This is an alternate ending to Season 1 Episode 12 of the Anime series.Tomoki knows what Nymph is going to try and do with the bomb around her neck, and he gathers the others to try and stop her from destroying herself in time.

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Time Part I

The three way date had turned into a disaster.

Tomoki was overwhelmed with feelings. Surprise, confusion, as well as being flustered. Nymph still stood with her back to him, her body seeming to shake as her thoughts whirled. Ikaros had flown off in a hurry, leaving the two of them standing in the grass and in quite a twisted situation.

With concern in his brown eyes, the brunette placed his hand on the shaking Angeloid's shoulder. Why was she suddenly so...tense and scared it seemed?

"Nymph, you okay?"

In a sudden panic, she pushed his hand away and stepped away from him, still facing away as her hands covered her mouth to stifle wracking sobs.

Tomoki frowned, bewildered at the change of the events that sprang so fast and clueless as to what to do. "...Nymph?"

Beta swallowed her tears, suppressing her bundle of despair that she was sure would overheat her reactor. Slowly, she turned back to the boy that stood before her with a creased brow, her shoulders quivering as she looked him straight in the eye.

"I...I'm saying goodbye."

Tomoki registered her words, his increasing pulse drummed against his chest. "...What?"

Did she mean...?

Nymph formed her small hands into fists, determined to get the deed done and escape her world of her Master, his rendering of pain and punishments. Her tears were his joy, her blood his gift. After tasting freedom and fun at the surface amongst the downers, she had come to the conclusion she could never go back to the brutal beatings of her Master in Synapse; nor could she take this away from Alpha.

Once again, she spoke. Her words were clipped as she emotionally distanced herself from the fantasy of her life with Tomoki, Ikaros and the others. "I said, this is goodbye. I can no longer stay here with you guys."

Tomoki felt he was holding his breath. He was positive, that a month ago, this news would have made him jump for joy. His peace and quiet would be retained at last, and all he would have to care for then was Ikaros.

Yet now that the moment was playing before him, he was reluctant to the scenario, hoping with all his might she was joking. Stepping closer, he gripped her shoulders tightly, "why do you have to go? Nymph, what's going on?"

His pixie-like friend subconsciously reached her hand up and stroked the metal collar latched around her neck, refusing to meet his heavy gaze.

It was then that he noticed the blinking green light flashing vibrantly, its four bar limit that ran along the side nearly out, all drained of time.

Tomoki gasped in realization, but before he could move, Nymph whipped a tear away from her eye and materialized her wings.

"I have to go. There isn't much time. And...Thank you...Tomoki." With a graceful twist and a leap, her wings fluttered, carrying her into the air.

Sakurai ran forward, though it was useless as she was already over a hundred feet in the air, pigtails flying as she drifted farther away. "Nymph! No! We ca find a way! NYMPH!"

She was gone.