Here we go with the Moonlit Lovers part, Tact struggles with a Vanilla fan club whilst Arnold and Ranpha have a unique date they won't forget.

Paint The Town Pink? (Vanilla Route)

Six Months Later...

I was sleeping peacefully on my bed in my room that I had on the White Moon, mumbling a few words until I heard a door open, but it didn't wake me up.

"Morning, Arnold..." I heard a voice call. It was Ranpha alright, my girlfriend of six months and to me, she was the best.

"Zzzz..." Was my only reply.

"Come on now, it's time to wake up."

I started mumbling whilst still dreaming. "Ohhh...mysterious girl...move your...body close to mine..."

"WAKE UP!"

"Waaah!" I jumped and fell out of my bed. "Ow..."

Ranpha giggled. "Oops...did I surprise you?"

I shook my head. "Morning, Ranpha...I wasn't expecting to be up as this time of morning."

"Sorry, but it's really important. Forte says that we have to be at the docking area, a new member is joining the Angel Wing today."

"A new member, we have to be up for just that?"

She began to feel boastful. "Well, we are the heroes who saved countless lives from Eonia and The Black Moon, right?"

I nodded as I got up and stretched. "So, is that all?"

"Not quite...anyways, you were saying something about a mysterious girl in your dream?"

I blushed. "Did I mention that when I was sleeping?"

"Well in a way you were sleep singing...I thought it was kinda cute."

"Oh...well that is embarrassing."

"Sooo, what was it?"

"Well it was you of course, I was mumbling about it and then I started seeing you in all of your beauty."

Ranpha smirked. "Ohhh, so that's how it is. As your girlfriend of six months, you can't stop dreaming about me?"

I blushed even redder.

Ranpha laughed before she remembered something. "Oh yes, I wanted to show you this and I wanted you opinion." She sat at a table and showed me a catalogue.

"A catalogue?"

"Yeah, it's a clothes design store, I just love the colours they use."

"So I can see, most of them are very flashy."

"I was wondering that since it's been six months since we got together, we could wear shirts from this site and show them off on our date."

I had a look at the colours and thought of one. "This pink hoodie would suit you really well."

"Do you think so...then let's get a matching pair.

I blinked. "Eh? I have to have one of those?"

"Yeah, we could wear matching shirts on our date and the people would be looking at us and feeling jealous. It would be the best date since...oh"

I sighed. "Yeah...it started off amazingly before the fall of Fargo."

"Hmm...let's not think about that."

"Agreed...anyways, I thought we were getting this for you."

"Oh you, Arnold. Our shirts have to match."

I hesitated for a second and that wasn't a good move.

She lost her smile. "You don't want to...you'd be embarrassed to wear matching shirts?"

I looked at her with my arm around her. "Not at all, if it's for you and as your boyfriend, I'll gladly wear one for our next date."

She smiled. "I'm glad you'd say that."

"Oh, it says you can them named as well."

"Yeah, it has a few custom options so it can be designed to our tastes."

"In that case, let's go with these pink hoodies, I'll leave the rest to you."

"Okay, Arnold. I'll order them right away, I hope we get them in time for our next date."

"Same here...anyways, we should get ready to meet the newcomer."

"Yeah, I'll see you at the docking area, don't be too late, okay?" She left my room.

I changed into my uniform and I left my room after cleaning my face up. It had been six months since Eonia and the Black Moon were defeated and a lot had changed, Shiva was now the Empress after coming out that she was a female all along, Luft was appointed as Prime Minister of the entire Transbaal military and Tact and the Elsior team were assigned to the frontier and Vanilla went with him, me and the other angels were hoping they were getting close.

One Week Later...

We just had our first battle in six months, Chitose the newcomer, Ranpha and myself had helped Vanilla eliminate a group of automated ships. We flew our frames inside the Elsior, I hadn't seen this place for a long time. Tact was standing there in the hanger, waiting for us.

"Okay, is everybody here?" He asked.

"I can hear you from this spot." I replied. "Good to see you and you haven't lost your touch with your command."

"Nah, it was thanks to you for doing well that we won."

"Tact!" Ranpha greeted. "Your command hasn't gotten any worse, I was able to perform out there, thanks to you."

"Ranpha, good to see you and Arnold together."

"Tact, I have returned." Vanilla said. "Arnold, Ranpha. It is wonderful to see you again."

"Same to you, Vanilla." I replied, giving her a quick hug.

Chitose came on by and introduced herself to Tact, we then walked to the bridge where we gave Tact the objective to investigate the source of the new invasion happening around the Lena system, but before that, we would need to find a city station for resupplies and then rendezvous with the other angels. I began to feel hungry, so we left the bridge and went straight to the cafeteria.

"So this is the cafeteria?" Chitose asked. "It is wonderful and very spacious."

"Yeah and the catering team that works here make the best food." I replied.

"Hmmm, it finally feel likes I'm really home again" Ranpha said. "Let's eat up!"

We found a table and sat down with Ranpha and I on one side and Tact and Vanilla on the other side with Chitose sitting next to Ranpha.

"She doesn't feel like she's back until she's at the cafeteria?" Tact asked.

Ranpha wasn't amused. "What did you say, buster?"

"N-nothing!"

We then ordered our food one by one although we were surprised that Vanilla waited until she and Tact ordered together. When we got our food, we began talking about the mysterious message that Tact heard from the Space Whale which led to Chitose offering to take care of the message with her encryption abilities which surprised us all. We moved on to thinking how we had grown and I did admit. Ranpha used to change between moods a lot and was mostly energetic, yet it may be thanks to me, but she had become more mellow and mature for the last few months.

"You know, thinking about it." Tact said. "You've grown in the last months, Ranpha."

"Oh and how so?" Ranpha asked.

"Around the stomach."

She suddenly elbowed him in the chest.

"Gwah!"

"Oooh, I'm so sorry, did my elbow hit you? I was trying to pick up my tray, ohohoho!"

I shook my head. "Tact, you gotta learn to not talk to my girlfriend that way."

"Tact...drink." Vanilla said, offering it to him.

"Are you okay?" Chitose asked.

"I think so...ow my ribs." He replied.

"Arnold, how is your sugar level?" Vanilla asked.

"It's above the normal level and Ranpha checks on me sometimes." I replied.

"It's a little catch in our relationship." Ranpha added. "But I wouldn't change my boyfriend in the world."

"Wow, you really have changed I think." Tact said. "You seem to be much more run down then energetic these days."

Ranpha glared at him. "You another shot in the ribs?!"

"Daaah!" Tact hid behind Vanilla causing her to blush. "Don't hurt me again..."

I face palmed, he REALLY had to stop teasing her in the wrong way.

We were at the Crinea Space Station for resupplies to the Elsior, it was the evening time and I had just woken up from after a nap in my guest room when Ranpha rushed in.

"Hey Arnold! Look! They're here!" She exclaimed happily.

"Ranpha...what is it?" I asked.

"Our matching clothes have finished! The guy I ordered them from brought them here with the supplies."

"Sweet! That saves us a leg trip on that at least."

She showed them to me. "Here's yours." She gave me one of the pink hoodies that had her name and face on it. "This is the one I'll be wearing." Hers was one with my name and face on it.

"Well I have to say...these look much better when being held in person."

"Yeah, awesome right? When I put it on, it feels like I can hug you whenever I want."

I giggled. "I see."

"And you'll never feel lonely if you're wearing clothes with a drawing of me, right?"

"Yeah, that's another good thing about these shirts."

"Okay, let's go and wear these out at the city station."

"Oh right, we're at Crinea now...I think this is the perfect time to have our date."

"Yeah, shall we go?"

I then thought of a risky yet cunning idea. "Just before we do, mind if I visit the warehouse and meet you by the hanger?"

"Warehouse...why do you want to go there first?"

"Because I have an idea of how we can go out and make our date the best one, the date that we will never forget."

Ranpha felt curious. "Well...alright, if it makes our date even better, I'll meet you at the hanger. I'll just get changed into my clothes with this hoodie, don't keep me waiting for too long. He he he."

She left my room, giving me some privacy to change into my relaxing clothes with the pink hoodie on and I left my room and walked down to the warehouse and over to a container that was under furniture and decorations. I opened it up and looked at so many paint cans and brushes. I picked out one that was in pink and a paintbrush, before closing the container and leaving the warehouse. I got to the hanger where thankfully, no one else was around except for Ranpha who was now in her relaxing clothes with the pink hoodie on.

"Arnold, good that you're here." She then noticed what I was holding. "What's with the paint can and brush?"

"It would be better if I showed you than explain it." I replied. "But I'm ready to go, so we can move."

I held her hand with my free hand since my other one had the paint can and brush. We left the Elsior and into the city, we walked around and people were taking notice of our matching shirts and giving us varied looks from shocked to confused. But I didn't care about that, all I cared then was Ranpha who was smiling away, feeling happy that this was coming true. We then found a dark alleyway that led to a secluded park and there was no one around, it was time to put my plan into motion.

"So Arnold, what are we doing here?" Ranpha asked.

"Well Ranpha, you know the old saying on wanting to paint the town red?" I asked back.

"Yeah..."

"Well I was thinking, why not paint a teeny part of the town pink, starting with this beige wall."

She gasped. "Arnold...are you serious?"

"I really am...I know that this isn't the ideal kind of a romantic date, but I wanted to be bold and creative."

I opened up the can of pink paint, dipped the brush in and painted a section of the beige wall.

Ranpha gasped before she laughed. "Oh my! If anyone saw this, we'd be in serious trouble."

"But that's the beauty of it, there's no one else around." I finished what I was painting. "There we are, A+R 4Ever!"

She smiled. "Ahhh, that's you and me, right?"

"Yep...you wanna try it?"

"Well since you were willing to wear matching pink shirts, I guess I owe you something in return. Sure, give it here."

I handed the brush to her and she painted a huge heart line around the message. She then put the brush down and grabbed the paint can.

"Oooh, is this some kind of finale?" I asked.

"Yeah, let's paint this part of the city pink together." She replied.

We grabbed the can together and threw the paint right at another part of the wall.

*SPLAT*

We both laughed and moved away from the wall that was now pasted in pink. We wrapped around each other in an embrace before sharing a loving kiss. Then a stray cat came strolling down, looks like there were people coming. Ranpha and I looked at each other with one thing in mind...run! We rushed out of the alleyway, leaving the can and brush behind through the opposite exit before we slowed down and walked to a somewhat classy cafe.

"Well, that was a little tense but still fun." I said, holding her hand.

"Yeah...but I have to say, I never knew you were that brave." Ranpha replied. "I have the best boyfriend ever."

"And I have the best girlfriend ever too, because you took part in what we did and I wanna thank you for that."

"It was okay...I actually had a lot of fun. You were right, it wasn't exactly romantic but it was daring and it was fun."

"And best of all, we kept our matching shirts perfectly clean, not a trace of paint on ours."

"Still, this date was so far much better than the last, though I do hope we get to dance and embrace again when this operation is over."

"Oh yeah, shouldn't we be getting back to the Elsior?"

"Yeah, it's getting a little late and they may be wondering where we are."

We left the cafe and walked all the way back to the Elsior and outside her room. We shared one more embrace with a soft kiss before she went into her room and I went back to mine. I had three words to sum up the night...BEST DATE EVER!

The following day had passed and we engaged with Rezom's fleet whilst Milfie, Mint and Forte reunited with us. Now all seven of us were together and our next destination was the system of Lena. However we had a day off and I was walking around the ship until I found Ranpha outside her room.

"Hmm hmm hmm, la la la la la." Ranpha hummed happily before seeing me. "Oh Arnold, yahoo!"

"Ranpha, you seem pretty happy, something new?" I asked.

"According to my horoscope, my love fortune today is the best that it can be! Something wonderful will happen."

"And I guess I have to help and make sure it happens?"

"Yeah, I want to create a confession scene from 'Beneath The Secret Moonlight'."

"Beneath The Secret Moonlight...I must've missed that one."

"No way, you haven't seen that?"

"Nope, but I am curious as to what the scene is about."

"Oh...it's where the hero says this line. 'Angel standing on the water, wearing the colours of the rainbow. I want to melt you frozen body with my heart'. Ahhh, doesn't that sound romantic?"

Was that even proper English, I thought to myself. "Sounds very unique, so do you want me to remember that?"

"Yes, please rehearse that line as much as you can. I've gotta go and set it all up, meet me in the park at 22:00, okay?"

I nodded. "22:00 at the virtual park, got it."

"Thank you, see you then." She rushed off and I walked off to catch up on the other angels and they were discussing about Tact and Vanilla finally confessing to being a couple.

It was the evening time and I walked to the virtual park as Ranpha told me to.

"Okay...where is she?" I asked. "I'm right here."

"Arnold, over here!" She called.

I walked over to where she was standing by the fountain. "Put the switch on beside you."

"Okay." I switched it on and suddenly Ranpha began to fly up among the fountain colours.

"Well, beautiful right?" She asked.

"Woah! That is so cool!" I said happily as I looked up to her. "And it's really beautiful."

"He he he he, thanks. Say, Arnold, do you remember the scene we talked about earlier?"

"Beneath The Secret Moonlight?"

"Yeah...I want you to say that line I asked you rehearse."

"Alright, here I go..." I cleared my throat and put on a classy voice. "Angel standing on the water, wearing the colours of the rainbow. I want to melt your frozen body with my heart."

She smiled happily. "Arnold! I love you!

I smiled back, blushing. "Ranpha...I love you too."

She the gasped. "Oh, I almost forgot."

"What is it?"

"We were supposed to meet at Chitose's room with all of us together."

"Ah...then how shall I get you down?"

"Just switch off the fountain and I should float back down."

I did so, pushing the switch to off and Ranpha began floating back down beside the fountain. Although I rushed over and grabbed her in my arms just to be sure before we left the park with smiles all the way to Chitose's room who showed us some sparkler and they did make a bit of fun of Vanilla and Tact being a little late.

It was the night before we would be facing Nefuria and her Val-Fasc fleet. Almost everyone was ready, but I wanted to check on Ranpha and make sure she was okay with what we'll be facing tomorrow. I was sitting at the table in her room and she had just finished writing a letter.

"Evening Arnold." She said. "I just wrote this letter down."

"A letter for who?" I asked.

"My family. Whenever I can, I sent a letter out with gifts for my little brothers and I hope you don't mind, but I mentioned about you in my last letter before this one."

"Ah and what do they think of me?"

"Well, my little brothers think your dull but I know that isn't true, my mother however thinks highly of you and my father actually wants to meet you, probably because of something that could happen in the future." She started blushing.

"Family, eh?" I sighed sadly.

Ranpha felt concerned. "What's wrong?"

"I was just thinking about that word, family. I don't even remember if I have one or had one."

"No way...how could you not have a family?"

"That's one of so many questions that keep playing on my mind...I don't remember what my past was like, the earliest I can trace my mind back to when I was growing up in an orphanage, the memories of even my birthdays are almost non-existent at best."

"That's...really sad...say Arnold." She took my hand for comfort. "When this war with the Val-Fasc is over, would you like to come with me and see my family back on my home world?"

I looked at her in her eyes. "You would do that for me?"

"Yeah, I want to...but thinking about the future...what's gonna happen if we don't win?"

"Don't win..."

"What if Unit #7 doesn't work? What if you were shot down in battle? What if I was shot down in battle?" She began to sniff.

I put my other hand on her left shoulder.

She was feeling emotional. "What if we don't come back..."

I knew there was one thing for it. I pressed my lips with hers in a surprise kiss which surprised her but eventually she fell into the kiss, until I pulled away.

"Arnold..."

"Feeling better?" I asked.

"Yeah...thanks...sorry about my sudden mood change."

"It's alright...you're over thinking the least likely scenarios too much. You need to believe that we can do it...no, we will do it, we will help everyone we know and care, we will defeat Nefuria and the Val-Fasc and with Tact and Vanilla being chosen to pilot Unit #7, they will succeed in obliterating the O'Gaub." I began to smirk. "And if there's any time, we'll take a photo in front of the enemy supercarrier and sent it to your family, so your little brothers can say that I am a superhero."

Ranpha smiled. "Arnold...you're an idiot."

I laughed. "I know...sometimes I am, but I'm your idiot."

Ranpha giggled. "Yes you are...but you're a special kind of idiot. One who laughs in the face of our enemies, no matter how big they are...this is why I'm happy to know and love you."

"Hearing those words makes me happy that I know and love you too...even if I like to make a joke now and then, but seriously, we will also win for our future."

"Yeah...mind if we embrace?"

I got up from the chair. "For you...anything."

We shared a loving embrace with our arms around each others, safe in the knowledge that we would win tomorrow's battle.

So what do you think of the twist, eh? Instead of the movie like in the ML game, Arnold and Ranpha did something daring!

Next up is the final part of the Tact & Vanilla route where several events occur and not even Arnold & Ranpha can stop it.