Okay this may be a little OOC because I'm adding in an entire new planet and group and who couldn't do with a little war. I don't own Vandread or any of it's stuff you know but I do own the Trinity and their stuff.

EDIT by ElvenHalfling: Heya, peeps! This is ElvenHalfling (don't worry, I'm not a hacker). I'm just dropping by and doing a little bit of grammar editing for Sapphire Serina Riddle. But while I'm here, I'd just like to point out really quickly (if I may) that, though she says "I do own the Trinity and their stuff," what she means is: "I own three of the Trinity and most of these characters." One of the Trinity you're about to read about (Tara) is mine, as are some of the other characters in this story (although it is true that Sapphire Serina Riddle is writing this story entirely by herself, just borrowing some of my characters for a bit). It might be a bit snobbish of me to point this out myself, but I just felt like I deserved the credit for my characters. Just a little FYI.

Chapter One
Unwelcome Intruders

"Is she ever going to be pleased with anyone I send up to the Nirvana?" Hibiki was getting a little annoyed that Jura kept sending most of the men they had chosen back to Tarak with more instructions and, since Hibiki had started to just send them back annoyed, she wrote an entire list of why they were the right ones to send.

Dita laughed. "Oh Hibiki, you know that she's just searching for the one she wants to make a baby with. She thought it was you, but you really love me. She's not that mean enough to try and take you away from me, even though she did try. It's okay though, because that was when we didn't understand men and after a while she stopped, realizing that your feelings for me weren't going to change." She laughed again. "I'm glad she stopped chasing you anyway, but it was annoying when she was. Too bad you don't have a twin brother or even a brother that is older than you. She's just being way too picky and I have to admit that. None of them are ugly or dirty at all in my opinion. They were all pretty good to me and seemed to be very interested in living with women and that's what we want them to be like. If they are sincerely wanting to, then we can probably get along with them."

It had been about six months since the harvest had ended when Hibiki had called upon others to fight with them. Many did and they won the battle and destroyed the earth's Paksis. Luckily no new big problems had arisen since then that had been more than they could handle alone. Most of the planets had communications and were either trading or working together quite peacefully from then on, since they had basically had to work together to defeat Earth and stay alive. The Nirvana, besides being a whole new experiment for the two planets where men and women lived separately, was basically called the peace-keeping pirates. They didn't want to be much more then pirates so they stuck with the pirate name, though they didn't do much pirating anymore. They all stayed on the Nirvana because they felt like it was more like home then Mejale or Tarak did, though they did visit from time to time. Thankfully no one hated them for that. In fact, most people knew them and enjoyed seeing them coming to their planet for supplies or whatever they needed.

Bart suddenly came around the corner to find the two sitting quite close together where they had stopped to rest a minute or two before. Not that it mattered to him. He knew they were together now. He grinned, shouting: "Hey love birds! I got a new group that would love to try live with women and they are getting ready to go up to the Nirvana as we speak!" He announced, sounding quite pleased with himself for completing the task himself.

"Bart, you know it's my job to choose, but Jura is so hard to please." He groaned. "At the rate we are going, we'll be here forever trying to find the right men for her."

Suddenly something shook the entire planet. Bart fell over, since he wasn't ready for it. "What was that?"

Hibiki jumped up. "I don't know. We might be under attack. We are heading to the Nirvana right now." He and Dita ran to the ship to get to the Nirvana, Bart following close behind them. Luckily Duero had stayed on board the Nirvana because he liked it more than anything because it was quiet and he could study with Piaway, the Nirvana's nurse. The Nirvana women had given him specimens to work with so he could understand women, since he was the Nirvana's doctor and men and women would soon be living together there. Not to mention he could spend time with Parfet, the Nirvana's mechanic and head engineer.

Bart followed the two because he was the only one who could drive the Nirvana. He was the Nirvana's navigator and loved that job and had personally had asked the captain, Mangno, to keep the job when they were heading to Tarak to find men to try and live with women. Not that she was going to let him leave in the first place. She trusted these three men as much as she had any woman on her ship and had made them part of the crew. Not to mention for some reason the Nirvana could only be driven by a man and Bart did it by himself well when he finally figured it out.

They took off as fast as they could and headed straight for the Nirvana to help out with whatever was happening. As they came and stopped on the Nirvana, Jura saw them and her frown transformed in to a wide smile. "Hibiki, Welcome Back!" She grabbed him in a tight hug. He blushed and Dita clicked her tongue, more than a little annoyed that Jura was hugging her boyfriend. Suddenly the Nirvana shook like the planet had, but harder, making them all stumble, and they all fell over, unable to remain on their feet.

"I think that was a shot!" Bart jumped up and ran past them to head to the Bridge of the ship.

Mangno was shouting, as was BC, the commander. "What is going on?" Mango shouted.

"What are they shooting at us for?" BC shouted.

"They aren't," Misty, the girl form Pluto they had rescued during the Harvest, shouted back, silencing everyone who had been shouting and said quietly now that she didn't have to make herself heard: "We are being hit by the bullet that misses or goes astray."

BC looked out and saw what she meant. Two ships came flying by. They were shooting at each other.

Bart ran in. "I'm here, Captain."

She nodded and said, "You're late. Now don't waste anymore time. Get to your station." He ran to his station and disappeared in the helm in a flash of blue light.

"Dreads standby," Mangno called to everyone on board. The Dread pilots all ran to their Dreads, including Jura and Dita. Hibiki ran to his Vanguard and got ready to take off, since he was part of the Dread team.

"Go now!" The order was given and The Dreads shot off like bullets with the Vanguard in their midst.

"Dita, let's combine," Hibiki called to her. "Maybe intimidation might do the trick to stop these two from fighting."

"Sure, Mr. Alien." She and he flew closest to each other and combined her Dread with his Vanguard, making them self what everyone called a Vandread. Then they both smiled at each other in the same seat. Dita practically sat on his lap. He loved that position.

The Vandread Dita, as they called it when her ship combined with Hibiki's Vanguard, was bigger and a lot stronger. "Lets go!" Meia was the Dread's leader. She called through the connection she had with all the Dreads and the Vanguard. "We need to separate them, but don't attack unless you are fired upon first."

"Roger!" All of them called back, flying toward the combat.

"Get down!" I threw my friends and sisters to the ground and ducked myself. I closed my eyes, thinking this was it, the end of our lives after so many years of fighting and trying to stay alive. We were done for.

"They missed. How could they miss? We were three feet in front of them!" Kojiko, the over-excited Phoenix, shouted, jumping from where he crouched and starting to dance around like the crazy maniac he was. We were surprised he wasn't insane, though he acted like he was whenever he got the chance.

I jumped up from where I had ducked and erveryopne else started to follow suit. "Eiji, can you give me a damage report?"

The brown-haired phoenix turned to me. "The engine is not going to hold out much longer at this speed. We were almost out of fuel anyway before we were attacked, and now that we are fighting we are using it faster than normal."

"Great." I groaned and turned to my sister Tara, who had returned to the driver's seat. Her face was grim, but I thought it was because she was angry we were being attacked after I had pushed her out of it so she would hit the ground.

I turned to Cheria. "Try to contact someone around here," I said, running to the other side of the cockpit to the guns where Dazara was sitting, firing shots at the other ship.

"Who do you know on this side of the universe?" Cheria shouted.

"I really don't know anyone out here. You don't know anyone either, but we are going to need all the help we can find. Just find someone, anyone, or we are going to be prisoners or dead in less then a few minutes!" I shouted, and Cheria jumped into action, grabbing the radio and changing the frequency to try and contact someone that would help us.

"We're almost out of bullets," Dazara said as I reached her.

"Make every shot count then," I said to her.

I turned to find Tara nearly in tears. She never cried, so that distressed me. I went to her. "Tara, we are not going to die. We are going to make it out of this alive. Trust me." She nodded but didn't speak. Suddenly a giant man-like machine came out of nowhere.

"What is that? " Cheria screamed.

"We are done for!" Tara covered her face in her hands with a sigh. "We might as well surrender now girls, we can't fight that thing!"

"Tara, what has gotten into you? We have got to keep fighting. We can't fight it but I can," I said, and before anyone could stop me I ran to the personal ships. I jumped into mine and took off before Eiji could deactivate it, though I knew he had tried to.

"Seriana, are you trying to commit suicide out there? If you are, I would appreciate it if you would warn someone first before you do something drastic like this. We hate trying to stop you when we don't know what you are thinking." My wonderful mother figure called to me.

"No, I'm not committing suicide. I'm just not going to let them catch you all. If I have to give myself up for all of you, then I will," I said, flying straight at the thing, unknowing and oblivious to the fact that it was the Vanguard containing Dita and Hibiki. "I'd rather die than let them catch all of you. if I have to die to save you then so be it. If that's what it takes to let you all survive, then I'll do it."

"Seriana, get back on here right now! Your being a total insane nutcase!" Nightmare yelled, taking the radio from Hope.

"Thanks, Nightmare! I knew you'd encourage me!" I said sarcastically. Hope took it back and then she tried to coax me back on to our main ship, but I ignored her. I knew she had our best interests at heart, but I had to save my sisters and friends.

"Come on, come on!" I shouted. "Shoot me already, for goodness sake! I can't strike first, but they probably aren't attacking because they know that!"

"I got a connection!" Cheria's voice helped me calm down a bit, but my worry was overpowering that calm feeling of hope. Suddenly I was hit with a stray bullet. I hit my head hard and passed out.

"Seriana!" Tara shouted as my ship began to fall out of control.

"No!" Everyone on board our ship shouted.

"Vanguard Dita, catch that ship!" Meia, who had been the first to connect with Cheria, said. "The rest of you follow me!"

"Roger!" The Dread team called in unison.

The ship firing upon us was overpowered by the new friends we had just meet and retreated. "What are you called?" Meia asked my friends. Since I was out of commission, Tara was in charge. She nodded to Cheria to signal to her that it was okay to reveal ourselves.

"We are called the Trinity," she answered. "We come from a place called the Seven Plains."