It's me again, bringing you the last segment of chapter 10. I've also realized that I suck at remembering Yuki and Hinoki's last name. If you want to know….Its Dove. My old story had them as Cross so it's hard to get by on that. I'm also only writing three more chapters for this story so it will be more like vandread (Vandread only had thirteen episodes for each season). That's it for now and keep reading.

Chpt.10 part2: What is war good for

"Damit," Hibiki growled as he tried to get free from the giant monster's grasp. "There's no way I'm going to be lunch to an oversized harvester."

The little robot in his cockpit wasn't much help at all either. All he did was whine and cry.

"Pyoro 2," he sobbed, "I'll never see her again!"

"Shut up Pyoro!" Hibiki snarled at the robot, "Were going to get out of here."

"How? If you annoy that monster too much, it will probably crush us to death."

Hibiki knew that that was true. His vanguard alone can't stand a chance against something three times the size.

"Why couldn't we even beat that thing with the super vandread," Hibiki said in frustration, "We beat greater foes with it. Why was this one different?"

"Don't you remember anything!" Pyoro said, "It was that giant blast it shot out!"

Hibiki thought about this for a moment and came to a conclusion, "It couldn't only be that. There must have been something were missing."

"Maybe it was the fact that IT WAS SEVEN HUNDREAD FEET TALL!"

Hibiki punched the robot on the side of the cockpit, "Shut up!" He commanded, "You can get pretty annoying at times."

The monster let out a horrific screech as the two quarreled.

"What's got into him?"

Pyoro pressed a few buttons in Hibiki's vanguard opening a giant screen showing a planet.

"It seems that he's taking us to that planet." Pyoro quivered as he thought of things.

"I bet he's going to eat us when we get there." Hibiki said.

"What do you mean us!" Pyoro huffed, "Harvesters only eat humans."

"Maybe he needs some new gadgets. I bet you'd make a nice belt buckle for the guy."

"Ha ha…very funny"

"Hey! The harvester's carrying something else." Hibiki pointed his finger to the other monster's hand.

Pyoro squinted at it, "Looks like a red vanguard."

"Hikaru? He was caught by that thing? But his team let it out. Don't they know how to control it?"

"Red peixis is very powerful. I don't think they can harness such a great foe even if they could destroy it."

"Why send out a thing like it anyway? All it does is kill."

Another loud screech came from the bowels of the monster's mouth as they entered the planet's atmosphere. Hibiki's dread shook wildly as the monster gripped his prey even more.

"We've got to do something!" Dita cried, "I can't sit back and wait for Mr. Alien to die!"

"Calm down Dita we haven't lost hope yet." Jura said, "It's just that there's a giant beast that has him in his clutches, which we can't beat, and is going to eat him soon."

"NO!" Dita screamed, "Mr. Alien! I have to save him."

Meia grasped the girl's hand, "Dita, you have to calm down. It's not the first time Hibiki disappeared. We'll get him back."

Dita looked up at her officer with teary eyes, "Promise?"

"Yes." She calmly said. It made the red head brighten a little. "Alright, the first plan of business is to find where that monster is going."

"And to do that we need a device that can trace far distances." Misty said.

"I wasn't thinking of a device." Meia replied.

All turned to the black haired Georgia that finally got out of the pool. She knew what was going to happen next.

"NO!" She whined, "I already did my job! I don't wanna go back in there! It's creepy!"

But seeing all the faces pointed at her she had no choice but to get back in. She immediately turned and jumped back into the pool.

She sighed a little, "Why must it be me that finds themselves in uncomfortable predicaments?"

She looked up to see Bart staring at her.

"I thought you left?" He said and was given a punch in the face.

"Turn around!"

The monster dropped gently to the ground and placed both vanguards by his feat.

"Looks like he's now going to eat us." Hibiki told the fearful robot who kept screaming.

"I'm never going to see my precious Pyoro 2 again!"

"Hmmm….it placed my partner on its stomach….so." Hibiki pushed a button opening the cockpit door. He landed on the sandy ground and pulled out Pyoro,

"Sorry partner but I have to leave you for a while." Hibiki apologized to his robot as he and Pyoro ran off.

The monster noticed the two little mice running from their cage and let out a big roar. The ground shook as the sound echoed though the vast planet. Hibiki stumbled from this but immediately went back on his feet to dodge a blow from the creature's claws. The monster was furious by this and let out another screech.

"Damn!" Hibiki cursed, "He's just going to keep going on like this and then catch us!" The claws went for him again, even though he had tried to dodge it, he now found himself in a cage like the mouse he was. The monster gripped Hibiki tight as it leaned forward. It made a slight snarl of delight seeing the fear in its foe's eyes as it was about to devour the pilot. It opened its mouth widely and was going to bite the head first. The robot Pyoro could only hide in fear. The harvester's eyes perplexed around the tiny human he had in his grasp and then all of the sudden a bright light shined upon him, blinding it and immediately dropping Hibiki.

Hibiki tumbled out of the sky and to his grave on the ground. He was sure that it was the end of him but for a stroke of luck, something grabbed him by his wrist. As the light dimmed away, it was all revealed to him.

"How's it like being rescued by your own enemy…twice?" Hikaru asked with a smirk on his face. He gripped on to Hibiki's hand tightly as he soared through the air with what looked to be some glider that formed from his backpack.

"Hikaru?" Hibiki said with surprise.

Hikaru dropped gently to the ground a few feet away and began to urge Hibiki to run.

"What I don't get is why you'd save a guy like me." Hibiki questioned, "I thought you hated me."

"The fact is I do." Hikaru huffed, "But we have a more dangerous problem at hand. That monster is coming for us but together, we may be able to get rid of him."

"Get rid of him? We need our vanguards for that. How the hell are we supposed to do anything without them?"

Hikaru suddenly stopped once they were out of the monster's range. "Here." He said tossing the egg robot in Hibiki's face, "He seems to be a friend of yours so I brought him along. And more importantly, he can be used when we need a signal to a ship."

"I'm still alive!" Pyoro cried in relief and began to hug Hibiki out of joy.

"Would you get off of me!" Hibiki growled yanking him off.

"Well now that you two have been reacquainted, why not help and try and find a little more about our surroundings." Hikaru said.

Hibiki looked through the entire place, "Looks like were on a desert planet. Kinda like Tarrak except for the stone mountains."

Hikaru pulled something out of his bag that was shaped like an orb and threw it up in the sky. The orb began to float by itself. "Well then, I say we look for shelter in the mountains." Hikaru suggested. "The monster can't catch us if we hide."

"Are we really going to follow him?" Pyoro asked his accomplice, "He is a Castilian soldier after all."

"What choice do we have?" Hibiki shrugged and began to follow Hikaru and his orb, "You could always stay here if you want. And get eaten."

"I'm certainly not staying here!" Pyoro huffed and began to follow.

After a while of walking through the long and hot dessert in silence, Hibiki decided this was a good time as any to get to know a little more about Hikaru. Of course he had nowhere to begin so he just went off on that orb.

"So…that thing over there…" He began, "What is it?"

Hikaru turned and looked at him quickly and then darted his head back toward the mountain they were nearing.

"It's none of your business." He huffed, "But if you want to know anything, it was the thing that set off that blinding light back there."

"So it's a flare?"

"No, it's none of your business. None of my items are. So stick your nose in someone else's problems instead of mine."

"Argh! I'm not sticking my nose in your problems!" Hibiki snarled, "I'm trying to have a conversation."

"You haven't forgotten that I'm your enemy?"

"And you haven't forgot that were going to get out of here together!"

"Fine, I'll answer a few of your questions, once we get up the mountain and find shelter."

"Fine then!" And it became a silent trip from that point.

Soon they finally reached the giant boulder of a mountain and began to watch it in awe. The little orb beeped and numbers on a holographic screen appeared.

"According to this we don't have to climb for so long." Hikaru said in relief. "There's a hollow area around those shrubs."

"Alright then," Hibiki gripped on to a rock sticking out and began to make his way up, "Let's climb!"

Hikaru was more hesitant about this, "We should still find out if it's safe in there. It could be dangerous."

"What's more dangerous than a gigantic harvester that eats humans?" Hibiki asked.

Hikaru sighed but knew that Hibiki was right about this and began to climb. Pyoro clenched himself on Hibiki's back as he scaled the mountain making whimpering noises as they went higher.

"Hurry up Hibiki," The robot whined, "The monster's going to come back."

"Give it a rest." Hibiki snarled back, "I'm going as fast as I can."

"PYORO 2! Wahhhh! We'll never see her again!"

Hibiki got pretty ticked off at the robot by this time and threw him a few feet in the air where Pyoro hit a giant boulder which then began to come loose. It began to roll right toward them accompanied by other rocks. It seemed like the end for them all. Hibiki heard a slight growl from Hikaru; he turned to see that he had already grown out his fangs and claws. He was now a berserker. Hikaru catapulted into the air rocketing toward his doom. Stretching out his claws, he slashed his way through the boulders tuning them into nothing more than pebbles. He then landed beside the entrance to the cave and turned to Hibiki.

"This is the third time I saved your life." He chuckled and suddenly collapsed on the stone ground.

Hibiki quickly climbed up to Pyoro and Hikaru. "What just happened to him?"

"Kff Kff!" Hikaru coughed spitting out bits of blood.

"He's really sick." Pyoro said, "We need to get him inside."

"Yeah yeah." Hibiki grumbled carrying Hikaru on his back, "Don't worry, I'm way ahead of you."

"You did what!" Andréa cried on the hologram of Captain Celtic. "You'd better go save Hikaru! OR SO HELP ME GOD I'LL…"

"That's enough my lady." Lord Amith calmed her, "I think they got the point."

"We'll he is a smart boy." She said with a positive attitude, "He probably killed that earth monster and that annoying nirvana pilot."

"Of course he did."

"Don't worry my lady." Captain Celtic bowed in fear, "I'll get him back. I swear to you."

"And I'll be here to make sure he keeps his word." Lord Sakura said wrapping her arms around the captain and putting her head on his shoulder. "Hikaru will be with us in no time. Bye bye." And the transmission was disconnected.

"Do not fret my lady." Amith said, "He's probably on his way back here right now."

"Of course." She said in relief. "He'd also better bring back Hibiki with him. I have some unfinished business to tend to…with my cousin."

What they did not expect is that they had someone spying on them the whole time. A blonde man with spectacles sat behind the door and listened inside. After hearing all he walked to his chambers and looked at an old picture of the Andréa he once knew.

"May the spirits give both those boys a safe journey home." He whispered

Hikaru awoke dazed in the cave. His jacket was thrown on top of him to be a blanket and his head rested on his backpack. The little orb hovered around him blinking blue. He held out his hand and called the little orb to his side. He then slowly sat up to take a look at his surroundings. He noticed he was laid by a bon fire Hibiki had made a while ago. He stared in at the fire, perplexed by it. The warmth from it made him feel a little better.

"So his royal highness awakens." Hibiki smirked appearing from nowhere putting more wood in to feed the flames. "What was with that? You were fine one minute than you collapse another."

Hikaru felt his head throbbing so put his head back down on his pack. "It was…because of my berserker."

Hibiki sat on the other side of the fire while Pyoro chased the orb. "I thought berserkers were supposed to help make you stronger."

"They are. Mine's just a little different. Mine does give me a boost like other have, but after… it takes my strength away. It's a side effect of the tattoos. Not many have it. Heck, I could be the only one."

"You idiot," Hibiki went to his feet, "Why the hell get something like that in you then. Your life's important and yet you try and kill it."

"We needed it today didn't we?" Hikaru huffed, "Without it, both of us would be dead by now. And I need it. It's the only thing that makes me strong."

"Strength doesn't come from some booster," Hibiki began, "It comes from deep inside you. It comes from friendship, courage, and determination. Some tattoo can't give you that."

"Don't give me that bull. It may work for you but I need something like this. It's the only way…to protect people I love."

"!"

"I miss Hinoki. Every single day I get up I can't stop thinking of her. I wonder what she's up to and how's she doing." Hikaru turned and looked at Hibiki, "Did your outfit change."

Hibiki's face turned red and he began to look at the fire. "It's new."

"It looks better than your old one. Did you get it from that red head?"

Hibiki's face turned bright red by this, "Uhhh."

Hikaru chuckled a bit, "She did a fine job. Hinoki used to give me trinkets."

Both laughed a bit from this. "Yeah, Dita does that all the time with me." Hibiki laughed.

Hikaru pulled out a picture of Hinoki and him. They both weren't wearing uniforms either. More like everyday outfits and they were in a park. He seemed to brighten a little bit by it.

Hibiki noticed this, "If you were so happy with Hinoki, then why'd you stay as a soldier?"

Hikaru's face dimmed by this and he put the picture away, "Because she's not the only person I cherish. Lord Andréa is another."

Hikaru sat up and began, "I was very young when my parents died. I couldn't even remember their faces. No one knew what to do with me being so little and from a high ranking family. It was thought to just throw me in some orphanage but Lord Andréa came to my aide. She raised me like I was her own brother. She taught me everything I know and trained me. I could never repay her for all she's done, but I can fight alongside her till the day I die."

'What am I doing?' Hibiki asked himself, 'Hikaru's the enemy and yet I'm enjoying hanging around him. Is it like what that girl keeps telling me?' He thought back to what the girl told him that Hikaru is tortured by a false past.

Hikaru's face seemed to become more serious at this time, "Hey Hibiki. Did you ever… have a dream where you see yourself as a child and a girl keeps talking to you?"

Hibiki was shocked by this.

"I keep having the same dream over and over. I'm really young and I'm in a park, and I meet up with this boy that's name is also Hibiki. And it feels like I met him before, and I really enjoy playing with him in the park. Then this girl starts talking to me, about saving me from a false past or I'll become the devourer."

That was new to Hibiki. The little girl never mentioned the Devourer to him before, 'Could she mean the red peixis?'

"Then suddenly my hands are covered by red crystals and I'm devoured by them. Then I wake up. Sounds weird doesn't it… Why the hell did I tell you anyway? I blame my fever, we'll I'm going to get some sleep." Hikaru then turned over his body to the left side of the cave.

"Wait Hikaru! I think I know why you've had those dreams. It's because…" But Hibiki was a little too late, Hikaru already fallen into the dream world. Hibiki sighed and fell asleep too as Pyoro still chased the orb.

"Oh Mr. Alien?" Dita called in her dread, "Mr. Alien? Where are you?"

"Dita get back inside." Meia commanded, "You need to be here."

"But…Mr. Alien!"

"We already have someone searching for him. Get back inside Dita."

Suddenly, Misty's face blinked on Meia's screen, "Hey big sister, we found him! He's on a deserted planet not very far from here."

"Can I get out now?" Georgia whined, "I wanna go back to my room!"

"Not until we get there!" Misty yelled at her, "You'll just have to wait."

Georgia moaned as both of them left Meia's screen.

"You see Dita, its fine."

Dita hesitated for a moment but went back in with Meia, "Please be alright Mr. Alien."

Hibiki awoke as the sun just passed the horizon. He noticed that Pyoro was hovering around his face.

"You're so lazy." Pyoro huffed, "We all are ready except for you. You've been sleeping for ten hours straight."

"Then maybe you should wake me up then!" Hibiki huffed.

"It doesn't really matter at the moment." Hikaru said, "What we really need to do now is get to our vanguards. The monster must have given up waiting and is searching for us now."

Hikaru's little orb glowed bright green and blinked on the coordinates of the monster.

"Hmmm, if these coordinates are right, that means that the Harvester is thirty-two miles in the east from where we crashed. If we take the route to the west, that should buy us some time…something wrong Hibiki?" Hikaru suddenly noticed that Hibiki was staring at him with question.

"What's with that orb?" Hibiki asked.

Hikaru gave him a smirk, "I thought you already figured it out. It's a copy of Pyoro."

"WHAT!" Pyoro yelped, "THAT THING'S ME!"

Once they made their way down the mountain and began to cross the desert, Hikaru began to explain it.

"We've been watching you people for a very long time. Your technology has been a great help for our planet." He began, "We've copied your dreads, vanguards, we tried to make a replica of the ship but we failed at that, but we also had finally perfected an evinced model of your egg shaped friend there."

"So that thing's…ME!" Pyoro couldn't believe it.

"In a matter of speaking, yes but it does have different features to it."

"Hey there are the vanguards!" Hibiki pointed over a few feet away laid their bashed up vanguards. Hibiki immediately ran to his and investigated all of it. "It's a little bashed up, but it can still fly. Of course I need to repair it."

"Mine too." Hikaru said as he finished investigating, "We should be able to give the monster the means of surprise on it if we hurry."

"What are you talking about?" Pyoro asked, "The harvester even beat Vandread Pyoro. How can two vanguards hope to beat it?"

Hikaru gave him a bright smile. "The only reason it's that way is because it was mutated to have green and red peixis powers." He then pulled out from his pocket what seemed to be a giant tranquilizer. "I know it doesn't seem like much but I have thirty more of these. It should be enough to destroy that guy. Their g-peixis antidote, it may kill it."

The giant harvester soared through the air looking below for any trace of his befallen mice. It let out another screech in hopes it would scare them and make them scurry but it wasn't working. It was suddenly hit by a giant boulder making it fall. Turning its head, he noticed a vanguard standing in front of him.

"Now that I got your attention, why not go one on one with me?" Hibiki yelled at the monster.

The harvester let out an ear blasting screech to show that he accepted.

"Fine then let's get to it!" Hibiki I grabbed his sword and began to slash the monster's arms that blocked his face from being hit.

Hikaru rushed up with a machine gun armed with the antidote. He shot out a couple of rounds making the monster screech and turn to try and kill him. Hibiki stabbed his sword straight in the monster's back making it squeal and go for him again.

"How many shots did you hit him with?" Hibiki said struggling to keep himself in the offensive position.

"That was only ten, give me more time and I'm sure I can get him." Hikaru called out as he shot more rounds.

The monster tried to attack Hikaru again but remained trapped by Hibiki who pinned him to the ground. Hikaru approached the creature and shot him with the last of the arsenal. The monster then burst catching them in the blast. As the smoke cleared, it revealed two vanguards covered with strange green goop.

"Gross!" Hibiki whined, "This will take me forever to get off my vanguard."

"Mine too." Hikaru sighed, "And I just finished polishing it armor. Its going to be a while before it shines again." Hikaru looked at Hibiki with determined eyes right then. "Hibiki, I think it's a good time as ever to challenge you to a fight."

Hibiki gave a sleek grin.

"This is the planet where Hibiki should be." Misty called out to the captain.

"Good, let's greet our old teammate."

A sudden flash blinked near the atmosphere of the planet.

"What the heck was that?" BC asked.

"It looks like…two vanguards." Esra informed, "And it seems that their fighting each other."

Dita immediately went out in her dread to follow her beloved Hibiki. She was followed by Jura and Meia who demanded she come back to the ship.

"MR ALIEN," Dita cried, "We found you! I'm so glad!" She charged straight for him but was stopped by the red vanguard.

"You not part of this." Hikaru sternly said to the red head.

"You leave Dita alone!" Jura growled, "If you want a fight you'll have to battle me."

"Leave now Hikaru," Meia ordered, "Or we'll be forced to destroy you."

"Let Hikaru go." Hibiki said, "I have a battle with him that we need to finish."

"Whu?"

"You heard him." Hikaru said making his way back to his opponent, "We have business to take care of."

"B-but…Mr. Alien…."

"I'll be fine on my own." Hibiki assured, "I can beat this punk myself!"

"Sorry to disappoint but I'm the one who will leave with victory!" Hikaru yelled as they went into a giant bash.

Everyone on the ship watched with amazement as both vanguards went into a final battle. Both were machines looked as though they couldn't fight anymore but they still trudged on. With one last flail of their swords both were blasted back.

"You do very well on your feet Hibiki." Hikaru complimented, "You have great talent."

"Same to you." Hibiki replied, "You got me pretty good."

"I can barely move this machine anymore."

"Mine too; I don't think my partner can handle much more."

Hikaru gave out a grin, "One last strike, we give our all."

"Sounds good to me." Hibiki panted.

Both vanguards charged at one another with their swords in front pointing their way to victory.

"Hibiki, I can't let you win! I will claim victory to protect people I love!"

"Hikaru, you still have a long way to go before you get it!" Hibiki called out, "I'm not strong only by my partner. Its like what I said the last time, I'm strong because of the friends I have, my courage, and my will to go on! And that's why….I'VE WON!"

A shining light shone as both vanguards smacked right into each other. The dimmed revealing a victor, a tan robot who had overcome the red one.

"You really are the greatest fighter I've ever met…" Hikaru panted inside of his cockpit, "I only thought of you as a weakling but I was wrong. And when I come back to fight you again…I will be stronger too."

Hibiki smiled, "I can't wait for that day."

A giant Castilian ship appeared from the darkness of space and began to approach. Hikaru watched as the Nirvana disappeared back on to its course as a dread scurried to him.

"Thank goodness youre alright." A female voice said, "We were worried about you."

Hikaru gave one last look at where the Nirvana once stood then replied. "Worried about me? Ha, that's rich. You should know better that I can take care of myself."

Hikaru later found himself walking through the halls of the Beast with bruises on his face and arms. He felt a little uplifted by the battle. Hikaru never felt this good in a while. 'Hibiki's strong because of his friends. He doesn't rely on them after all. Maybe it's me that relies on things.' He thought looking at his hands, 'Maybe…Hibiki's right.'

"You seem to be lost in thought" a character said behind him.

Hikaru turned to se a man in a lord's outfit, "Lord Amith, I didn't notice you there. I was just thinking about things. This reminds me, I haven't seen Vile or Laviene. Where are they?"

"It would seem that they have been sent to another ship. They are no longer part of the berserker four."

"What!"

"Were refreshing you with some new members. They are very skilled pilots and they already have gained high ranks for their performances." Amith handed him a file filled with information on the pilots with pictures.

"As you wish," Hikaru bowed before Amith only to be asked to stand again.

"I hear that your berserker isn't as strong as the other's. All it does is rapid healing?"

"That's its power. Laviene's was to alter gravity, Vile's was illusions, Lucas's was more accuracy and he could drink to his liking and Hinoki's…"

"Yes I understand," Amith interrupted, "But whenever you use it you become weaker. I have something to stop that." Amith placed in Hikaru's hand what looked to be a bracelet. "It's a prototype but it's very powerful. It boosts up a tattoo's power."

"But isn't there a chance….that it could kill me if I use too much of the tattoo's power?"

"I'm not talking about the ones on your hands. I'm speaking of the other one." Amith turned and left leaving Hikaru to think this over.

Hikaru went to his quarters and stared at the ceiling.

'I never used the power of the other tattoo before.' He said to himself, 'I don't know what will happen.'

He took off his shirt and looked in the mirror. His back was covered in a giant red tattoo.

"I guess I could give it a shot."

Chapter Ten is finally done. I'm sorry it came late. My laptop broke on me and had to get it repaired. I'm using the family computer at the moment. Next Chapter: Yuki asks Meia to join him as he takes a trip to a planet to try and find resistance survivors. All is fine until the Castilian ship returns with the new berserker four.