Tokomuki he Dixen: A Year at War

By Strider Itachi

Disclaimer: Tech Romancer/Kikaioh and any related characters are property of Capcom. They do not belong to me. Also, don't sue me since there would be no point in doing so.

Well, I have received a few of positive reviews. This time I'll pay more attention to the grammar. Also, a certain reviewer brought up two interesting points that I'll explain at the end. Since I DID actually get reviews, I will continue to write this story. I'll keep the intro short this time. So on to the story!


Chapter 2: The Invincible Dixen Force!!!

'Yale! I aced the pilot exam! What do you think?' asked a young Nakato with glee in his voice.

'I was observing you. You definatly have potential. You got the highest scores in the class.' an equally young blond-haired girl, who's name was apparently Yale, responded. 'You did better than me by only a few points.'

'Cool! Ha ha ha ha ha.' the young Nakato laughed as he hopped down the hall of the pilot academy full of joy.


"Ensign Nakato Farland!" shouted someone through his door.

"What?" Nakato responded, obviously annoyed by the person who interrupted his dream.

"We have to report to headquarters immediately. In addition, the Vice Admiral has requested to see you personally. We can't keep him waiting!" the person shouted once more.

"I'll be out in a minute. Just let me get up." replied Nakato, still obviously annoyed. Once he was up, he quickly brushed his teeth, combed his hair, and put on his uniform. He didn't bother to take a shower since he wouldn't have any time. He looked at the clock, and realized it was already 7:10 a.m. This indicated he was behind schedule.

"Finally, you're out." the captain told Nakato in a somewhat anxious voice. "Let's go, we're late as we speak."

"Yes sir." Nakato replied. It was apparent to the captain that Nakato was depressed about something. He didn't bother asking since he didn't want to be distracted from his meeting with the all-important Vice Admiral.

After having walked down a long series of halls with every kind of person from every nationality to be seen, they finally reached a narrow corridor with a high security lock. As the captain walked up to the guards, he began speaking with one of them. Nakato couldn't make out what they were saying, and he didn't seem to care either.

"Nakato! Come on, hurry up! We're already 10 minutes late!" the captain shouted out to Nakato. Nakato simply nodded and ran over to where the captain was.

After what seemed like an eternity of walking down empty corridors, the captain and Nakato had reached one door. Next to the door was standing a rather old looking man.

"Ah, Vice Admiral Johnson. How nice to see you again after all these years." the captain told the old man.

"Well captain, is this the one?" asked the Vice Admiral.

"Yes, he is." the captain replied in a very serious tone.

"I've heard much about you, Nakato Farland. Your father must be very angry right now. Having lost his prized weapon and his son on the same day." the Vice Admiral said coolly as he walked up to Nakato. Nakato tensed.

"Now, now. Don't get so edgy. I wanted to meet you for two reasons. First, I would like to officially enlist you in the military, and promote you to Lieutenant Junior Grade. Secondly, I will be assigning you to a special task force that was just founded. I'll fill you in on the details as we go." the Vice Admiral said once more with calm in his voice.

"Go?" asked Nakato, who was surprised by the Vice Admiral's words.

"Yes. I will be taking the both of you to a secret warehouse in an underground section of this base. It is the most heavily guarded room in the entire facility right now. Anyway, we obtained the data extracted from Dixen's main computer, and accessed all of the blueprints, weapons operating system information, and various other important pieces of data which we used to create two prototype machines based on the original Dixen design. I'll tell you more once we get there." the Vice Admiral said as the three walked down to a rather new looking hall. After having passed about 15 security checks, they were within a large warehouse, and to the left could be seen two machines strongly resembling Dixen.

"Gentlemen, may I present to you Dixen Red Armor and Dixen Mk. II. These are the result of our extensive testing and experimentation with the original Dixen data." the Vice Admiral said excitingly as Nakato and the captain looked on in amazement.

"Gentlemen, first, I will explain the Dixen Red Armor. The Dixen Red Armor is basically an exact copy of the original Dixen, except with a red-orange paint job where the original Dixen was blue. That means there isn't much to explain about this one. However, the Dixen Mk. II, on the other hand, is our own creation. It has basically the weapons system, but the weapons themselves, have been upgraded to create the combat marvel you see before you. This Dixen, which we called the Super Offense Armor, rather than defense, boasts higher thruster capacity, upgraded weapons and tripled overall performance. Also, the armor is colored black, as you can see, and the headpiece has green lights on it. Which means, that the Dixen Mk. II was designed to fight during both the day and the night without a reduction in effectiveness." the Vice Admiral continued as if anxious to say something else.

"Finally. Nakato, I will be assigning you to a special task force, which for now will be called the Dixen Force. You yourself will be piloting the original Dixen, while two other pilots from another fleet will be piloting the other two machines. Also, captain, your ship will be the ship to which this task force will be assigned." The Vice Admiral sighed, as if finally having gotten something important off his chest. Nakato and the captain stood in utter bewilderment as they stared at the two new machines that stood before them.

"Vice Admiral Johnson! The two pilots from the 3rd fleet are here!" a worker from the factory informed the Vice Admiral.

"Alright. Bring them in." the Vice Admiral commanded.

"Yes sir." the worker responded before leaving to some other area of the warehouse.

"Now, Nakato, you will meet your fellow teammates in the Dixen Force." the Vice Admiral told Nakato confidently.

Suddenly from behind a door emerged two military officers being escorted in the Vice Admiral's direction. Nakato could tell that one of them was an Ensign.

"Sir. Lieutenant Commander Joseph Frias reportining for duty!" one of the two men said.

"Sir. Ensign David Riego reporting for duty!" the other one said.

"At ease." replied the Vice Admiral. While the Lieutenant Commander did indeed ease up, the Ensign remained tense around the Vice Admiral.

"Joseph, David, I would like you to meet Nakato Farland. He will be your teammate from now on. Now, if you all would excuse me, I have a very important meeting to attend. Goodbye." the Vice Admiral said before he turned around to leave.

"Sir!" replied Joseph, David, and the captain at the same time. Joseph then turned around and tried to greet Nakato, but Nakato, who was staring at the new Dixen models, seemed to be in a world of his own...


'Alright. All of you get into your assigned simulation pods. We will begin the exam shortly.' said a tall man to the group of trainees.

'I'm gonna beat you again, Yale. Nobody in this class can beat me. Ha ha ha!' yelled out a young Nakato.

'I don't really care about simulations. It's not until you experience real combat that you can truly evaluate your skills as a pilot. These simulations are nothing but games used to prepare you for the real thing. But the real thing is much different from this.' Yale answered without emotion. Nakato went silent and suddenly the tall man began yelling out his name.


"NAKATO!!!" Joseph yelled unexpectedly which caused Nakato to come back to his senses.

"Yes, Commander Joseph!" Nakato suddenly responded.

"Well, I finally got through to you. I was just trying to introduce myself when you zoned out. Anyway, you already know who I am, and we don't exactly have time to chat. So I'll get straight to the point. Since I'm a Lieutenant Commander, and you're a Lieutenant JG, that means that I am officially the leader of the Dixen Force. Got that?" Joseph told Nakato in a cocky yet serious voice.

"Yes sir!" replied Nakato.

"Good, then now that that's out of the way. We already have our first assignment. We are to rendezvous with an allied ship and successfully escort it to the Eastern Branch headquarters. We are to expect attacks from the Rafaga Corps. So I guess I'll meet you in your ships launch bay tomorrow morning after we take off. Is that clear?" asked Joseph in a serious, commanding voice.

"Yes sir!" replied Nakato once more.

"Also, I will be piloting the Dixen Mk. II, while David over here will be piloting the Red Dixen. So now that everything's cleared up, I guess I'll see you tomorrow.

Nakato silently walked back to the ship, thinking of nothing in particular except the mission objectives relayed to him by Lt. Commander Joseph.

Nakato went into his room, and in a similar fashion to the night before, he simply took off his shirt, hopped into his bed, and went to sleep. He continued to dream the same dream.

Violent shaking waked Nakato up. He quickly put on his pilot suit and went to the launch deck.

"Hey Nakato! Where have you been? We've been in battle for about 20 minutes now." one of the technicians shouted at Nakato.

"I dozed off I guess. What's the situation?" Nakato asked as he prepared to launch.

"Well, the Rafaga Corps launched a surprise attack on headquarters. We had Lieutenant Commander Joseph and Ensign David launch in the two new Dixen's. David's wiped out 3 Rafagas, while Joseph took out 20 already." the technician replied.

"20!!! That's incredible!" Nakato responded in disbelief.

"I know. But he is our forces number 1 ace pilot, so it's to be expected. Now launch! There's still 17 Rafagas to take care of." the technician told Nakato before Nakato closed the cockpit and proceeded to the launch pad.

"Lieutenant JG Nakato Farland, launching." said Nakato into the newly installed receiver inside his cockpit.

Nakato landed next to about 13 Rafagas that were either destroyed or damaged beyond repair. He increased the thrusters to maximum output and flew over to the battle zone where his teammates were. As he landed, a voice came over his receiver.

"Hey Nakato, what took ya?" asked Joseph through the receiver.

"I overslept. Sorry sir." Nakato responded shamefully.

"Don't sweat it. Just cover me." Joseph ordered Nakato.

"Got it. I'll watch your back, sir." Nakato said as he pulled out Dixen's missile launcher.

"Alright. I have my sights on their last squad. Let me just aim this thing..." Joseph said as he pulled out Dixen Mk. II's Hyper Fixer Cannon. Out of nowhere a Rafaga bursted out and was about to shoot the Dixen Mk. II, but luckily enough, Nakato managed to slice the Rafaga in half with his beam saber before it could attack.

"Thanks Nakato. I finally got this thing aimed. Hyper Fixer Cannon...FIRE!" shouted Joseph as the Dixen Mk. II fired a huge cannon burst that wiped out 16 Rafagas.

"Amazing..." whispered Nakato to himself. "That was great sir!" Nakato told Joseph through the receiver.

"It was nothing." replied Joseph as he started to head back to the ship. "No use staying here. Let's go back to the ship. We have a mission to complete."

"Right!" replied Nakato and David simultaneously.

At the ship...

"It's confirmed sir. Ensign David Riego wiped out 3 units, Lieutenant JG Nakato Farland wiped out 1 unit, and Lieutenant Commander Joseph Frias wiped out 36 units. That makes the 40 units we counted." a young girl told the captain of the ship.

"OK Cheng-Ming. Open the hatch for the pilots to reenter the ship. We have to complete our mission ASAP." the captain told the young girl.

"Very well sir."

Back at the battle site...

"Sir...this is the Rafaga Corps 4th speaking...we couldn't stop them...they...they...are...in...vin...ci...ble..." The Commander of the Rafaga Corps 4th unit died.

End of Chapter 2


Well. Did you like it. I sincerely hope you did. Anyway, a reviewer brought up two interesting points in his review. a) The reviewer said that there was no indication that Yale and Nakato knew each other in the game's story. That, my friend, is wrong. If by the third stage of the game you have met certain conditions, you will get the chance to play an alternate 2nd half of the game, in which instead of fighting the girl in the Rafaga, then Yale in the Quvearl, and finally Shadow Red in the Gourai, you fight Yale in the Gamda, then Yale in the Quvearl, and finally Shadow Red in an upgraded Dixen. In this alternate story, you find out that Nakato and Yale did in fact know each other and met when they were in an academy for training pilots. So there.

b) I totally forgot about Cheng-Ming. Sorry man. I added her in this chapter though. And she'll be in the rest of the story. So cool down.

Anyway, please review. That will keep me motivated to write more chapters. Remember, constructive criticism always helps out.

Thanks for reading,

Strider Itachi