Sorry for the wait. I was trying to finish my fourth chapter before putting this one up so you can red the other the next day. Give me a couple of more days and I'll be done. In the meantime, read this one.
I don't own Vandread. If I did, I'd make Hibiki and Dita have a long romantic kiss.
Chpt: 3 Till death do us part
'Hibiki….' A voice called out, 'Hibiki?...'
"Who….who's calling me?" He asked. Hibiki seemed to be in some strange green mist.
A little girl appeared with blonde hair in a white dress.
'Hibiki….you must remember the past.' The figure called to him, 'remember it… to save them…'
Hibiki noticed that she was the girl from his memories that came back in the cave of the spirits. 'Who are you? And who do I need to save?'
Suddenly the girl was tied in chains and was being swallowed by the mist.
'Remember Hibiki. Remember… and you can save them….from their chains as well as mine.' The girl smiled and she was no more.
"Wait!" Cried out Hibiki. "You must tell me more! Who must I save!"
He than began to sink into the mist.
"No! Who are you? Why are you here! Eyahhhh!"
Hibiki awoke from his nightmare. He was in his new room on the nirvana.
"I-it was only….a dream." He told himself as he wiped the sweat from his face. 'But if it was just a dream, then why did I feel like….I met that girl before?'
A few hours later, the whole nirvana was bustling with people.
Hinoki was sent into the hangar for a surprise.
"Wow Parfait!" said the surprised Hinoki. "You fixed my ship in three days! That's amazing!"
"Well I did have help." Parfait said shyly. "Mar does come in handy in small spaces."
Mar was busy looking at the wires that bound the thing together. "This is such a cool machine! This one's almost like Jura's, Dita's and Meia's combined into one!"
"Well it was a copy."
"Copy nothing! It's got extra features to it! The craftsmanship is well done on this model! I wanna see this thing's computer; it must have a powerful one!"
"Mar, your job is to repair the dreads, not tear them apart." Scolded Parfait.
"Awww! Come on!" Whined the brat. "Just one little peek. I'll be really careful!"
Hinoki stared at him with glaring eyes. "If you thought Jura was scary with a ruler, think of me without one!"
"Eeep! Yes mam." Mar began to think that he would never have any fun with the dreads.
Meanwhile, at reg center….
"Arrgh! Why do I keep losing to you?" Hibiki growled as he lost another round to Gosconge.
"Poor Mr. Alien." Thought Dita.
"If I were you Hibiki, I'd settle for go fish." Yuki laughed as he began to sketch something in a notebook. "Even if you do win this round, you'll still have sixteen losses today so it won't make a difference."
"That's what you think!" Hibiki huffed, "I'm getting closer to victory with every game."
Hinoki right then walked in.
"Well if it isn't the Hibiki copy." Snickered Gosconge.
"ARRRGH! I am not a copy!" barked Hinoki! "I don't even look like him! How can we be alike?"
"It's the way you are. You got to admit, its strange that you two are alike in so many ways."
"What do you mean that she's like me!" Growled Hibiki "She's a girl and I'm a guy!"
"Good point." Agreed Gosconge, "Then she must be you if you were a girl!"
"That's not funny!" Hollered Hinoki.
"That's right!" Hibiki agreed.
"Come on people." Gosconge said, "It was just a joke."
"It's not funny!" they both screamed.
"See. That's the thing I'm talking about, you two are reflections of eachother."
Yuki laughed as he saw Hinoki and Hibiki quarreling with eachother. He began to sketch that out on a new sheet.
"That's really good Mr. Lone" Dita said. It turns out Dita had crept behind him to take a peek. Too bad she didn't know that Yuri was very embarrassed to let others see his work.
"Don't look at it!" He yelled at her and he shut his sketch book. "Its private!"
"God! Why are you so touchy about what you draw!" Complained his sister, "Even when I was six you'd never show them to anyone. Not even me!"
"I'm embarrassed! OK?" he hollered at them, "I'm not that good of an artist anyway."
"Yes you are! I've seen them before behind you're back and they are wonderful pieces. And hey, Dita thinks their good; you have a fan of you're art!"
"I wouldn't mind seeing a drawing in there." Hibiki said.
"Me neither," Gosconge seconded, "Why don't you just show us one."
"No way!" Yuri put the book closer to him, "No one sees my drawings!"
"Oh please Mr. Lone," Dita begged, "Just one!"
"No! And why do you call me Mr. Lone?"
"Its short for Lone Wolf!"
"Just show us one. Pretty please?" His sister begged as well.
"I said to knock it off!"
"Hinoki" the voices of Parfait and Mar called out.
"What is it now?" she growled, "DID HE BREAK MY DREAD!"
"No…I didn't!" Mar stammered, "There's a big problem though."
"Its true." Said Parfait, "It turns out, there was a tracking device on your machine!"
"What!"
"Its been on this whole time!" Whined Mar, "That's why the cargo probably came to this area!"
"God dam it," Hinoki shouted, "I was so stupid that I didn't think they would put one in there! How could I be so dumb?"
"All that was in the past," said Gosconge, "What we need now is to find out if their coming or not?"
"Sei can find out!" Mar said with delight, "He knows a lot about hacking and crap like that!"
Soon they were all heading to the engine room.
"So is Sei your age?" Hinoki asked Mar.
"Yup! Me and Sei are the best of friends. We look exactly the same but we didn't like it that way so he died his hair black."
"So you two are twins?" Yuki asked.
"What's a twin?" Asked Mar, "Whatever that is, were not twins. The people on Tarak called us an accidental flaw. Children from Tarak never come in pairs, we were the first, making us rejects."
Yuki couldn't believe this. "That doesn't make you rejects that makes you twins."
"It doesn't matter what fancy name you give it. I'm still a flaw in the system."
"This isn't sinking in. Come on guys help me out here!"
But the others were as puzzled as mar was on the word twins.
"This is a strange ship!" Sighed Hinoki as they came across a metal door that said, engine room.
"Hey Seeeeiiiii!" Greeted Mar as he hugged a depressed looking boy on the floor typing on a computer.
"I'm in the middle of something right now!" Sei grumbled, "Whatever it is, it needs to wait."
"We need you to analyze this Sei." Parfait informed as she handed the tracking device to him.
He immediately hooked the tracking device to his computer and began to rapidly type.
"Wow!" Hibiki said in surprise, "He can read that?"
"Of course." Sei said in a depressed tone, "Me and my brother have a high IQ. It's easy for me to understand this."
"What does it say?" Dita asked.
Parfait stood behind Sei and read it out loud. "Hmmm… says here that the tracker's system was sending the coordinates to a strange planet, almost as far as where we were warped when we were fighting the earth forces."
"So will it take it them a year to get here like us?" Gosconge questioned.
"Not if their using the teleport engine." Informed Yuki, "The speed from that puppy is remarkable."
"How remarkable?" Parfait asked.
"They could get here in a matter of days."
Sei turned to Yuki "If you were to make a sum how many would that be."
"I would have to say…"
"Attention! We have an unidentified Flag ship coming at us!" Alarmed Beldivere, "All pilots must launch immediately."
"I would have to say right now." Yuki sighed.
"Come on Dita! We need to get out there!" Hibiki instructed.
"Right!"
"Wait! I'm coming with you guys!" Hinoki caught up to both pilots. "It would be some fun to get revenge on those jerks!"
"I need to get back to my station." Gosconge said as she dashed out of the room to.
"I've gotta see the battle from the front." Yuki said.
Parfait looked at Mar and Sei for a moment. "Okay boys, we've got work to do too!"
All vanguards and dreads were in their formations.
"Careful guys." Hinoki warned, "These guys have been studying your dreads and vanguards since the red peixis marked you as an enemy, they know all weaknesses to your ships, be prepared."
"If we stick to our new attack patterns we'll be fine." Meia assured.
"Here they come!" Jura cried.
The enemy flag ship made a small opening in its hull, and a swarming out were the most powerful warriors they laid eyes upon.
"Everyone! Assemble attack formation delta!" Meia commanded.
"Roger!" the pilots replied as they went into position.
Sadly the pattern was broken up in less than three minutes. And all other patterns also ended in shambles.
"Damn!" Meia cursed, "There too fast to know where there coming from."
"What we need is speed." Hibiki thought aloud, "You thinking what I'm thinking Meia?"
"Let's do it!" Meia speed up to Hibiki's vanguard just to be rammed by an identical replica of her dread. "Who in the world are you? Answer me."
The visual showed a girl with red hair, and deep blue eyes. She showed no expression on her face and she looked very young.
"You look no older than seven!" Meia gasped.
"That's because I am seven" the little girl rammed Meia's dread again, her motionless face then gave out a nasty smile. I'm pilot four of the four berserkers, Vile Ablee."
"Hibiki, you'll need to combine with the others! I need to deal with this brat!" Meia then began chasing the little girl.
"You heard her," Jura laughed, "You and I can be the heroes this ti-eeaaagh!" Jura was also rammed by a copy. "What's the big idea!"
A visual of this pilot popped on Jura's screen. This pilot had violet hair and silver eyes. To top it all off, this pilot was a boy!
Jura was speechless. "What! Man can't pilot dreads!"
The pilot sneered at the surprised blonde. "This ship was modified so a man can operate it. I'm pilot three of the four berserks, Lucas Heart!"
"Hibiki! Combine with Dita! I've got to take care of this punk!"
"Whatever you say." Hibiki was in no mood for this.
"Eeeeeaaaaah!" a screech came from Dita's dread. It was being tailed by her copy.
The visual of the pilot showed that she had purple eyes and wavy orange hair.
"You wanna give in now red cause there's no escape from me. I'm pilot two, Laviene Entoia. I know all your moves and attacks. My dread has more power in its communicator than you have in your whole ship!"
"Mr. Alien! Hellllp!" Dita screamed as she tried all she could to shake Laviene's grab on her.
"Hang on Dita! I'm coming!" Hibiki called to her but was flown back by a giant light of a laser.
"Don't try it." A voice commanded, "Interfere with her battle and I'll kill her on the spot."
Hibiki halted. He saw the power coming from that laser. It would surely blast her ship apart.
"Alright then!" Hibiki snarled, "Where are you! Show yourself!"
"Behind you!"
A robotic fist smashed his vanguard before he could even react. When he regained his balance, he saw that he was fighting an exact replica of his vanguard but it was red instead of the yellow color of Hibiki's. It also carried two weapons on holsters and a giant gun was strapped to its back.
This pilot showed up on Hibiki's visual screen. He had black hair and evil yellow eyes.
"Do you like it?" He asked the shocked Hibiki, "We remodeled your design to be able to carry weapons. Much better than your piece of junk."
"Nobody says that about my partner!" Hibiki bellowed, "We'll settle this in battle."
"Hibiki get away!" Hinoki cried as she made her way towards the two vanguards. "I should be the one to fight him. We worked together, he was my friend. I have to do this!"
"I wondered well I would see you." The pilot smirked, "You were once number one in our little team, until you betrayed us that is. You were so easily to be replaced. Vile takes up as the last and I gain power on the top slot. You're not needed anymore."
"Less talking more fighting!" Demanded Hibiki who charged at the boy only to get his neck grabbed by the red vanguards hands.
The pilot looked at Hibiki for a long moment. "How rude of me. I forgot to introduce myself. I'm Hikaru Kashino. I'm the guy who will put both of you in your graves!"
Georgia followed the strange power she was feeling on the nirvana. 'I wonder where it's taking me?' she asked herself. She seemed to be on the lower levels now. 'This is where the power gets stronger' a door slid open and revealed a long medal path going to the peixis progmma. She stood in the center of the pathway looking at the giant blue orb. "So it was you." She said to it.
"Vvvvvvvvrrrrrhhhhh." Went the peixis.
Georgia knelt beside it and began to do what she was meant to do. Talk to it. 'Peixis, what will happen if we don't win this battle? Will we all die? Will all the planets suffer?'
"Vvvvvrh." The peixis showed her a dream of what would happen. She saw the nirvana blowing up, planets under the Castile rule being enslaved, and worst of all, the red peixis revived.
'How can we stop this from happening?' she asked it in her mind.
"Vrrrrh" it went again.
"What do you mean we'll lose either way?"
Outside, the battle raged on. Meia was trying to speed up to Vile. Jura's battle was more like an insult contest with Lucas. Dita was still trying to get way from Laviene and Hibiki and Hinoki were still fighting Hikaru.
Hibiki was attacking his opponent with his sword while his opponent used a sword hidden behind his holsters. Hikaru was doing an amazing job of dodging all of Hinoki's attacks while still having a match with Hibiki. Hikaru's sword tried to make a blow for the head and was stopped by Hibiki's vanguard's hands but his body suddenly got a flow of electricity.
"Heh. Good try Hibiki but not good enough." Laughed Hikaru, "I customized my sword so the blade will send off electric currents to whatsoever touches it. "You're just a big lightning rod right now.
"I wont give up!" Hibiki said to himself as he tried to move his vanguard but to no avail.
"Your machine is useless now." Hikaru grinned, "I'll see you on the other side." He stretched his sword high in the air for the final blow.
"You can't forget about me that easily Hikaru!" Hinoki teased as she shot the weapon out of his grasp. "Hibiki! Nows your chance to finish him."
Hibiki's machine spring back to life. "Right!"
"I wont be intimidated by some common pilot and a traitor." Hikaru bellowed. Reaching for a weapon on his back, he fired it at Hinoki's dread which stopped moving.
"Hey! What gives?" she whined.
"You weren't the smartest one were you? It's the EMP sniper. It sends electric surges to a powered vehicle short fusing it momentarily." He turned to Hibiki.
"Tell me, what is your name?"
"Hibiki Tokai. And I'm not loosing to a guy like you."
"I like your enthusiasm. I'll bring you flowers on your grave as thanks for making it worth my while to fight you."
"Oh no!" Cried Dita, "Mr. Alien is in trouble! Hinoki, we need to help him!"
"I wish I could help but I'm kinda in a situation where my dread won't start up."
"Hey lover girl stop fooling around!" Teased Laviene, "Were still in a fight!"
'I've got to stop her but how! She's always behind me' Dita pondered, 'Wait! Maybe that's the answer!"
Dita's dread came to a halt.
"This is too good to be true." Laveiene said under her breath, "Sorry darling, but I don't take surrender that easily, I wanna hear you cry first!" She charged at the dread top speed.
'I have to time this perfectly' Dita said in her mind.
Laviene was getting closer.
'Wait for it….'
It was now only a mile away and gaining fast.
"NOW!" Dita turned on her thrusters which blasted Laviene's dread. Laviene's ship shut down immediately.
"God Damn It!" Growled Laviene, "I lost on account of overheating!"
"Good, now to save Mr. Alien."
"Well Hibiki, the traitor seems to have lost my sword and your bravery is worthy enough so I'll fight you with bare hands." Hikaru announced.
Hibiki agreed putting his sword away. "Fine by me, but if you choose no weapons, so will I."
"How honorable, this fight will be one to remember."
Hibiki charged at Hikaru's machine but was once again, Hikaru countered by dodging the blow and clasping his robotic hands around the original.
"Mr. Alien!" Cried Dita, "I'm here to help! We can now combine!"
Hibiki kicked Hikaru's dread in the stomach letting himself out of his grasp. Even before Hikaru could get back into position, Hibiki and Dita already combined.
"Nice work Dita." Congratulated Hibiki.
Dita stared at Hikaru in anger, "When me and Mr. Alien are together, Nothing's impossible!"
Hikaru grabbed his gun on his back, "Hibiki! I warned you that if you of her interfered with each other's battles. Now she must die!" He fired a long green ray at them making them split apart.
"Dita! Dita!" Screamed Hibiki, "Dita! Answer me!"
No answer came from Dita; she was out cold from he blast.
"You ass!" Hinoki cursed at Hikaru. "How could you be so awful? I thought you had feelings! But you've now showed me your true side! I'll never forgive you!"
"I told Hibiki what would happen," Hikaru sighed, "And look what he made me do. I had to use the peixis soul cannon."
"The soul cannon! But….that's…"
"Untested? Well now we have something to test it on, and it was only at forty-five percent of its power.
Hibiki gave a small smile "Look at you. You're such a coward."
Hikaru couldn't believe what the pilot was saying, "You think I'm a coward? Now that's really rich!"
"You're just like the red peixis. You put yourself behind giant weapons to hide your fear. You bulk that thing up more and more so you can pretend you're stronger. But behind the armor is a sniveling coward who fears everything. I don't need to hide behind fancy toys! I have friends who stick by me, and a great partner. And with that, I'm going to beat you!"
Hikaru's eyes blazed with anger. "I….AM…..NO…..COWARD! You've really pissed me off today! So I'm gonna skip the sympathy crap and kill you the way I like it! Using this thing at full peak"
"Gyahhh!" Screamed Hinoki, "If it's at full blast! The Nirvana will be blown to bits!"
The cannon began to charge up a giant ray. "Say goodbye!"
"Rahhhh! This is for Dita!" Hibiki thrusted his left arm into the cannon's mouth stopping the ray.
'Weapon ray, jammed' read something on Hikaru's computer, 'One minute to weapon's meltdown.'
"What the hell do you think you're doing!" cried Hikaru, "The gun will explode now! Are you crazy?" Hikaru tried to get his robotic hand off the gun but Hibiki clasped his right hand on Hikaru's fingers.
"I'm not crazy" Hibiki laughed, "I'm just no coward!"
'There's one ray of hope left progma,' Georgia said in hopes of it to agree.
'There's another peixis, on that flagship. It is enslaved, it wants to be free. If you combine both of your powers, we will win.'
"Vuuuuuu"
'I know it wants to help too but it can't do it alone. You both must help each other.'
The peixis glowed brightly.
"Hey did ya see that!" Mar said tugging on Parfait's outfit, "The peixis just brightened!"
Parfait looked out the window. "Wow! Peixis is really giving it all its got!"
"Isn't that that girl that was rescued from that dread?" Sei said pointing to a figure on the pathway.
"Hmmmm… I wonder what she's up to."
"Hey Dita? You alright?"
"Unngh….Mr. Alien?" Dita awoke to see that she and Hinoki were being carried back to the Nirvana by Gosconge. She also saw that enemy and ally ships were retreating.
"Ooooh…Hinoki…What happened?"
"No time to say anything, except we gotta book it outta this sector."
"Wait! Where's Mr. Alien!"
"I'm not going back Dita." Said the sad voice of Hibiki.
"Why Mr. Alien? Don you know that this place is going to explode?"
"I know Dita, but I have to stay here to protect you."
"Why! Why cant you protect us on the Nirvana!"
"Dita…" Hinoki grieved, "His hand's stuck in Hikaru's cannon, and if he takes his hand out…we'll all die."
"But if he doesn't, he'll die!"
"Don't make it harder for him!" Yelled Meia, "He's doing this for us."
"Dita, he chose to do this by his own free will." Said Barnette.
"He wants to save us." Jura explained, "He wants to save you."
Tears rolled down Dita's face, "Will you come back Mr. Alien."
A tear sheded from Hibiki's left eye. "Sure I will. But you have to cook me up something nice. And after that I'll see your room. I promise."
She smiled and let Gosconge bring her back to the Nirvana. But a loud explosion from the gun sounded.
"MR. ALIEN!"
"The explosion is spreading too fast!" Cried Gosconge, "We'll never make it back to the Nirvana on time!"
"Here it comes!" Wailed Hinoki as they were swallowed by flames.
Even though they should have been swallowed by the gun's beam, they were shielded by a strange light.
"Hey! What's going on?" Jura cowardly asked, "Shouldn't we be dead?"
"I think it's this light." Hiniki pointed out. "Its looks greenish blue."
Once the flames died off, so did the shield revealing two dread pilots carrying Laviene's and Hikaru's ships.
"You haven't seen the last of us!" Cried out one of the pilots as he disappeared back on the ship.
"Looks like their retreating." Meia sighed with relief.
"Where's Mr. Alien!" Dita cried, "Do you think he survived?"
"What's that thing over there?" Barnette pointed out behind the debris.
It was all beaten up but it looked like a vanguard.
"It's Mr. Alien!" Dita cried in relief.
Oooooooh! Things get interesting right after this chapter. I hoped you liked this one. On the next chapter: A new vanguard! Please tell me if you like this story.