A/N: In this chapter things will start to get different from the anime.

Chapter 2: Row Your Boat

The first thing I noticed was the pain. It seemed to be in every part of my body, making it hurt to even breath. It was an immediate relief, it proved I was alive. I could have cried right then and there from joy. But then I thought of Jo... Was she alive, was The Stupid Girl alive, if they were, where were they? I needed to move, I needed to get up and find them. As I tried to sit up, pain raced through my body and blood spilled into my mouth. I tried to swallow it and to push myself up. My arms couldn't support my weight and I fell back into the sand. I turned my face as to not get the sand in my mouth and sighed as the ocean came up and licked my head. I felt dizzy. I suddenly wondered just how much blood I had lost. I began to really feel like I might be in trouble. That damn feeling started to rise in my chest and I wished nothing more than to just have Jo and my Cy-bot here with me....

"You're so stupid, Jo!!!" I would know that voice anyway. I looked up searching for Meg who I knew had to be close by.

"Meg..." I tired to call out to her but my voice came out barely a whisper. Damn that girl! I tried again to sit up but I just couldn't support myself. I fell back onto the ground and gasped in pain. I needed to get her attention somehow. "Meg..." I called out again but my voice was even softer this time. Darkness crept along my vision. I made another attempt but my arms wouldn't even move this time. Well shit...


I woke up to the smell of leather and gun powder. I tried to open my eyes but they felt like lead. Something hairy was tickling my chin. I tried to brush it away but my arms wouldn't respond. I was getting that feeling again and I tried even harder to move them. At the sensation of my fingers twitching my heart started to beat like normal again.

This is okay, everything is going to be just fine! I'm not going to die!

My eyes slowly started to open. The moon was high in the sky and a patch of red hair was bent over me, seemingly inspecting my wounds. The hairy thing that was tickling my chin was the fur to the red bomber jacket that I had seen Jo weiring before.

"Meg..." I said quietly. She jumped to attention, her face full of anger and relief all at the same time.

"Good, you're awake...I'm glad..." She told me with a tear filled voice that made me worry.

"What's going on, where's Jo?"

She was quiet for a moment before looking back down at the wound on my stomach she was attending to.

"This is going to hurt." She informed me briefly before pulling what must have been a bullet out of my stomach. I gripped the sand beneath me, my eyes wide in pain, and gritted my teeth. "That hurt!" I snapped at her.

Meg gave me a cold look before setting the bullet down in a small pile of others next to her. "I told you it would!" She snapped back. What the hell was wrong with her?

"Jo left... She went to take back Tokyo... She left me here." She said with visible tears brimming her eyes. "I went into town as quickly as I could to get medical supplies after I found you... Stupid Jo..." I listened quietly to her as she looked over my body.

"I think that's all of them but I need you to sit up so I can wrap bandages around your stomach." I nodded and with Meg's help I sat up while she wrapped them around me. That was when it dawned on me that I was naked. My bandaged hands shot up and covered my chest. This got a small laugh from Meg.

"It's a little to late for that, don't you think?" She asked.

I glared at her as a small blush crept across my cheeks all the way to the tips of my slightly pointed ears. "Why did Jo leave you here, aren't you her partner?"

She looked stung as she finished sealing the bandages and sat back. "Because she's stupid!"

I nodded quickly deciding not to disagree with her. "Well, we'll just have to go after her then." I stated simply.

Meg gave me a skeptical look. "And how do you suppose we do that?"

I smirked and pointed to one of the row boats that sat a few feet away form us.


"Row Meg, row!!!!"

"I'm trying! You could help ya know!!!"

"Me?! But I'm injured! You wouldn't ask a cripple to help, now would you?!" I asked with my arms flailing dramatically.

Meg looked at me with an annoyed expression, "You're not crippled!! Except maybe in the head!"

"No, but I am injured and did almost die saving your sorry ass, now row!!" I shouted with a grin on my face as The Stupid Girl continued to move the ores in the water as fast as she could. "We must save Jo-sama!!"

"Jo-sama...? You know what, I don't want to know..." She said with trying to move the ores even faster which was probably an attempt to get there even faster in order to get way from me.

Hey, whatever gets her ass movin!

"Come on, Meg! You keep up this pace and we may as well have taken the long route and walked!!"

"Shut up, Maria!!"

"Huh...? Hey, you shouldn't talk to people who saved your life like that ya know! If I hadn't thrown myself in the way like that, you and Jo-sama never would have made it off that boat!"

"It was your fault we were there in the first place!"

"Yes, but had I not kid napped you, who knows what kind of horrible things they would have done to Jo-sama?!"

"Oh, nothing they would have done can be worse than this!"

"Hehe you wanna bet?! I could do some many horrible things to you even Jo-sama wouldn't recognize you when I'm done!" I said with a grin on my face that made her eye's widen in fear.

"RAPE, RAPE!!!!! FIRE!!!" Meg screamed at the top of her lungs will flailing around like a caged mouse making water splash inside of the boat.

"MWAHAHAHAHA No one will hear you out here!!! In fact, I prefer it if you scream!!"

"AHHH!!! JOOOOO!!!!!!!!"


I don't know how long it took us to get there but by the time we hit shore the moon was higher in the sky. Meg stepped out first then helped me out which, of course, I resented. These injuries were going to slow me down for a while. I sighed and placed my hands on my hips.

"Now what?" Meg asked in a pissed off tone.

"Hey, I could have just left you back there! Don't be so ungrateful!"

Meg put a very forced smile on her face that made her look creepy. "Then however would you have rowed the fucking boat?!"

I closed me eyes and shrugged. "I would have found a way...eventually..."

"I should have left you to die in the sand!"

I laughed and turned to grin at her. "Aw, what happened to the cheerful girl I met who could only brag about how awesome her partner was? You're just pissed because she ditched your useless ass!"

Meg's face fell and suddenly I felt guilty for what I had said. She turned sharply on her heals and began stomping off.

Me and my big mouth...

I sighed and tried to catch up to her which made my legs ache. "okay, okay, I'm sorry, Meg! I didn't mean to say that!"

She slowed down a little but didn't say anything. "Ya know..." I said as I placed my arms behind my head, "If you had just agreed to be mine then we wouldn't be going through this..."

Meg turned around and slapped me hard across the face before stomping off again. I stood there holding my cheek stunned. She hit me! I could see her in the distance rubbing her hand. It didn't really hurt me as much as it hurt her but still! "What the hell was that for?! Meg!" I tried to run after her but my legs simply couldn't take it. Meg turned around and ran towards me as she heard me fall to the ground.

"Are you okay?!"

"My body is covered in holes and you just hit me! Does that seem okay to you?!"

"Yep, you're okay..."

I sneered at her as she helped me up. She looked at me with disapproval before letting me stand on my own.

"What did I do now?!" I asked in annoyance. I was really beginning to wonder what Jo-sama saw in this girl. Yeah, she can be cute, weak, and innocent, but at the same time she was annoying as fuck.

Meg glared at me. "You're always so rude!"

I blinked at her a few times not quite sure what she was talking about. "Um...okay...I'm sorry?"

Meg sighed and looked at me like I was a lost cause. "It's fine, whatever."

In my mind, Meg really should have been the one apologizing, but hey, as long as she was happy. "So, do I get a hug now?"

Meg looked like she would rather not but she tentatively met me in an embrace. I grinned before reaching up and grabbing one of her boobs. Meg let out a scream and jumped away from me, her face crimson. "This is exactly what I'm talking about!!

I couldn't help but hold my stomach and laugh. She was so cute!


My playful mood was quickly evaporated as we entered to city. The whole place was in ruins. We talked without saying a word to each other. Meg seemed to have forgiven me for my actions earlier but something about the sight before me kept us quiet. It was almost as though talking here was forbidden. The only sound that could be heard was our heels clicking on the concrete that was cracked and in some places completely tore off the ground. The buildings were almost all damaged and the atmosphere it's self was almost choking. I tried not to look up until I saw something that made my heart wrench. I pulled Jo-sama's jacket tighter around me as I stared at what was once Jo's Cy-bot, Django. My throat tightened as I dared myself too look up at the ruins of Tokyo Tower. That's were we saw Jo-sama's scarf blowing in the wind, caught on a pole. It wall seemed hopeless. Meg stepped closed to me, her face surprisingly blank and her eyes dry. "Goodbye, Jo..."

I grasped Meg's hand gently and tried to smile reassuringly at her but I couldn't get my muscles to work. Meg sighed and tightened her hold on my hand. Her lips twitched a little and her eyes began to water. I turned towards her and let go of her hand to wrap her in a hug. I think it was quite possibly the most... human thing I had ever done. Meg's head rested on my shoulder and I felt her body shake against mine as she let out a sob. I never would have thought that I would be standing here, holding a small, innocent girl, mourning over my dead enemy...

"Nothing will ever be the same...Oh God, Jo... You're really gone this time aren't you?" Meg sobbed as she held on to me tightly. It hurt but I didn't have the heart to move her.

This was what I wanted wasn't it? I wanted Jo dead so that Meg would rely on me, so that I could protect her. So why did I feel like the whole world was coming down around me? Why did I feel this huge weight on my chest that threatened to crush me? Why the hell did she die?

I held on to Meg tighter as tears started to fall down my face. It startled me. I had never felt such a sensation before... The next thing I knew I couldn't breath right and I was sobbing into Meg's hair. This terrible feeling, this grasp that tightened around my heart and wouldn't let go, that felt like it was being squeezing my heart into nothing, was the worst thing I had ever felt. I didn't know how I could survive it. If these feelings were what it was like to be human, I wasn't so sure I wanted to be one.


The sight of Meg crying into someone else's arms made my stomach tighten. I knew I should have run over there and grabbed Meg from her and held her tightly myself, to calm her fears, to tell her that I loved her. This was best for both of us. I couldn't fight with Meg always in the way. No matter what I would always be putting her in danger, I would always be at risk of loosing her. I would have given up every weapon I had, every ounce of strength I had if it meant Meg would live a safe and happy life. I knew that would never happen. This way Meg would be safe. Maria would protect her. My leaving would make both Meg and Maria happier in the long run. Meg would be safe and have some one who would openly show affection for her, Maria would be aloud to live like a human, to feel emotions, and I would be able to fight without worrying about Meg. I loved them both. I don't know why I did, but I couldn't help it. I would die for them in a heart beat, so it was only natural that I would fake my own death for them.

I turned around and left down an alley before Maria's sharp eyes could catch sight of me. A small smirk began to play on my face as I walked quickly down the torn roads of Tokyo. If my enemies thought I was from hell before, they were in for the shock of their lives. I would no longer have to hold back. No one would be safe from the Angel of Hell.

And with that I left with the ruins of Tokyo in my wake.

Good bye, Meg. Goodbye, Maria.