I forget to mention in the last chapter that I don't own anything Vandread related but you guys already knew that.

Chapter 2

If there was one thing Hibiki Tokai liked to do other then stuffing his face with whatever food Dita made for him.

Then it was getting a good long night of sleep without the redhead or anybody else disturbing him. But even true he would honestly have preferred to keep on sleeping for a few hours longer, the bright light that was currently shining down in to his face did disturb him quite a bit.

Which made him move around a bit, in an attempt to try and find a more comfortable position on the nice soft thing he was presently resting so peacefully on.

And when he finally succeeded in find a bit of shade from the highly annoying sun, the boy instantly let out a deep content sigh as he kept on sleeping so calmly on the soft cushion like thing beneath his head.

He did however only get a few minutes of rest before somebody gave his left foot a small kick. "Hey kid! What are you and your girlfriend, doing sleeping out here in my yard?" A angry male voice asked him quite loudly.

Hearing that Hibiki slowly opened both of his eyes where the very first thing he saw was two round soft looking things a couple of centimeters away from his face.

At first the boy had no idea about what they where. And it took his highly aching mind a few seconds to realize what exactly it was he was getting a pretty good view of right now.

It was two of those round things most of the women on the Nirvana was carrying around on their chest. And when that realization enter his mind the boy immediately flew up in to a sitting position, where he saw that it was Barnette he had been sleeping on top of.

Yet once he noticed that she was still sound asleep he couldn't help but sigh a bit in relief. "Damn that's good! If she had been awake she would properly have kill me for using her as a pillow" the young man whispered quietly to himself, while looking the scary girl over for any signs of injuries.

Yet from what he was able to tell there was nothing wrong with the highly cranky woman, which was also a big relief to him.

He and Barnette might not always get along with each other, but that certainly did not in anyway mean he wanted anything bad to happen to her.

They where after all on the same side against the harvest, and like every other men, he was completely determined to look after his comrades no matter how irritating they truly where.

Yet while he was checking-up on the annoying woman, the old man which garden they had been sleeping in, started running kinda low out of patient.

"I'm sorry to interrupt you boy, while you are so caught up in looking your girlfriend over in that skimpy outfit! But would you mind telling me what the two of you are doing out here?" The man asked in a loud tone, which made Barnette turn over on to her left side where she continued sleeping calmly.

And the sight of her doing that made a small vein appear on Hibiki's forehead.

Why the heck did this woman have to continue sleeping like this. When the old guy was obviously more then ready to start beating them up with the rusty old rake he was holding on to.

So after using a few seconds to just glare at Barnette. He once more turned his gazes up at the angry man who still looked quite displeased with having two complete stranges, using his lovely garden as a temporary bedroom for the night.

"Well you see gramps we kinda ended up here by accident. So if you could tell us the quickest way out of this place, we will leave as soon as I wake her up" the boy said while taking a look around the garden, to try and figure out where the heck he and Barnette was.

Unfortunately the many pretty flowers and huge trees didn't really tell him anything, which meant that it did not take long before he was again looking back at the grey haired man who still looked more then a little pissed off.

"If it's not too much to ask gramps do you mind telling us where we are?" He asked in a friendly tone, while taking a glance at the rake the old fellow was still holding on to.

That thing might not be the most dangerous weapon in existence. But he seriously did not feel like getting hit from something like that, so if the old guy was out to hurt them he definitely had to make sure to keep Barnette out of danger as long as she was still out.

Still glaring angrily at the kid, the old man slowly reached up and scratch his beard in a thoughtful way, as he tried to figure out if he should give the kid a response or just chase them away.

But after looking at the kid a bit more. He was able to tell that he was quite confused about where exactly he and the girl was. And not really all that keen on the idea of doing any real harm to the two kids, he decided that he might as well give the boy a reply.

"Well the two of you are currently in my garden, which a located in the city Blossom!" The old man explained, still keeping a very close eye on the two teenagers.

Not having any idea about what to say to that, Hibiki thought hard about where the hell Blossom was. But before he could actually ask the old man about it. Barnette slowly got up from her position and did it for him instead.

"So just where precisely is this Blossom?" She asked in a small tone, as she reached up to rub some of the sleep out of her eyes.

Looking at her for a long moment or two, the old man couldn't help but shake his head slightly. "God! The two of you most really have been drunk when you stumble in here last night!" He said. Doing nothing to hide how utterly stupid he thought it was, when young people was willing to actually poison their brains in such away that they couldn't even figure out where they were.

But as foolish as he thought they where, he decided that it was most likely best to give them an answer, before they got in even more trouble. "Well Blossom happens to be located on the planet Romanchikku. Which some of the more young people, also refer to as the planet of love. But I guess that dependents on how you look at it" He said, sounding a tiny bit more friendly now then before.

Taking a look over at each other both Hibiki and Barnette could not help but wonder just how far away they where from the Nirvana right now.

"So do you know of a place where we could stay for a few days? We are kinda far away from home at the moment" Barnette explained. Doing her best to remain as calm as possible under the circumstance.

Even true she could not deny that there was a huge part of her that was practically screaming at her to jump on Hibiki and beat the living daylight out of him. But after think about that for a bit, she decided that she could always do that later when that old guy wasn't around to see it.

Not saying anything at first the old guy could not help but think about how far out of place these two teenagers where. They almost behaved like they had never heard of Blossom or even Romanchikku, and it honestly freaked him out quite a bit.

Yet before he could tell them to hurry up and leave his garden. His wife of many years, decided to cut in to the conversation.

"Well if you two kids really does need a place to stay, you are welcome to stay with us. Just as long as you help out in the garden! My husband and I are getting way to old to handle it all on our own" the woman said in a kind voice.

Which made both Hibiki and Barnette look over at her. Both trying hard to decide, if they should accept the older woman's kind offer. So still not totally sure it was wise to trust her so easily, Barnette moved a bit closer to Hibiki.

"What do you think we should do?" She whispered to him. Not at all sure, it was even worth the trouble, asking the moron about this. Seeing as he would most likely not even think about the question and just say yes immediately.

Yet much to her minor surprise, he actually did seem to be considering the whole thing very thoroughly.

"Well I don't really know about you. But I'm actually starting to get quite hungry, so I think we should stay here at least for now" he said back in a quiet yet thoughtful tone, which was more then enough to tell Barnette that he took this entire mess they where presently in very serious.

And as much as Barnette truly hated the idea of actually agreeing with this overly stubborn man, she found herself nodding slowly in agreement. "All right I guess we'll stay here for the time being. But we better keep an eye on them incase they suspect where we are from" she whispered to him.

While taking a brief glance upwards at the bright blue sky, before she again looked back at Hibiki, who just nodded slowly to everything she had just said.

And with that decision made, they once more turned their attention back towards the older couple. "We gladly accept your kind offer" Barnette said, trying to sound as friendly as possible, even true she still didn't completely trust the man and woman.

Truly happy to hear that the lady smiled brightly at them as she reached down to help Barnette up. "That's great news my dear, now let go back to the house and find some least revealing clothes, you should only wear those things when you and your boyfriend are having fun at home!" The older lady said.

Not noticing the highly puzzled looks the young man and woman was now giving each other.

"What is a boyfriend?" Barnette softly asked Hibiki making sure that neither one of the old people could hear what she was saying.

Thinking about that question for a few seconds Hibiki made a sign that told her that he didn't know that either. "How the heck should I know, I never once heard that word before" he whispered back to her.

Then once more start listening to the old woman talk, who was still busy explaining to them, how absolutely impudent Barnette's clothes was. And that she should not wear something so utterly revealing in public.

So after listening to her a bit longer, the green haired woman lean over towards Hibiki and whispered another question to him. "What's wrong with my clothes? Back home this is the newest fashion" she said.

Getting more and more pissed off over the way that old woman kept on telling her, how bad her clothes was. And that she should not ever walk around in something like that outside.

Not sure what to say about that either, Hibiki couldn't help but take a look at Barnette in her mostly purple outfit.

Where he of course could not help but take notice, of how much of her skin was shown, which honestly made him wonder how she and all the other women back on the Nirvana, could avoid freezing to death when walking around in those skimpy clothes.

Yet when he saw her narrow both of her eyes slightly, he realized that it was properly best to hurry up and give her an answer before she did something highly painful to him.

So after thinking about it a bit longer, he decided that he might as well just tell her what he thought about her dress style. "I honestly don't really think there is anything wrong with you clothes Barnette, they suit you pretty well" he softly whispered back to her.

Not even realizing that he had just given the green haired woman he fought so frequently with a small compliment.

Pleased to know that there was some people around that actually appreciated her dress style, even if it was just this highly stupid male.

But knowing that it was kinda rare that Hibiki said something nice to her.

Barnette smiled slightly at the annoying boy, before she once more turned her attention back towards the older woman. That by now, was busy telling them just what their responsibility would be around the garden.

Not that Hibiki or Barnette was paying all that much attention to that. They where each far more occupied with thinking about where they were and how exactly they could get back to the Nirvana and the others.

Unfortunately as luck would have it, none of them had any kind of answer to the insanely many questions, that was currently zooming through their minds. So each of them just continued following the older woman with a far away expression on their faces.

And it was only once they arrived at the huge house, the older couple was living in, that they finally snapped back out of their thoughts. "Please come on inside, I'll go see if our daughter left some of her clothes here, the last time she visited!" The small grey haired woman said, then she reached out and opened the door to the lovely house.

Leading her husband and the two teenagers inside, where immediately she asked them to wait in the living room while she took a look around her daughter's room for something else, Barnette could wear instead of her usual outfit.

Once gone. Hibiki slowly took a look around at the many pictures and other things that was use to liven up the living room. "I never seen so many pictures all at once before, back home there isn't a whole lot of people who actually likes to paint all that much!" He said in a loud tone.

Showing a rare interested in something else other then his Vanguard, stuffing his face or playing cards with Gascogne.

And seeing him actually studying the many pictures so thoroughly, was frankly a bit amazing to Barnette.

Seeing as she had never once seen Hibiki behave like this before. She had honestly never thought that art was so rare on Taraak, that even somebody like Hibiki had a bit of an interested in it.

So after watching him look around so eagerly Barnette too let her eyes travel around the room. Art such like this, wasn't really all that rare on Mejere as it apparently was on Taraak.

But even she was somewhat astounded by the beauty of this many pictures.

Yet with both of them so caught up in looking around in there.

Neither of them noticed that the old man didn't look nearly as angry anymore as he had when they had first shown up in his garden, he was actually quite pleased that there was young people around, that appreciated art as much as he and his wife did.

And just the sight of them looking around like they did was more then enough to remove some of the distrust and make him smile a bit. Perhaps these two kids wasn't as bad as he had original thought.

But as Barnette and Hibiki stood there beside each other carefully look the large amount of pictures over. Neither of them noticed the old woman step in to the room again, where she immediately made her way over to Barnette carrying a fresh set of clothes.

"Here you go dear! Please go in to the next room and change" she said, sounding just a tiny bit bossy when she said that.

And knowing that it would not do her any good to disagree with her. Barnette slowly reached out and took the offered clothes, then turned around and left the room without saying a word.

And once the green haired girl had stepped out of the room, the old woman immediately turned her attention over on Hibiki. "So my dear what are your names? And where do you come from?" She kindly asked him.

Somewhat baffled over how the heck he was suppose to answer the last question, the Vanguard pilot slowly reached up and scratch his dark blue hair in a thoughtful manner.

"Well my name is Hibiki and the girl is call Barnette!" He said making the decision that it was properly best not to tell them their last names. Not that he actually knew Barnette's last name.

Seeing as they could badly have a conversation together without arguing.

He had never really bother taking the time to actually learn her last name. He always figured, that there would never come a time, where he actually had a use for that knowledge, yet now he sincerely hoped that they wouldn't ask about it.

Fortunately the lack of their last names didn't really seem to bother the old man and woman very much, they just kept on smiling kindly at him.

Just as Barnette once more enter the lovely decorator living room. Now dressed in a dark green blouse, that actually seemed to match her hair pretty well and a dark pair of pants that seemed a bit to long for her.

Not that Hibiki paid much attention to that, he was just glad that she was back there so he would not have to answer all of their question all on his own.

Yet the next thing the woman asked them, send a minor shock through each of them. "So just how long have the two of you been dating? You truly do make a lovely couple now that you are standing there together" the older woman said.

Then tilted her head a bit to the side as she continued looking straight at the two young people in front of her.

Taking a small glance over at the huge moron next to her, Barnette got a somewhat nauseous expression on her face. "Dating! We are not dating!" She said sounding more then a little insulted over that they would actually think she would go out with him.

But before Hibiki could do anything to show that he actually agreed with Barnette for a change. He noticed that both the man and the woman, was now sending them a deep angry glare.

"You really shouldn't joke around with that girl, you should both know what the penalty is for not being in a relationship!" The woman said sounding highly displeased with what Barnette had just said a few seconds ago.

Taking yet another tiny nervous glance over at each other, the Vanguard pilot made a small swallowing sound as he took a single step forward where he reluctantly asked the old couple the one thing he and Barnette wanted answers to now.

"And...mhhm what exactly is the penalty for not being in a relationship?" He asked in a somewhat worried tone.

Smiling slightly at him the older woman shook her head slowly, as she gave them a response to what she thought was a highly weird question. "Why public execution of course" she told the two of them in a tone, that made it sound like killing people for something like that, was the most natural thing ever.

Completely taken back by the newest, that if they where not in a relationship on this up until now friendly world they where as good as dead.

So while trying to get over the enormous shock the kind old lady had given him in a hurry. Hibiki took a brief glance back at Barnette, who looked even more rattled up over this then he was.

And it was only when the grey haired woman asked them one more time, how long they had been together. That Barnette Orangello was somehow able to shake off the highly immense shock, which she had gotten only a few seconds ago.

She just couldn't believe that they would actually get kill for not being in a relationship, what kind of totally messed up place had they ended up on. "Well Hibiki and I have been going out for about five years now!" Barnette said.

Easily making the decision, that she would much rather lie to the sweet old couple, then being executed for something so absolutely ridiculous.

And when she noticed Hibiki taking a brief glance back at her. She instantly gave the boy a small sign that was meant to tell him to play along.

Which much to her deep relief he understood almost immediately. "Yea...Yeah! The two of us have been dating as long as I remember!" He said a bit more loudly then Barnette thought was necessary.

Yet fortunately the both of for them, the man and woman seemed to believe their little lie about being together. Especially the old lady seemed to find it very romantic that they had been seeing each other for such a long time.

"Ahh that's so sweet, the two of you really do look happy together, the only other couple that fit each other so well are my daughter and her lover!" She said in a high excited tone.

Then gave both of them a bright happy smile, as she turned around and took a brief look back at a small photograph of her and her son-in-law the day they had been married.

Not really caring if Barnette and him where and adorable couple or not.

Hibiki slowly moved his left hand up to remove a few drops of sweat, from his forehead.

"Yeah they truly do look quite nice together. By the way do you have a place where we could relax a bit? It's been a couple of stressful days for both of us" the dark blue haired boy asked.

Highly eager to get away from the two old people so he could speak with Barnette about what the hell they where suppose to do now. He frankly didn't know about her.

But he was already looking forward to the day when they could get away from this planet.

In his eyes they where even more messed up here on this world, then they had been back on Anpathos. And that was saying quite a lot since he had honestly thought that those people back there, had been as insane as they could possibly be, with all of them believing that the harvest fleet was actually their God.

Yet as he was thinking about how the heck a world could function when being single was punishable by death. The old woman gave each of them a kind smile as she began making her way over to the door.

"Of course I have a place where you can rest up. You can always start working on the garden tomorrow" she told them in a kind voice. Not realizing that both of the teens, was still more then a little rattled up by the whole execution thing.

So without even saying one word as gratitude. They just quietly followed her out of the room and then out of the house. Both of them just walking slowly beside each other, as they tried their best to make just a little sense in the completely ridiculous law this planet had for single people.

Yet as much as they would each like a little peace and quiet to think about everything they had learnt, they didn't really get a whole lot of time to do it before the grey haired woman interrupted their highly bewildered thoughts.

"Here we are now, the two of you can stay here until you find a new place to live" she kindly said to them, while presenting a nicely white painted house to the two of them. It was noway nearly as large as the last one they had seen, but it was still looked extremely homely and highly expensive.

And even true both pilots, where still trying to get over everything that had been happening around them, since they ended up on this crazy planet.

None of them could deny how pleasantly surprise they where over the fact, that the sweet old couple was so willing to let them use a place as nice as this. "Wow that house is really great, it's so much bigger then the one grandpa and I used to live in back home!" Hibiki said in a loud excited tone.

Which was just enough to pull Barnette out of her astonishment. And make her turn around where she immediately smiled gratefully at the older woman. "Yeah thank very much for letting us borrow this place, we really appreciate it" she said.

Doing nothing to hide, how thankful she over the fact that she and big fool had a place to spend the night. There was simply noway she wanted to sleep outside when they knew nothing about, what kind of animals was living on this world.

Still smiling sweetly at them the old woman just nodded a single time. "You are welcome Barnette. Just make sure that you get a good nights sleep and that you don't use the entire night to show each other how you feel" she said.

Then gave them a short wink, that made both pilots look over at each other a brief second before they quickly looked away again.

Each of them highly disturbed by what the woman was hinting to them. And they had to fight really, really hard to ignore those feelings, that was practically screaming at them to tell the old woman that they did not want to be anywhere near each other.

Yet they both knew that if they did something like that they would most likely end up seeing what sick method they used on this planet to execute people.

And with that in mind Barnette smiled gently at the grey haired woman. "We'll make sure to get plenty rest, so please don't worry about that! By the way I have been meaning to ask for some time now, but what is you and your loves names?" She asked with a slightly curious look on her face.

"Ohhh! Right we haven't told you that yet, my name is Selphy and my husband's is George! He might be a little cranky at times, but that just means something isn't going the way he wants it, that's something that can bother him quite a bit, so just leave him alone when he is like that" she said kindly, before she turned around and started making her way back to the mansion.

Watching her leave like that Barnette made sure that she was out of earshot before she said a few simple words to the male standing next to her. "Let's get inside fool we got a lot to talk about!" She said, while giving Hibiki a small push in the direction of the house.

And it wasn't long after that.

Before the young man and woman stepped inside the house that was going to be their home for who knew how long. "This place isn't bad at all, I could totally get use to living here!" Hibiki said in a loud tone, while taking a look around the living room.

Yet as he was so distract by everything in there.

He didn't noticed the way Barnette was glaring at him and that she was currently moving closer to him, which meant that it did not take many seconds before she was standing directly behind him, where she slowly lift her hand and gave him a highly painful slap at the back of his head.

"OUCH! What the heck was that for?" He asked unhappily, while looking back at the obviously pissed off woman. Who looked more then ready, to give him a few more whacks.

And realizing that he quickly moved away from her, not wanting to make himself an easy target for the girl's wrath.

But as he was doing that, Barnette continued glaring straight at him. "I did that because you said my nose and ears where big! And also because, it's you fault that we ended up on this crazy planet! If you hadn't distract me back then I would never have been hit by that damn mirror!" She shouted. Then made a small cracking sound with her hands.

Hearing what exactly it was the woman was blaming him for, Hibiki instantly got an angry look in both of his eyes. "Hey! It was you that started yelling at me first! So if it's anybody's fault that we where an easy target for that mirror it's yours Barnette!" He said back, while squeezing his fist together in a angry manner.

Not at all pleased that the damn idiot was talking back to her like that, Barnette took a small step closer to him as she reached down and picked up a brown hard looking cushion from the couch.

"Shut the hell up Hibiki! Or I swear that I'm going to kill you!" She said in a voice, that made it kinda hard to figure out if she was actually serious about that.

But in the end, Hibiki quickly reached the decision that he didn't really care all that much if she was serious or not. He was a male and he was completely determined to keep on fighting to the bitter end.

"Just bring bitch!" He yelled back at her, while getting in to the martial art stance Meia had taught him after that one time he had gotten beaten up by Rabat.

Realizing that the stupid fool wasn't going to take the blame for this. The green haired girl change her hold on the cushion slightly, then pull her hand back and throw it with full force straight at him.

Yet just when it seemed like she was going to hit his face he ducked down under the attack, so the cushion flew in and hit a picture frame on the wall instead, sending it falling to the floor.

Not that any of the teens cared about that right now. They where simply far more busy with their calm and peaceful discussion, about who where to blame for getting them in to this mess in the first place.

And if somebody had actually walked past the small house. They would easily have been able to hear a lot of loud shouting and a minor bunch things being broken in there.

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Yet while the two distressed pilots was caught up in their conversation.

Neither one of them knew that they where actually the main subject of a very important discussion.

"Well you see captain the reason why I call you and everybody else down here is because I just finished my analyze of the mirror" Parfet Balblair said while adjusting her glass a tiny bit.

Taking a small glance away from the girl and down at the broken up mirror, the captain used her cane to give one of the mirror pieces a light push. "So Parfet do you have any idea about what happened to the two of them?" The older woman asked.

Not totally sure she actually wanted an answer from the girl. If those two really where dead, then she honestly had know idea about what the hell she was suppose to say to the crew, it had already shake most of them up quite a bit when Hibiki and Barnette had disappeared like they had.

Fortunately the chief engineer's next words did calm her down greatly. "From what I have been able to figure out this weapon is suppose to teleported every living thing it hits to earth. But thanks to the minor damage Meia inflicted on the mirror just before it fired, there is a high possibility that Barnette and Hibiki was only send about halfway there!" Parfet explained.

Hearing that, a certain red haired girl took a single step forward. "Does that mean that Mr Alien is still alive?" She asked in a loud excited voice.

Turning her attention away from the captain and over at the redhead, Parfet gave her extremely happy friend a small smile. "Yeah Dita! Both him and Barnette should be perfectly fine" the glass wearing girl said, truly delight over giving all of her friends such good news.

Yet while all of them where letting out a few relief sighs.

The happy moment was soon brought to an end by a few words from Meia. "Unless the two of them haven't kill each other yet. Knowing Barnette she should be just about ready to strangle Hibiki by now" she said in her usual calm tone.

Which made all of them down there look over at her. Each of them somewhat worried that she might be right about this. Barnette and Hibiki had pretty much been at each other throats almost constantly ever since their first battle with a harvest flagship.

And now that there was nobody around to step in between them.

There was a very large possibility that Hibiki would end up with more then one or two bruises. "To hell with it! I really should have talked with the two of them about all of arguing" Magno said, while rubbing her forehead in a frustrated manner.

She did however not do that for long, before she once more turned her tired old gazes back towards Parfet. "So do you have any idea about how long it will take for us to reach that place they ended up?" She asked.

Highly worried about just how long their two short tempered crew members would have to be alone together.

And having already realized long before she call everybody else down to the hangar. That there was an extremely high possibility that the ship's captain or somebody else would ask about that.

The chief engineer took a somewhat brief nervous look glance down at the mechanical card she was holding.

"Well...well the thing is guys! I already tried calculating the distance between us and them a bunch of times. And as far as I can tell it will take us about two or three months to reach that planet, the two of them landed on" the engineer said.

Not overly surprised by all of the shocked looks she was now receiving from all of the people gather around her. "What you mean that Mr Alien has to be alone with Barnette for such a long time?" Dita asked, sounding a tiny bit like she was just about ready to started crying once more.

Feeling slightly guilty about having to tell her red haired friend this. Parfet moved her right hand up and scratched her long brown hair a bit while at the same time giving her low lips a light bite.

"I'm really sorry Dita. But try and look on the bright side, they could have been send all the way to earth, where they would properly have been harvest. At least now we have the possibility to go rescue them, even true it might take some time!" The clever girl said.

Sincerely hoping that her few reassuring words would help Dita calm down just a bit.

But it didn't really seem like the redhead was listening to her. She just continued standing there with her both hands fold, muttering quietly about how unfair it was that it had been Barnette, who had been teleported with Mr Alien to another world.

Looking at the low spirited Dread pilot for a brief moment, the captain did feel slightly sorry for the redhead. But there wasn't really a whole lot she could do about it right now, other then hope that Dita would somehow be able to handle the next many weeks without having Hibiki around.

So after watching the girl a bit longer, Magno let out a deep worn out sigh, as she once more turned her gazes over at Parfet. "Well it would seem very much like our two nut cases have send us out on quite the detour, I better hurry up and make sure that the rest of the crew knows what our next move are going to be" the old lady said.

Then turned and began slowly making her way towards the exit of the hangar. Muttering a few words about how their two battle crazy morons, had better be all right once they reached whatever world the two of them where currently on.

Once gone. Dita instantly looked back at the Dread leader with a sad look on her face. "But what if something bad happens to Mr Alien and we are not there to help him out?" She asked in a slightly panicking voice.

Yet somewhat surprisingly to all of them it wasn't Meia that answered the question.

Instead Jura took a small step forward and place a hand on the UFO crazy girl's shoulder, which she immediately gave a gentle reassuring squeeze. "I don't think you should worry so much about him! I know that Barnette and him, haven't really gotten along all that well recently. But I'm absolutely certain that if one of them ends up in a life threatening situation, the other one is going to do everything possible to help him or her out!" The blond woman said.

Then took a short breath before she continued talking in the same reasonable tone as before.

"Those two persistent nincompoops might really, really hate to admit it. But deep inside they are friends and team mates, even true they would properly do everything they could think of to deny that" Jura said calmly.

While seriously wondering just how their two distressed comrades was handling them self wherever they were.

But before she had much time to think about that.

Dita's somewhat sadden voice interrupted her thoughts. "So Barnette really isn't going to hurt Mr Alien?" She asked quietly, which instantly made both Jura and Meia take a small glance over at each other.

"Well you see Dita there is a small chance that Barnette is going to give Hibiki a light beating. Seeing as she is properly blaming him for getting them in to that situation in the first place. But I'm almost sure that she wouldn't hurt him to badly" Jura said thoughtfully.

Honestly and deeply hoping that the redhead believed her. Seeing as she wasn't entirely certain that she was actually giving Dita the honest truth to her question about Barnette hurting the Vanguard pilot or not.

But it was just so incredibly hard even for her to tell, just how exactly her firearm collecting friend was going to react to this whole situation.

That was when Meia decided to give her two cents about the subject.

"But even if Barnette does give him a slap or two Dita, we all know that Hibiki Tokai is not the type of guy to give up. So have a little faith in him Dita, and try to look on the bright side. This entire incident with that mirror weapon could have gone so much more wrong then actually did. Those two could have land on earth instead of some far away planet" Meia said seriously.

Looking directly at the Dread leader for a small number of moments. The sad look on Dita's face didn't really decrease all that much. "It's just that, I'm really going to miss him a lot Meia" the redhead mumbled sadly.

Not saying anything to that at first, the light blue haired woman just nodded slowly in understanding. "We are all going to miss them Dita, even me" the pilot of the fast silver coloured Dread said.

Then hurried began making her way towards the exit of the hangar. Before anybody present down there had the chance to say anything about her admitting something like that out loud.

So after their leader disappear out of the hangar Jura felt a small smile ran over her lips. "She is far from as cold as she pretend to be at times" Jura said quite pleased to know, that Meia Gisborn wasn't nearly as anti-social as she had been in the past.

And while still thinking about how much their leader had change these last few month, she once more turned her attention back towards Dita.

"Do you want to go get some lunch? I don't know about you, but I haven't really gotten anything to eat since yesterday" the blond woman said, while smiling gently at the redhead.

Hearing those words Dita instantly realized how hungry she actually was, she had simply been so caught up in her sadness about what had happened to Mr Alien that she had forgotten to eat.

And when both women heard her stomach let out a minor growling sound, she nodded yes a single time. "That would be really nice Jura. Perhaps after that we could go down the Jacuzzi and relax a bit" Dita said, deciding that it wouldn't really be bad to spend a little time together with the blond woman.

Smiling slightly at that suggestion, Jura began slowly leading the redhead, over towards the door. "That's a really good idea Dita. I'm certain that spending some time down there will, surely help a lot on the stress, we are both feeling right now" the blond said kindly.

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Meanwhile back on Romanchikku.

Hibiki was sitting on a black leather couch in the living room. "Man that girl seriously is crazy" he whispered to himself. While listening to the sound of the shower that could be heard in the background.

He did however not do that for long. Before he slowly got back up on his feet and made his way over to the kitchen where he immediately started rummaging around in one of the closets for something to eat.

And fortunately for his highly ravenous belly it did not take him long to find a nice looking green box that content a great deal of cookies.

And even true he would honestly have preferred either the UFO girl's or one of the other women's cooking.

This surely was better then starving. "Just need something to drink now!" He said, while taking the few steps over to the refrigerator, where he was quick to find a carton of milk.

After that he walked back to the living room where he instantly dropped back down on the couch, where he picked up the first cookie and took a bite of it.

Deeply enjoying the chocolate like taste of it, before he swallowed it. "Hmm guess these things ain't all that bad" the tired male said to himself. As he kept on draining the box for it's contents. Once done with that the beaten up male pilot laid down on the couch, where he slowly closed both of his eyes and immediately drifted off in to a deep sleep.

Yet because of that, he of course didn't noticed when the emerald haired girl came back out of the shower. And when the Dread pilot saw him sleeping so peacefully on the couch she couldn't help but raise her right eyebrow in a thoughtful way.

"So apparently I'm not the only one who feels totally exhaust right now, I wonder if that's a side effect from being teleported all the way here" the girl said to herself in a quiet tone.

Then moved over to a black leather chair, that actually matched the couch pretty well. Once there she slowly reached down and pick up a blue fluffy looking blanket which carefully place around the sleeping Vanguard pilot.

"Sleep tight moron" she said to him.

Then hurried made her way over to the bedroom, more then a little determined to get some much needed sleep too.

To be continued.