Android Kikaider 02: The Fanfiction
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Everyone watched as Akira repaired the circuitry on the damaged Kikaider 02. Once he was done with that, he began doing the patchwork for the open hole. Suzume just watched him work nervously. "If that blast hadn't have been coming for me, this wouldn't have happened," she thought to herself.
Once Akira finished up the patchwork, he touched the transformation switches on 02's shoulders, and the damaged android changed back into Niro Komyoji. Akira heaved a sigh of relief and said, "That should do it. The integration function should assimilate the patch with the rest of the body, and all the circuitry has been fixed. Now all he needs is rest."
Jiro then said, "Thank you, Akira."
Akira nodded and said, "It was no problem."
As everyone was leaving the room, Suzume just stood there. Rieko then said, "Don't worry. He'll be fully recovered when he wakes up."
Suzume just quietly said, "I know. I just...I just want to stay with him."
Rieko smiled and said, "I understand."
Rieko then left her alone with the unconscious Niro. Suzume then took the android's hand and held it in both of hers. "This is my fault. Niro, I'm so sorry."
As the day turned into night, she began to become tired. She found an empty spot on the table and laid her head down. She soon succumbed to sleep, never leaving his side.
---Unknown Echo---
He looked around in all directions. Niro could see nothing but dark and empty space. He didn't even see a floor beneath his feet, yet he wasn't falling. "What is this? Where am I?!"
He suddenly heard Gold Wolf's voice saying, "Don't you know what a dream is?"
Niro turned to see his friend and watch him disappear. He turned to his side to see his Jiro. "Or have you thought of yourself as a machine so much that you can't figure it out?"
His father then faded into the darkness. The android then turned around and saw Gunta as he said, "You really are an idiot. You can't even figure out something so simple."
Mitsuko then appeared to his side and she said, "That's the thing about dreams. They can hide nothing from you."
Masaru then appeared and said, "Each dream is a reflection of something deep inside. No matter how deep it goes, dreams can exploit it."
Suzume then appeared and said, "They can reveal your deepest desires."
After all of them disappeared, Niro turned to see himself with mad red eyes. "Or your greatest fears."
He turned around and saw Kikaider 03. "Or your deepest sorrows."
"What are all of you doing here? What do you want?!" Niro screamed out.
Suddenly, Rieko appeared and responded, "That's what you should be asking yourself."
After she disappeared, Akira appeared and said, "When one denies himself of what he needs, he denies himself completion."
"What I need is to know what's wrong with me!" Niro replied.
Misao then appeared and said, "But you already know what's wrong. You've been denying it all along unconsciously, but you can still feel it. You know that there is a void inside your heart."
"But...my Gemini is complete! What could possibly be missing?!"
Kikaider 02 then appeared and replied, "Your Gemini and your heart are both one and the same yet different."
"How can you say that? You're me!" Niro replied.
"I am a part of you. I am your strength and ability to fight just as you are my emotional counterpart. What you want is what you're missing."
Rieko then reappeared and said, "Or not necessarily what you're missing, but what you don't know is really there."
"None of you are making sense!" he screamed.
Everyone soon replied in unison, "Emotions don't make sense. Sorrow doesn't make sense. Anger doesn't make sense. Hatred doesn't make sense. Fear doesn't make sense. Anxiety doesn't make sense. The only thing about the heart that makes sense is desire."
"Then what is it? What will complete my heart? What do I want?!"
Suzume then appeared before him and asked, "Don't you want me?"
Niro looked at her confused as she asked, "Isn't it me that you want?"
"Suzume, what are you saying?"
She repeated once more, "Isn't it me that you want?"
She then approached Niro and gently placed a hand on his cheek. "Isn't it me that you want to complete you?"
"How?! How can you complete me?! WHAT THE HECK AM I MISSING?!"
Niro suddenly woke up and looked at his surroundings. He recognized the room as Akira's lab. He looked outside and saw that it was evening outside. "Was I in shutdown all day?"
He then noticed that something else was on the table. Suzume still slept with her head on it next to his body. Niro then noticed that she was shivering, so he removed his jacket and put it on her back. Right after this, she stopped shivering. "Did you stay with me all day?" he asked quietly.
She still slept in response, and he smiled and said, "I'll stay with you then."
Sunrise came once again, and Suzume began to wake up. Once she did, she noticed the jacket on her back that was keeping her warm. Once she figured out who it belonged to, she heard a pleasant greeting from him. "Good morning," Niro said to her.
She turned to him and smiled. "You're okay!"
He nodded and smiled until she said, "You had me scared to death! Don't you ever do that to me again!"
Niro was a bit taken back by this. "But if I hadn't, you would have died."
"Maybe, but you mean a lot to me too," she replied almost on the verge of tears.
Niro heaved a sigh and said, "I'm sorry. I promise to be more careful the next time I rescue you."
Suzume dried her eyes and replied, "I'm sorry too. I shouldn't have gone off like that."
Niro replied, "Hey, it's okay."
Suzume just smiled, and then Niro said, "By the way, happy birthday."
Her eyes soon got wider than before. "Our date! Oh gosh! I probably look like a complete mess!"
"But you look just fine," Niro tried to tell her even though she didn't seem to listen.
"I've got to get ready! Don't worry, Niro. I won't take long. Just wait for me in the living room," she said and ran off, leaving Niro by himself.
"She can be so confusing sometimes."
"Explain yourself, Waruder! You aided Kikaider 02 in freeing Akira, destroying Shadow Mummy, destroying Shadow Golem, and you even helped him when he was damaged!" Kuro shouted.
"Master, I helped 02 free Akira and destroy Shadow Mummy and Shadow Golem for the sake of honor. I refuse to let such dishonorable warriors tarnish the name of this organization. I aided in the repairs of 02 for the sake of my honor. During our alliance, I vowed that no harm would come to him. Even though I failed in the initial task, I still had to see to it that he could be repaired," Waruder replied, kneeling down before him.
"I see. Very well, I will forgive you this one time. However, you are to never align yourself with 02 again. Is that understood?"
"Yes, my master," replied the silver samurai.
"Good. Now be gone."
Waruder did as he was commanded. Then a scorpion-like android appeared behind Kuro. "Why do you insist on using him?"
Kuro replied, "He may be misguided, but he still has his uses. He has the utmost loyalty to me, even though it seems to coincide with his morals. I will continue to use him until I deem him expendable, but I still want you to head the next attack. I'm sure revenge is absolutely plaguing your mind."
"Yes, Lord Kuro," replied the Night monster.
Niro sat on the couch in the living room fiddling around with the black box. "Man, I hope she likes this," he thought to himself.
Akira then came into the room and said, "Hey. What's up?"
Niro turned to his human friend and replied, "Well, Suzume and I are supposed to go see the town today, but she certainly seems to be taking her time to get ready."
"Typical," Akira replied.
"Huh? Are human females usually like this?" Niro asked curiously.
"Nope. Females in general," he replied.
"Oh," Niro responded.
A bit of a pause came over the two before Niro broke it. "Waruder told me everything."
Akira just looked strangely at him as he asked, "Why didn't you tell me that Professor Gill was your father?"
The human boy sighed and replied, "Truth be told, I was afraid that if I told you that I was the son of your family's worst enemy then you wouldn't help us take down Night."
"You could have included the part where your dad did all sorts of experiments on you, you know," Niro added in.
"Maybe, but humans don't always think rationally. I wasn't exactly trying to treat you any differently," Akira responded.
"Thanks, I guess," Niro replied.
A little bit after the conversation was over, Suzume came down the stairs dressed a little bit better than what she usually wears. "Ready to go?"
Niro nodded his head and approached her, handing her the long black box. "I got you this for your birthday present earlier. I hope you like it."
Suzume opened the box to reveal a gold necklace. She looked at it with complete awe. "It's beautiful! Thank you, Niro!"
Niro smiled as she put it on and then offered an escorting hand to the Rocket Machine. Once the two of them got on, Niro asked, "Is there anything in particular that you'd like to do?"
Suzume replied, "Well, there was this one movie that Rieko told me about yesterday that she said was really good."
And with that, the two took off on Niro's motorcycle to the city. Once they got there, they looked at the theater and all the show times. "Looks like we made good timing. It's about to start in half an hour," Suzume said as they dismounted the motorcycle and went inside the movie house.
Back at the house, Rieko came into the living room where Akira was. "Have Niro and Suzume left yet?"
Akira nodded and said, "They left not too long ago."
Rieko then said, "Good. Let's spy on them."
Akira's eyes became wide in surprise. "We can't do that! It would be an invasion of privacy!"
"So? I want to see how this turns out."
"Well, would you like it if Niro and Suzume just popped in while we were making out?"
Rieko blushed in embarrassment for a little bit. "You know, sometimes I hate it when you're right."
Akira said, "Maybe so, but I think it would be better like this. They need some time alone."
"That was an interesting movie," Niro said as he and Suzume walked out of the theater.
"Well, like I said, Rieko suggested it," Suzume said.
"Oh no. I didn't mean it like that. I liked the movie. But still...cyborgs?"
"Well, it's entertaining," she replied.
"I still think that one of them looked a lot like my dad," Niro replied.
"You mean the lead one with the hair covering one of his eyes? Now that you mention it, he does kind of look like him," Suzume responded.
"So what would you like to do now?"
"I don't know. How about we just ride around?"
"Okay," Niro replied.
The two friends then boarded the motorcycle and began to ride around town. However, as they were driving, yellow smoke began to surround them. Niro stopped the Rocket Machine and looked around. "What is this stuff?" Niro asked.
"I don't know, but I can't see a thing through it," Suzume replied.
It was then that the two heard maniacal laughter. "It's one of my new tricks, 02!"
Niro turned around to the direction the voice came from. "I know that voice from somewhere."
Once the smoke cleared, the young android saw a scorpion-like robot with a large 22 on its back. "I'm glad you can remember me somewhat."
"Now I remember! You're Brown Scorpion from Night!"
"I once was before I was destroyed twice. Now, Lord Kuro has given me a new life and a new body. I am no longer the Brown Scorpion you defeated so easily. Now I am Strong Scorpion!"
"If you insist, but this time I won't hold back," Niro replied to the reincarnated android.
"I certainly hope not," he said as his eyes began to flash many colors gazing into Niro's.
Niro started clutching his head and screaming in pain, but he couldn't take his eyes away from his. He soon heard an echo in his head repeating the word "destroy" over and over again. He screamed in resistance, but he soon enough gave in, and his eyes turned red as he went in a berserk rage.
Suzume could only watch as her friend once again succumbed to his madness. Niro then attacked Strong Scorpion in his berserk rage, but the Night android easily swatted him away. "You may be going in a rage, but your attacks are a lot sloppier."
Niro got right back up and went after him again until he heard violin music playing. All eyes were now focused on Rieko in her android form. "Maybe they did need some alone time, but I couldn't resist! It looks like it was a good thing I came anyway."
However, as Rieko kept playing her control music, she noticed something was wrong. Niro wasn't going down on all fours like he usually does. Strong Scorpion then said, "Interesting tune. However, if you're trying to stop 02 with that music, you are sadly mistaken. Since I induced his berserk state, you won't be able to have any control over him."
Niro then charged at his robotic cousin. Caught off guard, she was quickly pinned to the ground as Niro started beating her senselessly. Rieko tried as hard as she could to get up, but she found that she couldn't. "His technique may be sloppier, but his attacks are stronger! He couldn't hit this hard unless he was in his battle android form!" she thought to herself.
Suzume watched in horror as Niro continued to pummel Rieko senselessly. Tears started to stream down her eyes. "Niro, no. Stop it. This isn't you!"
She then shouted to him, "Niro, please, stop this!"
Niro looked at her with the eyes of a mad machine, and Rieko quickly saw where the focus was being drawn. "What are you doing?! Get away from here! He's out of control!"
Suzume didn't listen, and she slowly walked towards him. "Niro, I know this isn't you! This isn't the boy who saved my life! This isn't the one who showed me so much kindness! This isn't the one who makes me feel the way I feel!"
The berserk Niro looked at her and slowly approached her as she continued, "Niro, I know you're still in there! You have to fight off this rage! You have to fight! I need you!"
Niro suddenly found himself unable to move as she continued to approach him. She gently placed a hand on his cheek and looked him in the eyes. "Niro, I know you are as strong as you are gentle. Please, fight! Come back to me! Don't leave me alone!" she continued on with tears now streaming down her face.
Niro's hands then started to move even though the rest seemed frozen in place. His robotic hands then gently wiped away her tears, and then his eyes went back to their normal brown. "Suzume..."
"Niro!" she exclaimed as she threw her arms around him.
Strong Scorpion then replied, "How touching. But I guess this means I'll have to destroy you after all."
Niro then positioned Suzume behind him in a protecting manner and placed his hands on his shoulders. "CHANGE! 02!!"
Niro quickly transformed into Kikaider 02, grabbed Suzume, and leaped high into the air, landing on a building, and setting Suzume down. "Stay there for now."
Suzume nodded as an okay, and he repeated the process with Rieko. Once he got her up, he asked, "Are you okay?"
Rieko replied, "Yeah. Those were some heavy beatings, Cous, but I'll manage."
02 then said, "Good. Stay here with Suzume. I'll handle this guy."
He then leaped down on the battlefield, and once he turned to his opponent he heard a soft hissing noise. Kikaider 02 then charged at him and gave a hard uppercut, but sparks came from the metallic contact, and an explosion erupted from the contact area blowing 02 back a few feet. "What the heck was that?!"
Strong Scorpion laughed and replied, "Another one of my new tricks. You can't possibly beat me. Anywhere you hit me will cause an explosion similar to that."
"We'll see about that!" 02 shouted as he kicked him and ended up with the same result.
Strong Scorpion then charged at him and sent one of his massive claws at the heroic robot. Kikaider 02 blocked the attack, but another explosion from the contact sent him flying. "This is insane! How are all these explosions happening?!" he thought to himself.
Then he remembered that as the claw was coming for him, he heard the low hissing noise become louder as it came for him. He then analyzed the area and noticed something he didn't see before. "There's a combustible gas coming from his claws. That's how each contact becomes an explosion. If I can just take those out, then I've got him."
02 then put his arms in an X formation for the Electro End attack. Once the blue electrical energy surrounded the arms, he charged at Strong Scorpion, grabbed his claws, and an explosion ruptured inside his arms, blowing them off completely. Screaming in pain, Strong Scorpion emitted the yellow gas from his tail. "Where the heck did he go?" 02 asked himself.
He then saw the Night android rising from the smoke and heading to the building where he put Rieko and Suzume. His circuitry once again gave a golden glow as he followed saying, "Oh no you don't!"
Strong Scorpion landed on the roof and slowly approached Suzume. "You've ruined everything! You're going to have the most excruciatingly painful death ever!"
02 shortly arrived after he said this and yelled, "Don't you dare touch her!"
The dual-colored android then decked the Night adversary, sent him flying right off the building, and into the pavement. 02 then retracted his hands into his arms and aimed the gun barrels at the fallen machine. "This time there won't be anything to reincarnate you from! TWIN BLASTER!!!"
Kikaider 02 fired a massive golden blast of energy at Strong Scorpion and reduced him to little pieces of shrapnel. He turned to the others and reverted back to Niro Komyoji. "Are you two okay?"
The two girls nodded, and Suzume asked, "How about you?"
Niro nodded and replied, "I am, thanks to you."
Suzume smiled and Rieko watched them now in her human form. "This is a perfect moment!" she said aloud.
Suzume cleared her throat and replied, "Shouldn't you go back to the house and have Akira look you over for damage?"
Rieko weakly chuckled and said, "Right. Okay. I can take a hint."
Once Rieko left the rooftop, Niro and Suzume just looked at each other. Niro then broke the silence by asking, "So do you want to do anything else?"
The teenage human girl shook her head and asked, "Can we just go home? All this excitement has worn me out."
Niro nodded, whistled for the Rocket Machine, and both boarded it and flew back to the house. Once they got home, they went inside and stood in the empty living room. "I'm sorry about what happened today. I didn't mean for it to..."
Niro was cut short of his apology when Suzume pressed her finger against his lips to quiet him. She then lightly kissed him on the cheek and replied, "Don't worry about it. I still had a great time."
Niro seemed a little surprised after she kissed his cheek and she smiled at him and said, "Well, I'm going to turn in for the day. Good night."
As she went up the stairs, Niro placed a hand where she had kissed him. He suddenly remembered her saying, "Isn't it me that you want to complete you?" in his dream.
He then thought to himself, "Is what I feel about her how she can complete me?"
He closed his eyes and silently asked himself, "If that's the case, then what is it that I feel for her?"
A/N: Hey. Sorry for the long update. I've been having writer's block on what exactly to put in this. I just hope this chapter is somewhat good. Anyway, if anyone at all is wondering, yes. The movie they went to see was a Cyborg 009 movie even though I'm not sure if there is one. Anyway, thank you for reading the story and keep the reviews coming!
Disclaimer: I wonder if it's alright that I skip this part all together. If I can, please leave me a review saying I can! Wait...I almost forgot something! I don't own the other anime that's mentioned in this story, but I'll leave it to you to guess what it is. It should be pretty obvious.
Everyone watched as Akira repaired the circuitry on the damaged Kikaider 02. Once he was done with that, he began doing the patchwork for the open hole. Suzume just watched him work nervously. "If that blast hadn't have been coming for me, this wouldn't have happened," she thought to herself.
Once Akira finished up the patchwork, he touched the transformation switches on 02's shoulders, and the damaged android changed back into Niro Komyoji. Akira heaved a sigh of relief and said, "That should do it. The integration function should assimilate the patch with the rest of the body, and all the circuitry has been fixed. Now all he needs is rest."
Jiro then said, "Thank you, Akira."
Akira nodded and said, "It was no problem."
As everyone was leaving the room, Suzume just stood there. Rieko then said, "Don't worry. He'll be fully recovered when he wakes up."
Suzume just quietly said, "I know. I just...I just want to stay with him."
Rieko smiled and said, "I understand."
Rieko then left her alone with the unconscious Niro. Suzume then took the android's hand and held it in both of hers. "This is my fault. Niro, I'm so sorry."
As the day turned into night, she began to become tired. She found an empty spot on the table and laid her head down. She soon succumbed to sleep, never leaving his side.
---Unknown Echo---
He looked around in all directions. Niro could see nothing but dark and empty space. He didn't even see a floor beneath his feet, yet he wasn't falling. "What is this? Where am I?!"
He suddenly heard Gold Wolf's voice saying, "Don't you know what a dream is?"
Niro turned to see his friend and watch him disappear. He turned to his side to see his Jiro. "Or have you thought of yourself as a machine so much that you can't figure it out?"
His father then faded into the darkness. The android then turned around and saw Gunta as he said, "You really are an idiot. You can't even figure out something so simple."
Mitsuko then appeared to his side and she said, "That's the thing about dreams. They can hide nothing from you."
Masaru then appeared and said, "Each dream is a reflection of something deep inside. No matter how deep it goes, dreams can exploit it."
Suzume then appeared and said, "They can reveal your deepest desires."
After all of them disappeared, Niro turned to see himself with mad red eyes. "Or your greatest fears."
He turned around and saw Kikaider 03. "Or your deepest sorrows."
"What are all of you doing here? What do you want?!" Niro screamed out.
Suddenly, Rieko appeared and responded, "That's what you should be asking yourself."
After she disappeared, Akira appeared and said, "When one denies himself of what he needs, he denies himself completion."
"What I need is to know what's wrong with me!" Niro replied.
Misao then appeared and said, "But you already know what's wrong. You've been denying it all along unconsciously, but you can still feel it. You know that there is a void inside your heart."
"But...my Gemini is complete! What could possibly be missing?!"
Kikaider 02 then appeared and replied, "Your Gemini and your heart are both one and the same yet different."
"How can you say that? You're me!" Niro replied.
"I am a part of you. I am your strength and ability to fight just as you are my emotional counterpart. What you want is what you're missing."
Rieko then reappeared and said, "Or not necessarily what you're missing, but what you don't know is really there."
"None of you are making sense!" he screamed.
Everyone soon replied in unison, "Emotions don't make sense. Sorrow doesn't make sense. Anger doesn't make sense. Hatred doesn't make sense. Fear doesn't make sense. Anxiety doesn't make sense. The only thing about the heart that makes sense is desire."
"Then what is it? What will complete my heart? What do I want?!"
Suzume then appeared before him and asked, "Don't you want me?"
Niro looked at her confused as she asked, "Isn't it me that you want?"
"Suzume, what are you saying?"
She repeated once more, "Isn't it me that you want?"
She then approached Niro and gently placed a hand on his cheek. "Isn't it me that you want to complete you?"
"How?! How can you complete me?! WHAT THE HECK AM I MISSING?!"
Niro suddenly woke up and looked at his surroundings. He recognized the room as Akira's lab. He looked outside and saw that it was evening outside. "Was I in shutdown all day?"
He then noticed that something else was on the table. Suzume still slept with her head on it next to his body. Niro then noticed that she was shivering, so he removed his jacket and put it on her back. Right after this, she stopped shivering. "Did you stay with me all day?" he asked quietly.
She still slept in response, and he smiled and said, "I'll stay with you then."
Sunrise came once again, and Suzume began to wake up. Once she did, she noticed the jacket on her back that was keeping her warm. Once she figured out who it belonged to, she heard a pleasant greeting from him. "Good morning," Niro said to her.
She turned to him and smiled. "You're okay!"
He nodded and smiled until she said, "You had me scared to death! Don't you ever do that to me again!"
Niro was a bit taken back by this. "But if I hadn't, you would have died."
"Maybe, but you mean a lot to me too," she replied almost on the verge of tears.
Niro heaved a sigh and said, "I'm sorry. I promise to be more careful the next time I rescue you."
Suzume dried her eyes and replied, "I'm sorry too. I shouldn't have gone off like that."
Niro replied, "Hey, it's okay."
Suzume just smiled, and then Niro said, "By the way, happy birthday."
Her eyes soon got wider than before. "Our date! Oh gosh! I probably look like a complete mess!"
"But you look just fine," Niro tried to tell her even though she didn't seem to listen.
"I've got to get ready! Don't worry, Niro. I won't take long. Just wait for me in the living room," she said and ran off, leaving Niro by himself.
"She can be so confusing sometimes."
"Explain yourself, Waruder! You aided Kikaider 02 in freeing Akira, destroying Shadow Mummy, destroying Shadow Golem, and you even helped him when he was damaged!" Kuro shouted.
"Master, I helped 02 free Akira and destroy Shadow Mummy and Shadow Golem for the sake of honor. I refuse to let such dishonorable warriors tarnish the name of this organization. I aided in the repairs of 02 for the sake of my honor. During our alliance, I vowed that no harm would come to him. Even though I failed in the initial task, I still had to see to it that he could be repaired," Waruder replied, kneeling down before him.
"I see. Very well, I will forgive you this one time. However, you are to never align yourself with 02 again. Is that understood?"
"Yes, my master," replied the silver samurai.
"Good. Now be gone."
Waruder did as he was commanded. Then a scorpion-like android appeared behind Kuro. "Why do you insist on using him?"
Kuro replied, "He may be misguided, but he still has his uses. He has the utmost loyalty to me, even though it seems to coincide with his morals. I will continue to use him until I deem him expendable, but I still want you to head the next attack. I'm sure revenge is absolutely plaguing your mind."
"Yes, Lord Kuro," replied the Night monster.
Niro sat on the couch in the living room fiddling around with the black box. "Man, I hope she likes this," he thought to himself.
Akira then came into the room and said, "Hey. What's up?"
Niro turned to his human friend and replied, "Well, Suzume and I are supposed to go see the town today, but she certainly seems to be taking her time to get ready."
"Typical," Akira replied.
"Huh? Are human females usually like this?" Niro asked curiously.
"Nope. Females in general," he replied.
"Oh," Niro responded.
A bit of a pause came over the two before Niro broke it. "Waruder told me everything."
Akira just looked strangely at him as he asked, "Why didn't you tell me that Professor Gill was your father?"
The human boy sighed and replied, "Truth be told, I was afraid that if I told you that I was the son of your family's worst enemy then you wouldn't help us take down Night."
"You could have included the part where your dad did all sorts of experiments on you, you know," Niro added in.
"Maybe, but humans don't always think rationally. I wasn't exactly trying to treat you any differently," Akira responded.
"Thanks, I guess," Niro replied.
A little bit after the conversation was over, Suzume came down the stairs dressed a little bit better than what she usually wears. "Ready to go?"
Niro nodded his head and approached her, handing her the long black box. "I got you this for your birthday present earlier. I hope you like it."
Suzume opened the box to reveal a gold necklace. She looked at it with complete awe. "It's beautiful! Thank you, Niro!"
Niro smiled as she put it on and then offered an escorting hand to the Rocket Machine. Once the two of them got on, Niro asked, "Is there anything in particular that you'd like to do?"
Suzume replied, "Well, there was this one movie that Rieko told me about yesterday that she said was really good."
And with that, the two took off on Niro's motorcycle to the city. Once they got there, they looked at the theater and all the show times. "Looks like we made good timing. It's about to start in half an hour," Suzume said as they dismounted the motorcycle and went inside the movie house.
Back at the house, Rieko came into the living room where Akira was. "Have Niro and Suzume left yet?"
Akira nodded and said, "They left not too long ago."
Rieko then said, "Good. Let's spy on them."
Akira's eyes became wide in surprise. "We can't do that! It would be an invasion of privacy!"
"So? I want to see how this turns out."
"Well, would you like it if Niro and Suzume just popped in while we were making out?"
Rieko blushed in embarrassment for a little bit. "You know, sometimes I hate it when you're right."
Akira said, "Maybe so, but I think it would be better like this. They need some time alone."
"That was an interesting movie," Niro said as he and Suzume walked out of the theater.
"Well, like I said, Rieko suggested it," Suzume said.
"Oh no. I didn't mean it like that. I liked the movie. But still...cyborgs?"
"Well, it's entertaining," she replied.
"I still think that one of them looked a lot like my dad," Niro replied.
"You mean the lead one with the hair covering one of his eyes? Now that you mention it, he does kind of look like him," Suzume responded.
"So what would you like to do now?"
"I don't know. How about we just ride around?"
"Okay," Niro replied.
The two friends then boarded the motorcycle and began to ride around town. However, as they were driving, yellow smoke began to surround them. Niro stopped the Rocket Machine and looked around. "What is this stuff?" Niro asked.
"I don't know, but I can't see a thing through it," Suzume replied.
It was then that the two heard maniacal laughter. "It's one of my new tricks, 02!"
Niro turned around to the direction the voice came from. "I know that voice from somewhere."
Once the smoke cleared, the young android saw a scorpion-like robot with a large 22 on its back. "I'm glad you can remember me somewhat."
"Now I remember! You're Brown Scorpion from Night!"
"I once was before I was destroyed twice. Now, Lord Kuro has given me a new life and a new body. I am no longer the Brown Scorpion you defeated so easily. Now I am Strong Scorpion!"
"If you insist, but this time I won't hold back," Niro replied to the reincarnated android.
"I certainly hope not," he said as his eyes began to flash many colors gazing into Niro's.
Niro started clutching his head and screaming in pain, but he couldn't take his eyes away from his. He soon heard an echo in his head repeating the word "destroy" over and over again. He screamed in resistance, but he soon enough gave in, and his eyes turned red as he went in a berserk rage.
Suzume could only watch as her friend once again succumbed to his madness. Niro then attacked Strong Scorpion in his berserk rage, but the Night android easily swatted him away. "You may be going in a rage, but your attacks are a lot sloppier."
Niro got right back up and went after him again until he heard violin music playing. All eyes were now focused on Rieko in her android form. "Maybe they did need some alone time, but I couldn't resist! It looks like it was a good thing I came anyway."
However, as Rieko kept playing her control music, she noticed something was wrong. Niro wasn't going down on all fours like he usually does. Strong Scorpion then said, "Interesting tune. However, if you're trying to stop 02 with that music, you are sadly mistaken. Since I induced his berserk state, you won't be able to have any control over him."
Niro then charged at his robotic cousin. Caught off guard, she was quickly pinned to the ground as Niro started beating her senselessly. Rieko tried as hard as she could to get up, but she found that she couldn't. "His technique may be sloppier, but his attacks are stronger! He couldn't hit this hard unless he was in his battle android form!" she thought to herself.
Suzume watched in horror as Niro continued to pummel Rieko senselessly. Tears started to stream down her eyes. "Niro, no. Stop it. This isn't you!"
She then shouted to him, "Niro, please, stop this!"
Niro looked at her with the eyes of a mad machine, and Rieko quickly saw where the focus was being drawn. "What are you doing?! Get away from here! He's out of control!"
Suzume didn't listen, and she slowly walked towards him. "Niro, I know this isn't you! This isn't the boy who saved my life! This isn't the one who showed me so much kindness! This isn't the one who makes me feel the way I feel!"
The berserk Niro looked at her and slowly approached her as she continued, "Niro, I know you're still in there! You have to fight off this rage! You have to fight! I need you!"
Niro suddenly found himself unable to move as she continued to approach him. She gently placed a hand on his cheek and looked him in the eyes. "Niro, I know you are as strong as you are gentle. Please, fight! Come back to me! Don't leave me alone!" she continued on with tears now streaming down her face.
Niro's hands then started to move even though the rest seemed frozen in place. His robotic hands then gently wiped away her tears, and then his eyes went back to their normal brown. "Suzume..."
"Niro!" she exclaimed as she threw her arms around him.
Strong Scorpion then replied, "How touching. But I guess this means I'll have to destroy you after all."
Niro then positioned Suzume behind him in a protecting manner and placed his hands on his shoulders. "CHANGE! 02!!"
Niro quickly transformed into Kikaider 02, grabbed Suzume, and leaped high into the air, landing on a building, and setting Suzume down. "Stay there for now."
Suzume nodded as an okay, and he repeated the process with Rieko. Once he got her up, he asked, "Are you okay?"
Rieko replied, "Yeah. Those were some heavy beatings, Cous, but I'll manage."
02 then said, "Good. Stay here with Suzume. I'll handle this guy."
He then leaped down on the battlefield, and once he turned to his opponent he heard a soft hissing noise. Kikaider 02 then charged at him and gave a hard uppercut, but sparks came from the metallic contact, and an explosion erupted from the contact area blowing 02 back a few feet. "What the heck was that?!"
Strong Scorpion laughed and replied, "Another one of my new tricks. You can't possibly beat me. Anywhere you hit me will cause an explosion similar to that."
"We'll see about that!" 02 shouted as he kicked him and ended up with the same result.
Strong Scorpion then charged at him and sent one of his massive claws at the heroic robot. Kikaider 02 blocked the attack, but another explosion from the contact sent him flying. "This is insane! How are all these explosions happening?!" he thought to himself.
Then he remembered that as the claw was coming for him, he heard the low hissing noise become louder as it came for him. He then analyzed the area and noticed something he didn't see before. "There's a combustible gas coming from his claws. That's how each contact becomes an explosion. If I can just take those out, then I've got him."
02 then put his arms in an X formation for the Electro End attack. Once the blue electrical energy surrounded the arms, he charged at Strong Scorpion, grabbed his claws, and an explosion ruptured inside his arms, blowing them off completely. Screaming in pain, Strong Scorpion emitted the yellow gas from his tail. "Where the heck did he go?" 02 asked himself.
He then saw the Night android rising from the smoke and heading to the building where he put Rieko and Suzume. His circuitry once again gave a golden glow as he followed saying, "Oh no you don't!"
Strong Scorpion landed on the roof and slowly approached Suzume. "You've ruined everything! You're going to have the most excruciatingly painful death ever!"
02 shortly arrived after he said this and yelled, "Don't you dare touch her!"
The dual-colored android then decked the Night adversary, sent him flying right off the building, and into the pavement. 02 then retracted his hands into his arms and aimed the gun barrels at the fallen machine. "This time there won't be anything to reincarnate you from! TWIN BLASTER!!!"
Kikaider 02 fired a massive golden blast of energy at Strong Scorpion and reduced him to little pieces of shrapnel. He turned to the others and reverted back to Niro Komyoji. "Are you two okay?"
The two girls nodded, and Suzume asked, "How about you?"
Niro nodded and replied, "I am, thanks to you."
Suzume smiled and Rieko watched them now in her human form. "This is a perfect moment!" she said aloud.
Suzume cleared her throat and replied, "Shouldn't you go back to the house and have Akira look you over for damage?"
Rieko weakly chuckled and said, "Right. Okay. I can take a hint."
Once Rieko left the rooftop, Niro and Suzume just looked at each other. Niro then broke the silence by asking, "So do you want to do anything else?"
The teenage human girl shook her head and asked, "Can we just go home? All this excitement has worn me out."
Niro nodded, whistled for the Rocket Machine, and both boarded it and flew back to the house. Once they got home, they went inside and stood in the empty living room. "I'm sorry about what happened today. I didn't mean for it to..."
Niro was cut short of his apology when Suzume pressed her finger against his lips to quiet him. She then lightly kissed him on the cheek and replied, "Don't worry about it. I still had a great time."
Niro seemed a little surprised after she kissed his cheek and she smiled at him and said, "Well, I'm going to turn in for the day. Good night."
As she went up the stairs, Niro placed a hand where she had kissed him. He suddenly remembered her saying, "Isn't it me that you want to complete you?" in his dream.
He then thought to himself, "Is what I feel about her how she can complete me?"
He closed his eyes and silently asked himself, "If that's the case, then what is it that I feel for her?"
A/N: Hey. Sorry for the long update. I've been having writer's block on what exactly to put in this. I just hope this chapter is somewhat good. Anyway, if anyone at all is wondering, yes. The movie they went to see was a Cyborg 009 movie even though I'm not sure if there is one. Anyway, thank you for reading the story and keep the reviews coming!