Authors note: I would like to give my full thanks to Vader23A for submitting the first review of this story....and so far, the only one.....a few more would be nice, and I'll answer any questions you ask in review form in the next chapters, and please tell me if I get anything wrong about Heero or Vandread!
Disclaimer: Unfortunately, I do not own Gundam Wing or Vandread......stupid lawyers.....
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Chapter 2
"The ship has been completely and utterly swallowed by the crystals. The bridge, the housing area, and the engine room are all completely filled with the Paksis. On the bright side, the Dread hangar, and the ammunition storage rooms are completely untouched, and have sustained no damage. And, the spread of the Paksis has finally ceased, and the new bridge has stopped moving, and as of now, its above the ships garden area. The changed to the ship have finally stopped too. Meia, what do you have to report?" Buzam said, turning her glance towards the blue haired dread leader. Meia nodded, and begun to inform Magno, and Buzam.
"Thank you BC. When the three new dreads were changed by the Paksis, they were already unable to fit into any dread platforms within the ship. We had managed to put them into the cargo bay in the Tarak's side, and we will now store them there. When we were about to modify that part of the ship, we had discovered that all the cables, and circuits have rotted and are of no more use."
"The main problem....is where we are as of now..." Buzam added, as a map hologram launched up before the three, "It seems impossible, but we're very far from Mejere....are we are also in a totally different Nebula. It will take about 270 days to return."
"Ugh...what did we ever do to deserve this punishment?....More importantly, do we have any information about our enemy thus far?"
"Well....my team is currently understaffed, and so...I sent some volunteers..." Meia said, a drop of sweat slowly dripping from her forehead.
"Volunteers?" Magno asked as she lifted an eyebrow
"Yeah...I'd rather not say...."
"Fine then. Any news about this so called Gundam pilot?" Magno asked.
"He's currently in the med bay. He was suffering from a fever earlier, and so we had to keep him from the cell with the other three men." Meia said.
"I see....to think that we would run across one of the very pilots and his weapon....we probably have a great journey ahead of us...." Magno said, as she fanned herself from the rising heat in the ship. "So what is his condition as of now?"
"His fever has almost gone completely down, and we shall put him into the cell with the men."
"No. Send him to me first....I would like to have a few words with him."
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The pirate ship was currently in quite a few predicaments. The air conditioning was not not operating well enough, and since the residential area was totally ruined, the women were moving around in 80 degrees or more heat. The engineers were also working on the Paksis, but were almost completely clueless, as they had never seen such a system before. It was either ancient, or was a prototype. They only way they could hope to learn about the Paksis, was to download the data onto a very rebellious white little robot.
"As the brave women take over the ship, Magnos team began to meet an entirely new problem!" Paiway, the young nurse said out loud as she jotted her words onto a small notepad in her hands. She was currently sitting on a large elevator platform, with a suspicious rope wrapped around her waist.
"Paiway!" A crew member called behind her, "If you don't have anything to do, why don't you help us out?"
"I am doing something, and it is very important actually." Paiway said, as she straightened her back and flashed a proud face.
"Hey! Paiway! Hold on a minuet!" A voice cried out, making the nurse glance to her left as she spotted Barnette and Jura carrying a large load of personal items as they struggled onto the platform.
"Are you fooling around again?" Barnette called out as she and the busty blonde women tossed down their things.
"Barnette and Jura sure have along of their stuff with them! We're lucky that our room is totally fine!" She said through her small, green frog puppet.
"How long is she going to push my buttons for?" Jura grumbled, giving a big glare at the younger girl.
"You aren't going to help us like that. Wait, why is that rope tied to you?" Barnette asked, making Paiway flash a suspicious grin.
"Well....this elevator is kinda temporary, and if it falls...well....good luck!" Paiway laughed as her rope pulled her up into the air.
"You're joking!" Jura cried out, her eyes widening.
"PAIWAY!!!" Barnette yelled.
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"What the hell are you doing?!" Hibiki gasped, before he was hit in the face with another stream of water, making him and Bart scream in pain, as they desperately tried to block and dodge the water. Yet, the tan Duero decided that it would be faster if he stood there and took it, making no objections as the stream hit his torso.
"Looks like these men are our only hope of saving the ship, is that right?" Magno said, giving a look of pity as she saw the three men being attacked by the blasts of water.
"It seems that we will have to depend on these men until we can fully understand the systems of this ship." Buzam replied.
"Its funny..." Magno began, "That this ship seems to have some sort of a mind of its own....I've never seen something like that before...its very interesting...."
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"It was so shocking when all my comrades were taken out by the women in mere seconds! With only me standing alone! And the only thing I could think of, was how I close I was to being ripped into pieces! And now, I am left with the duty of a soldier to take this ship back from the women, no matter what the price!" Bart went on, as the two other males paid no attention as they were absorbed into their own thoughts.
This really sucks...I thought I had changed my destiny....but still... Hibiki thought, with Bart interrupting his thoughts.
"What had happened back there?" Bart asked as his eyes were straight on Hibiki.
"Where did that Vanguard come from, and why did it combine with the Mejere fighter? And why the hell did a Gundam appear out of nowhere!" Hibiki twitched. He also wanted to know the answers to these.
"Why the hell should I know about those things? I don't think I forgot about you hitting me back there!" Hibiki yelled, as his piercing eyes dug into the blonde male.
"H-hey now...no need to yell...." Bart said, as sweat poured down his face as he took a step back.
"Maybe I should shut you up, make you learn a thing or two!"
"He's just worried." A deep voiced said, making Hibiki's and Bart's attention turn towards Duero.
"He was just trying to take his mind off of what happened because of what happened. It's natural for him."
"Wow....I'm impressed." Bart said, as he loosened up at Duero, "But come on! With my charisma, your intelligence, and Hibiki's vanguard skill, we could totally fight the women off!"
"Excuse me?" A feminine voice said, making Bart slowly glance over his shoulder at the women behind him.
"Oh, uh....hi there! We were just....messing around!"
"I'd like to know what your conversation was about later, but right now, we have a few things for you men to do."
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"WOW! Miss Gasco! Check all this cool stuff out!" Dita exclaimed, hopping around the debris.
"Ugh...you find anything important?" Magno asked through the visual communicator.
"We're searching for any clues on the enemy, but theres just so much debris here, its hard to find anything significant." Gasco said, as Dita flew around excitingly, making her and the captain sigh.
"Captain, I've brought our navigator here." Buzam called.
"Alright....I'll leave the investigation to you two." Magno's chair then rotated and entered into the bridge as it moved to the captains spot, with BC and Bart looking up at her.
"H-Hi there!" Bart said, scratching the back of his head nervously, "There's something you want me to do?"
"Yes....that thing over there." Magno said as she pointed towards the place where Bart hopped in to take control of the ship.
"We haven't been able to operate it, so would you show us how you did it?" Bart gulped, and lifted up his arms to show his handcuffs. With a glance at Buzam, the woman was hesitant, but then activated the lock system and the metal contraption fell too the ground.
"Okay...as you all know, this is a male ship," Bart said as he walked towards the blue pool, "So I'm guessing that only a man can use it, so you should feel glad that I was on this ship when you needed me, so I guess you can say that I'm- before Bart could finish, a blue tentacle came out, grabbed him, and pulled him down into it.
"I don't get it at all...." Magno sighed. When Bart realized where he was, he was once again bare naked and in a strange area of the ship. And before he could move or do anything, the ship immediately took off, and blasted away from Gasco and Dita as they had attempted to contact the ship.
"What happened?!" Magno called, as a visual of Bart appeared before her.
"I'm not sure! I didn't even think before it did this!"
"Captain, it seems that the ship had immediately booted up when he stepped into it!" Belvedere cried.
"Captain! All communications have been cut from Miss Gasco and Dita!" Ezra said, as she began to breathe heavily. Before anyone could do anything, Ezra collapsed onto her computer panel. Buzam saw this happen, and quickly ran over to her.
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"Grandpa....grandpa...." Hibiki muttered as he lay sleeping against a crate behind him. Interested, Duero walked over and sat in front of the young boy, and put his hand against his forehead. As soon as he had made contact, Hibiki's eyes opened, and in suprise, he quickly shoved the doctor away.
"What the hell are you doing Doc?!" He yelled out nervously.
"I was checking your temperature. You were mumbling in your sleep about a grandpa character." Duero said calmly, making Hibiki calm as well.
"Just...someone who took care of me before I went to the city."
"Strange....I find it weird that one of the people from the first generation were taking care of you...."
"Hey, Duero." A voice called, making the doctor glance back to see three women, with Buzam staring at him hard.
"It's your turn to come with me. You have some patients to look over." Duero nodded as the force field was deactivated as he walked out from the cell. Without a word from Hibiki the bars came down again. Duero was then led through a series of hallways, and the women who passed him glanced up in curiosity. He had also received a few expressions that showed anger, and fear. When he finally reached the med bay, the door opened, revealing twelve beds in the room with six beds located on both sides of the room. Two were already occupied by a woman and the Gundam pilot, and he wasn't surprised to see the man on a completely different side of the woman.
"I'm surprised you called me here...don't you have advanced medical technology?" Buzam then smiled.
"I knew that you would ask that. Most of the ships systems are off line, and that includes the med bay and air conditioning. We wouldn't have called you if they were functioning correctly. Would you look at the woman for us?"
"I'll examine the patient." Duero said without hesitating as the walked towards the woman, and giving a glance at the Gundam pilot that lay asleep as he passed him.
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"Weird.....Miss Gasco, all I can see outside are markers...." Dita stated. The two women were currently in a large cave like structure within the destroyed enemy ship while they downloaded the new information onto a disk.
"Well let's go. We're done here." Gasco said as she and Dita headed towards the exit, unaware of the metal strands that suddenly approached them from behind.
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"It seems that we have no control over the ship."
"We are also heading towards a nebula directly in front of us."
"Ugh...just one problem after another..." Magno said as she had a fan blowing air into her face. As soon as her sentence finished, a few more screens popped up.
"This is Meia. The dreads are unable to launch since the platforms are off line."
"Me and Jura have been stuck in this elevator for hours!"
"What?! We're heading into that thing?! How do I stop this?!" Bart complained as they flew into the large space cloud.
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When Duero was busy examining the patient with Buzam and another woman close by, the power had shut off instantly. Quickly, he grabbed a communicator from the pouch of the other women to her objection as he put it up to his ear.
"Engineering, I'm working on a patient here, send power immediatley to the medbay."
"We're having problems up here as well! We can't decode the Tarak language!" Parfet yelled back. Duero then glanced up at Buzam, "If I was there...." Buzam then smiled and nodded, "Go right ahead. We'll stay here." Duero then quickly got up and rushed out, leaving the three women and the Gundam pilot.
"It seems we'll have to wait Ezra..." Buzam said as she casually sat down on one of the beds. However, before anyone could lift a finger, an arm grabbed the captain by the throat violently, and threw her off into the bed behind it. Before she could grasp what had happened, she was standing up again with strong, muscled arms were wrapped around her neck, holding her captive.
"BC!" the other woman yelled as she lifted her laser ring to the attacker. Buzam managed to glance behind her to see the Gundam pilot, with his dark, emotionless eyes staring right back at her.
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Heero Yuy could barely remember anything before he had woken up from his sleep. He had recalled collapsing out of Zero when he flew back into the hangar, but couldn't remember what he fought or when. When his eyes opened, he saw a tall, long haired man rushing through the door, and remembered him when he had awaken last time in a fever. As he looked over, he saw three women. One looked like a guard, while the other as an officer of some sort. They were standing over an incapacitated woman on a bed. His fighting instincts had once again kicked in, and without him thinking, when the officer had sat down, he grabbed her and threw her into the bed behind him, and then pulled her off in an attempt to shield himself from an attack from the guard.
"You must be.....the Gundam pilot....." The officer said, her voice and breathing being restricted as she looked up at Heero.
"Where the hell am I?" Heero said, his eyes peering down into the womans soul, as he attempted not to notice her figure with success.
"Release me....I tell you....."
"Tell that woman to throw her ring towards the other side of the room." The officer looked at the guard with hard eyes, making her reluctantly toss her weapon across the room. Fulfilling his promise, he took off his arms and tossed the officer into the middle of the room, where she fell onto the ground.
"I like your gentleness....." The officer said, rubbing her aching neck.
"Now tell me." Heero said in demanding, monotone voice, sending a shiver down the women's spines.
"On board a Mejere pirates ship. We had found you with the Taraks in a cryo chamber, and your Gundam was apparently in the male hangar." She then realized that the pilot wasn't from this time as his eyebrow lifted in obvious confusion.
"I'd better take you to the captain....the officer said as she stood up, "My name is Buzam, and I'm the commander of this ship." She then reached out her hand for a shake, shocking the newly awakened Ezra and the female guard. Heero stood there glaring, and BC withdrew her hand silently.
"Okay then.....I'll only take you there if you allow us to put on some handcuffs." Buzam said as she lifted one of the contraptions in her hand. After a moments worth of thinking, Heero reached out his hands as she cuffed his wrists together.
"Alright, we should get going. Lisa, stay with Ezra." Buzam commanded, as the guard nodded quickly. The two then exited the med bay, with Buzam sticking behind Heero to make sure that he didn't try anything funny.
"What is the Mejere and Tarak?" Heero asked.
"Hm...straight to the point...." BC said. She then informed him of how the two genders were at war with one another, about how the female pirates had attacked a Tarak ship, and about how they combined and the issues that were happening, like about the systems being off line.
"Where's Zero?" Heero asked without looking at BC.
"Zero? Are you talking about your Gundam? Right now, it's in the Vanguard hangar in the Tarak area of the ship. It hasn't been touched, just to let you know." Heero nodded as they had finally entered the bridge. He noticed that the room was large, and had seemed to be overlooking a small garden of some sorts. He also saw the advanced technology, and that the ship was the most advanced, and largest ship he had ever been in. There were three women before him. Two were in some kind of chairs linked to the ships computer system, with a weird bear costume in another. After he examined his surroundings, he looked up to see an older woman who was obviously the captain.
"You must be Heero Yuy. Has Buzam informed you of your current situation?" Heero nodded silently, and noticed the gazes of the other women upon him.
"Yes. Everything." Magno was intrigued by this young man. He seemed very intelligent, and had the build of a fighter from what she could tell from his muscled arms. She also noted a few scars here and there, and that he was very intimidating. He didn't seem very emotional, and she guessed it was to keep him from letting them get in the way during a battle.
"When this crisis is over with, I would like to speak to you some more, but we have some problems to take care of...and by the way, my name is Magno."
"Captain, I have something I want to bring up." The captain and Heero both turned their attention towards Buzam.
"It seems as though we can send out of Vanguard, and we can have Hibiki to go search for Gasco and Dita."
"Not a bad idea..." Magno said, as she then turned her attention towards Heero, "And what about him?"
"The Gundam too, but I'm not sure if we can trust the both of them." Buzam said, eyeing the pilot.
"Do you want to help us search for our two crew mates?" Magno asked.
"If I do, will I be given full freedom?" Heero asked.
"Smart one. We promise you." Without wasting another moment, Heero turned to take off into the depths of the ship.
"Wait, let me deactivate your cuffs." Buzam said taking out the controller. Before she could press it, the broken pair of handcuffs were then tossed directly in front of her feet, stunning her and the women in the room.
"Let's go. Where is this Hibiki?"
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Hibiki laid silently on his back, bare except for a loin cloth that covered his private areas. It had been about thirty minuets since Duero had left, with him being alone all that time. He was insanely bored, and in this heat, it was unbearable. His clothes lay scattered around his body as sweat dripped profusely.
"Hooooooooooooooooot......" He grumbled as he stared up at the ceiling, wondering if he was going to die.
"Wow...what a nice outfit." Buzam said as she approached the cell.
"So it's my turn go with you now, right?" Hibiki growled, gritting his teeth.
"Actually, I have a favor to ask of you."
"And what would this favor be of?"
"We had left two crew members behind accidentally, and we would like for you to look for them."
"Ha! Why should I help you people?"
"Do you want to rot in that cage?" A voice said, making Hibiki's attention go from Buzam to the approaching Gundam Pilot.
"Its you..." Hibiki said, sitting up.
"If you don't want to sit there the rest of the day in the heat while I have full freedom of walking around in this ship, well I suggest you go with me." Heero said in his monotone voice.
"And why should I go with you if you can do it all on your own? And why are you with the women anyways?"
"This is not the time for you to be thinking of the differences between man and woman. We must have them be recovered, and you want to get out of there, right?" Buzam stated, glaring at the young Hibiki.
"Fine! I just want that emotionless jerk to stay as far away from me as possible!" Hibiki said as he dressed back up into his clothes.
"Impossible." Heero said as the cage disappeared as Hibiki came emerged from his cell.
"Watch your mouth!" Hibiki yelled, only to be cut down by a fierce glare from the Gundam pilot.
"Hurry. We don't want to waste time." Buzam said as she began to lead the two fighters out from the room.
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"Captain! It seems like theres a large object moving towards us!"
"It seems to be a large ice asteroid!"
"Bart! Did you hear that?!"
"AAAAAH! GET ME OUTTA HERE!"
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Gasco sighed deeply. Just a few minuets ago, she had sent Dita out to the pirate ship, hoping to bring assistance. And as luck would have it, a few alien fighters had emerged from the destroyed ship as Gasco lay trapped in a cage of metal bars. Suddenly, a different alien unit suddenly appeared before her and took out its long, sharp claws.
"Heh...I guess I know what you want for dinner...."
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Dita screamed as she dodged the incoming alien units attacking her dread. It was painful just to leave her friend behind, but this was even more stressful for her.
"NOOOO! I HATE ALIENS WHO DON'T GIVE UP!" Dita exclaimed, wishing that Hibiki would come. Her radar beeped, and reported two more units.
"In front of me too?!" Dita exclaimed. In fear, she fired her blasters straight for the target, hoping it would hit. Instead, after a few seconds, a voice came on.
"Is that how you treat someone when they've came all the way to get you?!" Hibiki yelled. Dita's heart filled with happiness as she heard the words.
"Mr. Alien! I knew you'd come!" She yelled as she increased her booster power.
"Wait! Stop coming! Hold on!" Before Hibiki could say anything else, there was a flash of light, and he found himself once more in the cockpit of the Vandread with Dita.
"Wow! This is soooo cool!" Dita exclaimed as she bounced around in her seat, causing some strange reactions to occur within Hibiki's body.
"Would you stop bouncing around! This is making me feel weird!" Hibiki said, making Dita stop. An explosion occurred in front of the Vanguard as the sounds of machine gun fire were heard.
"Would you stop the talking? We need to find the other one." Heero said, as the chain guns on the Gundam's soldiers fired rapidly, destroying a few more enemy troops.
"Whatever! You can't tell me what to do!"
"Wow! It's Mr. Gundam Pilot!" Dita exclaimed, watching in awe as she saw the Gundam fly fluently through space, using its shield as a weapon to impale and beat down enemies while firing its machine guns rapidly.
"Hibiki, I heard that there's an asteroid heading towards the ship. Let me find the other woman, and you help the ship." Before Hibiki could object, Zero transformed into its bird mode and quickly sped off into the direction where Dita had came from.
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Gascogne had watched patiently as fear began to enter her heart as the enemy slowly removed the bars one by one, until it was within reaching distance of her.
"So....it's finally my turn, eh?" Gasco said as a drop of sweat poured from in her head inside the space suit. Before the claw could touch her, its body suddenly jerked, and bullets ripped into it violently, tearing its body into pieces. Gasco turned to see the Gundam tear the bars apart, and stared at it in awe. The cockpit opened, and the pilot floated out towards her.
"You okay?"
"Thanks to you, but I would have appreciated it if you had came by earlier...." Gasco smiled. The Boy nodded and they both floated towards his Gundam.
"Are you sure we can both fit?" Gascogne asked.
"Yeah. It seems like the Paksis thing changed a few things on Zero as well." Heero said as he fell nicely into the seat. Gasco took his word for it, and she was surprised as she fit in small, but comfortable area beside the seat against one of his monitors. When the doors closed, Heero turned into the bird mode, making Gasco stare in awe, and quickly flew back towards the ship.
I hope the Zero system doesn't effect her. Heero thought, hoping that he would be right.
"I feel special, being able to ride in a legendary Gundam unit."
"Legendary?" Heero asked. Buzam didn't tell him anything about Gundams being legendary.
"Yeah...everybody knows about them, how they helped humanity expand into space and all that.....they were thought to be a myth....well I guess not now." Heero nodded as he rushed through the Nebula, seeing Hibiki destroy the asteroid.
"That's a very unique machine...." Heero said, staring at it through his visor.
"Let's hurry inside....I'm kinda injured here." Heero nodded, and proceeded towards the ship as the warehouse opened, making him turn into his Gundam form once again as he landed in a large corner. The cockpit opened, and Gasco was staring straight down.
"Um....how do I...." Heero pointed to a cord descending from the door.
"Put your foot in that small triangle and hold tight. You should fall pretty slowly." Gasco nodded and did as she was told. When she landed on the ground, she snuck a look back at the pilot.
"By the way, my name is Gascogne."
"Heero Yuy. I have a few things to take care of in my suit, so I'll see you later." And with that, the cockpit closed, leaving Gasco standing alone in the hangar.
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"What a relief....I was certain we were done for....." Magno sighed, slumping back into her chair. She had found out the reason for the power to come back on. It seemed as thought Duero and Parfet had teamed up to put the systems back on. She was already happy that at least two people of different genders were getting along.
"Magno...I think its best to inform the entire crew of what's going on." The captain nodded, as the transmission had began.
"I would like to say that we have recently found information about our new, alien enemy. It looks like this is their planet." With that, a picture of a strange, alien looking sphere appeared in front of Buzam, making the crew gasp in surprise.
"I'm not sure why, but it appears that our enemy wants to destroy the Mejere and Tarak planets. And it's my duty to report that the men and women of this crew are to work together to defeat this enemy!" With that, the women were completely shocked, "Also, it seems that we have the help of a Gundam pilot, for those who do not know that he was here. Be prepared to fight the enemy once again, for it will be a long journey back home. Remember this!" The transmission then ended as Duero and Ezra casually walked in to tell the captain the news.
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"Jura......"
"Barnette......."
"Have we been forgotten?...."
"It feels like we've been here for days......" The two women groaned. The elevator was stuck up at the ceiling, squishing the two women together as their stuff was torn up, with some destroyed. Suddenly, the elevator jerked, and began to slowly descend down, much to Jura and Barnett's relief.
"YES! WE ARE GETTING OUT OF HERE!" Jura exclaimed, hugging her best friend tightly. "When I see the person that did this, I will give them a big hug, and-
Jura's words had ceased when she saw a pair of intimidating eyes staring right back at her. She recognized this man to be the Gundam pilot, for she and Barnette had seem him in the infirmary in bed before. The two women cautiously looked back as the elevator stopped on the bottom level.
"I heard voices. I thought that you needed help." Heero said, as he turned his back and left.
"Barnette...." Jura said, staring hard at the young man.
"Yes?"
"It seems.....that I own him a big hug....."
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I realized that I have skipped a few scenes, but I wrote this at like 2 in the morning, so yeah....anyways......
Yay! Chapter is finished! The next chapter will be about Hibiki's stubbornness, and Heero will have a pretty good talk with him and the crew. Please Review! I'm running out of influence!
