Disclaimer: FLCL and all characters involved within are not mine but property of Gainax studios. Any original characters/places/ideas are all mine however.

Author's Note: I liked writing this chapter, but noticeable spent more time on Amaro and the IIB then the actual robot, but oh well, I'll work balancing that sutff out next time. Also, thank you everyone for your great reviews.

" Come on Men, let's move, move, MOVE!" Amaro called from a megaphone from his jeep, which was speeding at well over ninety miles per hour. Behind him ran nearly half of all the agents in the IIB, stumbling over each other and breathing hard as they tried to keep up with the speeding jeep.

" Wouldn't it be easier if we gave them jeeps to travel in to, sir?" Kitsurubami asked over her shoulder, taking her eyes of the road momentarily to shoot a questioning glance at Amaro.

" A valid suggestion, but we kill two birds with one stone here. You see, the agents have been getting rather chunky around the waist lately and need the exercise." Amaro said, almost arrogantly, as his second in command had failed to see the obvious benefits of his plans. To further the effect he adjusted his sunglasses with his index finger, sure that they glinted in a super cool adult way to show his suaveness and intellect. Kitsurubami just rolled her eyes at him, typical Amaro, he was ALWAYS compensating for something. After seeing how small a guitar Haruko had taken from his head five years ago, she was pretty sure what it was.

"What's the other bird then, Commander Amaro?" she asked Amaro, still glancing over her shoulder and not paying any attention as the jeep popped onto the sidewalk, running over Kamon who had finally found enough strength to get to his feet. Needless to say, he went flying into the air, landing with a crash in a nearby dumpster.

" Uh…Well…that is…Lieutenant Kitsurubami, your orders are to drive, not ask questions! " Amaro replied, somewhat flustered, his big bushy eyebrows twitching in agitation, finally going back to yelling "encouragement" to the IIB agents through a megaphone.

"You call that RUNNING!? My Grandmother can run faster than that and she has only one leg AND is DEAD!" Amaro screamed into the megaphone, standing up in the back of the army-type jeep. Unfortunately, Kitsurubami hit a pothole at that exact moment, sending Amaro tumbling out of the jeep and onto the road, now forcing him to keep up with the fleeing vehicle. He could always stop running, but now the agents were definitely looked ticked enough to kill their commanding officer, enough incentive to keep Amaro at the head of the pack.

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" Haruko, exactly WHAT do you expect to come out of my head this time?!" Naota yelled in question, chasing after the frolicking Haruko in an attempt to choke the life from her.

" I told you Taaaaa-kun, I don't know! But telling by the length of those things on your head, you were DEFINTIELY happy to see me!" Haruko said, stopping and turning, pouncing on Ta-kun and begging to measure the exact length, width, and height of the horns, despite Naota's best attempts to swat her away.

"Would you knock that stuff off!" Naota yelled again, making various attempts to scramble out of Haruko's strong grasp as she wriggled around Naota, squashing him in hugs or prodding and pinching him.

"Only on ONE condition!" Haruko said, finally stopping and standing in front of Naota, grasping her bass behind her back.

" And what's that?" Naota asked suspiciously, taking a quick step back from Haruko. He was preparing to spring backwards as if she was a hungry crocodile, about to snap his hand off.

" Tell me you love me again!" Haruko said, her grin becoming even bigger, if that was even possible, even leaning forward slightly to hear Naota's forthcoming response.

"I-uh…well…I…y'see" Naota fumbled for words. He was tempted to tell her that he no longer had feelings for her anymore and frankly she should just buzz off for all he cared, but he would care if she left again. And, to be frank, he wasn't sure about his feelings for Haruko in the least.

" That…won't…BE NECESSARY!" a loud voiced called out as an army jeep with Kitsurubami driving screeched to a halt in front of the duo. Naota looked up in blank surprise as while Haruko's face seemed to skewer up in that fine line between insanity and rage, or both.

" I won't let you cause the same trouble you did five years ago, Haruhara Haruko!" Amaro said between huffing and puffing, his eyebrows twitching nervously, as he finally caught up to the jeep, whipping out two steel polished pistols. As if on cue, all of his agents slid up next to and behind him, making a sort of ridiculous pose that Amaro was so fond of.

" Do I gotta kick your ass again you primitive monkey!?" Haruko screamed angrily, spinning her bass up and around in front of her and cocking it like a shotgun. Naota stared dumbly with a blank expression, standing right in between the two adversaries.

" I told you that's very discriminatory remarks!" Amaro called back, ordering his men with a motion of his hand to start blasting away at Haruko, which they did in one big blast. Uzis, shotguns, semi-autos, grenade launchers, rocket launchers, military machine guns, and pistols all went off in one ear-splitting, mind-numbing explosion of bullet sprays, all aimed at Haruko.

" YOU'RE USING OLD TACTICS YOU IDIOT!" Haruko remarked, nimbly jumping aside each and every bullet, spinning about and pumping the neck of her shotgun, cocking and firing huge blasts from the top of her Rickenbacker bass, blowing away large sections of his agents.

Several agents began to charge Haruko. One jumped up into the air, firing madly at the alien woman with his uzis. Haruko rolled forward, spun around on her knee and blasted the agent right out of the air. In one snapping back flip she pushed off, hard, against an approaching agent behind her and propelled herself, firing wildly, straight into a group of firing agents, a look of insane rage painted on her face.

Haruko's charging form hit the main group of agents with such a blast that a huge cloud of dust and dirt shot straight up. When the smoke cleared, Haruko stood victoriously on top of a pile of very injured and groaning mass of IIB agents. After a moment she turned to look at Amaro who still sat in his completely moronic pose, holding his dual pistols across him, his glasses glinting. The only thing that betrayed his absolute incredulousness at the situation was a nervous twitching of his caterpillar eyebrows and a sweat bead that slowly rolled down his face.

" Don't worry commander, I got her!" Kitsurubami said, jumping onto a rotating machine gun turret that expanded out of the back of the jeep. Slapping a professional soldier's helmet on, she lined up her sights and started ripping up the earth and the forest around them as she fired wildly.

During this time Naota had taken cover under a nearby bush, prepared to wait out this nonsense that Amaro had decided to create over a little bit of a hurt pride. Naota wasn't sure how many times Haruko had to humiliate him before he gave up constantly trying to beat Haruko with just brute force and a seemingly endless supply of generic IIB agents.

Haruko danced around the bullets just as she had earlier, swinging her base around and smashing the side of the jeep, sending it flying wildly, end over end, up into the air and crashing somewhere deep in the forest. Kitsurubami was seen jumping from the jeep, a small figure floating down on a parachute marking her position. Haruko, not ready to let her get off so easy, lined up her guitar/shotgun and blasted at the parachute. Seconds later, the parachute deflated and the figure dropped into the forest.

Haruko turned back around to face Amaro, who finally stood up straight. Without words, he flung himself to his left, firing his dual pistols like crazy at Haruko, who mimicked his movements and likewise firing her shotgun. Both landed and rolled, then hopping over an injured IIB agent. Amaro ducked down and rolled again, firing the rest of the clip from each of his pistols. Not losing his cool (even though his heart was beating like a rabbit's), Amaro did something entirely unexpected, he charged Haruko. Amaro snapped a dropkick and miraculously knocked the bass out of Haruko's hands. Haruko, not to be outdone, slipped on a pair of smooth, black glasses, and jumping back, staring Amaro down.

"You will regret that, Mr. Monkey-scum" Haruko remarked, then bring her teeth and jumping forward, going through various martial art kicks and punches. Amaro, still looking just as cool as ever with his slick sunglasses, parried Haruko's attacks and countered with some of his own, unsuccessfully.

Amaro quick turned around, running towards a random tree. Haruko followed suit until Amaro quickly jumped up against the tree trunk and flipped and propelled himself over Haruko, landing softly behind her. Haruko ducked the hook kick that followed soon after, turning about and attempting to sweep kick the IIB Commander, who jumped over the outstretched leg. Amaro then went to make a devastating double punch, but faster alien woman quickly trapped his arms under her armpits, her hands resting on the upper part of his biceps, bringing the two extremely close. Haruko leaned in, almost as if she was going to plant one on Amaro, which made the IIB commander blush profusely and begin to pucker up himself.

"Not on your life you dweeb!" Haruko grinned savagely and disengaged herself and delivered a bone crunching uppercut right into Amaro's jaw, sending him flying in the air and into the general part of the forest where Kitsurubami had landed. In fact, he landed right on top of her with a loud "UMPH".

Naota hesitantly popped out of the bushes, sticking his hands in his pockets and looking at the mess. Haruko wiped her forehead with the back of her hand, turning around to grin at Naota.

"My Hero!" Haruko remarked in giddiness, running over to Naota and jumping right into his arms, which weren't exactly waiting for her. Naota nearly fell over from the sudden impact and it took every ounce of gracefulness that he could muster to stay balanced.

" Whaddya mean 'Hero'? I hid the entire ti-MFFFGGH!" Naota never finished as Haruko predictably forced herself on him again, kissing him rather deeply, putting a hand behind his head to stop him from pulling away, as he always did. After long moments of trapping Naota in the extremely passionate kiss, Naota finally began to turn an unhealthy shade of blue, dropping Haruko right on her bottom. Before he could even yell at her, however, a sudden shockwave of pain shooting through Naota's head sent him reeling.

Another red hot burst sent Naota stumbling backwards against a tree. The pain seemed to stop momentarily, the teen breathing a sigh of relief, and then suddenly the three long spikes began to burst out like grappling hooks from his head. Naota's eyes went blank as the long spikes finally disconnected from Naota's head and smashed together, suddenly expanding into a thirty foot tall monster of a robot.

The robot itself stood thirty feet tall, shiny chrome metal covered a somewhat deformed body, with the 'face' (just two huge eyes, really) sitting at the very center of the robot's chest. The arms of the robot was a large, glowing, chainsaw for one arm, and a huge grenade launcher for the other. Two massive wheels acted as the colossus robot's legs.

The robot suddenly rose into the air on two great fiery arcs that burst from the boosters on its back, taking Naota with it, hanging dangerously close to the chainsaw arm. A sudden, bright burst flew from the two 'eyes' of the robot, instantly torching anything it touched. The robot also, as unsuccessfully as the eyebeams, shot at Haruko with it's massive shotgun arm.

" Ha! That thing isn't that big at all! You losing your touch Ta-kun?" Haruko grinned, running towards the massive robot and jumping in the air, but not with enough height to smack the robot with her bass, but just enough to land on the incoming Canti, who seemingly appeared of nowhere. Haruko, landing smoothly on Canti's back, turning him around and riding him like a surfboard toward the massive creature.

Naota hung on for dear-life as the fast approaching Haruko, in one fluid movement, jumped from the flying Canti, winding up her swing, and finally smashing the biggest eye of the robot, smashing it into pieces, then floating back down to the back of Canti again. The robot that had emerged from Naota's head began to swing wildly at Haruko with its glowing chainsaw, and firing almost a continuous stream of instant inferno starting laser fire from its remaining eye, always missing. Needless to say, the laser blasts themselves began to set the entire forest aflame, a huge smoke cloud beginning to rise above it.

By this time, Canti had turned about and brought Haruko in, even faster. Haruko brought her bass back and then brought it forward with all her might, smashing it against the deformed robot. A loud, deep bass chord filled the air as the bass reverberated against the robot's body for a moment, before the robot itself crumbled almost into nothing, Naota landing on Canti and blacking out.

The fragments of the robot didn't float to the ground but, instead, raced and slammed together, turning into a white ball of flame, shooting high into the sky and exploding visibly deep in space mere seconds later. Haruko looked up and grinned, taking note of exactly where the white ball of flame had exploded.

"One piece down…." Haruko muttered, then stamped on Canti's back, "Take us home, Mr. Canti" Haruko ordered, the grin still plastered onto her face which eased into a soft smile as she looked down at the unconscious form of Naota.

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Deep in Space, somewhere between Earth and Mars

A long, abysmal rip seemed to crack just slightly right in the very fabric of space, a glowing aura of yellow pulsed and danced quietly within. The spot was exactly where the white ball of flame had exploded.