So this, as I like to put it, is the nightmare AU. A nightmare AU is when a bunch of people have darker personalities and morphed into monstrous sort of things. The premise in this AU is simple- Keroro Platoon goes to Pekopon to invade but the pekoponians will be drastically different and the story will take a different plot than in canon.

This scene and chapter is them before they go to pekopon, you can think of it as a flashback as you will to try to ease you into this AU. All members of the Keroro Platoon will have the same backstory, personality and appearance as in canon at the moment. The pekoponians will not.

The plot is- What if Pekopon had know about aliens? In this AU, all of Pekopon lures aliens to their planet to trap them, torture or kill them to make sure their planet isn't invaded by the alien forces. They are more advanced and evil than in canon. Two warring political parties have different views on how they should treat aliens and the Keroro Platoon is caught in the middle.

Abandoned by their planet after Keron turns tail and runs, the Keroro Platoon is trapped on a terrifying planet with evil humans who do in fact know of their existence and aim to destroy them. What do they do and how do they survive?

Will they ever awaken from this nightmare?

I hope you enjoy!

Keroro sighed as he looked out of the windows of the ship that was bringing his platoon to Pekopon.

The Pekopon invasion. I'm sure it'll go well. Keroro felt excited. The Keroro Platoon had been designed to be the first platoon to go out onto the field. They were a recon mission, to check out how the planet was. Then the mighty force of all the keron army would charge after them and quickly invade the 'uninvadable planet.'

Keroro had momentarily heard rumors that other aliens had gone to pekopon. About five thousand a year, and always failed, never to return. But Keroro knew the Keroro platoon was better than that. We're not like those other aliens. We're cool.

He surveyed his platoon that he had been given. Two officers he didn't very well know, sergeant major Kululu, who he already knew was a jerk and briefly wondered if he even wanted to know him, and second class Private Tamama who seemed like a pretty nice guy even if he had a few anger issues.

Keroro hoped he made a good impression on them. I'll impress them until they think I'm the greatest thing in the universe! He beamed.

It couldn't be too hard, right?

On the other hand, he also had his childhood friends in his platoon, corporal Giroro and lance corporal Zeroro. Unfortunately he had already messed up the first impressions with both of them, they knew what he was really like- an idiot as they put it.

Keroro stuck out his tongue at them childishly. Well Kululu and Tamama will be the new you guys! I don't need you two! He thought to himself. He was sure Kululu and Tamama would be his new possey, following him everywhere happily. Zeroro had grown a back bone over his assassin training and could no longer be exploited.

"I have utmost faith in the Keron army." Giroro crossed his arms, "This invasion will be easy, and as the front lines, we'll be hailed as heroes."

"I'm just glad I have a chance to work with you two again!" Zeroro grinned, "Friends till the end, right? Ah, it feels so nostalgic, I'm sure it will be like the many camping trips we used to have as kids-"

"So, Giroro what do you think will be the most difficult challenge we'll encounter on Pekopon?" Keroro cut off Zeroro, ignoring him.

Zeroro's eyes watered. "Nothing has changed, hasn't it? That's so mean, Keroro..."

"The locals shouldn't be a problem. I've heard they're barbaric. Uncivilized. They don't even know about aliens or life in the universe." Giroro huffed, "I'm glad you're taking an interest in the risks. That's the mark of a true good leader. It's nice to be under you."

Keroro grinned. For some reason everybody always talked about how great he was, and he wasn't about to correct them that he was just lucky and achieving things accidentally. He believed in himself perhaps a bit too much.

Kululu and Tamama stared at their new platoon, kind of out of the loop.

"They're...Childhood friends.." Tamama realized, kind of sadly. He had hoped he would have made a good impression on Keroro, but these bozos were already stealing his time with him. That's so unfair.

"Tch. Well, I'm just glad I'm in a platoon with the great Captain Keroro. Ku, ku, ku." Kululu remarked, "I've heard he could do great things. He was rather impressive in the Keron star competition."

Tamama glared over at him. "Don't tell me you rigged things to get in this platoon?" Do I have some competition? I have one goal here, and it's not to invade. It's to make Keroro fall madly in love with me! Rigging the system to get in this platoon was his job.

"Ku, ku, ku. That's a secret. All I can say is that I expect great things from Sergeant Keroro." Kululu eyed the keron star. It seemed like he was more interested in that than the person behind it.

Keroro bounded over to Kululu and Tamama and happily shook their hands. "Welcome! Welcome to the Keroro Platoon. I've heard a lot about you two."

"I've heard a lot about you too." Kululu nodded, professionally. "I heard you and the red guy talking about Pekopon and the environment there. Do you think there will be curry? Ku, ku, ku."

Keroro didn't know how to answer. He opened his mouth to speak, but then looked at Tamama deciding to ignore Kululu's question.

"I've seen a lot about you!" Tamama shook his hand, savoring the small touch.

"You mean heard." Keroro corrected.

"Seen!" Tamama corrected once again. He always watched all of the shows about Keroro, watched him from afar, just saw him all the time. He was his idol after all.

Keroro's eye twitched. Was he being stalked?

"Anyway..." He pulled out two files, "As your platoon leader and your captain I wanted to get to know the two of you better. I saw you looking a bit jealous as I talked to Zeroro and Giroro, and I don't want to appear biased." He talked like the perfect platoon leader. Charismatic and professional.

Kululu was glad of that. He was kind of worried he might have been placed in a platoon with an idiot. All of Keron can't be wrong about this guy. I'm sure he's just as great as they talked him up to be.

"Did you get my gift, sergeant Keroro?" Kululu asked.

"Gift? We were supposed to give our sergeant gifts?" Tamama stepped back in surprise. N-nobody told me. Now I'm probably the most out of place platoon member! This was his first mission since training school. How did he know they needed to give gifts?

Keroro shivered for a moment, shuddering. He paled. "I...I did...Did you have to be such a jerk to turn all my furniture into octopuses?"

"It's pekoponian wild life." Kululu shrugged, "It's a taste of what we could encounter. Ku, ku, ku. But I just wanted to let you know what kind of guy I was. Don't worry, I did the same to your friends."

Giroro shivered as well. Zeroro turned away, shuddering at the pranks Kululu had pulled on them.

"I'll get you later, kid. Ku, ku, ku." Kululu winked at Tamama, "After all my motto is jerk till the end. You better not steal it."

"He's so dislikable...Why did he get placed in our platoon?" Giroro shuddered. They hadn't been on the ships for long but he already knew too much about Kululu.

Keroro winced. "Anyway, you're sergeant major Kululu." Keroro looked through the files, "You're good with making inventions, and will be our tech officer."

"Yeah, but don't expect me to do all the work. I'm not going to pull your sorry weight. Ku, ku, ku." Kululu sat down and put his feet on a table. They would have to eat on the table later.

Keroro kept his temper. Giroro did not.

"I hate this guy! He's such a jerk!" Giroro yelled.

"That's also in his file. I'm not sure how someone can get an official report to read that they're a jerk, but he did." Keroro looked at the file in confusion, "You used to be a Major? How did you end up a sergeant major?"

"Ku, ku, ku." Kululu sent a threatening glare over to Keroro. Keroro quickly went away out of fear.

These idiots are annoying, but at least my leader feels sort of inspiring. I can expect good things out of him. He feels successful. Kululu thought to himself. He glanced at Giroro. Giroro however didn't look successful at all.

"You're second class Private. This is one of your first missions." Keroro smiled at him, "You'll be the canon fauter."

"I think you mean first line soldier." Tamama corrected, "His eyes twitching."

"It says you've got some anger problems in here. "Dangerous when in a mood swing"" Keroro read, "So like Giroro?"

"Don't compare me to that idiot! I'm great!" Tamama blew up the table with his mouth. Kululu quickly pulled his legs away before they got blasted.

Keroro's eyes twitched. He made a mental note to try to protect his other platoon mates from Tamama.

"Okay...Very helpful." Keroro nodded, "Over there is corporal Giroro, he's our weapons expert." Keroro pointed.

"Is he your boyfriend?" Tamama asked snidely and jealously. Got to make sure my hero's single. Now I finally have an opportunity to check.

"No. He's my friend from childhood. Our dads are buds." Keroro frowned, "That's Zeroro...He's...What are you again?"

Zeroro cried, "Lance corporal. I'm an assassin."

"Is he your-" Tamama was cut off.

"No, he's also a friend. I don't have a boyfriend!" Keroro frowned before Tamama could ask further questions.

"Oh...? So your single then...?" Tamama asked hopefully.

"Well, I mean...Yeah. Going on a mission to pekopon doesn't leave much of a chance for romance. You wouldn't want to leave a girl on Keron." Keroro told him.

"...Girl?" Tamama was confused. He laughed for a minute. Was Keroro joking? Or wait...Is he straight? Well...He won't be very straight after me. We'll have plenty of time to get to know each other and fall in love on Pekopon.

"I know that feeling. Plenty of girls in my assassin division wanted to start something, but I knew there wasn't time so I had to reject them politely-" Zeroro tried to tell his story.

He was cut off by Giroro who had forgotten he was talking, "Pathetic. If you're in the army you don't have time for romance. Simple as that. All I need is a good gun. Not a pretty face."

"Ku, ku, ku. It's probably because nobody wants to date you." Kululu insulted.

"S-shut up!" Giroro yelled.

Keroro tried to get in between Giroro and Kululu before they could kill each other. I'll have to keep an eye on those two when we get to Pekopon. They don't look like they'll get along.

Quickly he pressed a switch and a power point appeared on a screen, detailing what they might encounter on Pekopon.

"I just wanted to remind you all of the mission. I put this together for you." Keroro smiled. He had done a lot of work on this power-point. It had great transitions! "We are the first team on Pekopon soil. We'll start the initial invasion and scope things out. However the rest of the army will quickly follow after us. There will be no danger," Keroro glanced at the slide that told him to repeat that statement. "No danger whatsoever."

He smiled and a slide of a picture of a pekoponian showed up. "The pekoponians don't know about aliens. Our anti-barriers should work on everybody who hasn't encountered aliens before. It's important to make sure that the pekoponians don't realize we're there until it's too late. It would throw their whole planet out of balance if they knew about aliens. We have to comply by space laws." Keroro nodded.

"After all pekoponians are like wild animals. They aren't as advanced as us so they can't process alien laws and would be disturbed by our presence." Keroro frowned, pitying the pekoponians, "Our anti-barriers will process the pekoponian language and translate it for us. We will not be seen by those who don't know of aliens or express a curiosity on the level of a keronian aptitude. Any questions?" Keroro ended his slide show.

Tamama raised his hand. "What do we do if we get lost or separated?" He asked.

Keroro smiled. "Great question, private. You have your communicators for one thing." He walked over to Tamama and put his arm around him.

Tamama blushed.

"But in the event something goes wrong I value each and one of my teammates. I have faith that we will find each other and I promise to locate each and every one of you." Keroro answered like the perfect platoon leader.

Tamama smiled. Mr. Sergeant's arm is around me! He tried not to be too gay and dial it back, but he nuzzled up a bit. Keroro didn't seem to notice.

"Keron will be right behind us. We'll find each other again and they'll save us." Keroro promised, "Keron is the greatest in the universe."

"You sound like a Keron spokesperson. Ku, ku, ku. Annoying." Kululu looked irritated. Maybe Keroro was just like every other keronian who didn't have a brain or a will of their own.

Keroro ignored him and congratulated each of his platoon mates on making it into his platoon.

Eventually they finally made it to Pekopon. The planet looked so blue, more blue than Keron. The ship hovered over an area ready to beam the five keronians down.

It hit a tower that it hadn't calculated for and zoomed out of control. The pilot tried to get things back on track but it pressed a button to beam the keronians down as things crashed.

It hadn't targeted a specific location to beam them and instead as they looked around they were materialized completely separate.

Keroro woke up on the ground, his hand bruises, his legs straining. He could see in the distance smoke coming from his ship.

"G-guys...Guys?" He hadn't predicted this. His mind filled with panic and fear. He whipped out his communicator. There were four lines for each of his platoon mates. He clicked Giroro's first. "Giroro? Are you there? Are you all right?"

Giroro didn't answer. There was just static. His communicator must have broken in the crash.

N-no...No...What if he didn't get beamed down correctly? How could we not see that there was a tower? I thought Pekopon was uncivilized, like in feudal times or something? Keroro was so confused. He looked at a giant tower in the city- he didn't know it was called Tokyo Tower. He cursed at it and hissed.

It might have killed Giroro.

He pressed the third line to see if his third platoon mate was okay. He forgot to check on Zeroro like always.

"Tamama? Tamama are you all right?" His voice was filled with worry. He didn't even care about how bruised his body was.

I can't mess up this mission. I'm sergeant Keroro, I have an important job! He reminded himself.

"Yeah...I'm really dizzy..." Tamama answered finally in his cute voice. "I think I may have hurt my head."

"Thank goodness, you're okay. I'll look for you as soon as I can. Do you see anything around you?" Keroro asked.

"...A giant mansion..." Tamama answered. "Should I head to it?"

"Roger that." Keroro nodded, "I'll meet you there after you take it over. Good luck."

Tamama smiled, "Good luck too! I'm sure we'll see each other soon! Bye, I love you!"

"Um...Tamama, I'm not your Mom...I think you slipped up..." Keroro scratched his head awkwardly. He smiled at the words though. Tamama's humorous nature always lifted his spirits.

"Uhhhh...Yeah...CHHHKKK...CHKKKK...You hear that static? Ohhh nooo it seems my thing is breaking I think. You're breaking up...Bye!" Tamama quickly shut his communicator off after his very unconvincing lie.

Keroro sighed. Kululu was next. "Sergeant Major Kululu? Are you okay?"

"Ku, ku, ku. Better than you. And yeah. I did hack into the communicator and hear your awkward conversation with the private. Didn't know you two were that tight." Kululu teased.

Keroro blushed, "Shut up. Are you injured? You okay? See anything?"

"I'm fine. Probably." Kululu responded, "I think I'm near a school. At least that's what I see a sign that says school. Boring. Ku, ku, ku. I'll take it over. Meet ya later." Kululu wanted to sign off.

"I'll invade what I'm near first!" Keroro boasted. Competitions were fun. He rubbed his head and looked at what was around him. It was an odd house, huge and gray and monotone in color.

"The Hinata house..." He read to himself after clicking off his communicator. Well...This place can't be too much trouble to invade. And he had the Kero Ball too. He could do this.

He turned on the communicator briefly to talk to Kululu and Tamama again. "Remember, I'll come save you after I invade this place, but if I don't...Save the most important member of the Keroro Platoon- The captain!" Keroro cried, "Good luck."

He signed off and approached the weird house.

Keroro didn't knock as he opened the door. He was an alien after all. The house was gray and rather bland as he walked in.

Shoes were left at the door way. It looked like it was only one story tall but big. Keroro wondered if it had a basement, but he didn't know.

He walked through the dark hallways. Trophies and awards were littered all over the walls, and a picture frame of the inhabitints in the house- a young blue haired boy and a taller man with pink hair ruffling his son's hair and smiling.

Picture frames with animals wings like large butterflies and wild life were on the walls.

Is...Is that a viper? Keroro saw some skin standing on a dresser, higher than him. He gulped. Nah...It can't be...That is probably just the shedded skin of some pekoponian animal. He reminded himself.

He eventually reached the end of the hall, jumped up and opened the door knob. He was in a bed room.

I'll hide here and destroy whoever lives here. Keroro quickly grabbed some wall paper to conceal himself as he jumped onto the bed.

The door opened and Keroro froze as a pekoponian boy with blue hair walked in. He wore a green sweater.

The first pekoponian I've encountered! This is where all my training pays off-Keroro thought to himself. He knew the pekoponian couldn't see him, but the boy's blue eyes seemed to stare into his soul.

The boy walked over to his window and closed his blinds. The room instantly became darker.

He doesn't see me...He hasn't said anything! Keroro felt himself feel less pasty. He tried to stop sweating, to breathe in relief. He was frightened of this boy.

The boy closed his bedroom door slowly. He then looked back at Keroro who was standing on his bed.

Before Keroro could speak, the boy smiled and grabbed Keroro by the arm.

"Found you, alien~. And you aren't getting away." His voice was teasing. But Keroro's eyes widened.

He can see me? Keroro panicked. He was caught by the enemy. Before he could press his keroball, the boy swiped it out of his hand and tossed it to the ground.

And Keroro knew he was trapped. He was in the enemy's control. He was the first member of the Keroro platoon that had been lost.

Things hadn't turned out like they had thought. Keroro just hoped his platoon would save him and Keron's forces.

Please review and tell me what you think! And yes, the boy Keroro met was Fuyuki.