Disclaimer: This is just speculation on my part. I own nothing of Vandread but this storyline. And my character.

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Kagen pulls the rear airlock apparatus out of the ship with his Vanguard. He then arms himself and gets out of the cockpit. He climbs up into the hole he just made. He pulls his scanner out and holds it in his left hand.

He switches it to a thermal scan (created to search for rats in the circuitry) and touches it to his glasses. The glasses film over with a green film as it switches to HUD mode. The sensors on the scanner relay the signals to the glasses as a visual display.

He hooks it back to his belt and picks up his MA5B rifle. He then begins his sweeping approach though the ship. He finds a computer terminal that still works and Hacks into it. He uploads the data to the scanner and moves on.

He makes his way to the bomb bay without incident. He taps his glasses to survey the damage. The film dissipates and he sees the full extent of the damage he inflicted. He falls to his knees next to a dead body and shouts, "God forgive me, I have killed many today."

A beam singes his ear and he dives for the nearest cover he could find. It happens to be a table that got knocked over but was still intact. He taps his glasses and the HUD returns.

She asks, "Why do you mourn for the enemy? Are you a soldier or not?"

Kagen looks straight though the table with his thermals and sees that she is bleeding. He says, "You're wounded. Let me treat your wounds."

She is shocked senseless and she lowers her weapon thinking, 'How did he know that I'm bleeding? Why would he want to treat my wound? He must want information.' She returns to her cover and says, "You want information don't you."

Kagen says, "I have all the knowledge I need, I don't want to have to hurt you further. I've done enough of that today."

She says, "How is this your doing? They were killed when a bomb went off inside the bay."

Kagen says, "I was underneath your ship as it was bombing and I shot that bomb as it left the bay, so I am responsible for all this destruction."

She walks over to him with her hands up. "If you are that good a marksman, I stand no chance. I'll allow you to treat my wounds, but I'm not giving you any information."

Kagen puts down his rifle and pulls his pack off his back. He gets the medkit out and approaches with his hands spread. He reaches her and takes her ring away. Then he treats her shoulder where a piece of shrapnel had sliced it.

She flinches a little at his touch. He laughs and says, "Don't worry, I don't bite."

She ignores that comment. Kagen says, "Sheesh, lighten up. I'm done. But we should really get you to this ship's sickbay." He taps his glasses and picks up his rifle.

He looks at her and asks, "Are you coming or not?" She looks at him blankly and thinks, 'Is it possible he actually cares for my health? No…'

He says, "I need to see how many more of your crewmates are alive. If there aren't enough you won't be able to fix this burnt out ship." She nods and follows him as he goes to sickbay. By now all the women have woken up and Kagen takes his gear off. He says, "I trust my life to you."

He throws her ring to her and puts his rifle and pistols on the ground. She is shocked yet again and then she puts the ring on and puts it to his back. The women give them a wide berth as they make their way to the brig. They start to go past the infirmary then Kagen stops. She asks, "If you don't want to die I suggest you continue." Kagen says, "Not until you see the doctor. I won't go anywhere." She speaks to a nearby guard and the guard says to Kagen, "You're coming with me to the brig." Kagen shrugs and says, "Ok."

An hour later.

The acting captain comes to the brig. She says, "I want to see the prisoner." The guard opens the bars and Kagen says, "You can leave them off, I just came to offer my assistance. I'm the ex-chief engineer of the now completely demolished Ikazuchi. Your ship now rests in an underground bunker that was once used to rebuild the Ikazuchi. I'm the only one who is here and knows the codes."

The captain is taken aback and asks, "How did you know what I wanted to know?"

Kagen says, "Standard situation, standard questions. So are you gonna let me help or what? I already have your ship's schematics. And I know what is broken in the aft portion of the ship. I also know about 3/8 of your crew died in the bombing bay and the engine room."

The Captain asks, "How do you know that?"

"I'm the one who shot you down. And I've seen what transpired. When I shot the bomb all the bombs on board went off sending a blast all the way to the engine room killing almost everyone in between. I also can safely say that most of you are injured."

The captain says, "And you think we'll let you kill the rest of us by sabotaging our systems? No chance of that."

Kagen says, "What makes you think I wouldn't have done that already if I wanted to? I could've just left you up on the surface and let the Tarrak military tear you apart."

The girl from before speaks up now. "He has a point. We have no real reason for distrusting him other than he's a man. He just wants to make amends for what he had to do."

Kagen says, "I do not regret shooting you down, because you were hitting the civilians. But I do regret killing any of your crewmembers. Just give me a chance; I can have your engines running in about a 2 days if I start now."

The captain says, "Ok take this man to the engine room and give him his bag back."

In the engine room

Kagen takes out his scanner and switches it to diagnostics mode. He touches the scanner to his glasses and they film over green. The HUD highlights the broken parts and catalogs them. He then puts the information in the computer and finds out that he needs to make 2 of the parts. He then gets to work on that.

Meanwhile the girl that he first met is standing guard over him.

He asks, "What is your name?"

She asks, "Why would you wanna know?"

He asks, "I don't really know…"

He shakes the feeling off and they don't talk anymore.

2 days later

Kagen gets up from his work and says, "I'm done. Next job."

2 weeks later

Kagen finds himself in the brig awaiting release. He looks through a wall with thermals and sees armed guards approaching. He realizes that all the work is done and that the weapons are putting off a lot of heat. He thinks, 'Those weapons must be set on kill. I gotta get out of here.'

He activates his scanner and pulls a panel off the wall. He hacks into the security systems and activates them. The security beams deactivate and Kagen activates the hallway turrets. The turrets fire on the unsuspecting detachment and injure 2 of the 5 of them. The other three drag the others to safety. Kagen uses the distraction to climb into the ventilation system. He makes his way to his guns and then suits up. He approaches the corner and hears voices. He stops and thinks, 'Now what? Do I leap out into the open firing wildly? No that would use up too much ammo. I got it!'

He climbs into the vent shaft and gets above them. He then detaches the panels directly above them. He jumps down behind one and blasts the other two with two quick three shot bursts. He then whacks the last one with the butt of his rifle, knocking her out. He moves on down the hall towards the airlock. (He had fixed it already.)

He looks around the corner and sees a squad of women guarding his only exit. He whispers, "God forgive me." He takes a grenade out of his pack and tosses it around the corner. After it goes off he rolls into the room and finishes off any of them that are still standing. He then activates the airlock and walks out. By this time the Tarrak military has figured it out.

Kagen opens the Hangar doors and Vanguards carrying troop carriers descend into the hangar. The troops get out and a Vanguard opens up. Mark gets out as Kagen sits down against a wall with a can of root beer. Mark says, "You've must've been terrified being their prisoner."

Kagen says, "Not really, they have good food. And they look and smell nice. It was going fine till they decided to try and kill me. Now their own security system is fighting them along with the military." He laughs, thinking, 'Of course they only are driving them to the lifepods. And keeping the military from cutting them off.'

The girl that Kagen met is retreating from enemy fire when she realizes that they are headed to the life pods. She says, "Come on, we have to get to the life pods."

The captain sighs and says, "That sounds like a good plan, everyone fall back to the life pods!"

The girl whispers to the captain, "This is Kagen's doing, he is trying to save us. He knew we wouldn't be able to take off. See, the turrets stop firing when we move to the life pods."

The captain says, "I see, so he was looking out for us."

They look down a hallway to their left and see the turrets firing on the enemy.

"Smart, he kept them from cutting us off."

The Captain says, "You were right about him Nina."

Nina thinks with relief, 'We're almost there. I wonder why he would care though. I mean, he's a man. Our enemy. Why?'

Outside

A commander comes up to Kagen and shakes his hand. "You managed to fool the women into fixing the ship. Now we have the ship and a war hero. You will be reinstated after this."

Kagen says, "They should be leaving the ship right about… now!" he waves his arm towards the ship as ½ of the life pods detach and fly off into space.

Kagen bows to the commander and says, "The ship is all yours." He presses a button on the scanner and all the turrets stop.

The commander looks shocked as reports start coming in that all the turrets have stopped.

Kagen says, "I'll be leaving now. Good bye."

He jumps into his Vantype0 and launches into space. He begins gathering the lifepods and bundling them together.

Inside the pods

The women start to panic as a Vanguard approaches.

Suddenly a comm. Screen opens and Kagen says, "Don't panic, I can't believe you people actually thought I'd let you guys just float on forever. I'm returning you to Mejale. Just use this comm. window to control the booster. I'm giving control to you. Bye."

He attaches the booster and begins his re-entry. He takes the shield from his back and crouches on it to fend off the heat. He lands in the desert in a flaming streak on light.

The sand is turned to glass beneath him as he wipes his shield off and places it safely on his back. He sets the Vanguard back on its launch pad and it retracts back into position. Once back in the mini hangar he gets out and checks his email. He laughs as he sees an invitation to the general's rescheduled medal awarding ceremony. Then he sees that his name is also on the honored list, meaning that he is receiving a medal on the same day as that phony. He frowns and declines the ceremony. He is written back almost immediately that it is a mandatory ceremony. Kagen says, "SHIT! I don't ever want to see that damned retard of a general." He checks the name and address to register his complaint. He then gets up and gets in his SUV he drives to the complaint department.

After waiting an hour, Kagen is past pissed off. He finally is admitted into the meeting room and the complaint representative. Kagen calms down and says, "My complaint is this, my award ceremony is on the wrong day."

The complaint representative asks, "Why can't you attend?"

Kagen says, "Because I don't want to receive an award in the same day as some faker."

The complaint representative says, "That is not a valid reason."

Kagen says, "The idiot… never mind. I've changed my mind."

"Glad to hear it."

A/N: What will happen next? You'll have to wait to see. Am I doing a god job of building suspense? Hahaha, please review. That is all I ask.