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Tekkaman Flame Chapter 3

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3. The Last Day

Three months later...the night before the invasion...

Johnny and Sissy had been going out, and they were both loving every minute of it.  They'd gone to movies, amusement parks, smoothies...always together.  While Sissy loved it all, finally being able to act on the feelings she'd always kept hidden, she noticed Johnny always seemed...tense.  Maybe a little...over-eager.  At first she just relegated it to 'I almost died' syndrome, as she termed it, but...the longer they were dating, the more he was like that.  If she had to explain it...she'd say it was like he had an incurable lethal disease, and was trying to sqqueeze as much life as he could into the time he had left, and was determined to spend it with her.  This thought worried her, and made her almost as eager as him.

Tonight, though...he seemed absolutely calm.  They were stargazing, lying on their backs in the park, gazing up at the starry sky.  She pointed up at the sky suddenly.  "Look!  A shooting star!"

"Make a wish," Johnny said with a smile.

"That's easy," she said.  "I wish this night would never end."

"Yeah...me too."  He sighed, then turned to gaze on a specific area of the sky.  His eyes had been going there the entire night.  Sissy was tired of it.

"Johnny?  What is it?"

He was quiet for a while.  "Sissy...hypothetically speaking-"

"Hypothetically?  A six-syllable word?  You're making me nervous."

"Ha ha.  Seriously though...if you knew that the world was going to change drastically tomorrow...that this might be the last night of your life...what would you do differently?"

Sissy was quiet.  Unlike Dukey, she wasn't about to shrug this off.  "Johnny, what is it?  No half-answers, no secrets, no never minds.  If we're going to do-" she gestured to the field, the stars, them "-this, you need to tell me what's been bothering you.  Ever since you came out of that pod-" she shudders, then continues.  "You've been acting like time's running out.  What's going on?"

He looked at her for a while, then spoke.  "Do you remember what Jillian said when she tried to destroy the pod while I was inside it?"

"About you becoming a monster?"

He nodded.  "That pod was a creation of a race called the Radam.  It was designed to turn people...into weapons."

She gasped.  "But...but it didn't work on you...did it?"

"Only halfway.  It completed the physical transformation, but it wasn't able to rewrite my mind.  But it did download a bunch of information about the Radam into my head."

"Why couldn't it rewrite your mind?"

"I fought it.  At first, I was losing.  But then..."

"But then...?"

"I heard you stop Jillian from destroying me...what you said to her...and I heard you crying."

"You...you mean...?"

"The reason I'm not a slave to the Radam war machine right now...is you."

Sissy was quiet for a while, glad the night hid her blush, not knowing Johnny could see it.  "But...if you don't serve them-"

"They're coming."

Sissy stared at him.  "Have...have you told anyone?"

"The government knows, and have been preparing for the past three months.  My sisters have enough weapons stockpiled to hold out long enough to develop appropriate countermeasures.  Jillain and her parents already know about the Radam."

"...when will they get here?"

"Tomorrow."

"!!!"

"See those stars?"  He points at the area he'd been staring at.  "They aren't stars.  They're the Radam fleet.  They'll be here tomorrow."

"And...what will you do?"

"I'll fight.  Tonight is my last day as plain old Johnny Test...and tomorrow may be my last day of life."

"Johnny..."  Suddenly she leaned over, wrapped her arms around him, and kissed him, deeply passionately.  They'd kissed a few times since they'd started dating, but none like this.  Then she pulled back.  "Johnny...promise me you'll come back to me.  Promise...promise you won't die."  Tears run down her face, and her voice is choked.

"Sissy...I will protect the Earth, its people, and...especially you, with my life."

"That's fien, but...not with your death.  Promise me, Johnny, please!"

Hearing and seeing the flow of tears, he pulls her to him.  "I promise, Sissy."  He didn't know if he could keep this promise, but she needed him to make it.
The third chapter.
A bit of a time skip, but I didn't have anything specific to include. Next chapter...the invasion begins.
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