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October 30th, 3817 AD; 2:30 PM (1430 hours)
The crew of the Nirvana was near an abandoned station called a Mission. They were once flourished during era of the colonization, but that era was now over and this mission was abandoned.
"So this is what one looks like? I've never seen one like this before," said Buzam as she looked at the mission.
"I know BC, these things prospered back in the day. Now it's just a remnant of that era," said Magno as she remembered when they were operating when she was younger.
Inside the Mission, Jura and Barnette were looking for food and water though Jura was looking for clothes to expand her wardrobe of all things. Meia and Parfet were pulling out data cores or drive to find any data that could be used. Bella was outside providing security should anyone try to jump them while Brian and Arthur were inside guarding Parfet and Meia along with Hibiki while Dita stood nearby.
"I'm pretty surprised that the captain knows about this station," replied Parfet as she was working.
"It's called a mission officially," replied Brian to Parfet's comment.
Pyoro who floated nearby doing nothing decided to ask what Meia was doing, "What are you exactly doing?"
"Working you little robot, what's it look like I'm doing?" replied Meia.
"All you are doing is just looting the place," said the Navi-robot.
"No that is incorrect, we're just using parts that are no longer being used by anyone," replied Meia to Pyoro's comment.
Pyoro glared at Meia and replied, "You need to make orders clearer then."
As the salvage was going on, Arthur sensed something and took out his pistol from his strap-on holster that attached itself to the outside of the pilot suit he was wearing.
Seconds later, Brian did the same and Hibiki noticed and decided to ask, "Sirs, what is going on?"
"Something is here, so keep an alert and stay here while Brian and I check it out okay," said Arthur.
The two Gundam pilots with Pyoro taking along with them followed the moving shadow and Brian asked what it could be, "Could it be a doppelganger or a shadow creeper?"
"You've been watching that episode of Ghost Adventures; Waverly Hills Sanatorium too much Brian," replied Arthur as the two humans and robot came to an open area.
Not long after saying that, the figure dropped down to show itself and it was something that surprised the duo.
"Well what do you know an orangutan, seen them only in text books or its similar variation on Neo Primus which is part of Terrain Prime," said Brian.
The orangutan appeared to be female and was wearing a toga-like outfit and was caring a bunch of machine parts. The creature looked at the three before dropping its parts it had and lunged at the Navi-robot and begun to lick it, much to the displeasure of Pyoro
"Ack! Help me! Brian! Arthur! It's so unsanitary!" cried the Navi-robot.
"Now Utan, stop it," said a deep voice.
The duo then saw who it was, it was a man who appeared to be dressed in tribal-like clothing, had a red cybernetic eye patch covering his right eye, had two green marks on his face near his left eye, had brown-black hair, a odd piece covering his forehead, and stood around 6'12 range or somewhere near that range.
Upon looking at him, both Gundam pilots saw that this guy appeared to have the build of a body builder, but had a suspicious feel to him. Brian felt something was off about him because of the way that unknown man was presenting himself.
"Who are you and what is your business here?" asked Brian.
The unknown man didn't answer which annoyed Arthur that prompted him to ask him himself, "Answer Brian's question sir and state your business."
Shrugging his shoulders the unknown man answered, "Why should I answer to you and why should I tell you my business?"
"Because you are an unknown person that we've never come across before and we need to know if you are friendly or hostile," replied Arthur.
"Fine, the name is Rabat, I'm a trader here looking for stuff to sell to others," replied the man who identified himself as Rabat.
Utan then presented Pyoro to Rabat and the look Rabat was giving wasn't a look that Arthur and Brian liked because it was the look of greedy and sinister person. Eventually, Barnette, Meia, Dita, Jura, and Hibiki came on the scene and were surprised to see a man here. Hibiki tried to approach Rabat, but was blocked by Brian.
"Stay back, something about this guy doesn't seem right," said Brian.
As soon as Brian was done speaking, Rabat tried to pull out his gun and take Hibiki hostage, but was beaten to punch by Arthur drawing his gun to Rabat's head and stopping him. Barnette took out her gun while Jura pulled out her sword and Meia pointed her laser ring at him.
"Shoot, looks like I'm in a tight spot," grumbled Rabat.
Rabat then proceeded to throw Pyoro at Meia which to the trader's surprise, Brian caught it, but fell on his ass though and dropped his gun which Arthur grabbed before Rabat could. The place then began to shake.
"Meia, here what is going outside?" said Meia to Bella via a communicator.
"Looks like the Harvesters are attacking so everyone get to your machines and get Parfat and her team out of there," replied Bella.
Without wasting a second, Brian, Arthur, Hibiki, Dita, Meia, Jura, and Barnette proceed to head to their machines, but in the rush, they forgot a certain Navi-robot.
"Well Utan, looks like we better be going," said Rabat to his primate friend while making his way to his ship. He then looked at what Utan had got and smiled.
Outside, the fight was raging on with all the pilots fighting close quarters with Bella escorting Parfet back to the Nirvana and once done, she joined the fight. The female Gundam pilot shook her head slightly at seeing Fujin Gundam fighting though Arthur was doing well.
The only major flaw that the Fujin Gundam had was how its wings were designed, while the Gundam was strong in its own right, the wings could potential limit close quarters, but the Paksis had somehow made the wings better and meant better combat abilities.
Brian and hers were enhanced and upgraded by the Paksis as well to address their problems, but that was for another day for she had to focus on the battle at hand. Arthur was about to be flanked when Meia blasted a few enemies away from him.
"Now were even now," said Meia from her Dread.
Arthur's radar bleeped and saw Jura coming towards him to obviously combine with his Gundam and in his attempt to get away from her, he didn't see he was heading straight for Meia and by the time he did, it was too late as his Gundam got close enough, a bright light consumed both machines and once the transformation was done, a new mech appeared surprising everyone even Rabat who was far away.
"Everyone keep focus, we can admire the Gundread later okay," said Bella to everyone present.
Inside the mech which would be called Gundread Meia A mode, Meia and Arthur regained their bearings and found themselves in a cockpit which was a two seat cockpit, but they were facing opposite directions; Meia was facing backwards while Arthur was facing forwards.
"What type of Gundread is this Arthur?" asked Meia from her seat in the Gundread cockpit.
"Let's find out then," replied Arthur from his seat and he then pressed a button to his left and to everyone's surprise, the demon-like mecha vanished.
"Huh? Where did they go?" asked Hibiki from his Vanguard as he was slashing away the small Harvester machines using a halberd-like weapon.
Seconds later, a group of Harvester machines near the Nirvana suddenly exploded after being slashed apart and the mecha reappeared. It resembled a female demon with spikes sticking out of its feet, knees, and shoulders; it had a pair of tiny claw-like hands on one part of the mecha, and was welding a demonic-like scythe with another Harvester machine impaled on its tail before it exploded.
Naturally Jura went straight for Hibiki while the fighting raged on while saying to him in a seductive tone, "Why don't we combine? We could end this easily."
Before she could get even close to Hibiki, Dita beat her to the punch by combining with Hibiki forming Vandread Dita once again.
"Dita! He was mine you little weasel!" shouted Jura from her Dread.
"Sorry! If don't move fast, you lose!" taunted Dita while doing a face to annoy the hell out of Jura while Hibiki sat annoyed.
Hibiki then determined that the Harvesters were coming from the mission itself, so he aimed the Vandread's cannons at the station and then fired, destroying the station. Nearby, Rabat saw what happened and thought of what he could do with selling those machines especially the Gundread and the Vandread he and Utan saw.
"Oh boy Utan looks like we have struck the biggest jackpot to date," said Rabat greedily.
Rabat's radar or sensor array beeped and he saw more Harvester machines heading to him and Utan.
"Go ahead Utan, do what you please," said Rabat to his monkey friend.
Utan then made a few happy sounds before heading to the back of the ship that Rabat owned and seconds later, a mech appeared and in one swift motion, Utan fired all of the guns and missiles and decimated the remaining Harvester machines, but Rabat wasn't too thrilled on how fast the weapons on the mech would be drained.
"Crap, there goes all of last week's trade funds," grumbled Rabat from his seat in the ship.
On the Nirvana, Magno saw the destruction of the mission and was a bit bummed out and made it known vocally, "Shoot good waste of potential resources."
"Actually that was my loot first," said Rabat who then appeared on a transmission from his ship to the Nirvana.
Outside, Gundread Meia A mode was listening in while Arthur was looking over the controls and data to determine what it could do while Meia listened.
As Rabat made his case that his ship's engines were 'damaged', both pilots thought something was not right about this man; Meia from her years of growing up on the streets of Mejere and Arthur from growing up being raised mostly by his uncle Roger Hanson and Elizabeth-Ann Hanson and in the small times with his parents and seeing different parts of his home when he was with his dad Roy Hanson.
"Something about this man isn't right," said Meia from her seat in the Gundread.
"That makes two of us because in all of my times growing up, there is one thing my uncle told me along with his sister in law or my mom Rachel Hanson," said Arthur.
"What is it?" inquired Meia.
Arthur looked at Meia and replied, "Just because someone looks nice on the outside, doesn't mean they are friendly right off the bat because for that person could be hiding something which will then get you into a false sense of security and then stab you in the back."
As Rabat was granted permission to come aboard the Nirvana to do some 'trading' and return Pyoro, Arthur noticed a feature on the control panel; a device that could allow either him or Meia to hack any secure data bank while either as the Gundread or as individual units though the Fujin would do better due Arthur's skills and his Gundam's Omega-Alpha X system.
"Meia, I'm going to be doing some digging into Rabat's data archives do figure out if he is just blowing hot air or he is an okay trader okay?" said Arthur as the mecha neared the Nirvana.
"Okay, I won't tell anyone except the Captain and I'll tell her not to tell Rabat and be careful because you are pressing your luck here," said Meia.
"Very well then," replied Arthur and with that said, the Gundread split apart, but not before it fired a tiny device onto the hull of Rabat's ship.
Once back inside, Meia got out of her dread to monitor Rabat and tell Magno of Arthur's little investigation he was conducting. Arthur on the other hand, stayed in his Gundam and started digging. In another part of the Nirvana, Rabat was unaware of Arthur's probing and was greeted by several members of the Nirvana.
"My, my, this ship surely has some good looking females," said Rabat with Utan by his side while holding Pyoro.
Before Rabat could start handing out gifts, Pyoro leapt from Utan and gave a chase and then Brian and Bella showed up. To Rabat's surprise, he was being padded down and had his pistol and a few other weapons he had on him taken by the two Gundam pilots.
"Hey what is the big idea?" asked Rabat.
"So you don't do anything funny against the Nirvana and its crew okay," replied Brian.
The duo then escorted the trader to where Magno was waiting with a few other security personal of the ship following close behind. Back inside the Fujin Gundam, Arthur couldn't believe what he was finding because not only was this man a con artist, but something even more sinister as he kept digging. Meanwhile, Rabat was being questioned by Magno with several other crew-members watching.
"So, those three pilots are prisoners?" asked Rabat.
"No young man because they are leaders of the Nirvana Starfire squadron though Arthur is not available at the moment," replied Magno.
"Really, where is he then?" asked the trader.
Meia then came in, went to Magno's side, and spoke, "He is taking care of a few private matters at the moment."
"Mind if I ask what he is doing?" inquired Rabat.
"Sorry it's as he would say it, classified," answered Meia as she leaned in to tell Magno of what Arthur is doing and the aged pirate captain nodded.
"Okay then, you can conduct your trade here while your ship's engines are being fixed, but if you do anything funny, you're off the ship okay?" said Magno to Rabat.
Once things were cleared up, Rabat was allowed to set up shop in a section of the ship. Several members of the crew were already fawning over Rabat's goods and were going for it like gullible sheep.
The only people who were not were members of the Starfire squadron including Bella and Brian. Parfet bought some engine parts which Bella knew that they would be needed to be checked because both she and her sister were part of the Self-Defense Navy and she knew a thing or two about ship parts.
Paiway was trying on some make-up samples while Rabat reminded her to wait several more years while talking about his knowledge of men and women relationships which raised some eye brows.
Standing nearby, Brian and Bella proceeded to text Arthur asking where he was right now and he responded by telling them via text to place a lock on each of their Gundam's operating systems so Rabat wouldn't snoop.
Back in the Men's Quarters, Hibiki was getting tense with every minute Rabat was on this ship. Duero was also with him to probably keep an eye Hibiki.
"Man that guy is seriously pissing me off!" growled Hibiki.
"He is a trader and has a right to be here. Once his ship is repaired, he'll be on his way," responded Duero.
Hibiki responded by leaving the quarters to confront Rabat while on the way he saw Brian and Bella head to the Hanger bay.
"What are you two doing?" asked Hibiki to two of his mentors.
"Locking down the operating systems and data of our Gundams so Rabat doesn't gain illegal access to the data on board the Vulcan or Calypso Gundams," replied Brian.
In another part of the ship, Magno was talking with Buzam regarding Rabat and also Arthur's investigation.
"Captain, are you sure this is a good idea? I mean that boy is really pressing his luck with what he is doing," said Buzam.
"I know what you mean BC, but if he has a justified reason and suspicion, then he has a right to look into that trader's records for any foul signs. That stranger is funny in one sense like a mysterious figure," replied Magno to Buzam's inquire about Arthur's investigation.
A bit while later after showing Parfet the "components" for the Paksis, found Rabat wandering towards the Hanger bay, earlier he had checked on his vessel and something told him to get away from the female named BC or Buzam. Also, of the three Gundam pilots, their squad leader hadn't shown his face sense he saw him on that mission.
There was something about those three that seemed familiar to him, like he had heard about them before, but they were supposedly supposed to be on a black ops mission and hadn't reported back for some time. He also made a note to avoid two of those pilots who had taken his weapons he had on him.
Eventually, he was in the Hanger bay where the three enhanced Dreads, the Vanguard, and the three enhanced Gundams were kept and stored. Looking around, he felt like a kid in a candy store because of how much he could earn selling those mobile suits could make him very rich in a short amount of time.
While Rabat was thinking about profits, Arthur on the other hand was seeing red and for a very good reason. After digging through all of Rabat's data archives, he found evidence that made him angrier than all of the Greek Gods combined.
Not only did this guy sell bootleg junk and stolen goods which was the tip of the iceberg, he also had found maps and star charts of worlds once timing with human civilizations that were now gone along with the other life on those worlds including colonies of those civilizations.
After putting together the pieces of the puzzle, he found one thing that made his heart sink and that was that Terrain Prime was now on the target list for the Harvesters to raze.
He also found out a bit of what happened after what happened to him and his teammates which was being used for propaganda. Tarak had declared war on Terrain Prime over what happened with the Ikazuchi which he found it to be complete and utter bullshit.
Arthur then found checks, payments, and other forms of money being given to Rabat for various things including spying for the one enemy of Humanity: the Harvesters. The final straw that broke his camel's back was he found stuff that belonged to Terrain Prime including the AK-87 assault rifle used by the Lighting Spetsnaz and the Terrain Prime self-defense Army.
All of what he had found gave Arthur only one thought in his mind, "You vile, no good, traitor from hell!"
Just as he was about to get out of the Fujin after deactivating the device he placed earlier along with coping the data from Rabat's ship and placing it in Fujin's data banks along with his data pad he had with him inside the cockpit, he decided to give what he found about Rabat to his teammates and once he did, he saw Rabat looking around particularly at Hibiki's Vanguard.
Just as Rabat was about to decided which machine to look at first, Dita came in and stood between Hibiki's Vanguard and Rabat making it clear that no one except certain people would look at it. Bella and Brian on the other hand were checking the stuff the crew bought carefully.
"Come on please? I won't break it," asked Rabat.
"No! This is Mr. Alien's partner and you can't look at it!" shouted Dita as she stood in front of the Vanguard.
"What about those three other machines instead?" Rabat asked referring to the Fujin, Calypso, and Vulcan Gundams.
Dita shook her head and replied, "No, not them either besides I believe Mr. Angel Alien is working right now."
"Huh? So that is where he has been this whole time? Inside his machine," replied Rabat finally figuring out where Arthur was due to the glowing chest orb and the eyes.
It was then that Hibiki came into the Hanger bay and saw what Rabat was trying to do and made his presence known, "Hey you! Get away from her and those machines."
"Oh and who is going to make me?" asked Rabat arrogantly.
"I am you arrogant prick," replied Hibiki to Rabat's taunt.
"Oh, is that so boy? Let's see what you got then," replied Rabat.
Hibiki glared at Rabat and spoke, "Why don't you go first or should I you big douchebag," said Hibiki.
With that said, the fight began at first in Hibiki's favor due to his training under Arthur, Bella, and Brian using various moves including punches taught to him, but then the tide was starting to turn against the Tarak youth and that made Dita alarmed to contact the bridge.
In the bridge, Magno and Buzam received Dita's distress message and much to Dita's dismay, they choose not to send help because they felt men need to work things out man to man. Seconds later, Arthur came on with a pissed off look.
"Captain with all due respect, you and Buzam get your sorry damm asses down to the Hanger bay now because I got something you want to see along with any other crew members who can if you really care about your crew especially Hibiki," said Arthur
"Very well then young man and don't swear next time okay," replied Magno
Arthur without wasting a second pulled out his pistol and put his data pad in his spare combat jacket's inner left pocket he had in case his other one was destroyed which both Brian and Bella also each had.
In another part of the ship while the fight went on, Bella and Brian after receiving the data Arthur found were making their way to the Hanger bay with guns drawn along with a rifle Bella had.
"Where did you get the rifle?" asked Brian.
"No time! Let's go get that asshole Brian!" replied Bella as she cocked the rifle she just acquired.
Meanwhile in the unique Hanger bay that housed the Gundam's the three enhanced Dreads and the enhance Vanguard, Dita was standing a good distance away from the apparent one-sided fight between Hibiki and the trader Rabat, but thanks to the training under Brian, Bella, and Arthur, he was putting up as one would say a decent and good fight.
Just as Rabat was about to kick Dita away from Hibiki and hurt Hibiki even further, the cockpit hatch on the Fujin Gundam opened and out came a very, unhappy, pissed off Arthur with a his Glock 20 pistol in his left hand and aimed at Rabat.
Seconds later, Bella and Brian came in the hanger and like Arthur, Brian with his pistol drawn and aimed at Rabat along with Bella with an AK-87 assault rifle. Arthur came down from his Gundam and made his way to Rabat with his pistol aimed and the trader's head.
"Oh there you are I was wondering where you were hiding," said Rabat with an arrogant tone.
"The jig is up you damm traitor of Humanity," said Arthur with no hesitation on his anger or his language.
"What are you talking about?" replied Rabat in a fake surprised voice.
"I've been digging through your data with the help of my Gundam and found out who you really are you piece of (censored)!" responded Arthur.
Before Rabat could responded, Hibiki sat up with Dita near him though he was scuffed up, he still lived and asked his mentors what he was talking about. Dita was a bit surprised to see Arthur wear like that as she had never heard a man swear like that.
"What did you find out about this guy?" asked Hibiki.
"What Arthur has found is that this maggot is nothing, but a damm (censored) con artist, thief, and worst of all, a traitor to Humanity Hibiki and Dita," replied Brian his pistol never moving direction.
"This sick, unholy, inhumane traitor and plague of Humanity sells bootleg junk and stolen goods, scams people out of their hard earned money, and worst of all, he lands on different worlds and their colonies or any outpost or station, gets all the info he can get under the whole trading ruse, and then sells the information to the highest paying client which includes the Harvesters themselves," replied Bella with no sign of her anger leaving her and keeping her rifle aimed at Rabat.
"What are you-"
Rabat didn't get to finish when Arthur cut him off, "Silence! You big (censored) (censored) traitor! You have got ten seconds to get your lousy, no good, lying bag of shit carcass of this ship before we kick your ass and then shoot you all the way to hell!"
"Why don't you listen to him and admit the truth asshole!" replied Bella with fury.
Rabat grinned nervously despite having guns pointed at him and spoke, "What truth?"
Moments later, many of the Nirvana crew showed up including Magno, Buzam, Gascogne, Meia, Barnette, Jura, and several members of the Starfire squadron including Julian and Zoe. They were a bit shocked at seeing the three Gundam pilots aiming their guns at Rabat with looks that could scare someone even from hell itself and wanted to know why.
"Arthur, Bella, and Brian why are you three pointing your guns at him?" asked the aged pirate captain.
Pulling out a data pad from his combat uniform jacket which he was wearing over his pilot suit, he tossed it over which Gascogne caught and then handed it to Magno who read it and then passed it on to the others present with her.
"Rabat, you've overstayed your welcome and I suggest you leave before you end up in a body bag," replied Magno to Rabat.
If there was one thing she knew about those three Gundam pilots is that they were loyal to Humanity as much as they were loyal to whom they cared about including their home.
Buzam could clearly see they were pissed off beyond a shadow of a doubt and decided to ask a bit more to see the justification of the three Gundam pilot's actions by stepping forwards
She then spoke, "Arthur, Bella, and Brian was he responsible for the loss of an outpost belonging to your home?"
"Damm hell right you are BC, but under normal circumstances, Rabat would be arrested, tried, and mostly likely executed for high treason against Terrain Prime. For now we'll let him go, but I want to say this to him personally," said Arthur who then walked up to Rabat and looked at him with an emotionless face.
"Also, he has some goods that belong to Terrain Prime including this rifle," said Bella referring to the AK-87 she was holding.
"If I or any of my fellow Terrain Prime comrades see your face again, you're a dead (censored) man you got it you damm (censored)?" said Arthur in an emotionless tone.
Rabat, not wanting to get shot up turned and left with Utan his pet orangutan who had early come while chasing Pyoro had stopped to see what was going on.
Just as the trader was out of sight, Arthur said one last thing that scared everyone in the hanger a bit along with firing a warning shot at Rabat which missed him though it scared him along with some of the crew in the Hanger bay as well.
Arthur glared at Rabat and spoke, "If you threaten my friends and family again, I will make sure you'll suffer the slowest, most painful (censored) death you hear me!"
After Rabat and Utan left, the three Gundam pilots lowered their guns and looked around and signed before they all took a quick deep breath and recomposed themselves. Normally, swearing like this wasn't allowed though today was an exception.
"Bella, Brian get into your Gundams, we got some property to reclaim," said Arthur who turned to board his Gundam along with his friends.
The three then launched to stop Rabat from leaving and gave him one last talk, "Hey douchebag, you got some things that you have that belong to Terrain Prime."
The three Gundams surrounded Rabat's ship and Arthur pointed his Gundam's rail cannons at Rabat's ship along with Brian and Bella with one half of the twin nova buster rifle pointed at Rabat's ship as well using their Gundams.
Hours later the Nirvana was now cruising along in space though they couldn't briefly because Parfet had to remove the bad machine parts she bought from Rabat, but everyone knew that someday they would run into Rabat again, but they would be prepared.
To ensure none of their weapons or other stuff belonged to Terrain Prime would fall into the wrong hands, Arthur forced Rabat before the trader could get away to dump all the stuff he had on him that belonged to the Gundam pilot's home world along with all of Rabat's other stuff including information on other worlds except for some small amounts of money. Bella and Brian helped out in their Gundams as well to ensure Rabat's cooperation.
For now they would let the trader/traitor live, but vowed next time they would see Rabat again, he would be a dead man. Arthur also took the extra measure by copying all forms of identification of Rabat's ship so he could be recognized if he was to be seen again.
In his room in the Men's Quarters, Arthur was busy typing up his latest report that he planned on giving to the higher ups of Terrain Prime and the Self-Defense Forces, but also a modified version to other worlds as well because this one was about Rabat, the data on his ship and his dealings.
As he finished up his report, Jura came in along with Barnette, Dita, Meia, and Hibiki who recovered from his fight against Rabat with Brian and Bella walking in behind the group.
"What is it? Is there something you folks need?" asked Arthur from his desk.
"Sir, I think you need to clarify some things with a few crew members over your threat to Rabat along with your potty mouth," replied Brian.
"Don't worry, we've taken care of the rest of the crew with Magno and Buzam's help and Gascogne and you need to talk things with few crew-members," said Bella.
With that said, the two Gundam pilots left along with Dita, Meia, and Hibiki leaving Arthur with Jura and her friend Barnette. After they left Barnette spoke, "Was it true, that you would kill that traitor painfully?"
"I wanted to make sure that that fucking maggot got the message that his actions would come back to bite him on the Ass if continues down his path. I'm sorry if I scared any of you and I'm sorry for the potty mouth you've heard including just now," replied Arthur.
"Are you are you not Human and what is up with your language?" asked Jura.
Jura then walked up to him causing him to stand up and Barnette saw the height difference between the two which she thought was amusing because Jura was slightly taller than him, but just by a whisker.
Arthur did something that surprised Barnette; he grabbed Jura's left arm and pulled her into a hug and as he embraced her, he said this over the blonde woman's right shoulder, "Don't worry Jura and you too Barnette, I am Human because what I did was just me being a bit paranoid and making sure that Rabat doesn't dare mess with us again."
Arthur then let Jura go and then after assuring Barnette that what he did didn't change their relationship, but was trying to reassure them that he was friendly and he wasn't a monster.
"Look, how would you two feel if you found out the loss of one of your home's outposts was lost due to a traitor's synching because a synch is synch. Tarak now is fighting Terrain Prime aside from Mejere which isn't a good idea due to them draining resources and could be more troublesome than Mejere and their own arrogance will be their defeat. He was strong, Hibiki needs to get stronger," said Arthur with his head down with his back turned to the two Mejere women.
Jura then spoke to him before she and Barnette left, "Arthur, I understand why you acted at Rabat, but that does not give you an excuse to act like that because you will be treated as a prisoner again like the rest of the men am I clear?"
"Yes Jura and Barnette," replied Arthur who was now facing her and Barnette.
"Also, can you ask your friends to combine with me more often in the future?" asked Jura.
As soon as they left, Arthur rolled his eyes and then turned into bed, but as he did, he started to have thoughts about the blonde woman which baffled him.
"What's wrong with me? I've never felt like this before since my crush in Junior High, aw man am I falling for that blonde lady? No it can't be because duty comes first, then civilian life. I don't want to get Barnette mad at me which would be bad for the rest of the guys here. I just hope as soon as Brian, Bella, and I reunite with our comrades, I can ask Bella's sister for help" thought the Fujin Gundam pilot.
Far away from the Nirvana in a sector of space, a group of seven Tarak Vanguards was patrolling for hostiles when out of the blue, an energy shot blasted all of them except for one. The lone Vanguard turned to see a pair of Vanguards that were Gundams and stood scared stiff.
"Please, spare me! I'll do anything please!" cried the Vanguard pilot.
"Tarak should've done the same to my brother and his friends before your leaders destroyed them causing them to go missing," replied a cold female voice from the Gundam that nearly destroyed the squadron; the Valkyrie Gundam.
The Gundam then pointed its rifle at the lone Vanguard when another Gundam hand pushed it aside as it looked at the other Gundam.
"Squadron Leader Hanson that's enough, let him live to so he can tell his fellow comrades that Tarak will lose and that those three Gundam pilots are just missing in action," replied the Ninja Gundam's pilot Omar Jha.
"Very well then, besides from how he was talking, he wasn't worth killing anyway. You got to love guerrilla-style ambushes Ensign Jha," replied the Valkyrie Gundam's pilot.
The two then returned to the destroyer the TPSDNS Sparta and as they did, the Tarak Vanguard pilot who left thought of something, "What is that monster talking about?"
The pilot then returned home scared shitless from what happened while the four Gundams returned to the TPSDNS Sparta.
As the pilots of the TPSDNS Sparta got out of their Gundams in the Hanger bay, the Valkyrie Gundam's pilot took off her helmet and shook her head a bit and reveled that she had emerald green hair and light pink eyes. She then left the hanger and headed to her room.
Once there, she got out of her pilot suit and changed into her combat uniform and sat down on the chair in her room and began typing her report. Sighing a bit, she turned her head to a group of photos one which had her and her brother at his commissioning ceremony.
"Brother, what would you do about Tarak? Since you've 'disappeared', Tarak has declared war on us over the same stupid reason like Mejere, we've had to look for others to help us including Melanos, and now the Harvesters are targeting us for our brains," she said to the photo by herself.
"I will ensure that those monsters will not defeat and destroy us, this pilot swears Arthur," she said to herself once more. She then went to bed and on her combat jacket was her name; Victoria Emilia Hanson, the sister of Arthur Hanson.
A/N: Sorry if I took out a good chuck of the fight between Rabat, it just pains me to see Hibiki get beaten up so easily. Also I'm not one who is good at describing fight scenes because I'm still new to the art and it happens so fast, I have a hard time keeping up with certain fights. I apologize for the language in this chapter. Not only have we met Rabat, but we're shown two of the four Gundams mentioned back a couple of chapters ago and now two of their pilots.
The Gundread combination is a combination of the Deathsycthe Hell; EW version and Demona from Gargoyles.
Next chapter deals with a certain water planet and R and R and please no flames. FWI Bella got the rifle from stealing it from Rabat's ship by the way. The appearance of the two Gundams will be shown in good time.