A/N: Answers...Answers...Answers...here we go!
Skydancer1: grins Hope you like this chapter!
Jen Wit 1 N: Wahoo! squeezes little Roose plushie Mass kawaii-ness! Yay! I know I'm evil…BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA-it's great. I like to threaten people with my scythe that I stole from Duo too. It's rather interesting how they react. Teehee!
Dennisud: I think this chapter sorta rushes things and I admit, it is most definitely not my best one. I'm going to re-do it…lol, I just wanted to get it up before Lalita goes to Prep School, sorta like a good-bye present. It will be re-written. SIGH Anyways, thanks a bunch!
Erica: I agree with you, time is VERY confusing. You can spend the rest of your life thinking of it. Quite mind-boggling, ne? I admit that Zero and Hiead are a bit OOC in this fic, as are a lot of the characters. This is mainly because I have not done extensive research (it's summer, come on!) on the series and I don't really know the characters as well as I should. I started writing this fic out of randomness-I had a dream about it and decided to write it out-so a lot of things aren't going to be right. sweatdrop Sorry!
Aurani: Same as my explanation for Erica on why I don't know a lot of things. I'm going to really have to work on my tense changes, ne? School starts in a week and I have English first block. HELP! Eh he….I didn't know that funerals were on GIS…I will change that. SORRY! I didn't know that Hiead was German either…I really need to do more research. Terribly sorry. If I ever do another fic I PROMISE PROMISE PROMISE that I will try to have everyone more IC and stuff like that. I think I'm going to continue this fic as OOC because I can't really change it. I don't really know how to make people mean…I'm sorry…I just really don't know how! Anyway, thanks again-I'll try to work on the tense thing.
GoldenWings: ha! This is before school starts, or at least, over here! Hope you like this chapter!
SteveJester: My e-mail died AGAIN This time I'm not too sure what went wrong. I'll get it to you asap through another sn, if possible. My brother's so protective of his…grumbles Anyway, you are the BEST beta reader ever! Yay!
Lalita: Lol! I dunno…maybe Hiead will! Yes, I'm taking forever, but I am updating. Hehe…I hate homework. Hey, I rushed this chapter just for you! Before you go to Prep-School. Good luck! You'll do great! I finished this in the wee hours of the morning, you know, which is probably why I need to re-do this. Haha!
Amy14: I did!
Kiki: Lucky! I wanna go to California! No fair! Lol! Thanks! Hope you like this chapter!
Maxine: I AM OBSESSING OVER YOUR IDEA! It is most definitely going somewhere in this fic. Most definitely…YOU ARE A GENIUS! That would require me to change this chapter (and I am, due to the fact that it's not that great) so keep checking back! You are the bestest! Is that even a word? Anyway…omg, I never thought of that….still obsessing THANK YOU!
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In response to the longer/shorter chapters thing: Okay, I've decided that I'm going to post a mix of both, so don't go killing me if you find a massively long chapter and then a short chapter. I'm mostly going to write on weekends and I'll try to finish one chapter per weekend-hey! I've got four AP classes and I'm soooo gonna die from lack of sleep during the week. This fic originally only has another chapter before the end, but then Maxine (the genius) suggested the most spectacular idea ever (it's hers, not mine. Let's get that straight first) which is going to make this fic a bit more interesting. YAY! Okay, no clue how many chapters there will be anymore…I'm making it up as I go! See you guys at the end of the chappie!
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Disclaimer:
Hiead: glares at Nanashi SAY IT.
Nanashi: glares back at Hiead No.
Ikhny: Come on, 'Nashi, please?
Melanie: looks up at Nanashi with cute, gigantic puppy face Please?
Nanashi: I really hate you, Mel. Good God, you could make ice melt with that thing. Fine. I don't own Megami Kouhosei. Melanie's mine, though! So is Simon! So there!
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Chapter Six: It's Hot Pink.
It all happened too fast. One second, Melanie was flying across the room about to go out the hole and the next second, she was flat on the floor, sitting on her bum, watching with widened eyes as something blocked that hole.
"Hiead! What in bloody blazes are you doing! GET BACK HERE!"
"I would, Enna, if you would be so kind as to find me a piece of metal larger than a Pro-Ing."
"Why would you need that?"
Hiead glared at Zero, whose head popped up on his screen. "Unless you haven't noticed, there is a gigantic hole on GOA which just so happens to be the control room. Get it?"
Zero seethed. "Why do you get to play hero? Why couldn't you tell Clay to block it? We don't NEED him." A tiny voice could be heard after Zero spoke. "HEY!" it said. Yep, it was Clay, pushing up his glasses and firing missiles at the same time. "I resent that!"
Hiead smirked as he prepared his defenses; however, he was a second too late. Just as he turned to the screen to make sure his charts were set, a gigantic fireball was smack in front of his face. The silver-haired teen screwed his eyes shut, braced himself for impact and, not to mention, intense heat and perhaps death.
Five...
Four...
Three...
Two...
One...
One?
The big boom never came. Cautiously, he opened one eye and then the other. There was a gigantic shield around him made of sparkling electricity. He traced its source to another Pro-Ing floating nearby. "Hey, Dad! What were you trying to do, get your ass fried?" Simon received the customary glare and he laughed. "Sure, Dad. You're welcome." Hiead let out a growl of annoyance. As he finished setting his defenses. Everything cleared and all he saw was the battlefield. Small explosions were seen miles away. Good. That means VICTIM was miles away too.
"Sir?" came a timid voice over the communication device. Great. All he needed now was Allecto's pity. He rolled his eyes.
"What."
"There's something being picked up on the radar, sir, but I don't see anything."
Hiead scanned the area himself and saw nothing. "Invisibility," he whispered.
"What?"
"Invisible VICTIM!" screamed Azuma, who popped up out of no where. "Beam cannons, now!"
Immediately, the weapon appeared and Hiead armed himself. He closed his eyes, thus allowing his other senses to pick up. His sight would not be necessary for an invisible VICTIM.
He felt a slight breeze going from his left to his right. He fired to his right. A squawk of agony was heard. Hiead shot again toward the area where the sound was. Another squawk, now beginning to go further away. A third fireball was shot, and a loud, blood-curling squawk was heard and then silence. Hiead opened his eyes and saw the VICTIM floating. Its invisibility had worn off after the second shot and the third one killed it.
"Nothing else on the radar, sir. The other VICTIM seem to be retreating, sensei."
"Good, Ikhny. Everyone, on your guard!"
Pure silence enveloped the battlefield. According to the radars, VICTIM was going back to its nest.
"Track them." commanded Azuma. Kizna immediately increased the distance for the radar.
"Northeast, sir. Just passed Colony XC198316."
"Not attacking?"
"Not attacking, sir."
"Keep them in check. I want all Pro-Ings back in the station. MOVE IT! Someone go grab Gner in a space pod. I want GOA and the surrounding area under surveillance. There will be no more infiltrations, understand?"
"Yes, sir!" chorused all the people in that room. They immediately set about their task. The staff began fiddling with buttons to make stronger defenses while the repairers brought in the Pro-Ings and began to fix them. The pilots themselves were hauled off into the hospital wing to be checked and rechecked for any sort of injury. Melanie wandered around looking for Simon. She had a dream the night before, the same nightmare that had plagued her since her arrival. And for some odd reason, whether it be coincidence or fate, it came true.
She wandered around the halls of GOA toward a lot of noises. Screams could be heard and then some chuckling. Her crimson eyes peered around the corner, wide and alert. She saw Dr. Rill setting someone's bones. That someone just happened to be her older brother that she loved and admired.
"AH! What are you doing?" asked Melanie, frantically as she rushed to her brother's side."
"Oh, it's alright, dearie. He's just had a...nasty sprain."
"NASTY SPRAIN MY A-er-BEHIND! YOU WERE TWISTING IT THE WRONG WAY!"
"Oh, was I? I'm sorry." Dr. Rill fluttered her eyelashes as she reached out with both arms. "Let me fix it." With a single pop, the bone was back where it should be and Simon's poor arm was bandaged up and placed in a cast.
"There you go! All fixed and good as new!"
Simon stared in horror at the cast.
"IT'S PINK!"
Melanie glanced up at him, confused.
"No, it's not."
"...Mel, do you have something wrong with your eyes?"
"No, I don't."
"Then I'm sure you can see that this is pink."
"It's hot pink."
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A/N: hehe, like the little interlude with Simon and Melanie? giggles Anyway, back to Hiead and Ikhny.
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Zero was the one who actually went in the space pod to get Hiead (everyone else was too scared to even approach him). He worked quickly, untangling the silver-haired teen from random wires that popped up from the controls. The Pro-Ing was slowly being sucked into the control room and if they didn't do anything about it soon, a huge vacuum would form and everything would get sucked out. Hiead clambered into the pod and the two went back to the landing station.
"So what, exactly, inspired you to nearly get yourself killed," asked Zero, nonchalantly. Hiead glared at him and said nothing. The brown-haired boy quickly docked the pod and climbed out, tossing his helmet on the seat as he went to Kizna, who was waiting for them. He planted a kiss on her forehead and the two of them strolled down to the medical wing, leaving Hiead standing on the platform alone.
"Sir?"
Hiead glared at the voice that just addressed him. "What."
"Sir, I..uh..."
"Well, spit it out! I don't have all day."
"Sir, I...I was wondering if you were all right..."
Hiead glanced at her cooly. "That was what you were stuttering about? Please, don't waste my time." He brushed her off and stalked out of the room, heading to the medical wing. Ikhny stood by herself on the platform, which was completely devoid of any life except herself.
"Actually," she whispered to herself, "I was going to tell you that I lo-... Rather stupid, wasn't that, Allecto. Like he would ever feel the same...and yet...I don't know. It's like he's half way decent one second and then the bastard that we all know and hate the next." More tears slipped down her cheeks. "Why did it have to be him?"
"Hey , Mum."
Sad brown eyes met a set of concerned brown eyes. She felt a pair of strong arms wrap themselves around her and she buried her head into her son's shoulder. "I don't know what to do anymore, Simon. I...I don't think you'll ever happen. Or Melanie. It's impossible."
Simon sighed and kissed his mother's temple. "Aw...come on, Mum. He's not THAT bad, I mean, from where I come from, you take every chance you get alone with him to snog him. There HAS to be a reason for that, you know."
Ikhny let out a small giggle and Simon turned her loose.
"So, you ready to knock some sense into Dad's head? Preferably with a baseball bat. That's what my girlfriend back home did to me and it worked pretty well. Good God, my head was sore for DAYS and I couldn't stop thinking about her. Sometimes I wonder whether it was because I really loved her or the fact that she hit me with my own favorite baseball bat. Remind me to ask her that when I get back..."
Simon's teenage mother took a step back and looked at her son. Her future son. His cuts and bruises had been tended to. She glanced down at his arm.
"Pink?" she asked, raising an eyebrow at his cast.
"Actually, Mum, it's hot pink."
"Daddy, Daddy, Daddy, Daddy, Daaaaa-ddyyyyy!"
"What." Hiead glared at the little girl who was bouncing around his feet.
"Slow down, please? You walk too fast."
"You walk too slow."
"DA-AD! Please?"
"I don't have time for this." He walked faster leaving Melanie farther behind. Only then did he hear sobbing noises. He stopped and looked behind him and saw Melanie sitting on the floor, crying. "Daddy doesn't love me. He doesn't love me anymore."
x Flashback x
"Mother never loved me, did she, Mel?"
His sister gave him a small smile and hugged him reassuringly. "No, love, but we do. We'll always love you."
"But Mother hates me."
She hates me...
Hates me...
x end flashback x
Hiead didn't know what came over him, but he walked back to where his future daughter sat and picked her up. "Come on, slowpoke. I don't have time for this." Melanie cried into his shirt and clutched him tightly, never wanting to let go.
"You aren't always this mean, Daddy. You're real nice in the future. That's where I'm from."
"Oh, really? I highly doubt that."
"But you're ALWAYS kissing Mommy. Always! Even when you think me and Si aren't looking!"
Hiead raised an eyebrow. "Look, kid. This dream has to end right here, right now. Allecto and I are never getting married, never having kids, and you will not exist. Ever. Do I make myself clear?"
Melanie's bottom lip started to tremble as she looked up to her future father with a dejected look. Suddenly, out of the blue, she smiled.
"Hey, Daddy, you might want to..."
THWAP!
CRASH.
"Oww..."
Hiead was sprawled on the floor with Ikhny standing above him with the heaviest textbook she owned. Melanie was laughing hysterically and Simon merely shrugged. "Couldn't find a baseball bat, Mel. I don't think Dad own one. He lives one sad, deprived life..."
"What the hell was that?" grumbled Hiead as he picked himself up off the floor, rubbing his head gingerly.
"A wake up call. You really think that everyone hates you? Well, look around you. You have to be blind. Your children adore you; Zero actually CARES whether you live or die; Azuma practically lives to make sure you become a pilot; Kizna and the rest of the girls stay away from you so they won't piss you off; and I..."
"And you what, Allecto."
"I...I think I love you."
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A/N: Did that move too fast? I don't know. Well, the next chapter's the last one, and I am itching to do a sequel in Simon's time to explain what in the world happened to that Melanie... what do you guys think? Should I just make that the epilogue instead? It wouldn't be a very long sequel, but it'd answer a couple million questions...hmm...And there were originally two ways to end this fic (Great idea, Maxine! I love it!) So I was thinking about posting like, alternate chapters (does that make any sense at all?) To the ones I already have. These alternate chapters are going to draw the story line out longer (I am currently obsessing over your idea, Maxine...it is most definitely coming up somewhere...ooh! I know! grins evilly) and maybe make it more interesting. This chapter was written to let you guys know I'm not dead...yet. LOL. I'll probably edit it majorly and change it A LOT (still obsessing over your idea) so read this one and them read it again when I update it! Haha! Anyway, I hoped you liked this chapter. I rushed it just for you, Lalita! Good luck in Prep School!