Eureka Seven Fan Fiction ❯ Un-normal life of a Coralian ❯ Fixing the crashed LFO ( Chapter 2 )

A/N: Sorry for the major late update, no excuse, but I should let you know that in less then two weeks I will be heading to India, so I will TRY to get another chapter before then, but no promises. I also notice, after going back over some of the first episodes to get Axel Thurston character right, that I missed Renton's bike, the one that he drives off a cliff around the end of 1st/start of second episode, so I have added it to this chapter. Enjoy the chapter.

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“Again?” Renton exclaimed turned his head around to look at Eureka. “You mean that you have meat her before.” Added Setsuko, which the old man answered with a nod. “Though that was ten years ago.” He added more as an afterthought then to answer the children in front of him. “Your… mother wanted me to do some repairs on your LFO.” Earning another shocked look from everyone present. “If you have worked on it, why wasn't it in the book?” Axel Thurston looked to his only grandson with sharp eyes. “If you looked probably, you would know.” A puzzled look crossed Renton's face. “Then which model is it.” His grandfather's face turned back to its normal, serious face. “The Nirvash Type Zero.” Renton stepped back in shock making everyone turn there heads in his direction. “Do you know what he is talking about Renton?” Tomoyo asked while putting her hand on his shoulder. “The Nirvash is the first LFO ever made.” Renton looked into everyone's eyes, except Tomoyo's, while he said this. “And that is also why it is commonly referred as the Type Zero.” Renton finished and finally realised that there was something on his shoulder. He turned his head to see Tomoyo's hand there making jump back with a huge blush on his face. “Already going in for the kill, hey, Tomoyo.” Shizune said with her fox smirk and an eye brow raised making Tomoyo's face go red. “I-I-I w-wasn't doing anything like that.” Tomoyo said while waving her arms around. `Why did I put my hand on his shoulder?' she asked her self. “So… are you going for it or not.” Asked Shizune, who, was suddenly in her face, making Tomoyo fall back in shock. Everyone laughed, except Renton, who had gone pale and was shaking, and Axel who just `hmphed'. “As if I would want him.” She said with a huff setting everyone into another laughing fit and Renton letting out a breath that he didn't know he had. “And here I thought I could marry my friend of now.” Mai and Eureka giggled while Setsuko rolled his eyes. “I think that's enough now, Shizune.” Setsuko told her with his usual stern voice. “Just one more thing.” Before Setsuko stop her, Shizune had ran over to Renton and quickly whispered something in his ear, making him fall back with a blood nose.

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`What happened?' was the thought that first that though Renton's head as he waited for his memory to come back to him. When nothing seem to come back to him he opened his eyes to see another, violet, pair looking back at him. The first thought was on how beautiful they were. The second was that they belonged to the crashed LFO pilot that he had just meet. The third was that a girl was about an inch away from his face and that lips were almost touching. Reaction, jump back against the chair and fall over the back of it and land on his face. Renton got up, rubbing his forehead as the room was filled with laughter. “Is it just me or does it seems like everyone has been laughing all afternoon?” he looked over to Setsuko “So what happened.” A small smile settled on Setsuko's face “Shizune whispered something into your ear and…” He didn't need to finish as there was already another blood nose coming on Renton. “Can we get back to the subject of Eureka's LFO?” Shizune sighed knowing that her fun had come to an end. “So you want me to fix her LFO.” Renton looked over to his grandfather. “They told the story while you were taking your nap.”
Axel snapped in his usual tone. “I can't control what my grandson does, but I don't work for free.” All around him the faces fell. “You welcome to use the junk parts out the back if you want to fix it yourself.” He added. “What is wrong with you” Renton yelled as he got up suddenly. “Why don't you fix her LFO if you were friends with her mother?” Renton was right up in Axel's face. This shocked everyone as Renton was known to be the only person not to get angry in the entire school. “I said I knew her mother, not that we were friends.” Axel suddenly raised his eyebrow. “And were is your bike. You walked here from what I saw.” Renton face went pale. “Oh no, I left my bike at school.” He said as he ran out the door. “We should be going too. Thanks for the hospitality.” Mai said with a bow as she, Tomoyo and Shizune left out the still open door. Eureka looked to Setsuko for awhile before realising that he wanted to talk to Renton's grandfather. “I thank you for the offer.” She said bowing down. “I will try and not to get in your way and finish the repairs as fast as I can.” She rose and walked out the front door, in the direction of the legendary LFO. Setsuko and Axel looked at each other for a sometime before “So what did you want to ask.” Axel said finally breaking the silence. Setsuko shifted on the spot for awhile, thinking on how he should ask his next question and not sound rude at the same time. “Why…” He started before stopping again. “…did you refuse to fix her LFO, yet allow Renton to?” Setsuko finally finished. Axel looked with an upraised eye brow before lowered beck into its normal place. “I can teach many things to Renton about being a mechanic, but the one thing I can't do is teach him experience.” Axel face changed making him look decades older. “And I won't be around for ever so he has to learn how to work without the possibility of my help.” Setsuko looked at the person who was known as one, if not, the best mechanics ever to live and saw the truth that he spoke, but he could also see that wasn't the whole story. “There is another reason, isn't there.” He could tell by the look in his eyes that he was right. But what happened next shocked him. Axel laughed. “Your shaper then most people in this town.” Then, as quick as it had come, all the merriment dropped from his face, probably never to be seen again. “Your right, there is another reason to me not fixing the LFO.” Axel breathed deep. “There are many people who want the Nirvash and its Pilot. The Nirvash is far more powerful then normal LFO's, and I'm not referring to weaponry. Most LFOs that are made today are merely degenerated copies and the real ones are either lost or kept in people's privet collection.” His eyes glazed over like he was remembering something from long ago. “But even they fail to compare to the type zero. There is only one that can even close to being able to match it, but that is in the hands of the military.” Setsuko thought this over. It was obvious how the LFO was damaged, but then another thought came to him. “Why don't the military have it then?” Axel looked like he knew he was going to ask that before he opened his mouth. “The Type zero belongs to someone else, and now Eureka, but the person who did have was with the military a long time ago, but she left with it, and the military have been after it ever since.” Setsuko shot up like a bullet. “Then why doesn't she just hand it. They are working for the government, and what they say goes, right.” Axel sighed, no matter how smart he was, he is still young, and that naive outburst was one of the reminders. “Even if they work for the government, they are not above the law and they can't take anything they please.” The sharp eye that he gave him made Setsuko feel an icy cold feeling down his spine he had not felt in a long time. Axel looked to see Setsuko get out of shock and start to think on his words. `Good.' Axel thought, he was the closest thing to a friend that Renton had. “Your right.” Setsuko started. “The Nirvash belongs to Eureka and it's her choice wither the military can have it or not.” Axel smiled. `This kid never makes the same mistake twice.' “Setsuko.” This wasn't grumpy normal Axel speaking, but hadn't for the last few minutes. “I want you to always look after Renton when he gets into trouble, can you do that?” Setsuko looked shocked at the question, but nodded after he had got over it. “I'll try my hardest, as long as he hasn't done anything illegal.” “Fare enough.” Was the only reply that Axel gave him. “Where is that lazy grandson of mine? He should have been back 10 minutes ago.”

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Renton rode his red and white bike over to the Crash site, wanting to find out what was broken so he knew what to grab from the junk yard. Renton sighed for the tenth time since he got his bike. HE finally finds a girl he likes, and she just looks to Setsuko right off the bat, just like every other girl. All the girls fell for Setsuko, sure they may get boyfriends, but if Setsuko asked them, they would dump them just to spend an hour with him. The only girls that didn't swoon over Setsuko, was Mai, Tomoyo and Shizune, but they didn't like any guy, and the girls joked how they must be lesbians because they didn't show any interest in guys, but Renton didn't believe that, they just had a more realistic view then others, all the guys were show offs and they just didn't like Setsuko like that. “I'm telling you, I can fix it better then he can.” Renton looked up to the crash site to see one of his class mates, Shirai, was there talking to Eureka. “No thank you, I have heard of how you fix things and I would rather not crash my LFO as soon as take off again.” Eureka replied as she took off a part of the cover around the stomach. “What!!! Oh I get it, Renton said all those things about me on the way to his house just so he could be the one to fix this and get in your pants.” Shirai's face was one of rage. “Well all he'll do is fix half of it then get in your pants then leave you alone to finish it by yourself and you'll be heart broken just because you listen to his lies, well fine, get your job half finished.” Shirai yelled at her. “Or are you like the rest of the sluts that all fawn for that useless so called `leader,' Setsuko.” Shirai's voice dropped lower and it filled with more venom. Renton had had enough of this and headed over to smash him in the face when he saw that Eureka had beaten him to the punch, literally. “Get. Away. From. Here.” She said as she panted her eyes were burning with rage, setting a reminder why Renton tried to avoid girls. Shirai, with a fearful look on his face, ran for his life as he headed past Renton towards the town, no doubt to tell everyone the Eureka was a demon in disguise. Renton picked up and pushed his bike up the hill while Eureka was still looking of into the distance where Shirai was heading with teeth clenched. “You know, you're the fifth person this week to punch him like that.” Renton explained as he came to a stop a few feet in front of her. Her eyes focused back in and she looked to Renton and replied “So he has a habit of pissing people all the time.” A smile crossed his face. “He has a habit of calling most of the girls sluts each day and they, or there boyfriends, try to beat him up. But he's normally faster then that.” Renton Sat down and looked out to the sun that was getting close to setting. “He, like me, doesn't get good grades he seems to be set to get his fathers job as a gardener, which doesn't pay much so he is trying to be a mechanic and hopes to move to another city or be picked up by the military, but he isn't any good.” Renton shrugged. “And everyone tells him so and he gets angry about. He wants to be rich, but has no skill that could help him so.” Eureka joined Renton on the ground. “So he never learns how machines work.” Renton gave a small smile as she said that. “He could be good, if he actually learnt a bit about mechanics first, but he jumped in expecting that he would be good at the get go.” Eureka raised an eyebrow. “So he could be good, he's just too lazy.” Renton smiled. “Exactly.” Renton rolled onto his side towards Eureka. “So, do you want me to help you with fixing your LFO, or would you like to do this on your own.” Eureka looked at him for a second. Then an impish smile spread to her face. “Yeah, you can help, free slave labour.” A second past. “SAY WHAT!” Renton was backing away from Eureka, while the girl in question was laughing her head. “I'm sorry for making you the butt of a joke, but I needed that.” The shock in Renton's eyes slowly receded. “I would like your help in fixing The Nirvash. I thought that I would have to ask you, not the other way around.” Renton got up and walked towards the crashed being. “Well, we better get started, we don't have much sun light left.” Renton said with a grin all over his face.

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There wasn't much wrong with the Nirvash, just a few missing parts that seemed to have fallen out during the crash or other things she had been doing before it. Renton and Eureka spent the next two months working on the Type Zero, Renton spent every second of his free time on it that he could while Eureka seemed to sleep in it, rejecting ever offer that the kids at town offered to her. A lot of people from town came to look at when Eureka and Renton were working on it, but mostly Setsuko, Mai, Tomoyo and Shizune visited them. The boys soon got bored of just watching Eureka help fixing her LFO, so they went back to lifting, the girls were quickly thrown away by Setsuko saying that if they had just came there to annoy him, then they shouldn't come there at all, so they went to annoy the boys at the lifting spot, after all, they didn't want to upset the king of the school.

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Eureka sighed a breath of relief as she and Renton put the last cover piece back on her LFO. They had been on it for months, and now they were finally finished, and they had a crowd and all, as all the kids had turned up for today. “Well, you are finished.” Mai chirped. “So, are you going to test lift it or not, I so wanna I see.” Tomoyo followed, who was quickly followed by a crowd of agreement. “Okay.” Was that Eureka could mumble out, she hated to be the centre of attention. She climbed up and into the Nirvash, but stopped just before entering. “Renton” Renton jumped out of his hiding spot behind Setsuko. “Y-yes.” He squeaked. If anyone looked at Shizune they would have seen her shaking her head with a smirk on her face. “Would you like to come with me for the test lift, considering you did most of the repairs.” Almost everyone was shocked at first, but then they saw the sense in it and started to nod there heads and push Renton towards Eureka. “You don't have to.” 10 meters. “I insist.” 8 meters. “I don't want to be a burden.” 6 meters. “You're never a burden.” 4 meters. “I probably only get in your way.” 2 meters. “You're a mechanic, you could help if anything goes wrong.” 0… “Now come on.” Eureka grabbed Renton's hand and dragged him to the second seat in her LFO and dumped him in there. “Now let's test it out.” she said as she jumped into her seat. Lights flickered on as Eureka activated the Nirvash, bring a soft smile to her face. “It works, good, can I get out now.” Renton squeaked so low that it was barely audible. This was ignored as eureka grabbed the Nirvash's board and lifted into the sky. Everyone's face lit up with aware as they saw the newly fixed LFO lift into the air, and pull of highly advanced moves. To all the boys, this was great study material as they looked to see new moves they could pull, while the girls got to see someone better then the boys, which was a treat in itself. Renton was not on the same line of thought for either. He was feeling the freedom of the skies, he really couldn't really explain it, but he had this every time he went lifting, like nothing mattered. It was unfortunate that they had to land after so long, and when they did, Eureka was swamped with people asking to take them up into the skies, she had of known what was heading her way, then maybe she would have headed out now instead of allowing the whirl wind of how she left Bellforest.