I should have named this chapter, another one bites the dust.
Pururu tried to focus as she tried to look for sergeant Keroro- The keronian who was her mission to save. Garuru had assigned them each one member of the Keroro Platoon and Pururu had volunteered to save her childhood friend.
The world was frightening and for once, Pururu didn't know if she wanted to be on her own. She quickly changed into a robot suit thinking she could blend in.
Walking into the street she tried to look down and act normal.
Someone bumped up against her. It was a silver haired boy.
"Excuse me!" Pururu tried to be polite.
The boy looked behind him at Pururu. His eyes narrowed as if he could see through her disguise despite it being a great pekoponian suit.
He grabbed her arm. "How interesting. An alien pretending to be a human?"
"I'm not an alien! I'm just a normal human like you!" Pururu cried.
"I need another female one anyway." The boy shrugged, "Pity you met me on the way to the studio as Mutsumi. I've heard aliens think that's the worst." He snickered.
"Unhand me!" Pururu cried.
The boy took out a small device, a pen, he drew some chains and quickly Pururu was captured.
"I'm smarter than you would think. It's easy to see you don't belong." He looked at her as she fell over.
Pururu tried to cry out seeing the reality pen he was carrying. But it was too late. She was easily captured.
There was only one member of the Keroro Platoon that Zoruru cared about and despite Garuru's orders he had no intention to save him.
Zeroro. Now is the time for my revenge. Zoruru thought to himself. Zeroro was split up from his platoon mates. And so was he. Now they could have the epic battle he had always dreamed of.
Zeroro would pay for betraying him on the field, for turning his body into this monstrosity. He would pay dearly.
Looking at his arm he tried to locate Zeroro. Eventually he came upon him in a field. Zeroro was meditating.
"Who are you?" Was Dororo's first question as he stood up. "No matter, you look keronian...I think? Are you an alien?" He wasn't too sure. He didn't know Zoruru at all.
Zoruru hissed. "I am your former comrade, Zoruru!" He launched himself at Dororo, "Because of your mistakes I turned into this monstrosity. I've hunted you for years trying to get my revenge." He launched himself at Dororo trying to stab him.
Dororo dodged. "Ah, so you are a keronian. Although I don't know your name for the life of me-"
"I just said it!" Zoruru cried.
"Oh yeah, Zobubu." Dororo nodded.
Zoruru tried to kill him once again, throwing sharp shuriken at Dororo. But Dororo dodged over and over again.
"I can avoid you easily, but you look like you'd be a danger to the pekoponians." Dororo narrowed his eyes, "For that you must die. You are an alien after all."
Zoruru's one eye widened. Zeroro is killing aliens here? He laughed, "Oh that is so rich! So you've gone traitor just like you did on that mission? You betrayed me and now you've betrayed all of Keron! You're useless Zeroro!"
Dororo ignored him and readied himself for his classic approach to killing someone. Moving around the battlefield quickly he managed to make sure he was right in front of Zoruru. "You're face will be mine." He hissed before placing a simple kiss on the bottom of his face.
"W-what the heck? Gross!" Zoruru wiped his metal with his metal arm.
Dororo laughed, "Ah! It might be gross to you, but you've now been poisoned! You'll collapse in 3, 2...1..." He waited for Zoruru to collapse.
Zoruru stabbed at his side. Dororo screamed in terror.
"Why aren't you falling?" Dororo asked.
Zoruru's eyes seemed to sparkle. "Poison lipstick, huh? Ha, ha." He fake laughed. "Unlucky for you, you already took my face. I don't have lips for you to kiss. In other words I'm immune to your attack."
Dororo's eyes sparkled with terror for a moment. "Well...What about this!" He moved forward with his sword.
It clattered against Zoruru's metal body, doing nothing. And Zoruru stepped forward in sheer joy. Dororo could do nothing to him.
"I...I think I'm finally getting what I want." He laughed, "All of your attacks are useless against the monstrous body you gave me. I guess karma's a real bitch, huh?"
"No...No..." Dororo tried to do something anything besides dodging, but nothing hurt Zoruru. And Zoruru kept on stepping forward, slower and slower knowing there was nothing Dororo could do to him.
I've been killing aliens all this time. Now I have nobody to save me when I'm in trouble myself! Dororo realized. Terror went through his heart and eyes as he kept on backing up. He was going to die. He tried to run but Zoruru was faster.
The battle had turned. It was no longer epic. It was a one-sided blood bath. Zoruru punched him in the face with his metal claw. He laughed as Dororo's face fell into the dirt.
"You going to forget about me now?" Zoruru pulled Dororo up by the throat, "I'm no longer weak or small. I'll mean something to you because I'll be your killer."
Dororo avoided eye contact with Zoruru. Zoruru had been forgotten about too by him of all people. I...I punished Keroro so much for forgetting about me...But I forgot about whoever this is too. Suddenly Dororo realized something in his near death moments.
Some people just meant nothing to others. It didn't mean they were less or small. It just meant that making an impression on them wasn't meant to be. Others would cherish their time with someone, like Koyuki had cherished with him.
He shouldn't be killing people over being forgotten. It was one of those near death realizations.
Zoruru is going to kill me...But that doesn't mean he's evil. He might be doing it out of revenge same as I was doing to aliens, but...But I'm the villain here. I've been killing other aliens just to protect Pekopon. He wondered if Pekopon was really as good and pure as he thought in the grand scheme of things or if he had only been acting out of petty revenge.
As Koyuki came to his rescue quickly he realized that he wasn't noble. Just like Zoruru he was acting out of petty revenge.
"Don't get in the way." Zoruru hissed as he was about to slice Dororo's neck.
Koyuki got her light saber ready. It could cut through metal. And in mere seconds she went forward to save her friend. "Ninja art- freeze!" She yelled.
Zoruru froze in ice. Quickly he started chipping himself out, but it was too late. Koyuki's armored boot was above his head and her light saber was at his throat.
"For once I'm not killing someone because they're an alien. I'm killing you because you hurt Dororo." And with that she pushed down with her boot and Zoruru's head was squashed in a pile of bolts and blood.
Koyuki cut into his neck and grunted. Nobody would hurt Dororo. Not ever. She glanced at her friend. "Are you okay?"
Dororo nodded. She saved me...Yet again...He didn't want Koyuki to keep saving him. He needed to repay her.
But he didn't know if he wanted to kill aliens anymore.
Dororo was beginning to doubt his resolve on how evil aliens were so he put in a few tapes from the government offices of what they had done to aliens. He was sure he'd see the aliens real evil side.
He saw things like Tamama being leeched on security cameras and the experiments on Angol Mois. Her screams echoed Dororo's ears of her begging them to stop, and all sorts of inhumane things they had done to aliens.
By the end of it, Dororo was crying. Koyuki went over and sat by his side. She put her arm around him.
"You saw all our crimes, didn't you?" She sighed.
Dororo nodded. "I...I'll fight forever for you, but I don't know if this is right anymore. I don't know where my heart is." He cried.
His heart belonged to Koyuki, but he didn't want to hurt innocent aliens any longer.
Koyuki nodded and waited for him to explain.
"I need to fight for you." Dororo cried, "But I wish we never met! You're face is forever maimed because of me. I shouldn't have done that to you. I'm responsible." He cried.
"But I desperately want to go home. I'm sorry, Lady Koyuki. I'm weak. I'm not a good protector or lover, I want to go home to my mother and brother. I want to see them again. I want to see my friends. I probably did care about them deep down..." Dororo just kept crying. He waited for Koyuki to feel betrayed.
Instead she held him tightly. She was always like that and supportive of whatever concerns he had.
"My hands are red and bloody. And I can never cleanse them. I've made so many mistakes." Dororo sobbed.
"But I knew you'd make the right choice eventually." Koyuki told him. "I might not like aliens, but...I care about you. And I knew an important part of you was being lost to turn into this murderous monster. I wanted the old Dororo back, the one who was kind and cared about everything, even small animals." Koyuki was proud of him for making the right choice. She wasn't mad.
She took something out of her pocket. "It's your communicator." She explained, "I hid it away from the ninja village so they couldn't destroy it. I want you to contact your friends."
Dororo smiled up at her. She was the best! He wiped away his tears. "I love you, Lady Koyuki."
Dororo started dialing his communicator. He needed to tell his friends how much he cared about them, how he was sorry. He hoped they'd take him back.
Koyuki's mask fell off. Her face was frozen in one looked like a smile.
"Lady Koyuki?" Dororo asked. Blood soaked her armor.
She fell over.
Dororo dropped the communicator as he looked behind her. Another ninja had dropped down- Mukuro, a friend of Koyuki's. Her blade was bloody and she had struck in mere seconds, Dororo's loves death had been instantaneous.
Haru stood behind her.
"No...No..." Dororo shook his head. Not Koyuki!
"I can't have aliens turning rogue." Haru told him, "The only thing keeping you alive was being on our side. But I suppose that promise has expired."
"I knew I'd regret the decision to not protest about you being let into our clan." Mukuro looked sad about what she had done. But she was just following orders.
Dororo just shook his head, desperately shaking Koyuki. But it was too late for her.
Haru grabbed Dororo by the shoulder. Dororo didn't pay attention. He was just desperately begging for Koyuki to get back up.
"We'll make an example of him. Show those aliens what happens when they go rogue. Your death won't be as instantaneous as hers. You don't deserve it." He hissed.
Dororo didn't even beg for him to stop. He just desperately looked at Koyuki. I shouldn't have followed my heart. Why wasn't I better to you? Why didn't I give it all up for you? He had betrayed her. And now she was dead.
It was all his fault.
Natsumi didn't have a problem with hearing Dororo's screams on the T.V as he was tortured, slowly, tied to a crucifix. Fingers would be extracted slowly his eyes pecked by various birds.
He killed Koyuki. Natsumi remembered what the news had said. Dororo had betrayed Koyuki's trust and killed her.
So Dororo deserved exactly what he got.
Giroro and Keroro however could not stand to see their friend tortured. Despite their better judgment and lack of materials they went as fast as they could to the government buildings to save him.
They got to the door where the broadcasting was happening, but they didn't get any farther. Momoka was there with Tamama.
"Tamama! Thank god!" Keroro smiled, "You have to help us, Dororo is in trouble. We have to beat the pekoponians now or never, we have to save them."
Tamama frowned. So he came back for his friend but not for me? Dororo had tried to kill Keroro but he had come back for him. "You came to save him? To find him? But not me?" He looked angry like Keroro had ditched him.
"Now isn't the time-" Giroro tried to plead. But Tamama would hear none of that. He was Dororo's disciple and he was supposed to stop aliens in Dororo's place.
"I'm trying to be a better platoon leader." Keroro admitted. "I need to make it up to Dororo. But if you were in trouble I'd save you too." He reassured.
Tamama walked forward like he didn't believe him. "I don't mean anything special to you." He accused.
"Sure ya do!" Keroro smiled, "I want you here by my side."
Tamama frowned. He didn't believe that. He had heard the recordings about them wanting to ditch him. "But...You don't love me..." He continued.
Keroro didn't understand what Tamama was getting at. "I love all my platoon members!" He smiled.
Tamama moved forward to kiss him. Keroro looked shocked as Tamama pressed his lips against his as if to show him what he meant.
Giroro looked awkward. They needed to save Dororo not deal with this!
"There's no saving him." Tamama sighed. He liked Dororo too. "Haru used Dororo's own poison on him. He'll die painfully. Just...Put him out of his misery."
Giroro nodded and went past Keroro and Tamama so they could continue talking. He brought out on of his guns.
Keroro pushed past Tamama desperately. Momoka glared but nodded as if she knew that she'd catch Keroro afterwards. Keroro didn't take much notice of her.
Nobody was in the room besides Dororo and some birds. Giroro swatted them away.
"Guys...You came..." Dororo cried.
Keroro and Giroro winced. "We have to kill you, Dororo. You'll die anyway and this will be less painful." Giroro admitted.
"I know. And I thank you for it." Dororo sighed. "Please, Keroro...I know I can't make it up to you for trying to kill you, but save the rest of our four man platoon."
"We always had five members, Dororo." Keroro looked at Dororo sadly. "You've always been my friend." Keroro was sniffling.
"I'm sorry." Dororo apologized. He smiled nonetheless.
And Giroro shot him. Keroro didn't look away as the blood splattered. "Good-bye, my friend." He said.
Giroro sniffled a bit. But nodded. They had saved Dororo in a way. "Let's go back." He told Keroro.
They turned away but Keroro fell to the ground, his legs going numb.
"I'm sorry." Tamama apologized opening the door. "The...The kiss had a paralysis drug in it. Momocchi needs him."
Momoka smiled. Tamama had done great. He was a good friend.
Keroro looked surprised that Tamama had betrayed him in the end. Tamama really did look apologetic and like he felt guilty.
Giroro brought his guns up as Tamama turned his back on them.
"You shouldn't have hurt Fuyuki." Momoka hissed.
Giroro would fight his way out of this one even if it was the last thing he did.
Don't worry, Pururu is fine right now. Why is Saburo a game show host and capturing people? Because curse my love for reality tv and game shows.
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