Chapter 10


DJ woke up with a start.

"Here they are sarge! We found em. Over here!"

DJ opened her eyes to find a scary, short man peering down at her. She screamed.

"Ahhh!!! What the hell?" she yelled. Keio jumped back in surprise as Gadeth came into view. By this time Van had also woken up and was clutching Dj around then waist, blushing the whole time.

"Well, its good to see that you two are ok, well, judging by what I see, I'll bet your better then ok." Gadeth said with a wink. Still smiling he continued, "The boss and Miss Hitomi sent us out looking for you. I heard you gave the boss a good ass kickin" he said, turning to DJ. Dj smiled and clapped her hands in merriment.

"Yep! Hehehe." She chuckled evilly. She cocked her head to the side as if contemplating something. "Umm, Gadeth? Just one question."

"Uh huh?"

"How did Mr. Pansy-Assed Frill boy get all of your respect anyway? What did he do? Come in and blind you all with his overly shampoo'd hair or did he actually do something non-girlish?"

Gadeth blushed. "Well the boss has saved all our necks at one time or another."

DJ rolled her eyes. "God, you guys must all be pretty pathetic!"

Gadeth smiled. "Well, they are at least." He said, pointing to the others. "Come on, lets get you back to Fried."




Back in Fried, Van and Dj went straight to Hitomi's room, where she, Allen, and Princess Millerna were waiting.

Van burst into the room with DJ trailing after him.

"We need to attack the Zaibach floating fortress. They know Hitomi's secret now. They only thing to do now is to stop the information from spreading."

Hitomi looked at Van with cold eyes. "Is fighting all you think about?" she asked, Van turned around, ready to answer, but Allen cut in.

"Van's right Hitomi. They only way to protect you is to stop them." Dj rolled her eyes and made a gagging motion. Allen turned back to Van. "I'll go prep the crusade. We'll give them a fight they won't forget, or survive." He said as he strut out of the room.

"Millerna, Hitomi, Dj, I want all of you to stay here. It's too dangerous for you there."

DJ bristled. "No way! I'm going too. Jenn's in there and I wanna see her! So there." She said as she folded her arms across her chest.

"Your not coming" Van said.

"I'm coming and there's nothing you can do about it!" she looked a Van squarely in the eyes. After a minute, Van sighed in defeat.

"Fine, you can come. But you have to stay on the ship."

DJ smiled, plans already forming in her mind. "Whatever you say Van.."