Chapter 10 The breaking point
The events of Hibiki's adventure rushed though his head as he readies himself for the plan. "That is how I first started on this journey" he thought as he activated the Vandread Jura shield around the nirvana.
In it's cockpit Hibiki scanned the area. "Its true a lot of the area's round here are fortified, but we can use this to get over smaller magnetic storm now" he said before Jura took over communications.
"Is everyone watching?" she asked hogging the communications. "The newest version of Vandread Jura will now elegantly tow you all they way to mejere" she said happily.
"Oh that's wonderful" said the crew cheering. "You better appreciate it" said Jura closing communications. The whole ship watched on the monitors around the ship as they drew closer and closer to mejere.
However there was one person not looking forward to it. Misty stood listing to the happy grew members her heart fell again.
Meanwhile in the infirmary Duelo and Nix watched from the doctor's monitor.
"Was the journey a long one? hard to say" said Duelo to himself sitting in his chair.
" It is not the length of the journey, it is what you learn won't you say doctor?" said Nix standing beside him.
"All right get ready, cus here we go!" said Hibiki as Vandread Jura began it's journey. On the nirvana garden Dita held something close to her chest.
"Please, even when I get back to mejere. Let me be with Mr alien" she wished revealing a doll of Hibiki in her hands.
Even as thing started to look good for the nivana crew, one person still caused trouble.
"You guys are so stupid,what makes you think you might not be harvested even if we get to mejere" misty said feeling smug. "That's not very nice" said a women on board. "Yeah why do you have to say things like that?" said another.
"I sorry, but your mejere is simple does not concern me" she said walking off.
"She's so mean" cried a women crew member, "so snotty" said another . Dita almost felt sorry of misty but then the ship shock as an asteroid hit the shield causing the ship to rock.
"Soldier what's going on up there?" said Nix over the communication. "Not a sweat you can't let a little thing like that scare you" Hibiki said back with a smile. Nix grunted. "Very well carry on the good work you two" he said.
"We going to make sure we get back there, I want to see with my own eyes the future" Hibiki said. "Oh" said Jura in your usual seductive tone as she rolled her seat around to his left side.
"Your so mature all of a sudden what happened?" she said as they flew on.
"Mr alien" said Dita over communications. "What's up now?" he asked. "You know what, I'm going to cook some tasty surprises for you and then we can celebrate when you get back " she said happily. "Sounds great" said Hibiki as Jura looked over.
"What is this just the two of you?" she asked but then Barnette appeared on the screen to tell Jura she was cooking something up for her too.
Jura went a little over happy at this, speaking so fast and blowing kisses to Barnette. "Boy she's really" but Hibiki stopped when Jura looked at him.
"You know even if you do become friends with Dita your still a guy, you won't be able to stay on Mejere" she said glaring at him.
"That doesn't matter right now, fighting the harvesters is much more important then thing in the future" Hibiki said.
"That right I'll fight be Mr alien even if it takes forever" Dita chipped in. "Then why don't you just go ahead and make a baby?" said Jura slyly. Hibiki and Dita fell quiet until Hibiki barked back.
"Stop talking such nonsense and keep your mind on what we're doing here". Jura rolled back to her side. "Boy your not very honest are you?" she said as they carried on.
Meanwhile Misty watched as the doctor and Parfet seem to have a little moment. Then she ran to the walkway above the paksis.
"Gees they so stupid, everywhere I go there bouncing around like little kids" she said angrily walking down the walkway. "Ok fine I'm just an outside right kuchan" she said talking to the floating blob on her shoulder.
Then she sighed. "It's true" she said sadly. Just then Pyoro came running towards her.
"Extra extra we're holding a banquet to celebrate our arrival at Mejere and Tarak" he said showing her a flyer, but misty just looked away.
"Why are you pouting?" he asked, "I'm not" snapped back misty.
"Are you lonely?" asked Pyoro looking at her. "lonely?" she said then snapped back ,"ha I could never be lonely" she said looking away again.
"Ah ha I'm right ,I'm right" he cheered as misty huff. Just then the paksis glowed again. Taking over Pyoro again it spoke.
"Alone, solitude, doubt, no where to go , a different race" it said. "What do you mean by all that? Even if I am alone, I happen to be perfectly contempt. I rather be here then with those kids" she shouted before she realised something.
"Could it be that the peksis?" she said looking down at it.
Meanwhile back in Vandread Jura, Hibiki and Jura where talking about men and women.
"What do you think about a man and a women making a baby?" she asked him. "What do I." Hibiki was interrupted before he could answer.
"How about trying it with me?" Jura said seductively. " Ur stop acting weird, I don't even know how to make one" he barked.
Meanwhile back on the nirvana Bart popped out his navigation portal to see every one all ready having a good time at the banquet. Even Duelo was down there and Nix.
"I'm not very good with crowds" Duelo said noticing how many people there were. "Then you'll have to stick right by my side" said Parfet grabbing the doctor hands and leading him into the crowds.
Meanwhile Nix was with Meia watching the festival from the back. "Not one for festival miss Meia" he said standing beside her.
"There just not my thing" Meia said watching everyone have a good time. " Hmm I have to agree" he said. Bart rubbed his eyes he couldn't believe what he saw.
"Duelo and Parfet have that kind of relationship?" he said shocked.
But then he noticed BC all alone on the bridge. He giggled. "This maybe my chance" he said with a smile.
Back with the peksis misty and it were talking through Pyoro.
"Are you lonely too?" She asked . Peksis told her how it became separated as result of a space research and how it collided with a human ship.
It continued to tell misty that it was still contacted the other peksis but the other half had connected to the earthlings.
"The earthlings" she said shocked. "The negative energy given off by the earthling fear and doubt has formed a cluster of" Pyoro body seem to spark. It seemed too much for the peksis to carry on saying.
"So your fighting your friend?"said Misty feeling the sadness of the tale. "Your calling out but,your enemies" she hugged the white navi bot.
"Your lonely too" she said sadly hugging the sparking robot.
Back on the bridge Bc looked down at the Banquet."Captain we'll be leaving the magnetic storm in 5 minutes" BC called down. "All right and we're going to break though first time" said a confident Hibiki. They all watched as finally, they broke through the magnetic storm.
Before them space appearedagain but this was their space system.
There was cheering and shouting until. "Well everyone, I think a toast is in order " said the captain raising her glass. "Cheers" said the crew as they drank.
Nix however swallowed his drink then turned away. " I have to go" he said coldly walking out.
Meia watched him leave,before she was talked to by another crew member.
As the Vandread Jura made it's way back Nix found what he was looking for.
"So this where you are,young miss misty " he said walking over to her as she sat on the walkway floor with a quiet Pyoro beside her.
She said nothing as she stopped before her. "Hmph cheers to you to peksis for without you, I'm sure we would have been in trouble" he said saluting the paksis. Then Meia came onto the walkway.
" So this is where you two are ,I wondered" she said looking at them both. "Let's go spend some time with the others" Meia suggested but misty just said sadly. "Peksis would feel lonely, so I'll stay here".
Meia looked to see Nix they both looked at each other."Then I'll stay too" Meia said.
Misty looked at her. "dear sister" she cried then Nix spoke. "Hmph then it is only fair I stay too" Nix said as the each took a side by misty.
Misty feelings of loneliness seem to finally melt away as the two leaders stood beside her.
Meanwhile the party was in swing, but Parfet noticed someone was missing. "Hey where's misty?" she asked.
Hibiki thought."Ur maybe she just feels, she doesn't fit in here" he said. Dita now felt sorry of misty.
Back on the walkway misty spoke to the two. "I was trying to keep myself from feeling lonely, but right now I'm afraid of being all alone" she sobbed.
"How ironic" said Meia looking at her. "Before I had always sought solitude,because if I didn't trust anyone, then I wouldn't be betrayed" Meia said looking up.
"I thought that if I didn't get close, I would never be hurt and I hated myself for that" she said sadly dropping her head down.
"But now it's different ,I'd like to stay the same even if I could start all over and I'd like to be with everyone I know" she said finally breaking a smile.
Misty got to her feet and Meia put her arm around her. Leading her to the door they were stopped as Dita appeared in front of them. She smiled and gave a cheerful giggle.
Misty seemed surprised as Dita grabbed her arm. "Come misty, everyone's waiting for us over there" she said dragging misty away.
Meia smile then drop to a frown as she sighed. "Hmm you certainly know how to cheer her up" said Nix still looking at the paksis. Meia turn and faced him.
"How did you know she would be here?" she asked looking at him.
Nix gave a cold laugh, looking at her. "Because this is where I'd would go when I felt alone" he said facing her. Meia then walked over and stood beside him.
"You never seemed lonely" she said leaning on the rail. Nix smiled ."Loneliness is a strange thing miss Meia, even with hundreds of people you still can feel alone won't you agree?" The two just stood there silent.
All the while misty was throw back into the celebration and seemed to cheer up a little bit.
However not every one was so happy. On the bridge Bart was crying after another rejection from BC.
"I know it might be strange for a Tarak man to be hurt by some women, but I'm really upset about this" he cried before the ship alarm's rang.
The bridge bunnies ran to their stations. "A minefield"said one. "The whole sector seems to be a perimeter defence for Tarak" said Ezra. "For Tarak" said a shocked captain as another bridge bunny spoke.
"There's an audio signal" she said as it played through out the ship.
"This the Tarrak's space defence system, announce your ships identification code. If you fail to respond we 'll commence an attack" it said.
BC seemed to get tense then Hibiki appeared over communications ." What you want to do, I'm ready to go out there any time" he said.
"Stay right where you are and take no action!" shouted captain " This line of defence at least stops or holds off attacks from earth, we can't just crash though it" she continued.
Hibiki sighed. "The defences has started to activate" said a bridge bunny as the whole banquet looked out to the mine field.
"No identification code as been announced, we shall designate you as an enemy, now commencing attack mode" said the audio.
"Oh no" said BC under her breath. "A Tarak identification code" said the captain thinking. "Don't you men have something like that?" she asked .
Bart appeared on the screen frantic. "Identification codes are only given to senior officer, we're junior officer, we were still in training" he said.
Paiway looked at Duelo in hope. "I regret to say I was never assigned one either" he said.
Meia looked at Nix. "Hmph I was promoted on the day you attacked us, I never got one" he said. " Ar dammit I don't have one either" said Hibiki.
BC now seemed more tense then ever as the defence system readied itself. On the walkway Nix ran off leaving Meia alone. "It's between me and you now, which one of us will break first?" he thought as he ran on.
"The defence system has locked onto the nirvana" said a bridge bunny scared. "There began the final count down" shouted Ezra.
"Too think we'd be shot down by Tarak" said Barnette sadly. "It can't,we can't fight Tarak can we,there's just no way" said Dita freaking out.
Paiway began to cry. "I made it all the way I thought ,I thought I'd finally be able to go home" she cried before she felt a hand on her shoulder. She looked up to see Meia.
"Don't be worried,we're all going to make it back home" she smiled. Paiway looked at her with tears in her eyes but she was not the only one for near them misty also looked at Meia.
"The countdown cannot be stopped" shouted a bridge bunny ,The captain growled as Nix entered. He stood watching as BC seem to become tenser and tenser as the count down went on.
It reached a minute when the captain noticed BC and Nix clenching their right fist.
"Less then 30 seconds to attack" shouted bridge bunny as Paiway and Duelo tried to hack the defence system. The last ten seconds Nix and BC seemed to be on edge.
"No I must hold out" Nix thought. Finally in the last 3 seconds BC the pressed device of her neck and suddenly.
"Tenmei Uragasumi of the imperial Tarak empire special information buro" she said in a gruff manly voice. The bridge bunnies looked at her as Nix smiled.
"Rank commander, identification code conaway2038 commence confirmation" she said as her head dropped.
The bridge fell quiet as the audio message responded.
"Confirmation complete we look forward to your ships success" it said as the mines moved for the ship.
Then BC spoke again. "Ezra leave a marker for us at our current location" she said. "Ah yes" she said turning to her desk.
Then BC lifted her head. "Attention all crew" she called in her gruff voice. "We are moving a spy to the custody of the brig, two security members report to the bridge" she ordered. "Ur who are you" said a bridge bunny BC sighed.
"I'm sorry about this" said the captain BC faced her. "There really was no other way" she said. BC was shocked ."You mean you knew about it" BC said. The captain nodded.
"Even though I have deeply deceived you, there's one truth that does remain" BC said closing her eyes.
"You are truly a wonderful person, I am proud of the fact no matter of how short of time it, that I was able to serve under you" she said. The captain sighed as BC made her way to meet the guards.
The whole ship was shocked Bart even more ."She was a he?" he said shocked.
Hibiki was now running up the brig corridor when he saw the two guards leading BC to the brig along with them followed Nix.
As BC entered the cell the guards froze. "What's wrong hurry up and activate the shield" Bc order but the guards seem hesitate. "Do it" ordered a voice. it was Nix and so the guard sealed BC in the brig with an energy shield.
" Don't worry I won't try to escape " BC said his back turned to them but Nix just stood there as the guards left.
" I knew it it was you commander, when I came aboard" said Nix, BCjust stood there ."And you played along until now?" BC said.
Nix sighed. "It was my only way of knowing if it was you commander, it has been a long journey either of us could of broke" Nix said.
"You knew your code didn't you?" said BC with a small smile. Nix grunted ."Nix dark heart, leader of squad 297, code 29748dark" Nix said as Hibiki and Duelo showed up.
"Why why, what is the point of this" he barked at BC ."Why does the leader so of Tarak have to go to this extreme" he continued.
"Enough" said Nix stopping Hibiki with his hand.
"The relationship between the two countries have become irreparable" said BC but before Hibiki could speak again Duelo cut in.
"However what I would like to know is, if you hadn't been a man what are the chances we'd be alive now" said Duelo. BC and Nix stayed quiet.
"On this ship" continued Duelo, "I've learnt that my persevere education didn't cover everything,but I have learned this much" Duelo said looking at BC.
"People can change if they have the will" he said looking at Nix. "The real truth is aboard this ship, commander's do you agree?" said Duelo as they both stayed quiet.
Back on the bridge the alarm sounded. "Captain we being surrounded by fleets from Tarak" said a bridge bunny.
"No there from mejere as well" said another bridge the captain gasped.
"What the hell? What's this all about" said Hibiki as BC stood quiet, his eyes filled with hurt.