Kenpachi:This is the last of the updates... Hope to upload a hell of a lot faster next time
Toya:Ehh.. I like this one better than the others...
Renton:So do I...
Kenpachi:*twitch twitch* Say the disclamier before I kill you both...*reaches for zanpaktou*
Renton&Toya: He does not own anything except his created characters... i.e Toya... so yeah...
Renton sighed to himself and nudged Toya in the ribs, effectively making him stop his laughter. "Sorry , my brother can be an idiot some times" Renton said apologetically, bowing slightly to Talho. Toya rubbed his ribs where Renton had hit him and followed suit with a slight bow. Talho smiled down at the two boys, liking feeling superior and tapped her foot lightly. "Well, it's perfectly okay…. Now I think it's about time that we got the hell out of this place" Talho said softly, turning from Renton and Toya to walk towards the darkness.
Renton smiled and grabbed his brother by the arm, pulling him after him towards the darkness. Toya shook off his brother and backed away slightly, eyes trailing back towards the downed LFO's. "Wait… What about the LFO's? We can't just leave them!" Toya said sternly, eyeing his brother up and down when Renton started to smile. "Who said we were?" Renton said simply, walking back to his brother and grabbing his arm.
Toya looked back towards the LFO's one more time before being pulled by his brother yet again towards the darkness. After what seemed like an hour, Renton finally released his arm when the cave started to fill with more and more light. Toya smiled and charged ahead of Renton, who quickly followed behind him as they approached the light. Before Toya knew it, he was outside in the crisp air and felt the breeze in his hair.
"Oh dear god have I missed this feeling! " Toya said happily, before noticing what else was in the clearing in front of him. His eyes widened as he saw the Gecko Go, the ship manned by Holland and the rest of Gecko State. He turned around to face Renton, only to feel a rag pressed to his lips. When it made contact, he made the mistake of giving a deep inhale through his nose, taking in an unknown smell from the cloth.
Before he knew it, he was out cold and fell to the ground. Renton dropped the rag to the ground and grabbed hold of his brother's arm, hoisting it over his shoulder as Talho took the other one and helped him carry Toya into the ship. At the top of the hanger doors, Holland stood with a smirk on his face, Eureka standing beside him with her blank stare looking down at Renton, Talho, and the unconscious Toya.
"He was easier to trick than I thought he would be" Holland said sternly, turning his head to look at the unconscious boy as Renton and Talho carried him past. "Holland… You have no sense of sympathy do you?" Talho spat, not even looking over her shoulder to see Holland's reaction. Yet, even though she could not see it, she could hear it pretty well from her distance from him.
"Military dogs don't deserve any sympathy… Especially after what this one did to that city" he said slowly, turning to face Talho, eyes glaring at the back of her head. For a second, Talho stopped walking, wanting to say something but she couldn't find the strength to say it. Holland expected her to turn around and chew him out, but instead she resumed walking away from him. His mouth parted as he stared after her, until she disappeared behind the sliding door.
"Just what… the hell is wrong with her?" Holland fumed; turning to storm off with Eureka on his heals. "Maybe it's her time of the month" Eureka said softly, walking by Holland when he stopped walking to stare at Eureka. 'Since when did she know what a period was?' Holland thought to himself as he continued after Eureka. Down in the brig, or on the Gecko the laundry room, Renton softly laid Toya down onto the bench.
Talho stood behind him, pistol at her side just in case the boy came to and started to attack. "Renton….I know it must be hard to do this to your own brother" Talho said softly, placing a comforting hand onto his shoulder. "It's alright , he didn't get hurt and that's enough" Renton said slowly, a small smile forming onto his lips. Talho smiled and turned to walk out of the room, looking over her shoulder to see Renton still sitting down.
"Renton? Are you coming?" Talho asked, turning around to face Renton. "I…I want to talk to him when he wakes up…" Renton said softly, not even looking over his shoulder towards Talho. Talho smiled and nodded, walking out of the door, closing it, and locking it with a slight click. Renton sighed and smiled down at his younger brother, happy that he knew that Toya was for once safe.
He lay down on a separate bench away from his brother and closed his eyes, trying to stay awake yet knowing he couldn't. He allowed consciousness to slip away from him and allow him to fall into slumber. His rest however, felt very short lived as he was promptly jerked from his sleep by a constant shaking. His eyes opened slowly, to look up into the face of his tormentor. Standing above him, with a smile on his face, was his brother Toya.
"Well that's a first… I woke up before you!" Toya joked, poking his brother in the head. Renton quickly sprung awake, wrapping his arms around his brother's neck and hugging him. Toya smiled and hugged his brother back, knowing the feeling of not seeing the other in so long. "Err… bro… I got a question…. What in the hell happened?" Toya asked softly, releasing his brother just as Renton let him go.
"Well, how should I put this…?" Renton pondered, getting up from his seat and slowly pacing the small room. Toya watched his brother walk around the room, and couldn't help but chuckle as old memories started to resurface. "I was knocked unconscious and brought onto the Gecko wasn't I?" Toya asked softly, breaking his brother from his trance, making Renton stare at him.
"H-how did you know that?" Renton asked as he started eyeing his brother suspiciously, thinking maybe his brother wasn't even unconscious at all. Toya chuckled and pointed towards one of the washing machines, to a label that clearly said 'Property of Gekko State'. Renton looked at the machine and then back to his brother. He mentally slapped himself for thinking his brother would be caught on purpose and let a small chuckle escape form his lips.
"Well… Since I'm a prisoner, and you're here anyway… Mind telling me how the hell you have been?" Toya asked happily, lying back against the wall. Renton smiled and nodded, sitting across from his brother and looking outside of the window. "Well…Life on the Gekko is never dull I can tell you that…. I've been to so many places and met some very cool people! Like Moondoggie, Hap, Matthieu, and . There are a lot others, but I don't want to bore you with each of their names... Knowing you won't remember them either way it goes" Renton finished, earning him a glare from his brother, which was then followed by a chuckle.
"Okay… you're probably right on that one… What about Eureka?" Toya asked, eyeing his brother for any sign of faltering. And Renton did just that, a smile broke across his face from ear to ear at the mention of her name. "Bingo! I think I just hit gold" Toya said firmly, getting up to sit next to his smiling brother. "Come on… Don't keep me in suspense! Tell me everything bro!" He practically yelled, poking his brother in the arm. Renton's smiled widened and he lightly punched his brother in the arm.
"Okay ya lug…. What do you want to know?" Renton asked, smiling over at his brother. Toya wanted to jump with glee at his brother's words. He instead rocked back and forward on the metal bench. Renton chuckled at his brother's reaction. "I want to know everything! Don't you dare spare a single detail!" Toya yelled out, pointing and wagging his finger in mock threat at his brother. Renton smiled and stood up, taking a deep breath.
"Okay… She's helpful, incredibly beautiful! She takes care of three kids like they were her own…. Hell I think they might be! She's an awesome LFO pilot…. But she isn't very talkative…. And she does ignore me from time to time…. And so much more to te- why are you looking like that?" Renton said in that one breath, stopping only because of his brother. Whose face seemed as though he was trying to suppress a large laugh.
He didn't seem to be looking at Renton, instead looking over Renton's shoulder. Renton followed his gaze, trying to see what his brother could be laughing at. Brown eyes connected with blue ones, as Eureka stared right back into his. "U-u-umm… E-E-Eureka! H-H-Hi!...H-how long you b-been standing th-there?" Renton managed to choke out. "I came in just as you were talking abut how helpful I was…." Eureka said blankly, dropping a bag onto one of the washers.
Toya could no longer hold it, he busted into a fit of laughter, which seemed to echo in the room they were in. Renton's face flushed, and he started to poke his two index fingers together in embarrassment (think Hinata from Naruto). "W-well you see… My brother wanted to know about you… S-so I was telling him about you" Renton said softly, not daring to look up into Eureka's eyes.
"And why would you do that? He is the enemy after all, no matter what your relation to him is" Eureka said coldly, making Toya end his laughter to stare at her. "What the hell is that suppose to mean? What makes you think that I would even think about betraying my own brother?" Toya shouted in defiance, anger starting to rise in him. "Other than the fact that you are apart of the military? And that you are under Dewey's leadership and control?" Eureka said bluntly, casting a side glance to look Toya directly in the eye.
Toya was at a lose for words, sure he wouldn't even dream of betraying his brother. But then again, she had a few valid points on why Renton shouldn't trust him. Not like they were talking about anything important anyway. Eureka took his silence as confirmation, directing her next set of words at Renton. "Holland wants the prisoner sedated and ready to move." She said coldly, pointing at the bag on the washer. Renton's head snapped up quickly and looked at the bag, then back at Eureka.
"W-what? Why?" He asked frantically. "We are going to set a trap for the military, and he is the bait" She said bluntly, pushing past Renton and reaching in the bag. From the bag, she pulled out what looked like a gun with a needle at the barrel. Then she slowly pulled out a small, thin, cylinder tube that house a bluish liquid inside of it. Toya began to back away from her, eyes glued on the thing she held. He never really liked needles, and this was definitely helping him to hate them a lot more.
"S-STAY THE HELL AWAY FROM ME!" Toya yelled at the top of his lungs. As if on cue, the door to the laundry room busted open, revealing a very happy looking Holland and a calm Talho. "Time to take your medicine pig…." Holland said in a sing-song voice. Renton was about to protest, when Talho grabbed hold of his arm and tossed him out of the room, quickly closing and looking the door from the inside. Renton turned around and started to kick and bang on the metal door.
"Don't hurt him! DON'T HURT HIM!" Renton yelled, continuing to bang and kick the door. On the other side of the door, Holland, Talho, and the needle wielding Eureka were approaching the cornered Toya. Toya had played this scenario over and over again in his head, there was no way to avoid them and he couldn't get to the needle in her hand. They were getting closer and closer to Toya, and just before they had reached him, he let out a yell that surprised them.
He took that moment to make a dash for Eureka. By the time he had reached her, he grabbed the needle that was in her hand and managed to nearly wrestle it away from her. He would have succeeded, had a pair of hairy arms not wrapped them selves around his torso, encasing his arms. And a set of rather soft hands held down his legs so that he could not kick the needle from Eureka's hands.
"Struggling will only make it harder for you… Just accept the sedative" Eureka said softly, pressing the needle into Toya's neck and pulling the trigger of the gun. Toya yelled in defiance as he heard the faint sound of the cylinder emptying its contents. Toya continued to struggle against his captors, feeling as the liquid entered his veins. His body felt as though it was not his own, starting to go limp in his captor's arms.
Eureka removed the needle from his neck and placed it back into the bag, her face expressionless. He felt his captor release his legs and then his torso, yet his body wouldn't respond. He could hear Renton's beating and screaming from the door, followed by a loud laugh as he slowly lost consciousness. "You're a real dick….You know that?" Came a feminine voice from the side of him, just as his body gave way and he felt the cold metal underneath him.
His eyelids became heavy, and he gave one last look around the room. Holland's smiling face, Talho's sympathetic face, and the expressionless face of Eureka. He would have flicked them off, had he been able to feel his fingers. He did manage to choke out one thing before he passed out. "Hey….. You're a real dick….You know that?"