"N-no way. That's not Baron Kurai?!" Nobita thinks pale as he sees how the main villain was approaching Shizuka who hugs the little boy while he backed away, the boy with glasses looks at the project ship behind them and an idea occurs to him.
"Why are you doing this? I don't understand. Why do you want to hurt Sutirushiti by doing all this? People suffer if he does these things. Why do you want to hurt us?" The girl with the pigtails asks while she was just protecting the child that was in her care.
"A girl as young as you wouldn't understand the concept of strength and power, so explaining to you why I want to conquer Sutirushiti would be a waste of time, I wanted to cause chaos today and sacrifice weaklings along the way while trapping a big fish, but someone out there decided to get in where him don't care, ruining one of my attacks, at least I'll take a souvenir of this, ending a couple of disgraced souls."
The baron was about to hurt Shizuka and the little boy with his katana, but suddenly he is hit by the ship that the guys had created, the baron ended up thrown against another ship and although his armor cushioned the blow, it left him dizzy. for a while, when she looked up to find out what happened, she saw that Nobita was controlling the ship with the helm to turn the bow and ram the villain, he had flown to the cockpit of the flying ship, he was wearing his cap and goggles. She tears up with joy when she sees her friend who had saved her from a terrible outcome. "Nobita!"
"Shizuka!" The silly boy takes off his goggles, placing them back on his cap to proceed to go down the rope ladders on one side of the base and run towards his friend "Are you okay?! Didn't he hurt you?!"
The girl couldn't help but let go of the little boy's hand and hug the clumsy boy. Being close to death had scared her and she was very happy that he was there. "Thank you Nobita, I couldn't find anyone and I thought there was only me and this little boy left, I was very scared when he approached with that katana!"
Nobita turns red from the hug and just scratches the back of his neck "It's nothing, really" They both separate while the boy with the glasses smiles at her "How could I leave you here?" He pulls out the half heart from his necklace from his shirt. "Whatever happens, I won't stop protecting you because I care about you a lot." Shizuka sees the half heart and she also pulls hers out from the top of her dress as a slight light blush appears on her cheeks.
"And I care about you a lot too, Nobita" says the girl with the pigtails.
The semi-romantic moment is interrupted when behind them a hole appears in the wall, where Doraemon emerges tearing up along with Dekisugi "Thank goodness you are both fine, the Anywhere Door was damaged and we had no other option but to use the hoop-tunnel! Oh, and that little child?"
"Sorry for worrying you, I found this little guy crying and I couldn't help but go look for him, Baron Kurai appeared and wanted to hurt us, but Nobita saved us using the ship, I'm really glad he was here" Suddenly, something new, Shizuka takes Nobita's hand, he couldn't help but turn red again and his head was steaming.
"I imagined that he was here, only someone like him would know how mechanisms work very quickly, but now you have to come quickly, the fire is spreading" Dekisugi says while the little boy runs, thanking Shizuka and Nobita, towards the hoop-tunnel.
When Nobita and Shizuka were about to take a few steps towards Doraemon, the boy with glasses hears footsteps. When he turns around he turns pale when he sees how Baron Kurai had run towards them and was face to face with him.
When Shizuka, Doraemon and Dekisugi realized it, the katana was already inked red and raised in the air, the girl with the pigtails was the one who was closest and saw with horror and in first person, like the friend who saved her a moment ago had received a diagonal cut right in the chest. Everything happened fast in reality, but for the 3 who were frozen it happened so slowly that they saw how Nobita fell to the ground and the cap he always wore fell to the side of him, blood was starting to come out of his chest while the 3 guys didn't they could come out of their astonishment.
In Nobita's eyes everything looked blurry as he began to lose consciousness. Of everything he believed was going to happen to him, he never thought that this could possibly be the last day of his life, the cut was so close to his heart that he could only hear how his friend was taking him in her arms, she had kneeling and crying for him while his friends ran to try to help him... But apparently... There was nothing much to do, other than let himself be carried away by the arms of fatigue and possibly... Death.
(In this part a kind of "Point of view" of Nobita begins, hence the separation)
What happened? Everything was going well in my life, when a power-hungry mad scientist invaded the event. I thought that the bad luck that always followed me was gone forever, I was already ready to face those pair of bullies who always bothered me for being slow, I had already made more friends, I was even thinking about telling her that I love her...
I think that's not going to happen... My bad luck had returned to finally finish me off. Is this how it would all end for me? I can't see anything, I can only hear Shizuka crying next to me, I also hear my best friend crying... It's possible that I have died...
After everything I've tried, after everything I've experienced... I feel a liquid coming out of my chest, I guess it's my blood... I probably won't have much time left. I want to cry and scream, I feel frustrated! Why did this have to happen to me?! I wanted to become an aviator, I wanted to go to the places that Grandma and I plotted on a map! A moment... Why can I only be happy for a moment and suffer the rest?
I think I just fainted... Or did I die all at once? I have no idea how this works... All I see is darkness and all I can hear is my own voice.
...It's probably for the best, I'm just useless, lazy, slow and weak. I didn't have a chance in a world like that... Maybe Shizuka will have someone better than me, I really love her... I really wanted to be with her... I wanted to have a future with her... I almost made it, but I had no idea that I had already reached the limit of my life...
For a moment I could feel her arms hugging me as I heard her speak "Please wake up Nobita, hold on, I don't want you to abandon me!" The truth is, I don't want to abandon her... But my body was beginning to stop feeling her arms.
What are mom and dad going to do now? What will Doraemon do now? They are going to be very sad. I just hope whoever did this to me doesn't get to them like he did to me... This is horrible.
...
I've been surrounded by darkness for a while, I don't know what's happening now. I just hope this ends soon. I'm sorry for making you cry with what happened to me, Shizuka. I hope Dekisugi and Seiya are okay, they were very good to me.
...
I'm feeling something again although my situation doesn't change, I feel sore. I hear voices that I don't know
"There is no other option, anyway, he will be condemned if we do it or not"
Condemned? I feel trembling, as if someone were carrying me. Did someone take care of my body? I'm confused
For a moment the dark environment has disappeared, my vision is blurry, I don't know if it's because of how weak I feel or because I don't have my glasses on. Everything is white, some shadows approach me while they have something stored in a box, I don't feel my clothes but I do feel something like a robe.
"We've tried it with adults and it didn't work. What's the chance with this child?"
"I promised that I was going to try even if his chances are minimal, the life machine isn't going to keep him with us for long, we must try now. Now he has become Subject 807"
Life machine? Maybe... Am I still alive? Subject 807? I'm afraid... What are they going to do to me? Did some crazy guys take me to a place to do experiments on me? No... I don't want... Doraemon, mom, dad, get me out of here. I don't want to be a test subject like in those mad scientist movies!
I feel something being put on top of my mouth, I feel sleepy, I think... A little nap wouldn't hurt at all.
...
Darkness again, but my chest hurts a lot, and I feel something strange inside it, I feel like parts of my body are bandaged.
...
H-HURTS! My chest hurts a lot! It is unbearable! Get me out of here, it's horrible!
...It's already stopped... I think so, it still hurts but not much anymore
...
I think I've gotten used to being in the darkness from which I haven't been able to escape, I feel like I'm in a cage from which I can't get out, but now I hear familiar voices. From mom, dad, Doraemon, Seiya, Melia, Dekisugi... Especially Shizuka. I have no idea if it's night or day but she comes to talk to me a lot... The bad thing is that I can't answer her, she tells me how everything happened. How the people in my classroom who used to talk behind my back were now talking about how I avoided something horrible... Did telling Seiya prevent something worse from happening?
I only know that Shizuka cries asking me to wake up. I am asleep? If so, it's the longest nap I've ever had in my life. I want to wake up and I want...
...I want to tell you that I love you...
Seiya also told me when he spoke to me that if I managed to get through this, he was going to tell me everything. What is everything? Am I in what adults call "being in a coma"? Because they don't stop talking about it.
I have heard some adults say that I have resisted more than the others. What others? Does it have to do with the strange feeling inside my chest?
...
Where I am now? I have my clothes back, I'm in a field of sunflowers, I can now move as I please. Good thing, I don't want to be in any laboratory as a subject of experiments, nor to be trapped in the dark again. There is a beautiful blue sky, in Sutirushiti there is usually no such sky. I look everywhere, it seems that there is a person far from where I am, she was wearing traditional clothes but from where we live.
Do my eyes deceive me? She... SHE'S MY GRANDMA! I can't help but run to where she is, I stop in front of her.
"Grandma... Is that you? Is it really you?"
She smiles fondly at me as she sits up and opens her arms "It's been a long time, my little Nobita." I couldn't help but cry on top of her legs while my cap fell to one side of me. I hadn't seen her in years when life took her away.
"Grandma, I missed you so much, I'm sorry for all the times I've been a bad grandson to you, seeing you again is the best thing that's happened to me so far!" My grandma just strokes my head.
"You've been through a lot, my little Nobita. I didn't expect to see you here." Suddenly her smile reflected sadness... Seeing her, I think I understand... Apparently I'm not going to resist anymore...
"You... came to look for me to go with you. Right? I understand, anyway, as the adults said, it was inevitable. Right? Although mom and dad are going to be sad just like Doraemon... But I think I endured a lot, I have to accept it, I lived an almost peaceful life." I can't help but smile sadly, after all I think that on the one hand I have accepted that my life had come to an end, but on the other, I don't want to leave, not yet.
My grandma is startled. "Oh honey, I'm just a little sad because I wish my visit had been longer." I immediately sit down in front of her.
"Visit? I thought you were here because I couldn't..." She gently places her hand on my cheek, I missed that feeling, when I was younger and cried, she always comforted me.
"You still have a lot to live for, my little Nobita. It isn't your time yet, I wouldn't want it to come so soon, you are still very young. You have to come back, I know you will be happy, I'll always be with you" My grandma doesn't stop looking at me gently, and again I feel pain in my chest, but this time because of the feeling of having to separate from her again, I can't help but hold the hand that was on my cheek while my tears come out alone without being able to stop it, I didn't want to lose this feeling again.
"I want to stay a little longer with you, I'm very weak, clumsy and a crybaby. What am I going to do in a world where I am not good?"
"If you wake up and try, you will know the answer"
I just stare at my grandma, who puts the cap on my head. "Now it looks perfect on you," she laughs quietly while she wipes my tears with her hands.
"I love you very much grandma, thank you for coming to see me, I think I needed it"
The sound of intermittent beeping is starting to ring in the sky but I just want to keep listening to her "I love you too, my little Nobita, take good care of yourself, and be more careful next time, I don't want to see you here again, not yet."
With a smile I hugged my grandma feeling her warmth as the sound of the beeping became louder. I can't even enjoy my grandma's sudden visit without something else happening? I wanted to ask her more things, I wanted to tell her what I've done over the years after she left my life.
The darkness surrounds me again now with a sound that I don't know where it comes from
...I just want to wake up once and for all...