Kenpachi:Hey Guys? Did ya miss me?... Sorry it took so long to finish this chapter.. But I was sorta studing in my AP classes... But here's the new chapter!
Toya:0.0 I can't believe you made me into a...
Renton:Shut it bro.. Its getting good!
Toya groaned loudly as he stood up from where he had fell. He looked up with slightly blurred vision to see the interlocked hands of the END and Holland's LFO. It's red and black hands emitting sparks as they clashed against the blue ones. Yet Toya could care less as he got to his feet. Even though he felt like he had been knocked senseless, he continued to stagger forward towards Holland's LFO. Eureka and Renton released the non-functioning LFO that Toya was piloting before he jumped out of the cockpit.
They looked over towards Holland as he grappled with The END. Then on the view screen they got a message from Hilda, telling them to return to ship and that the mission was complete. Eureka nodded at Renton who nodded in return. Holland, who was getting more and more agitated towards his opponent pushed her back just enough for him to kick away and activate his boosters. Yet before he was out of range, he saw Toya looking up at him with a scowl.
Holland smirked to himself and aimed his rifle towards Toya. It all happened so fast that Toya could not comprehend what had happened. Holland fired his rifle at Toya, only for it to meet the back of the END which blasted forward from its impact and collapsed in front of Toya. As they disappeared into the air and away from the battlefield, Toya's eyes widened as he realized what had happened. He charged forward towards the downed black and red LFO and started to bang on it screaming. "ANEMONE!!! ANEMONE ARE YOU ALRIGHT?!" He yelled at the LFO. The paramedic's from the base were already on their way and had reached the LFO, with Dewey at the head of them. He moved towards the back of the END and opened the back of it with ease. Toya stared in both sadness and anger as he pulled Anemone out of the cockpit. Her head bleeding slightly, the blood running a crimson streak down her face as he pushed her onto the stretcher and wheeled her away. As he was passing, Dewey gave Toya a look of utmost disgust yet said no words.
Toya bowed his head slightly and sat down next to the downed LFO. His eyes leaking silent tears as he continued to sit there. After what felt like hours Toya got up from his place and walked slowly towards the Hanger that housed the ship he was assigned to. He looked over towards where the LFO he had piloted was and sighed softly as he saw it being lifted into the hanger. Its marks slightly visible to him as it disappeared behind the steel doors of the hanger that slid closed after it was inside. He sighed again as he continued his walk.
As soon as he reached the Hanger he looked up at the giant Military ship and shook his head. Just days before he was bashing about how the Military was full of pigs and scum. Yet here he was, fighting for the people he had called scum and trash. To him it was pretty ironic that it happened, because somewhere down inside of him he knew that they weren't all scum. And Anemone was starting to prove that part right. When he thought of her name, his heart gave a horrifying jolt. It was his fault that she was injured in the first place. If he had just followed orders and done what was to be done, she would have been okay. He groaned angrily at himself and punched at the wall.
His fist smashed through the wall, creating a hole equal to his fist. When he retracted his fist, he saw that a few of his knuckles looked bruised and one was bleeding. "Hitting the wall won't solve your problems" A voice yelled down at him from behind. Toya turned quickly around to find the source of the voice. When he saw who it was, he started to scowl. Dominic stood at the top of the stairs looking down at him from behind a book. His eyes staring directly into Toya's, threatening to bore right into them if given the chance. Toya huffed grimly at Dominic and turned away, crossing his arms over his chest. "What's it to you huh?!" He asked angrily.
Dominic smirked from behind his book and closed it softly, placing it back in his pocket. "Oh nothing, just having fun watching you blame yourself for what happened" Dominic said softly as he turned to walk towards the ship. Toya turned around so fast that he almost lost his balance, his eyes staring at Dominic coldly. "What the hell do you know?! Knowing that someone could have died because of a stupid mistake you made?!" He yelled at Dominic. His voice echoing in the quiet hanger around them. Dominic stopped walking and turned back towards Toya, his eyes cold and ruthless.
"Just shut up and get over it, There is no use of beating yourself up! Even if you had gotten her killed, what would beating yourself up solve? It would not change the fact that she died and its your fault!" He said softly and coldly before turning to board the ship. His words hit Toya like that of acid, it melted into his mind. Toya sighed softly and sat down where he stood. His mind was racing with possibilities of what he could have done. Yet they either ended with him dying, or Anemone getting hurt worse than she already was.
He sighed softly and hung his head. Until he heard the clattering of small wheels on the floor as they echoed around the place. He picked his head up to see Anemone being loaded into the Battleship while still accompanied by Dewey and a team of medics. Then the hanger door opened towards more squeals of wheels. He turned to the Hanger door to see them wheeling in that LFO, well his LFO. They quickly loaded it up as though they were afraid to touch it.
Toya smirked softly as he got up from his spot and walked so that he could enter the ship. He was right at the door when Dewey emerged slowly with Dominic at his side. Both stared at Toya with a mixture of disgust and anger. Toya bowed respectfully as they walked past him and started to talk again. Toya sighed softly and walked into the ship quickly. The first thing he did when he entered the ship was start to run towards the infirmary. He wanted to see if Anemone was okay, by god he hoped that she was.
He rounded the corner toward the infirmary and collided with someone. He fell backwards, right onto his butt and groaned softly. He looked up to apologize but before he could, he was damn near hugged to death. He pulled away just enough to see who was hugging him, and his lips stretched into a smile as he hugged back just as tight. Because the person he was hugging was Anemone, a bandage around her head but other than that okay. "Anemone…Don't ever scare me like that again" He said softly in her ear. She smirked to herself and pulled away from him, getting back to her feet and staring down at him coldly. "You're not out of this yet Toya, It was your fault the End got hit anyway…So your going to help clean it tonight" She said coldly with a cold smirk. Toya sighed softly and stood up, he nodded softly and looked down at her.
He was so close he could smell the gauze of the bandages around her head. He backed away slowly and turned to walk towards the hanger bay. It was going to be quite a long night for him, but he was happy that Anemone was alright. A few hours passed as he worked on the LFO. His hair was matted and his clothing was covered in oil. A small streak of it ran across his cheek yet he smiled. "Well, That takes care of the legs and arms, I'm just about done for the night" He said smiling brightly.
As soon as he had finished what he had said, he heard a loud thud, as though something had hit the floor. His heart started to beat faster after he heard the sound, making him pick up the wrench beside him. He started to walk slowly and cautiously toward the sounds direction. Soon he was going up the stairs, the sound growing louder as he drew up them. He wasn't paying any attention as to where he was going as he walked towards the sound. Then, suddenly the sound just stopped. Leaving him in the middle of the platform looking around for another hint of the sound. Then the lights in his area sprang to life unexpectedly nearly blinding poor Toya.
When he turned around he was so startled that he fell backwards off his feet. He was face to face with the very LFO that had tried to take over his body. Yet for some odd reason, he could not summon the fear that it had struck in him the first time. It did not have the eyes of an evil person despite its name. Yet its eyes hinted and gave off a motherly glow to him, which caught him off guard. It reminded him of his mother in a way, but the problem was that he had never met his mother.
His eyes closed softly as he fought back tears and though of what his mom looked like or even smelled like. But while he was trying to figure that out, the LFO in front of him activated its eyes. It stared right at him, analyzing him as though it were a scientist. "Well, Well, Well… If it isn't the weak human again" It thought. Toya's eyes sprang open to look at the LFO as he backed away into the steel guard behind him. "You….You can talk?!" He said in a haunted voice.
The LFO's eyes rolled slightly and stared back at him. "Of course I can talk, And Don't be so loud…Do you want to wake the other humans" She thought. "Wait… Your mouth isn't moving…How are you talking to me" He asked sharply. Its eyes locked directly onto him, making him twitch even more. "I'm not human, Now get me out of these restraints" She thought sharply. Toya looked towards the stair case, making the eyes of the LFO follow his gaze. "Do you really want to try and get to that, I promise you won't make it there" She said softly in her metallic voice. Now he knew why she did not speak, even talking as low as she could it echoed around the hanger. He sighed softly and looked back at the metallic head of the LFO. That motherly feeling that he was getting from it was starting to waver greatly into a fit of mistrust and fear.
This night was going to be quite a long one for him, that's if he survives it anyway. But he wasn't the only one having it bad, his brother was having just as much a bad time. Renton walked angrily away from the dining room where there was nothing but silence. He had just gotten punched and kicked around from Holland for trying to defend his brother, for trying not to let Holland kill him. He had barely gotten back on the ship when Holland called a meeting, and as soon as he walked in the door Holland decked him from the side. He started to yell at him, saying that the mission could have failed because of him. This made Renton angry and yell back at Holland.
"But he's my brother! And I refuse to let you kill him!" He had yelled. That served him to another punch, followed by a kick in the stomach from Holland. He had no idea that his idol was so cold and heartless towards others. And then when he looked to everyone, they just stood there and looked away when their eyes met his. "What else was I to do? Let him kill my only brother?!" Renton said softly to himself.
Some how even though he had gotten in trouble, He thought of what Toya would have done in his situation and it made him laugh. "If he was me… He probably would have picked me up and juggled me" He said laughing softly. Then a thought occurred to him! He remembered that he and his brother had packed walkie-talkies when they had set out to save Anemone and Eureka. When this thought crossed his mind, he ran towards his little tent beside the Nirvash and looked around for it.
When he had held it in his hand, he clicked the button and tuned to their secret channel. All he could hear was static, which made him speak first. "Hello? Bro are you there?" He said softly at first. Nothing, all he could hear was the static from the channel. He sighed and tried again. "Hey Nitwit?! Are you there?" He said forcefully trying to hold back a chuckle. But on the other end he heard static once again. He was giving up hope that his brother would answer tonight and put the talkie down. Yet before it had even left his hand, He heard a small voice from it.
"Hello? Who is it?" It said softly. Renton picked it back up to his ear and stared at the talkie. It didn't sound like his brother, it sounded more feminine to him. "Maybe he's just a little sleepy" Renton thought to himself. Little did he know that on the other line wasn't his brother, But it was Anemone. "Hey…Did I wake you Bro?" Renton said softly into the talkie. Anemone stiffened slightly as the voice peered through the phone. "So this is his brother? Or is it just a code-name?" She thought to herself. "Err.. No you didn't Bro…Why have you called?" Anemone said softly into the talkie. Renton smirked slightly and spoke in a sort of hushed tone back into the talkie.
"Are you a little busy with that Anemone Bro? A little Bow chicka wow wow?". Anemone's eyes widened as a blush spread across her pale white cheeks. She tried not to burst into a fit and curse at the person on the talkie, instead she tried to control her anger. "No…I am not brother…. I was just recalibrating the drive matrix on the LFO" She said in a matter-of-factly tone. Renton's eyes widened and he stared at the talkie in confusion. Since when did Toya have such a vocabulary? And he had went three sentences without making a joke about Renton being short.
"Nice vocabulary bro.. When did you learn those words?" Renton replied laughing softly. Anemone chuckled softly enough so that Renton did not hear her over the talkie and smiled. "Uhhh… I learned it from Anemone.." She said quickly. Renton smiled and nodded. To him it made since that his bro would learn something from a girl better than from himself. Renton sighed again and peeked outside of his tent to make sure nobody was around. Yet his luck wasn't all that good seeing as when he looked out, his eyes stared into the blue eyes of Eureka. "Renton? Who were you talking to?" She said softly and calmly.
Renton stared from her and to the talkie back and forward three times before completely cutting off the talkie. "Uhhh.. Nobody Eureka.. Just talking to myself" He said with a nervous chuckle. Eureka looked Renton into the eyes and shook her head slowly. "Renton.. I will ask again.. Who were you talking to?" She said firmly. Renton flinched slightly at the firmness in her voice and slowly tried to retreat back into the tent, yet he did not get far before a pair of strong manly hands grabbed the neck of his jacket and pulled him out of the tent. When Renton looked back toward the tent, he saw not only Eureka staring at him but also a very pissed off looking Holland.
"She asked you a question! Who were you talking to boy?!" He yelled at Renton making him flinch slightly and crawl back towards the hangar wall. Before he could say a word Holland pulled the tent up and started to go through Renton's stuff. Before Renton could even voice his defiance on this matter, Holland stopped looking and pulled up the walkie talkie. "Talking to yourself eh? Let's see who was on the line, shall we?" Holland said softly and clicked the talkie on. On their end all they heard was static, channel after channel of static. Luckily Renton had turn away from their channel before he had turned it off. But it would only be a matter of time before Holland found their channel. His luck was very short lived as Holland turned the dial once more and a little voice called over the talkie. "Hey! You there Bro?" The voice said softly.
Holland smirked at Renton in anger and clicked the button to talk. "Who the hell is this?!" He said forcefully into the talkie. Anemone stared at the talkie in contempt after being yelled at. But before she even had a chance to answer back, the talkie was yanked from her hand followed by a hand wrapping around her mid-section and pulling her away from Toya's stuff. When she turned around to look at who had pulled her, her face was inches from that of Toya's. "What are you doing in my room Anemone?" He asked softly. Yet again, before she could answer, Holland's voice once again blared out of the talkie. "I ASKED YOU A DAMN QUESTION MILITARY PIG!" He had yelled.
Toya's eyes widened as he released Anemone and stared at the talkie. That voice sounded so damn familiar to him, and that saying as well. That's when it hit Toya hard, that voice belonged to Holland! He fought the urge not to crush the talkie and softly as he could clicked the button. "Military pig? Is that what you just called me you bastard" Toya said calmly. Holland stared at the talkie and smirked wider. "Yes, I called you a Military pig! Think you can hide a spy on my ship huh?!" He spat into the talkie.
Toya's nostrils began to flair as he heard that voice again. "We have no spy on your ship, If there was one it would be me you bastard! And I would probably be dancing on your bloody, rotting, mangled corpse" Toya said as calmly as he could. Anemone stared at Toya in a slightly fear-instilled look. Up till now she had never seen him angry, or say anything like what he had just said.
"My corpse huh? In what lifetime you piece of shit!" Holland spat one last time before throwing the talkie into the wall, smashing it into pieces. He looked at Renton in anger one last time before storming off once again with Eureka behind him. Toya heard the crash of the talkie and knew that it was probably broken. He gently sat the talkie down on the dresser and looked at Anemone. Anemone's eyes connected with Toya's and it made her heartbeat quicken and the hairs on her neck stand on point.
Where there had been eyes of happiness, love, laughter, and peace. There now stood just one thing, bloodlust. "Anemone….I think it is time that you went to bed" Toya said in a soft calm voice as he sat down onto the bed and was nearly hidden in the darkness. Anemone nodded slightly, not sure if he saw her or not. She hastily ran out of his quarters and into her own. Her heart still beating quickly and she was sweating slightly. "What…What just happened?" She asked herself before she laid in her bed and slowly tried to drift off to sleep. When Anemone awoke the next day, thoughts of the night before still lingered in her head.
"Maybe he's feeling better today" She thought to herself. She got up and started to get dressed when Dewey walked into her room. When she looked at him, she saw a smirk on his face. Next thing she knew, he was hugging her tightly and chuckling softly. "Anemone, Where did you find such a fine soldier like that boy?" He asked softly as he released her. Anemone stared back at him in confusion. "Umm sir, I thought you said Toya was a babbling idiotic meat shield" She said softly as she finished getting dressed.
Dewey laughed yet again and turned to walk out of the room, signaling her to follow him. "Now, I know what I said about him, and I will admit, It seems that I was wrong" He said softly. Anemone nodded at him and followed after him. They walked in silence, except for the commotion that they heard ahead of them. They were in the viewing room of the ship, and nearly everyone was there. Anemone looked around and found that Toya was the only person missing in the flock of people.
Everyone was staring at the viewing screen with smirks and smiles on there faces. "Take a look for yourself at what you brought back with you Anemone" Dewey said gesturing to the view screen. Anemone nodded and looked carefully at the viewing screen. Her look of contempt turned to that of horror as she looked at the view screen. Fires were everywhere, buildings were burning, bodies littered the streets. She wondered who could have do this carnage!
Then her eyes fixed on a figure behind a row of fire, that was clutching something. That's when she saw an LFO start to shoot widely at the figure while backing away. The figured pulled from its back what looked like a sword. It was so quick that Dominic had to rewind and play it back again to get a good look. The figure, which was identified as Toya's LFO had busted out through the flames at such speed that the other LFO had no warning or even time to avoid it as the blade that was in the Devil's hand had sliced through its mid-section and caused it to explode.
The markings over Toya's LFO were glowing brightly in red as it slowly walked through the town. Anemone could not bear to view it any longer and turned away from it. "A fine soldier he will make, just like his father would have been" Dewey said loudly, which was followed by a chorus of Hurrahs. Over the loudspeaker in the viewing room, Toya's voice slowly yet loudly blared out of it. 'Commander Dewey….mission objective completed. Awaiting further orders". Dewey smirked softly yet menacingly to himself. "That will be all for today Toya. Return to the ship and get some rest" He yelled with a triumphant smile on his face.