"Erts!" the green-haired pilot of Eeva Leena shouted. "Pay attention!"

The pilot of Reneighd Klein looked up. He had just missed being attacked. It was lucky Gareas had chosen to suddenly interfere. Of course Erts wasn't really paying attention.

Erts could have sworn he had felt something familiar radiate from the northwest direction.. but what was it?

"Erts!" Someone called, but Erts never did get the time to figure out whom, as he suddenly blacked out.

.

"Do you think he's ok?"

"He'd better be!"

"Be quiet!"

"He's waking up!"

"Ungh.." Erts muttered feeling pain surge throughout hi body.

"Erts?" a voice of concern asked. He turned toward the sound and opened his eyes.

"Tune?" he managed to say before closing his eyes in pain. His whole body ached.

"Erts?" she called wide-eyed noticing he was in pain.

"Don't worry.I'm.o..k.." Erts said before blacking out once more. The last thing he heard before sliding back into the darkness was Tune and the others calling to him.

. "Erts." Erts turned to the sound of the voice. Someone was calling his name.

"Erts.." There it was again! Who was doing this?

"Angel." Erts froze. No one called him one except..

"Ernest!" Erts exclaimed. "Ernest where are you?"

"Angel.."

"Ernest!"

The familiar feeling, the radiance that had plagued Erts during his battle with VICTIM had returned, this time stronger than before.

"Ernest.." The thought ran through his mind. Was the feeling he it Ernest?

"Angel."

"Ernest if that's you." Erts voice faded. " me.."

There was silence. Erts was afraid he'd left.

"Ernest?" Erts called out, now fearing that Ernest had indeed left. All alone.

Erts felt his eyes water. So close to finding so far. No! He wouldn't cry! He wouldn't, not him, not now.

Something wet seemed to trail down his cheeks hitting the bottomless black floor. Erts was starting to think it was raining; he didn't want to believe they were actually tears.

Erts had been trying to deny it, but realization soon sunk in, he was crying. No, he was in hysterics.

Ernest! Ernest! Ernest! The more he thought of him the louder his cries became. The VICTIM, Ernest final cries of pain, the sudden silence. It was all replaying in his head over and over.

" did you go?" Erts thought, a sudden sensation of anger feeling hi. "ERNEST!"

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"ACK!" Rioroute yelped falling backward. Erts had thrashed widely to the side nearly falling off the bed he had been placed upon.

"What's wrong with him?" Tune asked worried.

"I don't know." the nurse muttered. "He might being having a nightmare."

"A nightmare?" Gareas blinked.

"Either .something.. else.." she allowed her voice to trail. The others were staring at her then back at Erts.

"Erts." Gareas thought, fist clenched.

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"Ernest.." Erts cried falling to his knees using his hands to keep himself propped up, eyes staring at the darkness below.

"Don't cry Angel.. don't cry.."

Erts stiffened as his eyes made contact with a pair of blue boots.. was it? Could it be?

Erts heart raced as his eyes traveled upward pass the boots, ankles, and upper thighs lavished by shorts. His heart was now pounding in his chest.

Moving his eyes more slowly now he saw the same familiar outfit covering the body.

The moment of truth, his eyes met with the older boys and began to tear up again.

The blonde hair on his head and the same crystal blue eyes, it was him.

"Ernest!" Erts cried lapping his arms around the older boys waste. "Is it really you? I mean it .you.. you..."

"Died?" Ernest finished Erts sentence for him as the little one nodded.

"I never really," Ernest started to Erts confusion.

"What do you mean?" Erts asked. "You said you were."

"I know what they said. it's hard to explain," Ernest stated wrapping his arms around Erts. "Let me show you."

Erts soon saw everything from the eyes of Ernest. He felt all Ernest had felt and more. He saw the VITIM, the fight, the colony, which had found Ernest, what had happened, everything.

"You were still alive when they." Erts said in a meek tone, not wanting to believe that they had sent his brother out alive, that they'd made a mistake.

"Sent me into outer space in a coffin?" Ernest finished once more. "They thought I was I wasn' I was." He laughed slightly noting Erts confusion once more.

"I don't understand," Erts said.

"I appeared dead you see," Ernest started. "But I wasn't. I showed all the signs of the dead. So it wasn't strange I'd be claimed dead. Physically I wasn't alive but mentally I was very much.

I don't blame them for what they did. To the world, I was gone, but apparently I still managed to hang on. Dusk bringing me here."

Erts took a moment to absorb all this.

"Ernest?" Erts asked.

"Yes?" Ernest said.

"Where are you now?" Erts asked quietly. "I mean you can't be this darkness."

Ernest smiled. He then pointed off into the blackness, toward a now forming colony.

"I'm there," Ernest answered. "On Colony EC-KO. I've been there for a few weeks now." He smiled again, this time at Erts childish fascination with the colony.

"Childish curiosity," Ernest muttered causing Erts to stare at him but grin anyway.

"Erts," Ernest tone now took on that of a serious one. "I must go now."

"GO?!" Ernest asked alarmed.

"You must wake up," Ernest said. "If you don't you'll probably never get up."

"I don't care!" Erts cried clutching Ernest tightly. "I don't care if I ever wake up. As long as I'm with you, I don't care." Ernest pulled Erts close to him, holding on to him tightly. He propped the younger boy up to wear their eyes met.

"Erts." Ernest said to him. "You must you don't wake up then you'll never find me and we'll never see each other again. Please Angel.. please."

Erts cried. He didn't care. He buried himself into Ernest knowing it'd be a while till he'd ever get to see him again.

Erts felt Ernest start running his hands through his hair, it felt so good.

"Angel?"

"Mmm?" Erts mumbled cuddling into Ernest.

"Look at me."

Erts looked up at Ernest, right into his eyes. He wondered silently what Ernest wanted. That was soon answered as Erts felt Ernest press his lips to his own in a chaste kiss.

If Ernest hadn't broken the kiss Erts was sure it would have went on forever leading one thing to another.

Erts gave Ernest hugs that seem to stand unbroken even after they separated.

" ." Erts said teary eyed as the image slowly faded away. "I'll find .."