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Chapter 5: Fly with the Child
"Looks like we have to return to fighting…" Renton said sadly.
"I guess it's our war now" Eureka said. The attackers saw the KLF's jet mode and flew after them; they were catching up until they got to an area with thicker trappar. The density of the trappar began increasing and so did the speed of the KLF. Renton was sure that he'd need to get to Tresor but it was far away and the energy levels of the KLF weren't even enough for one-third of the trip. He was able to get them closer to the tower of Bellforest and there was a large red Military battle ship. If it was part of the Tresor group that they wouldn't fire; if they weren't then they were in trouble. Carefully nearing the large ship and showing himself and the KLF's serial number they were there because they were defending against the attackers. When he opened a channel to the ship's captain and it was none other then Jurgens himself, Renton remembered him because he gave the Gekko-Go fuel to save Eureka. Jurgens was surprised to see Renton and Eureka with the kids in a KLF unit.
"You're Renton aren't you" he asked surprised.
"Yeah…" Renton replied.
"Please we have to get to Tresor" he added. Eureka looked out and saw a black and white LFO fighting but because of the overwhelming amount of KLFs attacking it was having trouble taking them down.
"Mister? Do you have another LFO on that ship?" Eureka asked.
"We have another one…but it won't move… we wanted to bring it here so Axel could have a look at it" he said disappointingly.
"We'll take it" Renton said as he landed the KLF. They hopped out and got the children safely in the Super Izumo, not long after that Jurgens showed them the Exiellenia.
"Let's go Eureka" Renton said looking at her.
"Yeah" Eureka nodded. They got in, Jurgens was expecting the LFO to stay where it was but to his surprise it rose up, picked up its board, and launched. Anemone in the typeChaos saw the Exiellenia roar past her and watched as two blades flipped out its fore arms. Wasting no time it cut off the arms, legs and boards of the KLFs. The Exiellenia was doing so much damage to the attacking force that they forgot about Anemone and turned their attention to the Exiellenia instead. It was flying and fighting just like at Tresor, using the lasers on its arms it fired the homing lasers. Without even getting touched it defeated 9 squads of KLFs that fought against it. Performing a cut-back drop turn and then coming down to take out six KLFs at the same time made the enemy scared. In the distance Eureka and Renton saw the battle ships that launched the attack; they saw it as a threat and charged the cannon in the chest of the Exiellenia. Draining about 50 percent of the Exiellenia's power it fired on the ships and took out the wings and reflection films. The enemy knew they lost and quickly retreated, Eureka and Renton brought the Exiellenia back to the Super Izumo where the other KLF pilots watched to see who could pilot a LFO like that. Everyone saw who it was; a boy with brown hair and a red jacket and dark colored pants and a girl with blue hair and green butterfly wings. They held hands then jumped out and walked to the Super Izumo again, everyone watched as three little kids and an old man walked out to greet them.
"You were amazing!" Linck said hugging Eureka.
"It's been a while, hasn't it Eureka…" Renton said looking at her.
"Yeah… This child feels like the Nirvash…" she said turning to the blue and white LFO.
"Renton, Eureka!" Jurgens said as he walked to them.
"Where have you been all this time" he said with a million questions ready to pile on them.
"We've been around" Renton said nervously. Just as Jurgens readied for his next question, Dominic and Anemone came up to them.
"Renton, where have you been all this time?" he asked as he faced Renton.
"We were lost somewhere" Eureka said covering for Renton.
"Where?" Anemone asked.
"We're not sure" Renton said, they didn't want to tell them they had returned six months ago; Axel of course, agreed to everything they made up.
"Well, wait till Holland and the Gekko-Go hear about this" Dominic said feeling excited. From there they embarked on the Super Izumo to Tresor. The Gekko-Go was helping around Tresor by delivering KLFs and parts, but the Super Izumo was to go to Bellforest and let Axel take a look at the Exiellenia. Even without Dr. Bear everyone knew that the Exiellenia only moved for Renton and Eureka. Dominic and Anemone had all the time in the world to interrogate Renton and Eureka. Finally separating the two they got the time to talk to them individually.
"Renton… So how's it going?" Dominic didn't know where to begin.
"Fine…" Renton said moving his eyes around to see if anyone else was there.
"First off, what happened when you went to save Eureka from the command cluster?" Dominic asked.
"A lot of things happened and I can't explain it either…" Renton said nervously.
"Well, tell me what you did" Dominic asked in curiosity.
"When I knew we would take too long to reach Eureka I asked Nirvash to help" he said recalling his memory.
"Go on" Dominic said impatiently.
"When I told her I needed Eureka I got her to transform…" Renton said.
"Wait… You called the Nirvash a "her"…" Dominic asked confused.
"Well, after I saved Eureka… She spoke to us…" Renton said thinking about it.
"Nirvash spoke?" Dominic asked in excitement.
"Yeah…" Renton said. While Dominic asked Renton about the time he disappeared, Anemone took the time to talk to Eureka about certain stuff.
"I never really got a chance to complement you on your wings, they look really nice" Anemone said.
"Oh…thanks…" Eureka said shyly.
"And I wanted to thank you for helping me realize that I like Dominic…" Anemone said cheerfully.
"We just wanted to help…" Eureka said nervously.
"Well, I just wanted to say thank you for that" Anemone added.
"So…How are things with Renton?" Anemone asked nudging Eureka.
"It's been very peaceful" Eureka said smiling.
"Hey, you want to try my new cake!" Anemone said as she remembered she stashed a cake in the fridge of the Super Izumo.
"Cake?" Eureka asked the fact was; Eureka never had a cake before because she didn't know the kids' birthdays and the Gekko-Go always being at war, she never even heard of one, let alone try one.
"You don't know what a cake is?" Anemone asked in shock.
"I think I've heard about it, but I'm not-" Eureka was cut off.
"You have to try it!" Anemone said still in shock.
"Okay…" Eureka said confused. Anemone led Eureka to the kitchen of the Super Izumo and found the cake she stashed; it was a triple mango short cake.
"Here it is" Anemone said as she go the cake out. She cut a small piece of cake then placed it on a dish and handed it to Eureka. Eureka nervously took small bite of the cake and her eyes lit up.
"This is really good" Eureka still tasting.
"I can't believe you never had a cake before!" Anemone said. As for the rest of the story, the Super Izumo arrived at Tresor and with the announcement of Renton and Eureka's return, everyone came to the scene to see for themselves. Renton and Eureka readied themselves for the question that they knew everyone would ask: Where have you been? Eureka and Renton decided on one answer and that they'd use only that: "We just returned from earth not long ago." Everyone and I mean EVERYONE asked them the same questions over and over again such as: Where did you go? How did you return? What happened to the Nirvash? What did you see in the Command cluster? And many more questions like these. Finally escaping the wrath of questions, Eureka and Renton were reunited with the crew of the Gekko-Go. Holland of course was the first to ask them the same question that they answered four hundred times.
"Got'cha!" Stoner said as he took a picture.
"The return of the heroes of the world, finally something interesting for RayOut" Stoner said looking proud of the film in his hands.
"Eureka, Renton, it's really nice to see you again" Talho said as she walked in on them.
"Hi Talho!" Renton and Eureka said together.
"You two worried a lot of people you know" Talho warning them.
"Sorry…" they said looking guilty.
"Get ready you six, we're leaving soon!" Holland said as he got ready to board the Gekko-Go.
"Where are we going?" Renton asked.
"Well you saw Bellforest under attack right?" Holland said turning around.
"Yeah…" Renton said confused.
"I got information that they attacked because Bellforest was a supporter of the Tresor group. We're not sure if they would attack other places but it's safer here on the Gekko-Go" Holland said.
"Wait!?" Axel said angrily.
"Why should I leave Bellforest, it's my home!" he said.
"They might attack again and I want to make sure that you're all safe" Holland said backing away from the angry Axel.
"Well, I gotta prep the launch sequence" he said walking into the long run way of the Gekko-Go. Renton, Eureka, Axel and the kids enter the ship and looked around the hanger for a bit. The hanger of the Gekko-Go was almost the same as they left it; the 606 and the 808 sat in their respective spots and they turned to the 909's spot and found two LFOs sitting there. It was a new 909 and a repaired Devilfish.
"Holland got a new 909" Renton said as he examined the LFO.
"But why is the Devilfish still here?" Eureka asked.
"It's a back up LFO, just incase we needed another one" Hilda said walking up to them.
"Oh…" they said understandingly. All of them turned to the spot of the Nirvash and expecting it to be empty; it wasn't, in the place of the Nirvash was the Exiellenia.
"Why is the Exiellenia here?" they asked in surprise.
"It moved here by itself… from the Super Izumo" Hilda answered.
"It moved… just like…" Renton and Eureka said looking at each other.
"Oh, by the way, nice wings Eureka" Hilda said before she left them. Axel was examining the mechanics of the ship and its contents. Soon after the Gekko-Go took off and everything was normal, taking the time to catch up with their friends Renton, Eureka and the kids looked around while Axel tormented Woz and Jobs about their work on the ship. They saw Talho walking down the hall and decided to say hi.
"Hi Talho" Eureka said.
"Talho!" the kids said together.
"Hi everyone" Talho said as she looked at the kids and Eureka then to Renton.
"Wow you really got bigger" Talho said as she remembered Renton's original height. Renton's height had shot up since the last time the Gekko-Go crew saw him, growing almost as tall as Holland and getting a bit more muscular build from working with Axel he looked more grown up.
"Talho…I wanted to ask… how's your child" Eureka asked nervously.
"You want to see him?" she asked.
"Yeah" they agreed. Talho led them to her room with Holland and warned them to be quiet, carefully she showed them the small grey hair child in a dark blue crib near the bed and next to the couch in the room. They quietly watched over the sleeping child.
"What's his name?" Renton whispered.
"Charles" Talho answered softly. Renton gasped at the name, it was the name of a friend that he lost; something he stilled blamed himself for.
"Why did you name him Charles?" Renton asked.
"Holland realized that Charles was an important person to both you and him and in his memory we named our child after him" Talho answered in whispers. They left after seeing Charles and when they were outside Eureka confronted Talho with a question.
"Talho… How do you…get pregnant…?" Eureka felt her cheeks redden.
"Well, you should pay a visit to Mischa and Dr. Egan" Talho said.
"Dr. Bear?" Renton asked.
"Mischa and him are going to be staying with us for a while" she said.
"Are they leaving?" Eureka asked.
"They left us when you two disappeared" Talho said.
"Why?" Eureka asked.
"With you two gone and the world stop being an enemy to us she didn't really have much to do, so she returned to Tresor and started working there. Now that you two are back, she's going to monitor you two further" Talho told Eureka and Renton. They headed for the infirmary and greeted Mischa and Dr. Egan. Mischa of course was surprised to see Eureka with wings and green jewel in her forehead. Looking at Renton she realized only Eureka's physical body changed.
"Mischa… can you tell me about…child making?" Eureka asked reddening.
"Well, I have a course on it but…" Mischa was caught off guard by this but in the end she agreed to teach her if they let her take tissue samples and other medical purposes.
"First I'm going to examine you two then I'll show you, Eureka" Mischa said. Mischa took blood samples and skin tissue but what she was interested was the jewel and wings that Eureka had. She took the sample of the wings and scanned the jewel in her forehead, after examining Eureka Mischa turned her attention to Renton. She did the same tests and didn't look all too interested in Renton's data.
"It'll take a few days before I can thoroughly examine all the data" Mischa said looking up from the computer. Renton knew that Mischa was going to teach Eureka about sex-Ed and he knew about what the course consisted of (Him having at least an 8th grade education).
"So I guess I'll go see what Grandpa and the kids are doing" Rentons aid opening the door.
"Renton… Can you stay here with me…?" Eureka asked with hopeful eyes.
"Well, I learned this stuff already so there's no point learning it again" Renton said trying to avoid going through the course that embarrassed him the most.
"Please… I feel better with you here" Eureka said trying to convince Renton.
"Okay…" Renton said defeated. Agreeing to stay through the course, Renton and Eureka sat down on the infirmary bed and Mischa took out a small TV. Mischa started with the introduction to the course, a video that Renton was all too familiar with. While Renton's face boiled, Eureka seemed to be very fascinated about the subject. Renton began remembering his time at school and everything the teacher taught, the text books and videos would continue to haunt his mind forever now. Mischa then showed Eureka about drug use, STDs and smoking which Eureka didn't care about. Renton tried to ignore most of what was happening and wished he was some where else his head strayed from corner to corner looking at the different medicine that was stored in the room he was in. Finally Mischa finished and Eureka had many questions waiting for her. Going through the questions she turned to Renton.
"Do have anything you want to ask?" she asked.
"No… I've been through this course already so my questions are answered" Renton said looking to the door. Eureka continued with her questions until she was finally satisfied with the explanations. They left the infirmary together and when they walked a bit further Eureka looked around to check if anyone was there and when she confirmed that no one else was there, she took Renton's hand and brought it up. She then looked at him starry eyes; for a moment Renton looked confused and then he realized what Eureka wanted.
"No" was the words he said, his face was redden.
"But why not" Eureka tried to convince Renton again.
"Because…" Renton was trying to find an excuse because he was nervous and scared of what might happen.
"Because we're still too young" Renton felt this was a good answer.
"But Mischa said that I could have one at this age" Eureka said protesting. Renton searched his mind for a defense.
"I didn't mean physically, I mean socially and emotionally" Renton found his defense. He remembered about teen pregnancy and that was going to be his strong defense.
"Please…" Eureka tried her last move.
"Let's wait till we're older" Renton's face was redder than a tomato. Eureka looked disappointed and defeated, she turned around thinking. Renton, feeling safe that Eureka had given up hope for now went to examine the Exiellenia. Eureka walking away began thinking.
"I'll get him…" she thought.
To be continued…
Times of peace have fallen upon the planet, the young man and the young woman take advantage of this time; but what awaits them at the end of the tunnel. Next time: Take me