Notes: This chapter was long and hard to make, so I hope you like it!
Vanguard Dragon Claw
A Ranma/Vandread Crossover/Alt. Reality
By Xion Fang
Chapter 3:An Ordered Date!
Aliens Attack! Enter The Dragondread
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Around an hour, later Hibiki came limping into his quarters, tired as hell, but with a smile on his face.
Duro, who was sitting there, looked up at him,"Hello Hibiki, what happened to you?"
Hibiki laughed,"Ranma happened to me, he trained with me and it was tiring!"
Hibiki neglected to say, due to a promise to Ranma, about how Ranma had powers, he thought he knew how Ranma felt, if he told people about some of his dreams, they would think he was crazy too.
Duro nodded at Hibiki,"So, is Ranma coming here?"
Hibiki nodded as he took off his shirt and headed towards the bathroom, fully intending to take a cold shower. "Yeah, the women haven't gotten much better, they put Ranma with us as well, I told him where the bathroom was so he could take a shower as well, he's going to need it."
After he walked away, Duro sat there, thinking again to their new addition to the crew, the martial artist Ranma.
Around ten minutes later, Ranma came in, and took off his shirt, his back to Duro. Duro noted the scars that ran over Ranmas body, and decided to ask him about that mark on his neck.
"Ranma, what's that mark on the back of your neck."He asked the pigtailed youth.
Without turning around, he said,"Don't know, well, see ya, I got to go to the bathroom. I worked up one hell of a sweat."
With that he put a towel around his waist and walked out the door, a bundle of cloths in his arms.
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When Ranma reached the door, he opened it and walked in.
Unfortunately, Hibiki had made a slight mistake in his directions.
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Around too minutes earlier, Meia said hello to Barnette as she walked out of the bathroom, and she walked in and took off her cloths.
She walked over to the spa and dipped her foot in, as well as the rest of her nude flesh. She relaxed in the water and was left to her thoughts.
As she mentally went over the day, a certain event stood out over the rest, a certain meeting with a certain pig-tailed individual. Her thoughts were interrupted by the sound of the door opening. She turned around and pushed herself up, then stared at Ranma, who had accidentally just come into the bathroom.
They stared at eachother for the water glistening down Meias nude body, and then Ranma accidentally let his towel down in shock, giving Meia a good view of his ah.... goods.
Meia felt a large burning on her cheeks, not knowing what to do.
Ranma started a little longer, then his brain caught up with the situation and he fainted.
Meia was left in a weird situation.
She heard a groan and looked to see Ranma waking up.
As Ranma woke up, he looked around. He had the weirdest dream and him walking in on Meia in the bathroom. To his horror, he found he was in a bathroom. He saw Meias head and scrambled away, grabbing his bundle of cloths in the process.
When he got into the hall he screamed something."HIBIKI! THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT!"
Hibiki felt a sudden shiver run up his spine and he sat in the tub, washing his body off. He saw the door explode, and Ranma burst into the bathing room, his red aura of spiritual anger shining around him.
"Hibiki, why did you tell me the directions to the GIRLS bathroom?" He asked in a dangerously sweet voice.
Hibiki suddenly felt very scared, and slowly put on his boxers, backing away from him slowly. "Um, Ranma, I didn't know, I'm sorry, ah, look! Something distracting!"
With that, Hibiki ran out of the room, Ranma hot on his tail.
Meia came out of the bathroom to see a barely clothed Hibiki running by her path, followed by Ranma, who stopped shortly to tell her,"We'll talk later." Then ran off screaming at Hibiki,"I get you for this!"
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Later, when the captain had been informed of the little bathroom "incident" Ranma and Meia were summoned to the bridge.
They looked at eachother, then both turned away, blushing.
The captain raised an eyebrow at this, then smiled. She turned to address the two youths,"You two have been the talk of the ship lately, your little meeting has not been kept quiet."
"Mam, I-"Started Meia, but was interrupted by the captain.
"Meia, due to this, I have come to a decision that you two will go on a date."
She smirked at them as she saw out of the corner of her eye, B.C was looking shell-shocked. The information that came out of the captains mouth took a bit of time to register in both of their minds.
When it did..........."What!?"Both of the youths exclaimed.
The captain smirked, and said, "That was an order."
Ranmas shoulders slumped in defeat, walking slowly. He turned around,"How am I going to get good enough cloths, old ghoul?"
The captain smiled at the nickname, undesturbed,"Well, Horse Boy, go to red central, I trust you've met Gascogne?"
Ranma growled something like, "Yeah.......Stupid cards..........Why do I always lose?"
He walked away; a few words could be heard from his mutterings.
She turned to Meia,"So, you better get ready, you want to look good for your first date, right?"
Meia tried to protest but stopped herself before she did. When the captain was like this, no one could change her mind.
As Meia walked away, B.C voiced her question,"Why did you do that captain?"
The captains face raised a bit, and B.C could see a smiled on her face. "Maybe this will get her to loosen up more. If it has any side effects? Well, we'll just take them as they come."
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Ranma trudged into the mens bedrooms, where Hibiki and Bart were sitting.
Ranma trudged by Hibiki and said to him,"This is all your fault!"
"What!?"Asked Hibiki, looking at Bart, who was looking at him like he was growing a head.
Ranma turned to Hibiki,"Because of you, I have to go on a date with a woman!"
Hibiki looked defiantly at Ranma, "It's not my fault that you couldn't read the signs!"
"Well, if you knew I couldn't read the signs, then why didn't you tell me?!"
That silenced Hibiki.
"Well, anyways, it was an order, and I remember having cloths for this kind of order." Said Ranma leaning back against the head of the bed,"We, me and Meia, both know it's just business, and well treat it like one."
The other two just sat there, staring at him amazed by how fast his attitude had changed.
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Ranma walked down the halls towards the medical section.
The captain had decreed that they would be going on a date a week from then. That gave him plenty of time to prepare to, as he remembered someone telling him,'Extract himself from the situation and wait for the time to strike', or in this case, argue.
After he and Hibiki had argued, he had told them he was going to the doctor. The reason was that he had been feeling extra taxed after his first fight within the Dragon Claw vanguard.
His body had felt weak and he had been having headaches as well. The most intriguing thing that he had experienced a weird dream where he was bathed in blackness, occasionally a few purple bolts of electricity moved over his vision. It was similar to what he had experienced inside the main reactor.
As he reached the medical quarters, he looked in and saw Ezra and Duro looking at Ezra's baby, Pai Way and Misty leaning over it as well. He walked up to the doctor, who turned around.
"Oh, Ranma. I didn't see you there."He said to the black haired Van pilot.
"That's okay doc,"Ranma said, adopting his nickname for Duro,"Can you check on me? I've been feeling weak lately, and have had getting head-aches as well."
Duro nodded,"Sure. But I'll need your personal data so I could check what you've got."
Ranma nodded and reached into his black silk shirt for the metal data card. He had gotten a new one made by resources, this one had a silver triangle pattern that was on the shoulder part of the shirt, running from his neck to his elbows, the silver triangles on the back and front pointing inwards. He found his card and handed it to Duro, then took a spare chair and walked over to the baby, sitting down in it, his arms draping over the back rest, his legs draping over the back of the seat.
"So, what are you going to name her?"He asked Ezra. He hoped she wouldn't name it anything too normal or girly, he hated things like that.
Ezra smiled,"I'm actually taking suggestions."
Ranma thought about it. His steadily returning memories never had any occurrences in them like this. He didn't know much about this, so he decided to make something up, something that sounded nearest to girly as he could think of.
Pai Way seemed taken aback by this,"What would a man know about naming a female baby?"
"Hey!"Said Ranma,"I could do anything a girl could do!"
Ezra decided to stop them,"Well Ranma, what's your suggestion?"
Ranma stopped and put his chin on his hands, which he had folded on the edge of the chair. He seemed to be thinking about it."How about Boceia?"
Ezra seemed to consider it, then smiled,"Boceia Vieil, hmmmm. That's a nice name, I'll put it into consideration. Where did you the idea for it?"
Ranma looked thougthful,"Well, as Pai Way said, I'm not that good at this. However, I thought that this was a good name for a girl. You see, Bo means hope, but that itself is not a very good girls name, so I changed it so it sounded like one."
While Ranma talked to the recent mother, and the two other girls that were there, Duro inserted Ranma's data card into the reader slot. His eyes widened slightly, which was recognizable on his usual calm exterior, as the screen showed an error message. That meant either Ranma had a locked file, or....
He put those thoughts into the back of his mind for now, concentrating more on the job at hand.
He walked over to Ranma and told him to lie down on the table.
When Ranma lowered his body onto the medical table, he told the doctor of the dreams he had been having. "Well, Doc Mcfile, I'm standing on a planet, or what I think was a planet. I always seem to want to find something, but when I feel like I'm gettin near the thing that I'm looking for, a sudden blackness engulfs my vision. I ask questions, but there are no answers."
Duro looked at the readout as he talked to Ranma,"The scans indicate that you have been putting a lot of stress on your body. Do you think that this might be because you have been piloting the DC?"
Ranma considered this. Now that he thought about it, it seemed like a logical explanation for this situation. He frowned,"Maybe, I'm not sure though. I-"
An explosion interrupted his sentence.
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B.C looked at the tactical display, which was now giving read-outs on the enemy forces. The enemy force consisted of a duo of the main ships they had seen with the arrival with the DBs.
As the enemy ships started to release there Cube-carriers, Buzam ordered,"All hands ready for battle stations!"
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Ranma placed his hand on the chest plate of the Vanguard Dragon Claw as people, mechanics and pilots, swarmed the launch bay.
Hibiki was oready out there, and he would soon be joining him. As the Van identified his DNA and opened the cockpit, he contacted the doc."Doc, when I'm back, we'll finish my check-up."
He heard the doctor was about to tell him something, but he turned off the comm. and entered the cockpit of his mechanical behemoth.
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Duro looked at the communicator, which had been switched off. This wasn't good, if the scans were right, then Ranma would be in big trouble.
Behind him, the screen was flashing red with the message that said:
WARNING!
PATIENT'S MENTAL WAVES ARE UNSTABLE. TOO MUCH STREES WILL RESULT IN COMPLETE SHUTDOWN OF MOTAR SKILLS.
Duro just hoped that Ranma would be okay.
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Ranma felt the mysterious wet slimy feeling that was a familiar of the connection of the robot and its pilot. As he expected, a few seconds later the silver liquid rushed over his face, as last obscuring everything from view.
As his eyes adjusted to the light, he felt weird. All of his senses seemed dulled, and he felt dizzy. He shook the feeling form his head and launched.
He felt the velocity build up and the force against his body that came with it. The rush that it brought he would not trade for anything.
He shot into the vacuum of space, immediately flaring his engines and blasting towards the rest of the battle group.
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To those on the bridge, they watched as the enemy flew closer to them, their small force of two Vans and a squadron of Dreads the only thing standing in their way.
A collective gasp enveloped the crew as the cube types that had been launched from their carriers started to swarm into sixteen groups; one was noticeably larger than the rest.
They watched as the familiar forms of DBs were seen in the smaller groupings of fighter, the large group still forming a weapon.
"What,"wondered the captain,"Would take that long to form, if the powerful DBs took only a part of the time to create?"
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Hibiki Tokai flew towards the enemy DBs, merging with Dita on the way; her Vandread seemed to be the most adept to fighting these DBs.
"Let's go!!"He and Dita said as one, the Vandread oready engaging one the DBs, circling around eachother, occasionally trading blasts of energy and red super-heated magma.
He blasted under the DB, as Ranma had done, and forced his left energy blade weapon into it, totally obliterating it.
He saw two other DBs blasting towards him and fired his shoulder cannons.
As the energy blasted towards the two Dragon bio-mechs, they gathered energy into their mouths, the power like the lines of a shining star that gathered into their mouths.
Then, they fired.
The two red blasts of energy collided with the blue ones and they both canceled eachother out, damaging one of the DBs in the process.
"That won't beat me!"Yelled Hibiki, shielding himself from the blast.
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In another part of the battle, more near to the forming weapon, Ranma fought with five DBs.
He ducked under a swipe from one of their tails, letting it hit the enemy behind him, disorienting it. He then made a reverse stab with his beam sword; his tail oready hooked onto his back, waiting for its later use.
The stab connected, but only damaged, not destroyed the insect-Dragon. He slammed the hand with the claw on it into another Dragon beetles neck, but for some reason, it didn't penetrate it.
It was slowly forcing Ranma back, pushing his hand downwards.
"Damn!"Ranma swore as he detected another two DBs who were going to flank his weapon. His mind reeling, and on instinct, he activated the claws secondary function.
A gout of fire blew through the DBs head, and Ranma blasted back, narrowly avoiding the two flanking DBs, which displayed an amount of flight ability, one diving and one pulling up as if they were two professional fighter pilots.
It was then that the main forming weapon started to take shape.
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"That can't be!"Exclaimed one of the two crewmembers on the bridge, the Indian looking one.
The form had taken a shape vaguely familiar to the Dragon Claw. On each of its hands were two pincers that looked like the copy Vandread Juras pincers. Its head was a mirror of Vandread Meias cockpit head, and the torso looked like Vandread Ditas.
It had wings similar to the fake Vandread Meias wings and had two large scythe-like weapons clenched in its hands.
"They adapt fast, I'll give them that." Murmured Magno Vivan.
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Ranma was slammed by the force of a large bomb as the dragon Claw copy slammed into him, launching a surprisingly fast combo of punches and kicks, barely avoidable.
"Ranma growled as he felt the pain of his Van.
He span back from the fake, separating the hilt of his laser sword into two parts, both emitting a super sharp blade.
He used his boosters to fly above a DBs body, then slashed down with one of his blades, decapitating it. Its head flew off in space a bit, before exploding, raining debris over the area.
He slammed the back of his elbow into another DB, putting a dent in its armor, but other then putting it off course, it didn't do much.
He suddenly held his head, the dizziness accompanied by pain this time, the pain shooting through his head and body.
"Arhhhhh!"He screamed, and then felt another stab of pain, increasingly intensifying.
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The bridge watched in horror as the Dragon Claw was stabbed and impaled by both of the fake DCs scythes.
"Get him some help right now!" Screamed Magno.
"Oready done!"Shouted B.C, "Meia, Jura, Barnette are engaging!"
They heard a voice over the comm."N-no.....Don't go n-near me!"
They saw Ranmas face appear on the display, a trickle of blood running down his lip and from the head band of his pained face."I'll take care of them!"
The commander knew his words had no foundation, she could she the red light in the background of his cockpit, which signaled something bad.
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Ranma shut off his link to the ship, seeing that they wouldn't listen.
He started to focus on all his energies, and started to activate his final attack. The virtual representation of the whip formed his hands as his mech. took it from its place on his back.
He slammed the fake away from him and brought both of his hands, one with the again combined double energy swords in it, and the other holding a ridged whip, other his head, both points pointing upwards.
To those outside of his cockpit, the mech. had been surrounded in an increasingly fast spiral of red fire, glowing around the mech.
Inside the cockpit, Ranma hoped for the best as his dizziness threatened to engulf him. He had devised this as a last resort. He could no doubt make a stronger one after this battle, and maybe an attack even stronger than that. That is, if he lived through this.
He wasn't sure if that would happen now.
He brought his hand to his sides, his shape now appearing as a cross.
He screamed out the attack.
"Burning Crucifixion!"
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Hibiki watched as a globe of swelling red energy shot out from the cross-like structure of Vanguard Dragon Claw, engulfing the fake DC and the three DBs around it, as well as one of the two main ships, and part of the other one.
As the explosion ceased, he was amazed at the damage.
One of the main ships was destroyed and the other was badly damaged. The fake DC was still obscured in dust.
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Meia, Jura, and Barnette watched in horror as a red globe appeared in the middle of the dust, the fake DC and the three DBs clearly seen within.
"It can't be...."Whispered Barnette.
Then, another form was seen, the limp form of the Dragon Claw.
Barnette brought up the comm. channel,"Pilot Saotome! Respond!"
A picture showed on her screen, a still form seen outlined by the dim red emergency lights. It was Ranma.
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The bridge watched as the fake DC disregarded its real counterpart and headed towards the ship. It was as if, as if he was not even alive.
The captain contacted Duro,"Doctor, what are Pilot Saotomes life readings?"
The doctor sounded pained,"Very erratic, barely alive, if we don't get him in the ER right now, he going to........"He left the to hang.
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Meia launched towards the DBs and the fake DC.
As she flew next to Ranmas mech, it happened.
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Duro looked at Ranma now flashing bio-monitor.
Flat line.
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On the bridge, there was a dark flash (Isn't that an oxymoron!) emitted from DC, engulfed the bridge.
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Everything stopped.
Ranma looked around.
The last thing he remembered was firing off his final attack, then, nothing.
It was as if everything had been tinted. He looked at his limp body.
He was dead.
He had let everyone down.
"No you haven't."Said a voice, it was unearthly, heavanly,"Not yet."
"What do you mean?"
"You shall see when you are one."
Those words echoed in his mind as he was sent back into the world of the living.
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Duro looked at the now stabilized mental patterns.
"You are truly an enigma, Ranma Saotome."He said.
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Meia saw a blue and a black glow, which shinned so bright that she was temporarily blinded from sight.
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The bridge watched as Meias ship transformed into a blue ball of energy and Ranmas Van transformed into a black ball of crackling energy.
The two balls of energy span around eachother, the circle getting smaller and smaller. They then collided, blue and black energy bolts clashing and merging with eacother. Then the two balls were one, which was now a dark blue color.
The dark blue energy started to form a solid shape, then, it was finished, and the first sight of the Dragondread was observed.
It's head was insect like, two sleek, flat, curving horns protruded from the back of the platinum face of the dragon form of Vandread Meia, which was connected to a half moon plated chest of the mech. Under the three silver moon plates was an armored version of the pectoral muscles.
The shoulders were shaped like a knights shoulder pads, but had a duo of circled metal plates that looked like a cross between a saw and an oval shape ring. Both arms had armor plates that covered all the sides of the arms accept for the inner side. The plates were arranged so they looked like a diamond shaped dragon scale configuration.
Its hands were made of black energy and the arm pads were diamond shaped. Its legs resembled humans legs, like the inner part of the arms looked like a humans muscles. The legs were less armored. They had a samurai configuration above the knees, and below them was a boot like pad that reached up to the mechs knee and was configured in the same way as the arm armor. The parts of the body that was not covered with armor was black and the armor was platinum white.
Behind the red eyes of the helmet, on the back, was and assortment of things. Two swords were connected to the back of each shoulder; the hilts were of medieval shape, carved out of diamond, which was black. What resembled a half diamond shaped booster vent was atop the now unfolding wings of the Dragondread. When they were fully unfolded, black energy shot from the tops of them, shaping into spins of the wings which were connected by strings of black energy bolts.
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Within the cockpit, Meia found herself in the lap of Ranma, his hands placed over hers on the panel. Furthermore, she had found that her cloths had changed. She now wore a pair of white shorts, and a white shirt, which was covered in rings of blue cloth that also went around her shoulders and back. She also wore a pair of padded high heels, both blue in color. She was relieved that when she checked for the accessory around her eye, it was still there.
She thought she heard something like,"What have I gotten myself into?", and turned her head to Ranma.
Ranma stared at himself shocked; those words just seemed to come out of his mouth, of their own accord. He didn't mean to say those words aloud.
The last thing he remembered was falling unconscious, his dream still lingering on the edge of his mind, at the place where all dreams were when they were stopped, then he woke up here, in a weird cockpit, and with someone on his lap no less.
He noticed that Meia sat in his lap, and was studying him. He looked down at himself. He wore a white silk shirt that had triangles cut into the sides of the shoulders and had on a pair of dark blue thin silk pants, both had tie string on them.
He turned back to check Meia, then looked away. She was staring at him in a way which showed a modest amount of cleavage to the Taraakian martial artist, but being of Taraaku he was more sensitive to these situations and he blushed.
He busied himself with looking around the cockpit, which now shown the blackness of space. He felt a link similar to his Dragon Claws', but without the mental feed back.
They were sitting on a throne-like chain, the bottom was connected to the ship, while the top part went about four feet over Ranmas head, and was decorated with dark black and blue crystals that formed a sort of target design. Their hands were on two half-orbs, black in color, that were laid out over a flat control board.
There were around thirty different buttons there and about twenty different monitors and things of the like.
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Within the cockpit of Vandread Dita, Hibiki and Dita were not able to watch this because they were busy with what the damaged mini command ship was throwing at them.
The Vandread flew around the battle, scoring occasional hits and then was faced with another copy version of itself.
Hibiki growled in annoyance,"God! Didn't we destroy you last time!? You people are getting really annoying!"
He flew towards the fake while many of the other fighters engaged in fights around the enemy main ship.
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On the bridge, people watched the new mech. in fascination.
"What's that?" Said Magno,"A combined Vandread? Why would it look different then the others then?"
B.C spoke up in an semi-awed tone,"Maybe its because of the Van itself, the Dread was combining with a destroyer class Vanguard now."
"I guess that accounts for the change in looks, but why is the Van able to combine with the Dread at all? I thought that only Vans that were in contact with the Paxis could combine? Plus even if it did, which I don't think it has, how could it have affected the Dreads that have been modified?" Magno sat down in her command seat. There had been too many things she was in the dark about, this just added to the list.
The crew watched as the fake DC and the newly combined Dragondread flew at eachother.
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'Okay,' Thought Ranma,'I'm getting the hang off this.'
The Dragondread span out of the way as a DB blocked its path. 'Okay, maybe I'm not.' The pigtailed pilot thought as the ship careened through space.
"What are you thinking?!"Shouted Meia, who sat in his lap,"What kind of flying skills are those?!"
Ranma looked annoyed,"I'm doing my best, Okay? This controls are different than my Dragon Claws."
Meia nodded, then concentrated on the battle at hand. They needed a battle plan; these things out numbered them four to one.
They soon got the hang of it and flew towards the wing of enemies.
The newly combined mech. took hold of the two energy blades behind its shoulder blades and brought them to bear. Its speed was unbelievable. It flew throughout the Dragon Beetles and there were a few flashes of blue. As it came out of the group of DBs, they exploded.
A second later they were hit with the fake DCs bulk. They both held eachothers swords at bay, in a powerful weapons deadlock.
"I..."Started Ranma.
"Won't..." Continued Meia.
"LOSE!"They screamed together, slamming both their feet into the enemy bio-mech.
The fake was pushed back a bit, but came on strong once again, pressing the Dragondread to its limits with a flurry of punches and kicks.
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Hibiki and Dita were in a heated battle with their copy, the twin monsters of blue clashing in an amazing amount of power.
"Ahh!" Dita screeched,"Get away BAD ALEIN!"
Hibiki nodded in agreement then grabbed his opponent by the throat and blasting his rear spike cannons through its body.
He turned to some fighters that came form the remains of the demi-comand ship.
He smirked, "I take you all down!"
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Within the cockpit of the dragon dread, Ranma and Meia battle for their lives against the fake Dragon Claw.
While Ranma dodged and punched, Meia took the speed and power controls, feeding Ranma the power he needed, when he needed it.
Ranma was in his yard, his home. He fought with the fake with a superior smirk on his face, as if nothing could ever hurt him.
Meia seemed to be working her controls while trying to hide her growing blush from her co-pilot.
She had never felt so.......warm! She had heard Dita say that this was what it was like when she was with her Mr. Alien, but she thought that this was still weird.
She had only known Ranma for less than a month and he was having an effect on her a few other people as well.
A jolt from the mental link she shared with the robot threw her out of her reverie. She looked over her shoulder to see Ranma in intense concentration.
She couldn't help but admire him. He seemed so into their fight that he had fused with the combined Super Vandread.
She then heard him curse and looked back to the front veiwport just in time to see the enemy stab one of its scythes through their mechs shoulder.
At first she wondered why she didn't feel any pain, but then she felt a warmth on her shoulder and looked up to see a bloody hole in Ranma's shoulder, blood seeping from the wound.
She was in terror when she realized what he was doing; he was transferring the feedback that would usually go to her, to him. Thus, he was getting double the pain.
She looked up into his determined eyes.
"Ranma! What are you doing?!"
Ranma smiled painfully at her," It's okay, this is part of a plan, I just need you to be in top condition for the maneuvering."
She nodded.
Ranma sent a mental command to the bot and they felt one jolt as the bot kicked the fake off of it, and another as their boosters shot up and they blasted towards the enemy ship leader. He smirked and said,"Well this is what I need you to do..."
Meia listened carefully as Ranma described his 'perfect' plan.
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Magno looked at the screen.
The blip indicating the new fused weapon was blaring towards the big blip indicating the lead enemy ship. Her eyes widened."B.C! Get me the cannel to Ranma! NOW!"
B.C, taken aback by her request and volume of her request, took a bit more time to respond.
Magno decided to do it herself,"Ezra, get me a channel."
Ezra complied and soon a view screen appeared on the ships screen, showing an injured Ranma. Most of the bridge winced and some of them felt sick at the sight.
"Ranma! What the heck do you think you're doing?!" Magno asked the pilot.
Ranma shot a pained smile at them,"I'm going to destroy the enemy."
"What do you think you're-" But it was too late, the contact had been broken.
B.C looked at the captain, the faintest hint of worry evident on her face. "Captain, do you think he's running a suicide mission?"
Magno shook her head,"I sure hope not, because if me dose, then Meia...."
The captain let that sentence go unfinished. One of the women on the bridge, Mio Sami, the girl who was in native American garb exclaimed from her seat," Captain, the new fused robot has entered the command ship, the fake is following!"
"WHAT?!"
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They cruised through the innards of the ship, the fake follow close behind.
Ranma fired a shot at the enemies around, and Meia took the evasive maneuvers. They zigged and zagged, many cube types following them being hit with Ranmas energy blasts that came from the back of the fused mech as well as its shoulders and chest.
Then Ranma stopped firing and closed his eyes, a fiery concentration shown clearly on his face."Meia, start it now."
Meia responded and sped the mech up to its full speed, leaving the fake and the cube types in its dust. A gold aura appeared around his body. This surprised Meia, but she noted it down for later.
As the Dragondread reached the darkness of space, it turned around, its whole body glowing the same color as Ranmas.
Within the cockpit, Ranma opened his eyes and he and Meia said in unison,"Dragon Flare Spinner!"
As they called it out a fiery red and gold beam of energy lanced out of the bots chest and into the lead opposition. The ship disintegrated and became a swirling spiral of crimson, black, and gold energy.
The energy sped towards the few enemies that were left, destroying them.
There was a flash of light and the Dragon Claw and Meia's Dread were situated where the Dragondread used to be.
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Within the cockpit of Vandread Dita Hibiki had just been told the story about the fight outside his.
"AND I DIDN'T GET TO SEE IT!? WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME?!" He shouted.
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On the bridge, Magno sighed, and smiled,"Well you did it again, Wild Boy."
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Author's notes: So how did you like that chapter? I'm sorry about the time it took for me to get this chapter out. I had a few other stories I wanted to work on. For many people who wanted to know, you'll see most of the Ranma cast later, but as I said, that's later. Next chapter is where Ranma first meets Rabat. Give me your opinions,
AmericanPie5745@aol.com
Next Time: Ranma wakes up three days after the battle and is ordered on the date, again! After that, he and Hibiki are on a scouting mission where they get stranded on the planet, and Rabat comes down to check the planet for useful parts! Then Hibiki is able to get to the ship, but the enemy captured Ranma! Another new enemy attacks and another weapon is unveiled!
Next Time: The Fury Of Four Pilots
Xion (Seross) Fang,
Signing off.
Vanguard Dragon Claw
A Ranma/Vandread Crossover/Alt. Reality
By Xion Fang
Chapter 3:An Ordered Date!
Aliens Attack! Enter The Dragondread
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Around an hour, later Hibiki came limping into his quarters, tired as hell, but with a smile on his face.
Duro, who was sitting there, looked up at him,"Hello Hibiki, what happened to you?"
Hibiki laughed,"Ranma happened to me, he trained with me and it was tiring!"
Hibiki neglected to say, due to a promise to Ranma, about how Ranma had powers, he thought he knew how Ranma felt, if he told people about some of his dreams, they would think he was crazy too.
Duro nodded at Hibiki,"So, is Ranma coming here?"
Hibiki nodded as he took off his shirt and headed towards the bathroom, fully intending to take a cold shower. "Yeah, the women haven't gotten much better, they put Ranma with us as well, I told him where the bathroom was so he could take a shower as well, he's going to need it."
After he walked away, Duro sat there, thinking again to their new addition to the crew, the martial artist Ranma.
Around ten minutes later, Ranma came in, and took off his shirt, his back to Duro. Duro noted the scars that ran over Ranmas body, and decided to ask him about that mark on his neck.
"Ranma, what's that mark on the back of your neck."He asked the pigtailed youth.
Without turning around, he said,"Don't know, well, see ya, I got to go to the bathroom. I worked up one hell of a sweat."
With that he put a towel around his waist and walked out the door, a bundle of cloths in his arms.
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When Ranma reached the door, he opened it and walked in.
Unfortunately, Hibiki had made a slight mistake in his directions.
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Around too minutes earlier, Meia said hello to Barnette as she walked out of the bathroom, and she walked in and took off her cloths.
She walked over to the spa and dipped her foot in, as well as the rest of her nude flesh. She relaxed in the water and was left to her thoughts.
As she mentally went over the day, a certain event stood out over the rest, a certain meeting with a certain pig-tailed individual. Her thoughts were interrupted by the sound of the door opening. She turned around and pushed herself up, then stared at Ranma, who had accidentally just come into the bathroom.
They stared at eachother for the water glistening down Meias nude body, and then Ranma accidentally let his towel down in shock, giving Meia a good view of his ah.... goods.
Meia felt a large burning on her cheeks, not knowing what to do.
Ranma started a little longer, then his brain caught up with the situation and he fainted.
Meia was left in a weird situation.
She heard a groan and looked to see Ranma waking up.
As Ranma woke up, he looked around. He had the weirdest dream and him walking in on Meia in the bathroom. To his horror, he found he was in a bathroom. He saw Meias head and scrambled away, grabbing his bundle of cloths in the process.
When he got into the hall he screamed something."HIBIKI! THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT!"
Hibiki felt a sudden shiver run up his spine and he sat in the tub, washing his body off. He saw the door explode, and Ranma burst into the bathing room, his red aura of spiritual anger shining around him.
"Hibiki, why did you tell me the directions to the GIRLS bathroom?" He asked in a dangerously sweet voice.
Hibiki suddenly felt very scared, and slowly put on his boxers, backing away from him slowly. "Um, Ranma, I didn't know, I'm sorry, ah, look! Something distracting!"
With that, Hibiki ran out of the room, Ranma hot on his tail.
Meia came out of the bathroom to see a barely clothed Hibiki running by her path, followed by Ranma, who stopped shortly to tell her,"We'll talk later." Then ran off screaming at Hibiki,"I get you for this!"
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Later, when the captain had been informed of the little bathroom "incident" Ranma and Meia were summoned to the bridge.
They looked at eachother, then both turned away, blushing.
The captain raised an eyebrow at this, then smiled. She turned to address the two youths,"You two have been the talk of the ship lately, your little meeting has not been kept quiet."
"Mam, I-"Started Meia, but was interrupted by the captain.
"Meia, due to this, I have come to a decision that you two will go on a date."
She smirked at them as she saw out of the corner of her eye, B.C was looking shell-shocked. The information that came out of the captains mouth took a bit of time to register in both of their minds.
When it did..........."What!?"Both of the youths exclaimed.
The captain smirked, and said, "That was an order."
Ranmas shoulders slumped in defeat, walking slowly. He turned around,"How am I going to get good enough cloths, old ghoul?"
The captain smiled at the nickname, undesturbed,"Well, Horse Boy, go to red central, I trust you've met Gascogne?"
Ranma growled something like, "Yeah.......Stupid cards..........Why do I always lose?"
He walked away; a few words could be heard from his mutterings.
She turned to Meia,"So, you better get ready, you want to look good for your first date, right?"
Meia tried to protest but stopped herself before she did. When the captain was like this, no one could change her mind.
As Meia walked away, B.C voiced her question,"Why did you do that captain?"
The captains face raised a bit, and B.C could see a smiled on her face. "Maybe this will get her to loosen up more. If it has any side effects? Well, we'll just take them as they come."
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Ranma trudged into the mens bedrooms, where Hibiki and Bart were sitting.
Ranma trudged by Hibiki and said to him,"This is all your fault!"
"What!?"Asked Hibiki, looking at Bart, who was looking at him like he was growing a head.
Ranma turned to Hibiki,"Because of you, I have to go on a date with a woman!"
Hibiki looked defiantly at Ranma, "It's not my fault that you couldn't read the signs!"
"Well, if you knew I couldn't read the signs, then why didn't you tell me?!"
That silenced Hibiki.
"Well, anyways, it was an order, and I remember having cloths for this kind of order." Said Ranma leaning back against the head of the bed,"We, me and Meia, both know it's just business, and well treat it like one."
The other two just sat there, staring at him amazed by how fast his attitude had changed.
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Ranma walked down the halls towards the medical section.
The captain had decreed that they would be going on a date a week from then. That gave him plenty of time to prepare to, as he remembered someone telling him,'Extract himself from the situation and wait for the time to strike', or in this case, argue.
After he and Hibiki had argued, he had told them he was going to the doctor. The reason was that he had been feeling extra taxed after his first fight within the Dragon Claw vanguard.
His body had felt weak and he had been having headaches as well. The most intriguing thing that he had experienced a weird dream where he was bathed in blackness, occasionally a few purple bolts of electricity moved over his vision. It was similar to what he had experienced inside the main reactor.
As he reached the medical quarters, he looked in and saw Ezra and Duro looking at Ezra's baby, Pai Way and Misty leaning over it as well. He walked up to the doctor, who turned around.
"Oh, Ranma. I didn't see you there."He said to the black haired Van pilot.
"That's okay doc,"Ranma said, adopting his nickname for Duro,"Can you check on me? I've been feeling weak lately, and have had getting head-aches as well."
Duro nodded,"Sure. But I'll need your personal data so I could check what you've got."
Ranma nodded and reached into his black silk shirt for the metal data card. He had gotten a new one made by resources, this one had a silver triangle pattern that was on the shoulder part of the shirt, running from his neck to his elbows, the silver triangles on the back and front pointing inwards. He found his card and handed it to Duro, then took a spare chair and walked over to the baby, sitting down in it, his arms draping over the back rest, his legs draping over the back of the seat.
"So, what are you going to name her?"He asked Ezra. He hoped she wouldn't name it anything too normal or girly, he hated things like that.
Ezra smiled,"I'm actually taking suggestions."
Ranma thought about it. His steadily returning memories never had any occurrences in them like this. He didn't know much about this, so he decided to make something up, something that sounded nearest to girly as he could think of.
Pai Way seemed taken aback by this,"What would a man know about naming a female baby?"
"Hey!"Said Ranma,"I could do anything a girl could do!"
Ezra decided to stop them,"Well Ranma, what's your suggestion?"
Ranma stopped and put his chin on his hands, which he had folded on the edge of the chair. He seemed to be thinking about it."How about Boceia?"
Ezra seemed to consider it, then smiled,"Boceia Vieil, hmmmm. That's a nice name, I'll put it into consideration. Where did you the idea for it?"
Ranma looked thougthful,"Well, as Pai Way said, I'm not that good at this. However, I thought that this was a good name for a girl. You see, Bo means hope, but that itself is not a very good girls name, so I changed it so it sounded like one."
While Ranma talked to the recent mother, and the two other girls that were there, Duro inserted Ranma's data card into the reader slot. His eyes widened slightly, which was recognizable on his usual calm exterior, as the screen showed an error message. That meant either Ranma had a locked file, or....
He put those thoughts into the back of his mind for now, concentrating more on the job at hand.
He walked over to Ranma and told him to lie down on the table.
When Ranma lowered his body onto the medical table, he told the doctor of the dreams he had been having. "Well, Doc Mcfile, I'm standing on a planet, or what I think was a planet. I always seem to want to find something, but when I feel like I'm gettin near the thing that I'm looking for, a sudden blackness engulfs my vision. I ask questions, but there are no answers."
Duro looked at the readout as he talked to Ranma,"The scans indicate that you have been putting a lot of stress on your body. Do you think that this might be because you have been piloting the DC?"
Ranma considered this. Now that he thought about it, it seemed like a logical explanation for this situation. He frowned,"Maybe, I'm not sure though. I-"
An explosion interrupted his sentence.
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B.C looked at the tactical display, which was now giving read-outs on the enemy forces. The enemy force consisted of a duo of the main ships they had seen with the arrival with the DBs.
As the enemy ships started to release there Cube-carriers, Buzam ordered,"All hands ready for battle stations!"
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Ranma placed his hand on the chest plate of the Vanguard Dragon Claw as people, mechanics and pilots, swarmed the launch bay.
Hibiki was oready out there, and he would soon be joining him. As the Van identified his DNA and opened the cockpit, he contacted the doc."Doc, when I'm back, we'll finish my check-up."
He heard the doctor was about to tell him something, but he turned off the comm. and entered the cockpit of his mechanical behemoth.
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Duro looked at the communicator, which had been switched off. This wasn't good, if the scans were right, then Ranma would be in big trouble.
Behind him, the screen was flashing red with the message that said:
WARNING!
PATIENT'S MENTAL WAVES ARE UNSTABLE. TOO MUCH STREES WILL RESULT IN COMPLETE SHUTDOWN OF MOTAR SKILLS.
Duro just hoped that Ranma would be okay.
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Ranma felt the mysterious wet slimy feeling that was a familiar of the connection of the robot and its pilot. As he expected, a few seconds later the silver liquid rushed over his face, as last obscuring everything from view.
As his eyes adjusted to the light, he felt weird. All of his senses seemed dulled, and he felt dizzy. He shook the feeling form his head and launched.
He felt the velocity build up and the force against his body that came with it. The rush that it brought he would not trade for anything.
He shot into the vacuum of space, immediately flaring his engines and blasting towards the rest of the battle group.
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To those on the bridge, they watched as the enemy flew closer to them, their small force of two Vans and a squadron of Dreads the only thing standing in their way.
A collective gasp enveloped the crew as the cube types that had been launched from their carriers started to swarm into sixteen groups; one was noticeably larger than the rest.
They watched as the familiar forms of DBs were seen in the smaller groupings of fighter, the large group still forming a weapon.
"What,"wondered the captain,"Would take that long to form, if the powerful DBs took only a part of the time to create?"
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Hibiki Tokai flew towards the enemy DBs, merging with Dita on the way; her Vandread seemed to be the most adept to fighting these DBs.
"Let's go!!"He and Dita said as one, the Vandread oready engaging one the DBs, circling around eachother, occasionally trading blasts of energy and red super-heated magma.
He blasted under the DB, as Ranma had done, and forced his left energy blade weapon into it, totally obliterating it.
He saw two other DBs blasting towards him and fired his shoulder cannons.
As the energy blasted towards the two Dragon bio-mechs, they gathered energy into their mouths, the power like the lines of a shining star that gathered into their mouths.
Then, they fired.
The two red blasts of energy collided with the blue ones and they both canceled eachother out, damaging one of the DBs in the process.
"That won't beat me!"Yelled Hibiki, shielding himself from the blast.
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In another part of the battle, more near to the forming weapon, Ranma fought with five DBs.
He ducked under a swipe from one of their tails, letting it hit the enemy behind him, disorienting it. He then made a reverse stab with his beam sword; his tail oready hooked onto his back, waiting for its later use.
The stab connected, but only damaged, not destroyed the insect-Dragon. He slammed the hand with the claw on it into another Dragon beetles neck, but for some reason, it didn't penetrate it.
It was slowly forcing Ranma back, pushing his hand downwards.
"Damn!"Ranma swore as he detected another two DBs who were going to flank his weapon. His mind reeling, and on instinct, he activated the claws secondary function.
A gout of fire blew through the DBs head, and Ranma blasted back, narrowly avoiding the two flanking DBs, which displayed an amount of flight ability, one diving and one pulling up as if they were two professional fighter pilots.
It was then that the main forming weapon started to take shape.
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"That can't be!"Exclaimed one of the two crewmembers on the bridge, the Indian looking one.
The form had taken a shape vaguely familiar to the Dragon Claw. On each of its hands were two pincers that looked like the copy Vandread Juras pincers. Its head was a mirror of Vandread Meias cockpit head, and the torso looked like Vandread Ditas.
It had wings similar to the fake Vandread Meias wings and had two large scythe-like weapons clenched in its hands.
"They adapt fast, I'll give them that." Murmured Magno Vivan.
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Ranma was slammed by the force of a large bomb as the dragon Claw copy slammed into him, launching a surprisingly fast combo of punches and kicks, barely avoidable.
"Ranma growled as he felt the pain of his Van.
He span back from the fake, separating the hilt of his laser sword into two parts, both emitting a super sharp blade.
He used his boosters to fly above a DBs body, then slashed down with one of his blades, decapitating it. Its head flew off in space a bit, before exploding, raining debris over the area.
He slammed the back of his elbow into another DB, putting a dent in its armor, but other then putting it off course, it didn't do much.
He suddenly held his head, the dizziness accompanied by pain this time, the pain shooting through his head and body.
"Arhhhhh!"He screamed, and then felt another stab of pain, increasingly intensifying.
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The bridge watched in horror as the Dragon Claw was stabbed and impaled by both of the fake DCs scythes.
"Get him some help right now!" Screamed Magno.
"Oready done!"Shouted B.C, "Meia, Jura, Barnette are engaging!"
They heard a voice over the comm."N-no.....Don't go n-near me!"
They saw Ranmas face appear on the display, a trickle of blood running down his lip and from the head band of his pained face."I'll take care of them!"
The commander knew his words had no foundation, she could she the red light in the background of his cockpit, which signaled something bad.
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Ranma shut off his link to the ship, seeing that they wouldn't listen.
He started to focus on all his energies, and started to activate his final attack. The virtual representation of the whip formed his hands as his mech. took it from its place on his back.
He slammed the fake away from him and brought both of his hands, one with the again combined double energy swords in it, and the other holding a ridged whip, other his head, both points pointing upwards.
To those outside of his cockpit, the mech. had been surrounded in an increasingly fast spiral of red fire, glowing around the mech.
Inside the cockpit, Ranma hoped for the best as his dizziness threatened to engulf him. He had devised this as a last resort. He could no doubt make a stronger one after this battle, and maybe an attack even stronger than that. That is, if he lived through this.
He wasn't sure if that would happen now.
He brought his hand to his sides, his shape now appearing as a cross.
He screamed out the attack.
"Burning Crucifixion!"
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Hibiki watched as a globe of swelling red energy shot out from the cross-like structure of Vanguard Dragon Claw, engulfing the fake DC and the three DBs around it, as well as one of the two main ships, and part of the other one.
As the explosion ceased, he was amazed at the damage.
One of the main ships was destroyed and the other was badly damaged. The fake DC was still obscured in dust.
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Meia, Jura, and Barnette watched in horror as a red globe appeared in the middle of the dust, the fake DC and the three DBs clearly seen within.
"It can't be...."Whispered Barnette.
Then, another form was seen, the limp form of the Dragon Claw.
Barnette brought up the comm. channel,"Pilot Saotome! Respond!"
A picture showed on her screen, a still form seen outlined by the dim red emergency lights. It was Ranma.
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The bridge watched as the fake DC disregarded its real counterpart and headed towards the ship. It was as if, as if he was not even alive.
The captain contacted Duro,"Doctor, what are Pilot Saotomes life readings?"
The doctor sounded pained,"Very erratic, barely alive, if we don't get him in the ER right now, he going to........"He left the to hang.
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Meia launched towards the DBs and the fake DC.
As she flew next to Ranmas mech, it happened.
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Duro looked at Ranma now flashing bio-monitor.
Flat line.
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On the bridge, there was a dark flash (Isn't that an oxymoron!) emitted from DC, engulfed the bridge.
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Everything stopped.
Ranma looked around.
The last thing he remembered was firing off his final attack, then, nothing.
It was as if everything had been tinted. He looked at his limp body.
He was dead.
He had let everyone down.
"No you haven't."Said a voice, it was unearthly, heavanly,"Not yet."
"What do you mean?"
"You shall see when you are one."
Those words echoed in his mind as he was sent back into the world of the living.
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Duro looked at the now stabilized mental patterns.
"You are truly an enigma, Ranma Saotome."He said.
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Meia saw a blue and a black glow, which shinned so bright that she was temporarily blinded from sight.
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The bridge watched as Meias ship transformed into a blue ball of energy and Ranmas Van transformed into a black ball of crackling energy.
The two balls of energy span around eachother, the circle getting smaller and smaller. They then collided, blue and black energy bolts clashing and merging with eacother. Then the two balls were one, which was now a dark blue color.
The dark blue energy started to form a solid shape, then, it was finished, and the first sight of the Dragondread was observed.
It's head was insect like, two sleek, flat, curving horns protruded from the back of the platinum face of the dragon form of Vandread Meia, which was connected to a half moon plated chest of the mech. Under the three silver moon plates was an armored version of the pectoral muscles.
The shoulders were shaped like a knights shoulder pads, but had a duo of circled metal plates that looked like a cross between a saw and an oval shape ring. Both arms had armor plates that covered all the sides of the arms accept for the inner side. The plates were arranged so they looked like a diamond shaped dragon scale configuration.
Its hands were made of black energy and the arm pads were diamond shaped. Its legs resembled humans legs, like the inner part of the arms looked like a humans muscles. The legs were less armored. They had a samurai configuration above the knees, and below them was a boot like pad that reached up to the mechs knee and was configured in the same way as the arm armor. The parts of the body that was not covered with armor was black and the armor was platinum white.
Behind the red eyes of the helmet, on the back, was and assortment of things. Two swords were connected to the back of each shoulder; the hilts were of medieval shape, carved out of diamond, which was black. What resembled a half diamond shaped booster vent was atop the now unfolding wings of the Dragondread. When they were fully unfolded, black energy shot from the tops of them, shaping into spins of the wings which were connected by strings of black energy bolts.
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Within the cockpit, Meia found herself in the lap of Ranma, his hands placed over hers on the panel. Furthermore, she had found that her cloths had changed. She now wore a pair of white shorts, and a white shirt, which was covered in rings of blue cloth that also went around her shoulders and back. She also wore a pair of padded high heels, both blue in color. She was relieved that when she checked for the accessory around her eye, it was still there.
She thought she heard something like,"What have I gotten myself into?", and turned her head to Ranma.
Ranma stared at himself shocked; those words just seemed to come out of his mouth, of their own accord. He didn't mean to say those words aloud.
The last thing he remembered was falling unconscious, his dream still lingering on the edge of his mind, at the place where all dreams were when they were stopped, then he woke up here, in a weird cockpit, and with someone on his lap no less.
He noticed that Meia sat in his lap, and was studying him. He looked down at himself. He wore a white silk shirt that had triangles cut into the sides of the shoulders and had on a pair of dark blue thin silk pants, both had tie string on them.
He turned back to check Meia, then looked away. She was staring at him in a way which showed a modest amount of cleavage to the Taraakian martial artist, but being of Taraaku he was more sensitive to these situations and he blushed.
He busied himself with looking around the cockpit, which now shown the blackness of space. He felt a link similar to his Dragon Claws', but without the mental feed back.
They were sitting on a throne-like chain, the bottom was connected to the ship, while the top part went about four feet over Ranmas head, and was decorated with dark black and blue crystals that formed a sort of target design. Their hands were on two half-orbs, black in color, that were laid out over a flat control board.
There were around thirty different buttons there and about twenty different monitors and things of the like.
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Within the cockpit of Vandread Dita, Hibiki and Dita were not able to watch this because they were busy with what the damaged mini command ship was throwing at them.
The Vandread flew around the battle, scoring occasional hits and then was faced with another copy version of itself.
Hibiki growled in annoyance,"God! Didn't we destroy you last time!? You people are getting really annoying!"
He flew towards the fake while many of the other fighters engaged in fights around the enemy main ship.
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On the bridge, people watched the new mech. in fascination.
"What's that?" Said Magno,"A combined Vandread? Why would it look different then the others then?"
B.C spoke up in an semi-awed tone,"Maybe its because of the Van itself, the Dread was combining with a destroyer class Vanguard now."
"I guess that accounts for the change in looks, but why is the Van able to combine with the Dread at all? I thought that only Vans that were in contact with the Paxis could combine? Plus even if it did, which I don't think it has, how could it have affected the Dreads that have been modified?" Magno sat down in her command seat. There had been too many things she was in the dark about, this just added to the list.
The crew watched as the fake DC and the newly combined Dragondread flew at eachother.
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'Okay,' Thought Ranma,'I'm getting the hang off this.'
The Dragondread span out of the way as a DB blocked its path. 'Okay, maybe I'm not.' The pigtailed pilot thought as the ship careened through space.
"What are you thinking?!"Shouted Meia, who sat in his lap,"What kind of flying skills are those?!"
Ranma looked annoyed,"I'm doing my best, Okay? This controls are different than my Dragon Claws."
Meia nodded, then concentrated on the battle at hand. They needed a battle plan; these things out numbered them four to one.
They soon got the hang of it and flew towards the wing of enemies.
The newly combined mech. took hold of the two energy blades behind its shoulder blades and brought them to bear. Its speed was unbelievable. It flew throughout the Dragon Beetles and there were a few flashes of blue. As it came out of the group of DBs, they exploded.
A second later they were hit with the fake DCs bulk. They both held eachothers swords at bay, in a powerful weapons deadlock.
"I..."Started Ranma.
"Won't..." Continued Meia.
"LOSE!"They screamed together, slamming both their feet into the enemy bio-mech.
The fake was pushed back a bit, but came on strong once again, pressing the Dragondread to its limits with a flurry of punches and kicks.
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Hibiki and Dita were in a heated battle with their copy, the twin monsters of blue clashing in an amazing amount of power.
"Ahh!" Dita screeched,"Get away BAD ALEIN!"
Hibiki nodded in agreement then grabbed his opponent by the throat and blasting his rear spike cannons through its body.
He turned to some fighters that came form the remains of the demi-comand ship.
He smirked, "I take you all down!"
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Within the cockpit of the dragon dread, Ranma and Meia battle for their lives against the fake Dragon Claw.
While Ranma dodged and punched, Meia took the speed and power controls, feeding Ranma the power he needed, when he needed it.
Ranma was in his yard, his home. He fought with the fake with a superior smirk on his face, as if nothing could ever hurt him.
Meia seemed to be working her controls while trying to hide her growing blush from her co-pilot.
She had never felt so.......warm! She had heard Dita say that this was what it was like when she was with her Mr. Alien, but she thought that this was still weird.
She had only known Ranma for less than a month and he was having an effect on her a few other people as well.
A jolt from the mental link she shared with the robot threw her out of her reverie. She looked over her shoulder to see Ranma in intense concentration.
She couldn't help but admire him. He seemed so into their fight that he had fused with the combined Super Vandread.
She then heard him curse and looked back to the front veiwport just in time to see the enemy stab one of its scythes through their mechs shoulder.
At first she wondered why she didn't feel any pain, but then she felt a warmth on her shoulder and looked up to see a bloody hole in Ranma's shoulder, blood seeping from the wound.
She was in terror when she realized what he was doing; he was transferring the feedback that would usually go to her, to him. Thus, he was getting double the pain.
She looked up into his determined eyes.
"Ranma! What are you doing?!"
Ranma smiled painfully at her," It's okay, this is part of a plan, I just need you to be in top condition for the maneuvering."
She nodded.
Ranma sent a mental command to the bot and they felt one jolt as the bot kicked the fake off of it, and another as their boosters shot up and they blasted towards the enemy ship leader. He smirked and said,"Well this is what I need you to do..."
Meia listened carefully as Ranma described his 'perfect' plan.
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Magno looked at the screen.
The blip indicating the new fused weapon was blaring towards the big blip indicating the lead enemy ship. Her eyes widened."B.C! Get me the cannel to Ranma! NOW!"
B.C, taken aback by her request and volume of her request, took a bit more time to respond.
Magno decided to do it herself,"Ezra, get me a channel."
Ezra complied and soon a view screen appeared on the ships screen, showing an injured Ranma. Most of the bridge winced and some of them felt sick at the sight.
"Ranma! What the heck do you think you're doing?!" Magno asked the pilot.
Ranma shot a pained smile at them,"I'm going to destroy the enemy."
"What do you think you're-" But it was too late, the contact had been broken.
B.C looked at the captain, the faintest hint of worry evident on her face. "Captain, do you think he's running a suicide mission?"
Magno shook her head,"I sure hope not, because if me dose, then Meia...."
The captain let that sentence go unfinished. One of the women on the bridge, Mio Sami, the girl who was in native American garb exclaimed from her seat," Captain, the new fused robot has entered the command ship, the fake is following!"
"WHAT?!"
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They cruised through the innards of the ship, the fake follow close behind.
Ranma fired a shot at the enemies around, and Meia took the evasive maneuvers. They zigged and zagged, many cube types following them being hit with Ranmas energy blasts that came from the back of the fused mech as well as its shoulders and chest.
Then Ranma stopped firing and closed his eyes, a fiery concentration shown clearly on his face."Meia, start it now."
Meia responded and sped the mech up to its full speed, leaving the fake and the cube types in its dust. A gold aura appeared around his body. This surprised Meia, but she noted it down for later.
As the Dragondread reached the darkness of space, it turned around, its whole body glowing the same color as Ranmas.
Within the cockpit, Ranma opened his eyes and he and Meia said in unison,"Dragon Flare Spinner!"
As they called it out a fiery red and gold beam of energy lanced out of the bots chest and into the lead opposition. The ship disintegrated and became a swirling spiral of crimson, black, and gold energy.
The energy sped towards the few enemies that were left, destroying them.
There was a flash of light and the Dragon Claw and Meia's Dread were situated where the Dragondread used to be.
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Within the cockpit of Vandread Dita Hibiki had just been told the story about the fight outside his.
"AND I DIDN'T GET TO SEE IT!? WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME?!" He shouted.
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On the bridge, Magno sighed, and smiled,"Well you did it again, Wild Boy."
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Author's notes: So how did you like that chapter? I'm sorry about the time it took for me to get this chapter out. I had a few other stories I wanted to work on. For many people who wanted to know, you'll see most of the Ranma cast later, but as I said, that's later. Next chapter is where Ranma first meets Rabat. Give me your opinions,
AmericanPie5745@aol.com
Next Time: Ranma wakes up three days after the battle and is ordered on the date, again! After that, he and Hibiki are on a scouting mission where they get stranded on the planet, and Rabat comes down to check the planet for useful parts! Then Hibiki is able to get to the ship, but the enemy captured Ranma! Another new enemy attacks and another weapon is unveiled!
Next Time: The Fury Of Four Pilots
Xion (Seross) Fang,
Signing off.