Hello, sorry bout the last chapter, but I just couldn't get anymore out at that point, so I'll try to do better now. I have been engrossed in Tales of syphonia for the last 3 days, so I haven't gotten much else done, Just beat it today! August 10th! Might do a fic on that 2!
Disclaimer: I don't own Vandread, and dancing on graves is wrong.
#12: The six Controllers
Duero was at his wit's end. It had been a week and a half since Jack had been put under his care, and the man would not stop talking! Duero had had to endure it for this whole time, and he couldn't take it anymore.
"Why don't you just drug him?" Barnette suggested one day, upon paying jack a visit. "Or you could do what I do, and just beat the crap out of him."
"I don't want to risk giving him anymore medication, he is on so much already, anymore might kill him, and I am hardly the type of guy to beat up a crippled person." He replied, casting her one of his sly grins.
"Hey! Don't look at me like that, he had it coming! And I don't think I'll get the chance once he's back on his feet." Duero just kept starring at her with piercing gaze, thinking that he might have to resort to her idea soon.
He chose to drug him, though, once he got in a good enough condition to chance it. He gave him a small dose of a powerful tranquilizer. He slipped it in with his normal medical injections. It seemed to work. Jack stopped on his rant about why the leaders of Tarrak where all incompetent hicks, and his eye glazed over. But he then started to talk some more, but on a different subject, and with a strange, loving voice.
"Did I ever thank you for helping me out?" He asked, not quite looking at anything. "Your really great, what could I do to thank you?" Duero had injected him with a tranquilizer that could knock a solider in top condition out for 7 hours, and this man was still talking and he was injured to the point of death.
"I'd like to know exactly what you really are." Duero said in his mind, but it had worked its way out of his mouth, his curiosity helping out.
"I am one of the six controllers." He answered.
"What is that?"
"A controller is an Earthling who is granted abilities that correspond with a Paexis."
"And who are the other controllers?"
"I don't know. The Controllers were deemed too dangerous to be aloud to exist together in the same area, so the People who are left on earth, separated them, fearing that if they were to unite, they would destroy all."
"So your originally from earth?"
"Yes, but I have little recollection of it. I was placed on Tarrak after birth."
"We have met another controller, and destroyed him."
"What was the color was he?"
"He was with the red Paexis, which was also destroyed."
You cannot truly destroy a Paexis, unless it chooses to die. I have seen what happened when you defeated the red controller, the Paexis detonated the capital ship, and made a jump, and is still in the area of space around Tarrak and Mejale. The Earth will send a retrieval ship, to recapture the Paexis, and bond it with a new controller, it is my belief that we should acquire it first, as it is believed to be the most powerful of the three original Paexis's."
"I will call the Captain and report this." Duero walked to his computer and after a few moments returned to Jacks bedside. "She say's we will head back right this minute, and we will see if we can't get it before Earth does."
"Very good, but you must tell them that we have to hide in the magnetic storm, because if Tarrak sees this ship, it will blow it out of the sky without hesitation." Jack said, the tranquilizer wearing off, and his voice returning to normal. He had business on the surface of Tarrak, and they were expecting him, and only him to show up. And he was sure that they would be pleased to see him, even though his original mission had failed.
"How can Earth still have more Peaxises, the capsule from Pluto said they used the last one to create the Harvest." The captain asked to no one in particular. B.C. answered.
"They said that they had used the last original Paexis, not the last one." Barnette was also on the bridge, and had heard what Duero said. The cog's in her head started turning, and she understood.
"That's right!" she said excitedly, obviously liking having thought of something no one else had. "Jack asked me about what color stone I liked in a jewelry store, and I told him the Sapphire, a blue stone. He said something about blue being the mother of purple, and red the father. That is how I figure that the purple Paexis would react to the Blue one. And if you look at the rest of them as colors, with the fact that Jack said there are six controllers, you come up with Yellow, Blue and Red, the primary colors, as the three original Paexis. And with the info that the purple is like a child to the Blue and Red, then you would get two more if you combine them with yellow. You would get Purple, Green, and Orange, the secondary colors, and second generation Paexis, thus not the original."
"Well, I'm a little shocked that you figured that out yourself, but you are right." Jacks head appeared on the main view screen.
"You're going to get it for that!" Barnette called at him.
"Oh well, I like to deserve it if you're going to do it. Anyway, when a Paexis controller dies, you can pick a new human, although the People of earth always chose one of themselves, because they feel they are superior, but as a human, we are all descendant's of the people of earth, so anyone can become a controller. As an Earth chosen controller, I can merge a person with a controller-less Paexis, and make a new controller, while I also receive powers from the other Paexis. Only few controllers can do this, and I just happen to be one. I haven't been able to get the blue to give it's power to me, because it knew I was a controller, but I think it might now that it has been reunited with the purple one. Most Paexis would just give up their power, but after spending so much time with its good-natured controller's, it doesn't like the destruction the controllers are usually known for.
"What? There are more controllers on this ship?" B.C. said in amazement.
"Of course," the captain said, calmly, "Just look at the boy and the three girls he combines with. It is quite easy to see, especially if you actually look at them, how much they've all changed."
"Yes, the personal craft of a controller that comes in contact with their aligned Paexis becomes something befitting them. If you look, I am sure that you will find my Vanguard has changed, the Paexis do this, to give the controller a better chance of defending it." Jack said, very plainly, as if it should be obvious. I must go to the surface of Tarrak when we arrive, they will be expecting me, thinking I have destroyed you, and returning to them with the Blue Paexis. There is a good chance that they have already captured the Red Paexis, and if so, I will recover it, and then give the military what's coming to them!"