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Chapter 9 Original Smile
"What's wrong with him?" Magno asked Rain. Three weeks had passed since Dale's activation, and things weren't looking too good for him. His speech pattern was the main problem, and no matter how much he tried to fix him, things just got worse. Magno didn't want another repeat of what had happened just two days after he was awakened, and that ended up being a bad day for everyone. Dale had gone on a major cursing spree where no one was safe from him. He also became a major pervert, surprising girls in the shower. In the end, Rain had more women yelling at him than what he truly wanted.
"I have no idea." Rain groaned as he crashed his on the table. Meia winced slightly at the sound of him smashing his head again.
"Can you fix him?" Gascgone asked, leaning back in her chair. She didn't want a repeat of the incident, and was trying to help in anyway possible.
"Have you tried looking at his Speech Unit or something?" Barnette asked. Rain raised his head to give her a warning glare. "I'm just asking. Maybe you missed it or something like that."
"Right, I'll go look in between Speech Unit lane and Sentence Butchering lane. I'll be right back." Rain mocked. The others all sighed knowing full well where this was going to lead to.
"Your metaphors suck." Barnette shot back.
"You have a fat ass." Rain countered.
"How would you know, have you been staring at it lately?" Barnette hissed.
"When you bend over, I'm sure that even my sister can see it!" Rain snapped.
"Why you…" Barnette growled as she glared at Rain. Rain continued to glare at her, knowing full well that he had just won the fight. For those in the room that had listened to the whole thing, they too knew that Rain had won. Barnette however, knew she would win the staring contest for one reason.
"Rain, knock it off." Meia mumbled. Rain stopped glaring at Barnette with a heavy sigh. Barnette smiled, knowing she won the last part of the fight. "Rain, are you sure you've checked everything. I know you've been over everything, but could you have downloaded that file wrong or just forgotten to put in a certain file that he needed?"
"Yes Meia, I'm sure I didn't miss anything. If I did, he would be working right, and we wouldn't be having this conversation." Rain said flatly.
Dale and Maya both flickered into the room. "Me fix damn now it!" Dale yelled. Rain shot him a dirty look. "Yours up!" He screeched before flickering away.
"I think you need to head back down to the Engineer Room to help him." BC said with a sigh. "I think the quicker you get him fixed, the quicker things will calm down around here." Rain mumbled a few curses as he left. He made sure that they were in Japanese, so no one could understand what he was saying.
Magno, BC, Gascgone, and Barnette watched him leave with a brow raised. Their stare soon turned to Meia who was shaking her head. They knew that Maya had been teaching Meia a few things in Japanese, so they weren't to surprised to se her shaking her head.
"What did he say?" Barnette asked. Meia shot her a strange look while she continued. "I know what Chikusyou means, but what do the others mean?"
"I'm not going to tell you, but I intend to have a little talk to him about his choice of words." Meia said with a smile. Barnette sighed as she watched her leave to follow Rain.
"Those two sure have become close, haven't they?" Gascgone stated with a grin. Magno and BC nodded in agreement. "I wonder what kind of relationship they have now." Gascgone looked over at Barnette with a sly grin. Barnette wasn't paying attention. Ever since Meia walked out, she had been staring at the door. "Maybe they're dating now." Barnette looked over at Gascgone with a skeptical look in her eye. "Jealous?"
"What would make you think that?" Barnette stuttered. Gascgone just smiled as she watched Barnette's face change bright red. "I don't care what kind of relationship those two have."
"Good, because I'd hate for you to think that you have a chance with him since Misty seems to be doing a better job at getting him than you could." Gascgone told her with a grin.
(-)
"Voice pattern is still showing all green." Maya stated. Rain grumbled as he continued typing. "Maybe… he's doing it on purpose."
"No, he's the one that taught me how to answer riddles; I know he wouldn't act like this." Rain answered as he leaned back in his chair. "What I can't figure out is where we went wrong. I mean, we did everything by the book. So there's no possible way this could have happened. We've cleaned his chip several times, thinking that the problem was created by his environment when we found him. We've been running System Analysis on him since day one. So there's no way we could have missed anything like this."
"What if it has something to do with the disk?" Meia suggested as she walked in and leaned up against the back wall. "It would make sense. I mean, what if all the information wasn't there. Like he needed three disks, but we only have copies one and three. That would make sense."
"No, Spark assured me that all the information was there. He said that we shouldn't be missing anything." Rain said as he spun around to look at Meia in the face. "So, you obviously came here to talk to me about something, so what is it?" Rain asked with a smile.
"Your arguments with Barnette are getting a little out of control." She stated flatly. Rain huffed while spinning back to face the computer screen. "You're constantly been starting them in meetings, on the bridge, and that one time you started one during the middle of a space fight. These have got to stop."
"She starts them." Rain protested. "It's not like I go around trying to pick fights. If I did that, then I would be no better than Zoey-nee-chan."
"You're doing it again." Meia stated with a grin. Rain grumbled a few curses. "Listen, I may not know exactly what you are saying, but I at least know a few of the words you use. Would your mother like to know what you've been saying?" Rain gulped and went back to typing. "I just want to make sure that you stay alive, because I've already been threatened by Zoey, and lets just say I don't want to die in that manner of fashion."
"Alright, I'll try to stop cursing as much. And I promise to stop fighting with Barnette." Rain mumbled. Meia smiled while walking towards him. "Meia, why do you think she doesn't like me?"
Meia blinked in confusion while trying not to give away her little secrete. "Maybe it's just something she likes doing now." Rain groaned at that. "Look, Alex and I did the same thing. Maybe it's something like that."
"Yeah, but Barnette seems to really not like me. She spends half of her time now just spying on me. When I screw something up, she yells at me, even more than what Zoey did." Rain moaned. Meia just smiled as she placed a hand on his shoulder. "I really should have just stayed in bed when you all showed up that day. I could have saved myself a lot of trouble."
"Well, I'm sure that…" The alarms began blaring loudly. "Shit, we've go incoming!" Meia yelled while the two ran out of towards the hanger.
(-)
Magno growled as a new Harvester Flag Ship appeared before them. Already it had deployed its Cubes, Carriers, and Clones. The large Fleet that had been looming in the distance was nearly within firing range, but the Flag Ship seemed to be hanging back while its fighters took the front line.
"The pilots are already aware of what we're going up against." Ezra informed the crew.
"Hibiki has a plan." Amarone stated. The crew turned to face her with smiles on their faces, despite the large monster looming in the distance. "Hibiki wants Bart to ready his weapons while Vandread Jura gets into position. He says the idea is similar to the last time we fought one. Only this time we put a barrier around them, and fire at the barrier. He thinks that should make the inside hot enough to melt them away."
"Bart, did you get all of that?" Magno yelled.
"Yeah, I heard it all." Bart replied.
"Alright then, lets get this over with." Magno stated.
"Rain E. Switchfoot, Justice, Kicking off!" Rain yelled as his red machine launched out into space. He was quickly joined by the Dread squadrons, flying beside Meia and Dita's Dreads.
"Let's hope that little one can deal with these monsters, only this time, come back alive." Magno whispered.
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"Rain, stay away from the Flag Ship." Meia ordered. Rain looked over at her Dread. "Hibiki intends to capture the Flag Ship in a barrier so we can super heat the inside of it to melt the enemy away. We've already used this trick on a few Egg Carriers before you joined us, so we know the trick will work."
"So all I have to do is stay back and wait for them to throw up the barrier, then attack?" Meia nodded. "Alright, I'll take care of any fighters outside the barrier before we fire at it." Rain looked up ahead to see Vandread Jura being born. Brother, I could use your help with this one.
"Alright, let's go!" Hibiki yelled as he maneuvered the combination through hoards of enemy Cubes, Carriers, and their clones'. Jura was smacking anything she could with the long crab arms, while making sure that nothing got to close to them. One clone came up behind them, but a quick shot from Barnette turned the fake into nothing more than space dust.
"Thanks, Barnette!" Jura hollered. Barnette's face appeared on screen, smiling as she nodded. "Barnette, fall back; we're putting up the barrier now!" Jura barked. Barnette's Dread flew up to where Rain and Meia were blasting into a hoard of Carriers.
"Nice of you to join the party, Barnette." Rain greeted, slashing a few more Carriers into tiny pieces of their former selves. Barnette snorted at him, but acknowledged his greeting by blasting two Carriers at once. Barnette smirked as she turned to see Rain having a hard time. Meia appeared beside him, blasting the Cubes away. "Thanks Meia."
"Just keep your eyes pealed." She moaned. Rain moaned something that no one could understand, but went back to killing the enemy.
Barnette kept her eyes on Jura as they began to spread the barrier. Before the barrier could be completed, something appeared from inside the partially formed sphere, taking the shape of the Nirvana. Bart could be heard cursing like a sailor at the sight of his clone. Bart managed to put Rain to shame with some of the words he used, the only reason was that everyone could understand him, where as they couldn't understand what Rain would say. As the barrier finished being formed, Bart, along with all the Dread pilots, and the Infinite Justice, fired at the barrier. Before the missiles and laser rounds could strike the barrier, the Nirvana clone fired off a volley of red missiles that tore the barrier apart from the inside out. Each laser beam hit the shield emitters, knocking the barrier loose before the remaining beams crashed into Vandread Jura.
"Shit!" Rain and Barnette yelled in unison. Rain, Barnette, Meia, and Dita all began heading towards the broken Vandread Jura, hoping for a miracle of some sort. Once they arrived, Barnette looked down inside the combination and gasped. "Jura's injured badly!"
"Damn it all!" Rain yelled as he continued to fire at the large clone. Anything he fired at the massive fake would just bounce off since a Vandread Jura clone continued to place a barrier around itself to block the shots fired. The Nirvana clone opened up with another volley of red threads, tearing its own fleet apart with its shots. Rain blasted off to keep the large leviathan at bay with the help of two Dread Squadrons. The rest of the Dread teams hung back, blasting anything that tried to get near Vandread Jura.
"Don't worry girls! I'm almost there!" Gascgone said as her Delivery Craft appeared in the distance. Meia began heading towards her, shooting down anything that tried to get near her craft. Gascgone smirked as she watched Meia blast three more clones that tried to get a sneak attack in on the underbelly of her craft.
"Son of a bitch!" Rain yelled. Meia and Gascgone turned their attention to Rain as he continued to dodge the red threads of death. Rain was too far away to guard the combination, but it no longer mattered since the clone was now his primary concern. The Nirvana clone continued to blast its way through its own forces in an attempt to shoot down Rain. Rain smirked as he watched the clone give up. "Giving up already?" Rain joked. The clones' response, it transformed into a humanoid robot version of itself. "Oh shit!" Rain cursed.
"Way to go, dumbass!" Barnette yelled. "You just had to piss it off, didn't you?!"
"Screw you bitch! How was I supposed to know it could do that?!" He shot back.
"Enough, we're leaving this area!" Meia yelled. The two bickering pilots nodded while waiting for Gascgone to pick up the combination. "We need to protect Gascgone so she can grab Jura and Hibiki!" Meia ordered.
"Right." Rain said while blasting three Carriers into space dust. "This would be a piece of cake if I had the METEOR System!" Rain yelled while he continued to blast at the new arrivals.
"Shut up! We'll kill it without your special weapons if we have to!" Barnette stated. Rain nodded in agreement, knowing she was right.
But this would still be easier if I had it. He moaned. Rain's eyes latched onto the red core of the giant Nirvana clone. A smile appeared on his face as he blasted off towards it. If I can hit that, it won't be able to fight back anymore. Rain thought while dodging enemy fire. The clone fired off another salvo of red death, forcing Rain to dodge them and slow down. Once the missiles stopped being fired, Rain dashed in, and slashed across the core of the machine. Red sparks zipped off the core as he did it again. Rain smirked as he watched the clone start to lose its red aura that was surrounding its core. The beast went silent as Rain began heading back to the other pilots, blasting anything that got in his way.
"Nice job, Rain!" Dita cried.
"Don't thank me yet!" Rain stated. Dita nodded while she continued to blast at the enemy units. Rain forced his machine into barrel roll while releasing his jet pack to punch through eight Carriers, allowing the Dreads easy kills. Once Rain was back with the pilots, he spun around to start shooting anything that he could lock onto. Bart stole most of his kills when he released his weapons, showering the battlefield with a blanket of death that managed to blind almost everyone. Once the dust cleared, a red wave of missiles shot through the remnants of the dust cloud. "Barnette!" Rain yelled as he forced his machine to fly in front of her Dread. Barnette watched as the wave of death slowly inched her way. A flash of red caught her attention as the Infinite Justice appeared to block the shot.
"Rain!" Meia and Dita yelled.
The shield was once again being reinforced by the strange blue barrier to give him an extra reach on protection. A small power struggle took place for a few seconds, before a victor was chosen. The red beams tore through the shield, slashing through both arms of the red machine. His legs were destroyed at the knees, his arms destroyed at the shoulder, it head had a large hole up on the top right side, while his jet pack exploded on his back. The Justice had been beaten, and Rain's status was completely unknown as his vitals, mech signal, and radio signal were all cut off.
"Gascgone, grab Rain!" Meia yelled. Gascgone didn't need to be told as she picked up what remained of the Justice Mech, and began heading back towards the Nirvana. "Let's get out of here!" Meia ordered. The remaining Dread fighters were more then happy to do so as they blasted their way back to the ship.
(-)
Those that were friends with Rain and Jura stood before their sleeping forms. Jura had suffered from a mild concussion, a gash on her abdomen, and a small case of blood loss. Rain suffered from a broken arm, broken leg, a few cracked ribs, and a large gash across his chest, and possibly a damaged left eye that had a long cut across it. Meia stood beside Rain, looking down at him sadly. She bit her bottom lip after seeing him the way he was. She knew he would probably be okay, but he was still in a bad condition that would probably leave him incapable of piloting for sometime. Barnette was standing beside Jura, holding her hand in an attempt to comfort her.
"They'll be okay." Duerro stated as he placed his stethoscope around his neck. "They'll both come back to us after a few hours of rest. Just don't expect Rain to be combat ready for a few days." Meia nodded sadly as she looked down at him. Duerro sighed, knowing why she felt that way.
She almost lost Rain like she lost Alex. It's no wonder why she's being this way. Duerro thought.
"Jura, please come back to us." Barnette whispered. A loud crash got her attention quickly. Everyone turned to see Hibiki's fist in the wall. "Hibiki…" Barnette whispered.
"Damn it!" Hibiki cursed. "None of this would have happened if Gascgone had been there." Hibiki whispered.
"It wouldn't have mattered." Gascgone muttered. Hibiki looked at her in surprise that she heard him. "Yeah, I heard yea. And for the record, I work behind the scenes, not up front." She added.
"Yeah, you hang back because you want us to do all the dirty work!" Hibiki snapped back. Gascgone took a deep breath to calm herself down. "All you do is hang back and give us what we need when you can get to us! The rest of the time you spend doing what ever you want and telling us to smile when we die! You don't know what we've lost when we're out there!"
"You're right, I don't know what you've lost when you go out to fight them. But I'm not going to die. I'm going to keep on smiling and doing what ever I can to survive these fights; because that's how I work." Gascgone said with a smile. Hibiki snarled at her as she walked off with not a care in the world for anyone else.
"What the hell does she know?" Hibiki muttered. Hibiki's head was instantly thrown into wall, knocking him for a round as he crashed to the floor. Dita was instantly by his side, staring up at the culprit.
"What the hell do you know about losing a comrade?!" Barnette yelled. Hibiki stood up and glared at her. Barnette returned the glare. "You think she doesn't know what we lose every time we go out there and come back without a pilot or two? Do you have any idea on how immature you just sounded?!" Barnette snapped.
"No, but what I do know is that she doesn't seem to care! She doesn't care about how Rain or Jura is right now! She didn't once look at them with sad eyes like we have! She knows them, she's fought beside them, and Rain's even saved her a few times! So what the hell is the matter with her?!" Hibiki pointed to Jura.
"Hibiki, she already did do just that." Meia whispered. Hibiki cocked his head to look at her with a scowl on her face. "She already said that she was worried about them before you got in here. Barnette, Gascgone, and I were already in here before you arrived. I'll admit that she was probably more worried about Jura since she's known her more than Rain, but at least she still cared about his condition."
"She's lost more people than you'll ever know about." Barnette whispered. Hibiki turned to face Barnette with confusion written on his eyes. "She may not show it, but she, along with Magno, are the people that are the most affected by the death of a crew member. She knows more pain than anyone."
"Whatever." Hibiki muttered.
(-)
"The enemy is still following us." Misty stated. Magno nodded, understanding what she meant. "What are we going to do? The enemy is still after us, and we can't defeat them with our current fighting strength."
"We'll think of something. We always pull through these sorts of things. So don't worry too much." Magno stated. Misty didn't look very hopeful to her words. Magno knew that she didn't believe her, but she figured she had her reasons.
(-)
"Meia! Meia wait up!" Hibiki cried. Meia stopped and turned to face Hibiki. Hibiki stopped in front of her, gasping for air. Once he had his air back, he looked up at her with a confused expression. "What did you mean when you said that Gascgone has experienced more pain than anyone else?"
Meia closed her eyes and sighed. She bit her bottom lip knowing that this was something that Gascgone should talk about. When they all joined up, they made a pact to keep there secrets to themselves unless they wanted to talk about them. This was one of Gascgone's, so it was here tale to tell. But that look in Hibiki's eye told her that he wanted to know now.
"It happened before she joined up with us. What I heard is that she was part of a Rescue Squadron for one of our colonies that lost power. Her sister went into a dangerous area that had a breach to rescue a small child. From what happened afterwards, I'm not to certain. Gascgone and her sister managed to save the child just as the door that was holding the hole closed suddenly was torn off. Her sister managed to pass the small child to her, but just as she was about to reach out for her, the door shut and her sister was trapped on the other side by only a mere door only four inches thick." Meia explained.
"She lost her sister because of a four inch door?" Hibiki mussed. "I guess I should go tell her I'm sorry, shouldn't I?"
"Don't worry about right it now. The only thing we need to worry about is the enemy that's right behind us." Meia stated. Meia sighed as she walked off, wondering how they were going to pull a miracle off.
(-)
"The Justice will be down for some time." Parfait sighed. "I'm not sure I can get it up and running for the next encounter with them. Besides, Rain's out cold and in no condition to fight." Parfait stated.
"What about Jura's Dread?" Magno asked. Magno was talking to Parfait on screen in the Engineer Room.
"It took some minor damage, but thanks to the Pexis it took hardly any damage. We should be able get it up and running in a few hours, but we still need Jura to pilot it." Parfait replied.
"Understood." Magno sighed while flickering off screen.
(-)
"Are you an idiot?" Maya snapped. Maya, Dale, Pyoro, and Hibiki were talking in the brig, Males Room, trying to come up with a plan to destroy the enemy Flag Ship. Maya was currently yelling at Pyoro for making a bad comment about Dale. Hibiki was staring at the three AI's with a brow raised. Pyoro was loosing his argument, but Dale wasn't talking too much anymore.
"Why are you calling me an idiot?" Pyoro wailed.
"Why do you care? You'll forget in about ten minutes anyway." Maya stated. "Now, let's get back to coming up with a plan to beat the hell out of that large enemy Flag Ship."
"Okay, what do we know about them so far?" Hibiki asked.
"They've got a Nirvana clone that can shoot multiple beams that mimic Bart's weapons." Maya began. Hibiki nodded. "They have an unknown amount of Egg Carriers that can spit out about twenty five Cube Types. It takes one hundred and twenty five Cube Types to make a single Vandread Clone. It is unknown as to how many Cube Types it takes to make a single Nirvana Clone. The enemy Flag Ship has one cannon that can strike down anything within a half of a kilometer of the blast radius."
"What about the enemy Flag Ship?" Hibiki questioned. "How thick do you think that armor is?"
"Idiot an you're?" Dale muttered. Hibiki shot him a dirty look. "Flag the Ships' thickness hull enemy's unknown is. Best know be explosive high use a hull powered would way to the to hole hull in with then analyze a the." Dale stammered. Hibiki shot him a look of pure confusion.
"Translation please." Hibiki ordered.
"He said, "You're an idiot" for his first sentence." Maya stated. Hibiki's eye started twitching at that. "His second sentence said, "The enemy's Flag Ships' hull thickness is unknown" moron." Hibiki really seemed to be getting angry, much to the amusement of Dale. "His last sentence was, "The best way to know would be to use a high powered explosive on the hull, and then analyze the hole", Hibiki." Maya answered.
"You," Hibiki pointed to Dale. "…are an asshole and need to shut up."
"You screw!" Dale shouted before flickering away.
"He said…"
"I know what he said!" Hibiki shouted. Maya shrugged her shoulders as she went back to looking at the screen on Pyoro's face. "We need to find some way to make a hole that big without getting to close to it. If we detonated something that large, we might not have enough time to get away from the blast."
"What if you punched through it?" Pyoro asked.
"That's a good idea." Maya said with a grin. Hibiki nodded in agreement. "All we have to do is hit it hard enough with Vandread Meia to punch a hole through that armor. The only real problem is that we don't know how thick it is. It could very well stand up to the attack of Vandread Meia without taking a single scratch."
"Don't worry." Hibiki stood up and started walking towards where he knew Meia would be. "We'll make it happen and come back alive."
(-)
Meia and Barnette were staring down at their two friends, both of which were still asleep. Meia was sitting on Rain's bed, wondering when he'd be able to wake up. With all the injuries he had, Duerro stated that he would have been dead had it not been for his advanced blood that he had. So the only thing she could do was, wait for him to wake up, and make sure that the ship got through the attack. Barnette was just staring down at Jura, wondering the same thing. She never figured she would be here looking down at her friend feeling so helpless.
The two women sighed. "This feels so strange." Barnette said with a sigh. Meia mumbled in agreement. "I can't believe that they pulled a new trick on us, and we weren't even able to make a scratch in it."
"Rain managed to hit it." Meia reminded.
"Yeah, but look at him." She motioned towards Rain with a wave of her hand. "Look at what it managed to do to him. If we had been more aware of what they could do, this wouldn't have happened."
"We have no idea what they're capable of, Barnette. We can't just expect them to tell us. But you are right; we should have expected something like this." Meia stated. Barnette looked down at Jura, knowing that Meia was right.
"Meia…" Hibiki whispered. Barnette and Meia turned to see a serious look on Hibiki's face as he entered the main room. "…I have an idea."
(-)
"So he's come up with another plan?" Magno questioned.
"Yes, but I'm not to certain about this one." BC commented. "There's to little data on the Flag Ships' hull to know if this will work. For all we know, they could actually wind up a greasy smear on the hull of it."
"Never the less, it's a plan. And since no one else has come up with one, we'll try to make this work." Magno stated firmly. "All Dread fighters, we're heading back into the combat zone."
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"Hibiki, are you sure this plan will work?" Meia asked. Meia was running back to the hanger with Hibiki and Barnette beside her. "We don't know if our combination can punch through it. For all we know, we might end up a…"
"You want to protect Rain right?" Hibiki interrupted. Meia nodded. "No one else has come up with a plan. This is the only one we have that could work. All we need to do is hit it hard enough to do it. Our combination is the only one that can attain the speed necessary to punch through it."
"But still…" Barnette began.
"We can't just keep running from them." Hibiki interrupted her. "They'll eventually catch us. This is a lot better than running from death." He stated as he climbed into his machine. Meia stared at the remains of the Justice mech for a few seconds before climbing into her own machine. Barnette looked at Jura's machine that was waiting for its pilot.
We can do this. Meia thought.
(-)
"The Dread teams have launched." Celtic announced. Magno nodded. This had better work.
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A flash of light appeared on the battlefield again, this time forming Vandread Meia. A spiral of energy appeared around the combination as they began charging energy for the first strike. When it reached its peek, the combination vanished in a golden streak, punching a hole in eight Carriers. The Dread plowed down what remained of the Carriers as they tried to keep up. The combination left the small fry to the Dread teams as they continued their charge towards the Flag Ship.
"All Dread teams are to handle the Cube Types while we deal with our clones and that annoying Flag Ship." Meia ordered. A loud reply of "Rodger" followed her order. Meia growled as the large Nirvana clone came into view. Rain…
"Don't worry. We'll be fine." Hibiki whispered. Meia blinked while looking down at her co-pilot. "He'll be okay."
"I know that." She replied.
The combination went soaring through the enemy ranks with what some would say, Fanatic Zeal. The combination punched through anything that dared to get between them and the large monster before them. Barnette and Dita were keeping up with them, blasting anything that dared to get between them and the Flag Ship. Vandread Meia was up front, as usual, and punching holes in everything that dared to get in its way, while Barnette and Dita were on clean up duty, moping up the remaining fighters.
"Alright, here we go!" Hibiki yelled as the path suddenly cleared for them to strike the large beast. Once again they charged up for another ramming strike, but stopped when the Nirvana clone appeared in front of them. The combination ducked and dodged their way around the monstrosity while Barnette and Dita blasted its core with missiles. The large beast fell backwards, going silent yet again. "Now that that's out of the way, let's finish this!" Hibiki roared as they repeated the process.
"Here we go." Meia whispered. The combination darted towards the hull of the enemy Flag Ship, preparing to ram it. Once again, the Nirvana clone appeared, but this time it was able to land a hit that swatted them away. "Damn it."
"Meia!" Barnette yelled. She gritted her teeth as she began firing at the large beasts' core again. Rather than shoot at her, the clone managed to grab her, surprising her. "Oh no!" Barnette cried.
A wave of missiles plowed into the arm of the clone, releasing Barnette's Dread in the process. Barnette instantly flew away, assessing the damage done to her machine when her savior appeared out of the corner of her eye. "Miss Gascgone!" She cried.
"I'll show you, that even Behind the Stage people can pull their weight!" She cried as she fired off another volley of missiles. The large clone reared back before stabbing her Delivery Craft with its large claw like hands. Gascgone heard her name being yelled as she pushed forward on her throttle to send the large monster into the Flag Ship. Gascgone smiled as the clone and her delivery craft crashed into the ship, resulting in a large explosion that tore a large hole in the enemy Flag Ship.
Miss Gascgone…
A/N
So that's that. I noticed something rather funny. After the last two chapters, I had a lot of hits to Chapter seven back on Wings of Freedom, the first fic. I guess a few of you wondered about him. As always, Read and Review.
