Standard Disclaimer!
Well I'm sure most of you are mad at me for taking so long to get this chapter out. I thank you for your patience. Time for writing is coming in smaller and smaller spasms. And this isn't my only story. So I have to divide my time, somewhat equally, among them all.
Hope you like this chapter and continue to support Anata.
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Anata No Ichiban Ni Naritai Chapter 8- New Beginnings
One year has past since the disastrous first battle at Mars. For Akito the time had both flown by, yet to seemed to drag on with exceptional slowness. His awakening on Earth was meet with both joy and sorrow in his heart. He was glad to be alive, but pained to think that even though he had survived the girl he was growing to love hadn't.
The reports of possible shelters were close to nil. Even though Nergal claimed otherwise, the people knew that the attack was so sudden that the special shelters Nergal had made were almost impossible to reach in time.
The first few days after his arrival on Earth, Akito spent wandering. He wandered with no purpose or destination. Wallowing in self-pity, he found himself on his only contact on earth's doorstep. Kyoko Takeshi.
The Takeshi's were adamant that Akito stay with them until he was back on his feet. To his surprise Akito found that Kyoko was pregnant. She said it was a special blessing the earth had given her, and she was glad that she wouldn't be that old a mother.
They questioned how Akito made it off Mars, to which he had no answer. They questioned about Ruri, and Kyoko shed her tears for the young girls departure. She had so hoped that Akito and Ruri would wed, but now that hope was gone. Through the shared lose, Akito and Kyoko accepted it.
After a three-month stay at the Takeshi home, Akito had come to terms with his loss and was ready to try to find his own place. Kyoko was skeptical. She knew Akito, and she knew it was his style to hide his pain from others. She just hoped that he wasn't too desperate. 'I have to have faith in him.'
Still with a heavy heart, Akito went to Tokyo in hopes of becoming a cook's apprentice. He had many difficulties finding his lot in that city. He was not able to find his desired job and was forced to again work construction, and other various odd jobs.
He made a meager living and stayed in a single bedroom apartment. His prized possessions being the bike he rode to work, a wok, and the letter that Kyoko had written for Ruri. He'd often look at the unopened letter and think of why he kept it, and why he hid its existence from its author.
In short Akito's life had again taken a down turn. But life works in cycles, and his was about to shift towards the positive. After living in Tokyo for about eight months he was hired at a small Chinese restaurant.
It wasn't the largest place, or even the best, but it was a job that gave him something to throw himself into. Akito would later look back at his boss and think, 'He wasn't the nicest guy, or even that great a chef, but he was what I needed.'
Things were again looking somewhat balanced for the youthful Tenkawa, that is until.
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"Ah man the Jovian's are attacking again?" a customer said to another.
Exhaling heavily, "Were just killing pilots. We can't stand up to those things. Why do they even bother to try?" the other replied.
The pair continued watching the aerial battle, noting the fire blossoms and thinking of the life lost. They were about to leave when another man hollowed out. "Check this out! The fry cook's gone psycho!"
Hearing the explosions, seeing the mecha known as the Jovian Grasshopper, shot Akito full of old memories. Memories he didn't want. Memories he wished to bury and forget. Memories and hopes of a happy life on Mars with Ruri beside him.
Tears steamed down his face and fell into his wok, "DANMIT! WHY DID THAT HAVE TO HAPPEN?"
Several inquisitive patrons walked to the head chef and asked, "What's the deal with your cook? He like the Jovian's?"
'That's the third time this month,' the master chef, this time, had enough of Akito's hysterics. "He's afraid. He can't even look at a picture of a grasshopper without going ridged." Solemnly the man knew he couldn't have his patrons being bothered by Akito's fears. He didn't want to fire him, 'Boy's got promise, but a job's a job.'
Walking over to Akito, who now was trying to scrape burnt rice off his wok, "Akito we need to talk."
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Walking his bike up a hill, wok strapped to his back, Akito wondered what to do next. 'I was fired.'
Cars passed him by as he continued pushing his bike up the steady incline, cursing gravity he wondered about what his boss had told him.
'You have to face your fears.'
Coming to a sudden stop he had a revelation, "Maybe I don't want to face my fears. I tried to on Mars and look at what it got me." But even as he said it, he didn't believe it. 'Ruri would be so upset to hear me speak like this. I can't give up. Something will turn up. Hopefully.'
Finally taking his eyes off the pavement, Akito caught a sudden glimpse of an open suitcase headed right towards him. He mumbled, "Why me God?" right before it hit him, its contents being thrown about the ground randomly.
Picking himself off the ground, and from under the open case, Akito was assaulted by the appearance of a woman. A woman with long blue hair and matching eyes.
"I'm so sorry! You're not hurt are you?"
Akito couldn't help but notice the voice actually did have some sincerity in it. He dusted himself off and gave the woman another look, 'Wow! She's.she's.beautiful.' Finding the girls eyes still on him, "I'm fine. You need any help?"
A wide smile spread across her features, "You'd really help me repack?"
After moving from apartment to apartment over that last few months, Akito was now an expert on packing, "Yeah, I can help. You obviously need it." It was about this time Akito noticed that the woman's companions were growing agitated at her delaying her task.
"Tell me how you'd pack it then?" she asked un-phased at the young man telling her to hurry up.
Showing her a few minor ways to improve her packing and how to protect her fragile possessions, Akito found his hand holding a small silk object. The woman's panties. Now living with Ruri for such a long time, Akito was no stranger to women's undergarments. He did his fair share of the laundry. But these were a complete strangers. Panicking he slammed the case closed. "All done."
Handing her the suitcase handle, he noticed the woman was giving him an odd stare, "Do I.know you?"
'How can I know this woman, I've never seen her before and I've only been on earth for a year, less that in this city,' he mused as he tried to resist laughing at the girl. Knowing he had to say something or she'd remain looking at him, "No, I don't think so."
With a small nod the woman sighed, she apologized again and returned to her car, which promptly sped off. Leaving Akito standing on the street watching. 'Something did feel familiar though.'
Taking a step towards his bike his foot meet with resistance. His eyes peered at the offending limb to find it had come in contact with something that wasn't his. A picture.
His eyes widened as he realized what exactly it was a picture of. "That girl.she's the Misumaru daughter.Yurika!" Old pains resurfaced in a flash. His parents. Ruri had never been able to find their killers; she was only able to find a small connection to Yurika's family. 'Is it possible that they had something to do with it!'
He hadn't even realized it yet, but he was on his bike chasing the car down.
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Jun was nervous; Yurika was acting strangely since the incident with the pedestrian. "Yurika, he wasn't hurt, don't worry about it."
'Jun,' Yurika thought, 'he worries so much about me. But I don't love him. I know he wants me too.but I can't. I feel bad treating him like this, but to tell him the truth would crush him.' Smiling to her friend, "It's not that Jun, I feel like I knew him. I wish we weren't so pressed for time."
The Admiral just drove, 'My well-endowed daughter is so caring.'
Opening the door for Yurika once the got to the Nergal base, "You don't think us being late will be a problem do you?"
"Not at all, I just need to make a good impression and all will be forgiven," Yurika answered in her chipper voice. Jun wasn't to convinced, but with no alternative left, he followed her.
In his heart, something ran cold, 'I'm just glad we won't see that guy again. Something about him just worried me.'
At that very moment on the other side of the base, Akito had just been apprehended for trying to sneak into the base.
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Now Akito didn't know where Yurika was going, and was more than surprised when she entered a military base. But he thought that if he tried being discrete he could have gotten in. He made it five feet into the base before the guards were on him.
To make matters worse, the man that talked to him, this Prospector, convinced him to serve as a cook aboard a space ship. Life had an odd way of changing his way of living on him, usually in a moments notice.
Something about how Prospector talked to him struck a cord, it was sympathetic. He was always receiving sympathy lately. His demeanor was outgoing, if not a little hyper, but some people could just tell he hide a deeper depression underneath.
What Akito didn't know was, the DNA database that had identified him, also told Prospector something interesting. Akito was on Mars up to the exact second that the attack occurred. 'If we can find out how he got to Earth, we could make a lot of mony.'
He let his mind wonder as his body did the same around the ship, this Nadesico. 'So I'm cook again. I'm going to go into space. I wonder where were going.'
So as Yurika was making her rather unexpected 'first impression' on the crew, Akito found himself in the Aestivalis hanger.
'This is actually very impressive! Look at that! Somebody's actually piloting one of them.' He mused as he watched a rather loud man pilot a pink robot. He was about to applaud when the robot gracefully landed on its back. He watched as a medical crew rushed to the cockpit and pulled out the pilot.
'He looks about my age,' Akito thought before the man screamed out in pain. He over heard the fact that the man had broken his leg in two places. 'Maybe I SHOULD be a pilot. I mean if he's protecting us, will we be safe?'
"Hey you!"
Looking around, Akito pointed at himself, the man called out again, "Who else is up there? I left something very important in the cockpit, could you get it for me?"
'What else do I have to do.' Akito thought as he rode a platform down to the lower level and towards the downed Aesti. Finding only a metal Gekiganger figure, Akito smiled. 'If I didn't give Ruri our Geki, I guess mine would be very important too.but maybe he's just immature.'
A sudden rumble sent him falling head first into the pilot seat. Something had happened.
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Minato staring at her helm command was a nervous wreck; they were sensing increasing enemy units. "Captain they must know where we are, what do we do?"
The other crewmembers looked at their new captain, waiting for orders. And criticizing the orders the Admiral on deck offered. Most thought the man a weasel, now they thought him cold blooded or a coward. However the captain didn't seem to be humoring him.
Yurika, over the voices of the other command staff, gave the orders. Launch into open ocean, turn and fire at the enemy flank. All they needed was a decoy.
Shouting at his loudest, Guy announced his arrival, "I can do that! All right! Leave it to me captain! I'll destroy them all with my space-ganger!"
The attendant merely stated, "With a double compound fracture?"
Again the bridge collapsed into chaos. Everybody trying to get the captain to act. Softly, a voice in the center of it all spoke, Ruri stated, "We already have a decoy," as she opened a vid-screen to the Aestivalis cockpit.
Guy erupted in rage, "What are you doing in my Gekiganger?"
Goat simply asked Prospector, "Who is that?"
Adjusting his glasses, "Akito Tenkawa from mars. He's a cook on the Nadesico."
"WHAT'S A MARTIAN COOK DOING." Guy was saying before Yurika cut him off.
After seeing thinking about the man, seeing him again, and finally over hearing Prospector, Yurika knew whom the man was. 'Dearest!'
"It's AKITO!"
Over the now open window, Akito was greeted by Yurika's triumphant cheer. The conversation went into multiple directions from there. Yurika questioning why Akito had faked not knowing her, Guy complaining about him stealing the spot light, and Military personnel telling him about how to operate the Aesti.
Akito was overwhelmed by it all. He was now a decoy? Who were these people to tell him what to do? He was a cook not a pilot!
But as Yurika stopped her speech about how Akito was doing this to save her and there to be love, said, "I'll entrust the ship and all her crew to you! Do you best!" Akito withdrew his argument. How could he complain when others needed his help?
As his Aesti reached ground level, he felt the Nadesico begin it part of the operation. 'Only 10 minutes. I need to last 10 minutes, sounds simple enough.' His platform stopped and a site that made his blood run cold greeted him.
An army of the insect like machines that had attacked the colony surrounded him. 'Screw this!' his mind hollowed as he turned the machine and began to run. Again, multiple view screens opened with many protesters to his actions. Having enough of both is cowardice and the complaints Akito turned and began fighting.
Screaming, "Take that, and THAT!" as he destroyed unit after unit, he came to a revelation, 'I'm not that bad at this.' Although he was making a dent in the enemy force, he was being pushed back towards the ocean.
His mind raced, 'How will this thing react to water?' With no time to find out, he felt himself falling further down. When he thought he had reached the water level, he felt a jerk. 'The Nadesico?'
Sure enough, Akito's Aesti was standing like a hood ornament at the bow of the Nadesico. Utilizing its gravity blast cannon, the Nadesico eliminated the remaining enemy forces.
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Puzzled Akito opened a commlink to the bridge, "It hasn't been time yet. What happened?"
Eyes bright and shining, "I rushed the schedule to help you! You did wonderfully Akito! Thank you."
Other vid-windows opened, each with a different crewmember thanking Akito for saving the ship from destruction before it was even launched. Akito humbly accepted the platitudes, but the last one nearly caused him to suffer a heart attack.
"Thank you Tenkawa-kun" a platinum haired young girl said to him.
'Ruri.THAT'S RURI! But.but as a child! How.how is this possible! I have to know! And my parents!' So many questions, so much had to be answered. And nobody was listening to him. He tried to talk to Yurika, but she twisted his words into some sort of marriage proposal.
The other crewmembers watched Akito and Yurika talk on two different levels and seem to have a conversation.
Megumi looked at the view screen and thought, 'He's kinda cute.'
Ruri simple said under her breath, "They're all idiots."
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Author Notes
Well there you have it. Akito has officially made his way to the Nadesico. I hope you don't mind this chapter being what it was. I tried to keep it as far from an episode copy as possible, I think I have Akito's personality altered enough to have him be the same yet different.
Hope you like this chapter and look forward to more chapters to come.
Ja Mata
Zentrodie (zentrodie@secondimpact.com)
Well I'm sure most of you are mad at me for taking so long to get this chapter out. I thank you for your patience. Time for writing is coming in smaller and smaller spasms. And this isn't my only story. So I have to divide my time, somewhat equally, among them all.
Hope you like this chapter and continue to support Anata.
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Anata No Ichiban Ni Naritai Chapter 8- New Beginnings
One year has past since the disastrous first battle at Mars. For Akito the time had both flown by, yet to seemed to drag on with exceptional slowness. His awakening on Earth was meet with both joy and sorrow in his heart. He was glad to be alive, but pained to think that even though he had survived the girl he was growing to love hadn't.
The reports of possible shelters were close to nil. Even though Nergal claimed otherwise, the people knew that the attack was so sudden that the special shelters Nergal had made were almost impossible to reach in time.
The first few days after his arrival on Earth, Akito spent wandering. He wandered with no purpose or destination. Wallowing in self-pity, he found himself on his only contact on earth's doorstep. Kyoko Takeshi.
The Takeshi's were adamant that Akito stay with them until he was back on his feet. To his surprise Akito found that Kyoko was pregnant. She said it was a special blessing the earth had given her, and she was glad that she wouldn't be that old a mother.
They questioned how Akito made it off Mars, to which he had no answer. They questioned about Ruri, and Kyoko shed her tears for the young girls departure. She had so hoped that Akito and Ruri would wed, but now that hope was gone. Through the shared lose, Akito and Kyoko accepted it.
After a three-month stay at the Takeshi home, Akito had come to terms with his loss and was ready to try to find his own place. Kyoko was skeptical. She knew Akito, and she knew it was his style to hide his pain from others. She just hoped that he wasn't too desperate. 'I have to have faith in him.'
Still with a heavy heart, Akito went to Tokyo in hopes of becoming a cook's apprentice. He had many difficulties finding his lot in that city. He was not able to find his desired job and was forced to again work construction, and other various odd jobs.
He made a meager living and stayed in a single bedroom apartment. His prized possessions being the bike he rode to work, a wok, and the letter that Kyoko had written for Ruri. He'd often look at the unopened letter and think of why he kept it, and why he hid its existence from its author.
In short Akito's life had again taken a down turn. But life works in cycles, and his was about to shift towards the positive. After living in Tokyo for about eight months he was hired at a small Chinese restaurant.
It wasn't the largest place, or even the best, but it was a job that gave him something to throw himself into. Akito would later look back at his boss and think, 'He wasn't the nicest guy, or even that great a chef, but he was what I needed.'
Things were again looking somewhat balanced for the youthful Tenkawa, that is until.
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"Ah man the Jovian's are attacking again?" a customer said to another.
Exhaling heavily, "Were just killing pilots. We can't stand up to those things. Why do they even bother to try?" the other replied.
The pair continued watching the aerial battle, noting the fire blossoms and thinking of the life lost. They were about to leave when another man hollowed out. "Check this out! The fry cook's gone psycho!"
Hearing the explosions, seeing the mecha known as the Jovian Grasshopper, shot Akito full of old memories. Memories he didn't want. Memories he wished to bury and forget. Memories and hopes of a happy life on Mars with Ruri beside him.
Tears steamed down his face and fell into his wok, "DANMIT! WHY DID THAT HAVE TO HAPPEN?"
Several inquisitive patrons walked to the head chef and asked, "What's the deal with your cook? He like the Jovian's?"
'That's the third time this month,' the master chef, this time, had enough of Akito's hysterics. "He's afraid. He can't even look at a picture of a grasshopper without going ridged." Solemnly the man knew he couldn't have his patrons being bothered by Akito's fears. He didn't want to fire him, 'Boy's got promise, but a job's a job.'
Walking over to Akito, who now was trying to scrape burnt rice off his wok, "Akito we need to talk."
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Walking his bike up a hill, wok strapped to his back, Akito wondered what to do next. 'I was fired.'
Cars passed him by as he continued pushing his bike up the steady incline, cursing gravity he wondered about what his boss had told him.
'You have to face your fears.'
Coming to a sudden stop he had a revelation, "Maybe I don't want to face my fears. I tried to on Mars and look at what it got me." But even as he said it, he didn't believe it. 'Ruri would be so upset to hear me speak like this. I can't give up. Something will turn up. Hopefully.'
Finally taking his eyes off the pavement, Akito caught a sudden glimpse of an open suitcase headed right towards him. He mumbled, "Why me God?" right before it hit him, its contents being thrown about the ground randomly.
Picking himself off the ground, and from under the open case, Akito was assaulted by the appearance of a woman. A woman with long blue hair and matching eyes.
"I'm so sorry! You're not hurt are you?"
Akito couldn't help but notice the voice actually did have some sincerity in it. He dusted himself off and gave the woman another look, 'Wow! She's.she's.beautiful.' Finding the girls eyes still on him, "I'm fine. You need any help?"
A wide smile spread across her features, "You'd really help me repack?"
After moving from apartment to apartment over that last few months, Akito was now an expert on packing, "Yeah, I can help. You obviously need it." It was about this time Akito noticed that the woman's companions were growing agitated at her delaying her task.
"Tell me how you'd pack it then?" she asked un-phased at the young man telling her to hurry up.
Showing her a few minor ways to improve her packing and how to protect her fragile possessions, Akito found his hand holding a small silk object. The woman's panties. Now living with Ruri for such a long time, Akito was no stranger to women's undergarments. He did his fair share of the laundry. But these were a complete strangers. Panicking he slammed the case closed. "All done."
Handing her the suitcase handle, he noticed the woman was giving him an odd stare, "Do I.know you?"
'How can I know this woman, I've never seen her before and I've only been on earth for a year, less that in this city,' he mused as he tried to resist laughing at the girl. Knowing he had to say something or she'd remain looking at him, "No, I don't think so."
With a small nod the woman sighed, she apologized again and returned to her car, which promptly sped off. Leaving Akito standing on the street watching. 'Something did feel familiar though.'
Taking a step towards his bike his foot meet with resistance. His eyes peered at the offending limb to find it had come in contact with something that wasn't his. A picture.
His eyes widened as he realized what exactly it was a picture of. "That girl.she's the Misumaru daughter.Yurika!" Old pains resurfaced in a flash. His parents. Ruri had never been able to find their killers; she was only able to find a small connection to Yurika's family. 'Is it possible that they had something to do with it!'
He hadn't even realized it yet, but he was on his bike chasing the car down.
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Jun was nervous; Yurika was acting strangely since the incident with the pedestrian. "Yurika, he wasn't hurt, don't worry about it."
'Jun,' Yurika thought, 'he worries so much about me. But I don't love him. I know he wants me too.but I can't. I feel bad treating him like this, but to tell him the truth would crush him.' Smiling to her friend, "It's not that Jun, I feel like I knew him. I wish we weren't so pressed for time."
The Admiral just drove, 'My well-endowed daughter is so caring.'
Opening the door for Yurika once the got to the Nergal base, "You don't think us being late will be a problem do you?"
"Not at all, I just need to make a good impression and all will be forgiven," Yurika answered in her chipper voice. Jun wasn't to convinced, but with no alternative left, he followed her.
In his heart, something ran cold, 'I'm just glad we won't see that guy again. Something about him just worried me.'
At that very moment on the other side of the base, Akito had just been apprehended for trying to sneak into the base.
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Now Akito didn't know where Yurika was going, and was more than surprised when she entered a military base. But he thought that if he tried being discrete he could have gotten in. He made it five feet into the base before the guards were on him.
To make matters worse, the man that talked to him, this Prospector, convinced him to serve as a cook aboard a space ship. Life had an odd way of changing his way of living on him, usually in a moments notice.
Something about how Prospector talked to him struck a cord, it was sympathetic. He was always receiving sympathy lately. His demeanor was outgoing, if not a little hyper, but some people could just tell he hide a deeper depression underneath.
What Akito didn't know was, the DNA database that had identified him, also told Prospector something interesting. Akito was on Mars up to the exact second that the attack occurred. 'If we can find out how he got to Earth, we could make a lot of mony.'
He let his mind wonder as his body did the same around the ship, this Nadesico. 'So I'm cook again. I'm going to go into space. I wonder where were going.'
So as Yurika was making her rather unexpected 'first impression' on the crew, Akito found himself in the Aestivalis hanger.
'This is actually very impressive! Look at that! Somebody's actually piloting one of them.' He mused as he watched a rather loud man pilot a pink robot. He was about to applaud when the robot gracefully landed on its back. He watched as a medical crew rushed to the cockpit and pulled out the pilot.
'He looks about my age,' Akito thought before the man screamed out in pain. He over heard the fact that the man had broken his leg in two places. 'Maybe I SHOULD be a pilot. I mean if he's protecting us, will we be safe?'
"Hey you!"
Looking around, Akito pointed at himself, the man called out again, "Who else is up there? I left something very important in the cockpit, could you get it for me?"
'What else do I have to do.' Akito thought as he rode a platform down to the lower level and towards the downed Aesti. Finding only a metal Gekiganger figure, Akito smiled. 'If I didn't give Ruri our Geki, I guess mine would be very important too.but maybe he's just immature.'
A sudden rumble sent him falling head first into the pilot seat. Something had happened.
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Minato staring at her helm command was a nervous wreck; they were sensing increasing enemy units. "Captain they must know where we are, what do we do?"
The other crewmembers looked at their new captain, waiting for orders. And criticizing the orders the Admiral on deck offered. Most thought the man a weasel, now they thought him cold blooded or a coward. However the captain didn't seem to be humoring him.
Yurika, over the voices of the other command staff, gave the orders. Launch into open ocean, turn and fire at the enemy flank. All they needed was a decoy.
Shouting at his loudest, Guy announced his arrival, "I can do that! All right! Leave it to me captain! I'll destroy them all with my space-ganger!"
The attendant merely stated, "With a double compound fracture?"
Again the bridge collapsed into chaos. Everybody trying to get the captain to act. Softly, a voice in the center of it all spoke, Ruri stated, "We already have a decoy," as she opened a vid-screen to the Aestivalis cockpit.
Guy erupted in rage, "What are you doing in my Gekiganger?"
Goat simply asked Prospector, "Who is that?"
Adjusting his glasses, "Akito Tenkawa from mars. He's a cook on the Nadesico."
"WHAT'S A MARTIAN COOK DOING." Guy was saying before Yurika cut him off.
After seeing thinking about the man, seeing him again, and finally over hearing Prospector, Yurika knew whom the man was. 'Dearest!'
"It's AKITO!"
Over the now open window, Akito was greeted by Yurika's triumphant cheer. The conversation went into multiple directions from there. Yurika questioning why Akito had faked not knowing her, Guy complaining about him stealing the spot light, and Military personnel telling him about how to operate the Aesti.
Akito was overwhelmed by it all. He was now a decoy? Who were these people to tell him what to do? He was a cook not a pilot!
But as Yurika stopped her speech about how Akito was doing this to save her and there to be love, said, "I'll entrust the ship and all her crew to you! Do you best!" Akito withdrew his argument. How could he complain when others needed his help?
As his Aesti reached ground level, he felt the Nadesico begin it part of the operation. 'Only 10 minutes. I need to last 10 minutes, sounds simple enough.' His platform stopped and a site that made his blood run cold greeted him.
An army of the insect like machines that had attacked the colony surrounded him. 'Screw this!' his mind hollowed as he turned the machine and began to run. Again, multiple view screens opened with many protesters to his actions. Having enough of both is cowardice and the complaints Akito turned and began fighting.
Screaming, "Take that, and THAT!" as he destroyed unit after unit, he came to a revelation, 'I'm not that bad at this.' Although he was making a dent in the enemy force, he was being pushed back towards the ocean.
His mind raced, 'How will this thing react to water?' With no time to find out, he felt himself falling further down. When he thought he had reached the water level, he felt a jerk. 'The Nadesico?'
Sure enough, Akito's Aesti was standing like a hood ornament at the bow of the Nadesico. Utilizing its gravity blast cannon, the Nadesico eliminated the remaining enemy forces.
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Puzzled Akito opened a commlink to the bridge, "It hasn't been time yet. What happened?"
Eyes bright and shining, "I rushed the schedule to help you! You did wonderfully Akito! Thank you."
Other vid-windows opened, each with a different crewmember thanking Akito for saving the ship from destruction before it was even launched. Akito humbly accepted the platitudes, but the last one nearly caused him to suffer a heart attack.
"Thank you Tenkawa-kun" a platinum haired young girl said to him.
'Ruri.THAT'S RURI! But.but as a child! How.how is this possible! I have to know! And my parents!' So many questions, so much had to be answered. And nobody was listening to him. He tried to talk to Yurika, but she twisted his words into some sort of marriage proposal.
The other crewmembers watched Akito and Yurika talk on two different levels and seem to have a conversation.
Megumi looked at the view screen and thought, 'He's kinda cute.'
Ruri simple said under her breath, "They're all idiots."
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Author Notes
Well there you have it. Akito has officially made his way to the Nadesico. I hope you don't mind this chapter being what it was. I tried to keep it as far from an episode copy as possible, I think I have Akito's personality altered enough to have him be the same yet different.
Hope you like this chapter and look forward to more chapters to come.
Ja Mata
Zentrodie (zentrodie@secondimpact.com)