Chapter 51 goodbye
A/N: I'm sorry about this, But I had to do it. Reviews please.
The group were inside the boat sleeping as Kaz started to wake up out of his sleep.
"*yawn* ahh, Where are we?" He said as he walked up and out to the control room as he looked out the front windows, he then squinted his eyes to see something in front of them.
"Wait is that...a boat?" He said, He then walked to his seat and grabbed some binoculars as he looked through them and saw a large battleship that they were heading for.
"Aw sweet! We're saved!" He said as he then ran to wake up the others. As Kaz was running he then felt the boat start to lift from the water, Kaz then fell to the floor.
"Whoa! What the hell!?" He said, That's when the others started to wake up as well.
"What's going on?" Yuuki said as she broke out of her sleep, They all then heard the boat hit something hard as they then heard footsteps running over to them.
Takashi ran over to the window "Hey! Where are we!?" He asked Kaz, Kaz just looked at him "I was going to tell all of you that we have found help" he said as he rubbed his neck. That's when they heard the door open up as a solider walked inside the boat.
"Is anyone in here!? Any survivors?" He said as he looked around, That's when he saw the group as he then yelled back to his comrades.
"Captain! We're in luck! We got survivors!" He said as he held out his hand to them "It's ok, Come with me", He held out his hand to them as Takashi took it as they all followed him out of the boat.
The other soldiers waited for the survivors as Rika and the S-squad leader stood on the side.
"Well, It looks like we have some survivors joining us. I'm just glad there alright" he said, Rika nodded as she crossed her arms under her chest.
"Same, But I wonder how long they-" she quickly stopped talking as she saw her best friend Shizuka walk out of the boat, Rika instantly ran over to her and hugged her tightly.
"Shizuka!" Rika said as she smiled.
"Rika!" Shizuka cried.
Everyone was happy to see the two reunited again, The captain then walked up to the group as he gave them a salute.
"Good to see that your all aright" he said "I'm the captain of this here ship". Kaz gave the captain a salute back as he smiled at him.
"Glad to meet you sir, My name is Kazuhira Hideki" Kaz said.
The captain smiled at him "Well I'm happy to meet you Hideki, Um tell me. Are you by chance the leader of your group here?" he asked him, Kaz quickly snapped his fingers as he turned to the others.
"Hey guys! We almost forgot about Ross!" He said.
Everyone quickly realized that.
"Crap! I can't believe that we almost forgot about him" Kohta said as he sheepishly smiled, Alice then ran into the boat to find him. "Alice will go get him! Come on Zeke!".
"Bark!".
Alice and Zeke ran from the front room of the boat to the back as she slowly opened the back door.
"Angel! Angel! Come on! Wake up! The others are-" Alice's voice was stone cold as her eyes were fixed on what was in front of her, In the back of the seat was Ross as his orange hair shadowed his brown hazel eyes as his blood covered hand was on his lap as he had a smile on his face as his head was lowered.
Alice slowly walked over to Ross as she held out her hand "A-angel?" Alice said in a shaky voice as she touched Ross's shoulder and shook him a bit.
"Hey, Come on...wake up. Angel wake up, Please...wake up angel...".
She didn't get a single response from him.
"KOHTA!".
Alice ran out of the back of the boat as Zeke ran after her, She made her way to the boat's entrance as she grabbed onto Kohta and Asami.
"Kohta! Police lady!" Alice cried, Kohta leaned down to Alice as the others walked over to her.
"Alice what's wrong? Why are you cry? Where's Ross? Shouldn't he be with you?" Asami asked her, Alice just kept crying.
"Angel's not waking up!".
"WHAT!?".
The group ran into the boat as the captain and some of his men followed him, They all ran into the back room as they all saw Ross's body. Rei ran after him.
"ROSS!" Rei cried as she ran to him only for the captain to stop her.
"Don't miss, We'll handle it!" He said as he and his men ran up and got Ross "Get him to the emergency room now!", The other men nodded as they carried Ross's body out of the boat and into the emergency room. The others followed them.
-meanwhile inside-
The men were carrying Ross as they placed him on a stretcher as they wheeled him into the emergency medical room, The captain then turned to the group and stopped them from entering.
"I'm sorry" he said "But I can't let you in, We wouldn't want to scar you kids for life now would we?" The captain then walked into the emergency room as he closed the doors behind him as they clicked. Alice was holding onto Saya as Saya was claiming her down.
"Hey now munchkin, Ross is going to be just fine. He's probably just unconscious, He'll be all better in a matter of minutes".
"Y-you mean it?".
"Yes, Come on he's been through worse. This should be nothing for him".
Alice started to smile a bit, Rei however was trying to hear what was going on the other side.
"I can't hear anything" she said "We're not kids, We have every right to see him!". Saeko just crossed her arms as she leaned on the wall "They don't want us to be upset if something happens" Saeko said "The last thing that they need is for us to be in panic".
Yuuki just sighed.
"So now what do we do?".
Kaz then pulled out the cure that was in Ross's pocket.
"Simple" he said "We get this up and running". Rika walked over to Kaz as she looked at the vial in his hand.
"What's that?" She asked him, Kaz just smirked at her.
"This, Is our ultimate weapon to end 'Them' once and for all" he said, That's when a small micro chip fell from under the vial onto the floor. Rika picked it up as she looked at it.
"And this?" She said "Care to explain what this is?".
The S-squad leader then looked at the chip as he gently grabbed it from her "A micro chip? What would you guys need this for?" He said.
"Well, It fell from this" Kaz said as he showed the S-squad leader the cure, He examined the vial as he then looked at Kaz.
"What's this?" He said. Takashi then stepped forward "That is a cure against 'Them' sir. It was made by Ross's father Koukennin Hikatori" Takashi said. Rika pondered a bit at the name.
"Koukennin Hikatori, The first name doesn't ring a bell. But the last name does" she said, The S-squad leader pondered as well "I know, Where have I heard that before?".
"Does the name Tsumetai Hikatori mean anything?" Shizuka said, Rika and the S-squad leader both looked at her.
"Tsumetai Hikatori! I know her! She's an infamous scientist that was known for creating horrific experiments in the 90's" the S-squad leader said, That's when he put the two together "Wait!? Are you saying that Kid in the other room is her son!?".
Saya walked forward adjusting her glasses "That's right! But he's her second child! Her first son is dead, By none other than Ross himself".
"I see, And what of Tsumetai Hikatori?".
"Also dead".
"And the father?".
"Killed by the first born son".
The S-squad leader then glanced at the micro chip and cure, He then took the cure from Kaz as he walked into the emergency room but stopped as he looked at the group.
"You guys did a great thing" he said with a smile "I'll make sure that all of you get promoted to heroes once we mass produce this cure".
The others looked at each other as they all shook there heads at him, Kohta walked forward.
"You should give that title to Ross, He deserves it more than us" he said, The S-squad leader nodded at him.
"Very well, I'll make sure to do just that" he said as he went to talk to the captain.
-2 hours later-
Everyone was still waiting on Ross's recovery as they all sat in the hall killing time. Alice and Saya were playing with Zeke, Kohta and Asami were holding hands, Rei, Kaz, And Takashi were playing Rock Paper Scissors, Saeko was cleaning her sword as well as Ross's, Yuuki was messing with her hair, And Shizuka and Rika were catching up on what they had been through.
"And then we stayed at Saya's place for a while until we would have to leave to find everyone's parents!" Shizuka said, Rika was just smiling at her friend as she heard her story.
"Damn! Sounds like all of you have been on one wild adventure" she said "Anything else happen?".
Shizuka then started to blush.
"Mhm, I got married too".
"Say what!?".
Shizuka then showed Rika her wedding ring "Ross gave it to me, In fact all of us got married. Well minus Asami and Alice of course" she said. Rika smirked as she looked at the ring wrapped around her friend's finger.
"So you got married after all, Man why do you get so lucky?".
"I have a wonderful commander that cares for us".
"You really love him a lot huh?".
Shizuka nodded as a huge blush came across her face.
"Yes, More than anything in the world" she said, That's when the emergency doors opened up as the S-squad leader, The captain and his staff came out. Everyone looked at them as they all got up.
"You're done! How's Ross? Is he alright?" Shizuka said, The captain just looked at all of them as he saw there bright smiles. He sighed as he decided to tell them the other news.
"I'll get to Hikatori in a minute, But I do have good news about the cure that you brought" he said "We were able to mass produce it! Will be able to make a whole batch for the entire planet to use, It's going to be hard to do this, But I'm sure that will manage to defeat these monsters".
"We looked over the micro chip as well, We'll make sure that Koukennin is regarded as a hero as well for creating the cure and have named it Koukennin's life saver" the S-squad leader said.
The group was overjoyed to hear about the news on the cure and micro chip, But all that mattered to them right now was Ross.
Alice then held onto the captain's sleeve as he looked at her smile.
"Is Angel all better? Is he gonna be alright?" She asked him, The captain almost felt his heart break as he saw the little girl. He didn't want to tell them the news but he didn't have a choice, They wanted to know. He then looked at the group and took a deep breath.
"About your friend Hikatori, We took care of him as best as we could. And" the captain said, The group kept there hopes up as Takashi spoke.
"And?".
The captain tightened his fists.
"We...we regret to inform you that, He...he didn't make it. His wounds were to great".
Everyone felt there world just shatter into a thousand pieces at the news, Rei was quick to respond.
"N-no...no that...that's not true! It can't be! It can't be true! Ross can't die! He can't!".
"I'm sorry, But we did everything that we could. But we're too late".
"NO! You're lying! Ross is not gone!" Rei then ran past the captain as the others followed her, Rei was crying as she then burst through the doors.
"ROSS!".
There in front of her was Ross, His lifeless body on the stretcher as his eyes were closed, Rei fell to her knees as the others came into the room.
They were all dead silent at what they saw in front of there eyes, Rei then started to crawl over to him.
"Ross...t-tell me...tell me that this is a dream. It is...isn't it, You're still here with us...so come on...w...wake up" she then leaned up as she picked him.
"W-wake...wake up, You can't...you can't sleep on us now...we need you. I...I need you...so please...please...wake up for me...Ross...Ross...".
She didn't hear anything from him as her tears fell onto his face.
"Ross...Ross...You're...I love you...we love you, Come...back...come on...come back to us! Ross! You're...YOUR'RE NOT ALLOWED TO DIE!".