyuki, only to see herself completely surrounded by many floating whirlpools. "What?!" They crashed into her, placing her inside a water sphere. "Don't you realize it, Momoka? We're the same. Your other self is ashamed of you and wants to make you disappear. However, that's wrong. This strong and brave Momoka is her truth. Her true self."

"Fu-Fuyuki?!" For a moment, she weakened, losing her breath and almost fainting.

"You're wrong!" Fuyuki's voice echoed as a blade of light blazed forth cutting the water sphere, quickly disappearing while Momoka fell on his arms, which could barely hold her weight, almost falling on the floor. "You two aren't the same at all." Fuyuki said, glaring at the one in front of him. "You aren't me. You aren't even part of anymore!"

The shadow one smirked, while another blast of water spun through the air, Fuyuki lowered Momoka to the floor, holding onto it, while the high-speed water pushed against his back. He grit his teeth, refusing to cry in pain. Meanwhile, several streaks of light flew through, Keroro, Giroro and Viper fired at the other Fuyuki. The water shield appeared in front of him again, starting to disperse the projectiles of light, however, the continuous fire pierced through, hitting him and exploding. "Continue firing!" Giroro yelled.

Explosions upon explosions followed through, but after about half a minute they stopped, only the rain breaking the silence around them. There was a large smoke screen where the other Fuyuki stood, but it soon starts swirling, just to open itself, and reveal him floating in midair.

Fuyuki turned around, looking at his other self with anger. "You aren't me!"

"If we were really different," The Fuyuki with red eyes smirked, "I wouldn't have this form now. I am your consciousness that you didn't want others to see, born out of a mysterious animal that brought punishment to everyone around you, Amefurashi! But now, I have the chance to be much more… much more…"

Following his words, lighting stroke the weapons held by Keroro, Giroro and Viper, exploding their weapons. "My sleeve is burning! It's burning!" Keroro soaked her arm into the wet floor, breathing into it too, while attempting to put out the fire. Viper looked at his charred arm, his arm canon now reduced to nothing. Meanwhile, the redhead just glared silently at their opponent.

"How do we beat this thing?!" Giroro muttered.

"We aren't the same." Fuyuki stood up, looking at his other self with lightless cold eyes. "It's true that at some point I had a foolish wish. I thought that if I couldn't run, then no one should and prayed for rain to stop everyone. But it was just a childish whim! Turning that into a malevolent wish, hurting my friends, hurting the ones I love…! There's no way we're the same!" Fuyuki raised the beam saber, which blazed forth against the nocturne rain, he had a somewhat sad smile, "However, in that rainy day when you somehow came out of my mind and we met in the real world, years after I had forgotten you… I was wrong to tell you to disappear, Amefurashi. Back then I didn't think about how you'd feel. I didn't think about what you are. However, I'll make up for that mistake now."

"SHUT UP!" The other Fuyuki's voice angrily blazed forth, when a large water cyclone surrounded him. "I'll take your place! Your life! Your everything!"

The curtain of water soon opened to reveal a giant slime creature, dwarfing anyone there. It was large, but formless, almost like a pool of blue dirty water tied together by nothing but some abhorrent will. Empty round red eyes opened, seemingly staring at the floor, and a large gelatinous cavity appeared from its center, several sharpened spikes appearing on the top and bottom of the monster, forming a monstrous mouth.

"Keroro, don't you have any ideas?!" Giroro yelled at the platoon leader, only to notice that she had frozen solid from pure fear. "Forget I said anything."

"Even if I lost my psycho-cannon, there's no way I'll let myself be beaten by some slimy fool!" Mecha-Viper cried while advancing rushing past everyone else, but several whirlpools springing forth and spinning onto his body, attempting to bury into it.

"Last time I told you to go away because I didn't need you anymore…" Fuyuki said, releasing the saber on the floor, "This time, I promise I'll save you, and bring you with me! And we'll stand up together!" The boy started walking towards the giant monster, but soon stopped. Giroro held his arm firmly.

"What do you think you're doing?!" She yelled.

"I… I think there's something controlling him, distorting him. If I can pull Amefurashi out of that thing, then…"

"Are you crazy?!" A large whirlpool descended from the skies heading towards them, when Fuyuki suddenly started sprinting forward. "Fuyuki!" She cried out while the boy ran forward. When the vortex was about to hit her, the cyborg alien rushed forward, holding his arms up defensively while taking the brunt of the impact.

"Viper?" Giroro was stunned for a moment, but quickly moved and grabbed the the beam saber hilt left behind by Fuyuki.

The water continued to pour onto Viper, until a streak of light cut through it, dispersing them tourbillions into harmless water. The redhead smirked at the wounded and unexpected ally while holding the beam saber. "That was stupid, but pretty cool."

"Gara?" Viper's eyes stared at her own grayish eyes for a moment which seemed longer in his mind than it was in reality.

Fuyuki stood in front of the giant slimy monster, its body contorting to cover him with its large mouth. "If you're in there… Amefurashi, wake up!"

One second later, the giant gelatinous monster fell all over Fuyuki, seemingly engulfing him.

"Fu-Fuyuki!" Keroro broke through her fear yelling just as Fuyuki disappeared inside the giant Amefurashi.

The monster's features lost their form as it took a spherical shape, while everyone stared at it in stunned silence.

"Lord Fuyuki!" The green haired girl ran towards the monster punching it only to see her fist unable to go through its watery surface by some kind of invisible membrane. "Lord Fuyuki!" Keroro punched the monster, but to no avail. Her eyes were trembling and teary, mixing her own tears with the rain falling over them.

"And only now you attempt to do something!" Giroro complained while thrusting the beam saber's energy blade into the monster. However, aside from sparks flying against her, there seemed to be no effect.

"That's useless!" Viper muttered while punching the gelatinous monster, his fist failing to do anything.

"YOU STUPID MONSTER!" Momoka exploded onto the creature, instantly launching towards the monster and extending her first. She hit it with an explosive force. Her punch sent waves through the building and the air itself. "GIVE HIM BACK!" She shouted while angrily glaring at the large gelatinous creature that now stood immobile.

"Fuyuki…" Keroro muttered as her first weakened into an open hand.

"I'm not the Fuyuki that ran away anymore!"

"Gero?" She heard a certain voice echoing through the air somehow.

"Fuyuki?" Momoka gasped as her features eased.

"And I'm won't leave you alone anymore either."

"This is… lord Fuyuki's voice?"

Keroro looked puzzled, but Momoka smiled. "Yes, it is!"

Giroro just raised an eyebrow at both. "You're hearing something?"

"Fuyuki's voice!" Keroro sighed, with a satisfied smile.

"You're all going crazy." Viper mumbled.

Floating inside the gelatinous darkness, Fuyuki extended his hand to a small glittering light.

"Amefurashi, you're part of me too. So we'll go ahead, together!"

Fuyuki's hand reached the shining light and he closed his hand into it. Rather weakening, the light grew stronger. Streaks of white light were visible from the blob's exterior, soon becoming actual beams piercing through it, the building and even the skies. The cloud and fog cracked like broken wall, while the light became stronger and stronger.

"Ge-Gero!? What this now?!" Keroro stumbled, falling on her back while everything the building started shacking, seemingly breaking down. "Cor-corpor-"

The light expanded, seemingly becoming a shining sphere that wrapped the entire building. Everything around her started disappearing into the light, while she could only stand still and watch, even as she disappeared into it too. Yet, rather than fear, it seemed to carry a comforting warmth…

/

Fuyuki opened his heavy eyelids, like if he were awakening from a long sleep. Still wearing his school uniform, he sit alone in what resembled a large and empty movie theater. There were many rolls of empty chairs around him, while the large screen in front just showed a repeating white blank, which also was also the main source of light of that hall.

"Why am I here?" Fuyuki stood, slowly observing the room around him. There really seemed to be no one else around. Empty chairs, empty corridors.

"Sergeant? Nishizawa?!" He shouted, but only his own voice echoed back to his ears.

"That was quite a clichéd ending."

"Eh?!" Fuyuki turned back only to see a tall adult man standing behind him. The man's olive skin contrasted with his swept back silver hair. His facial features were somehow hard, square looking, while his odd yellow eyes grimaced at Fuyuki. Aside from his hair itself, there did not seem to be a single hair strand on his face, no beard, no eyebrows. Even though a moment ago there had been nothing there, it seemed like that men had stood there all along, unmoving, uncaring. His blazer, pants and even shirt were black like coal, with gold highlights around the suit's collar, alongside a curiously ancient Egyptian-like golden circlet worn under his black tie.

"Claiming to have surpassed your weakness, you embrace your mistakes, your embrace your past, and from there, a new power, a new future, is born."

"Wait!" The man's words seemed to carry with them a supernatural weight, and, after noticing his presence, that theater's very hair seemed oppressive, suffocating.

"You're…" Fuyuki quickly noticed that the man's appearance did not seem quite human. Rather than that, it was more like an alien attempting to shape himself as a human. "You're the evil presence that transformed Amefurashi into that!" Fuyuki stood up, looking directly into the man's yellow eyes, although he showed no reaction.

"It matters not. For, I will not let my production end in such a way." The main raised his hand, closing it into a fist. Instantly, Fuyuki saw himself chocked by what he could only described as a shadow. A large black mark somehow seemed to lift itself from his own surface as a phantom appendage, pressing his neck, stopping him from speaking and making breathing harder and harder.

"Human beacon of darkness… drown in blackness itself in order to become part of it."

A circle of wailing shadows materialized around Fuyuki and soon he was completely covered, unable to see the outside world. He attempted to move forward, but the things moving around him suddenly seemed solid, locking him in.

"You've never surpassed your weakness. Even now… don't you wish to batch all the humans in the misshapen twilight?" The man said, drawing a smile on his lips.

Wordlessly, Fuyuki attempted to break free, angrily punching the shadows but to no avail.

"Rather than a beacon, become a whirlpool drawing and festering on the world. Twist and turn. Crash and-"

"GEEERRROOO!" Breaking through the ceiling, a certain green haired girl fell like a rocket headfirst onto the tall man, launching him flying towards the theater's wall, while Keroro dizzily stumbled around for a few moments. The man crashed onto it, with such an impact that a shockwave broke the surrounding structure, which collapsed on top of him.

"Don't attempt to write me off like some secondary character! I'm the main hero! Huh –heroine!" Keroro still wore the same white dress from before, but the star shaped ribbon tying her hair was shining strongly. The girl crossed her arms with indignation, before blinking and realizing something more important… "Lord Fuyuki!?"

The sphere of darkness faded, and Fuyuki quickly fell forward. Keroro extended her arms. Fuyuki soon hit his head against a nearby chair while the girl just grabbed air. A moment later, they stood up together, holding each other's warm hands. The heavy atmosphere seemed to vanish, for a moment at least.

"Sergeant?"

"Of course, sir!" The green haired girl replied with a playful salute and a wink.

"Do you know how you got here?" He said, glancing on the nervous petite girl, who just nodded negatively.

"I wanted to come after you when everything became white and then suddenly I was falling in the middle of nowhere…"

"That damned star…" A loud rumble followed the man's voice. The room became darker while a force pushed away the debris on top of the man. "An ignorant frog wanders right into the sea!" He cried, losing his composure for the first time. Behind him, there was a large circular hole opened in the crumbling wall. However, beyond that hole, there seemed to be nothing. No room, no city, nothing, just pure featureless darkness.

Keroro and Fuyuki turned towards the man, whose yellow eyes seemed to shine with malicious fury. However, after a brief moment of surprise, Fuyuki smirked confidently.

"I got it now. That ruined school… this theater… my awakening here… that void behind you… this is all a dream!" Fuyuki smiled confidently, in spite of the man's disturbing glare targeting him.

"Reality itself is a dream. Awaken or asleep, you can't run away." The man's fists sparked with a phantasmagoric white light.

"Fuyuki!"

"This voice… I understand!" Fuyuki's eyes shone while he stepped forward, standing in front of Keroro and staring right into their enemy's eyes.

"Disappear under this starless sky." The main muttered, while a colorless explosion burst forth from his left palm. The light raged forwards, however, rather than running, Fuyuki extended his own hand forward, opening its palm too.

"Amefurashi!" A blue light burst forth around Fuyuki's body clashing with the wave attempting to engulf them. The light increased in size while flowing like water towards Fuyuki's open palm. The white beam split during the clash, spread itself into various smaller ones that started hitting and breaking the floor, walls and empty chairs around them.

"I don't get what's going on…" Keroro muttered while raising an eyebrow and stepping back. "Still… Go, Fuyuki!" Raising an arm, she cheered for him.

Right in the middle of the clash, the liquid energy flowing around Fuyuki started converging into a solid figure. It resembled a large cartoon snail with round empty eyes, holding a small umbrella, which it used as a shield to block the enemy's attack. However, as soon as it took that shape it continued changing the water spinning and the figure enlarged, becoming as big as Fuyuki himself, while taking human proportions. It was the same boy in a hood from before, his right arm extended forward with an open palm, mimicking Fuyuki's movement. However, his eyes this time were a shining white, rather than the hateful red.

"Show me the seed I planted in you." The man spoke with his expression unchanged.

"This is our power!" Fuyuki yelled again as the blue waves started pushing back the faint white ones. White cracks appeared around the second Fuyuki's body, light emanating from the fissures, like an egg about to break apart. The light became even stronger, bursting forth from the shell like an explosion that seemingly engulfed both Fuyuki and their enemy.

"Ge-Gero!?" Keroro stumbled, falling on the floor, while the light raged towards her. She moved back her feet, almost caught up into the sphere, which soon afterwards started vanishing. "Ma-Master Fuyuki?!"

"I'm fine. We're fine." He replied with a calm voice as the blinding light started to fade. Fuyuki stood in front of Keroro, looking at her with a soft smile while extending his right hand to her. She held it and stood up, noticing the floating figure that was behind them. "That's…"

Where there was a second Fuyuki before, now there was an armored figure. Silver metallic plates covered its entire body and small wing extensions adorned its blue greaves and boots. Around its waist area, there was a segmented metallic belt with a large horizontally aligned oval buckle, shinning with a red sphere in its center. Its mask had large blue insect eyes, alongside two metallic horns extending from the area around its ears to its back. On its left hand, it effortlessly held a large metallic umbrella. With a metallic tip, the object also resembled a knight's lance.

"Gero? What's that?" The green haired girl blinked, her eyes curiously examining the figure floating in front of them.

"It's kind of hard to explain, but, somehow, I can tell it's Amefurashi's new form." Fuyuki said with a confident smile, turning towards the now broken projector screen of that odd theater. The man stood there, his clothes and body torn, with various cuts everywhere from face to limbs. However, rather than pain or anger, he just had a large demonic grin. From his cuts, rather than blood, it seemed like some kind of dark light came out – shadows that in a seemingly impossible way projected themselves like light.

"Beacon of darkness." The man murmured while taking a step forward. "The power to project your inner self into a destructive form. A power that in the past has brought forth events considered miracles by ignorant beings like you. However, no miracle will happen here."

"Amefurashi!" Fuyuki glared at the mysterious man, extending his hand towards him, while the armored spirit rushed through the air towards it, pushing forward its lance. With seemingly no resistance, the weapon impaled the man. Black light exploding from his back, mouth and eyes, as it started laughing maniacally with a shrill tone.

The laugher seemed to multiply, coming from everywhere around Fuyuki. He blinked, looking at his sides confused, only to fall to the floor alongside a tremor.

"What now?!" Keroro asked in frustration as she also stumbled to the floor. The entire floor broke apart. Bursts of that impossible black light bursting forth all around them. The black light started twisting and turning, while the holes opened more and more and the beams became wider and more solid.

"What's this?!" Twisting and turn, the black tentacles wrapped themselves around Fuyuki's body, tying his arms and legs, and soon doing the same to the armored Amefurashi.

The man in black continued laughing even as his body opened up more and more, with the ominous black light bursting forth. His skin cracked, his limbs fell on the floor, and yet the laughter continued, even as his started disfiguring into an unrecognizable black mass.

"Lo-lord Fuyuki!" Keroro stood up, running towards him only to have her path blocked by new black beams breaking through the floor. As more and more appeared around her, they started tying themselves to her legs and arms too. "Stop, damn it!" She cried frustrated while Fuyuki started disappearing into the black light that rained in front of her. The boy turned his head to her with a faint smile that slowly vanished into the dark.

Keroro attempted to extend her hand towards him, even though it was a useless gesture considering the distance between them. "I… I can't do anything…" she muttered while tears fell from her eyes.

"One day, I'll become the leader of the army. I'll wear a real Keron Star and become a hero known through the entire planet… no, universe!"

Keroro remembered the words that she had said ages ago back during her childhood, and could just hold a bitter smile. "In the end, I've always been useless. Even this Keron Star… the only reason I got it was pure luck."

"I shouldn't have led the invasion force. I just ended up ruining our operation and leaving ourselves stranded here after years of planning."

"I can't even actually use the Keron Star. I can't even actually lead anyone!"

"I shouldn't have met the Hinata family. I just end up bringing danger to them, and now if he disappears, it'll be all my fault."

"I… I shouldn't have become like this. I shouldn't have fallen for him and wish to keep going ahead with this mistake."

"But, even so…"

"Even if I've just ruined everything I've touched… Even if I'm unworthy of you… Please…"

"Let me… let me save him. I… I need your power."

"KERON STAR!"

The star tying Keroro's ponytail shone and beams of light broke through the darkness, enveloping her in a sphere of blinding light. She closed her eyes for a second, but, when she opened them, she saw herself floating in an empty, but bright space. Her long hair now untied and loose, while the Keron Star shone in front of her.

"Bio scan failure. Psychic scan match. Identity confirmed. Sergeant Keroro, leader of the Space Invasion Army Special Tactics Platoon of the 58th planet of the Gamma Galaxy - Keroro Platoon." A mechanical female voice spoke, while the green haired girl hurriedly looked around herself, swinging her arms wildly, attempting to swim in the air, but just going nowhere.

The star shone with a blinding flash, and, afterwards, in its place, there stood a female Keronian. She had a large white area on her round face, alongside large yellow eyes. Her skin's color was a pale yellow, while she sported a yellow hat with cat-like ear protrusions, and a similarly colored long sleeved robe. On the center of her robe, and on her hat, there was a white star, which resembled the Keron Star emblem.

"Hi! I'm the avatar of the Mira KS 1.0 operation system, Kirara!" The Keronian winked with a smile.

"Eh… no one ever told me anything about this…" Keroro muttered, dropping her shoulders.

"The Keron Star is the ultimate weapon of the chosen invasion leaders of planet Keron. However, access to its abilities is locked based on the current situation and the abilities of its user."

"You're saying that because you'll unlock some kind of ability, right?! Then go ahead! I don't have time to waste here!"

"You're currently engaged in combat with Dark Manifestation Nyaruru. Access to offensive power will be granted to combat its current le-"

"Wait, wait, wait! You know about that guy?! Does he have something to do with the invasion?!" The green haired girl grabbed the Keronian's arms, while the Keronian just continued smiling calmly.

"Restricted information level 2, access granted. The Keron army's goal for the Pekopon invasion is to understand, and eventually control, a special unique power detected on Pekopon. Your current enemy, codenamed 'Nyaruru', is a manifestation of that power."

"I feel like you're still hiding something." Keroro sighed, staring at her. "Anyway, give me power now!"

"Warrior Style." Those words, written in the curvy but simple forms of the universal space alphabet, appeared floating in front of Keroro. She raised her hand and touched them. The words shone with a yellow light, but soon everything disappeared into a green fire.

The lit flame spread through the darkness that covered it, spiraling like a giant burning snake through the black nothingness.

"Sergeant…?" Fuyuki's eyes noticed a green glitter coming from the distance, spiraling while slowly enlarging. On the forehead of the giant flaming serpent, there was a yellow star, shinning alongside the rest of its body. The black mass keeping Fuyuki tied down weakened and collapsed as the light strengthened. He started falling towards the endless abysm bellow but soon saw the green flames covering him, while his fall slowed down and he softly hit some kind of floor. In spite of flames surrounding him, above and bellow, right and left, he was not burnt or blinded, just feeling a comfortable warmth. The pillar of fire burst forth in front of him, dancing in the shape of human before disappearing, only to reveal Keroro standing there, with a bright smile.

"Lord Fuyuki!" She quickly held his hands to his surprise, drawing a similar smile from his lips.

"Keroro…"

"Good luck with the club tomorrow!" Keroro and Fuyuki's faces slowly disappeared into the light. Still, they didn't feel fear or pain, but rather peace of mind. Soon afterwards, the light itself vanished too, leaving only darkness.

"GEEROO?!" Keroro opened her eyes, standing up in surprise, only to stumble on a soft blanket. After being stunned for a few moments, she noticed that she was standing in the middle of her own bedroom. Her long green hair was fuzzy and tangled, while she sported short-sleeved pajama shirt and shorts, colored white with red stripes. On her head, there was a yellow nightcap.

She sighed, eased. "So, that was all just a stu-" Keroro felt a chill running through her body. Right in front of the sheets, there was a gold glint. Crouching next to the floor, she quickly noticed what it was – the Keron Star seemingly had changed into some solid shape, rather than its usual cloth-like material.

She had a trembling smile while looking at it, "Does this mean-?"

The front door of her room suddenly creaked while being pulled open. She stumbled backwards in panic, falling over the sheets. "Gero!"

Fuyuki pressed a switch next to the door, turning on the lights. He stood there dressed in green pajama pants and shirt, raising an eyebrow at the green haired girl. "So, you're awake?"

"Lord Fuyuki! Don't frighten me like that!" She complained while standing up again, clutching the yellow star. "You had a weird dream too, right?"

"Yeah…" He said with a smile, while scratching the back of his hair. "Nishizawa already called and it seems like she's fine too. Still, if that dream wasn't just a dream, then there's also that man."

"Don't worry about it, lord Fuyuki." The green haired girl had a beaming smile, holding up the star in front of her. "We won! Whoever he was, it was just another failed invader!"

"I guess you're right."

"You've got your club to worry about later too! So, let's just sleep and get ready for tomorrow- I mean, maybe it's today already? I didn't look at the time." Fuyuki smiled at her confusion.

"Alright, alright, but a boy shouldn't be in a girl's room so late at night." Giroro stood by the door, wearing her standard uniform, her arms crossed.

"Corporal?" Fuyuki looked behind him with surprise. He had not noticed her behind him at all.

"A boy in a girl's room?" Keroro spoke with a smirk, leaning her face on Fuyuki's shoulder while holding his arm, both of their faces blushing lightly.

"Wha-What's with the reaction?!" The redhead took a step back.

"It's nothing." Keroro just continued smirking, while Giroro looked away in annoyance.

"Shut up!"

/

"Fuyuki?" Momoka muttered as she opened her eyes, seemingly surrounded by a dark ocean. Although she could breathe, she felt like she was floating in water. Looking at her sides, bellow her and upwards she could see nothing but a kind of ethereal violet light.

She tried to move her limps, swinging her hair to swim towards somewhere, but soon realized that she could not. After a blink of an eye, rather than water, she noticed herself immersed in some gelatinous material, translucent tentacles made from it holding her entire body. "What is this?!" She screamed, but soon saw her mouth covered too. Everything around her started darkening as it took form, and she soon felt emerged in some incomprehensible structured made by thousands of those now black appendages.

The tentacles in front of her opened way bring forth something that resembled a vile black walnut. Shortly afterwards it was pushed forward towards her and, even though she struggled to keep her mouth clothes, the hard fruit seemingly passed through her skin entering into her body. Feeling her throat blocked, Momoka attempted to scream, but no sound came out.

Finally, she opened her eyes, sweating and breathing hard. Her hair was disheveled and spiked. Her glaring eyes looked ahead at the familiar room around her. She sit on her large double bed by herself in the middle of her large bedroom, a large pinkish curtain covering the nearby window. Rather than her school uniform, she sported her usual long pink pajama dress.

"All that with Fuyuki was just a dream? And what was up with that ending?!" She held onto her pinkish sheets with anger. "Hey, Momoka, where are you?!" Her angry voice shouted inside herself, while she silently walked towards the large curtains and pushed them open, looking at the large red moon above the tress surrounding the mansion. "Het, other me?! Where are you?!"

"I'm right here." Her other voice answered oddly coldly. "Tomorrow will be an important day. So, don't get in my way."

"Eh?! What's with this attitude? Aren't you curious about the dream we just saw?!"

"I… don't know what you're talking about."

"Eh?" Momoka looked confused for a moment, raising an eyebrow. Even though their personalities had completely split into two distinct entities, up until then they seemed to share all knowledge and memories. Yet now, not only her other self apparently could not remember anything about that dream, she could not even guess what her usually soft side was thinking.

/

The sun shone above the skies while bustling noises of hundreds of students around Kishou's campus flooded the area. The school seemed to be louder than usual, with many groups of students standing next to billboards, some dressed up in their various sport jerseys, like a boy who held a soccer ball while wearing a white shirt and orange shorts, or various other outfits, like another dressed in regal blue clothing and a gold tiara.

Among that crowd, Fuyuki and Momoka stood in front of a billboard, with various images spread around it – from pictures of space to newspaper cuts showing supposed monster sightings and UFOs alongside plain illustrations of creatures resembling a werewolf and a humanoid with scales and a fish face. At the center of the montage, there was a curious symbol – three vertical lines joined by a horizontal bar, with the two outer vertical lines slightly curved outwards. Ufologists might recognize it as part of Spain's UMMO UFO case. It was an emblem seen on a supposed saucer shaped space ship from planet UMMO. Fuyuki didn't have personal ties to that case, which was later claimed to be an elaborate farce started by a single man, however, he did know that the symbol that appeared in those pictures was real thanks to another source – it was the emblem of the Space Police, and part of the Keron Army's own emblem.

The two members of the Occult club handled fliers to the nearby students. A few whispers of "We have an occult club?" reached Fuyuki's ears, who tried hard to keep his smile while handing them out.

"Tamae isn't with you?" Juunishiro, one of Fuyuki's classmates, a short but athletic kid with messy short hair stopped in front of the pair, attempting to look behind the wooden board behind them.

"I've already told you she isn't a club member…" Fuyuki replied, while his classmate sighed, leaving them behind.

"Fuyuki… You're Fuyuki Hinata, right?" A curious female voice came from among the crowd of students. When a couple of passerby left, there was a girl looking intently at the Occult Clubs stand, wearing Kishou's uniform. She was rather young, probably a 1st year junior high student, with a few unruly strands sticking out from the top of her head.

She smiled, while looking at Fuyuki. "It's been a while Hinata! Still, what a coincident, I didn't realize that you study here!

"Eh?" Momoka raised an eyebrow in annoyance, while Fuyuki just looked at the girl in silence, "Who is that?"

"I'm sorry! I guess we must have met each other before, but I really can't remember it!" Fuyuki said, bowing to the girl, in standing in front of them, who just grit her teeth in annoyance. However, soon her eyes lighted up and she smiled, crossing her arms with a smirk.

"Does Sashy bring anything to mind?"

"Sashy…? Wait…!" Fuyuki's eyes lighted up, while Momoka put a thing on her cheek.

"Sashy…? Wasn't it some kind of hoax about a surviving dinosaur in Lake Sashida?" Momoka wondered.

"Wait! You're Suzuki…? Futaba Suzuki?!"

"That's it!" The younger girl said with a smile, pointing at Fuyuki, "But, what a coincidence, right? I guess nowadays you wouldn't mistake me for a boy anymore!"

"Sorry about that!" Fuyuki scratched the back of his hair.

"I feel like I missed something here…" Momoka whispered, restraining herself but still showing a hint of annoyance as her eyebrows twitched.

"I actually went personally to investigate the Sashy rumors, a few things happened and we met there. Alisa was there too. After that, we still exchanged some messages, but she never sent any pictures of herself." Fuyuki explained, getting another a cold glance from Nishizawa when he mentioned Alisa. "So, have you joined any club yet?" Fuyuki asked Futaba, seemingly ignoring Momoka's reaction.

"I actually wanted to see this school's occult club first. You're still open, right?" She held a bright smile, holding onto one of the pamphlets.

"We'll be waiting for you in the club room after classes are over!" Fuyuki's eyes were shinning while he handled a flier to her.

Momoka sighed, with an eased smile. "No, it's fine. This is how things should be." She smiled, "By the way, Fuyuki, did you see Tamama today?"

"Huh, no, I didn't."

"I know she says that she doesn't think about joining the club for real, but it kind of feels like she's just avoiding everyone lately."

"Do you want to get her to join the club too?"

"Hm… Obviously, if she's completely against it, it'd be no good, but I think it'd be worth a try." Momoka held her hands in front of herself, showing some hesitation, "I don't think Tama enjoys their current situation as much as Keroro."

"Alright, I'll try talking with her again." Fuyuki nodded.

Tamama sighed. She was sitting alone on the security fences of school's rooftop while kicking air. "Why do I even need to come to a Pekoponian school? I was so excited when I graduated into the actual army! I'd join my idols on the frontlines! I could become a real hero! Yet, my idol turns out to be a failure and now I'm back in school? And as a Pekoponian girl too…"

"Tamae!" Juunishiro Akahoshi came out running from the room leading into the bulding, breathing heavily, but still holding a smile on his face. "I knew you'd be here!"

"Cockroach." Tamama muttered while glancing over her shoulder with annoyance.

"You know," He scratched the back of his head, looking away from her, "ever since you transferred, you've kept distance from everyone aside from the Occult duo. I'm not sure why exactly you act like this and maybe I shouldn't be so forwa-"

"Just stop." Tamama jumped from the fence back to the rooftop, holding a hand at her hip while staring at him. "There's no way a stupid Pekoponian brat would understand what I'm going through."

"Peko-what now?"

"Tama! I-I meant- I don't have to explain anything to you!" She fumed, stomping past him.

"A cute girl like you shouldn't be wasting your school life!" He shouted, just receiving an annoyed glance from her.

"I didn't ask to come here in the first place! Neither this planet nor this stupid school!" She moved her hand to shut her mouth right after noticing her other mistake. "I-I mean…!"

"She's saying senseless stuff again." Akahoshi smiled. "But, it just maker her cuter!"

"Forget it!"

"By the way," Juunishiro crossed his arms, "You don't want the newspaper club hearing all that, right?"

"EH?!" To Tamama's surprise, right beside the rooftop's entrance, there was another male student. It was Desk, the president of Kishou's Newspaper club, holding an old style black recorder while observing the scene with his usual sharp eyes and a smirk. The wind blew his dark hair and low ponytail, as if announcing his entrance in the scene.

"Stupid aliens, this time you've given up yourselves! And I've got your voice recorded right-" Before he could even finish his sentence, Juunishiro suddenly leaped to his side, swiping off the recorder from his hands.

"Oh… so, the school's tabloid thinks that Tamae is an alien?" Akahoshi mused, holding onto the small black recorder.

"You'll pay for this!" Desk yelled, retreating into the school building.

Juunishiro smiled while holding the recorder, "Take it. I didn't mean to annoy you, miss alien."

"Don't joke about that!" Tamama pouted, holding onto the recorder just to drop it. "But… thanks." She glared at the camera, when a flash of light seemed to spark on her eyes, and the camera immediately blew up, leaving Juunishiro's mouth agape. She finally smiled, just getting a raised eyebrow from her classmate.

"Is she really an alien?"

"I got here too late, but maybe this is just fine?" Fuyuki said, standing by the stairs close to the entrance to the rooftop. "Juunishiro, I guess you just saw something pretty weird, right?" Fuyuki stepped forward, scratching the back of his head nervously.

"So, the school tabloid is for real, right?" Juunishiro raised an eyebrow, smiling. "To tell the truth, I already suspected something odd was going on."

"What?!" Both Tamama and Fuyuki looked confused at him.

Juunishiro's face seemed serious, when he briefly glanced at the sky, "Last year, in a rainy day, there was an odd girl who appeared in our class and, alongside her, there was some kind of black creature. I was there and saw them going after something outside."

"Huh. That was probably… the day I met Amefurashi for the first time." Fuyuki muttered. Everything had lined up too conveniently.

"The school tabloid published some articles about how that girl was a demon and you her partner. Somehow, after reading that, I didn't take any of what I had seen very seriously. Maybe it was just a cat with thick fur or something. But… I guess it was something really special, right?"

Swiftly, Tamama rushed to the boy, blurring through the air as her fist landed into his stomach. Juunishiro shouted in pain stumbling while holding his stomach, almost falling unconscious. "Eearght?!" He barely managed to say anything as the air left his body, and he crouched on the floor.

"Wait!" Fuyuki stood in front of him, opening his arms, "What are you doing, Tamama?!"

"Tamama?" Juunishiro breathed heavily with a smile, his eyes lightening up as he stood up again.

"Fukki! We need to knock him out and drag him over to Kururu in order to erase his memories!" Tamama blabbered.

"Hey! What's up with the "Fukki" stuff?!" Seemingly instantly recovered, Akahoshi rushed past Fuyuki, staring at Tamama's face.

"What's this…?" Fuyuki muttered, staring incredulously at the boy in front of them. "That's it! I've decided already! I've got no idea about what's going on here, but that's exactly why… I'm joining the Occult Club!" He pointed a finger at Fuyuki's nose, pressing it.

"Eh?"

"Can I knock him out already?" Tamama muttered. "Actually, I don't need to ask you anyway."

"Can't we just solve this peacefully?" Fuyuki smiled putting his hands together while pleading to the annoyed girl, standing between them.

/

In front of a science classroom, with a small "Occult club" tag on the door, there were two young students, a boy and a girl. Both seemed to be first years, like Fuyuki was when he met Keroro. The boy had short brown hair, although with longer hairstrands falling on the sides of his face. He looked fit, even under the Kishou blazer, resting on the wall while expectantly looking to the sides. Beside him, there was a girl with short gray hair, barely reaching past her shoulders. Her single open eye stared warmly at the open skies through the window across the corridor. Like the boy, she also had longer hair strands falling on the sides of her face. Soon, the boy's eyes lighted up when he noticed a certain person appearing in the corridor, meanwhile, the girl beside him, in spite of not even turning her head, had a knowingly smile.

"Two, maybe three new members in a single day!" Fuyuki told Momoka excitedly while they approached the club. "I never thought Suzuki would end up studying here!" Soon their attention turned to the two students standing next to the clubroom, whose eyes seemed to instantly land on Fuyuki.

"You're… Fuyuki Hinata, right?" The boy stepped forward, showing a certain hesitation now that he finally started talking.

"Hm? Yeah. And you are…?"

"Tomosu Hinohara! I've read your articles about the occult published on the net. I'm actually a big fan!"

"Eh?"

"I joined Yontaka's Occult Club after you graduated… Joined is a weird word since I was really the only member, and there wasn't even a club room anymore. But, now, I've graduated too and moved here to Kishou. We'd like to join Kishou's Occult Club, Hinata!"

"You're from Yontaka?" Fuyuki raised an eyebrow with a smile. They shook hands, while the gray haired girl watched.

"This really won't be just my and Fuyuki's place anymore…" Momoka glanced at the club's door with a hint of sadness, but soon smiled.

"I'm Momoka Nishizawa, I used to study in Yontaka too. Welcome to the Occult Club." She said holding her hands together.

"And I'm Myou Kaneami, a fellow former Yontaka student." She still kept her right eye closed, holding a soft smile.

"Welcome, guys! After classes, we'll have big meeting with everyone!" Fuyuki said with a large grin, trying to hold back his excitement.

"That smile…" Momoka glanced at his face, before smiling herself, "Yes, it's better this way."

"So, do you believe in aliens, Tomosu?" Fuyuki wondered, with a confident smile on his face.

"Hm… It's not a matter of believing or not…" Tomosu mentioned, scratching his nose, "But, if they exist, I'd really like to meet and become friends with them!"

"They might be closer than you think, right, Hinata?" Kaneami held a knowingly smile while looking at Fuyuki, almost as if she was reading him.

"Her right eye has been closed this entire time…" Fuyuki thought, glancing at her direction for a second, but quickly moving his eyes away from her.

/

Inside a dark room in the underground of the Keroro Platoon underground headquarters, Kururu's glasses and red eyes reflected the light coming from the monitors surrounding her, while she observed one of the multiple screens spread around herself, while sitting on a large metallic armchair, her hands quickly typing through a keyboard in front of her. She sported her usual uniform, although the orange bucket cap and yellow jacket lied on the back of the chair, while she only wore the triangular white top and orange shorts. Her disheveled long blonde hair contorted into spirals around her shoulders

"Last night's reaction was the strongest dark race signal I've ever detected." Kururu thought, while a raising red line appeared on the main monitor in front of her. "And whatever it was, some kind of signal was automatically sent back to Planet Keron…"

The chair spun while Kururu's hands flew through various keyboards and her eyes scanned the changing monitor screens. "Have I seen a similar energy type before?" Various graphics overlaid the rising red line, until one of them fit almost perfectly, a rising white line.

"Angol Mois."

"Ku, ku, ku, ku, ku. Now, this is unexpectedly interesting." Kururu thought, giggling while looking at the fused lines. "So, a creature from Pekopon is somehow related to the power of the highly evolved Angol Clan, the envoys of the Will of the Cosmos..." A sudden tune from a yellow mobile phone, sitting on one of the chair's large arms quickly captured her eyes however, leaving that information behind. "Huh? It's almost time already? Getting dressed up is such a pain…"

/

The sunset had dyed the skies in orange when Fuyuki stood at the school's front gates, looking at the horizon while his joy was visible through his face.

"Fu-yu-ki!" A certain green haired girl suddenly appeared behind Fuyuki, floating on top of a small green saucer board. She placed her hands on his shoulders while spinning once, before dropping from it and wrapping her arms around Fuyuki's shoulder, while also resting her head on him. She sported the same white dress from their previous adventure, but her hair was loose, and cut short, barely reaching her shoulders. Meanwhile, a plastic looking yellow star had replaced the green ribbon tying her dress' collar.

"He-Hey, sergeant?!" Fuyuki blushed, muttering her name in a low voice, while hoping they would not get too much attention.

"I'm using the anti-barrier, so, don't worry." She said with a wink. "So, what do you think?" She released him, taking a few steps back while hiding her arms behind herself.

"Eh? You cut your hair?"

"Heh! Heh! Don't I look great?" She said with a large grin.

"Of course!"

"It's weird, but… it really made me feel like this is really me."

"Hey, lord Fuyuki, let's go on a date before returning home!" Keroro said while latching onto Fuyuki's left arm.

"Eh?! You have a girlfriend, Hinata?!" Futaba, standing just beyond the school gates, looked at the pair with surprise.

"Was she just floating? And what's that green thing floating in the air?" Tomosu wondered with excitation, standing in the sidewalk in front of the school, but leaning over the wall to look at them.

"Like I said, aliens are closer than you think." Kaneami muttered with a knowing smile.

"Oh! I remember hearing some rumors about Fuyuki's phantom girlfriend!" Juunishiro clenched his fists, standing behind the pair.

"That green idiot…" Tamama lowered her head, holding her forehead while her eyebrow twitched. "Can't you see that they're all seeing you, airhead?!"

"Eh? GERO?!" Both Keroro and Fuyuki became red as a tomato, jumping away from each other. "Bu-But my anti-barrier…!"

"It doesn't seem like it works with these guys anymore…" Tamama muttered, her eyes dodging Keroro's.

"It sounds like you messed up something!" Keroro complained at Tamama's direction.

Momoka stood near the school building's entrance, holding her hand over her heart while watching the scene developing in front of her eyes. "Did I really lose my chance with him already?"

"Do something, you stupid!" Her inner voice yelled.

"Shut up!"

The second voice suddenly became silent, while Momoka held her hands above her heart. "I feel cold…" She muttered, looking around her only to see no wind blowing.

"Momoka Nishizawa."

From the top of a commercial building near Kishou, the man with silver hair and olive skin stood, hands hidden inside pockets, while his feverish yellow eyes somehow stared right at Momoka, in spite of the distance between them. His golden eyes shone with a dark gleam. The man's blank expression in a single moment changed into a vile grin, his face stretching unnaturally, like it were pulled by an outside force, rather than moving on its own.

/

Fuyuki stood in the middle of an open grass field at night, small wooden fences and a pile of pipes separating it from the surrounding, but strangely empty streets and houses laid out around him, with the city's lights visible in the buildings in the distance. Rather than the school uniform, he sported brown pants and a long sleeved green turtleneck.

He raised his hand, opening his palm and yelling, "Amefurashi!" After a few awkward seconds of silence, nothing seemed to happen. "Maybe… Awaken, my Stand!"

"…"

"Alright, alright! Here it goes… Persona!"

But yet again, only silence followed.

"Ge, ge, ge, ge!" Hearing that giggling, Fuyuki turned around noticing a certain green haired girl in a white dress hiding behind a nearby fence, a devious smirk on her face.

"Gyah!" Fuyuki fell on the grass, his face completely red.

"Eh. I know you like the supernatural, but I didn't take you for the roleplaying type!" Keroro said with a smug smile.

"Hm-eh… I-" Fuyuki stood up, still with a reddish face, "I was attempting to call Amefurashi like in that dream. It doesn't seem to be working though. I wonder what exactly was going on…"

"Don't worry so much about it." She said with a bright smile, bringing a smile out of Fuyuki too.

"It's hard to not get a bit worried after last night. Well, and it's not even just worry." Fuyuki's eyes stared at the star above them as he leaned on the fence by Keroro's side. "My heart beats faster just thinking about the unknown. Those monsters, that man… I fear them, but at the same time, it's just… really exciting, you know?"

"I don't get that… but it's very you." The green haired girl had a feline smile, looking at the gleam on Fuyuki's eyes. She turned his back to him, moving her head sideways to glance at him.

"Hm… What's up with that expression?"

"Nyarulu! Nyaruru? Nyarl? Or something like that. It was just a codename anyway. Apparently that man was in old Keronian files… so, whatever he is -"

"He was around when a previous Keronian force came here?" Fuyuki concluded.

"Sir, yes, sir!" She replied with a playful salute, "I didn't get that much information, but if we can find and defeat him, I'd get tons of points with the higher ups! I'll be giving orders to Kururu in order to track down any suspicious movements from Pekopon's Dark Race." So, don't worry about it!

"That man… Nyarl…" Fuyuki looked at the palm of his right hand, opening and closing it. Just thinking about that man somehow sent shivers through his body. Memories of a meeting in a dark place, his glittering eyes, and terror itself emanating from him flashed through his eyes. And, yet, they were memories Fuyuki himself had never seen before.

"Amefurashi… I'm right alongside you. You don't need to fear him anymore." A small spark lit on Fuyuki's hand for a second. After a brief surprise, he smiled, looking at the starry sky above them.

/

Keroro wandered into Kururu's lab, but to her surprise only found an empty dark room. After stumbling for a few moments, she turned on the light. An array of monitors stood in front of her, alongside keyboards, cables, boards and some other assorted machinery. Everything was off, and no one seemed to be there. "Kururu isn't here?" Keroro blinked, hands on her back while her eyes went all over the room. "Not even that weird chair is here. I guess there's another floor? But I'm the leader! This kind of stuff shouldn't be secret from me!" Keroro crossed her arms with annoyance.

"Sergeant Major Kururu, come out, sir!"

The only answer was silence. After waiting for a moment, Keroro sighed. "Fine, I'll come back later." She thought while heading towards the exit.

The teeth of Kururu's giant metallic Keronian face that served as front wall for her lab raised themselves, and soon Keroro left. She briefly turned back, and stepped away from it, looking at the spectacled yellow face with an orange knit cap, resembling Kururu's old Keronian form. "If we really stay like this, I wonder if Kururu would redesign it?" The green haired girl mused with a playful grin. "It's kind of creepy, but I guess that's just how Kururu is! Gero, Gero!"

"Look, look, look..."

"Hm?" A voice humming a soft melody reached her ears. She turned around

"If you're in darkness and lost your way…" Keroro turned to her left, noticing a blonde girl humming a melody while walking towards the lab. She held a soft smile and her yellow eyes seemed to shine behind her sleek glasses. Her long blond hair had flocks wrapped around her shoulders, and large black and silver headphones covered her ears. She sported a black mini-dress that wrapped tightly around her breasts, with a sleeveless yellow vest worn over it, alongside thigh-high black socks.

"Wait." Keroro froze for a moment when she finally recognized who that person was. "Kururu?!"

The soft smile of the girl vanished while her eyes curiously ran towards Keroro. Soon, Kururu's usual dark grin was drawn by her face.

"You looked cute for a moment…" The green haired girl muttered. Kururu confidently pointed to herself, while raising an eyebrow.

"For a moment? I am cute."

"No, with that attitude you definitely aren't, sir." Keroro thought. "Wait. Where did you even go? And why are you dressed like this?!"

"Private matters." Kururu smirked, her hands on her back.

"Did your eyes change color?" Keroro scratched the back of her head. "Anyway, there's something more important right now, sir!"

"So, you'll finally report what happened yesterday?" The sergeant major wondered without a hint of surprise to Keroro's annoyance.

"Sir, yes, sir." Keroro saluted her, although soon her dark eyes dodged Kururu's. She twiddled her fingers, looking at the gray metallic floor bellow them. "Hm… Besides that… any progress on that other thing?"

"Bringing us back to how we were before? Ku, ku, ku…" Kururu leaned towards Keroro, their faces almost touching, while she grinned. "Would you even want that at this point? Can you really say that you don't enjoy your current life?"

"It's not about that, sir!" Keroro held onto Kururu's shoulders, pushing her away with an annoyed look. "We got away with it last time, but who knows if some other higher up will attempt to get us throw out for this. And there's also that side effect that almost killed me yesterday!"

"That's nothing to worry about anymore at least." Kururu winked, "See this yellow eye?"

"Thinking about it, wasn't it red before?"

/

/Chapter's notes/

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Suzuki Futaba is a one shot character from an episode of Keroro Gunsou's 5th season, while Kaneami and Tomosu appear in the flash anime shorts and later volumes of the manga. They're all older here, just like the main cast, due to the 2 years timeskip added by this story.