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Somewhere out in the vast reaches of the galaxy, a group of female pirates from Mejale and their male captives were drifting aimlessly in the star-studded void. The pirate vessel had now been completely engulfed by the Ikazuchi's Paeksis Reactor and now the two vessels became one whole ship. Inside the newly made and combined vessel, particularly inside the conference room, the captain of the pirates, her first officer, and their Dread squadron leader were in deep discussion.
Magno nodded as she gazed at the holographic images on the screen.
"Continue with your report, BC."
The first officer nodded as she began to explain the current situation to her commanding officer along with the latest reports they have gathered which were being displayed.
"Yes, Captain. The entire ship has now been completely swallowed up by the crystals. The bridge, residential, and engineering sections have now been completely reformatted and all systems have been infused with Paeksis crystals, the two ships have know combined into one singular vessel, unfortunate as you have noticed some of the ships function have yet to reboot, Fortunately the Dread launching Platforms were not affected and at this stage we are implanting the new data into the systems. It now seems that the Paeksis Reactor has reached its peak. The bridge has stopped sliding from the original configuration to be overlooking the ship's Bio Park."
The old woman smirked little at this, while she looked up at the bridges main screen over head to look at the ships new helmsman floating in what seemed to look like thin air it was funny that the one thing this particular man brought to the table inadvertently was driving the entire crew nuts. The load mouth teen in questioned looked somewhat unconvertible being watched by all the people on the bridge. Bart himself was just floating in nothingness trying not to destroy the ship and kill everyone while thinking about and questioning the reason why he volunteered his expertise in navigation for his lack of a better term, kidnappers, but of course the expertise he told the captain he held really in fact meant he had no knowledge what so ever in any shape or form imaginable. But she really didn't need to know all that did she?
Flash back
A helmsman?"
"How did I get caught up in this" Hibiki said
"Warning! Danger! This guy is trying to pull something!" The Navi-bot said in alarm
Hibiki was then elbowed in his side by Bart as almost a silent and subtle way for the older teen to tell the third class citizen to "shut the hell up" for lack of a better term"
If he would have said that a few days ago there would have been no way magno would have believed anything that came out of this young man's mouth, but after what she just saw out there, shocked her to her very core. The idea that a single man armed with nothing more than a pair of short swords was capable of not only killing a beast of that size but to completely dominate it the way that man did…honestly Captain Mango Vivian has become allot more willing to disband her dis-belief.
"All right I guess I've seen crazier things happen today" those things being the mystery man- Kratos, physically man handling a monster hundreds of times his size without breaking a sweet and only after a few minutes from waking up from a coma
The pirate looked at the two men in front of her, the third Turok citizen was in the infirmary going through medical books and charts like a child in a candy store, and over all getting a feel for the new tools he would be using the as the head doctor of her ship. He has so far received many visits from the crew members who were injured from the last battle, all of them either minor wounds that no would visit a doctor for or some even weren't injured at all. "someone's popular" she thought almost laughing as she had heard some of the girls talk about the new doctor
Kratos on the other hand, she honestly didn't know where on the ship he went, he seemed to be a person who enjoyed his space, and she or any of her crew was up to the challenge of making him feel uncomfortable, not after what they've seen him just do.
You should of told me about your expertise a while ago would have saved the mentinance crew allot of time and trouble"
"Well when we first met we weren't on the best of terms know were we?"He spoke with such confidence that he even began to fool himself
"I suppose not, know why don't you show us how it's down and get us off this planet before more of those things show up" magno said humoring him, urging him forward
Bart turned away from the captains chair and began walking towards the extended platform overlooking the bio park, with each step he took the more nervous he got, when the platform ended he stood completely still, not knowing what to do his mind was racing in trying to come up with a plan
Suddenly Bart's entire body was engulfed in a bright blue light that almost blinded the women and hibiki. As the light dispersed any trace of Bart was long gone, before anyone could voice their surprise or concerns, a giant holographic screen on the ships front windows turned on and showed a very naked Bart.
"WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED"
Oh my, secret weapon indeed" the captain blinked and smiled up at the would be navigator" you seem surprised for someone so well versed in this Technology"
"I j-just lost my footing is all" his once over whelming confidence left him, as his excuse feel on deaf ears.
"Well go on young man"
Bart cleared his throat and began to move his arms up and down hoping for something to happen, fortunately for Bart's pride, as his Moved up and down the sound of the main engine system roared as parfets face appeared on a screen in front of mongo face.
The engines just went on all of a sudden, what you guys do up there?
You mind answering the lady young man
W-well itsaaaa errrr you know hard to explain without having prier knowledge and stuff, you know how it is"
So can you get this ship off this god forsaken rock" Bart began to open his mouth to answer her bet was cut off by the pony tailed engineer" the ship has a mechanism where it can raise itself if it is forced to crash land on land and allows it to launch itself into space while on a planet's surface but…"
But what?
"The ship is at such an awkward angle that the thruster wouldn't be able to ride itself, we could try but we don't know how much damage the ship will take if we skid across the mountains full force if we fail"
"So what you're saying is we're literally stuck between a rock and a hard place"
Hibiki sighed and put both hands behind his head "Really not funny lady"
So what needs to be done?
The deep monotone voice boomed and echoed into the ears of the bridges inhabitants as they turned towards the sliding doors to the far left side of the captain's chair.
What stood there was the Spartan warrior kratos himself staring un-wielding at each and every inhabitant of the bridge, not with malice or anger but with general curiosity and with almost a neutral look on his face. His body language told them that he was defiantly not comfortable in doing this; anyone who looked at him could tell he rarely ever put himself out in front of a group and generally to help them
The door closed behind him as he began to walk closer towards the captain's position. With each step he took every person eyes seemed to have been fallowing every step. The fear and uncertainty was still their but it was hidden under the intimidation each of them felt for this monster of a man, as well as a sense of awe each person felt for this man.
Hibiki usually the type that would never bow towards another due to his own pride, took a step away from the Spartan when he felt himself to close for comfort as the warrior stopped in front of the captain, the age pirate herself looked down at the pale man in front of her with as much respect in both her eyes as well as her voice that she could muster
Hello young man, I hope your slight rest was satisfactory
My well being is not the most important of matters now" the Spartan stopped as he raised his massive arms and placed them across his broad chest as he continued to speck" I ask again, what needs to be done to continue on our journey"
The captain smiled, she knew this man's type, straight to business, he was un waving and did what he felt had to be done to achieve his goals, she liked that in a person.
"Well you see, it seems that this vessel is stuck against these mountains, and this position is stopping us from leaving and continuing on home"
"So all you need is to lift this ship off its side" Mogno nodded not quite sure how to answer or even where these questions are coming from, these thoughts were taken away from her as the Spartan in front of her turned and began to walk back towards the door. The last thing any of them heard from the man was a simple "simple enough" he said most likely an afterthought to himself as he walked through the sliding doors to do god knows what.
An hour had passed uneventful for the captain, she was currently engrossed in the middle of a meeting between her, her second in command B.C., her dread commander Meia, the chief mechanic Parfet as well as the leader of the ships register Goscogne inside the conference room.
They were going through their options and deciding their next move regarding leaving this planet, it seemed their best option would be to use the male vanguards as they were designed to be used in most if not all terrains unlike the dreads used by the women.
They seemed to be in full agreement on their next form of action, when all of a sudden the sirens blared once again. Thinking that a second beast had found them from the smell the corpse the first creature was giving off, she began to curse her luck while hoping that lightning could strike twice with kratos against this supposedly new monster.
She as well as every other member of the ship felt a sudden and powerful jerk towards the right side of the ship, worrying that this creature had already advance upon the ship she screamed for visual on the source of the sudden movement.
What she saw will forever engrave in her mind that kratos was beyond anything she thought was possible for a human to achieve. She was welcomed by the sight of kratos, whose body was being dwarfed by whatever external part of the ship he was currently near, with arms fully extended up wards with the entire weight of the ship directed upon him. With a low growl his arms began to lower towards his shoulder, his massive biceps flexing due the strain they were feeling. With a yell he exploded with pure un filtered power as the force of his push was enough to lift the entire half of the ship off the rocky and jagged mountains. The force was so great had it not been for Bart deploying the ships fail safe and evening itself out just in the nick of time( by accident of course) the ship would have collapsed upon its opposite side in the sand of the un forgiving desert,
End Flash Back
"And our current location?"
The captain asked as she continued to fan herself with a small hand-held fan to cool down. The ship's environmental control systems were among the systems still inactive and that made the current temperature to be at least 100 degrees.
The holographic image changed to that of a star chart as BC continued her report.
"It seems that the worst case senerio is correct, the vacuum that was created through a combination of the missile launched by the men and the core reactor of this old colony ship had transported us to a completely different galaxy from our own. It will take 270 days at the very least for us to return to our home system."
The aged woman gave a sigh as she looked in slight disappointment.
"What did we ever do to deserve being flung across space?" She then turned to address Meia. "And do you have to report Meia?"
The young blue-haired female nodded as she took her turn.
"The three Dreads that were swallowed up and transformed by the Paeksis, including mine, are no longer able to fit into the regular Dread platforms. We've modified the cargo bay area on the men's side of the ship and are now storing them there. Luckily the other dreads are now 100% functional and are now ready to launch if we were to encounter any new hostiles"
Flash Back
CAPTAIN! We're being attacked by some unknown enemies that appeared out of nowhere!" Parfet declared as soon as she also got the data from her crewmates at the bridge.
"Can you move the ship young man?
"The engines just died out on me, and these shields are barely repelling the attacks!"
"The main Dread platforms are still offline! We can't deploy any of the Dreads!" Gascogne reported to Magno.
The only good news during this little situation came from Meia as she; Jura and Dita ran towards toward their respective Dreads, which were still housed at the Paeksis Reactor Room. However, as soon as they arrived, they stopped and gasped at the sights awaiting them.
Within the huge room were their Dreads, but the ships somehow took new configurations after being engulfed by the power of the Paeksis.
"Are these… our Dreads?" Jura asked as she looked at their respective ships.
"Wow!" Dita gasped, as she looked awed at the sight.
Meia also stopped, but then didn't hesitate to board her Dread, she reached it and climbed aboard, the other Dread pilots also did the same and entered their ships, and as soon as they were onboard they checked the systems.
Inside her Dread, Meia did quick but through system check and nodded with relief.
"Looks like the systems haven't changed much. How about the two of you?"
"I think mine can fly." Jura reported through her comlink.
"They must have been powered up!" Dita responded with excitement ruling her voice.
"This is so exciting!"
"Don't bite more than you can chew!" Meia warned her team as her fighter lifted off and flew to the direction of the hanger; following her were her wing mates. They were soon in the void of space and were immediately bombarded by the attacks of their still unknown enemy.
The new force that was their foes were not like any model the pilots had never seen before. Small fighter ships shaped like odd-shaped octopus looking vessel that began letting loose a powerful volley after volley of laser and cannon fire at the fused ship and the three Dreads trying to defend it from them... Some distance behind the fighters was their mother ship; the alien vessel was shaped like a massive seed. Every once in a while during certain intervals the mother ship's maw would open releasing two massive cubes, which would immediately break apart into new fighters. It seemed that for every fighter the Dreads would destroy, then three to four more would take the place of those destroyed by the Dreads. It wasn't long before the three pirates found themselves badly outnumbered.
"Excuse me please don't shoot at us! We're a very peaceful race!"
Dita cried out as she managed to make her craft dodge the incoming stream of weapons fire from her pursuers.
"Dita! These are our enemies!" Jura scolded through the comlink, and then began to wonder just how did Dita's skills had improved so dramatically. She had managed to do a complex evasion pattern despite her still present lack of experience with her Dread.
Meia noted that her fighter's response time was better than before as she managed to dodge the barrage of fire from more of the alien fighters as she downed one of them. "The controls have been altered somewhat." She then winced as her ship rocked as it took a hit off to the stern. "Who or what are these things? Are these things really aliens?"
"One thing's for sure though. They're definitely not men." Jura assured as she got into contact with Meia.
"No kidding! They're really BAD aliens!"
Dita shouted with anger as she continued to dodge the incoming fire as she also got into contact with Meia.
Magno winced as the ship took several more direct hits from their new opponents. Since they could not activate the engines they then couldn't move, they were also unable to regroup with the Dreads and were now nothing more than a sitting duck.
Bart gasped, as he more explosions riddled the ship as he was forced to learn the basic of the ships navigation by simple cause and effect. By that he means just doing random movements and hopped for the best
It was at that time that the once thought dead engines roared to life as Bart used the oldest trick in the book, he ran like hell.
However the enemy had no intention of letting them escape so easily, as the mother ship pursued them while unleashing more fighters.
At the Vanguard hanger…
"Really? So why are you here?"
Hibiki moaned sadly, he really didn't want to get into this not in front of anyone, especially not in front of a woman. He was being led by the ships commander, B.C, towards where apparently the vanguards were, where "his" vanguard was. That annoying bastard Bart told the captain he was an experienced pilot despite his unassuming appearance.
It wasn't until they were a few feet away from the entrance to the paksis chamber, when he blurted out the truth. He was not a pilot, he was a simple mechanic looking to make a name for himself.
"It was because of a stupid bet I made with my big mouth, I bet that I could steal on the Vanguards that was marked by the others to prove that I could, I wanted to back out, but they wouldn't stop, and before I knew it I …I bet I would not only steal the whole Vanguard with the marked part…but bring it back to Tarak as well! I wanted to see if there was more to life than just doing manual labor day in a day out…and not being able to see just what else was out there in the world…I wanted to do something for my benefit and not for another mans, now I …I don't know what to do."
He hated feeling pity for himself and he hated even more when others felt pity for him, he felt low the lowest he had felt in a long while, he just wanted to curl up somewhere and die.
"While you sit there feeling bad for yourself, others are risking their lives in battle" a voice boomed through the darkness of the corridor, the echoes sending shivers down hibikis spine. The pale man slowly stepped out of the shadows into the twos view
"How does it feel to know that you can't even stand up when your life depends on it, your pathetic" he shook his head in an almost disappointed manner, ashamed to be anywhere near the boy.
I'm not pathetic" hibiki said, sounding almost as if he were convincing himself more than the Spartan
"Then prove me wrong, get out there and fight with every last fiber of your being, death is the highest honor a man can achieve in his life, it means that your values transcends your very life. For a true warrior death is only the beginning"
"The fact is this is your life, you are the only person who can decide how you want to live your life. It's your choice to make and no one else's."
He turned and walked back into the shadows, he heavy foots steps echoed in hibikis mind as he searched his very soul for the answer, an answer to a question he has asked himself for as long as he could remember.
Out in space
The three Dreads were slowly being outnumbered and outgunned by the sheer numbers of the alien fighters that now numbered at least twelve dozen and more were still coming. And the ship was taking a severe beating. In the medical bay, Duero had discovered that all the instruments were underpowered so they stated that since the medical facilities and tools were offline then they'll have to do things HIS way. That statement made the young nurse assisting him VERY nervous to say the least.
The ship meanwhile was still running for its life, but the alien mother ship was steadily closing in.
Paeksis room…
Hibiki was looking through the rows of his planets most prized weapons, as he looked around for the vanguard he had planned on stealing. Hibiki then found his partner.
"Wow partner you sure have changed. Looks like I'll have to change to keep up with you
With that Hibiki got into his vanguard then quickly launched out into the heated battle surrounding the ship
"Reinforcements? Who is it?" Meia asked as she and her wing mates were in desperate need of help as the numbers of the alien fighters became too much for the three of them to handle without any support.
"Who?" Meia asked curiously.
"I don't care who she is, she'd better hurry!" Jura whined a bit as she dodged some more attacks from the strange fighters.
A new voice broke in. "Who said anything about your back-up being female?" said hibiki with a cocky smirk almost plastered onto his face
Just then an unknown object burst forth from the bottom of the pirate vessel as it got closer to them the three dread pilots realized it was one of the men's mech suits, one that was heavily modifies similar to their individual dreads...
"IT'S MR. ALIEN!" Dita cried out with joy as she spotted the vanguards
"He's our reinforcements!"
Observation deck
Kratos stared into the vacuum of space watching the space battle unfold before his eyes, he was never the type to stay out of a fight especially not one that seemed to be taking place so close. But he knew this was not his fight, this was the little ones. He would just have to sit back and watch it unfold
He told himself that the kid needed this more than himself, he needed this boosted in confidence and he knew that nothing quite raised ones inner stock like a good battle.
He didn't know why he was doing the things he was doing. Usually he would have killed that kid as soon as he opened his big mouth, crushed his would be adveseries and would have had his way with half the crew by now. But that was then and this was now, since the murder of his farther, he lost the need to drown himself with women, all he wanted was his family.
Which brings up another reason for kratos taking such an interest in this hibiki kid, every time he looks into this boys eyes the only thing kratos can see his the brother he lost so long ago, the brother he failed to protect, the weakling that was left to die by Sparta, his baby brother he never forgave himself for letting die.
He was not failing a second time; he would never fail again.
Out in space, with the trio of Dreads…
Dita's eyes were starry as she gazed at the vanguards. "YAY TO MR. ALIEN!" She said as she cheered.
Hibiki managed to finally strike down the last pair of alien fighters that were before him and he then decided to take out the main unit by himself, hoping to finally prove that he had what it took be stronger and better than he was now. With that in mind, he launched his Vanguard straight at the mother ship. The Tarak male and the other Megele pilots had been able to hold their own, but they were still trying to find a way to end the threat of the aliens, and it seemed that Hibiki decided to take things into his own hands.
"Dita! What are you doing?"
Meia cried out as the bubbly redhead suddenly directed her Dread to follow Hibiki's reckless charge to finish of the enemy by himself, and the redhead decided to follow him in the attack.
"Don't worry Leader! Mr. Alien here can do it! I know he can!"
"Come on!"
Hibiki led his Vanguard closer and slashed down a few more of the fighters that tried to stop him and it seemed that his sudden and unexpected charge had an effect on the enemy's main ship as it halted its attempts to release more of the fighters to engage the Dreads and the Vanguard and seemed to be rallying the surviving fighters to its side to try and halt the Vanguard's charge towards it.
Several of the alien fighters finally managed to stop the Vanguard, just as Dita's Dread came in close and then the Seed like ship fired out a mass of tendrils towards the restrained Vanguard. The tendrils slammed into the pile as the Dread arrived and a massive explosion engulfed the entire area.
"DITA!" Meia cried out in shock and horror as the explosion consumed the Dread.
"That…idiot!" Jura said with a sound of sadness as she turned her eyes away from the explosion.
In the ship's bridge…
Magno sighed at the explosion and looked down, she was starting to like the young loudmouth Tarak youth as he held his own despite not being a professional pilot, Buzam also looked saddened somewhat as she would then have to tell the Spartan of the boy's death.
"I guess the miracle we hoped for didn't arrive after all."
Buzam nodded at the comment and reached for her communicator.
"I'll have the crew begin evacuation procedures…we might to abandon…"
The women and the Navi-robot looked on as a massive hand appeared and crushed the tendrils before it, along with wiping off the burning wreckage of the fighters that tried to stop it, and then a massive figure appeared in the light and heat of the explosion. It was massive…
The machine appeared to be of humanoid form, but was armored head to toe and shaped like a powerful armored warrior with two massive cannons on its back and those appeared to have massive energy focusing crystals on it as well. The machine lost the fiery red color and was decked in deep navy blue armor and had green energy flowing out from several areas along with sections of green crystals…there were also blades on the fore-arms as well.
"What is that?" Both Meia and Jura said at the very same time as they looked at the massive machine that appeared from the explosion.
"What is that? Some new weapon of the men?" Magno said in surprise.
"Is this a real miracle?' Buzam said as well.
The massive robot then charged right for the main ship as several smaller fighters were released to try and stop the new unit from attacking the main ship, but they were pushed away like gnats as the robot went on with the attack, the ship tried to close itself up but the robot merely jammed it's arms forward and began to rip the closed maw back open and then the cannons on the back slid over to the shoulders and they powered up and fired a massive energy beam right into the exposed maw of the ship. The beams ripped through the ship and the ship was consumed in a fiery nova.
"Well…it looks like we're not going to have to abandon ship
Inside the massive mechas cockpit…Hibiki opened his eyes slowly and felt good about himself, he had done something and won…but his relief was replaced with shock and disbelief as he found his hands on a pair of other hands and he then noted that he was not alone in the machine as a certain redhead was on his lap and she leaned back into his chest and sighed happily.
"What's going on here?"
"Hmm…I just knew Mr. Alien was going to save us!"
Hibiki felt shock in him as he wondered if this was the limit of what he could do on his own.
End flash back
"Between those alien ships and that monster back on the planet, you gotta think we were criminals to deserve such treatment?" She laughed at her little joke then she turned to address Meia. "And do you have to report Meia?"
The young blue-haired female nodded as she took her turn.
"The three Dreads that were swallowed up and transformed by the Paeksis, including mine, are no longer able to fit into the regular Dread platforms. We've modified the cargo bay area on the men's side of the ship and are now storing them there. While we were doing so, we made a few discoveries ourselves. It seems that this entire section of the ship hasn't been used for a long period of time. The circuits and conduits are all decayed and useless."
"I see. And what of our enemies?"
"I decided to deploy a scouting party to the wreckage of the alien vessel to see if we can gain any information. Since we're short-handed, I asked for…volunteers."
That perked the veteran pirate's curiosity. "Volunteers you say?"
Out in space… on the way to the alien wreck…
"Wow! Look at that! It's the UFO! Did you see it Ms. Gasco?" The bubble redheaded pilot of the ship called out.
Goscogne sighed as she sat behind Dita onboard the apprentice pilot's Dread Fighter. It was going to be a long investigation in the mind of the older woman.
The engineering section…
The section was now being flooded by several complaints concerning the inactivity of the majority of the ship's systems. One of the more common complaints was the air conditioning as that was one of the systems inactive at the moment. The section got a call from the bridge crew on that particular problem.
"What's with the air-conditioning? It's gotta be at least 100 degrees in here!" One of the bridge crew complained as she loosened her uniform's collar.
Parfet moved to take the call as she unzipped her jump-suit and revealed herself wearing a tank-top like her friend Dita, and tied the sleeves of her jump-suit around her waist.
"Don't complain! the thermostat says 103 degrees down here!"
She directed her attention to one of her subordinates who seemed to be trying to restrain something. "So how's it going?"
The technician gave her boss a sigh and went back to work in struggling with the Navi-robot, trying her best to hook up the little automaton to a console to lock in its systems in a plan to determine the ship's condition. However the machine wasn't in a rather cooperative mood.
"Beep! DON"T TOUCH ME!" It shouted as it continued to struggle against its restraints almost like a child who was refusing it shot.
Meanwhile, at another section of the ship…
Paiway was rather busy sitting on an elevator which was on its way up to the other sections of the ship. She was more pre-occupied with the fact that she was now writing on her usual companion apart from her frog puppet-handbag, that being her diary.
"As the valiant pirate crew continued to do their best to survive in a new hostile environment, Magno's family suddenly found themselves in a new and difficult crisis."
It was then… "Hey! Hold that elevator!"
Paiway looked up from her diary and saw her fellow pirates, Jura and Barnette carrying various personal items in their arms. The reason for this sudden haul was that due to the changes caused by the Paeksis during the initial transformation of the two ships, the entire residential areas the pirate crew originally lived in were completely covered by the crystals which forced the unfortunate few to relocate themselves into new rooms "Slacking off again, Paiway?"
Barnette asked in a rather irritated tone, no doubt not forgetting that Paiway had nearly made her into a human ice cube.
"Instead of just sitting around doing nothing, why don't you do something more important?"
Jura asked as she managed to regain a better grip on her items as she stood.
"I am doing something!" The apprentice nurse replied as she held out her diary for her comrades to see, then held up her green handbag puppet frog and began to speak in a comic, cartoon like voice. "Barnette and Jura sure have a lot of stuff." She then directed her attention to her puppet as if she was speaking to it. "It's a good thing that our room wasn't changed so we don't have to move out right? Kero!"
Jura gave a rather irritated look at the precocious eleven-year old nurse. "She's really beginning to piss me off." She growled.
Barnette gave a silent nod, but then her attention focused on a strange rope harness on Paiway's waist.
"Hey Pai, what's that rope on your waist for?"
Paiway answered her comrade's question with her puppet's voice.
"This is only a temporary elevator, so it won't be my fault if it falls. See you later. Kero!"
The young girl was then hoisted upward and off the lift, leaving behind the two Dread pilots in a state of shock.
"You're kidding right!" no answer "Paiway!"
Inside the wreck of the alien mother ship…
The head supplier looked through everything that she could see. The ship looked like someone stuffed one massive bomb into it for the sheer spectacle. What remained of the ship look almost like someone smashed a melon with a hammer, the entire insides of the ship was gutted and was left in the open like an old wound. She sighed and responded to the call of her commanding officer.
"Progress here is real slow, the search is much more extensive than originally though, considering the damage that the Vandread caused to the alien ship, it's a miracle this wreck's even out here. We've got a lot of things to go through at this point. But to tell you the truth Captain, this thing isn't like any ship I've ever seen before, it resembles more of a mobile factory than any ship I've ever seen."
Dita however paid no attention to what the conversation was between the supply officer and her captain as she was rather busy taking pictures of the alien ship she and her Mr. Alien had destroyed together. Then she spotted something.
"Wow! Look at that!" Dita exclaimed as she spotted something and began to point at it. "Hey, Ms. Gasco! Can I take a look around?"
Gascogne was in no mood to have the young Dread pilot go anywhere on her own, so her answer was simple decisive and left no room for argument.
"Absolutely not! We've got a very important job to do here Dita, and sightseeing is not part of that job!"
With that she flicked her finger on the surface of Dita's helmet-visor. In the vacuum of space, this gentle yet firm push had sent the young redhead flying backwards.
"Whoa! I can't stop! Ms. Gasco help me!"
The pirate Captain smiled a bit at that as she signed off.
"Very well then. I'll leave the investigation up to you, Gascogne."
Magno sighed as she leaned back and shook her head.
Inside the navigation well, Bart still naked and surrounded in the holographic display of the outer environment of the ship was very cautious in his movements, still worried that any sudden movements he could make would throw the entire ship and crew into disarray.
"Okay… let's see here…uhhh…okay…"
All of a sudden, the ships once inactive systems as well as its main drive came online and the vessel leaped forward and began to accelerate away from the wreck of the alien vessel. The sudden movement caught everyone on the ship off guard as the inertia dampeners and stabilizers were unable to cope with the sudden surprise movement. Crew members from all around the ship were thrown against walls; others lost their balance and fell down. Jura and Barnette seemed to have gotten it the worse as they were the only ones in the fragile elevator, they were each thrown off their feet in the elevator as their trunks and bags were scattered all over the make shift elevator.
Back on the bridge, the crew tried to stop the ship but wasn't getting anywhere.
"The system just booted up and we're now on some unknown heading!" One of the bridge officers called out.
Magno wasn't in a good mood as she got in touch with Bart at the navigation well and shouted.
"What in blazes did you just do in there?"
The image showed Bart as he shook his head in a panic. "Hold on! I didn't mean to do anything! the ships flying itself I swear!" he screamed at the screen not knowing what to do.
At the wreckage…
Gascogne nodded with satisfaction as she took out the data disk from the downloader unit they placed on the wreck's systems to gain the needed data. She was now looking forward to be back at the Register office with her crew again.
"All right, I've finished copying the data. Let's hurry and get back to the ship."
"Roger." Dita replied as she nodded and activated her suit's built-in maneuvering thrusters to propel her towards the opening. However, the moment she got there, she gave out a gasp, as she could not find the ship, as it was nowhere in sight.
"huh Ms. Gosco, where's the ship?"
The bridge…
"Ms. Gasco! Can you hear me? Ms. Gasco!" Ezra cried as she tried to hail both the head supply officer and the young Dread pilot, but had made no progress. The young woman then began to sweat profusely as her breathing became more shallow as time went on.
"Deploy the buoys!" BC ordered, but had turned her attention went she heard a person collapse and a shout was heard. She looked in shock as she spotted the gentle Ezra lying on her console, her face was deep red has she struggles to breath.
"EZRA!"
medical bay
Duelo was having what could only be described as an interesting day, since gaining access to the ships vast amounts of medical data which included books and medical journals that covered subjects he had never even heard before he had constantly been studying.
In between him treating some of the crew members who were harmed during the hostile attack only a few hours ago, he had been running tests on the ships strangest inhabitant Kratos. Duelo like all of the ship's crew had seen just what this imposing man was capable of doing, and like every else he was awe struck by this man strength, fearlessness and over all presence.
Duelo looked over his notes again as he remembered that said man was still in the room. He had asked the pale man if he needed any medical assistance after he hoisted and flipped the ship single handedly, he said it wasn't necessary but Duelo wore at him as time went on. After a few threats to Duelos life he even allowed the young medic to give him a simple physical. what Duelo noticed was this man, despite being surprisingly advanced in age, was at peak athletic condition. the man's super human strength as well as his body durability stunned him
Between fighting and killing the monster and lifting the ship, Duelo theorized that the man before him had the base level of almost 1000 full grown men from Turok maybe more, he based this particular hypothesis on no basis what so ever. he went through several needles looking for blood samples before he just gave up and moved on noticing how not a single one was even capable of piercing his skin.
He noticed that his large patient seemed to have deep rooted anger issues due to his impatience with the tests as well as the amount of time it took for him to administer the tests.
He wasn't going to press his luck by trying to get this mountain of a man to open up and share his inner most feelings with him, however. Honestly he enjoyed breathing too much to do that.
Suddenly the doors to the medic bay slid open as what Duelo noticed the ships second in command walked being flanked by members of the security detail as well as another woman who was brought in on a stretcher. His medical instincts taking hold ,he rushed to the woman's side and began checking her vitals
"What happened to her?"
She's burning up, she must have collapsed from this heat" B.C said, worry evident in her voice but still she chose to at least try and stay calm during this situation
"Bring her to the bed" Duello almost shouted at the women who had escorted the commander and the fallen bridge operator.
Before the stretcher could be moved however the unconscious body was lifted like a feather and gently placed onto the bed surprisingly by Kratos
"Get her water and make her as comfortable as possible"
"
You know of her condition?" to say the young medic was surprised would have been an under statement
"I've seen my fair share of this yes, we have to try and get her fever down as fast as possible"
Back at the bridge…
Bart was in full out panic mode as he tried in desperation to determine where the ship was heading; he got his answer as they were heading into a nebula. And in truth… he didn't like the answer.
"We're going in there! How do I stop this crazy ship?"
The ship didn't seem to care much about Bart's complaints and dove headlong into the mix of gases of the nebula's outer ring. Various chunks of ice and debris flew all around the ship and smacked into the hull of the fused vessel. Unfortunately for the cowardly Bart, due to the neural interface link between him and the ship, then anything that collided with the ship came to hit him in the form of PAIN. A stray chunk of ice smacked into the top near the bow, which caused him to yelp in pain. As the hit felt like a blow to his head and that threw him back a bit.
"Will somebody please raise the shields!" he called out while rubbing his head.
Bart wasn't the only one with problems on the ship. At least ninety percent of all operating systems were offline. Jura and her buddy Barnette found themselves trapped inside the elevator, buried underneath their own possessions. They were in a rather difficult situation as along with their belongings, which were clothes and personal items, were also some firearms and live ammunition. Meia on the other hand was in dismay as she had found out that the Dread platforms were also offline. That naturally meant that she couldn't send anyone to rescue Gascogne and Dita.
Duero also had problems, he was following kratos advice and keeping the fallen women as cool as possible, her temperature was slowly but surely decreasing, but the progress was slow as he was still not quite used to the medical technology of the women.
He then thought about it, really with all this advanced technology why was he needed to help, surly the young nurse despite her age was probably much more knowledgeable with these machines then he was. He directed this inquiry to BC; the silver-haired women gave a simple smirk and told Duero that he was showing his status as an elite of his world. She then explained that with all the major systems offline they needed all the help they could get. Besides, he could learn all about the female physiology first hand. While Duero was running a scanner over Ezra's body to try and discover the cause of the woman ailment, the lights went out; indicating that power to the medical facility was cut off as the ship took its little bath in the nebula's outer gas ring. With one quick lighting fast motion he took a communicator from the hip holster of an aide, who made no bones in showing her surprise and displeasure at that.
"I'm trying to work on a patient here! Make power to the medical bay a top priority!"
Duero ordered in a totally no nonsense tone as he contacted the engineering section of the ship.
In the engineering section, Parfet was exasperated as she took Duero's call.
"I'd love to do that also, but we've got our own problems here as well! I can't do much right now since I can't read the men's language!"
Duero then directed his attention to Buzam, who was watching him check on Ezra.
"If I were there, I could help them read it as it's all in my home-planet's language."
The first officer shrugged her shoulders and nodded in agreement.
"Go right ahead, but be back here to finish your examination or else." She smiled at hi hinting at an almost casual nature, letting him know that she really didn't have any malice towards him personally
"don't worry, I will." Was Duero's reply as he headed for the Engineering Section, not noticing several of the girls still in the room blushing at him as he left.
Kratos just stood there looking down at the now peaceful Ezra sleeping soundly on the same bed he awoke from. He was staring intently at the woman's stomach as it rose in feel in connection to the woman's breath.
Engineering…
The moment Duero stepped into the Engineering area, the reaction to his presence was simple.
"It's a man!" One of the engineers under Parfet screamed as she caught sight of the young Tarak doctor.
Parfet simply glanced at Duero and nodded her approval of his arrival. "Oh, you're here. Good." She then led the doctor over to the worktable where the little Navi-Robot was hooked up to one of the consoles. "I can't do much with all this data if I can't read it."
"It's just a Hi-type #6 data feed." Duero replied as he examined the data being shown on the Navi-Robot's screen. He was rather curious about the little setup the engineer had going on. "What exactly where you trying to do here anyway?"
Parfet began to explain with a little sheepishness to the young physician that the Navi-Robot and the ship's reactor somehow seemed to be linked together. She had thought that the robot would make a good sensor. However, with the language of the men in front of her, she couldn't figure out the reason for the ship's current condition.
Duero nodded as he looked a bit more at the data. "According to this readout, there seems to be a massive built-up of impurities, probably from the merging of the two ships."
"Maybe, so can you fix it?" Parfet asked as she gazed at the young medic.
"I'm sorry to say this, but I'm a doctor, I'm no engineer."
This made Parfet a bit pissed off ,so to speak.
"That's no excuse! Everything that moves is alive! It's a doctor's duty to fix all living things, right? That's what I believe in at least!"
Duero's curiosity was peaked as he gazed at the feisty female engineer before him. "You have a very interesting view of things." He replied as he removed his trench coat.
As soon as the vessel's lower section immersed itself into the nebula's outer gas ring, the engines went on full shutdown. The ship was now propelled by pure momentum now.
"Engines have now shut down, captain." One of the bridge crew, a brown haired and brown skinned woman reported as she gazed at the monitors. Her name was Amarone Slatheav and she was the best friend of all the other bridge crewmembers.
Magno sighed as she was now being cooled by an ice pack over her head and a portable fan was nearby as well. "Just when I get the good news that we've stopped, we now are in a nebula of all the places." It was then that the fan near her shut down as well.
"Captain! Sensors indicate that another section of the ship is now transforming again." Reported another member of the bridge crew, a blonde and a blue-eyed girl by the name of Belvedere Coco.
Outside of the ship's hull, near the arm areas of the ship, new crystal formations appeared as the ship once more went into a transformation.
"Curious." Duero commented as he checked the data being displayed through the Navi-robot's screen. "It seems that the ship is reacting to the gaseous composition of the nebula's outer ring."
Parfet considered the data for a moment then smacked her fist into her open palm. "That's it! The ship must be trying to use the gases in the nebula to neutralize the impurities inside its systems!"
Duero nodded as he was in full agreement to the engineer's answer. "Amazing! It seems that the ship is reacting almost like living being."
Back at the wreckage
Dita looked through her binoculars. "All I can see are the markers Ms. Gasco." She reported back as soon as she saw the buoys deployed by the ship.
"Something must have happened then." Gascogne thought about the change of plans for a few moments and then after weighing her options, spoke. "Well, we got as much information as we can from this trash lets head back to the dread"
"Roger."
Just as the two women were now making their way back to Dita's Dread, the wreck that was once a ship supposedly came on without warning. Its destroyed systems came back online as The heat and motion sensors detected the presence of both Dita and Gascogne; it deployed massive metallic tentecles that moved like serpant attacking its prey.
Dita noticed it first " Ms. Gosco look out!" but it was too late
the metallic arms hardens and encased the closest pirate, which happened to be none other than the chief supply officer Gascogne. Before the older woman knew it, she was the proverbial fly trapped in the spider's web as the tendrils surrounded her into a makeshift cage.
Back at the pirate vessel
"Captain, I have an idea." Buzam called in as she got into contact with the bridge and to her commanding officer through the active communication systems. She was currently in the sub-bridge of the former Ikazuchi colony ship.
"Go ahead BC." Magno sighed as she continued to try her best to remain cool despite the sweltering heat, which indicated that the temperature had just hit a few extra degrees in the bridge.
"Since the Dread launching platforms are still offline, we can't launch any of the Dreads to retrieve Gascogne and Dita. but…"she stopped s if she was testing the waters and gauging her captain's reaction.
"Go on" Magno inquired as she tried to shift to a more comfortable position on the command chair.
"However since the Vanguard launching platforms are still operational. Though there is a potentially high risk factor involved, but we could have that young man named Hibiki to go out into space and retrieve them." BC spoke earnestly
"Hmmm…. I guess it is our best option. All right then B.C, Explain the situation to him and see if he agrees to it."
"Thank you, Captain." But just as BC was about to sign off, Magno took a look at the second in command's location.
"how is Ezra doing"
"The man named Duello has her stabilized, unfortunately the power went out, and he's with Parfet now"
"Parfet huh well he certainly is getting around"
"What was that captain?"
"Nothing, just rambling is all"
At the Cell
"Man… it is hot in here!" Hibiki said to himself in a tired voice as he lounged on the floor clad only in his loin cloth like boxer shorts. He took off most of his clothes as the heat became unbearable by the minute.
" I think I'm going to die."
"My, my, don't you men have any shame?"
Hibiki gave a look to BC. "Look who's talking! Don't you women ever consider knocking BEFORE seeing someone in their undergarments?" He replied as he as well began to put on his clothes.
"You can calm down, I'm not here to cause conflict."
The third class citizen then gave a suspicious and curious look at the silver-haired woman.
"I know you're not here to visit so what Do you want from me?"
Buzam nodded. "I've come… to ask you a favor."her voice filled with doubt, almost worrying what the boys answer would be
"A favor huh? That favor being?" hibachi asked as he pulled his pants all the way up
"Two of our crew were left behind when this ship dove into the nebula. I would like to ask you to go out and find them in your vangaurd."
Hibiki then answered back. "What makes you think I'll help women?"
"My my and I thought men were a proud race willing to help anyone." B.C. said
"You don't know anything about men, so stop pretending like we're some kind of friends when we're not" hibikis face was right up to the metal bars, trying his best to look as tough as possible, the silver haired woman was not impressed in the slightest.
"I'm not quite sure you realized this but right now we are not enemies, you have been allowed to leave these cells since we left that planet"
"Out of the four men on this planet you are the only one that has chosen to still act like we're at war, and do me a favor don't act like such a hard ass when you were petrified before going to your first battle"
Hibiki took a step away from her, and turned around and sat down, the commander was about to leave and report her failure when she heard "Fine I'll go search for them."
The woman smirked and opened the unlocked gate and said "Now Hibiki follow the guard that's by the door. She'll escort you to the vanguard hanger."
At the alien wreckage
"It's no use, Ms. Gasco!" Dita cried as her latest attempt at freeing her comrade failed.
At this point the older female and the pirates' chief supply officer was more concerned about her current predicament than reminding the young Dread pilot that her name was Gascogne. The metallic cage that trapped her was well designed and kept her from escaping. Dita had attempted to use the built-in blasters of her suit, but the metallic tendrils were too dense for the lasers to cut through.
Dita then got an idea. "I'll get the tools from the Dread!"
Gascogne shook her head in disagreement at that.
"Don't bother with that now Dita. Have you forgotten our mission here? Someone has to go to the ship with that data in that disk! You take your Dread and head back to the ship!"
Dita looked horrified at that and shook her head. "Ms. Gasco! I can't just leave you here like this!"
"Who said anything about you leaving me here to rot anyway? This isn't some third-rate soap opera! You can come back for me with more help, right? Now hurry up Dita and get going!"
Dita nodded reluctantly as she knew that Gascogne was right, she turned around and headed for her waiting interceptor.
However, the moment she was out of sight, the insides of the ship reactivated itself again. Panels all over the section of the wrecked vessel opened revealing more of the alien fighters and several smaller types, which could be repair drones of some sort. Gascogne immediately began to have this sinking feeling behind her spine.
Back at the nebula
"Sensors have detected a massive object, which has a direct collision path with us. It appears to be an asteroid-sized chunk of ice." Amarone reported to Magno as her sensors confirmed the object heading for the ship.
"Did you hear that? Do something now!" Magno cried out to Bart who was still in the navigation well.
However, Bart was in the middle of a hysterical screaming fit as he also spotted the incoming asteroid, and was now of no help to anyone whatsoever
In the engineering section, at the mean time…
"The input/output ratio is off." Duero remarked as he checked the readouts in front of him. Through using the screen display of the Navi-robot.
"That's because there aren't enough link routes to handle the strain!" Parfet declared at her own end of her monitor.
"But the existing ones can't handle the strain on their own."
"Don't give up yet! There HAS to be an answer!"
The physician thought for several moments, considering the situation they were in, and then he decided to approach this situation the way Parfet viewed and thought of it. If it really was behaving like a living organism, then perhaps his training in medicine and his doctoring skills would apply.
"How about a bypass then? In medicine, when there is a blocked artery, then all you have to do is make an alternate route to clear the path and relieve congestion."
Parfet nodded, as she understood what Duero had in mind. "A detour huh? Great idea doctor!" She reached him and patted her hand on his left shoulder in agreement. "You know… you wouldn't make a bad engineer!" She turned preying to whatever deity that he wouldn't notice her face literary burning and directed her attention to her staff who were all blushing as well, thinking quickly she broke the ice by snapping everyone out of their stupor and began giving new orders. "Listen up, everybody! We're going to get busy!"
Duero looked down at his shoulder and contemplated Parfait's touch.
Back at the wreck
Gascogne looked in morbid fascination and amazement as she witnessed the least damaged of the alien fighters as well as the smaller drones begin making repairs on their mother ship with clean-cut efficiency, which confirmed her suspicions that the so called alien vessel was actually some kind of massive mobile factory.
"They can regenerate under these conditions?" The head supply officer remarked clearly a loss for words at the sight.
It was then she caught movement through the corner of her eye, she turned and saw something very large and rather ominous heading for her direction. The machine looked like some massive type of bug, with a massive array of clawed appendages, and two large soulless eyes focusing solely on her. She had a very good idea about its reason for watching her, and it wasn't good news for her.
The head supplier laughed nervously as she focused her own gaze at the mechanized bug as she said. "I guess I know what you want for dinner."
Out in deep space
"AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH! NO!"
Dita cried out as she was now running for her life, as several enemy fighters were chasing her and taking pot shots at her Dread. She used every evasive maneuver she had learned from her fellow Dread pilots and her comrade and leader Meia, and any other maneuver she could think of at the moment. But the alien fighters remained behind her and had no intention of letting the young redhead escape.
"I REALLY HATE ALIENS WHO DON'T KNOW WHEN TO GIVE UP!"
It was at this point that her ship's sensors warned her of another approaching blip heading for her.
"Their coming from the front too!" Dita asked in growing panic.
At that instant, one of the fighters pursuing her managed to hit near her Dread, the fighter rocked by that near miss, making accidentally activate her ship's weapons and firing them. Twin beams of destruction lanced forward and caused a small explosion some distance away from her as soon as they struck their target. However, as soon as the explosion faded four massive beams launched back. The beams however, passed over Dita's Dread without hitting the fighter and turned her pursuers into scrap metal. It was at this moment that Dita was close enough to spot what was in front of her.
Hibiki was not in a good mood. "HEY! IS THAT ANY WAY TO THANK THE PERSON WHO CAME OUT TO GET YOU OR WHAT!"
(And this is the thanks I get for coming to save a woman.)
Dita however became overjoyed at seeing Hibiki. "Mr. Alien! You came for me!" She then made her Dread accelerate towards his vanguard.
"Hold on! Wait a minute here!" The young pilot activated his vanguards braking thrusters to decelerate, but as soon as his vanguard and the Dread were in close proximity to one another, there came a bright flare of light. Vanguard and Dread once more became Vandread Dita.
"Wow! What is all this?" Dita asked in delight as she tried to gaze at everything she could see, as she now sat on Hibiki's lap in the cockpit of the massive Vandread
"Hey! Will you please stop moving around so much?" Hibiki said.
The young Dread pilot smiled as she turned to face her Mr. Alien. "I just want you to know, that I believed that you would come, and I knew that you would rescue me."
Hibiki tried not to blush as Dita's face was at least half a foot away from his. He then tried to hide the blush. "I didn't come here to save you!" He retorted angrily, using his anger as a shield to hide his reactions to the young woman in front of him. "I… just went out to look for you… that's all."
"Well thank you." Dita said happily.
Ship wreck
Gascogne was definitely not liking her situation as it unfolded in front of her. The mechanized bug began to efficiently cut away the tendrils that held her. She knew that the machine was only doing so to get to her.
"You guys work pretty efficiently. I don't suppose I could make you consider working for us?" Gascogne tried to sound confident which was a sharp contrast to the fear she was feeling as the automaton came closer to her.
The response of the machine was to simply extend a wicked and deadly looking appendage with claws that looked VERY sharp.
By then the chief supply officer for the pirates was sweating. "I'll take that as a no"
"So, now I guess it's my turn to die, never saw it ending like this"
However, the automaton couldn't reach her with its surgical arm, as the thing was suddenly swallowed by something metallic and rather huge. It was instantly crushed into a mangled mess of parts as Gascogne looked out and saw the Van dread outside.
Gascogne sighed with relief, as she was now sure that Dita had brought in the cavalry.
"You guys put off saving me until the last possible moment, but I guess I couldn't have asked for a better stage ending."
Back at the pirate ship's engineering room
"We've managed to secure at least thirty-six bypasses to the reactor and the main systems of the ship!" Parfet declared as she checked in through the monitor on her console. "How are things on your end, doctor?"
Duero sighed as he closed the Navi-robot's panel and faced his colleague. "I can't do any more back here I'm afraid to report. We'll just have to make due with what we have now."
Parfet knew that despite then newly installed bypasses, those were not enough. "The balance ratio will be completely thrown off if there aren't enough link routes!"
"Do you know what doctors do during a time like this and when in this kind of situation? We then believe in the patient's desire and will to live."
The female engineer smiled and nodded.
Back at the bridge
A massive chunk of ice continued its path of collision with the fused vessel as the crew frantically tried to avoid disaster.
On the Command Bridge, Magno's mouth was in a tight straight line as her bridge team continued to report.
"Distance is now twelve hundred kilometers and closing…" Amarone reported as she stayed at her station.
It looked like the end to Magno; however that was until the fan near her suddenly came back online…
"Huh?" the pirate Captain could say in surprise.
Belvedere gave a cry of joy as she checked the readouts on her console. "The system just rebooted itself!"
Down at the engineering section, the Navi-robot became active once more, stood up on its feet and smartly saluted both Duero and Parfet.
"Beep! I'm back in service!"
"Yes! We did it! We make a great team!" Parfet whooped with joy as she reached out clasped Duero's hand in her own, then she looked down at both their hands for a moment and blushed as she gazed briefly at Duero.
Duero also felt rather… odd, as he also found his gaze torn between his hand held in Parfet's own and her face.
"HARD TO STARBOARD, THIRTY DEGREES!" Magno shouted to Bart in the navigational well.
"AAAAAHHHHH! IT'S TOO LATE!" Bart screamed in fear as he immediately braced himself for imminent destruction.
Then, there came a massive explosion in front of the vessel, but it wasn't the ice colliding with the ship's hull. Bart opened his eyes as he felt no pain at all, all he could see was that the asteroid was completely vaporized and in the things place was the Vandread flying in front of them.
"Humph! So he saves the day at the last minute once again!" Bart said with both disdain and jealousy.
Inside the VanDread's cockpit…
"Man! I am SO tired!" Hibiki sighed as he leaned back on the command chair.
"See! I told you it was amazing!" Dita said excitedly as she bounced up and down on Hibiki's lap, making the young pilot even more agitated and nervous, as she was bouncing once more on a certain part of his anatomy.
Beside them, in very obvious discomfort was Gascogne. "Yeah, yeah it was. So how about getting me the heck out of here?"
Later that day
Magno got into contact with every member of her crew onboard the ship as she and BC prepared to make a special announcement.
"We have deciphered the data that was salvaged from the wreckage long before Vandread Dita. I want all of you to take a good look at this" BC said as she changed the image in the holographic display screen to all the monitors on the ship, the images depicted a rather strange looking planet.
"This is the enemy's home world. We don't have a full estimation of the planet's exact location, but apparently they are in possession of some very serious firepower. They seem to perceive our presence as in invasion of their system so therefore, we expect more hostile encounters and battles on our return to Tarak and Mejale space."
The first officer continued her briefing as she let her words sink in to the crew.
"We have also discovered that the enemy is planning a major operation, which calls for the total obliteration of our home-planet of Mejale and the male planet of Tarak. For rather unknown reasons, a hostile force is fully intent on wiping out our two worlds."
Then the captain took over.
"We are, as you all know are pirates and as such we therefore have no bonds to either Mejale or Tarak. However, it would not be in our best interests for this unknown and hostile force to wipe out our potential 'customers.' Therefore, I intend to reach our home system before the enemy has the opportunity and inform both our worlds of this crisis. In order for this mission to be successful, we must incorporate the men we have captured into part of our crew."
The old woman continued to speak. "There are many things that we don't understand, such as this ship and that large mecha; However, I expect that we shall learn more, one day at a time. That is all."
Just as soon as she shut off the comm.-link, Ezra and Duero entered the bridge. As soon as the ship's systems were in full operational condition, Duero returned to the medical bay and finished his examination of Ezra's odd condition.
"I'm sorry about before." Ezra apologized at the old woman. "I'll be returning to my station now."
BC directed her attention to the young Tarak medic. "Did you find the cause of Ezra's fever?"
Duero nodded. "There was nothing wrong with the patient's vital signs and functions, but she seemed tired, for unknown reasons, that is until I made a thorough examination. There seems to be some sort of parasitic organism feeding off my patient's body internally."
That statement alarmed Magno as she looked at the gentle woman, but Ezra shook her head while trying to hide her blushing face.
"No! No! It's not like that! It seems… I'm going to have a baby."
As soon as the word baby escaped the meek woman's lips Magno relaxed and gave a bright smile to Ezra, while Belvedere, Amarone and the rest of the bridge crew became very excited as they crowded around the mother-to-be.
"When in the world did you become a fahma?" Belvedere asked with joy coating her voice.
"So who's the ohma?" Amarone asked as well.
All this naturally confused Bart, as he was not aware of the birthing methods on the home-planet of the women. "But I thought that babies were born in a factory."
The young medic pondered this information for a moment. "Come to think of it, I have heard this rumor that females reproduced internally."
Ezra bowed her head at Magno. "Forgive me, Captain. I had intended to you after the last raid on the men, but…"
Magno smiled more and waved it off. "There's nothing to apologize for, Ezra. I hope that you give birth to a healthy girl."
"C'mon Ezra! Who's the ohma?" Belvedere asked at her comrade.
"What is that exactly?" Duero asked with genuine interest. He never told anyone on his planet, that part of his reason to become a doctor was because of his fascination with the mysteries of female physiology.
"The ohma is the one who donate the egg and the fahma is the one who nurtures it in her womb. Don't you know anything?" Belvedere almost berated the young doctor, sounding somewhat disappointed with the male
"In all honesty, this is the first time I've ever heard of it."
As they continued their discussion of Ezra's pregnancy, none of them noticed Buzam edging her way to a console and removing a small data disk.
"We certainly have our share of surprises today, right BC?" Magno asked her first mate.
The first mate turned quickly and managed to hide the disk from her Captain's eyes as she directed her attention to the old woman. "Err, yes Captain!"
"The whole crew will have to work as hard as they can, especially for the new life that will be joining us soon."
"It's going to be a long journey then." Buzam added.
"Yes, it will be a long journey indeed." Magno nodded.
Elevator shaft
"Why*sob* why hasn't anyone come for us"
We're going to die here I just knew it
I'm to young and beautiful to die like this
Suddenly they felt movement as they could feel the entire platform being lifted from the bottom of the elevator shaft
"Oh Barnette I'm telling you it's a goddess, an absolute goddess, I knew the universe wouldn't allow a natural beauty like me to perish like that"
If she could the purple haired dread fighter would have face palmed, but her entire body was covered with piles of cloths, bags and debris, she was just thanking her lucky stars that this whole ordeal was over. But the thought crossed her mind who was their savior
The ride was quicker than the two expected, to them the fall must of felt like it was from higher up, but the platform was quickly raised to a point where they could safely jump off along with their remaining stuff and not be harmed.
The second they steadyed themselves they each looked up to see the visual of their scared and heavily muscled savior. Kratos heard their pleas for help and following his new mantra of what would his family like for him to do he grabbed the cut rope at his feet and pulled the two women to safety.
They both stared up at kratos as his muscles were still flexed whilst holding the platform, he scoffed at them and dropped the it down the elevator shaft, the two women didn't hear the crash for a very long time.
As he turned and left he could still feel the young women's eyes on him "stupid children" he muttered once and continued on his way.
Jura and Barnette both had been raised since birth to both despise the men of Turok, and all males in general.
"W-wow" jura said, un-used to these certain butterfly in her stomach or the very pleasant feelings and images playing in her mind
"Y-yeah" Barnette uttered also at a loss for words to describe these new feelings she was experiencing
That's about it for now anyway, I do hope everyone enjoyed this chapter, I thank everyone who has left a review, I'm actually surprised on the number of hits this story has gotten
Considering that Vandread fan fiction audience is relatively small, especially compared with naruto and the like.
I'm thinking about maybe starting a new story while working on this one
They're on my profile, if you find them interesting enough, leave which one you want done in a review. The story with the most votes I'll do first
Peace out
p.s kratos will not be paired with anyone but his wife, that last part was just for fun
p.s.s Duelo will be a pimp in this story, fair warning
p.s.s.s I'm considering bringing more GOW characters into later chapters, what do you think, who and why. Again still iffy.