Mark: This chapter has um, well, how should I put this, ANGST, and still a little bit of humor.
Jon: Mark might write another FLCL fic, but probably not for a while.
Mark: OK, here it is, after, well long last for me so I can put this to rest. The last chapter of FLCL Returns! Thanks to all of those who review.
Jon: So here it is.
FINALE! Takun VS Naota
In the Nandaba Bakery slash Household...
Naota sat on his bunk, strumming on Valom's Talon, listening to random stations on the radio. He was smoking cardboard from a bong made from a Sprite bottle and two silly straws.
'She left again, I thought she'd stay if I had the guitar.'
The radio blared, unnoticed to Naota, a very appropriate song, The Girl All The Bad Guys Want. He couldn't stop thinking about how he'd lost her again. It had taken it's toll on others as well, he had been treating his friends like shit, his father too. Tears started to well in his eyes.
"DAMMIT!" Naota screamed as he slammed the guitar on his nearby desk, accidentally crushing a picture of Haruko and him, with Kamon in the background trying to molest Haruko. He just broke down and cried on the floor.
On the outskirts of town...
"Back in this horrid place."
"Listen Xocio, we've found Atomsk's Talon, we need you to get it from this boy Nandaba Naota, Rahura and Valom will be guarding him."
"So that's why you broke me out of IIB prison, alright, but what do I get in return."
"Your freedom."
Xocio smiled, grabbed his chainsaw, and marched off in the direction of the Nandaba residence.
Meanwhile, the brokenhearted Ninamori was in front of the Nandaba house...
'Well, here goes.' She thought as she knocked quietly on the door.
Kamon answered, "Oh, hello Ninamori." Kamon was tired, he hadn't slept in nights, at first it had been because Haruko had left, then when he had seen what it had done to Naota, he had gone insomniac.
Up in Naota's room...
"Is Naota home?"
"Yes, but he's in his room and whenever I call, he doesn't come down."
Naota had cried himself to sleep but had been awoken by Ninamori's knock on the door, and was now listening to the conversation his father and the girl whose heart he stole were having. "Too bad I already had my heart stolen, or I'd open up to her." He whispered to himself.
"I see."
"Would you like to come in and I'll see if I can't get him to come down."
"Yes thank you."
Naota took quick action.
Kamon knocked on the door, "Naota?" Not hearing a response he opened the door to find the lights out and Naota 'asleep' on the bed. Both knew that it was just an excuse for Naota not to talk, and they both knew that the other knew as well. Kamon just closed the door and went downstairs and told Ninamori that he must have fallen asleep. Ninamori,
cried.
'GAH, YOUR SUCH A PIECE OF SHIT NAOTA! YOU KNOW YOU HAVE FEELINGS FOR HER!'
'Yes, but the ones I have for Haruko are so much stronger, that there's no comparing the two.'
'YOU SHOULD MARCH DOWN THOSE STAIRS AND KISS NINAMORI!'
'But Haruko might come back.'
'HARUKO MIRACULOUSLY CAME BACK ONCE, SHE WON'T COME BACK AGAIN!'
'But I have the Talon, she wants that power.'
'OBVIOUSLY SHE DOESN'T WANT IT THAT BAD, SHE LEFT AGAIN DIDN'T SHE?'
"she was crying..."
'AND SO IS NINAMORI!'
Naota continued to argue with himself for some time until he couldn't hear anything because his thoughts were so loud. Until on large screech broke through.
"NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! HEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLP MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"
Naota sat up instantly hear Ninamori's cry.
"Silence girl. Now where is your lover?"
Naota recognized the voice. His eyes narrowed to slits in the darkness of his room, his hand flew to the Talon. He then, in his boxers, marched downstairs into the kitchen, to face the Scourge of the Cosmos.
"How about you old man? WHERE IS HE?"
Kamon stared into the orbs of malevolence staring down at him without fear, and spat out at the monster, "I would die before I betray my son."
Xocio laughed as he said, "So be it!" He revved up his chainsaw and sliced through Kamon just as Naota came busting into the kitchen. Xocio looked up, "Ah, there you are. See what your hiding has done?"
Naota looked at his fathers dieing body, and at Ninamori's unmoving corpse. An anger unlike any other he had ever experienced before welled up inside him, his animalistic side seemed to grow by leaps and bounds and all his teeth seemed to sharpen and his pupils to become vertical slits. He grasped the Talon tightly and it began to pulsate.
When Naota spoke, his voice was an odd mixture of treble and bass mixed with an odd growl, "I am going to eat your heart while it is still beating in the sad remains of your dieing corpse."
The threat sent death cold shivers through every nerve of Xocio's alien body. His every instinct told him to run for his life, and his own survival was his whole world. However, his brain knew that it was either kill this boy and live free forever, or run and survive in a dark prison of solitude for all eternity. So he summoned all his will and charged the boy. Both fighters knew there was no need for words or battle cries, this was a cold dark fight for survival, both lacking any dignity or feelings of remorse for anything they could imagine. The prize was on each of their minds as they flew and fought in the raining night skies above the house. To Xocio the prize was to get out alive, to Naota the prize was to kill Xocio, no matter what happened to him, this gave Naota the reckless abandon needed to use Atomsk's Talon to it's full power.
After a few short minutes both our contenders where on their last legs, bleed profusely, if either one made another charge, both would die. Knowing this, Naota looked up with determination, and knowing this, Xocio looked up with the horror and the torture knowing his life was doomed, the only thing that had mattered to him in his whole being was about to be destroyed, and he realized that going to prison would have been the better decision. Naota ran deftly to his doom, and victory.
"Stop Naota!"
Naota halted with eyes wide and tears now streaming down his face. He was embraced bye the women he loved.
Ninamori awoke to the sounds of the battle raging in the sky, she watched in horror as the demonic Naota fought the beast, who now seemed less evil than the man she loved. She watched in horror up until the final charge of Naota, and then she saw her stop him, then embrace him, and then he embrace her back. She cried, and then passed out.
"Haruko why'd you call me Naota."
"You are no longer a boy Naota, you have felt the greatest sorrow of losing the thing that matters most to you, and then after that, losing things you then realize where more important all along. You were all alone, and willing to die to avenge your sorrow, DON'T EVER DO THAT AGAIN NAOTA! I WON'T LET YOU DO THAT AGAIN!"
"Please, don't call me Naota.."
"Make up your goddamn mind already!"
The two sat down in the rain and enjoyed eachothers embrace as Xocio took the time to recuperate.
Haruko noticed this and ran off with Naota in her arms, she whistled for P! and she flew off with him, her rickenbacker and the doubleneck and the Talon, to the center of town.
"Haruko, why'd you come back?"
"Couldn't leave ya hanging."
"WHY ARE YOU TAKING OFF YOUR CLOTHES THERE ARE PEOPLE AROUND HERE YOU KNOW!"
"There's the boy we all know and love."
The two made love right there in the middle of the street. People walked by wide-eyed and did that dissapearing thing with the pop noise.
Afterwards Naota sat up, completely healed.
"Why did having sex with you heal all my wounds?"
"Why wouldn't it? Now quick you see that purple light?" she pointed to a purple light a few hundred yards away.
"Yea."
"There is the leader of Medical Mechanica. Go there and fight him while I take on Xocio."
"You can't beat him alone."
"She won't be."
Naota turned around to see Valom, but that's not who he saw. Instead he saw Crobdan, Haruna, Ryoko, Akiyoshi, Momo, Annabelle and all the other odds and ends that are related to Haruko, even those that are impossible because Naota's only 14 right now, and hasn't had a child yet.
"We'll help her fight!"
"See NaottttttttttTakun, I'm in good hands."
"You almost called me Naota that time."
"I don't know what the fuck your talking about." And then he ran off towards the purple light, somehow he had a pair of baggy jeans on now, along with his boxers and Atomsk's Talon.
The Haruhara's turned around to face the chainsaw wielding Xocio Onutaku. They were about to fight, when one more person entered the fray.
"Hey cous."
"Valom, you can help me fight these pathetic Haruharas."
"No can do."
"You know I'm never gonna have sex with you Valom."
Valom smiled at Haruko's comment. "Yea I know, your gonna end up with Naota, he's real young but, he'll grow I guess. But I'm taking my cousin on, by myself."
"Don't be stupid Valom, no need to be heroic, let us help you."
"No, he'll kill you, he won't be able to beat me."
"HE'S STRONGER THAN ME YOU DOUCHE, AND I'M THE STRONGEST ONE AGAINTS HIM!"
"Yea, but our grandmother, Ganashi Onutaku, was a Rehus Gypsy, she told us that I would be the one to vanquish Xocio." (just in case your wondering, if their dads were brothers, then they could have the same Grandma.)
The two exchanged swings of their weapons until they were nose to nose, the chainsaw against the bass, sparks flying off the two mighty weapons.
"You know Ganashi was a crazy old lune don'tcha?"
"HOW DARE you talk of our GRANDMOTHER like that! You took her life and her power, then you stole her yearn just to piss on her ashes, HAVE YOU NO HEART?"
"Tch, you know I have four, My own, My Mothers, My Fathers, and Our Grandma's!"
"YOU KILLED AUNT YASI AND UNCLE MALAN?"
"Yes, and they tasted good, dear cousin, as I'm sure yours will too!"
"Wow this is getting good, CROBDAN GO GET POPCORN!"
"Yes dear sister!"
"You are going to regret everything you've done to our family."
"And when will I? You green haired freak!"
"How about right now, you orange haired, cumguzzling, asslicking, cuntfaced, douchebag!"
A chorus rang up from the Haruharas, who were all sitting in theatre seats and munching on popcorn, "Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!"
Valom then threw Xocio backwards with a kick and he spun around and sliced off his evil cousins head, killing him instantly.
"YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAY MORE POPCORN CROBDAN!"
"Aw great, now my whole family is ordering me simultaneously."
As Valom limped back to the Haruharas, Haruko got up and gave him a kiss on the cheek for winning, Valom the proceeded to bounce around the street.
Naota walked up to the crater in the middle of the beach shore.
The purple glowing man stood up. "Hello Naota, I've been waiting for you."
"And who the Hell are you." Naota said in a quiet razor sharp voice.
The man turned around, why, I'm you of course." And indeed, it was a taller, older, purple glowing Naota.
"WHAT, HOW, WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TRYING TO PULL?"
"Nothing, I'm you Naota, your opposite, your yang, your yami, your darkside, you negative, your evi-"
"Yea, yea, I got you when you said opposite, now shut up and die."
"But how can you kill yourself Naota?"
"Simple, I'm not Naota, I'm Takun!" and then he threw the Talon at his opposites throat, killing him.
Epilog:
Haruko stayed with me until I was 18, then we immediately got married and took our honeymoon to the center of the milky way galaxy. All of the Haruharas returned to their respected stories before their creaters noticed them gone and attacked Mark for using them. Valom spent a few years as Dad's business partner, turned out he lived, then he went to Bassian and got married to a pretty young Rehus and had twenty kids, he sends us postcards every Christmas. Ninamori got over me, but we are still good friends. She started her own business, of selling gay pornography. The cover of her first magazine had the pictures she had taken their principle and his brother going at it in chapter 2. Masashi and Gaku became her assistants. Canti still serves us to this day, and Haruko finally taught him how to make Curry. Kitsurubami raised Cybami like a mother would any other child. You should have seen him on the playground at Kindergarden. Amaro repeatedly tried to capture Haruko, he gave up after the 42nd failure. He now owns that old convienent store, y'know, the one with Crystal Pepsi. Tasku is now a big baseball star for the American team, the Cardnles or something. Through some divine intervention he and Mamimi found eachother and got married. Things stopped coming out of my head, we have two kids going on three, we still have the Rickenbacker and the doubleneck, but Atomsk's Talon disappeared mysteriously one night. I never did figure out where that purple freak came from, but I guess it doesn't really matter anymore. Anyway, life is back to normal here in Mabase, nothing exciting ever happens hear, everything is ordinary, and I couldn't be happier.
Yours truly,
Takun
Jon: Mark might write another FLCL fic, but probably not for a while.
Mark: OK, here it is, after, well long last for me so I can put this to rest. The last chapter of FLCL Returns! Thanks to all of those who review.
Jon: So here it is.
FINALE! Takun VS Naota
In the Nandaba Bakery slash Household...
Naota sat on his bunk, strumming on Valom's Talon, listening to random stations on the radio. He was smoking cardboard from a bong made from a Sprite bottle and two silly straws.
'She left again, I thought she'd stay if I had the guitar.'
The radio blared, unnoticed to Naota, a very appropriate song, The Girl All The Bad Guys Want. He couldn't stop thinking about how he'd lost her again. It had taken it's toll on others as well, he had been treating his friends like shit, his father too. Tears started to well in his eyes.
"DAMMIT!" Naota screamed as he slammed the guitar on his nearby desk, accidentally crushing a picture of Haruko and him, with Kamon in the background trying to molest Haruko. He just broke down and cried on the floor.
On the outskirts of town...
"Back in this horrid place."
"Listen Xocio, we've found Atomsk's Talon, we need you to get it from this boy Nandaba Naota, Rahura and Valom will be guarding him."
"So that's why you broke me out of IIB prison, alright, but what do I get in return."
"Your freedom."
Xocio smiled, grabbed his chainsaw, and marched off in the direction of the Nandaba residence.
Meanwhile, the brokenhearted Ninamori was in front of the Nandaba house...
'Well, here goes.' She thought as she knocked quietly on the door.
Kamon answered, "Oh, hello Ninamori." Kamon was tired, he hadn't slept in nights, at first it had been because Haruko had left, then when he had seen what it had done to Naota, he had gone insomniac.
Up in Naota's room...
"Is Naota home?"
"Yes, but he's in his room and whenever I call, he doesn't come down."
Naota had cried himself to sleep but had been awoken by Ninamori's knock on the door, and was now listening to the conversation his father and the girl whose heart he stole were having. "Too bad I already had my heart stolen, or I'd open up to her." He whispered to himself.
"I see."
"Would you like to come in and I'll see if I can't get him to come down."
"Yes thank you."
Naota took quick action.
Kamon knocked on the door, "Naota?" Not hearing a response he opened the door to find the lights out and Naota 'asleep' on the bed. Both knew that it was just an excuse for Naota not to talk, and they both knew that the other knew as well. Kamon just closed the door and went downstairs and told Ninamori that he must have fallen asleep. Ninamori,
cried.
'GAH, YOUR SUCH A PIECE OF SHIT NAOTA! YOU KNOW YOU HAVE FEELINGS FOR HER!'
'Yes, but the ones I have for Haruko are so much stronger, that there's no comparing the two.'
'YOU SHOULD MARCH DOWN THOSE STAIRS AND KISS NINAMORI!'
'But Haruko might come back.'
'HARUKO MIRACULOUSLY CAME BACK ONCE, SHE WON'T COME BACK AGAIN!'
'But I have the Talon, she wants that power.'
'OBVIOUSLY SHE DOESN'T WANT IT THAT BAD, SHE LEFT AGAIN DIDN'T SHE?'
"she was crying..."
'AND SO IS NINAMORI!'
Naota continued to argue with himself for some time until he couldn't hear anything because his thoughts were so loud. Until on large screech broke through.
"NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! HEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLP MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"
Naota sat up instantly hear Ninamori's cry.
"Silence girl. Now where is your lover?"
Naota recognized the voice. His eyes narrowed to slits in the darkness of his room, his hand flew to the Talon. He then, in his boxers, marched downstairs into the kitchen, to face the Scourge of the Cosmos.
"How about you old man? WHERE IS HE?"
Kamon stared into the orbs of malevolence staring down at him without fear, and spat out at the monster, "I would die before I betray my son."
Xocio laughed as he said, "So be it!" He revved up his chainsaw and sliced through Kamon just as Naota came busting into the kitchen. Xocio looked up, "Ah, there you are. See what your hiding has done?"
Naota looked at his fathers dieing body, and at Ninamori's unmoving corpse. An anger unlike any other he had ever experienced before welled up inside him, his animalistic side seemed to grow by leaps and bounds and all his teeth seemed to sharpen and his pupils to become vertical slits. He grasped the Talon tightly and it began to pulsate.
When Naota spoke, his voice was an odd mixture of treble and bass mixed with an odd growl, "I am going to eat your heart while it is still beating in the sad remains of your dieing corpse."
The threat sent death cold shivers through every nerve of Xocio's alien body. His every instinct told him to run for his life, and his own survival was his whole world. However, his brain knew that it was either kill this boy and live free forever, or run and survive in a dark prison of solitude for all eternity. So he summoned all his will and charged the boy. Both fighters knew there was no need for words or battle cries, this was a cold dark fight for survival, both lacking any dignity or feelings of remorse for anything they could imagine. The prize was on each of their minds as they flew and fought in the raining night skies above the house. To Xocio the prize was to get out alive, to Naota the prize was to kill Xocio, no matter what happened to him, this gave Naota the reckless abandon needed to use Atomsk's Talon to it's full power.
After a few short minutes both our contenders where on their last legs, bleed profusely, if either one made another charge, both would die. Knowing this, Naota looked up with determination, and knowing this, Xocio looked up with the horror and the torture knowing his life was doomed, the only thing that had mattered to him in his whole being was about to be destroyed, and he realized that going to prison would have been the better decision. Naota ran deftly to his doom, and victory.
"Stop Naota!"
Naota halted with eyes wide and tears now streaming down his face. He was embraced bye the women he loved.
Ninamori awoke to the sounds of the battle raging in the sky, she watched in horror as the demonic Naota fought the beast, who now seemed less evil than the man she loved. She watched in horror up until the final charge of Naota, and then she saw her stop him, then embrace him, and then he embrace her back. She cried, and then passed out.
"Haruko why'd you call me Naota."
"You are no longer a boy Naota, you have felt the greatest sorrow of losing the thing that matters most to you, and then after that, losing things you then realize where more important all along. You were all alone, and willing to die to avenge your sorrow, DON'T EVER DO THAT AGAIN NAOTA! I WON'T LET YOU DO THAT AGAIN!"
"Please, don't call me Naota.."
"Make up your goddamn mind already!"
The two sat down in the rain and enjoyed eachothers embrace as Xocio took the time to recuperate.
Haruko noticed this and ran off with Naota in her arms, she whistled for P! and she flew off with him, her rickenbacker and the doubleneck and the Talon, to the center of town.
"Haruko, why'd you come back?"
"Couldn't leave ya hanging."
"WHY ARE YOU TAKING OFF YOUR CLOTHES THERE ARE PEOPLE AROUND HERE YOU KNOW!"
"There's the boy we all know and love."
The two made love right there in the middle of the street. People walked by wide-eyed and did that dissapearing thing with the pop noise.
Afterwards Naota sat up, completely healed.
"Why did having sex with you heal all my wounds?"
"Why wouldn't it? Now quick you see that purple light?" she pointed to a purple light a few hundred yards away.
"Yea."
"There is the leader of Medical Mechanica. Go there and fight him while I take on Xocio."
"You can't beat him alone."
"She won't be."
Naota turned around to see Valom, but that's not who he saw. Instead he saw Crobdan, Haruna, Ryoko, Akiyoshi, Momo, Annabelle and all the other odds and ends that are related to Haruko, even those that are impossible because Naota's only 14 right now, and hasn't had a child yet.
"We'll help her fight!"
"See NaottttttttttTakun, I'm in good hands."
"You almost called me Naota that time."
"I don't know what the fuck your talking about." And then he ran off towards the purple light, somehow he had a pair of baggy jeans on now, along with his boxers and Atomsk's Talon.
The Haruhara's turned around to face the chainsaw wielding Xocio Onutaku. They were about to fight, when one more person entered the fray.
"Hey cous."
"Valom, you can help me fight these pathetic Haruharas."
"No can do."
"You know I'm never gonna have sex with you Valom."
Valom smiled at Haruko's comment. "Yea I know, your gonna end up with Naota, he's real young but, he'll grow I guess. But I'm taking my cousin on, by myself."
"Don't be stupid Valom, no need to be heroic, let us help you."
"No, he'll kill you, he won't be able to beat me."
"HE'S STRONGER THAN ME YOU DOUCHE, AND I'M THE STRONGEST ONE AGAINTS HIM!"
"Yea, but our grandmother, Ganashi Onutaku, was a Rehus Gypsy, she told us that I would be the one to vanquish Xocio." (just in case your wondering, if their dads were brothers, then they could have the same Grandma.)
The two exchanged swings of their weapons until they were nose to nose, the chainsaw against the bass, sparks flying off the two mighty weapons.
"You know Ganashi was a crazy old lune don'tcha?"
"HOW DARE you talk of our GRANDMOTHER like that! You took her life and her power, then you stole her yearn just to piss on her ashes, HAVE YOU NO HEART?"
"Tch, you know I have four, My own, My Mothers, My Fathers, and Our Grandma's!"
"YOU KILLED AUNT YASI AND UNCLE MALAN?"
"Yes, and they tasted good, dear cousin, as I'm sure yours will too!"
"Wow this is getting good, CROBDAN GO GET POPCORN!"
"Yes dear sister!"
"You are going to regret everything you've done to our family."
"And when will I? You green haired freak!"
"How about right now, you orange haired, cumguzzling, asslicking, cuntfaced, douchebag!"
A chorus rang up from the Haruharas, who were all sitting in theatre seats and munching on popcorn, "Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!"
Valom then threw Xocio backwards with a kick and he spun around and sliced off his evil cousins head, killing him instantly.
"YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAY MORE POPCORN CROBDAN!"
"Aw great, now my whole family is ordering me simultaneously."
As Valom limped back to the Haruharas, Haruko got up and gave him a kiss on the cheek for winning, Valom the proceeded to bounce around the street.
Naota walked up to the crater in the middle of the beach shore.
The purple glowing man stood up. "Hello Naota, I've been waiting for you."
"And who the Hell are you." Naota said in a quiet razor sharp voice.
The man turned around, why, I'm you of course." And indeed, it was a taller, older, purple glowing Naota.
"WHAT, HOW, WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TRYING TO PULL?"
"Nothing, I'm you Naota, your opposite, your yang, your yami, your darkside, you negative, your evi-"
"Yea, yea, I got you when you said opposite, now shut up and die."
"But how can you kill yourself Naota?"
"Simple, I'm not Naota, I'm Takun!" and then he threw the Talon at his opposites throat, killing him.
Epilog:
Haruko stayed with me until I was 18, then we immediately got married and took our honeymoon to the center of the milky way galaxy. All of the Haruharas returned to their respected stories before their creaters noticed them gone and attacked Mark for using them. Valom spent a few years as Dad's business partner, turned out he lived, then he went to Bassian and got married to a pretty young Rehus and had twenty kids, he sends us postcards every Christmas. Ninamori got over me, but we are still good friends. She started her own business, of selling gay pornography. The cover of her first magazine had the pictures she had taken their principle and his brother going at it in chapter 2. Masashi and Gaku became her assistants. Canti still serves us to this day, and Haruko finally taught him how to make Curry. Kitsurubami raised Cybami like a mother would any other child. You should have seen him on the playground at Kindergarden. Amaro repeatedly tried to capture Haruko, he gave up after the 42nd failure. He now owns that old convienent store, y'know, the one with Crystal Pepsi. Tasku is now a big baseball star for the American team, the Cardnles or something. Through some divine intervention he and Mamimi found eachother and got married. Things stopped coming out of my head, we have two kids going on three, we still have the Rickenbacker and the doubleneck, but Atomsk's Talon disappeared mysteriously one night. I never did figure out where that purple freak came from, but I guess it doesn't really matter anymore. Anyway, life is back to normal here in Mabase, nothing exciting ever happens hear, everything is ordinary, and I couldn't be happier.
Yours truly,
Takun