"Hmm, glasses, glasses…"
I lied flat on my stomach, swinging my arms around desperately looking for my glasses.
All I knew was that a gun fired, and then something hit my face, sent them flying off. I couldn't see what was going on with my vision blurred so much.

I touched something soft and warm, with a hot liquid running down it. B...blood?

"Hehehe, I found you, Keronjins." I heard Viper's voice behind me. "Now I can finally take my revenge."
"Revenge? What did we ever do to you?" Giroro Senpai's voice said; it was the thing I just touched. Why was Senpai bleeding?
Then I realized that I felt no pain from my own body.

"Hun? How could you not know?" The Viper said.

I finally found my glasses, and put them on.

A Viper different from the other ones we've seen before was standing a few metres in front of us. He wore gray and blue instead of red, the symbol on his head was an X instead of the triangular shape we were familiar with, and both his arms were rebuilt into guns.
Giroro Senpai was sitting right beside me, panting. His left hand covering his right arm, where was bleeding hard. I stared in shock. Senpai pushed me away from the gun and got hit himself.

"I'm taking revenge for the first Viper that you, Keroro Platoon, defeated! He's my cousin's aunt's grandfather's neighbour's childhood friend's son's girlfriend's…"

I slowly scratched my butt, yawned, and then switched on my anti-barrier while he went on and on.

"…teacher's sister's boss's colleague's father in law's subordinate!" He said all that in one breath.

"What…the f*ck does that have to do with us?" Senpai said, obviously annoyed.
"Shut up!" The Viper was angered. He raised his arm and aimed at the Gochou, who could no longer move around freely.

"Die, Keronjin!" He yelled.

"Kukuku, you should have paid more attention to your enemies instead of listing you family members, Viper." I giggled.
"What? Who? Where are you?" The Viper looked around. I was right. They really can't see through the barrier.
"This is for hurting my Senpai, Pochito!" I said in my famous high squeaky voice.
I pressed down on a button on my laptop, and shot an energy beam at him. He fell flat on the ground, lost his consciousness.

"Senpai!" I quickly rushed to Giroro Senpai's side, checking his wound. It was pretty deep. Unfortunately, it seemed that the bullet was stuck in his flesh, causing massive amount of blood to flow out. My heart ached. He was like this because of me…
"Stop looking so bitter, Kururu," Senpai managed to give me a smile, while still breathing hard, "I'm fine. Although I didn't know you have weapons built on your laptop; that really saved us."
"Ya, I did some reconstructions."

"We should probably get to somewhere safe first," Senpai said. His anti-barrier was broken. We needed to hide somewhere fast before more Vipers come. He tried to stand up without using his right arm. I gave him mine to hold on to.
The blood loss was frightening. It amazed me that he was still conscious. "True soldier" fitted him well.

"Stop staring at it," Giroro Senpai said after realizing I was still worried, "I told you, I'm fine. It's not as bad as it looks."
I looked down at the ground, "but you…you got that from protecting me…"
"Didn't I say? I can't let you die."

There was a silent pause. Our eyes accidentally met for a second, causing him to look away quickly. He was still holding onto my arm for support. I could feel his body temperature. It was warmer than mine. The two of us lost connection to the rest of the two platoons, and were outside in the middle of nowhere, alone. Both our footsteps slowed down.
It was the first time I noticed that there were stars filling the dark fabric of the sky.

"Kururu" "Senpai"
We said at the same time.

"Um, you go first," Giroro Senpai said.
"Kukuku, it's no big deal, you probably know it already. What were you going to say?" I giggled.
He stared at the ground, like there was something extremely interesting to look at, "well, about last time, what I was trying to say was…"
"Kuku, what?" I turned my head to look at him. My curiosity burnt. I could guess out the next words, but I did not dare to get my hopes up.
"Um, Kururu, I don't think you understand that actually, I-"

Suddenly, there was talking noises behind us, we turned our heads within a fraction of a second.
It was far away, but we could see the two dark shadows approaching us.

"Quick, hide." Giroro Senpai ordered with a serious expression. He's back to his soldier mode like nothing had happened.
We hid behind a rock, held our breaths and waited silently.
The talking noises stopped. Clearly, our presence had been discovered. They started to approach us slowly. I clutched tighter onto my laptop, ready to defend ourselves at anytime.
If we got caught by the enemy, with 4 hostages in their palms, we would have no choices but entirely surrender. I had to win this fight. With my anti-barrier on, defeating two Vipers shouldn't be too big of a problem, but most of their fighting abilities were still question marks to us. Leaving Senpai unprotected seemed too big a risk.
I took a glance at his arm. I doubted he could still hold a gun with an injury like that.

"I will attack once they are close enough," Giroro Senpai whispered to me.
"What about your wound?"
"It's feeling a lot better, you stay put." His eyes were filled with determination.
Kuku, that's my Senpai. There's no way his stubbornness would let him retreat from the battlefield so easily.
"At least let me help."
"Fine, but don't push yourself."
"Kuku, look who's talking."

"And um, about that," he said quietly. By his tone and expression I realized what he was referring to. "I'll tell you when we get out of this place." He gave me his classic smile. Too damn hot.
"Kuku, lots of confidence. Sure."

The footsteps were getting closer and closer by our hiding place.
"We'll jump out at the count of three," Senpai said, "1, 2, 3-"

We moved out from behind the rock, ready to attack, only to find Garuru and Pururu in front of us doing the same thing.

"Giroro?"
"Garuru!"
The two brothers lowered their guns.

"So you guys were okay? We thought you got caught." Giroro ran over to his nii-san.
"Heh, you thought I could be taken down that easily? It's not like I graduated from military school yesterday." He rolled his eyes, "and you seem to be in a much worse place than I am, Giroro. What's with the wound?"

We sat and chatted, catching up on each other's stories while Pururu treated Giroro Senpai's arm.
"So the communication transmitting device was the problem?" Garuru Chui asked.
"Kuku, yeah, the Vipers are highly sensitive towards electronic waves."
"Damn it, does that mean we couldn't contact anyone?"
"Seems like it."

"What about the others?"
"That baka Keroro went out by himself to rescue Dororo and Tamama, Apparently they were caught." Giroro Senpai answered, "Your Taruru and Zoruru went after him."
"There's a chance that they are caught as well, if they tried to contact anyone, that is." I said.
"We better go to the main base then. That's the only way to get informed on the situation." Garuru Chui said while standing up and walking towards the direction of the Vipers' base, which was already visible from where we were. Senpai was right after him.

Suddenly, a bright, fast moving object flew right above our heads like a shooting star towards the main base.
"TAMAMA!" We heard Taichou's screaming voice as it went crashing into the highest tower.

"Damn it." Senpai growled through his teeth.