CHAPTER 5

Just a to let you know before you dive into this long awaited chapter Kenji and Kaho's background stories will be told in season 2. Also Fuigi and Seiji are Nato's friends who were never given names in the original series so I just gave them names. Anyway enjoy this chapter and please review. (I usually have something witty to say here but it's late and I'm tired )

Kenji and Canti sat and waited at an abandoned warehouse. After they had escaped the local police and the swarm of news reporters, Kenji and Canti carried Nato's life less body to there current destination, and had called a private doctor to see if there was anything they could do to save him. Kenji got the cellphone out of Nato's pocket and had called his friends to see if they could help. Kenji was surprised that after such an intense battle that Nato's cellphone wasn't too badly damaged. Even though Nato's life was hanging on by a thread. The first to arrive was Fuigi (he's the one with the black hair). Fuigi had a thin mustache now and was wearing a Red Hot Chili Peppers t-shirt and blue jeans.

A few minutes later Seiji arrived. (Seiji is the one with the blonde hair). Seiji was wearing a plain white T and red sweat pants. You could tell he just came from track practice. Both of them were in shock to see Nato batered and bruised. They were both causing so much racket trying to figure out what happened that the doctor at the top of his lungs had shout "Shut the hell up!" Kenji started to explain the situation to Nato's friends in a low whisper.

"Look, let's try to keep our voices down. I had to really convince this doctor to work on your friend for free so if you want him to live keep your voices down." Kenji ordered while giving the two a stern look.

"What happened to Nato?" Fuji asked in a soft tone.

"Nato was badly injured while fighting Haruko and some of her thugs downtown earlier today."

"Haruko? Is he talking about the Vespa woman?" Seiji asked looking dumfounded.

"It's true" Kenji said, "some people might think of her as a normal weird girl, but she's far from anything normal and Nato is just the latest victim on her plot to free the Pirate King."

Kenji's eyes were focused on Nato the whole time. Fuigi and Seiji couldn't tell if Kenji was even concerned about Nato, but he was. He needed Nato to tell him everything he knew about Haruko and fast before it was too late.

An hour later the doctor was finished examining Nato and was packing up his things. He talked to Kenji since Kenji looked like the oldest one there. The news wasn't good. Nato had three broken ribs on his right rib cage, he had suffer internal bleeding, and the bullet he got shot with came dangerously close to his heart. The doctor did everything he could, now it was just a matter of waiting to see if he pulls through. When the doctor left Kenji informed the others of the heart breaking news. Kenji started to feel like this was his fault. If he wasn't smitten by Haruko years ago he would have been able to see through her plans and stop this from ever happening.

A few miles away at Nato's house

Kamon Nandaba (Nato's father) and Shigekuni Nandaba (Nato's grandfather) returned from their trip from Tera where Kamon just got his paper published finally finding a job. As the car pulled up both men's mouths where hung wide open to see there once big house/bakery turned into nothing but ruble and dust. Kamon and Shigekuni both got out of the car and just stared at what once use to be there home. Kamon's face slowly turned from surprised to furious, as he opened his mouth and screamed.

"Natooooooooooooooooooooooo!"

Back at the wharehouse

Eri had just arrived after receiving the phone call from Kenji. Eri was wearing a blue jeans skirt, a plain green shirt, and green high heels. When she came in and saw Nato's body lying on a mattress with bandages wrapped around his body she broke out into tears. She went to his side, got down on her knees, and started crying holding his body close to hers. The others couldn't help but look on with sadness in their hearts. There was nothing they could say that would make the situation better, and they all knew it.

In a Middle Class Neighborhood on the other side of town

Kaho Shimomura walked into the kitchen to get a glass of water. Kaho was from a well to do family and was very pretty. Kaho was a tall slender girl with all the right curves. She had long black hair and blue eyes. Kaho was wearing a long blue dress at the time when she walked into the kitchen. The TV was going on and on about the battle that happened downtown earlier that day in Mabase. It wasn't till a picture of Haruko's face flashed on the screen that Kaho dropped her glass of water, and shards of glass went sliding across the floor. Kaho's bottom lip started to quiver, she couldn't believe who she just saw on TV. It was unreal, Kaho slowly walked closer to the TV. Her feet started to bleed from walking on the sharp glass, but she didn't care, she didn't even wince once. All that mattered to her now was that Haruko was back, and she needed to see her one last time!

In the woods in the outskirts of Mabase

Haruko, Hitomi, and Kazue had retreated to the woods, the last place they had to hide from the Galaxy Police and any other earth law enforcement.

"We've been here for about three days now on this god forsaken planet and all we have to show for it is two of our comrades dead, the world knows our existence, and now you're telling me this Kenji kid was a kid you were messing around with before you met Nato!"

Kazue with his furious anger punched a tree making it fall causing a big crash that made the ground shake.

"This is the last time I ever do a job for you Haruko. I don't care if he is the Pirate King, you're not paying me enough to deal with this shit."

At that moment Haruko rushed Kazue, pinning him to the nearest tree with her hands around his neck. Kazue was trembling and Hitomi was too sacred of Haruko to go help him.

"Now listen" Haruko started in a stern voice. Kazue was already losing oxygen and trying to pry her hands away from his neck, but achieving little results.

"This hasn't exactly been a sunny day picnic for me either, but I will be damned if after dealing with all this crap I don't leave this planet with Atomsk. Do you here me?"

Kazue shook his head yes and then dropped to the ground when Haruko let him go.

"Now we are going to break into Medical Mechanica today and we are going to free Atomsk once and for all!"

Back at the Warehouse

Fuiji and Seiji held Eri back as Kenji pulled a white sheet over Nato's body. Nato stopped breathing 10 minutes ago and there was nothing they could do to bring him back. Even Canti who didn't even have a soul was sad to see his companion go. Kenji raised his hand in the air and then made a cross on his chest. He didn't know Nato, but he knew what Nato was going through. To him Nato was a soldier who was manipulated by a twisted and sick evil, and then died trying to stop that evil. Now the only thing left to do was kill Haruko, before she can hurt anybody else.

After everybody said there farewells to their long time friend Nato they all gathered in Fuiji's fathers truck and headed for Medical Mechanica. Kenji was in the bed of the truck with Eri and Canti as the truck speeded to Medical Mechanica.

"Why are we heading to Medical Mechanica?" Eri asked while try to hold on.

"With Nato out of the way the only thing left to do now is free Atomsk, I'm sure she will be there." Kenji responded without taking his eyes off his guitar.

Mean while at Medical Mechanica

After the televised event of Nato's and Haruko's fight Medical Mechanica ordered additional security and troops to keep Haruko from getting in, and breaking a certain intergalactic criminal out. Newspapers around the world were talking about the fight. Every Channel on TV would not let the subject go, and the Internet crashed two times from an over load of searches on the subject. One of the security officers on duty at Medical Mechanica was Dean Simmons. Simmons was missing for two days and the only explanation he could give was that he wasn't feeling well and couldn't come to work on the days he was missing. Dean was wearing an all-white suit and was carrying a suit case. He made his way to the HQ Main Security office in the building and left his suit case in a corner of the room. He left the building and once he was at a safe enough distance took a remote out of his pocket and pushed the center button.

The whole building went up in flames. Debrie and smoke covered the area as parts of peoples bodies went flying everywhere. Screams of scared and injured people made it impossible to hear the person next to you (unless they were screaming) and disgruntled and dazed soldiers picked themselves up and slowly try to gain composure over what just happened. The device Kazue used in chapter 3 was a holographic device used to make him look like the person he killed in cold blood in the alley. Kazue changed back to his regular form and started wreaking havoc to cause more confusion. Hitomi and Haruko snuck in while the chaos ensued making their way to the underground holding cell to free Atomsk!

Hitomi and and Haruko finally made it to the first security wall that leads to Atomsk's holding cell.

"I can hack through the system, but I'm going to need a few minutes" said Hitomi taking out her futuristic looking handheld computer.

"Haruko, we have a little problem over here." Said Kazue watching Kenji, Canti, and the rest of the gang speeding towards them in an old beat up, pick up truck.

"Then take care of it," Haruko shouted back in anger.

Kenji ran straight past Kazue letting Canti take care of him. All he wanted was Haruko, he knew that if he could kill her all of this would end and everyone could go back to there normal lives. Haruko saw Kenji charging straight towards her and already knew it was going to be a long day.

"Keep working on the security and get that door open." She said to Hitomi before clutching her guitar and charging at Kenji with a deafening roar.

Kazue and Canti went back and forth with each other pounding each other to death. Canti, despite his good intentions was doing more bad than good. His missles and rockets were causing more damage and had turn the whole place into a war zone. Eri and the others helped out by loading the wounded in the pickup truck and getting them to safer ground. Eri's eyes were now open to the full seriousness of the situation. As she rode in the back of the pick up truck with sounds of the injured in her ear and the blood of the dieing on her shirt she realized that she had lost someone she loved and more people today will there love ones over a fight to release a being that will cause double the carnage and double the heartache. Eri would have lost herself and gone insane during that time if it wasn't for thundering explosion resulting from the clash of Kenji and Haruko.

Inside Nato's Head

Nato awoke to a pitch black world as far as the eye could see. There was a low mist fog that reached up to his ankles, he was all alone and there wasn't a sound for miles. Nato wore an expressionless look on his face, he started walking and not giving a care in the world where he was at. The air was weird, it gave off a peaceful sense when you breathed it in, and it was neither warm nor cold, the air was perfect like spring time in the mountains. After a few hours of walking Nato noticed a figure in the distance, as he got closer he noticed the figure was a man, when he finally reached it he saw the figure was his brother who had a bucket full of baseballs and a steel bat in hand taking a few practice swings. His brother had golden blonde short hair and a goatee, the swings his brother were taking were as perfect as he remembered them. Nato stopped walking to watch his brother for a moment before any of them spoke.

"So you gave up huh?" Said his brother not taking his eye off the ball that he just sent flying out of eyes view.

"What are you talking about?" Nato said not changing his facial expression.

"You know where you are don't you?"

After a few minutes of them both not saying anything Nato's brother dropped his head and then looked at Nato with fierce eyes.

"YOUR DEAD NATO!"

Nato's eyes quickly went from expressionless to surprised. The situation hit him like a ton of bricks, his life flashed before his eyes before he got sick to his stomach and dropped to his knees.

"Where did you think you were at?" He said as he returned to taking his practice swings.

Nato's hands started to shake and his mouth hung wide open. "How can this be, last thing I remember was I was fighting Haruko and….

Nato stop in the middle of his sentence. "You lost little bro."

Nato got back up on his feet and started to get angry. He clutched his hands into a fist and narrowed his eyes.

"I'm glad I'm dead" said Nato, the statement surprised his brother.

"Haruko isn't my problem anymore. I don't have to fight anymore, I don't have to deal with Mabase, I can finally have some peace and solitude.

Nato's brother took another swing yet sending another ball into the distance beyond which the eye could see.

"And here I thought you had grown up." His brother said grabbing another ball and setting himself up for another swing.

Nato was now stunned and angry at what his brother just said. "What are you talking about, I have grown up."

His brother threw the ball up in the air, waited for it to fall back down to about shoulders length and then he swung the bat sending the ball flying to an unknown destination.

"I mean it's your fault for leaving, if you were still here Haruko….even Mamimi…..none of this would have happen if it wasn't for you." Nato said in voice that sounded like a child throwing a temper tantrum.

His brother rested the bat on his shoulders and looked at Nato with a look of disappointment.

"True men learn to look out for themselves Nato, your sixteen now you got to stand on your own two feet. You also got to learn to take responsibility for your own mess. Haruko was your problem and your responsibility the minute she walked into our house. It was your fault she got away three years ago and your fault she's back now. Now what you have to do is go and get rid of unfinished business once and for all."

Nato looked down at his feet in shame. His brother was right, Haruko was his responsibility and he had to take care of her like a real man, or others would pay dearly for his lack of responsibility.

"Wait!" Nato said in a frantic tone if I'm dead I can't fight Haruko and even if I was alive doesn't the fact that I'm dead just means I will lose again if I fight her.

His brother chuckled trying to hide it even though he didn't do a very good job of it.

"Haven't you heard? What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger! Now come over and grab this bat."

"I haven't swung a bat in years, and I suck at baseball remember." Nato said to his brother looking at him puzzled.

"Just come here." His brother said grabbing another ball out of the bucket.

Nato walked up to his brother slowly and his brother put the bat in his hands and smiled.

"Now" he said " Spread your feet, grip the bat tightly, eyes sharp and back straight."

The next thing Nato knew his brother threw the ball up in the air. Nato watched it go up and come down with anticipation. When the ball reached his shoulders he swung the bat as hard as he could.

The ball went flying into the pitch black distance. As the ball got further and further out Nato's vision became white and blurry until he couldn't see anything…He awoke to a white sheet over his face!

Back at Medical Mechainca

The fight between Kenji and Haruko intensified at fire, smoke, and death surrounded the area. Hitomi had got through the first door and was now working on the second door to get to Atomsk. Kenji relentlessly sent wave of wave of fire attacks at Haruko, but Haruko canceled out all of them with her water element guitar. Canti wasn't having a day at the park either fighting Kazue. Kazue was slowly gaining the upper hand over Canti with his incredible power, and without Nato to help him Canti was going to have to make due! His missiles seemed only to phase the big mammoth for only seconds before he was back on his rampage.

"Yes" Hitomi said, "I'm through the second door only one more to go before Atomosk is free."

A hail of gun fire showered Hitomi! Her body jerked left and right as the bullets rippled through her body and her blood splattered everywhere. Hitomi fell down lying on her back rolling her eyes upward to see her would be killer. Kaho Shimomura walked over her wearing blue jean shorts, sneakers, and a black tank top. Her hair was black like the night and her eyes were aqua blue. Hitomi wasn't gay but she did thought the girl was very beautiful, and if it wasn't for her looking at her so fiercely and just injecting her body with 20 bullets just now she might have been attracted to her. The last thing Hitomi noticed was the guitar she was holding in her hand. The guitar was shaped like and M16 assault rifle and Hitomi knew there was only one place or rather one person she could have got that guitar from!

"Where…. Is ...Haruko?" The girl asked in a soft, low, angry voice.

Hitomi used her left index finger to point to the fight of Kenji and Haruko as best she could. Her body was still weak from the attack and even though she was going to regenerate she didn't want that girl shooting her again; it hurt like hell. Kaho looked over to where Haruko was fighting. She pointer her guitar downward and strummed the strings sending about five more bullets into Hitomi's face before walking away!

Kenji and Haruko were clashing guitars when a few bullets zipped passed them breaking the two apart in confusion. Haruko looked over at Kaho with that "shit this can't be happening expression."

"Why….Why did you leave Haruko?" Kaho screamed with tears running down her eyes.

Haruko sighed with frustration. When she left her Kaho had become madly in love with her and dangerously addicted to her.

"Go home Kaho, this isn't the best time right now."

"How can you say that? When you left you didn't even give warning or anything. I woke up one morning and you were gone, and now you want me to leave, you say it like I'm a nuisance."

Kaho screamed at the top of her lungs, pointed her guitar at Haruko and started blasting away. Haruko dived behind a large piece of wall that was sitting in the debrie as Kaho's bullets of furry rained down on her. Kenji just looked on realizing that having that guitar ment that Kaho was another person Haruko had toyed with. He decided to sit back and let her get her piece of revenge.

All of a sudden the ground started to rumble and shake like there was an earthquake. Everyone stopped in their tracks wondering what was going on. Hitomi came out of nowhere running towards Haruko.

"I got the last door open Haruko let's go!"

"No!" shouted Kenji with his face looking on in horror.

A big part of the ground opened up and a giant roar came out from underneath. Haruko looked on smiling at the acheievment of all her hard work was about to bring, her one true love, the only man she loved, the pirate king Atomsk! A man standing about seven feet tall all red with green stripes around his body looked on at the people standing there battered and bruised from a long fight.

"I'm freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!" Atomsk shouted at the top of his lungs making the ground shake.

"Yeah, and so am I" shouted someone from behind.

Everyone turned around to find Nato standing on top of the tallest debrie pile with the guitar of time in hand, ready to fight!

Chapter 5 End

Whew, now that was a long chapter. Sorry it took so long to get it out my laptop was getting fixed as Best Buy. By the way Geek Squad sucks it took them six weeks just to replace a screen. Anyway don't miss the next and final chapter in season 1 of Fooly Cooly Redemption that will leave more questions than answers.

It's the fight you all been waiting for since Fooly Cooly premiered on TV. Atomsk VS Nato! This is a fight and an ultimate ending you won't want to miss! This is the time to get your friends on the ultimate Fooly Cooly story that has over 3,000 fans and counting!