I DO NOT OWN Vandread

I apolgize to dmv128 for not thanking him for his coment last chapter. Sorry

Sorry About the wait, School and some what writers block got in the way. I hope the story is error free so

Enjoy

Chapter 3

Sub Commander Misty Gisborn Personal log

What do I do? Hibiki came to me to ask something and unlike the last few times it wasn't for the reason I thought it was. I figured he was going to ask to fight again, but, to my surprise, he asked to let Meia fight again. When he asked to let Meia fight again, all I did was pause at first, then I snapped "Absolutely not" at him and said "Meia has more important things to do then fight now." The first words out of Hibiki's mouth after I snapped at him were "Your way to overprotecting, you know that." He explained to me why, and after he was done explaining I changed my mind, telling him I would think about it. He explained that Meia wanted to continue to help and that she would be ok. But I don't know, I don't want to lose anyone I care about again. I also noticed something about Hibiki that was different, he seemed to have his old attitude back, the one he had before Dita's death. Then, Meia walked in to ask me a favor, I kind of figured what it was and, I was right. She wanted me to let Hibiki fight again but, how can I let him go back to fighting again? His thirst for revenge has almost gotten several people killed quite a few times and almost caused me to lose Meia. How can I justify letting Hibiki fight again? Although, having his Vanguard back on the field and the use of the Vandreads might be a good thing. I suppose that I can take consideration, a lot of consideration, into letting them both fight again.

A Week Later

The Nirvana has docked at the pirate's old hideout, the first Male, Female settlement, now know as New Hope, to resupply, and for repairs. New hope has since expanded way beyond the small hideout in a asteroid that it used to be, now a large space station like complex extending from the rock of the hideout. For safety and traffic control reasons, the Nirvana's dock area was moved away from the complex, to a holding spot about ten minutes from New Hope. The new location Makes transport to and from the ship only able to be done by shuttle. Misty has called Meia and Hibiki, along with Amber, to the conference room to tell them something. The room was a mid size room, that was right next to the bridge, with a table in the center. At one end of the table was the commander's chair, next to it was the captains chair, with the groves in the floor so the chair could move to the bridge. Misty had been sitting in the commander's chair thinking about past events.

"Commander," Celtic Midori, the operator that used to wear a bear suit when Hibiki and the other men first appeared, said, "Your wife, Hibiki, and Amber are here, do you want me to send them straight to the conference room."

"Yes, that will be fine, and Celtic."

"Yes… Commander."

"I've told you, please don't call me that."

"Yes, commander… I mean, Ma'am… I mean, Misty."

"Misty out."Misty laughed as the door to the conference room opened and Meia, Hibiki, and Amber walked in. "I see you still don't like being called commander, huh Misty." Hibiki chucked.

"You know, you shouldn't take the crew calling you commander so seriously, they're doing it because they respect you." Meia stated.

"I know," replied Misty, standing up to greet the group. "But I don't like not being called by my name, that's all. Anyways the reason that I have called Hibiki, Amber, and you here is to discuss something. After a lot of consideration, I have decided to let you fight again Meia."

"You are!" Meia Cheered "But why? I mean, what chanced your mind?"

"You have Hibiki to thank, he was the one who showed me how over protective of you I was. I thought I was protecting you but, I see now that not letting you fight wasn't the best." Misty paused for a minute, before sitting back down, "However, if you would rather not fight, I could just forget I said all this" Misty Jokingly finished.

"What! No, I want to fight."

"Then, you are now back in A Squad. Take this note to the dread bay and give it to Barnette, She'll now what to do with it."

"Ok, By the way who's A Squad's dread commander."

"You are, I talked to Barnette, she doesn't think it would be fitting to give you orders, with how good of pilot you are." Misty finished before watching Meia leave then, looking at Amber. "Now then, Amber, since Duelo left you in Hibiki's care, I will talk to you after I talk to Hibiki. Hibiki, I can not excuse your actions and recklessness in past fights, but that is the past. I have decided to let you fight again…"

"…Yes! Thank you, you won't regret it." Hibiki Interrupted.

"Just know this, if you do anything stupid or make me regret this choice I will take your fighting privileges away forever, got it."

"I got it, Misty."

Misty got up from her seat and walked over to Amber, who was now sitting besides Hibiki on the other side of the table. "Now then, since you will be staying on the ship with us, is there anything your good at so I might be able to give you something to do around here."
"I have been trained as a Nurse by uncle and at the moment he is teaching me to be a doctor like him."

"That's good, we lost our doctor in the last harvest attack and are looking for a replacement, would you like the job."

"Sure, I'll get to work right away. Umm, where is the infirmary at on the ship."

"No need to get into a hurry, I was just getting to that, it's located on the way to your quarters, which, since you are under Hibiki's care, are his Quarters to. Hibiki can show you where the infirmary is on your way to drop your stuff off."

"Are, my Quarters still the same as they used to be?" Hibiki asked.

"Yes they are, everything is exactly the way you left it when you left the ship the last time."

"Ok, anything else?" Hibiki asked as he got up to leave with Amber following his actions.

"No, that's all… You can go."Misty replied with a bit of hesitation that Hibiki noticed almost instantly.

"Amber," Hibiki started to ask, "Will you wait outside for a moment, and don't go anywhere. I'll be right there."

"Ok."Amber replied going out of the room.

As the door to the conference room shut, Hibiki looked back up to Misty who was starting to tear up. "Misty, what's wrong?"

"The crew has a… we a… the captain past away last night."

"She… she was a good person, Misty."

"I Know, but…"

"But what, she had a wonderful life and will be missed. It will hurt for awhile but, the captain would want us to continue on, don't you think?"

"Hibiki, I, I found here will, it stated that, if something happened to her, I am the captain but, I don't think I could handle it."

"You'll do fine, Captain."

"Hibiki," Misty cried running into Hibiki's arms, "don't call me that."

"It's ok Misty, let it out."

At the same time, right outside the conference room door, Amber stood against the wall upset, "Why does Hibiki have to be so mean to me? I know I'm this Dita's twin sister, and seeing me makes him think of how he lost her, but does he have to be so, so MEAN?!" Amber snapped the last word louder than the rest.

"What is mean?" A voice said, "What is lost?"

"Huh?" Amber said looking around not seeing anyone. "Who's there?"

"What is mean?" The Voice repeated, "What is lost?"

Amber looked around again then, after not seeing anyone, looked down to see Pyoro, the small NAVI Robot that she heard so much about from Duelo, "You must be Pyoro" Amber said Kneeling down to Pyoro's level.

Pyoro just floated there, "What is mean?" He repeated "What is lost?" then headed off.

"Hey wait up!" Amber yelled as she ran after Pyoro.

They walked through the ship till they came to a pair of double doors that looked like blast doors with the words 'Special Dread Hanger' above the doors. "You don't speak as much as Duelo said do you."

Pyoro looked at here and she finally noticed that the screen where his eyes should be was grainy like a Broken TV. He turn back to face the door, which opened right up, and the two walked inside. "Wow, so these are the three dreads that I've heard so much about."

Her eyes fixed on a single dread that Pyoro was floating to. The dread was on the top holding rack and was blue with a pair of green cones, one on each engine. "Hey, Pyoro, wait up."

Amber ran to a lift and got on to it, then went to press the button to turn it on, but it came on all by it's self. On the way up she pasted a silver Dread whose pilot was inside resetting all the controls. "Huh, that looked like Amber," Meia questioned, looking at the lift as it went by, "but, she's still with Hibiki, oh well, must be my imagination."

The lift got to the top, and surprisingly the blue dreads cockpit door was wide open, but there was no sign of Pyoro anywhere. "That's odd, I know he's up here, whoa!" Amber yelled as something pushed her into the cockpit, which shut on her locking her in. "What's going on? Why can't I get out?"

Just then Dita's, Meia's, and Jura's Dreads came on. Meia being in here dread at the time was locked in as the cockpit door slid shut "wait a minute, what's going on here, I didn't start the dread?"

Suddenly the hanger door opened and all three dreads left the hanger and went out in front of the Nirvana. Then were quickly joined by Hibiki's vanguard.

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"Misty, I got to go. Amber's been waiting outside for awhile and I shouldn't keep here waiting to long." Hibiki said as he let go of Misty and walked to the door.

Upon walking outside he noticed Amber had disappeared. "What, where'd she go?" Hibiki snapped, "I told her to wait here."

"Commander," Ezra, the operator who everyone seemed to go to for advice, called over the Comm., "the three Special Dreads and Hibiki's Vanguard, have just launched."

"Well, who are the pilots?"Misty replied, looking at Hibiki, who just walked back in.

"That's the thing, there are only pilots in two of them, one of the pilots is Meia and there's no ID for the other pilot, but whoever it is, is in Dita's Dread."

"What!? I'll be right there."

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Moments later

"Meia to the Nirvana, come in. My Dread is in autopilot, I can't get it to respond. Is this some new defensive ability?"

"Meia, it's Misty, it's not a new ability, are you ok?" Misty said as her and Hibiki walked onto the bridge.

"Yes I'm fine, everything is working right except the controls. Any clue what's going on?"

"We can't seem to isolate the problem with the dreads or Hibiki's Vanguard, we're sending the delivery ship to pick you and the other pilot up now."

"What other pilot?"

"Meia, there's someone in Dita's dread…"

"…What is mean?" Pyoro interrupted, "What is lost?"

At that moment all of the Nirvana's systems went down, and all screens were replaced with static. "Commander," Parfet, the ship's chief engineer, called over the intercom, "the PAKSIS has locked out the controls."

"Why do you hurt?" Pyoro asked with more of the PAKSIS's voice tone this time. "Do you Know, YOUR, reason to exist?"

"Why, do… I… hurt?" A sad voice came through the static, "My, reason to exist?"

"That sounded like Amber," Hibiki, who was standing beside Misty, questioned. "Amber can you here me, it's Hibiki."

There was no response over the Comm. system. "It's no use Hibiki," Ezra explained, "the Comm. system is only working one way."

"Damn it!"

"Misty," Gasco announced, "I can't get the delivery ship out, the PAKSIS won't release the docking clamps."

"That's great, worse news."

"Why do you hurt?" Pyoro repeated.

Every one looked up to the main screen which now showed a picture of the inside of Dita's dread with Amber inside along with Pyoro. "I don't know why. I see the way people look at me because of the way I look and it hurts." Amber, now starting to cry, explained.

"How do you look? Why does it hurt?"

"I look like this girl how died, awhile ago. Everyone misses her and the way they look at me, I can tell they don't like me. Then there's Hibiki, he hates my because of how I look like her."

"No, I don't hate you Amber, I… I just." Hibiki responded softly, even though he knew she wouldn't hear it."

"Amber," A soft familiar voice called out, "Mr. Alien doesn't hate you he's just stubborn and misses me, give him a chance to accept you."

"Your voice, it sounds like mine, who are you?"

At that moment, all three dreads went into a triangular position with the front of the dreads nose inward towards Hibiki's Vanguard, which was in the center. "You have a purpose, sister," the same familiar voice spoke, "you just need to find it."

As the voice stopped the Dreads engines ignited and they all headed towards the center of the triangle, to Hibiki's empty vanguard. "Oh no! They're going to crash!" one of the bridge operators yelled.

"Amber, Meia, Noo!" Hibiki and Misty yelled together.

"Somebody help me," Amber cried, sensing the end, "I don't what to di….." The sound of static interrupted the last word as the Dreads collided and turned into a fireball.

"Amber, Meia, no… NO!!!" Hibiki cried, "I failed two more people. Huh?"

The bridge crew looked up at the screen to see the fireball blow up again but the fire was replaced by a bright bluish light "What's happening?" Hibiki wondered, surprised by what's happening.

The bright light penetrated the bridge blinding most of the crew, and in all the confusion, nobody noticed Hibiki falling to the ground as the light hit him.

As the blue light started to fade, a silhouette of a figure appeared. Misty gasped, "That, that looks like the Super Vandread, but how?"

Who's voice was it that Amber and the crew heard. is that the silhoutte the Super Vandread or not. find out next chapter.