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Chapter 18: The kiss in the sky

"What are you doing to my ship?" Holland asked.

"Your engines are damaged here, and the wire connections are wrong here" Renton said in a neutral voice and pointing at a part of the control panel of the engines.

"But Woz said that they were right" Holland protested. It's been a week since Renton began speaking again and it seems like Omega and Dr. Bear were more and more interested in this.

"Axel, can you tell him if these connections are correct or not?" Renton asked neutrally. Axel walked to the control panel and inspected the wires carefully and turned back.

"He's right, the wires are mixed up" Axel concluded. Holland looked at Renton for a bit; ever since he began speaking again he started repairing the LFOs and the ship itself. Eureka by now was looking at the control panel herself; she studied it carefully and after a while she too agreed that they were mixed up. Holland turned away and walked back to the cafeteria.

"I'm going to pick up the tool box in the storeroom" Axel said as he got up and left. Renton sort of ignored Axel and began repairing the wires.

"Renton, thanks for repairing Nirvash" Eureka said as she curled up beside him. He turned and gave her a small smile.

"It's my pleasure" he said. Eureka loved to make him talk, it seems the more she got him to talk with people, the more he returned to being Renton; her Renton. Eureka had invented a new game for herself: make Renton talk as much as she can.

"Hey, let's see what Maurice and the other are doing!" Eureka said cheerfully. Renton's face gave a small hint of emotion.

"Okay" he said quietly. Maurice, Maeter and Linck were playing around the bridge when Renton and Eureka came in.

"Hey Papa! Hey Mama!" Maeter and Linck said when they saw them. Eureka let them run to her just like they always had when they saw her. Maurice walked up to Renton and handed him a small toy.

"Could you fix it…?" Maurice asked with his head turned slightly away.

"Of course I can" Renton's voice showed more depth and it felt calm. Holland was spying on them. He decided to have Adrock return the Amita to Renton; it was best in his hands now.

"Hey Anemone I-" Anemone jumped on Dominic.

"CAKE!" Anemone yelled as she snatched the cake from Dominic's hands.

"…got you some cake" he said groaning. Anemone had landed on him.

"Thanks Dominic" Anemone was fighting the urge to laugh.

"Wow, this is a really good cake. Where did you get it?" Anemone said as she tasted the cake.

"Renton and Eureka made it" Dominic replied.

"More, more, MORE!" Linck pushed his plate further to Eureka.

"Don't worry, there's more then enough" Eureka said as she tried to calm Linck down.

"This is certainly good" Stoner said. Everyone on the Gekko-Go was relaxing in the cafeteria. When everyone looked to the kitchen where Renton was cleaning up but when he turned to them he showed them smile. Everyone almost forgot how Renton's smile looked like.

"I'll have some more" Holland said as he cleaned up his plate.

"Where's the cake!" Anemone stepped on Holland.

"Over here" Renton pointed to the cake in the kitchen where he was cleanly cutting pieces for everyone.

"My back…" Holland said from under Anemone.

"Hand over the cake…" Anemone said to Renton.

"I'm saving some for the Dango-Go, you have one more piece but that's it" Renton said neutrally.

"Hand over the cute and delicious cake" Anemone said looking annoyed. He turned to look at Eureka who was covering her mouth and trying to contain the laugher that wanted to burst out.

"Sorry, I have to save some for other people" Renton said as he handed her a plate with a piece of cake on it.

"Renton, you better do what she says" Dominic said from behind Anemone.

"Okay Renton, you can give it to her… We'll just make another one later" Eureka said chuckling.

"Alright…" he said as he got the rest of the cake.

"Hey Renton…" Eureka said. They spent more time in their room together now.

"Hm?" Renton's head turned slightly.

"Nothing… It's just… I'm glad you're with me" Eureka said quietly.

"I'm glad to with be you…" he said with a smile. Eureka felt like she could sleep more soundly and thought that she could catch up on her year and four month sleepless nights. She would fall asleep on Renton's shoulder and he would gently place her safely on the bed. This time however, when he placed her on the bed he turned and took the small mirror his found. When he looked into; the image simply showed his own body but with a part of the Nirvash's helmet that covered his head. Everything else had disappeared and the person that he thought he lost was almost back; he felt like he was waking up from a long sleep.

"When did he learn to be this good of a cook…?" Adrock said as he ate the cake that Holland had sent over to them.

"Must… Get… Them… To… Cook… More!" Omega said nearly choking.

"Does the Gekko-Go get food that's this good?!" Stella complained.

"What's wrong with our cooking?!" Sakuya said crossing her arms.

"I guess it's because we got too use to your cooking, the Gekko-Go might think yours is better" Akira said as he fought the urge to pile drive his cake.

"Why is your hand shaking?" Norbu asked.

"No it's not" Akira said moving his eye balls around.

"Hey, you haven't seen Renton lately, Diane" Omega suddenly said.

"Oh… It's just… I…" Diane felt at a lost of words.

"I feel like I abandoned him along time ago…" Diane started.

"He forgave you didn't he?" Omega said; he nearly forgot about the cake.

"I just feel like I failed him…" Diane put up a sad front.

"We all fail… We can't win everything, but we can win what truly counts" Omega said reassuringly before he realized Akira was trying to steal his cake.

"Hands off!" he said.

Beep Beep Beep

"Enemies!" Omega said as he ran to the bridge. Everyone headed to the bridge after him and Omega jumped into the scanner.

"Twenty battle ships, and eighty KLF squads, Adrock!" Omega yelled.

"Everyone, get into your battle stations" Adrock gave an order.

"Roger" the crew said.

"Sound off the alarm!" Holland yelled.

"This isn't good… We can't take them all at once" Talho said from behind.

"Sir, the Ariel is in the leading attack!" Woz called Holland over.

"This time we'll be ready" Holland said.

"Renton!" Eureka yelled as she ran into the hanger. Renton was getting into the red Nirvash and Eureka went to the blue Nirvash. This time, Eureka felt like she could defeat the Ariel with Renton. The eight LFOs launched into the air and began to defend against the incoming army.

"Ready the main cannons and the AAMs!" Talho yelled. The Gekko-Go's missile vault opened and fired on the incoming forces.

"Doggie, keep out of the way of battle ship's firing area" Talho commanded.

"Roger!" everyone said. The battle was on and Eureka had gotten ahead of the red Nirvash to engage the Ariel first. The Renton joined in on the battle soon after.

"Hikaru, what are you doing?" Helen's voice came over the intercom; it was childish. Renton didn't want to answer her, for some reason he didn't want her to hear his voice.

"I see… Eureka couldn't bring your voice back" Helen sounded relieved. Eureka didn't want to reply to the Ariel either and together they fought against the Ariel.

"Eureka!" Renton yelled as he tried to a block a vital attack from the Ariel. The Ariel stopped for a moment.

"So… You did get his voice back…" Helen's voice turned bitter.

"Use it now" Helen told a KLF squad a command. A small screeching noise was heard but nothing other then that happened; at least that's what Eureka thought. Both Helen and Eureka heard a scream come from the red Nirvash for a moment both the Ariel and the blue Nirvash stopped.

"Hikaru, please come back" Helen's voice became calm is gentle.

"Renton, please don't leave me again!" Eureka's voice became broken and sad.

"It hurts…" he said as his head began to split apart. Which was he going to chose? Free will or orders? Renton or Hikaru? Eureka or Helen? Eureka and Helen watched the painful struggle that took place in the cockpit of the red Nirvash. Something in that screeching sound had an effect on him but he didn't know what. Eureka watched as the red Nirvash reloaded the blades in its hands and turned furiously at her. Tears formed in her eyes as she saw the red Nirvash prepared itself for an attack on her but when she closed her eyes again she felt a slight push; the red Nirvash held the blue Nirvash while its blades made its way into a KLF that was attacking her. Eureka looked to the cockpit and saw Renton was gripping the left side of his head.

"Renton, are you okay?!" Eureka asked. He turned and in his eyes she saw terrible pain but it wasn't over he did something and the red Nirvash threw Eureka and the blue Nirvash away as a claw came and slashed some armor off the red Nirvash's side. It fell and went straight into the arms of two KLFs. They started to take him away.

"Is the Amita drive with him?" asked the first one.

"Scan shows it is" the other said. Eureka remembered that Adrock had returned that Amita drive to Renton and he had it when they launched. Eureka tried to chase after them but the Ariel flew in front of her.

"Not so fast Eureka" said a rather cheerful voice.

"I won't let you take Renton away from me" Eureka said bitterly.

"I took him away from you the first time" Helen said tauntingly.

"I won't let you this time!" Eureka said as the blue Nirvash removed the boomerang blades from its shoulders. Eureka took on the Ariel; the source of her pain.

"Hey Eureka, do you want to know how I got him the first time?!" Helen let out a small laugh.

"Don't talk to me!" Eureka felt rage through out her body.

"That medicine I tried to give you from before, well, it was really meant for Renton" she began. Eureka felt even more rage toward the Ariel that flew tauntingly around. Everyone was too busy to realize that Renton had just been taken again.

"It was set to destroy his memories, but I guess it was too strong and it took his emotions too" Helen taunted Eureka even more now.

"You should see it when we found him; he was covered in blood and barely breathing. The red Nirvash he was in was mangled and nearly crashed, oh what a sight!" Helen let out a laugh. Eureka imagined the picture in her head and imagined the pain Renton was in when his mind was taken apart bit by bit.

"I could just remember when he was recovering, he always starred lovingly into that hairclip of his but of course I won't dare take it away, because he was going to give it to me willingly and personally" she said gave a "humph" at the end of her words. Just when Eureka was about to let her hate swallow her she remembered that Renton had returned the hairclip to her and that it was firmly safe in her hair. She brought her hand up to the hairclip and felt that it was still there, and as long as she still has it; Renton could never be far away from her.

"Renton will always come back to me" Eureka said as she felt the outline of the hairclip.

"Helen, you're wrong" Eureka said confidently.

"Renton will always come back, because he promised me! And this hairclip is proof!" Eureka felt hope rising in her heart the compact in the blue Nirvash glowed slightly. When Helen heard this she charged at Eureka.

"Then I'll tear that hairclip from you!" Helen's voice was angry and harsh.

"E- Eure-" he found it hard to speak again. In the reflection in the glass of the cockpit he could see the Nirvash's armor reforming and it was covering his mouth now. Even though the armor was re-covering his body he could see that it wasn't forming around where his heart was. He placed his hand on his heart and gripped it tightly; he didn't want to forget about Eureka and he didn't want her to show him a sad face again.

"Eh-Eh-Eure…" he tried to bring out the word again. He found it harder and harder to say anything. He let a tear form in his eyes as he felt the pain in his chest grow, but he managed to turn his head to the side where Eureka and Ariel were. Eureka was about to take a vital hit and he had to do something; his eyes widened. The red Nirvash's arms began to gain strength and it crashed the KLF's arms that held it. Regaining control on the ref board it raced off to where it was taken from.

"I'm going to kill you then I'm going to have Renton all to myself!" Helen yelled. Eureka watched as the Ariel lined up to finish her but when she closed her eyes again she heard a loud bang.

"Don't you dare hurt Eureka!" Renton's voice felt like how it was a long time ago. Eureka saw the red Nirvash's hand curled up in a fist and it was in the face of the Ariel. The hand turned and grab the Ariel's face and threw it aside; the red Nirvash then turned and flew to the blue Nirvash where it grabbed its hand and together they flew off. Like they were dancing in the air the two LFOs held hands and flew around dodging many attacks that headed their way. They spun around and flipped and exchanged places over and over again until the Ariel had returned to its board and fired its claw to them. Renton let the red Nirvash's cockpit get hit. From the vacuum of the air and decompression Renton was sucked out of the red Nirvash.

"Renton!" Eureka yelled. She opened the blue Nirvash's cockpit and jumped out.

"Renton, wake up please!" Eureka yelled as she got closer to him. Renton woke up slowly and found Eureka gently floating to him.

"Eureka!" he said as he reached out for her. Finally they were in each others arms.

"Eureka… Thank you…" Renton said. Eureka turned back and gave a confused look.

"I can remember everything now and… Thank you for helping me recover my precious of you and everyone else" Renton's embrace became tighter. The two were free falling to the ground but it didn't matter to them; the battle that surrounded them didn't matter anymore. Eureka and Renton let their hands hold each other and they let the fingers entwine; they gave each other a kiss as they fell.

To be continued…

The young man and the young woman are truly reunited again, but will they over come the adults again? Next time: Night to remember.