This id goona be a short one, cause, I'm out of ideas, so, I'll just quote some more halo 2. "Marine, did I give you permission to bitch?"
Disclaimer: I don't own Vandread, but if you wanted to give it to me, I won't complain.
#9: By the grace of God
the Harvest flag ships dropped their load of round drop ships, which, then dropped their load of cube types. Several of the ships resembling different animals were also present. A portion of the cube types converged, and formed the 'Nirvana', Vandread copies. Everything was purple tinged, Like the red enemy had been. It looks like earth had another Paexis, because their massive, planet destroying capital ships was here, surround in the odd shield the Paexis used to protect itself.
The dreads and Vanguards were already in attack positions, the Super Vandread at the front. They all charged forward and engaged the enemy in predetermined attack groups, but soon dissolved into singling out enemies and eliminating them. Bart fired the 'Nirvana's' weapon systems as often as possible, taking out large chunks of cube types, the Super Vandread focusing on the Clones of the ship and the Vandreads. Barnette had found herself separated from her attack team relatively early, as she chased down and destroyed a drop ship that had made the mistake of targeting her. She started to accelerate back toward the main forces, but found her ship immobile. She looked around, finding a strange glowing web ensnaring her Dread. The same eel like enemy that Meia and Hibiki had defeated on Christmas the previous year now had her trapped. Arms tipped with razor sharp claws rushed toward the dread, eager to rip her apart, as she closed her eyes, and braced for the end. A series of explosions shook her ship vioently. After a few seconds, a knocking came at her cockpit, and she opened her eyes. Jacks Vanguard was staring down at her.
"are you just going to sleep the whole time, or would you like to give me a hand? That bastard took my left arm, and I'd like to get it back." He said, waving the little stump that had been his Vanguard's left arm. Barnette nodded, and accelerated around to face the eel bot. Barnette released a volley of missiles, and peppered the alien with as she passed, Jack flying straight in, a spear clutched in his remaining hand, point curved and extending off of the side near it's head. He dove at the alien's face, and drove the spear into its large eye, planting his feet on the thing's head. He pulled out a pole from the back of his Vanguard, and it extended into a scythe, curved blade glistening in the light of the expositions all around. He jetted to the thing's neck, and with a swing of the deadly blade, parted its head with the rest of it. It stopped moving, and Jack moved to the arm clutching his arm, and cut it loose with another swing of his scythe. He dropped the weapon, and grabbed his arm, then positioned it so the broken ends met, and he fused back together using his power. He flexed the arm.
"Damn, that hurt." He said, gliding over, grabbing his spear, which collapsed into a pole like the scythe, and he packed it away. "Forgot I had this old thing," he said, gesturing to the scythe, "you reminded me that I still had it." He told Barnette.
"Why did you come back?"
"Well, I thought I'd put those destructive skills of mine to a good use for once, and there just happened to be thousands of things back here to help me with that, so I decided I'd stick around for a while longer." He answered with a smile. Barnette just glared at him, and he added, "if I don't do a job that's up to you're your standards, you can personally blow the living crap out of me when this is over." Barnette returned the smile, and replied.
"Well, I'll have you know that my standard are ridiculously high."
"Well, than I might just have to give a little effort."
"Then I might just have to blow you up anyway."
"Then it's a date." Jack finished has he flew of toward his next victim, dispatching the hapless manta ray thing with ruthless efficiency.
The Super Vandread had just cut down its second flag ship. The enemies produced by the flag ship keep attacking, and they though it might be because being so close to one of their Capital ship, the must be linked to that as well. They headed for the massive ship, and drove their saber into the shield, which repelled it as if it was no more than a little pebble.
"Maybe this will interest you?" A voice over the COM said. They watched as Jacks Van floated though the barrier like it wasn't even there. Hibiki pushed the Super Vandread forward, but it bounced off the barrier. "You think maybe I can do that because of this?" Jack said sarcasticly, his Vanguard holding a purple flame in its out-stretched hand. "Shall I go inside and see if I can... er… persuade our friends to stop this attack?" jack said, Meia about to tell him to do exactly that.
"Yes, go ahead, and see if they can take you with them." She said, she was still swore from hem trying to implant his boot in her stomach.
"I'll see what I can do, but I just have to say, you sure do have a lot of frontal padding in that over shirt thing you wear." He said with a laugh, and flew backward toward the ship behind him.
"What does that mean?" Hibiki asked Meia, as her face burned bright red.
"Nothing!" She snapped, "let's go help the others.
Jack floated next to the hull of the Capital ship.
"Where's the guest parking?" He said, knocking on parts of the hull. Off to his left, Toward the main cannon, a small opening appeared. "What, no valet?" He drifted inside, and the opening closed. The Van's sensors said it there was air to be breathed and he though he should be the one to breath it. He opened his Vanguard, and jumped out. He pulled a head set out of his cloak, and put it on.
"This is Lunatic 402 to Lady Bird, do you copy?" He said over the head set.
"What? Who is this?" The captain's voice came over the head said.
"This is Lunatic 402, I have successfully infiltrated target 0034597 and am piping through visual now. These look familiar? He held his hands up and examined them, sending the image to the 'Nirvana' through a camera mounted in the head set. A down of comprehension sounded from the other line.
"I thought you were leaving." The captain asked.
"Yeah, but I got bored without anything to kill."
"What is enemy 0034… whatever?"
"Didn't you get the memo?"
"No, must have missed it."
"Hmm, thought I sent you a copy, anyway, if you will kindly look into the space infront of you, look for a ship, might be hard to find, but it is big and purple, and makes planets go boom!" He said, clapping his hand together for emphasis at the last part.
"Oh, and just what do you plan to do while your there?"
"I was thinking I'd persuade our friends to stop attacking, or see if they will let me push the button that makes the you explode, I haven't decided yet." He said, the Super Vandread was also getting the feed, as well as Barnette. They were all wondering the same thing, was he going to betray them again?
"Let us know which you pick." The captain said her voice as calm as usual.
"Will do," Jack said, walking toward an open door, the camera showing those watching everything he saw. Another door was open in this room, and he walks at it. "I'm not feeling to friendly toward them though, they didn't even send a complementary Valet, and I hate trying to find a parking space." Every room he came to had an open door, which he took, it was like whatever was piloting the ship wanted to lead him somewhere.
"Could you hurry this up, some of us have places to be." Barnette called jokingly as she gunned down another drop ship.
"Don't get your panties in a bunch, and with panties like yours, that's pretty uncomfortable."
"How would you know?" Barnette yelled back.
"Because I like to try new things, and I just had to give them a go. They don't look very good on me, but I'm sure they look great on you." He said, holding up a pair of lacy green undergarments. He had to pull the headset of to avoid going deaf has Barnette read him the riot act. When her voice finally gave out, he added, "You know, hostility isn't good in a relations ship." He slid the headset back on; Barnette was still spewing out expletives at him, but at a much-reduced volume. The next door he came to had purple light pulsating beyond it. "Looks like I'm here." He stepped through the door, and found himself looking at another Paexis, this one purple. A beam of violet energy lanced from the Paexis and jack leapt to the side, military instincts kicking in. The next beam jack caught in his hand, and it coiled into a ball. The Purple Paexis flared, and the orb exploding. The energy just washed over Jack, sending a wave of static over the link to the ships outside. "That's not a very nice way to treat a guest." Jack said, and the Peaxis gave no reply. He spread his arms, and his gauntlets started to glow. He slowly moved his hand leaving trails of different length and pattern behind. The Paexis pulsated, growing darker purple, and in mid air similar line appeared. Jack shifted his position. It's says it's mad that you killed the red Paexis, and it's here to get revenge." Jack said over the COM. The captain started talking to Jack about what to do, but something rose in Barnette's mind. Something Jack had told her in the jewelry shop.
"Parfait!" Barnette called her voice still raspy. The lead engineers face appeared in front of her, Can you open a COM link that I could see the our Paexis?"
"Sure, give me a minute." Her face dissapeared,and Barnette shifted her attention to Jack. "Jack, Can you make a veiw screen so that that Paexis can see something?"
"Yeah, but I don't think it really want to do anything other than kill us all right now."
"Just do it!" She said as forcefully as she could.
"Fine, but I don't know why." He started setting up a screen he pulled from his cloak, and muttered to himself, "never thought I'd be taking orders from a girl." The image of the blue Paexis appeared on Barnette's ship screen.
"Put this image on it." She told Jack, and he did it in a disgruntled fashion. The Blue Paexis appeared on his screen, and he piped it through to the one he had set up. Nothing happened, and then, all at once, the two of them started pulsating and flashing quickly. After about two minutes, the purple Paexis flashed the odd lines at jack, who took his hood of, and gave the thing a puzzled glare.
"It says that it is sorry it attacked us, and want's to join us on our ship, with its… mother." Jack said, and then flashed it some more odd lines of his own, which it returned. "it also says he can't stop the robots from attacking, that being so young, it was only allowed to steer the ship." Jack flashed it again, and the six tentacles attaching it to the ship retracted, and it started to shrink. It became the size of a basketball, and floated out the door. A few minuets later, Jack's Vanguard exited the protective barrier, and headed back to the 'Nirvana', dodging fire from the Earth forces. The view on the screen split, and Barnette, The crew of the Super Vandread, and the bridge appeared. Jack steeped in front of the screen, much to the surprise of those on the screen. Barnette spoke first.
"Get out of there so we can blow the ship up!"
"No can do, it told me that the shield around this thing are specially designed to withstand about anything up to crashing into a star. I'm going to see what I can do to change that." He stepped onto the platform where the Little Paexis had been. He spread his arms, and pointed them at the two highest places where its tendrils had been attached. Chains flew from his sleeves, and latched into the holes, he was raised of the ground several feet. Chains shot into the other four, so he was hanging, arms spread, with three chains out of each arm, attached to the ship. Purple energy began pulsing in and out of his body along the chains. After several minutes, he started to speak.
"I can't access the controls to the Bots, but I did manage to overload the reactors of the remaining flagships, I suggest all the troops get away from them, they go up in a hellstorm in about five minutes. And this baby, its shields are linked to the reactors, and can't be shut down until the reactors go up. But I can change it so the shield will stay up after the reactor blow, at least for a couple seconds, so the main force rebound in, and hopefully lessens the force exerted. Get everyone inside the 'Nirvana', and get moving, as far as possible away from here, and once this ship blows, put every ounce of juice you can into the shield on that thing, its going to be one hell of an explosion. The commander recalled all of the dreads and Vanguards as the 'Nirvana' turned and began to travel away from the attacking aliens.
"What are you doing, hurry up and get out of there!" Barnette said, but she had a bad feeling in the pit of her stomach.
"Can't, I have to stay in the system until the reactors blow, or the shields will go down when the reactors detonate." He said, attempting a shrug, but failing.
"No, you can't, you'll die in the explosion." Barnette cried, not wanting to lose him again.
"Yeah, so?" He said, "What's your point?"
"You can't leave me again!" she shouted, tears in her eyes, as the supply shuttle grabbed her inert dread and pulled it out of the fire zone, and back toward the fleeing 'Nirvana'.
"I'm not leaving you!" He said, mocking shock, "I'll be taken away in a giant fireball of my own creation! There is a big difference!"
"How can you be joking around at a time like this?" She yelled, tears streaming down her cheeks, angry with him for being so happy, a moment from death.
"Because, if I didn't, the only other thing I could think to do, would be to either say something noble and corny, like you'd see in a story like this, and I would rather die than do that. Hey, speak of the devil! That, or curl up into a ball and wet… well, curl up into a ball anyway, and that's kinda hard, seeing as I'm chained to the roof and walls.
Barnette was sobbing beyond control now.
"Bu… But…I… love…" she stuttered, and then nothing else coherent.
"Listen, I've got one last thing to say to you." Jack said his voice stern and calm. the others watching all thought together, "here comes the noble but corny final word thing, that you'd expect in a story like this." Barnette brought her head up and looked at him, her face sopping wet.
"The last thing I have to say, is sorry." He said, "but I'm going to have to keep your panties, because I need a change of underwear, and I don't have time to get another pair." The screen dissolved into static as a series of explosions blossomed from the Capital ships. Barnette continued crying as the massive ship detonated into a giant fireball, the shield flickered and failed, and the blast began to spread out in all directions. The flagships exploded right before the wave of energy hit, repelling a small bit of energy from the big blast, then getting swallowed by it. Bart killed the engines, and set the shields to maximum protection, reinforcing the rear portion. It was a full minute before the wave of destructive force hit the ship. It drained the shields over most of the ship, but the reinforced rear portion held, barley. The moon of the planet behind the shattered as the force hit it, and ground it into a smear of dust.
Bart left the Nav sphere. He had received burns to his whole body, except his back, and butt. Celtic rushed over to him, and commended him on being so brave, to stay inside the Sphere instead of jumping out as she helped him up. He failed to mention to her, or anyone else, that the only reason he had stayed in there was because he forgot he could leave it. He was happy that he "forgot" to tell her this, because of the attention she was giving him. She led him off of the bridge, helping him to the hospital. He thought he might "forget" to tell her what areas hadn't been burned, to save him the embarrassment.
Barnette walked into the Vanguard bay, More miserable than she had ever remembered being. They wanted her to help unload the new Paexis, because they couldn't get into Jack's vanguard to get it out, and she had had luck with his equipment before. The vanguard opened up as soon as she stepped though the door and the purple Paexis burst from it and began to expand. She walked over to where it was, seeing John with his arm around Meia, and feeling a stab of jealousy and pain. She felt it again as she saw Jura and Vinn lip locked in a corner and Dita and Hibiki walking off together, hand in hand. The Paexis flashed a sequence of different colors across itself, and Barnette just stared. After a few seconds something fell out of it, and rolled to her feet. She opened her mouth to scream, but no sound got out. She fell backward, hitting the floor with a dull thud. She had fainted, Jacks corpse at her feet. The Paexis shrunk back up into it's little ball, and rushed off, eager to join its mother.
The end. Well, the end of this chapter. I've got a few more things cooked up to go wrong. I just have to say, because I haven't remembered to tell y'all that Meia is my favorite Female character of the show, all that closed of stuff, and dark past of tragedy are good as gold. Plus she's pretty cute when she's holding the baby at the end of the episode when she shoots herself off in an escape pod with the baby. Plus she's one of the few female characters I've seen that is well written, and not just some sex toy to some Japanese pervert. Like Jura, tell me that wasn't drawn for those reasons. I wasn't so crazy about Barnette at first, and she seemed along the same lines as Jura, but really turned around when she took over for Gascogne, and the outfit she wore really worked for her then. But I still wonder why she has to take all her clothes of the cook, cause I don't do that, or know anyone who does that. Well hope you enjoyed, and sorry if my cliffhangers suck, so more Halo 2 quotes! Both sergeant Johnson, the biggest, and best bad ass of all time!
"Please, don't shake the light bulb"
"We regret being alien bastards, we regret coming to Earth, and we most definitely regret the corps just blew up our raggedy-ass fleet!"