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Chapter 8: Fights & Revelations
"Force, Victims at three o'clock." Carres said, looking at the screen.
"Zero, calm down!" Kizna exclaimed, as she saw Zero practically throwing himself the Victims, while destroying them "Baka, you're going to hurt yourself"
"Don't worry about me, I was waiting for this moment for years." Zero replied, and Kizna sighed.
"Erts, three Victims are coming right towards you." Rome said "And other two are coming from behind."
"Clay, what the hell are you doing?" Saki asked, as she saw her partner trying to hide from the Victims "Go fight!"
"But I don't know what to do!" Clay replied, and Saki sweatdropped.
"Use you weapons, baka!" she exclaimed, before opening her eyes wide "Clay, two Victims are coming right towards you!"
"WHAT!" the boy asked "No!"
"Go fight then, and shut up!" Saki exclaimed.
"Rioroute Vilgyna, what the hell are you doing?" Phil asked, as she saw the Pilot making the same scenes as Zero "Stop acting like an idiot and focus!"
"HAI!" the boy exclaimed, and Phil shook her head.
"Will you ever grow up?" she muttered.
While that, Ikhny tried to be as focus as she could, but the situation they were in wasn't helping.
'What if the same thing happens?' she asked, as she typed on the keyboard 'What if the same happens to my friends? To Hiead?'
"#87, one Victim behind you." Ikhny said, before returning to her thoughts.
'Will I be strong enough to go through the same thing, again? Will I be able to stay the same person? I know I changed, but I changed to protect myself. But...will I be able to protect myself if I go through the same thing, again?'
"#87, a group of Victims at nine o'clock."
Suddenly a scream was heard, and everyone froze in an attempt to know who had been hurt.
"Yoshino, return to G.O.A!" Una exclaimed, "I need to fix that arm!"
"No, I can fight!" the boy refused.
"Don't be an idiot and come back!" Una answered back "How do you want to help, if your arm is in that condition?"
Everyone breathed relieved, not only because it hadn't been their partners the ones who had been hurt, but also because Yoshino was all right.
"Yamagi, stop using your sword." Tsukasa said "It will be easier if you use bullets."
"Roose, can you stop missing your targets?" Wrecka asked, "If you keep that way, you'll have to return soon."
"Ok." the boy replied.
Suddenly a red light filled the room, only to be followed by the sound of sirens.
"Oh no..." Azuma whispered, before looking at the girls in front of him "Get down!"
However before anyone could move, an explosion was felt somewhere in G.O.A, that shook, and everyone went flying to the ground, while pieces of steel and iron started to fall from the ceiling.
"Is everyone all right?" Dr Rill asked as everyone started to get up.
"My arm hurts." Wrecka complained.
"And my back." Kyoko muttered.
"Do you think you can stay?" Azuma asked and both girls nodded.
As everyone else was trying to keep helping their partners, Ikhny was trying to block the dizziness that had appeared out of nowhere. She was almost sure it had to do with the fact she had hit with her head on the computer, before she felt on the ground, but she couldn't be sure. Nevertheless, she wasn't going to leave Hiead all alone in the middle of the space, completely surrounded by Victims.
"#87, your left arm is losing power." Ikhny muttered. Damn, she felt as if she was about to faint "And don't get to anxious, the power of your EX is starting to get to high."
"What about my bullets?" Hiead asked, and Ikhny blinked her eyes before shaking her head:
"More than 70 percent, you can stay there for more than a hour at this rate."
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"C'mon, lets show them who's the strongest!" Zero exclaimed as one Victim made it's way towards him.
"Zero!" someone exclaimed and the brown haired boy saw Clay in the middle of five Victims, with no way to escape.
"Shit." Zero muttered, "Wait Clay, I'm going!"
"Zero, look out!" Kizna exclaimed, but it was to late. Before Zero could move, a Victim hit his back and sent him flying into space "Zero!" Kizna yelled.
"I'm ok." the boy said, "My back only hurts a bit."
"Zero!" Clay yelled, and the brown haired boy flew towards his friend, while giving a war scream. From inside the spaceship, both Saki and Kizna shook their heads.
"I'm coming!" Zero exclaimed, before grabbing his guns and start shooting towards the Victims.
"Arigatou, Zero." Clay said as he saw the Victims dying.
"Not a problem." Zero replied, smiling.
"#88 and #89, six Victims are coming on your way!" Gareas exclaimed "Stop talking, this is a battle zone!"
"Gareas, look out!" Leena exclaimed.
"C'mon Clay, lets show who's the boss." Zero said.
"Hai." Clay answered, a bit nervously.
"Zero, don't forget, you can't keep charging a Class C Victim like that." Kizna warned, "They'll find a way to escape that, before you can even spell 'Pilot'."
"Hai!" Zero exclaimed.
When a Victim passed through him, Hiead grabbed his sword and cut it down in the middle, only to hear a shriek coming from it.
"#87, your EX is starting to raise." Ikhny said, "Relax a bit."
"How do you want me to relax, Allecto?" Hiead spat, picturing the brunette wincing.
"By using the thing you call brain." Ikhny replied coldly, and Hiead remembered she wasn't the same scared Ikhny Allecto he had known "That is, if you have one."
Hiead narrowed his eyes.
"Who the hell do you think you are?" he asked, angrily
"The one that's going to save your ass." Ikhny replied "Victim at eleven o'clock."
"Who does she think she is?" Hiead asked, as he dodged the Victim before cutting it while he was below
"Zero, you're EX is at 50 percent. Please, maintain calm!" Kizna exclaimed, "You know you can't control your EX!"
"Don't worry." Zero replied.
"Why don't you want me to worry?" Kizna asked, angrily "I'm your damn repairer and I have the right worry about you!"
"I know that, but I'm not such a baka as you think I am." Zero replied, and Kizna went silence.
"Gner, your EX is reaching 70 percent. What the hell do you think your doing?" Ikhny asked
"Shut up Allecto, and let me focus!" Hiead exclaimed.
Suddenly there was a large explosion on G.O.A., and everyone that was in space looked at it:
"What the hell is happening over there?" Yu asked.
"The Victims are trying to destroy G.O.A." Teela replied, "Because it's our leader."
"What do you mean?" Rome asked, "They aren't doing anything!"
"They're helping us." Teela replied, "The Victims know that if G.O.A is destroyed, we'll be an easy target."
"Than, what are we going to do?" Zero asked.
"Kill their leader." Erts replied softly.
"Which is the leader?" Yamagi asked, "They're all the same to me!"
"There must be one, different from the others." Teela started "But we need to find it first."
"How?" Zero asked, but Teela kept silence "Ernn Laties!"
"Zero, look out!" Kizna exclaimed "Don't worry about us, we'll be fine!"
"Are you sure?" Zero asked.
"Yeah, just focus on the fight!"
Suddenly a scream was heard, and Saki opened her eyes wide.
"CLAY!" she shouted as she saw a Victim crushing the boy's Pro-Ing.
"Zero, Clay's in trouble!" Kizna exclaimed to her partner. When he looked to his friend, Zero couldn't but start to fill angry:
"Clay!" he exclaimed, his hair starting to glow.
"Zero, you're EX is at 100 percent!" Kizna exclaimed "Calm down!"
But it was too late.
Now Zero was flying at an incredible speed towards Clay before cutting the Victim in two parts.
"I'm not going to let that stupid win." Hiead hissed.
"Gner, what do you think you're doing?" Ikhny asked "You're EX is at 89 percent!"
"Shut up Allecto!" Hiead exclaimed, as range started to build up inside him "He's not going to win."
"What the hell are you talking about?" Ikhny asked, "This is not training, so stop being an idiot!"
"I told you to shut up, Allecto!" Hiead yelled, his hair was also glowing. By now, neither Zero or Hiead were capable of controlling their EXs, just like they couldn't help destroying Victims at the same time they were practically killing each other:
"ZERO!" Kizna exclaimed. She had never seen such rate: Zero's EX had reached 110 percent, and was still going up.
"GNER!" Ikhny yelled at the same time. 'This is almost the same thing...they're going to die if they don't calm down!'
"What the hell is happening?" Azuma asked "#88 and #87, stop this instance!"
"Why do you want them to stop?" Dr Rill asked, "They're killing the Victims."
Azuma looked at her:
"But they're killing themselves at the same time."
"What?" Dr Rill asked, as G.O.A shook again.
"Zero!" Kizna exclaimed, "Stop being a idiot and calm down!"
"Gner, stop being a jerk!" Ikhny exclaimed, "Do you want to kill yourself?"
"Hiead lets work together!" Zero exclaimed.
"What makes you think I'm going to work with you?" Hiead asked coldly.
"Because we'll be able to stop the worse from happen, if we work together." Zero explained.
However, what none of them knew was that they were already working together: while Zero kept protecting Hiead's back, Hiead kept protecting Zero's.
"Gner, look out!" Ikhny exclaimed, but it was too late.
A Victim passed through Hiead's Pro-Ing and attacked it with its long tail, only to send Hiead towards Zero, and both went flying to the middle of the Victim's group.
"What are you two doing there?" Gareas asked, "Is too dangerous!"
"Zero, get out of there!" Kizna yelled, "You're surrounded by Victims!"
"Really?" Zero asked sarcastically, and Kizna rolled her eyes.
"Just get out of there!" she ordered.
"Gner, you have to get out of there if you don't want to be killed." Ikhny said 'Please Hiead, get out of there.'
But Hiead did the opposite; instead of flying away from the group, he went deeper into it.
"Hiead!" Zero yelled as he kept attacking the other Victims "Where are you going?"
"Kill their leader." were Hiead last words, before disappearing in the enormous red mass.
"Gner, you better get out of there, now!" Ikhny yelled, but Hiead simply ignored her.
"Where the hell is he going?" Rioroute asked "That's suicide!"
Ikhny opened her eyes wide, as she saw Hiead fighting more Victims than he could take.
'Hiead, please, get out of there!' the brunette begged silently 'I can't go through the same thing. I can't!'
"Zero, where are you going?" Kizna asked.
"I'm going after Hiead."
"WHAT?" Kizna asked "Are you crazy!"
"I think I am." Zero replied "Just lead me to him, ok?"
"But..."
"Please, Kizna?" Zero asked softly, and Kizna took a deep breath.
"Fine." she replied, after a few seconds "But don't forget, you promise you would come back."
On the other side of the battle, many had already been the ones who had returned G.O.A; only to fill their tanks for they all knew the five Pilots needed their help.
While that, Hiead kept fighting against the Victims that would come on his way, though he was more than aware that his left arm was starting to fail, just like he was almost out of bullets.
But it was then that Hiead saw something, a green and black Victim; the leader of the Victims.
"Good." Hiead muttered under his breath.
"Gner, you're not thinking about going to fight that Victim are you?" Ikhny asked, "I never saw a class like that. I don't know what it can do!"
"Pity, because this Victim is mine." Hiead replied.
As if it had heard his voice, the strange Victim looked at the direction of the Pro-Ing and for what it seemed to be an eternity, cold and dead eyes meet. Two pair of eyes, that looked as if they could understand each other, for both of them were capable to kill each other without even feel remorse after that.
Then, at the same time Hiead screamed, the Victim lurched at him and everything went black.
"HIEAD!" Ikhny yelled, but the only answer she received was silence.
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He was running again; running for something that scared him more than anything in his life. He knew he had to keep running, or he would be killed. But no matter how hard he tried, the same people would always catch him and almost torture him, if it wasn't for the weapon he had in his hand.
He would always point the revolver towards the men in front of him, and when all of them were prepared to attack him, he would shot them. One of them, though he had been shot right on his chest, was still able to approach the scary child and grab him, before falling limp on the ground.
Blood was all over his face, and some had even fallen on his clothes, but that did not matter. His hand was trembling...he was trembling not only because he was scared and afraid, but because he had also been hurt and now he was lost. Four feelings he hated to feel on his chest, but that were the only feelings he was allowed to feel on that moment.
He could feel his feet walking somewhere he didn't know, some place where he wanted to hide and forever cry because of the hard and horrible time he had been through. But when he last expected a brown haired girl appeared in front of him. He had never seen her before yet she would always appear in his dreams and even when he was awake. However, just like she had been on his last dream, she now carried a hurt expression while her eyes were filled with sadness:
"Hiead..." she whispered, extending a trembling hand "Please, come back...Come back to me..."
He didn't know what to do; he wanted to grab her hand and say he would be always there for her, but his mind didn't want him to. His mind kept telling him he had always been alone, and that he should be alone forever.
'Do I want to be alone?' Hiead thought, as he stared at the girl in front of him 'Do I want to be a stone, for the rest of my life?'
The girl took a deep breath as she lowered her hand:
"This is your chance." she started, and Hiead snapped from his thoughts "Your last chance."
"What do you mean?" Hiead asked, and the girl licked her lips:
"I'm tired." she started, softly "I'm tired of being alone, and I'm tired of waiting. Aren't you tired too? Don't you want to see life, from other angle? Don't you want to try and be happy?"
"Why should I want to feel those weak feelings?" Hiead asked
"Have you ever asked yourself, if you're wrong?" the girl asked, and Hiead gave a step back "Have you ever asked yourself, if those weak feelings as you call them, can be the strongest as well?"
"What do you mean?" Hiead asked, and the girl gave him a small smile:
"Give friendship a change, Hiead...give love a chance."
"I don't want those weak emotions!" Hiead exclaimed.
"So you want to become one of them." the girl stated.
"What?" Hiead asked confusedly
"Don't you see it, Hiead?" the girl asked, as she raised her hand to her side. Then, in the middle of the darkness a imagine of a Victim appeared "Do you want to become like them? Cold animals, that don't think about anything else besides death? You know, they once looked for freedom but now, years after battling against those who also seek for freedom, they became cool and dangerous. Do you want to become as them?"
"I'm already like them!" Hiead exclaimed, but the girl shook her head:
"You still have time to choose." she started "But the time will end today."
Hiead opened his mouth, but close it again: what could he say? What could he do?
Looking to the picture of the Victim, Hiead couldn't help but remember the cold eyes that had looked at him. Cold and emotionless eyes, just like his.
"Hiead?" the girl asked and Hiead looked at her: soft, warm and welcome eyes looked at him and Hiead couldn't help but wish for her to come back. To be the same girl he had once known…
"Why are you helping me?" he asked, and the girl smiled.
"Because you're the only one who can help me." she answered back.
"What?" Hiead asked
"If you decide to stay and fight you'll find the answer, but if you decide to quit I'm afraid you'll be lost."
"I...I..." slowly, Hiead started to change from the scary boy he had once been to the young man he was now "I choose..."
"Yes?" the girl asked, and Hiead gazed at her:
"Ikhny...help me." he whispered and the girl smiled.
"I will." she whispered back before raising her arms, and before he could stop himself Hiead hugged her
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Everything was silent. No one knew what to do, or what to say. Not when they had understood what had happened to Hiead Gner.
While that, Ikhny was taking long, deep breaths:
'No, this can't be happening. he can't leave me...he just can't.'
Suddenly the brunette closed her fists and looked at the communicator.
"HIEAD!" Ikhny yelled, startling everyone "YOU BETTER NOT BE DEAD, YOU HEARD ME? YOU BETTER NOT, BECAUSE I CAN'T LOSE ANYONE ELSE!
Suddenly everything went silence, as everyone looked shocked to the brunette.
"Ikhny?" Kizna asked, but the brunette ignored her as she kept yelling for her partner.
"YOU HEARD ME, HIEAD GNER? YOU HAVE TO COME BACK FOR ME! YOU BETTER COME BACK TO ME, OR I'LL FIND A WAY AND I'LL KILL YOU MYSELF!" Ikhny took a deep breath, as her eyes started to fill with tears "YOU HEARD ME HIEAD GNER? YOU BETTER COME BACK TO ME!"
"Allecto?" a voice muttered through the communicator, and Ikhny froze.
"Hiead?" she asked, in return "What the hell happened to you! Do you want to give me a heart-attack?"
"Allecto, shut up." Hiead hissed, "I want to ask you something."
Ikhny froze:
"What?" she asked.
"Please, sing." Hiead said, and once again everything went silent "Please, for me."
To Be Continued...
A/N: So, what do you think? Sorry if the fight scenes aren't good, but I still have some troubles with them (mainly because English is my second language). However, tell me what you think. Thank you!