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Achilles

By Sabersonic

Epilogue

The Chief Commander Ryo Noventa awakens to another day of what he sees as pure torture. He remembers that day five years ago, when his existence has been twisted into some horrible nightmare. Ryo finds that he has slept at his desk in his home office again. He must reschedule his daily routine for he lacks the necessary hours of sleep he needs to run in full capacity if he is to maintain his station of Chief Commander of the Robotech Expeditionary Action Force, another nightmare that he must endure. As he got up from his desk, he felt his stomach beg for nourishment. It was odd, he remembered that he has fed properly last night, hasn't he? The instinct within him is telling him that he should feed himself. Ryo walks to the door that leads him away from his home office and into the halls of his large house, but before him as he opened the door was a little four year old girl in his way and was holding a small brown teddy bear with a blue bow, his daughter.
'Daddy, I'm hungry. Can you make me some breakfast?' His daughter spoke to him in her mind, Ryo sighed from this.
'Might as well since I'm going there anyway.' Ryo thought to himself. He takes the hand of his offspring and leads her to the kitchen. Ryo lifts his daughter to the table so she could sit down and brings in her booster. Ryo then went to the refrigerator to get some bacon, eggs, milk, juice and maple syrup. He place some of these items on the counter and others on the table. Then he takes out some frying pans and some cooking oil. Then he turns toward his child. 'How do you want your eggs May Shi?'
'An omelet would be nice daddy.'
'Anything else?'
'Maybe some cheddar and bacon with it?' Ryo then turns towards the refrigerator. 'And some chives and some jellybeans-'
'I don't think that it is advisable to eat such high concentration of simple carbohydrate sugars this early in the morning.' Ryo interrupted his daughter, May Shi.
'Oh, okay daddy.' Ryo then proceeds to prepare the omelets and the bacon that he was preparing. While cooking, he mixes the pancake mix with the buttermilk and prepares another skillet for cooking. May Shi eagerly awaited her food, her stomach demanded that it should be feed. The aroma of cooking food filled the air and it made her mouth moisten in anticipation of the wondrous taste of her father's cooking.
Within the master bedroom, upon the large foyer bed laid Ryo Noventa's wife, Sylvia. Her nose picked up the aroma of cooked eggs, bacon and fresh pancakes. The only joy in awaken from her beautiful sleep and dreams was knowing that it was another lovely day in her lovely marriage to her love Ryo. She gotten out of bed, wrapped her robe around herself and headed downstairs. Sylvia reached the kitchen and spots her husband cooking and her daughter sitting at the table and she smiled, it almost seemed to be too like the perfect moment. It was all to sweet two, but then something had to ruin this moment.
"So what do you want?" It was expected of Ryo, but then again this was perfect enough and she couldn't ask for more.
"Same as you are having dear." Ryo cringed as Sylvia called him dear. He hated to be reminded that he was stuck in this path of existence. Sylvia couldn't help but find this amusing. One of her favorite things to do to Ryo was to torture him like this, not often, but every once in a while. Ryo then reclaimed his previous posture.
"I guess it's plain eggs and bacon then."
"You do remember that today is our anniversary right?" #Remember, how could he forget? That was the day when everything came spiraling down to the pit of oblivion. Even he couldn't forget that infamous day.
"Yes and I already got you a gift."
"But I thought that we weren't going to give each other gifts?"
"Like the other years we've tried? I found your gift but don't worry. I didn't open it. Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't the purpose of a present is the element of surprise?"
"Something like that, yes. Where did you find my gift."
"You hide the package in your walk-in closet. I was looking for you when I bumped into it."
'Actually, it hid daddy on his cranium.' May Shi laughed.
"When are you going to speak normally May Shi?" Sylvia asked her four-year-old child.
'But I like communication this way. It's more fun.' Then May Shi remembered something. 'Mommy, when are they coming over?' Then Ryo froze.
"Who are coming over?" He asked, hopping that it wasn't what he think it was.
"Don't you remember darling? Our friends are going to come over for the week to celebrate with us." This wasn't pleasant information. Every year, the group that he has so gotten 'acquainted' with since after the Aslanta Stellar Coalition Campaign five years ago have always visited during his 'anniversary' with Sylvia. Ryo Noventa did not want to be reminded that he had lost his chance to fight like the soldier he was programmed to be upon the battlefield with his long lost brother. He tried to get an overload of work so that he would be too busy to visit them, but each and every time he ends up finishing them up too quickly to occupy his time and he had no excuse to be excluded from the gathering. Each year it was more unpleasant than the last for him. "It's felt so long since we've last seen them."
'Apparently not long enough.' Ryo thought to himself. His day was ruined long before it has even begun. Then the doorbell rang.
"That must be them." Sylvia went to the front door.
'What a perfect way to begin my ruined day. Please don't let it be that Maxwell.' Ryo Noventa prayed to himself as he heard the door opening.
"Hey Sylvia, long time no see!!"
'It's Maxwell....' Sylvia then leads Hilde and Duo Maxwell, along with their twins, to the table. 'If he wants an omelet, he'd better keep his hands off of mine.'
"Ryo, could you be a dear and serve our guests some breakfast."
'If he wants it so bad, why doesn't he make his own. I'm a soldier, not a-a mother.' Duo then walks up to Ryo at the stove.
"Hay Ryo, how's it going?" Duo then spies May Shi's omelet and his mouth waters. "Say...who's-" He reached towards the omelet, but Ryo swiftly slaps his hand away with the spatula. "OOOWWW!!!! What was that for?"
"Do. Not. Touch." Ryo then picks up the omelet and some of the cooked bacon and brings it to May Shi. She then immediately digs into her breakfast. The Maxwell Twins, Jacque and Rachel, walks up to May Shi. Jacque just stands there and strains on something.
'Hello Jacque.'
"I knew it! She can read minds." Jacque said.
'I am not a mind reader Jacque. You always try and see by thinking "Hello May Shi" to see if I can read minds. You should try something different.' The door rings again and Sylvia goes to answer it. Ryo goes to the refrigerator to get more items, he may have to cook for about thirty persons, thirty-five if you include Duo Maxwell's stomach and the twin devils. An hour and a half later, the entire group was assembled. First there were the Noventas and the Maxwells, followed by the newly wedded Dorothy and Quatre Winner, next were the Yuys with their four year old son Adin Yuy, then there was the Bartons with their two year old daughter Michelle and Catherine Bloom, next were the newly weds Salley and Wufei Chang with their infant twins, Sara and Li, then there were the Hunters with their thirteen-year-old son Roy and three-year-old Henry, and the Sterling with their daughters, twenty-seven- year-old Dana, fifteen-year-old Aurora and their four-year-old Jean.
"-And the next thing I knew it, Jacque launched the cat up in the air. I still don't know how he did it?" Duo concluded.
"I think that he inherited your misfortune Maxwell." Wufei scolded.
"Sure whatever Wu-man-"
"WHAT DID I SAY MAXWELL!?!! DON'T CALL ME WU-MAN!!!!"
"Those two never change. It's almost as if they can't go even thirty seconds without going into some argument."
"More likely fifteen seconds if you remember properly."
"You know, those two remind me of someone...."
"Who?"
"I can't remember, let me get back to you on that." The day wasn't starting as peaceful as he had planned. All that Ryo wanted was a peaceful breakfast when nothing annoying would disturb him, but now the room was cluttered with idle chatter and gossip and he couldn't take it anymore. Ryo took what was left of his breakfast from the table, grabbed a tray and headed out.
"Ryo, where are you going?" Sylvia asked.
"Someplace where there is peace and quiet." Then he left to head towards his home office. It was the only room, besides his weapon storage room, where he could be by himself in the serenity of silence without being disturbed. Finishing her breakfast quickly, May Shi followed her father. As the two walked down the hall, May Shi asked a question.
'Daddy, why don't you want to speak to the others?'
'Bad memories.'
'What bad memories Daddy?'
'Maybe some other time.' Ryo opened the door to his office and May Shi walked into his office. Ryo just stands there, waiting for some thing.
'Can I stay with you Daddy?' Ryo sighs before answering back.
'If you want.' Back at the kitchen table, more idle talk could be heard.
"That was so sweet. I never thought that Ryo could have that affect on a child with the way he is." Hilde almost squealed.
"Yah, he's still the same ruff and feathers that we knew five years ago." Catherine remembered.
"I guess he has that effect on some people." Sylvia said dreamily.
"And you're no exception Sylvia." Duo said before he took a huge gulp of freshly squeezed orange juice.
"And what's that suppose to mean?" Then the adults felt their fabrics being tugged and they looked down to see their little children looking up to them.
"Can we go outside and play?" The parents agreed and the children then rushed out the door and sounds of children running and laughing could be heard. Three hours past and the children are still hyper and are in need of ridding themselves of accessed energy. They run around playing hide-and-seek and tag, the older children went out to the nearest shopping center while the adults talked back at the mansion. Wufei was in another nearby room, changing the twin's diapers and trying to ignore the hyper-active children.
"-You've should have seen us. There we were, Wu-man-"
"IT'S WUFEI MAXWELL!!!!" Wufei called out from the room.
"-Trowa and me, trapped by some who knows how many soldiers when all of a sudden Wing Zero showed up and surprised them. I swear that they must have pissed in their pants when they saw Heero with that Twin Buster Rifle pointing at them."
"Yes, it was a good think that they weren't developing Mobile Suits like we originally thought." Trowa said.
"Well it seems a lot easier than trying to find that Kojac Armada that had a cloaking generator cruiser. We didn't even see them until we accidentally entered their stealth field and saw their fleet appear in front of us." Captain Max Sterling said.
"Yah, that almost scared the hell out of us. One minute, empty space, the next an entire armada of Kojak Warships." Admiral Rick Hunter said. "Both fleets were so surprised that we didn't know what to do. We're just lucky to have recovered first or we wouldn't have survived. The Next Generation Veritech Valkyries and Mobile Space Destroids were a great addition to the arsenal. With it's weapon systems of Beam Cannons and Rifles and Beam Sabers and our Robotechnology, we were able to push back the Kojak away from the worlds of the Sentinel Federation."
"Yah, I just can't wait until the Deathscythe III is completed. It would be so sick with it's able to transform into three modes of attack." Duo then looks at Captain Mirya Sterling. "What's that other mode again? I remember Gundam and Mobile Armor, but what was that middle one called?"
"The second mid-transformation mode is called the Guardian mode."
"Yah, Guardian. It'll be so weird to see Deathscythe like that. Backwards legs and all. And it has those little additions to with; like the PP-2 Mecha Pinpoint-Barrier System, Laser guns in the Head unit and such."
"The other Gundams, minus the Wing Zero, would be upgraded to accommodate Robotechnology and weapon systems that would be mixed with our own in about five months from now." Wufei said.
"Yes, so much has changed since the Earth Sphere Unified Nation and Third Earth Government Alliance, it has been beneficial to both sides. We were able to update our weapons technology from Mobile Suit weaponry and with the know-how to build and construct orbital colonies and resource satellites would help the economy and population of the Third Earth Government and other worlds of the Sentinel Federation." Secretary General Lisa "Hayes" Hunter remembers of past advancement. "Not only that, but the Earth Sphere Unified Nation was able to have Fold Technology to search for other habitable worlds and the Technology of the Sentinel Federation to help them with the Mars Terra Formation Project and the construction of the Jovian Colonies. Not to mention the establishments of Preventer agencies and bases throughout the Sentinel Federation after that Perytonian riot and the Carbonarite Coup e'tat three years ago."
"Yes, but I still don't like the idea of a military power in the Earth Sphere. We took away weapons so that wars would not happen again. The Third Earth Forces might intimidate the colonies or some underground organization to attack." Relena Peacecraft said.
"Yes well we did make that treaty with the colonies to ensure that the colonies won't think that the Third Earth Government would try to control them like the former United Earth Sphere Alliance. And if there was an underground organization, the Preventers and the Robotech Forces would deal with them." Then Chief Commander Ryo Noventa was walking towards his weapon storage room.
"What are you doing dear?" Sylvia Noventa asked her husband.
"I'm going to the shooting gallery. I'm just going to get my TWR Gallant 1000 weapon system to practice with." Ryo then disappears down the hall. May Shi then walks up to her mother.
'Mommy, aren't you going to tell Daddy-'
"NOVENTA!!!!!! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!!!!!!!" The group turned towards the yelling voice of Ryo Noventa. Then most of the group giggled and laughed.
"He actually calls you by your last name?" Catherine could barely contain herself.
"He really must be angry. What did you do?" Relena Peacecraft asked, trying to hold back her amusement of the situation.
"Well, I knew I heard you all coming and since there were some new additions, I thought I should make another room since there were no guest rooms left." Sylvia half-giggled, half-explained.
"At least he knows your name. All that Wufei does is call me-"
"Woman, the twins need you! NOW!!!" Wufei called to Sally. Sylvia then stood up and headed to the once-weapon storage room.
"I'd better tell Ryo where his weapons are. He'd probably be ticked by now."
"Yah, it still amazes me that you two actually got May Shi in the first place." Then Sylvia suddenly blushed. "Okay, what did you do Sylvia?"
"Um.....I think Ryo needs me at the moment." Sylvia then rushes out of the room.
"Geeze, what's gotten into her?" Duo wondered. Sylvia quickly headed to the weapons room that her husband was currently waiting for her. She couldn't tell the others, it would have been embarrassing. Though Sylvia also knows that the others would find out sooner or later, she would still die of embarrassment. That night four years ago was wonderful bliss to her, but it would still embarrass her if the others would find out about it.
Time passes and it was late in the evening. The younger children have already been taken to bed, though they protested before sleep overwhelms them.
"Well lets' get some shut eye then. We've got a lot of things to do tomorrow." Duo yawned as he stretched his arms.
'By the ancestors, more agonizing torture.' Ryo thought to himself. He still have six more day of all the people he has "met" before. Everyone went off to their rooms, well most of them.
"And where do you think your going?" Hilde Maxwell asked her husband.
"Well I was-"
"Don't even think about it. You're sleeping on the couch tonight." Duo grunted in annoyance before he did as his wife told him. Hilde handed him a blanket and then went off to one of the many couches in the living room and he was about to lie upon one when Ryo took the spot.
"This is my spot. Go somewhere else!" Ryo growled.
"Sheesh, what's bugging you? And while I'm at it, what are you doing down here?"
"I am down here because I choose to Maxwell!" Ryo then turns over and attempts to fall asleep.
"Well I guess it must have been something really bad." Duo then caught sight of Sylvia. "Hay Sylvia, what happened between you two?" Sylvia froze and blushed brightly. She did not want to tell Duo what had happened four years ago.
"Let it go Duo, she probably didn't want to talk about it anyway."
"Come on, you can tell us." Duo said, completely ignoring his wife.
"I will.....in private." The three then moved to another room, leaving Ryo to sleep upon the couch, who just then sighed in relief.
"You what!?!!" Duo couldn't believe at what Sylvia said earlier.
"You actually did that to him?" Hilde also stared in disbelief.
"Yes I did. Ryo didn't really want to do it and after a year of being denied, I just took matters into my own hands. Since then, we've never slept in the same room because he just didn't trust me after that night." Sylvia was completely embarrassed. Truthfully she did not want to tell them what happened, but they would have found out sooner or later.
"I can't believe that you actually tied Ryo to the bed like that. He must have really freaked out about it."
"Actually he was completely angry and pulled upon the ropes. He could have bleed to death."
"Yah, but still it is a real feat to tie up a 'Perfect Soldier' like that." Duo playfully said and received a jab from his wife. It was extremely late in the night, all within the large house were asleep, exempt for May Shi. She couldn't sleep and went to the only possible person that would help her go back to sleep.
'Daddy.' Ryo cocked open and eye and stared at his daughter. 'I can't sleep. Can I stay with you tonight?'
'Like you haven't ever other night?' He growled inwardly, but then surrendered to the demands of his offspring. 'You have permission.' May Shi jumped in joy as she crawled up onto her father, resting her head upon Ryo's chest and listening to the rhythmic heartbeats. 'Sooner or later you'll have to learn to sleep in your own bed.'
'I know daddy.' Ryo sighed and returned to dreamless sleep. Before May Shi let sleep claim her, she said one final thought. 'I love you daddy.' Looking upon the pair from the hallway, Sylvia sighed in blissful love. She always believed that Ryo had emotions within himself, though he would never admit it to even himself. She saw that whenever Ryo and May Shi were together. Her heart felt like it would burst with love for her husband. Ryo may be rude to all that know him, but Sylvia believes that deep inside him lays a pure human heart.
'I love you Ryo. Always have, always will, now and forever.' Sylvia thought before retiring to her master bedroom chambers.
End

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Okay, that is it. I know, that was the most stupidest endings in all of fandom. It was stupid, pointless, and downright idiotic. I couldn't help it, that was all I could think of. And it was soooo sappy, it could give you cavities. Please reply and you don't have to flame me about it, I've done enough flaming for myself and more. So what are you all waiting for? The shows over, leave!

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