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Ja Ne,

Flames are stupid.

Xion: The demon ant king declares this story-

Seross appears and blasts him into the sky.

Seross: No way are you gonna mess this one up XION!

On with the story.

Vanguard Dragon Claw
By Xion Fang
A Ranma/Vandread Crossover/Alternate Universe

Prelude: Red Dream

Note: This takes place on the first episode of Vandread the second stage, Red Angel.

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"No way are these guys gonna beat me, uh uh!" Screamed Hibiki as he moved the Vandread away from the cube warriors.

He sat in his cockpit, Dita in his arms flying around the battlefield.

"That's right!" Agreed Dita.

He heard Jura's voice,"What's that?!"

A red beam smashed into the Vandreads' arm and caused electricity to surge over his body. The arm seemed to rust up very fast.

"What?!"

He looked around and he saw the beam hit Meia's then Jura's dreads.

"No! Stop it! Spot it!"

He held up his arm and tried to fire his beam weapon. It charged up, then seemed to turn into a burnt husk.

"Damn you!"

He saw the red beam hit the Nirvana and it exploded.

"Nooooo!"

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Hibiki's room

He woke up in a cold sweat.

"Just a dream....." He whispered.

He clutched his arm,"But it seemed so real......."

He got up and started to walk.

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Docking Bay

He found himself looking at his Vanguard.

He heard a voice behind him.

"Mr. Alien?"

He turned around to see Dita, Meia, and Jura.

"It was trying to communicate with us, as least that's what I think."Said Meia.

"Huh? What are you guys doing here?" Exclaimed Hibiki, indignantly."Wait, did you have that dream too?"

Dita spoke up,"Then you had it too?!"

"You that's weird, having the same dream......." Jura trailed off as she grasped her forehead.

"Are you ok?"

"I'll be fine, just need to get some rest."

She walked away.

"Jura....." Dita said softly, her voice showing concern.

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On the Ship: Place Unknown

Hibiki walked down the hall, thinking about the dream.

"Mr. Alien!"

He looked up and saw Dita heading towards him.

"Mr. Alien...... When are you gonna.." She trailed off, a blush forming on her face.

"What!?"

"You know... that promise?"

Hibiki also turned red.

"What?! Right now, do you really think with all that's happening I could go through with something like that?"

"I guess not...."

"Good."

Dita perked up. "Then I'll see you at breakfast, ok?"

"What?! No!"

"Awww! Come on!"

Their voices trailed off as they walked away.

Meia watched from the corner and smiled.

"Daily log, Dita chasing after Hibiki again."

She turned around and saw Pai Way furiously writing on her note pad.

She held up her frog puppet,"Why would Dita like chasing a man, bleh!"

Pyro popped up,"Actually, that's human behavior. Hiccup!"

"How dare you interrupt a woman like that!? Wait, your a robot, robots aren't supposed to hiccup!"

Meia watched, a frown forming on her face.

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*Dread pilot changing room*

Barnette heard two girls talking as she came up to the change room after her usual patrol of the area around the ship.

"You, know" she heard one say"This ship has changed a lot!"

"Yeah!"Said the second one,"Before, we would have been repulsed by just looking at men, now, it doesn't even matter that we eat lunch with them anymore."

Though Barnette had to agree with that, she couldn't let the women start to depend on men, now could she?

She walked by them," Men cannot be trusted, we must show them that we are in charge!"She said, holding up her fist and clenching it.

As she walked out of the room she heard the two girls talk again.

"Do you think we should tell the captain?"

"She might start another revolt." agreed the second.

She stuck her head back into the room.

"I'm not going to do anything like that!"

With that, she stomped away, fuming, and leaving two very confused girls behind her.

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Engineering

Parfait ran to her assistant.

"When did it start?"

"Around three hours ago." Her assistant answered.

The pexis glowed and several blotches of red appeared over it.

"Is it rejecting the ship again, this happened when the two ships first merged! The fluctuations are only increasing!"

The pexis glowed again.

Parfait talked to the captain over the COM,"It's been acting up like this for three hours."

She stared at the crystal," You're a real troublemaker you know that?!"

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On The Bridge

"So, do you think that Taraaku and Mejeiru had gotten our info?"Asked Magno.

"We have no reason to believe that they will heed our warnings anyway so....."B.C left it hanging.

The captain raised her hood a bit. "Well they won't be able to ignore these messages."

"We don't know yet..........."B.C trailed off as some lights blared red on the screen.

"Mam, we've gotten a distress signal from up ahead."

B.C looked down at the control console. It seemed to be............

"Taraaku! This is a Taraakian distress signal! I have seen them before!"

The captain looked out from under her hood and smiled.

"Maybe we did get through to a couple of people....... Ladies, prepare a rescue operation, but be on all combat readiness, this could also be a trap."

"Yes mam!" Was the universal reply.

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*Medical Area*

"Oooooooh! You're baby's growing bigger, Ezra!"

Ezra smiled at Pai Way.

"You're right, "Said Duro, looking into the book he had found in storage, portraying babies and how they came to be,"They will separate soon."

Ezra looked at him, smiling, while Pai Way glared at him,"We call it giving birth."

"So, what are you going to call it?"Asked Pai Way.

Pyro, who was sitting near the side of the bed, spoke up,"Pyro 2!"

Pai Way glared at Pyro,"What do you mean, that not a name for a girl!"

While both of them argued, Jura arrived.

"Doctor, can I get some medicine?" She asked, her face flushed.

She saw that they weren't paying attention.

"Can I please get some medicine, my heads killing me?!"She yelled.

Duro looked up,"Sorry, where did you get it?"

He stood up and let Jura sit down.

"I had it since I had that dream............"she trailed off as she spotted a book.

Duro looked at her.

'Could this be all connected to that dream, the pexis, Pyros sickness, and Jura's sickness........Maybe......"

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*Bridge*

"We're approaching the target area."

"Good, keep everyone alert." Said Buzam, surveying the black space outside the ship.

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*Shooting Range*

Glowing disks shot forth, being shot down as fast as they appeared.

"Barnette, I wanna have a baby."

One shot missed.

Barnette turned around to look at Jura.

"What, and you want me to be the oma, is that it Jura?"

Jura shook her head,"No, I want to have a baby with a man!"

Her eyes turned into stars,"No Mejeirian has ever done it before, I would be its greatest hero!"

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The Bridge, later

"Woah, that things bigger than two van guards!" Hibiki exclaimed as he looked at the screen showing the pod.

It looked like a box with a cockpit of a star wars landing platform ship hooked up to it. On the box were the signs: DCX-V 1

"Any life signs?"

"Two, mam." Said one of the bridge occupants.

Suddenly a siren blared.

Hibiki screamed in frustation,"Dam it! Will they ever give up?"

With that, he ran out of the bridge, heading in the direction of the Van.

"Alright!" Announced B.C.

"Time to kick some harvester butt!"

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Space

The cube types flew in swarms at the Nirvana.

However, when the Van and the Dreads tried to engage them they changed direction to head towards the 'Van Box' as it was designated.

Meia flew around the battle, taking out a few cube types.

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The bridge.............

"If they're willing to shy away from us to get that ship, we must get it!" Said Magno, looking out over the battle.

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Space

"I got the ship!" Said Hibiki as he looked at the Van-Box.

Two docking claws picked up the ship.

He saw Gascognes' face appear "That's my job."

Suddenly, cube types blasted the claws and the ship was grabbed and pulled away from them.

"No way!" Screamed Hibiki.

Jura sped up behind him and they combined into Vandread Jura.

"No way are these guys gonna beat me, uh uh!" Screamed Hibiki as he moved the Vandread Jura away from the cube warriors, the ship in its grasp.

"I'm here!" Said Jura, winking at him, then slid up to him, remembering something from earlier in the day.

Hibiki blushed from the close contact and started away.

"Come on Hibiki, I want a baby, can you give me what I need?" She purred into his ear.

"Um, NO WAY!" he screamed, closing his eyes in embarrassment.

He heard Jura's voice again,"What's that?!"

A beam of red collided with their shield, forcing them apart.

The cube types took the Van-Box again and some others grabbed Hibiki, restraining him from getting any further.

"Stop it!" Dita screamed flying her dread towards him.

They combined into Vandread Dita.

"You'll never beat me!" Stated Hibiki from his cockpit.

"That's right!" Agreed Dita.

He sat in his cockpit, Dita in his arms flying around the battlefield.

A red beam smashed into the Vandreads' arm and caused electricity to surge over his body. The arm seemed to rust up very fast.

A duo of red lights emerged from the darkness of space.

The new weapon looked like a stingray. Two glowing red orbs as its eyes, staring at them with emotionless instinct.

Hibiki growled as he felt the electricity glance across his skin.

Two arms unsheathed from under it like two metal tentacles and grabbed Vandread Dita, restraining it form doing anything else.

The thing opened a red octopus-like mouth, pulling the Vandread towards it.

They tried to use their spear-laser, but it rusted up also.

"Like in the dream......" He whispered.

"But a dream isn't reality.."Hibiki continued his voice a whisper.

"And the reality is that I will never lose!"He screamed.

The Vandreads arm blade seemed to light up again then went back to its old self.

"Yeah!" Exclaimed Dita,"The arm!"

The Vandread struggled against its bindings for a bit, then broke through.

"AHHHHHHHHH!"Screamed Hibiki as he thrust his blade into the octopus-like mouth.

A beam of light punched through the other side of the stingray weapon.

"Yeah! If we combine our powers, we will always win!" Dita laughed happily as she bounced up and down on Hibiki's lap.

Hibiki, with the immediate threat gone, thought back to before.

"I still don't know what to talk about.." He muttered.

"Wha?"Asked Dita, turning her head to face him,"What did you say?"

Hibiki blushed and muttered,"Nothing."

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A while later, in the cargo bay.

"Ah almost...there!" Parfait exclaimed happily as she opened the two-seat cockpit.

She hadn't been able to get the cube open yet, but she decided to work on that problem later.

"It's a boy and girl!"

"Are they aliens?" Asked Dita.

"No, they're not aliens Dita." Pai Way said.

"Awwwww!" She said, pouting.

"The boy looks like he has been the worst for wear."Said Magno.

"They both have been in suspended animation,"Parfait looked at the duo again,"Look, there's two messages with them!"

She ran over and picked up the two data stores, one orb, and one modern looking one.

"Look, the girls waking up!" Exclaimed Pai Way.

The girl, who was in a cloth that looked like plastic, and had her blue hair in a ponytail started to open her eyes.

Hibiki tried to get through.

"Hey, let me through, I wanna see too!"

Hibiki pushed through the crowd and landed in the side of the awakening girls' body. As she opened her eyes and he started to get up, a hologram was projected from her earring. It looked like a little blob.

After she recognized Hibiki, she smiled,"Oh, I have found you, my lord prince!"

He jumped up and glomped him.

"My..."Started Jura.

"Lord..."Continued Barnette.

"Prince?!" Finished Dita.

A groan interrupted them they turned around to see the black haired boy stand up and hold his head.

While she held onto his head, the blue haired girl stopped putting pressure into her hug and transformed her look into one of confusion.

"Who are you?" She asked him.

He flicked his pigtail over his head and adopted a confused expression himself.

"I'm Ranma, sorry bout' this."

Notes: Muwahahahahahahahaha! A cliffhanger! It seems as though this is shaping up to be a great fanfic, tell me if you want me to continue this one.

Next: Baby On Board
What's with the new pilot? He came from Taraaku, then what happened there?! What's in the box is revealed and a new addition to the crew is on the way!

Happy holidays everyone!

Xion Fang,
Signing off.