This is chapter ten and the beginning of some wild things. I'm so glad that you guys love this story because there's going to be more chapters in the future. I just love writing! Keep reading everyone.

I don't own vandread. If I did, I'd make a sequel to it.

Vandread stat sheet:

Name: Hinoki Cross-

Hinoki was once head pilot for the Castilian's berserker four. But after a devastating attack on the trite planet, she ran off with her brother and Georgia and they met the Nirvana crew. Hinoki has a personality like Hibiki's which gives her the name of Hibiki's clone. She also had a very close relationship with Hikaru but it was shattered after he tried to kill her (It kinda ruins the moment ya know). Being in the berserker four meant she had a tough berserker but it was only seen in a little fragment but her power was to shoot light blasts from her hands and to have super strength….erm…or something like that. Oh whatever. I'll tell you guys what power she has another time.

Chpt.10: What Is War Good For

"We've finished copying the data from the disk Lucas gave us." Parfait triumphantly said. "What he said was true, it is a map, a map that doesn't work."

"So we can't find the Castilian planet yet?" BC asked the big hologram of Parfait.

"No, Sei helped me find what little information we could still left on the disk. It gives us half of it so after we go through that point, we'll be on our own."

"And taking this directory could send more Castilian ships at us." BC finished, "What do you think captain?"

"I say it's the best choice we have right now." The captain replied, "There are many lives being dismantled by that planet and I'd like to see it stopped."

"Understood. Everyone, Set a course from that map." BC commanded.

"This almost reminds me of us trying to get back to Mejere." Magno said, "I hope this adventure is as fun as that."

Dita sat in her room with an even happier smile on her face. She was busy sewing something that sat on her lap. She hummed a happy tune as she worked that morning. With the last three stitches done to it she held it out for her to see.

"Perfect!" she said in glee as then she ran off.

"Okay Hibiki, It's your turn." Gosconge said pressing the button on the timer, "….did you hear me? I said it's…"

"I know what you said!" Hibiki grumbled as he stared at his cards.

Hinoki, Misty, and two other men sat there at reg center keeping their time occupied by watching Gosco and Hibiki's card game.

"Hibiki, if you don't make a move soon your going to loose by a technicality." Hinoki teased.

"Grr, I know that."

"Hate to say it but you don't keep a good face in this game," One man said, "You'll loose for sure."

"Shut up!"

"Times awaiting," Gosco told him, "Better hurry up and make your move."

Hibiki took one last look and then……..

"MR. ALIEN!" a sudden cry yipped as it grabbed him and sent him tumbling to the floor.

"Dita," Hibiki yelled, "Why'd you do something like that! I was in the middle of something."

She put the parcel straight to his face and gave him her most pleasant look. "Go ahead take a look."

He looked at her with suspicion as he took it from her hands. Tearing the paper she wrapped it with revealed pieces of clothing. He held up what looked to be a jacket.

"What's this all about?" He asked her.

She almost burst from all her excitement as she said, "It's your new outfit!"

"Wha?"

"Oh how romantic!" Misty said dreamful and Q-chan made a happy heart, "It's just like in those movies I watched on Pluto."

"Wow Hibiki, she did all that for you." One of the men pointed out, "Maybe you should…. Kiss her!"

"Heck no! It's an outfit, not a date!" He barked.

"Then wear it." Hinoki said.

"Huh?"

"Wear the outfit. She went through all that trouble to make it for you. The least you could do is trying it on."

Hibiki stumbled at this, "Well….I would but I still have to finish the game."

"Actually you just lost." Gosco pointed out as the clock blinked zero.

"What! Awwww…..I was so close this time."

"No you weren't." Misty said pushing him into the men's bathroom, "Now get dressed."

Moments later, Hibiki came out wearing a new out fit. Instead of being the regular orange for the jacket, it was green with some orange designs in there. And the pants were like Yuki's which meant they didn't puff up like the Tarrak pants.

"Not bad at all Hibiki." Hinoki said looking from all sides, "You look good in it."

"Oh it's just so adorable!" Misty squealed, "You're fantastic at this Dita!"

"It was nothing." She blushed, "How do you like it Mr. Alien?"

Hibiki was silent for a little while and then spoke up. "I don't like it."

Misty couldn't believe this, "You what!"

"I just don't like it. It feels…..weird."

"Of course it does!" Hinoki barked, "You've been wearing the same outfit forever. You'll fit into this one soon. And besides, your old outfit was an engineer's uniform. You're a pilot now. Dress like one!"

"Shut up! I just don't like the damn thing!"

"I'm sorry Mr. Alien," Dita said sorrowfully, "I'll just take it back."

"Dita I….erm….I didn't mean it like that…..I….uhhh."

"I have an idea." Misty said, "Why doesn't Hibiki wear the outfit for the whole day and if he doesn't like it, he won't need to wear it anymore. That way, he had already used Dita's present."

"Whatcha say Hibiki?" Hinoki asked, "You think you can last one measly day?"

"Of course I can!" He huffed, "I can take on this stupid challenge."

"Alright, but you have to wear it all day and go on with your life like nothing has happened." Misty pointed out.

"Whatever, I can do it." But after a while, Hibiki felt a little bit awkward wearing it because everyone knew where he got it from and it all became annoying.

"You got that from Dita didn't you?" Bart said, "Come on you can tell us."

"Shut up!"

"So it is from her. So are you going to giver something in return?"

"I said shut up! I'm not even keeping it!"

"What? But it was from Dita." Yuki said, "Certainly you have a special bond with her. You can't just throw something like that away."

"What do you know!"

"But he's right." Duero pointed out, "You do care for Dita more than any one else and if you get rid of it, you'd probably upset her. Are you sure you want to do that?"

"Yeah," Seconded Bart, "Remember the last time?"

The thought of Dita getting upset again like when he said he hated her didn't go through Hibiki's head so well but he tossed it to the side. "Argh….you guys make me sick. Its high time I fix my partner anyway." And he ran off.

"He's just running from the inevitable." Yuki sighed sketching another drawing.

"Speaking of which how's it going with you and Meia?" Bart slyly said.

"Come again?"

"You know. You two….uhhh…what's that word that Misty always saying….dating."

"Wha? I'm certainly not dating her. I'm just drawing her."

"Exactly, you two must be hitting it off."

"It is strange why you call her Athena." Duero pointed out, "Perhaps something like Dita's nickname for Hibiki."

Yuki suddenly felt the same urge to leave like Hibiki. "Oh would you look at the time. It's time for me to ….err….meet with my sister." And as the doors swung open her burst right out of there.

"Ergh, why does everyone get so touchy about relationships!" Bart growled.

"What's the matter?" Said violet haired figure drinking vodka and took a seat next to the two, "You guys lonely? I wouldn't suspect that, you two already have relationships."

"Relationships?" Duero repeated.

"Yeah. You have Parfait and Bart has that weird girl or that man-woman it's hard to tell he likes the co-captain but I think he's now going for the other Nirvana pilot….if she wasn't so shy."

"Hey, wait a minute," Bart began, "Aren't you supposed to be in a cell?"

Duero and Bart gave Lucas cold stares.

"I was let out on good behavior. Seeing that I saved you from the last attack on your ship it was only fair."

Bart thought this over. "Hmmmm…..I'm not buying it."

"I agree." Duero seconded, "If you were really let out wouldn't everyone be informed."

Lucas suddenly felt the urge to run and went full throttle on both of them.

"Geez, I can't believe those guys." Hibiki mumbled as he walked down the long hall with his arms hung behind his head. "Its none of there business."

"Good morning Hibiki!" Said the cheerful voice of the robot Pyoro, "Is that a new outfit? Where'd you get it?"

"It's none of your business."

"Oh I see. Dita made it for you!"

"Argh, I've had it with you!" Hibiki growled and kicked the robot.

"Ow, you don't need to be so sensitive about it." Pyoro whined, "You should be happy to get something like that from Dita."

"Shut up!" Hibiki growled but now was being followed by a ranting robot.

"You are always so grouchy when it comes to Dita. You should open you feelings to her. Maybe you and Dita can have a baby, and you can name it….Pyoro 3!"

"Argh! Shut Up!"

Luckily for Hibiki, the alarm for enemy vessels was sounded.

"Alright, a battle! I'll show that Hikaru a thing or two!" Hibiki grabbed Pyoro and ran off.

"Hey, why are you taking me along!" The egg robot whined.

"Cause I thought it would be fun to try out our secret weapon."

"Vandread Pyoro is going to defeat them all in one swoop!"

"For the last time, were not calling it that! Got it!"

Hikaru gave a slight grin from inside his cockpit. "Hibiki's wandered a little too close for comfort. Better show him the welcome wagon." He clicked a button turning on a screen from the weapons room.

"How are we today Hikaru?" The chief weaponry engineer asked.

"Just fine and you?"

"Good as ever."

"You did equip my machine with the new gun I asked for right?"

"The peixis green sniper? How could I forget? Now the sniper can't work on peixis power alone so I put another item in your cockpit that should help out. It should be by your feet."

Hikaru immediately felt something by his foot and grasped it. "Is this…."

"Yup," The engineer replied, "It hooks up to the systems and it's the only one of its kind so be careful."

"Sure." Hikaru said as he ended the transmission and stared at his parcel. "Why don't we say hello to some of our old friends?" He humbly said to it and looked to see that Hibiki was already charging at him.

"Alright, everyone take positions." Meia commanded, "Stick close together or we'll be in trouble."

"Yeah, yeah," Hibiki sighed, "I got it; just let me take on Hikaru."

"That's not wise at all." Meia snapped, "The last times you've attacked that boy we've wound up seriously injured. And now that they don't have a pilot for the copy of Jura's they must have come up with another plan. It's best that we take advantage of it."

"I don't see the Dita copy either." Jura announced, "What's up with that?"

"They must be up to something. Be on your guard." Meia called out as all pilots began to attack.

The giant swarm of pilots on both sides meshed and began to destroy one another. And thanks to the Nirvana's tactics, it seemed like they were winning. And the enemy flagship wasn't too pleased.

"Damn them to hell," Cried a man in the center chair in the control room, "I can't believe their winning!"

"But Captain Celtic," began a girl, "We still have Hikaru, one of the best pilots on our planet. He'd surely make a comeback."

"He's too preoccupied with that one boy to listen to orders," The Captain gritted, "He only went to this ship was because the Beast left back to Castile and he wanted to fight the nirvana! Oh, this is not good."

"Perhaps I can be of some service." said a woman in a robe taking a seat beside him. "I have stocked up this ship with a secret trump card."

"Lord Sakura," The captain gasped, "I-I'm grateful"

"Please it's my job as a Lord," She assured, "I may be only lord of the planet's environment but I can get some nice little toys once in a while. "

"….." The captain could not say anything to the pink haired woman, only gawk and blush.

"Well….aren't you going to use it?" She asked in glee, "Its crate b-2-90."

"Oh erm….right, Launch the crate b-2-90!" The captain commanded. And a giant crate was sent out into the battle in space.

"What's that thing?" Hibiki said as the giant crate opened.

"It's huge!" Hinoki gasped as the crate burst revealing something horrible.

"It's a bad alien!" Dita cried as all gazed upon it in horror.

It looked somewhat of a giant red bat with wavy wings.

"What the hell is it!" Hibiki demanded, "We've never fought anything like that before."

"It's a genetically altered red peixis monster." Hinoki informed, "We used them as last minute battle weapons."

The monster let out a terrifying screech and then began to flap its wings.

"Of course we only use them at the last minute is because they kill everything in sight."

The monster screeched again and grabbed on to Jura's dread with its giant claws.

"Eyah! It's so ugly!" Jura cried as the monster tightened its grip, "Keep it away!"

"Why'd they let out something like that Mister Hikaru?" Vile asked her officer.

"Damn it. They don't think we can win." Hikaru growled and turned on his communicator, "How could you let something like that out Captain? It's a deadly monster that could even kill our own pilots."

Lord Sakura pushed the captain over and began to speak on his behalf, "We can't afford to loose to these people again. They keep beating us with their transformations; the only way to beat them is with that thing."

"So you're just letting our warriors get sacrificed! That pretty l-erhgh!" Hikaru was suddenly grabbed by the creature.

"Hikaru," Vile cried as she watched him struggle to get out of its grasp. "Let him go!"

Vile shot fires right at him but all it did was annoy the monster. It let go of Jura to swing its arm at her sending her flying.

"Jura!" Barnette cried, "Are you alright!"

"My dreads damaged but I'm fine," Jura answered, "I'm not going to be beaten by some stupid beast! I say we should combine to Vandread-Pyoro!"

"Why must we call it that?" Hibiki moaned.

"Vandread….Pyoro?" Hinoki repeated.

"It's the best vandread of all," Pyoro triumphantly said, "It beats all the other vandreads!"

"Are you calling my fabulous vandread a pile of junk!" Jura growled.

"Enough of this," Hibiki cried, "Let's just do this!"

Meia, Dita, Hibiki, and Jura both slammed into each other forming the ultimate vandread. Many were astounded by its looks and power.

"Whoa! That's amazing," Hinoki gasped, "It's beautiful."

And inside the nirvana many were watching it stunned too.

"I've never seen anything like that before." Georgia said watching from inside the pool...and suddenly remembered that Bart was in there and began to hide on her side as always.

"Let's take this thing out," Meia commanded.

The vandread Pyoro's sword left its sheath and went for the strike. And as they thought they had finished off the horrid creature, it grabbed the blade before they could touch it. But this had worked out well for Hikaru though. For the monster let him goes and began to claw through the armor of the vandread with its free hand.

Hikaru's vanguard was badly damaged and he took a couple blows himself, but he still managed to get his new gun out. 'Even if that thing does destroy the enemy…' his robotic finger touched the trigger, 'what's stopping it from killing all of our people?' he immediately squeezed letting out a small laser that blasted a hole in the monster's open hand.

Infuriated by this, the alien grabbed Hikaru and began to squeeze the robot making Hikaru feel the burning pain that his robot was feeling. Then the monster's mouth began to glow red.

"Ah! What's that all about?" Dita asked in fear.

"It's going to blast us with red peixis energy!" Hikaru cried, "It will kill us all!"

"Sorry but I'm in no mood to die!" Hibiki laughed and pressed a button and the robot let its left arm off the sword. It was strange but that hand began to glow blue.

The hand was showed right into the monster's mouth and………..BRRROOOOFFFF!

A giant explosion was heard and it almost enveloped all in the blast. The enemy retreated and the nirvana went a safe distance watching the chaos that unfolded. Out of the blazing fireball came Meia, Jura, and Dita quickly scurrying away.

"Did we win?" Jura asked but a sounding screech gave her the answer as the monster revealed itself and flew off.

"We….we couldn't even beat it," Meia gasped, "How….why?"

Dita was busy scurrying around the site, "Mr. Alien? Mr. Alien? Where's Mr. Alien! Do you think he's hurt!"

"Calm down Dita."Meia assured, "he's probably looking for Hikaru."

"I'm getting a reading from Hibiki's dread" Amarone said, "Its faint, as if he's almost completely left the area."

"He couldn't have gone that far," BC thought, "Where are his coordinates?"

"He's taking the same route as…..oh my!"

"What is it?"

"It seems that he's traveling with that monster."

Dita was frightened by this, "Mr. Alien is going to be eaten!" She cried as she raced to get her Hibiki back.

I'm being nice this time and splitting this chapter into two segments so you don't need to worry anymore about me slacking off. If you want me to start writing my stories to the halfway point (Where the commercial would begin), tell me. I'll start doing more of them like this. Anyway...this is the tenth chapter and still more to go. I was susposed to only make thirteen but I'll probably scoot it up a little bit. Ooooh! And after the last episode, I'm making two sequels...at the same time! Whatch me go!