Vandread: The third war

by Mage-of-Souls

The people of Castile are treacherous and will do whatever it takes to get Peixis progma. Can the new Nirvana team have what it takes to stop them? READ!

2. No going Back

Hi everyone! There were some things I sorta left out or forgot to delete in my last story. If you saw the beginning of the title, it would say third war, but if you read it, it said the 3rd piexus. Well it just so happens that I decided to change the name at the last minute. Sorry about that. And I'll also put in those bar thingies so it'll be easier to read. That's it for now, keep reading people!

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Chpt.2: No going back

"This is pretty hard to fix" Parfait began, she was surrounded by people who awaited patiently the revealing of the three people in the ship, "Hate to say it guys but the thing wont open. The computer's all messed up so it still thinks you're in space. "

"You mean, there goanna die in there!" Dita gasped.

"Calm down Dita, It's not like there in there forever. It'll just be some time."

"Ooooooh!" the pilot moaned, "But I'm soooo hungrrrrry!"

"I know the feeling," Hibiki mumbled.

"You know, its structure isn't that far different from the dreads." Mar mentioned who was now examining it very closely. He suddenly came up with an idea "Do you think a hair clip could work?"

"That's perfect!" exclaimed Parfait "The hairclip could activate the reboot system in the computer." Parfait immediately opened a small compartment only big enough to fit a key in, and began to push in the hairclip. "By the way Mar" she asked "How did you know about opening up locked dreads."

"Umm…I…Uh…"

"You moron!" Jura screamed who was now enjoying strangling Mar, "So that's how you've been unlocking my dread!"

"Gyaaaak! Ugly old hag!" Mar cursed at the blonde who seemed to be enjoying the upper hand in this battle."

"I'm not old! Take it back you twerp!"

"Hag! Hag! Hag!"

"Hey! I got it!" announced Parfait as a few beeps came from the machine and immediately turned on.

"Oh thank goodness!" said the third voice as she came out of the dread. Her black hair went to her knees and her blue eyes seemed to radiate her beauty even more. She wore a strange looking outfit that was blue with gold designs all over it. She also looked like she was in her twenties. "I thought I was going to be trapped in there all day! Thank you."

"Hey!" The pilot cried as she jumped down. "Don't forget me!" Her brown hair was at a very short length. She looked much younger than the first woman; she was about the same age as Dita. She wore a green pilot's outfit and dark black gloves. The girl tuned back to the ship and called out, "Come on out brother!"

"Fine." sighed the seconded voice. He arose to have brown hair like his sister's. He wore a commander's outfit with a gun in its pocket. He had the physic of a young man, probably just like the woman, he was twenty. He looked at the room of surrounding people. "Whoa! You have a lot of crewmates."

"We like to keep the atmosphere around here friendly you might say." Jura cooed as she wrapped her arms around the man. "Hey. If you want to be my friend, we could always have a baby together."

"Eeew! Get your grabby hands off my brother you slut!" Demanded the pilot.

"What! How dare you say that to me?"

"Please let us not argue." Suggested the woman in a cheery voice, "let's eat instead."

"Yeah!" squealed the pilot, "You guys did say you have food."

"Well well." Said an old voice, "What do we have here?"

Everyone tuned heads to see it was their glorious captain, Magno Vivian accompanied by BC, the co captain.

"It seems that we have some uninvited guests this evening," Magno said "Tell me, which one of you is the leader of this bunch."

"Guess that would be me." The man said happily getting Jura's hands off of him.

"Tell me boy, what's your name?"

"My name is Yuki Dove, and this here is my sister Hinoki Dove." He turned his head to the woman, "And that would be Georgia Hummingston."

"Well, its looks as though you've been fighting a battle."

"We'll you could say that in a way."

"Why don't you and I talk about this."

"You two can go to the cafeteria." BC told Georgia, and Hinoki.

"Alright! Food!" cheered Hinoki "Catch you later Yuki. I'll save you some leftovers."

"So sorry Yuki." Apologized Georgia, "I would go with you but my stomch is begging for some lunch."

"Awwwww!" moaned Yuki "I'm so hungry!"

"You can eat when you get back." Meia told him in her very serious tone.

"Hey, you're that woman's voice. What's your name?"

"It doesn't matter right now now can we please eh?...WHY ARE YOU LOOKING AT ME LIKE THAT!"

"Oh! I uhhhh…its nothing, I was just…never mind. Let's just go."

'She's perfect.' Yuki thought to himself as he was taken to the conference room 'But she'd never agree to it.'

Meanwhile, everyone else were at the cafeteria, talking to their hungry guests.

"This is delicious!" Exclaimed Georgia taking a sip from her soup "You people definitely know how to treat yourselves."

"Thanks, we try our best." Thanked Ezra.

"Hey! Is it true that you're really brother and sister?" asked a man from the crowd.

Hinoki swallowed her chicken then said,"Of course. Why do you think that? Is it because we don't look that similar to you?"

"No it's not that," the man explained, "On our planets, men and women don't live together. So we think its interesting that sibling can be from opposite sexes."

Georgia spat out her soup when she heard this. "But that cant be!" She exclaimed. "If you don't have both genders, how do you make the next generation."

"We get by on machines" said another man, "And the women just donate eggs."

"But what about..." Georgia was halted by Hinoki.

"Do you even wanna know the answer to that? Let's just let it remain a secret."

"Point taken!" Georgia whispered and stuffed her f Ace with more soup, 'I could eat this all day." She thought.

"Wow!" exclaimed a blue haired girl with red eyes, "I just cant believe I have someone else on this ship that lived with both men and women, like me!"

"You came from a planet just like mine?" Hinoki asked her excitedly. She was hoping that this person could actually shed some light on her situation.

"I just said I did. I'm Misty." Misty held out her hand.

Hinoki took the greeting, and shook Misty's hand. "Pleased to meet you Misty!"

"Squuueee." Went a strange blob on Misty's shoulder.

"Eeep! What is that thing!"

"Dont worry." Misty giggled, "It's only Q-chan."

"Sque" Q-chan went again.

"He likes you."

Hinoki hesitated for the moment but then gave up.

"It's very nice to meet you Q-chan."

"Squeeee!" went the happy blob.

"Hey you guys want to see pictures of my family?"

"Sure!" cried out everyone in the room.

Hinoki pulled out from her pocket a tiny photo album and began to show them off.

"This picture is of me and my brother going to the park. And there's me as a baby. There's my brother in his elementary school uniform, the hat was too big as you can see. Oh! And here's one of my whole family."

"Wow! A man and a woman living together!" Celtic cried.

"That's my mom and dad. There the rest of my family."

"Hey if you liked her family, check out mine." Georgia took out some pictures from her poket and laid them on the table for all to see.

"Holy shit!" gasped Hinoki "You had a family of thirteen people!"

Georgia giggled, "Its fourteen counting me. On my planet, we have big families. I even had a friend who had eighteen brothers and sisters."

"EIGHTEEN?" Screamed everyone.

"Would you all SHUT UP!" cried out the egg shaped robot Pyoro dragging a carrier with the baby Kalulah, "You woke up Pyoro-2! Pyoro-2 needs her sleep or she'll get cranky."

"Oh My GOD! What the hell is that thing?" Hinoki screamed.

"That's just Pyoro." Esra explained "He watches over my darling Kalulah."

"Her name isn't Kalulah! Her name's Pyoro-2!"

"How many times do I have to tell you Pyoro? Her name's Kalulah."

"Oh aren't you the cutest thing!" shrieked Georgia in delight as she held Kalulah.

"Gyahhhh! Give her back!" cried out the robot but he was too small to reach.

"You don't mind if I hold her, do you Ezra?"

"Not at all. Go right ahead."

"I definitely mind! I'm the only one that can hold her!" whined the robot!

"For god dammit sake!" said Esrah's wife socking the robot, "She's Ezra's and my baby, and we can tell whoever we want to hold her!"

"She's my baby! And I demand you give Pyoro-2 back right now!"

"This reminds me of caring for my younger siblings." Giggled Georgia, "I remember it was always a hassle. I'd be holding my youngest brother while my sister would tug at my skirt. My two other brothers would be circling around me playing tag. It was so hard to keep track of them without help of the rest of the family, but the rest were always tending to something so I was the only one that could help." A tear fell from her eyes, "I really miss those days. And I cant really go back to them because…."

An alarm shouted and then came the voice of Belvedere.

"Attention … attention! There's an unidentified object coming this way. All pilots come to the hangar for immediate departure."

"I'm sorry but the conference must be postponed right now." Magno told Yuki "We have more serious manners to deal with.

"I understand." Yuki said. 'I missed out on the food for nuth'n!'

"You can come join us on the main control room." Magno said.

"I'd be happy to."

"Alight! I get to have some fun!" roared the exited Hibiki as everyone ran out of the cafeteria.

Only Georgia, Hinoki, Kalulah, and the pissed off Pyoro were left.

"Do you think we missed something?" Georgia asked Hinoki as she placed Kalulah back in the carriage.

"No clue." She replied after swallowing the last of her chicken, "Lets check it out."

The two girls walked out of the cafeteria, leaving Pyoro behind with Kalulah.

Meanwhile outside the nirvana, all pilots were busy with the object.

"Looks like a dumb box to me." Said a bored out of his mind pilot.

"Looks can be deceiving" said Meia taking the front.

"Wow! Look how big it is!" Squealed Dita, "Do you think that aliens are inside of it?"

"Its not an escape pod, it's a cargo unit!" Hibiki barked "It may only have metal scraps in it for all we know."

"I don't care if there are toothpicks in there" the captain growled. "The cargo may have something of use to us, and I'm not taking the chance of loosing it!"

"Roger!" the pilots cried out.

'Something's strange about that cargo.' Yuki thought to himself, 'It almost looks like…GOD NO! They found us this fast!'

Yuki immediately grabbed Ezra's communicator and screamed in it "Attention all pilots! Keep your distance from the cargo! Repeat! Keep your distance!"

"What in hell do you think you are doing!" bellowed Magno.

Yuki looked at her with fear in his eyes, "Its my fault that thing's here! It's a trap! They want you to open it! They want you to let them out!"

"Exactly who are they and them?"

"Captain."

"Yes Meia?"

"There's some strange activity going on in the cargo."

"Srange?"

"Yes. It semmes to be…opening itself up."

"Damn this is not good!" Yuki shivered, "If me and my friends go now, you may have a chance to save yourselves."

Magno halted him before he could leave. "Don't feed yourselves to the lions just yet. We still have a chance."

"What do you mean a chance!" Yuki cried "I've seen them destroy countless planets and end innocent lives! You must retreat!"

"Its easy to quit isn't it. Its easy to run away when the going gets tough, but what will you accomplish? You will never succeed in life if you keep retreating. How do you think we got here in the first place? Not by luck of course."

"But…But…but…"

"Trust me. Whatever they dish out, we can handle."

"Captain, something's coming out of the cargo." Called Meia.

"What is it?"

"They…they…they look like…."

"OHMYGOSH!" Dita cried. "It's the bad aliens!"

Dozens of cubes flowed out of the cargo and charged at all opponents.

"This isn't right." Celtic said in a confused tone, "We destroyed the red peixis. The aliens cant move anymore."

Yuki flipped out. "What! You destroyed the red peixus! I thought that peixis progmma destroyed it!"

"That's our engine" Beldevere giggled, "It helped in the destruction of it."

"And here you had me worked up all over nothing." Laughed the captain.

"This is gonna be easy and fun!" Hibiki laughed "Dita lets combine."

"I won't let you down Mr. Alien"

The two ships collided into each other forming vandread-Dita again.

"It's amazing how they can do that!"

"The peixis gave us the ability to combine three dreads with one vanguard. It comes in handy." Gloated the captain.

Whith one blast of Vandread-Dita's cannons, dosens of cupes blew up.

"Day's not over yet Dita." Hibiki old the red head, "We still have more to go!"

"Mr. Alien!" gasped Dita in astonishment, "You said my name!"

Hibiki suddenly realized this too. "Oh…eeeh….I guess I did."

While this was going on two characters were lost in the ever lasting labyrinth of halls.

"Are you sure this is the way?" asked Georgia.

Hinoki viewed their areas. "Yes! I'm positive. Call it my sixth sense."

"Then youre sixth sense is broken. We've been down this hall three times already."

"What! How do you know that!"

"Because I've already seen the regecrew central door and I don't think they would make another."

"You ladies lost?" Asked a tall woman with a metal rod in her teeth."

"Were not lost!" groweled Hinoki, "We just don't know where we are."

"That is the definition of lost." Georgia pointed out.

"Who's side are you on!"

"So. You two are lost. Where ya headin?"

"Well…I…Hmmmm…" It had just occurred to Hinoki that they didn't pick a destination.

"Come on. I'll take you to the control room."

"Thanks….Uhhhh…"

"The name's Gosconge. Think nothing of it."

"That's really sweet of you to do this for us Gosco." Georgia thanked.

"Ugh! It's not Gosco. It's Gosconge!"

"Oh! I'm sorry. I'd just thought it was a cute nickname."

"Trust me kid. You're not the first to think that."

"Oh by the way, I'm Georgia, and this is Hinoki."

"Nice to meet you girls."

"Can we go now?" Hinoki whined.

After a while of walking down the halls of the Nirvana in silence, Gosconge finally spoke up.

"You know Hinoki, you remind me of Hibiki a lot."

"You mean that pilot who merged with that dread? What makes you say that?"

"Well for starters, your name sounds a lot like his."

"It does not! My name is totally different!"

"That's another thing. You two like to yell a lot!"

"What the hell does that have to do with anything!"

"Another trait, you both have really bad tempers."

"Youre beginning to piss me off!"

"Hibiki likes to say that all the time. You pretty much have his attitude too."

"ARRRGH! Would you cut this out already!"

"Were already here anyway, go right in."

"Thank you so much." Georgia thanked, "I don't know how we would've gotten here."

Hinoki suddenly felt the knife in the back, "I thought you said that my directions were fine!"

"I also said that your sixth sense was broken."

"Arrrgh! Forget we even talked this. I'm going inside." And Hinoki stomped in the room.

"That's like Hibiki too!" Gosconge called out to her.

A yowl of anger could be heard behind the sliding door. Georgia sighed and walked in to find Hinoki running up to her brother. They were also a lot of sceens showing a battle.

"Yuki? W-whats going on here!" asked the poor confused Hinoki "There fighting the-"

"And their winning." Interrupted her brother who seamed to be very pleased at this. "Out of all the planets I've seen fight them, this ship has rose on top."

"But they'd still never stand a chance with peixis progma"

"How many times do we even need to say it!" snapped Celtic, "The peixis progma is our engine!"

"What! You mean to tell me that this ship defeated the red peixus!"

Yuki gave her a grin "Seems like it sis."

"Then that means…we made it! We made it to the enemy territory!" cheered Hinoki. "Now we can mmmmmph!"

Yuki immediately clasped his hand around his sister's mouth.

"What do you mean by enemy territory?" BC asked.

"Now look what you did!" Yuki whispered to his sister, "You ruined my plan!"

BC stared at the man for a moment."Well…what is it?"

Yuki let go of his sister and walked up toward the captain. His eyes showed sadness in them.

"I'll tell you at the conference," he sighed "Or should we call it interrogation?"

BC smirked, "We can just call it conference if it makes you more comfortable. But maybe we should bring your fiends along too."

"Meia here, I'd just like to report that all earth forces have been destroyed"

"Well done," Magno congratulated, "Return to the ship immediately, we still need to talk to this boy."

"Understood. Over and out."

"We did it Mr. Alien! We did it!" Dita cheered.

"What are you so excited over? That was an easy win." Hibiki just couldn't believe how air headed Dita could be at times.

"Its just makes me so happy that we beat them together!"

Hibiki's face began to turn red from this. "Uhhhh….Yeah…..Me too."

"Well that's the end of them." Magno said in triumph, "Lets go to the meeting."

"Right then," Yuki said, "Come on Hinoki."

"Wha? I have to go too?"

"Yes. And get Georgia too."

Georgia was looking at this strange blue puddle stretching down a path. 'Why would there be a puddle in the middle of a ship's control room?' she asked herself.

"Come on Georgia!" called out Hinoki "We gotta go."

"Just a minute." Georgia crouched down near it and began to poke it with her finger. It suddenly began to glow.

"What the? Eeeeyyaaah!"

A man jumped out of the pool and tumbled on top of the poor girl.

"Oh my god!" Georgia gasped, "Y-y-you came out of that pool!"

"Oh I'm sorry." Said the bald headed man, "I'm Bart Gasarus. And who might you be."

Georgia tried to speak but the words barely came out, "G…..g…..g"

"Uhh… take your time."

"G…g…ge…GET OFF OF MEEEEEEE!" she smacked him in the face with her fist making Bart fly right off of her. "Gyaaah! Hinokiiiiii!" she screamed as she ran to the pilot and yanked on her suit. "T-that that man….he…came out of the….puddle!"

"Uhhhh….sure he did. Why don't you take a nap after the conference? The lack of sleep is making you see things."

"I'm not tired!" Georgia whined, "I know it sounds farfetched but its true!"

Hinoki began to think that this whole ship was crazy but her friend's story was just too insane "People just don't come out of puddles." She said in a calm manner."

"But that man! He did!"

BC looked over to where Georgia was pointing and saw poor Bart help himself up from his encounter with a knuckle sandwich.

"Oh. You mean Bart." He said to Georgia, "He's our navigator and he uses that puddle to help us move around space."

"He uses a puddle to help you fly?" asked Hinoki, "That's a little too weird. But then again, this ship is a little bit crazy. From the talking robot egg, men and women living on different planets, puddles, I think I'll believe anything else you will say."

"Good. Now follow me."

A little while later, the three characters met in a conference room.

"Yuki," Magno began, "We've been honest to you. Now it's your turn to do the same."

Yuki, didn't know if they'd believe him or not but it had to be done. He needed their help. He needed their power. He needed them to believe what he was saying.

"We'll for starters; we are not your enemy. I and my sister come from a planet named Castile, known to many others as Castle of Bezerks."

"Please, let's hear more." Magno instructed.

"It is called this because of the royal kingdom's violent efforts to make all bow down to them."

Tears ran down Georgia's face.

"They kill all that stand against them, and people who kneel before them still suffer greatly. Their even killing what gives them power. A machine that fuels their weapons and moves the almighty ship 'Beast'. It has destroyed many lives, and many dear to us."

"Tell us what this machine is called" Magno said.

"It is known to many as the beast's green eye but its real name is …the green peixis."

Everyone gasped at this and whispers sounded the whole room.

"SCILENCE!" ordered Magno and all was quiet again.

"The kingdom has relyed upon its effort for years. It even made the red peixis grovel at its feet."

"But why not destroy such a nuisance as the red peixis when you have the chance." BC asked.

"Because…" Began Yuki, "Lord Andreia has made a deal with that wretched thing. She would spare its life if it serves her and only her. She ordered it to desolate many planets in its wake, to make room for her rule. But it all changed when you came in the picture. The red peixis told her of your valiant efforts on his minions, and you always came out victorious. She was pleased with this, and began to copy all your ships."

"Like that one in the hangar," Goscongue said.

"Yes. But the only thing that she can't make them do is merge with each other, and that's what she desires most."

"But where do you fit in all of this?" Asked Meia.

"It began ten years ago for my family. My mother and father were scientists in the study of peixisis. They were ordered by the last lord to make him a ship for the peixis. But my parents' studies showed that the green peixis was actually created for medical purposes."

"How so?" asked the doctor in the room. He seemed very amused with this.

"Its power was able to stop diseases from spreading and able to make the healing process quicker. My parents wanted it to save lives not take them, so they hid their work and paid the price for it….with their lives. And if it wasn't pleasing enough for them, the Castile law stated that if a traitor was found in the midst of the planet the youngest child of the family would be taken to be purged of all traitorous acts, and become a soldier to the kingdom. So Hinoki was snatched away from me. I was ten, and all alone, but I still had my families research and I used it to my advantage." Yuki clenched his fists in rage. "I formed the resistance group known as the 'Lone wolves'. It just so happens that the weakest of a pack of wolves will leave its pack to live where it can be strong, just like I did on that fateful day. If it was not strong enough to live, it would die alone but if it was strong, it would become great, so just as a wolf I learned to be strong. Also, if a lone wolf met others like itself, lone wolves, they would unite creating their own pack, and I found many like me, people who lost homes and families for things that went against the royals rule. We became a pack. We would take any information on our enemies; we would fight off the kingdom's onslaught till the day its good as dead. We became powerful enough that we built our own ship. And we called it 'The Survivor'"

"What about your sister? She's right next to you. How did you meet again?" BC asked.

Hinoki took over for her brother on this part. "I had became the highest rank of any pilot could get. I became the leading pilot in the royal's ultimate fighting squad. We were known as the four berserkers named after our Kingdoms nickname, and I was their captain. But three months ago, I met him breaking into the castle. I knew what he was doing was against the royals but I helped him escape. Even though Yuki tried to tell me that our parents were doing what was right I still couldn't believe him. Until…..I was sent to a mission on Georgia's planet."

Georgia couldn't stop the tears of sadness.

"I was told it was only a mission to bring some soldiers on the planet to help them protect, but it was all a lie. Lord Andreia, who dethroned the last lord, heard about the planet Trite having people that were genetically enhanced to control their peixis. She demanded to have them captured to help enhance their peixis's power. I found out about this two days after I came back from Trite."

Georgia decided she could talk now. "We were a humble race of people. Our lord never thought that war was what made a kingdom strong. I was his head servant and I was head protector of our beloved piexis. And then that day came and we were attacked by someone we looked up to for protection. I knew it was my duty to protect my lord and the thing our planet treasured most, but I had failed. They stormed our kingdom and demanded the capture of forty of our most powerful people. But when our lord refused, he was killed. I gave myself up in the end….in order to save the peixis, the people I grew up with, and my planet. But it was all for nothing! My planet is now enslaved to Castile, thanks to that Bitch Andriea." Georgia slammed her fist on the table in rage.

Hinoki knew she should speak up, "I met Georgia in a prisoner cell, she told me all that had happened to her and I knew that my brother was telling the truth. I finally found him again and we arranged a meeting on the outskirts of the city. We planned to go back to the survivor and get help from Tarak and Mejere. But I was followed by a friend of mine. When he saw me trying to escape he tried to kill me. That day, I learned that my life for ten years was just a lie. Everything I was told by them was a heap of crap!"

Yuki said the last part. "Once we got back to the resistance, we were under attack. We escaped in Hinoki's ship and watched as all I worked for fell into flames. All my crewmates, scattered across space so I have no contacts no working ships, no crew, so we had to go with our plan. Get help from the people that destroyed the peixis. And we were adrift for four days when the controls went crazy and made us luckily bump into you. But I'm now ready for them. I'll never succeed if I keep retreating as you said Captain Magno. I've got to stay strong a take whatever they dish out!"

Magno let this sink in her head. "A resistance group, an evil ruler, copies of our -machines, another piexis. Sounds like another adventure to me. BC tell the crew."

"Y-you're going to help us?" Yuki asked joyfully.

"Of course we will." Chuckled Gosconge, "We don't throw people on the curb. Especially in your case."

"You have guts boy!" complimented Magno "With that kind of attitude you'll be able to take the heat of my crew."

'Finally' Yuki thought, 'We can end this ordeal.'

Later in Castile….

"My lady" cries a guard "The cam bug has returned."

"Andreia stood from her chair "Wonderful! Let's have a look shall we?"

The guard began to feel the same feeling last time when the room stared at him, it was happening all over again. "Erm…yes my lord." He put the data chip inside a slot.

"It was a fantastic idea to put that camera in the cargo" Laviene squealed "They didn't even notice."

"Now are you glad you didn't go?" Hikaru laughed.

"Oh shut up you!"

A holographic screen played the whole battle.

"Hikaru, take a good look at this footage. Because in three days we invade these lowlifes and I want you to have the best tactics to stop them." Andreia commanded.

"Are you sure we can defeat them?" Laviene asked "I mean, there ships can combine with others."

Hikaru huffed at this idea. "laviene, they stand no chance against us. I'n three days I will conduct the best plan to wipe them out!" Hikaru paused at the scene with Hibiki's vanguard and examined it "Besides, I have a much stronger vanguard than that boy has."

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Okay! That's chapter two for you. I think it's much better than my recent one! And longer too! In the next chapter: Hibiki versus Hikaru! Who will win?