Destiny: Souchou.EXE
Chapter 2
Morning was breaking through the window, light spilling onto Kururu's face, warming him. As he stirred he felt a soft cushion under him, apparently not the rope of his hammack in his lab. Kururu's eyes opened slowly revealing a blurry surroundings. "My glasses…" he said. He surprised himself, his voice being weak and airy as if he hadn't spoken in days, or laughed. He glanced around, knowing that he was in someone's bedroom and felt too lazy to sit up. Instead he laid in whatever bed he was in and stared out the window, for whatever reason enjoying the warmth of the morning sun. As he was taking his time waking he recalled the events of the night before.
"The time has come, E.X.E."
Zoruru's voice rang through his mind, echoing a name that he had so long since forgotten. "Kururu! You're awake!" said a familiar voice. Kururu turned his head over towards the door seeing a blue and gray figure walk over towards him, something white in his hands. It was Saburo, from which he could tell by the sound of his voice. A small smile crept across Kururu's face, a bit relieved to see that Saburo had come to visit, since they didn't see each other that often. "Feeling better?" Saburo asked sitting on the edge of his bed.
"Do you know where my glasses are?" he asked. Saburo gave a small chuckle reaching out his hand towards Kururu. "Here." Pleased, Kururu took his glasses out of Saburo's hands and slipped them onto his face, pushing them up with two fingers. "You gave everyone quite the scare Kururu, you've been out for three days." Kururu looked up at Saburo surprised upon hearing the news. 'Three days? How did I manage that…' he thought completely puzzled. "Dororo said you were poisoned, but not severly. I was worried." Partially ignoring what Saburo was saying Kururu looked around the room noticing he was in Aki's room. 'Hm…' he thought wondering why they kept him in her room instead of in the underground base. That's when he remembered he was attacked in the underground base.
"So what's bothering you?" Saburo asked him. Kururu blinked at him again, surprised at him. "I had thought the Garuru platoon was defeated. I don't understand why I was attacked. I do not like it." he said. Saburo didn't know what to say to that, considering he had fought with Zoruru himself once before, and knew well he was a formidable opponent. "Want me to take you down to your lab? Maybe we can find some clues." he offered thinking of something at last. Kururu considered it for a moment, and figured after what had happened to Zoruru, he was pretty much safe. Zoruru and Garuru were the strongest of the Garuru platoon, and if he could single-handedly ward of Zoruru, then he'd be fine with Saburo as long as he had his reality pen.
"Sure." he said pushing himself up. A small sting of pain ran up the outside of his arm as he got up. Kururu flinched and looked down to see that his left arm and leg were coated in bandages, and also a few were wrapped around his midsection. "Uhrm…" he coughed looking over the dressings horrified. He hated being injured, he hated the idea that he was cut, he hated everything about bandages and being weak. "Don't worry about it, I'll be gentle." Saburo said putting his hands under Kururu's arms and lifting him up before setting him on his shoulders. The transfer didn't hurt much, but it bothered Kururu quite a bit, the only reason he didn't say anything was because it was Saburo.
"Where's Aki?" he asked as they left the room and ventured out into the Hinata house. "She's been at work for the past few nights. I think she came home once, but she didn't stay long. She said she was sorry to here you were injured and hoped for a swift recovery. Also she insisted we kept you in her room, she said it's a nice place for when people are recovering." Kururu was unimpressed by Saburo's explanation but remained silent as he walked down the stairs into the living room. Natsumi and Fuyuki were no where to be found. "They're out shopping," Saburo said randomly knowing what Kururu was thinking. "I think Giroro, and Dororo are trying to get into contact with headquarters, Tamama is at Nishisawa's and I don't know where Keroro is." he continued to explain as he kneeled down to open up the secret compartment that had a ladder leading down the Keroro's room.
"You talk too much." Kururu said plainly. Saburo chuckled at his comment, sliding down the ladder. "Well, it's just in case you were wondering." he added. Opening the door to Keroro's room the two slipped inside and entered the underground base. Once at the base Saburo stepped onto the self-moving tiles that took off down the long hallways. "No one's been in your lab since you were attacked, so everything should still be there." Saburo said later as they began approaching Kururu's lab.
Although pleased to be back in the base, Kururu felt a looming insecurity. Zoruru had somehow snuck into the base undetected. Though after thinking about it, Dororo snuck into the base all the time. But Dororo wouldn't activate the security systems like Zoruru would upon entering. How he had gotten into Kururu's lab and set off an explosion, without anyone but him hearing since Giroro hadn't come until Kururu had begun shouting was a huge problem, to which Kururu had no clue. 'What's even more puzzling, is how Zoruru knows about E.X.E…' he thought rubbing the side of his head.
"You alright?" Saburo said when Kururu shifted uncomfortably on his shoulders. Kururu said nothing as they entered the lab. "Think you can walk?" Saburo asked. "Yes." he answered, and Saburo slipped him off his shoulders placing him gently on the ground. First off Kururu scanned the debris of the explosion. He had blown up his lab once before, but the debris was scattered all over the place, the aftermath of Zoruru's entrance was all piled in one spot. "Are you sure no one's been in my lab?" he asked Saburo wondering if maybe someone had come back to clean up. Saburo nodded and Kururu didn't ask for anymore more information.
As Kururu moved through his lab with the help of Saburo, they observed together the spot where Kururu had knocked over the book shelves. Papers, books, CD's and DVD's were scattered everywhere, a mess Kururu didn't feel like cleaning up later. 'I'll just blackmail Tamama into cleaning for me…' he thought on a whim. Then they proceeded to where Zoruru had fallen. As they came upon Saburo pointed ahead. "Hey, there's something over there." picked Kururu up and rushed over to where he had pointed. On the ground, besides a few spots of dried blood, a small slip of paper remained. It was burnt around the edges, and splattered with blood, but the message was still readable. Saburo handed it to Kururu to read.
"Denying destiny is denying life. Do, or die. E.X.E" he said as he read the message aloud. "Do or die? What's E.X.E?" Saburo asked looking at Kururu. Kururu didn't answer, but rather kept his eyes on the message. A bad omen stirred inside him, he knew this was much more serious than when the Garuru had first attacked them, and even then it had been close. But this time, they wanted him, and no one else. "Let's go." Kururu said quickly turning to Saburo. Saburo said nothing as he lifted Kururu to his shoulders once more and they left the lab.
Once back upstairs he spent the rest of the day in Keroro's room. Saburo had gone home already, and everyone else was still gone. Over the span of three days, Kururu's inbox had nearly filled and he hadn't been able to do any hacking. Annoyed with his downtime, Kururu began catching up.
It would be late in the evening when Giroro and Dororo appeared in Keroro's room, originally heading for the base. "Kururu?" they gasped in surprise upon seeing him. "You're awake!" Dororo cried in surprise. The two ran over to him, for whatever reason surprised by Kururu's recovery.
"I told you it was nothing. I'm fine." he saying paying them little attention, focusing on his work. "But it wasn't nothing!" Dororo protested. Giroro waved a hand at Dororo to silence him. "So how are you feeling?" he asked casually. "It's none of your business." Kururu replied mimicking Giroro's tone. Giroro chuckled a bit, knowing Kururu must feel just fine if he could be a smartass.
"Right then." Giroro then nodded to Dororo and the two left. They opened the door to the base when Kururu stopped them. "Where's Keroro?" he asked only slightly looking up from his computer. He hadn't been in his lab since he went down there with Saburo, and was unable to track Keroro with just a standard laptop. "Think he's hunting for a specific Gunpla model with Fuyuki. He should be home by tonight." Giroro answered before the two disappeared.
One they were gone, Kururu wondered why he didn't just go down to his lab and begin fixing it up. He wondered why he didn't like the idea of going into the base alone. Even if Dororo and Giroro were down there, Giroro and Tamama had been down there when he was attacked…
He wiped the thoughts from his mind and rose from his computer stubbornly. 'I don't care. Next time I'll…' Once again hitting a blank in his mind. Kururu stopped himself from sounding as if he would be attacked again. He was uncertain on a lot of things, and he'd need to collect data if he wanted answers. Besides, that was his job.
It was a slow and painful trip back to his lab without Saburo, but once he arrived back in his lab he was surprised to find Giroro already there. "What are you doing?" he asked severely annoyed. Hearing the annoyance in his voice Giroro looked up form the pile of papers he had been picking up. "Just cleaning." he muttered shifting through some papers. "Like hell." Kururu growled angrily. "What did you find out?" he demanded pacing a bit closer to Giroro. Giroro looked up at him surprised. "You weren't attacked by Zoruru. It was a copy of him. Remember the puppets we made? It was something like that, only much more advanced." Giroro reported before turning back to his papers.
"That doesn't explain why the security system failed." Kururu said. However Giroro seemed to have had an answer for that. "It does. Only machines can be teleported using one of the latest transport technologies produced by the Keron army. I forget it's name but, I'm sure you could find out later. Anyway, it teleported the copy directly outside your lab, and he blew open the door." That was a few answers. 'After the puppet died they must have teleported it out.' Kururu thought pressingly. "Also, the puppet ran off with all of your weapons in your storage. I'll bring more up later from our weapons bay." Kururu's fist clenched at the news he was not only attacked but also robbed. "Any reason why the Garuru platoon wanted to attack me?" Kururu asked, this being his final question. Giroro looked up at him to answer when another voice spoke up amongst them.
"E.X.E,"
Giroro jumped up and Kururu turned around to see Garuru standing not far from them, heavily armed. Kururu glared it him, knowing the two of them could take him out. "KUUUU-KU-KU-KU!" He laughed. Giroro whipped out his usual gun and handed a smaller one to Kururu. Pleased he was armed this time Kururu pointed the weapon at Garuru. "I'm sorry, but this time I'm no puppet." Garuru said with a smile as Zoruru appeared from the shadows beside him. "And we're not going to go easy on you either!" cried out Dororo's voice as he too appeared from the shadows. "Dororo!" Zoruru cried out. He took a step forward his blade appearing, however Garuru halted him. "Our target is Souchou-san." he commanded sternly.
Kururu still expected that three on two would be enough. However, it was then Taruru and Tororo also appeared. "PUUUU-PU-PU-PU-PUUUU!" Tororo laughed loudly holding out a larger weapon than Kururu's. Kururu felt a fire light up inside him upon seeing Tororo. How he wanted so badly to pound his face into the ground again. Giroro turned to him, sweat running down his face. "Kururu, get to your computer. Summon your artillery-," he began. "Don't bother!" Taruru cried out in a cocky voice. "All of your artillery is now under the property of the Space Garbage Disposal." Garuru announced. "It's checkmate."
"We're not playing a game!" Giroro thundered, falling to one knee and engaing in combat. Kururu took to his side and also began firing at where Tororo was. Dororo took off, and with Zoruru mimicking him, the two collided. When Giroro called a cease fire, the smoke cleared revealing everyone except Zoruru unharmed, and not having moved an inch.
"Oh! Oh! It's my turn!" Taruru cried out happily. Giroro anticipating the move grabbed Kururu and ran off deeper into his lab as Taruru released his attack, a blast that incinerated everything in it's path and deeply injured Kerons. Garuru, Taruru and Tororo followed them, blasting and firing away as they fled through the lab, the two occasionally shooting back. "Where the hell is Keroro?!" Kururu growled as they came to his computer. Kururu saw in horror that his computer was up in flames, the screen destroyed and the hardware gone.
"Kururu, you have to escape. Find Keroro and Tamama!" Kururu looked up at Giroro as he pointed to a small crevice in the wall that would allow only one of them to escape. "Hurry, you hav-!" Giroro cut himself off as his body stiffened. Kururu looked at him when he saw something protruding from his back. Giroro fell to the ground, a poisoned dart having hit him. "Shit…" Kururu breathed picking up Giroro's gun. It was just a stun dart from what he could tell, Giroro would wake up later. But that left him without cover.
In the midsts of the firing Garuru had broken from the others, and surprised Kururu by closing in on him after Giroro had fallen. Kururu fired away at Garuru, who dodged his every move until he was close enough to Kururu to grab the edge of his gun and rip it from his hands. He pushed Kururu forcefully to the ground. Zoruru appearing behind him blocking him off from his escape. Kururu glanced around frantically when he saw Dororo also on the floor downed by a dart.
"You have two choices, Souchou-san. Surrender or fall. Either way, you're coming with us. Resistance is futile." Garuru said grimly. As a last ditch effort Kururu threw a punch into Garuru's left eye, cracking his glasses and broke off in a run. Tororo jumped in front of him, however Kururu grabbed him and threw him at Taruru who was close behind him, knocking the two to the ground. "Pointless." Zoruru growled bounding after him.
At this point Kururu had forgotten about his injuries and was set on escaping from his lab once more. Zoruru jumped at him, and Kururu jumped away, sprinting for the exit. 'I can make it!' he thought desperately. A dark figure stood at the doorway. He stopped short, and would admit he had never been so happy to see Keroro before. "Gunso!" He yelled out running towards him. As he approached Keroro he realized something was wrong with him. His star was missing from his chest and head. 'A puppet?!' Kururu thought. The puppet lifted it's hand revealing three poisoned darts. Kururu charged the puppet falling to the ground his right leg out to trip it. His slide stopped short of the puppet, and it leaned forward, stabbing him with one of the darts.
Kururu felt himself going numb all over immediately after being stabbed, his head falling back onto the ground. He was losing consciousness when he saw all of the Garuru Platoon coming for him.
"Hey! Garuru, I think he's awake!" Pururu's voice ran through his head as Kururu was slowly waking up. However, it wasn't in the type of conditions he had had the last time he woke up. "Ugh…" His head was pounding, as if he had been up all night drinking.
"Hey, hey! Don't move yet!" Kururu opened his eyes to see his glasses once again had been removed. But to his dismay, he had no hope of Saburo coming to deliver them. A pink figure was looming over him, and he couldn't move his arms or legs. "I told them to be gentle with you, I guess gentle means 'Beat the living hell outta me please.'," Pururu joked. As Kururu looked at his surroundings he was in a small one room laboratory, strapped down to a cushioned table. The only thing he was free to move was his head. "Can I have my glasses?" he asked in Pururu's direction. Pururu's pink figure looked at him before turning away. "What?" he asked, his blurry gaze narrowing at her. "Nothing," she said, though her voice was clearly masking something. Rolling his eyes Kururu waited until she placed his glasses on his face. Now able to see he could make out the details of what Pururu was doing. She had changed his bandages and added more to him. Kururu let his head fall back upon the table, and let out an annoyed sigh. Under his glasses he closed his eyes, his head swimming. "Where are we?" he asked without motioning towards Pururu.
He heard Pururu rummage through a bunch of tools before she answered. "We're in Keron's orbit. The others just now went down to pick up supplies." she answered dryly. Kururu found it ironic he was a prisoner amongst his own kind, and so far had committed no crime. Also that he was so close, yet so far from home.
"Ugh, you must eat a lot of curry…" Pururu complained holding a few papers as she looked at the data they had. Kururu smirked at the comment, thinking of his last meal of curry. "I make a mean curry." he said slyly. Pururu smirked at him. "Do you now? I'll have to try some of it sometime." she chuckled turning away from him and to more of her papers spread out on the counter.
"Shouldn't you be on pekopon, Pururu?" Kururu asked, a bit surprised that she was once again with the Garuru Platoon. "It's too hot on earth. Garuru promised to take me to a colder planet if I helped him with this project." she said dreaming of a wintery vacation as she spoke. The two then lingered in silence until Pururu walked out of the lab, the two doors closing behind her; she had left without a word to Kururu. 'So what to do now…?' Kururu wondered lifting his head and looking over at the door Pururu had left.
"PUUUU-PU-PU-PU-PU-PUUUU!!" Kururu smirked upon hearing the semi-familiar outburst on the other side of him. Kururu turned his head to see Tororo in the other doorway glaring at him smiling wide with a soda pop in his hand. "Pu-pu-pu!" Kururu knew full well that he had come to gloat about his defeat, he eyed Tororo, daring him to speak. At one point Tororo had stopped laughing and the two were in silence, exchanging daring looks.
"Humbled by my presence?" Kururu said at last. "You wish!" Tororo cried out in response nearly dropping his soda. "You're just sour that we got you! And now you're helpless!" Kururu felt surprised that once Tororo had finally gotten what he wanted, he obviously didn't know what to say or do with himself. "Give me two paper clips and we'll see just how helpless I am." Kururu said with a grin. "If I recall correctly you did very little during our skirmish. Making useless of yourself-"
"Oh yeah!? I made the puppet! And you fell right for it!" Tororo cried out again defending himself. "So you made that piece of junk? I could tell it wasn't Keroro from a mile away, you left out Keroro's star, idiot." Kururu commented as if he wasn't taking Tororo very seriously. "I'm assuming that it was Zoruru, that put together the darts, and NOT you." Tororo fell silent, glaring at Kururu with a deathly stare. "Oh did I touch a nerve? Did I make the little annoying thing mad?" he taunted.
In one swift movement Tororo snatched a scalpel from the counter and put it to Kururu's throat. "Shut your mouth. You're our prisoner, I can't kill you, but I can make this trip hell." he whispered his voice wanting blood. Kururu had been caught by surprise as he remember that he indeed WAS strapped down to a table, and until he found means of escape, was rendered helpless. "I'm not like Pururu and the others. They follow orders too well. Once we're done using you, I'll see to it myself you are disposed of." It was then Kururu realized just how much he had tortured Tororo, and how much he seriously hated him. Normally, Kururu wouldn't have cared, but normally he'd have been in his lab easily warding off his hacks. He hadn't met the kid face to face before, or at least, not like this. It was now that Tororo was an actual threat to him. Tororo glared into Kururu only to be furtherly displeased that Kururu showed no change in himself from his threats.
"TORORO!" Pururu's voice cried from the other side of the lab. "You idiot! Get away from him!" she shouted, rushing over to him and ripping the scalpel from his hands. She smacked him over the head, and pushed him out of her lab, Tororo yelling his innocence the whole way. Once he was gone Kururu relaxed, not liking the idea of what had just happened. "You shouldn't let someone as insecure as him into your lab." he commented as she locked the door behind Tororo. But Pururu simply shrugged.
"Anyway, I have to get you prepared. Now that you're awake I have to transfer you to your temporary living quarters." she said. Kururu gave her a mean look before raising his voice at her. "Pururu!" She stopped what she was doing and looked over at him. Kururu hated terribly what he was about to say. "Un-strap me" he said dryly. Pururu smiled warmly. "Now, now, Souchou-san," she began walking over to him, resting her hands on the table. "You know who I work for, and you know I can't do that. Try not to worry. Ok?" Kururu glared at her, furious at her pity, but it was no use arguing with her.
Pururu cleaned up her lab putting all her dangerous tools into locked doors and cabinets, once she was finished she pulled out a pair of keys and turned back to Kururu. "You're gonna hate this, but, it's Garuru's orders." she said with a sigh pulling out a small collar and fitting it snuggly around his neck. Kururu didn't really mind the collar, he knew that Garuru ordered it because he wouldn't underestimate Kururu, but when he noticed it bore Tororo's symbol he struggled. "Don't-take it off-!" he gasped turning away from Pururu as she locked it onto him. After she had finished she slowly began un-strapping Kururu. As soon as his right hand was free he tore away at the collar. "If you try to fight it it'll bite you." Pururu commented as she continued to slowly free him. "There now come with me-" she had begun until Kururu pushed her over jumping from the table. He burst out the doors from her lab entering a dim hallway. He guessed he was still inside Garuru's ship since they were in orbit, meaning he could escape through an escape pod. He sprinted to the doors throwing them open, only to enter another hallways with a bunch of other doors. Seeing a sign for the docking bay he took a left. As he went through two more hallways the alarm went off. He stopped a moment, looking up as all the lights began to blink red and multiple cameras came out staring at him.
As disregarded the alarms and pushed through the last doors entering the docking bay. One rows of small escape lined the docking bay. Kururu was quick to jump into one, hacking past it's security in seconds. However, once inside he noticed the alarm was activating a lock down. He started up his escape pod when the docking bay door began to close from the outside. 'I can make it.' he told himself when he got the pod into the air and took off.
The door came pounding down just before his pod could get through. Kururu backed up knowing he was going to have to do some damage now. He fired one of the three missiles his ship had blowing the door open. He drove his pod into the welcoming outer space and sped off. However once outside he turned his ship, having planned to land on Keron when he saw that they were no where near Keron. They were in the middle of an asteriod belt. 'So where were they getting supplies from?' Kururu wondered surprised that no one had tried to stop him from escaping. To Kururu's dismay he had little idea where he was in space, but he figured he'd wander until he found a planet to land on and make contact back to Pekopon. He was quick to come up with a plan, and he drove away from the Garuru Platoon's ship.
In silence Kururu dodged asteroids and rogue stars flying through the belt swiftly. He checked his radar only to find that the asteroids continued for miles and miles. Kururu stayed behind the controls for hours till he felt safe that he had left the Platoon's ship far behind. He picked the largest asteroid he could find and landed inside one of it's many deeps holes.
Kururu felt weak getting up from the driver's seat. He checked his bandages noticing him left arm was bleeding still. 'I must've reopened it when I escaped.' He found a space suit in a small compartment of the pod and put it on before stepping outside onto the asteroids hard rocky surface. 'I got away too easily…' he thought in reminisce of his escape. He then remembered the collar Pururu had given him. His fingers lightly ran over it's cool metal, his sense of escape and the security of being lost in space dropping. He sat down not far from his ship, in a spot amongst the asteroid to where a distant star shined like the sun. He sighed frustrated knowing that his escape pod wasn't meant to travel as far as it had. 'They're going to find me…' Kururu thought.
Quickly he scrambled back to the pod, trying to find some sort of mirror and anything he could scavenge to break the collar. Although he found a screwdriver and a hammer in a small tool kit they were much too large for his use and he couldn't find a mirror anywhere. Furious of his lack of tools Kururu had managed to scratch off Pururu's symbol before he gave up on it. 'Everytime they get me, I'm without resource…' Kururu thought feeling unbarably annoyed. He guessed that Garuru thought of his way of keeping him from escaping would be to cut off his resources. That's why they stole his weapons and burned his computer. No one back on pekopon would be able to get any information from his files now, nor arm themselves with his best inventions. "Giroro…what would you have done…?" he whispered, wondering if Giroro was in his position, if he would've done something different.
Kururu sat outside his ship once more when they came. Kururu's collar had begun beeping when they landed on the asteroid. Garuru stepping outside in his own special suit approached him, armed with a gun as usual. "You've caused enough trouble. Are you ready to go?" he asked knowing Kururu was out of luck.
Kururu couldn't bring himself to admit defeat, in so he didn't look up to meet Garuru's eyes, but rather stared at theround he shadowed, enjoying the last of his false freedom. "What do you want E.X.E for?" Kururu asked in a low tone. Garuru gave him a surprised look. "We need it to invade earth. With the Keroro Platoon lacking you, and with E.X.E, we can dominate earth in a matter of days. E.X.E will become property of the Keron Army, my Platoon alone will receive the rewards for it's recovery." Garuru explained dryly. "We need you to get it, and operate it for us." he finished. Kururu only shook his head. "I put it away for a reason." he commented standing. "I will not help you." he said, finally meeting Garuru's gaze. Garuru shook his head as Kururu did. "I'm afraid you have no choice, Souchou-san." Kururu eyed him suspiciously. Besides his own life, Kururu had nothing else to lose, at least, that's all he could think of. 'They'll probably kill me once they're finished with me anyway…' Kururu thought dismissively. Garuru held up a small remote pressing the button that also had Tororo's symbol on it. A small holographic screen showed up with a camera view of Dororo and Giroro trapped within a single white room. "Do you care about them? They are your comrades after all." Garuru asked, a darkened smirk crossing his lips. "So you WOULD kill your own brother?" Kururu growled. "His life is worth E.X.E. He'd be but a mere sacrifice for your cooperation." Kururu still wouldn't believe him. "The Keron Army would never permit this." he threw back at him, persisting to call out his bluff.
"I will do whatever it takes to succeed. I know exactly what happened when E.X.E was sealed away. You disobeyed orders and sent the project to the darkest galaxy in space. Placing a seal upon it that no one could crack except you. I knew fully well that even if Headquarters demanded you bring E.X.E. back, you'd rather give up your position then go through with it. That is why I have gone to these extremes. And I can assure you, it was no easy feat to set up your kidnapping." Garuru said quickly. "So, do we have a deal?"
Kururu's shoulders slumped in defeat. Garuru had him, because he had Giroro. "Let Zeroro go, I don't care about him. He doesn't deserve to be kept if he's of no use to you." Kururu said walking past Garuru. Garuru simply shrugged lifting his remote to his mouth pressing a hidden button the side. "Kill the blue one." he said into it. Kururu jumped, turning back to Garuru. "No!" he cried. "I said let him go!" Garuru glared at him with a smile, "Cancel that." he said into the receiver before placing in into the pocket of his suit. "I do wonder what Keroro would say if you killed his childhood friend." Kururu's fist clenched as anger swelled within him, internally he swore vengeance on Garuru.
He followed Garuru back onto the ship where they met up with Zoruru and Taruru. They placed him in cuffs and led him deep into the ship. Kururu said nothing as they moved about, his thoughts were on Giroro. He was amazed that Garuru had known that Giroro was probably the only thing he cared about in his life. He swore to himself he'd sacrifice his own life for E.X.E, but not Giroro's. At the same time, the repercussions for bringing E.X.E. back plagued him.
"You'll be here for now. I'll come back later with some curry for you." Taruru said happily. Kururu looked up seeing a white door with white bars upon is in front of them. Zoruru pulled out a key and unlocked it. The two removed his cuffs, but locked him within the room. When they were gone Kururu was beside himself. "E.X.E…." he whispered sitting in a corner of the white room.
"People died that day."
Kururu looked up as the door to his cell opened and Tororo entered. "Hm?" he grunted at the smaller keronian. "The day you sealed E.X.E. away. Four scientists died. You killed them." he said his voice reeking with mystery. "I warned them." Kururu said casually. "I saved more lives by sealing away E.X.E., you've no idea, baka."
"Liar!" Tororo protested, however to Kururu's surprise, Tororo plopped down in front of him, and pulled out a small paper bag. Inside were two donuts, and offered on to Kururu. "I want to know what E.X.E. is, and I want to know what happened." he said clearly stating his desires. Kururu sighed at him, waving the donut away. "I don't like to talk about it. Leave." he said raising a hand from his knee pointing lazily at the door.
"Tell me!" Tororo persisted. "I've no desire to help you." Kururu growled now glaring at the boy. "Pu-pu! What if I said, If you tell me everything you know, and teach me how to use E.X.E. that I'll find a way to get your comrades released?" Tororo offered. Kururu considered his offer for only a moment before he shook his head. "Only I can use E.X.E., you'd have to know what it is to understand why." Tororo frowned at him. "Puu-pu-pu! Tell me or I'll eat your curry!"
Kururu lifted his hand slightly and reached out seizing Tororo and holding him up off the ground. "If you want to know, why not ask your damn leader?!" he thundered furious with Tororo's idiotic threats. "B-but…" Tororo choked. "H-he won't tell me!" he cried out, his feet dangling in the air. "Earlier you were threatening to kill me, and now you want information? Don't you think that's a bit stupid?" he taunted Tororo throwing him down before him. "You've little idea what took place that day. And I will tell no one, even if it kills me."
"What if it kills Giroro?" Tororo asked shaking all over. "Shut up." Kururu barked, grabbing Tororo again and pinning him to a wall. "Now who's helpless?" he said slyly feeling Tororo's fear. "You've really pissed me off, more than once. You should know better than that." he continued. "Kuuuu-ku-ku-ku! I'll teach you a lesson you'll never forget, shrimp."
"Put him down, Kururu." A familiar voice said casually. Kururu looked over at the entrance to see Giroro and Dororo staring at him. "He's not worth it right now." Giroro added. Kururu dropped Tororo turning towards the two. Tororo scrambled on the floor before snatching up his donuts and bolting from the room. Kururu watched him leave, satisfied with himself for the moment. Giroro and Kururu exchanged glances for a moment upon seeing each other again. "Giroro…" Kururu began, feeling a bit mixed up. But he really didn't know what to say or try and explain. "As much as I hate being my brother's captive, now is no time to panic. We'll find a way out of here." Giroro announced. Dororo however remained silent.
Giroro gave Kururu one long, hard look before he spoke up. "So, tell me, what is Project E.X.E.?"
An- This chapter is a lot longer than one. But also has A LOT more action. You guys surprised me with the reviews. I really wasn't expecting any, but, thanks, I appreitate it. I'm kinda unsatisfied with this fic. Seeing as i made up everything on a whim and the reason the story probably won't be as long as if could be is because I'm including so much action. Chapter 3 is a bit of an exception though. Again, if i continue to get reviews I'll continue to post V.V;