Discliamer: I do I really have to do this again? No, I don't own Eureka Seven or any part of it. But the plot and new characters are my own.
Chapter 4: Fighting yourself
"Where? Where am I?" Renton asked as he felt a sharp pain in his head.
"That right, I was piloting the Devilfish" Renton thought to himself.
"Greetings Renton, did you sleep well?" asked a womanly voice.
"Who are you" Renton asked as he looked up to his host.
"Oh how rude of me, I'm Reina" she said as she picked up a fork.
"Where am I then?" Renton asked.
"Why you're at the FAC base" Reina replied. Renton now regained most of his consciousness realized he was tied to his chair.
"What do you want with me" Renton asked as he tried to break free from the restraints.
"What a rude thing to say, but I guess you do have that right." Reina replied.
"First off, we needed to free you of that monster, Eureka" Reina said in a grin.
"Eureka isn't a monster, and don't say she tricked me. I've been with her longer then you or anyone else has and I know she's not a monster" Renton said in defense.
"Oh? Well because of her, most of the people here lost their families, homes and love ones. And they all blame the monster for it" Reina said in a formal voice.
"Then I'm guilty of that too, because I made the second summer of love and I made half of the life on earth go away. If you call Eureka monster then you have to call me that as well" Renton said in an angry voice.
"I see you really like that thing" Reina said.
"Stop calling Eureka "that thing", she's a person and nothing you say can change that" Renton said angrily.
"What a waste, because you're quite a man. Piloting a LFO like that, and knowing so much about machines. Why do you want to fight with the coralians that killed so many people?" Reina asked in disappointed manner. Reina wore a silver dress, she had light silver hair, her eyes were greenish blue and she was a thin figure.
"The coralians never even attacked first, they were defending themselves against a threat" Renton replied bitterly.
"And we're fighting for that reason too" Reina replied.
"The coralians aren't a threat to us, they may have taken earth for a while but that's because we failed to try and communicate with it." Renton kept up his bitterness towards Reina.
"Hm, I guess this dinner is over. Guards take him to his room" Reina said as she got up from the table. Two guards came up to Renton and untied most of the restraints, Renton tried to use the chance to escape but they held a taser to his back and shocked him. Having being weaken he was taken to a jail cell.
"Renton…" Eureka said as she stirred from her sleep.
"Where's Renton" Eureka asked as she got up. Her head still hurt from the hit.
"Eureka…" Holland said as he got up from the chair.
"Renton…Renton was captured by the FAC" Holland said with his head down.
"What? What happened Holland? How did Renton get captured?" Eureka needed to know.
"He helped us escape but there were too many enemies, they got to him and took him away" Holland said still with his head down.
"Holland we have to save him, please do you know where he is" Eureka's voice was desperate now.
"I'm sorry the place they took Renton is moving" Holland said.
"We half to go there, they're going to kill him!" Eureka's voice began to break up.
"Please…" she said as she began crying.
"Eureka we'll bring him back for sure, I'm sure they won't kill him" Holland said in a reassuring voice. For that day, everyone in the Military began getting information on the whereabouts of Renton. Eureka wanted to help, she began helping out with the effort. Even with all their resources, including the Tresor records they couldn't find anything about the FAC. Eureka, lonely wandered back into her room where she cried herself to sleep.
"Bring him in" said a man in a weird suit.
"So this is the one" said another.
"Not a bad body and his mind seem to be able to put up resistance" said the first.
"Up the concentration of drugs" said the second.
"We should start low, so we don't over stress him" said the third in a sad voice.
"I guess we could collect data from a low test" said the first.
"Tied to the table" said the second. One of the guards placed Renton on the table, slowly he regained consciousness. He realized that they were about to experiment on him.
"S-stop!" Renton said as began to move around but he was already tied to the table. They stuck a wire to his head and one of them came closer with a needle. The doctor had stabbed the needle into neck and injected it into him. Renton could feel a lot of pain through out his body.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" Eureka screamed as Holland entered the room.
"Eureka! What's wrong" Holland said as he ran up to Eureka.
"They're…They're hurting Renton" Eureka began crying.
"We have to hurry Holland, Renton's in pain and he needs me!" tears ran down Eureka's face.
"I'm sorry we have no idea where their headed, it seems getting Renton was part of their objective" Holland said. Eureka tried to walk to the door but clasped before she reached it. Holland put Eureka back on her bed and went to the bridge.
"We have to find Renton soon, Eureka can feel that they are torturing Renton" Holland said.
"Amazing, to be able to fight off the drug that fast. This guy has a lot of mental resistance" one of the doctors said.
"We have some data now" said the second.
"I'll bring him back" the third said. Renton could feel that the third doctor wasn't trying to hurt him, in fact he could feel this one was trying to slow down the experiments. This man was wearing a face mask so he couldn't see what he looked like.
"I'll come by with some food later, rest up for a bit" the man said. Renton could see the man had a metal restraint around his leg, he guessed he's being held here against his will too.
"Thank you" Renton said as the man left the room. Eureka could feel Renton was safe for now, but how long before the pain returned. Eureka hoped Renton would be safe. For the next few days, Eureka would clasp in the hall and scream. Holland knew that Renton and Eureka's mental signals were connected now, and that their torturing Renton's mind. For a few weeks this continued but one day, a message appeared. It was a plan for an all out assault on the FAC's floating base. Holland knew this might be useful or it could be a trap, he decided to take the risk. As he scanned the data, there were instructions to where Renton was, the plan was simple: attack with a full force and while all the personnel's were distracted take Renton and run. The attack was in 3 days. As Holland and the Gekko-Go ready themselves, the Super Izumo was to hide and wait until the Gekko-Go made the first attack. When Eureka heard about the plan, she wanted to help but there wasn't an extra LFO for her nor was there enough room in the other LFOs.
"Renton, how can I help you…?" Eureka said to herself in a quiet and sad voice. The attack day came, and everything was in place. The information they got from the message was right, the enemy's ship didn't see the Gekko-Go running at full speed at them. As the first attack came all the UF (Military under Holland's control) units came out and attacked. As the chaos confused the FAC's ship Holland broke through the ship's armor with the 606. Holland got out of the 606 and followed the instructions on the message but there was a snag, a guard was there when he attacked. He could see a scientist trying to stop them from getting Renton but he was knocked out and they took him too. Holland tried to catch up but the ship broke up into 5 ships. He was in the transaction zone and Renton was secure in their hands again. The plan failed, but he knew one thing; who ever was that scientist, he helped them with the plan. For 5 more months they couldn't find Renton and for 2 months Eureka would clasp, she would clasp one a week without warning and she would scream. But by the end of the 2nd month the scream was so bad she lost consciousness. After that Eureka went into depression, what ever they were doing to Renton they stopped and they Renton was either dead or they finished with what ever they were doing. There was news about the Super Izumo being attacked, this was later confirmed when Jurgens himself told them. The enemy took Anemone and Dominic.
"Eureka… I know you might not know the answer to this… But do you think Renton is still alive?" Holland asked in a small quiet voice.
"He's still alive Holland, but he's in pain" Eureka said with her back against the wall.
"Just like me…" Eureka added. For the next 3 months all they could do was gather information. But there was an attack on the Gekko-Go.
"Leader, 2 KLF squads are attacking" Gidget said.
"Sound off the alarm" Holland said.
"Looks like they've come for Eureka" Holland said bitterly. As Holland headed out to fight he was shocked to see a black and red Devilfish coming in fast. It was different, he had two large blades on its arms and the lasers where placed closer to the head. The Super Izumo and the other UF ships began their fight with the 2 squads. As the battle began the Devilfish seemed to do only one thing, get to the Gekko-Go. As the KLF units neared the Devilfish they were destroyed quickly and without mercy. With its lasers it blasted a hole in the Gekko-Go's hanger and went in. Holland chased after it and landed not far from it, he waited to see who the pilot was but before the smoke cleared they moved. The figure began taking down the door, but then as Holland came near it; it saw him. It distanced itself from him but the smoke by this time had cleared, it was Renton. He was wearing a black uniform with dark pants; the shirt was marked with FAC symbols and other stuff. Renton was carrying a machine gun, he opened fire on Holland and as he did he broke through the door. Holland chased after him, and gun fire bombs were everywhere. The battle had taken itself back to the bridge, but this time when both Holland and Renton had taken cover, Holland talked with Renton.
"Renton! What are you doing with the FAC" Holland yelled from one side of the hanger.
"Completing my mission" Renton said in a calm voice.
"I have no obligation to tell you anything else" Renton added.
"Renton what do you think you're doing" Holland yelled back.
"I'm not Renton Thurston, I am Unit Seven" Unit seven responded.
"They did something to him" Holland said to himself. As the gun battle continued on, Holland and Unit seven used up their bullets and knife fight began. While he was fighting Unit seven he could see 3 rings around his eyes, but everything else proved it was Renton. Renton during his time way with Eureka from about 1 year ago had grown taller, so much in fact he was about Holland's height.
Eureka awakens by the sense of Renton and the noises of the fight began to walk to the door, even though she was told to stay she needed to be with Renton. She didn't care anymore; all she wanted was to be with him. She didn't care if he took her away, she didn't care what would happen if she walked out into the hall; all she wanted was to be near him. Eureka weakly tried to open the door but Holland had locked it, she tried so hard to open it but still nothing. While she lay there, she could feel Renton's presences near her. She could feel Renton was fighting, but she wasn't sure if it was a mind thing for a body thing. Eureka's mind went blank, all she could think of was Renton; this led to a blue light to come from the jewel in her forehead.
As Holland continued his fight with Unit seven he could see a red light come from his forehead, and Unit seven had a bit of trouble. It seemed to Holland that Renton and the one he was fighting might be in the same body but Renton was fighting Unit seven in the mind. Holland saw a chance to strike, but Unit seven saw through this and took out a pistol from a socket in his pants and shot Holland in the leg. Holland grabbed a gun and began firing back, driving Unit seven to go into the halls of the Gekko-Go. Eureka could feel Renton coming closer to her, and with that as inspiration she some how opened the door.
"Damn it, that guy took out the power" Holland said as he laid there on the floor.
"Eureka can open the door now, this isn't good" Holland said as he wrapped cloth around his wounded leg. Unit seven had stopped some where in the hallway, and muttered something. He got up and continued exploring the halls of the Gekko-Go. Eureka was in the halls now and she saw Renton running to her but to her horror. He pointed a gun at her.
To be continued…
The young man tried to fight himself in the mind but will he win or will he disappear. Next time: Standing Together
