Vandrwad:War God

by ThatGuy666

kratos has succeded in throwing the world into chaos, now sent to a new world and thrown into a new fight, he will finish what he started by personally ripping Athenas head off, but will the power of a fallen god be enough to stop the harvesters.Godofwar

4. Chapter 4

Kratos dreamscape

Kratos watched the scene play before him, as if he was the lone member of a plays audience, frozen in place watching the scenes before intently despite knowing full well what was going to happen. Despite defeating his demons and overcoming his past, he was still plagued by nightmares of his past.

It wasn't anywhere near as bad as it once was, not too long ago he couldn't close his eye for a second without being bombarded with visions of his horrid past, luckily for kratos since that time his mind was clear. With his vengeance fulfilled and his past forgiven by those he loved he has been able to rest. Gone were the days where the constant flashbacks and horrifying images played over and over again in his mind when he was awake or asleep. Since being sent to this new world his dreams have been what would kratos would describe as simply heaven to the living hell he was used to.

Memories he himself thought forgotten re-surfaced, the day he met the woman he would marry when they were children to the day of their wedding, the birth of his daughter as well as every birthday she ever had, the happy memories he practically erased from his mind descended upon his psyche and truly put his mind, body, and soul at ease. However as kratos soon found out like all men he was still susceptible to the occasional nightmare.

This night happened to be one of them; He looked on silently as a memory of his youth played before him. This day's events burned deep into kratos mind,

It was still strange to see himself so young, how different he was now, almost like an entirely different person, the boy in front of him look to be about 12 just starting to show signs of maturity and eventual manhood. his skin was tan due to constant exposure to the harsh Spartan sun from constant training, his skin showed no signs of the future battles scars and trauma he would put his body through in the coming years his face was round still having some of the chubbiness of his youth but even back then he had a stony and almost angry look about him, light stubble just starting to grow upon his chin and the sides of his face with brown hair barely visible due to it short buzz cut rested on top.

Kratos eyed the fallen boy trying to lift himself out of the rubble he found himself in, blood dripping down the fresh slash above his right eye; kratos himself sub-consciously traced the scar that came from the same slash over his eye with his hand.

The buildings around him were on fire, the intense heat generated from the flames warmed his entire body threatening to leave painful burns all over his body if he got too close to the flickering fire. He heard screams all around him, as unseen monsters battled the Spartan army within the city as women and children hid in fear. The smell of blood filled the air mixing the odder of burning limber and flesh. Red and orange hues clouded his vision, the light from the fire reflecting off of everything almost blinding him in its golden glow.

The city was being attacked from a force that seemed to be beyond anything kratos had seen at that young point of his life. He did not know it at the time, but the perpetrators of the siege of Sparta was in fact Olympus itself. The sibling War gods, Ares and Athena led the attack, for reasons that would later lead to the world's eventual downfall.

An oracle foretold that the demise of Olympus would come by a marked warrior. In their desperate bid to change their fates, the gods searched high and low for any sign of this masked warrior so he would be snuffed out before he was given the opportunity to vanquish them. With the blood of Zeus flowing through his veins as well as the strange birthmarks covering his body Deimos, youngest son of Callisto of Sparta seemed to be the best choice.

The two patron gods of warfare descended upon the city with an army of undead and beasts to search for the youth, they themselves surveyed the damage and the destruction on horses as the bypassed the actual fighting to collect the youth themselves. When they stepped closer that was when the young kratos decided to act, he ran up towards one of the figures, the physically larger of the two mounted gods, and planed on delivering a powerful stab with his spear. The blow was parried by Ares as simply as one would take an intake of breath. With speed and power a human could only dream of having, the Olympian backhanded the Spartan youth as if he were nothing but a fly or some other nascence not even good enough to allow Ares to waste his time on him. The power held in the blow was enough to send young kratos flying back s dozen yards into a local merchants stall shattering it into splinters.

In a flash kratos perspective changed as he saw through the eyes of his younger self as he watched the two mounted figures incased in darkness take his brother away as he kicked and screamed for kratos to save him, as he desperately tried in vain to escape the grip of the war god. Kratos tried in desperation to lift his broken childhood up but did have the power of strength as if his actions were locked and predetermined to go along with his childhood memories. None of that mattered now though, not the death all around him, not the sound of his mother calling out for him, not the feeling of blood rush down his eye as he tried to lift himself of the ground as his entire body screamed at him to stay down. All his attention was directed souly on his brother, his baby brother Deimos.

To say kratos was over protective of his younger brother would be the understatement, growing up in the warring city state of Sparta without a farther caused kratos to grow up quick and grow up mean just to survive, Deimos however was not kratos. He was soft and lacked the killing instinct that separated Sparta from the rest Greece. From the standards of Sparta Deimos was deemed Weak, and was threatened to be left to die.

kratos wouldn't let that happen to him as he worked all day every day with his brother to ensure his survival in the cut throat city of Sparta. Practicing spear thrusts and shield movements as well as straight sparing which what they were doing today before the attack.

The last clear picture kratos had before everything going black was the sight of his brother fighting tooth and nail to break free from the hold of the mounted horseman as the fire around him consumed and destroyed everything in its path.

As the last of the memory played within kratos mind his body began to stir and his mind began to refocus. His deep green eyes fluttered open as he lifted his massive form out the bed the captain had given him.

In one of the ladies rooms…

Belvedere was powdering her face with her make-up unit while looking at herself in a mirror as she had a discussion with her fellow bridge bunny Amarone about the latest gossip about men During their change in shifts of the bridge crew

"Did you hear the latest rumors? I heard that men seem to have some strange tube stuck between their legs."

The reaction of the dark skinned pirate was rather obvious.

"No way! Are you sure it's not some kind of antennae? Gross!" The young woman explained whilst covering her mouth with her hands to stop her giggling fit.

"If that rumor was true, then I wonder if that 'thing' between their legs makes it difficult for them to walk."

They were not aware that there was someone else listening on their little gossip session as a certain redhead was all ears to that little rumor.

Dita listened eagerly to her comrades while hiding in one of the stalls as the two discussed the latest gossip about men. As soon as she understood what Belvedere was talking about, she looked on her own body and noted with slight curiosity and disappointment that she didn't have that said appendage on her. She smiled to herself as and then decided to find out whether this rumor was true about one of the Mr. Aliens

As Dita was going down the hallway down to the men's quarters her curious question was just about to be answered as Hibiki came just around the corner and headed for the one of the rest rooms designated for the men. As quick and as quiet as she could be Dita then snuck in behind hibiki without him noticing. Just when Hibiki was about to releve himself, he saw a certain red haired young woman kneeling behind him with an innocent smile plastered on her face.

"AAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGHHH! WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU DOING HERE YOU STUPID GIRL?" Hibiki asked in both shock and embarrassment, as he had just unbuckled and took off his pants and positioned his body over the toilet not trusting sitting on the toilet itself out of fear of contracting a "horrible" illness from the women, when he noticed the curious gaze of the ships resident bubblely red head.

Dita said nothing at all, as she continued to stare at the object of her naïve affections with a twinkle in her blue eyes and a smile on her face, totally unaware what her presence was doing to the young man.

Hibiki tried in desperation to contain the embarrassment in his face from showing, in a flash he pulled back up his pants, grasped Dita by the collar of her jacket and hauled her out of the men's restroom. As soon as he opened the door leading out, he dumped Dita on the floor. The female now found herself planted outside of the room as hibiki slammed the door and activated the electronic lock.

Dita turned around and spoke to hibiki through the door.

"But why can't I watch Mr. Alien?" her disappointment was clear to anyone who heard it, like a child asking a parent why they couldn't stay up late or have a treat before a meal. Her face turned into a cute pout as her eyes slightly watered while looking at the door waiting to her hibiki voice on the matter.

"I can't go with someone watching that's why!" He shouted back completely embarrassed and red faced at the mere thought of dita watching him as he did his business. He slide down against the metal door and let out a deep breath he didn't even know he was holding.

Dita looked down and sighed in disappointment. She however did not turn and walk away as the boy from Turok had hoped. Instead she continued to stand outside the door with a determined look on her face as she knocked on the metal door repeatedly while asking to be let in. Hibiki simply sat there and waited for her to get tired of the game and simply leave. Hibiki did not know this himself but he would be forced to wait for a long time.

At the medical bay…

Duero gazed in interest at the images he was viewing.

"Peculiar… this organ doesn't even exist in a man's physiology." He remarked as he further studied the computer displays showing the gestating baby within Ezra.

Ezra looked at the young medic and explained what they were viewing.

"It's called a uterus."

"Hmmm… a reproductive organ… most interesting."

Ezra rested on the bed comfortably, as she began to explain to Duero what else they were looking at.

"I wanted to have a baby, so I decided to carry the seed."

This made the young medic even more curious. "What's the seed?" Duero asked, his curiosity and thirst for knowledge driving him to know everything there was to know about the medical facts of women.

"It's when an ohma donates an egg and has it spliced with the genes of the fahma. Then it is implanted into the fahma's womb to be nurtured and to grow. Where I come from, anyone who wants to be a fahma can be one."

"Hmmm…. So that means I can become one?"Duelo said nonchalantly placing his hand over hers

Duelo asked half serious and half joking around with the soon to be mother not realising or even notice the reaction he caused from the bridge officer. Her face was red and warm as her heart rate was elevated slightly as she felt a pleasant feeling within her stomach she was almost completely sure wasn't from her future daughter.

Finally noticing her reaction Duelo removed his hand from hers and raced to another monitor to try and figure out her newest conditions, thinking they were from the pregnancy. Ezra's hands slowly rose to her cheeks in a vain attempt to contain herself.

Elsewhere…

Parfet was busy holding a contest to find a new name for the fused pirate and male war ship, since everyone essentially agreed that the name Ikazuchi was a rather lousy choice for the ship. All of the crew would contribute and the winner would get a year's supply of food coupons that will be redeemed at the Trapeza. With the Navi-robot, now being called Pyoro, logging in all the suggestions, Parfet would then give the list to the Captain for her to choose the name. One of the suggestions offered was the name 'Nirvana' which was BC's suggestion. Parfet hoped that the captain wouldn't choose that one, it just sounded so she couldn't even describe it se just didn't like it

Due to talking to the Navi bot about the different names they have collected so far Paret wasn't looking where she was going as she collided with what she thought was a wall. As she fell backwards, landing on her backsides her glasses fell off of her face due to the impact sliding a few feet away from her on the ground.

" owy that hurt, thanks for telling me before I walked into that wall Pyoro" she said hoping that robots were able to since sarcasm. she did here a reply which somewhat worried her but she didn't put mush thought into it as she immediately got on all fours to search for her glasses. After a few seconds of looking she found her glasses and placed them back onto her face, and as soon as she regained her vision she relise just what she walked into as well as the reason of the little robot became a mute.

From her know kneeling position on the ground she stared up towards the ships scariest and largest inhabitant the ghost of Sparta, Kratos.

The sudden shock of seeing kratos caused the head engineer to shoot back up standing shuddering an apology for bombing into him

"I-I-I'm s-so s-sorry Mr. kratos," parfet barely got through the apology without passing out due to fear and embarrassment, she fumbled over her words as she stared up at the pale and emotionless face of the Spartan warrior" you know for bumping into you I guess I should really watch were I'm going huh? Heheheheheh I really shouldn't be such a scatter brain while I'm moving huh heheheh" anyone with half a brain would be able to tell that the young glasses wearing engineer was scared out of her mind, the words coming out of her mouth so fast the words seemed to mold together and become almost un audible to any listeners ears.

"It is fine child, you seem to have been more harmed then I was"

"Well you are a bit bigger than me I guess suppose you could take a beating better than me huh" she laughed anther little joke knowing full well it was true, the size difference was striking making parfet feel almost like a small child when standing next to him, and as the memories of kratos killing the monster that threatened to kill the entire crew as well as lifting the entire ship off the mountain become are remembered by the girl the more silly she felt about making such a lame joke.

"O-oh yeah that reminds me would you like to enter our little contest?" Parfet

Contest?."Kratos voice boomed, surely their definition of contest was different from what he would consider a contest. The confusion in his voice caused Parfet to mistake his mood as anger, she flinched as the words left his mouth and met her ears thinking she did something to upset the large intimidating man.

Noticing her reaction, kratos visible appearance softened to convey that he was not in fact mad at the girl, his cheeks and brow relaxed as his posture slumped slightly, his eyes even softened and seemed to become a lighter shade of green that somehow relaxed the young engineer in a way she didn't fully understand.

Sorry I guess you didn't hear about it well it's simple, it's for the name of the ship, you give a suggestion and if the captain picks it you win" she said with a smile staring up at kratos almost begging him to join in.

Looking at the brown haired girl reminded kratos of his daughter in fact since he began this journey he has had moments of seeing flashes of his daughter in nearly every crew member he had come across. With that said it put him in a very uncomfortable frame of mind when he saw Parfet giving him a puppy dog look, knowing full well he would fall to the gaze whenever it was used by either his daughter or wife.

With a sigh signaling his defeat he racked his brain for an I appropriate name for the ship they were currently on.

"Pegasus" was the only word he said as he bypassed the girl and continued down the hallway, leaving the girl and the navi robot alone.

"Hey yeah Pegasus I like that one, you hear that pyro write that one down will you"

Meanwhile… at another section of the ship…

Buzam had just finished inserting a data disk into a message pod, when she was suddenly contacted by the captain via Comm.-link. She hadn't been expecting being contact by the elderly pirate in what she thought was a quite stretch of space, her first thought being they were under attack .

"BC, is everything ready?" Magno asked

Buzam was at a momentary lose of words for a moment, before she regained her composure and answered her captains question "errr, yes captain"

Magno nodded as she looked towards the space pod containing the data that they had obtained from the enemy vessel, and noticed that there happened to be two identical looking pods in the launch ports being worked on by BC. "Why are there two pods?"

"Well… this second one is for Tarak. I thought it would be prudent to warn the men of the threat as well, as they are also the enemy's target."

Magno considered the statement and her first officer for a moment, and agreed with her plan knowing full well that the men of Turok were in just as much danger as their home world.

"Very well." Launch the pods."

BC nodded as she activated the launch ports. Twin cylindrical objects were shot out at the bottom of the ship and sped towards their designated coordinates of the distant planets of Tarak and Mejale. However Before the twin pods traveled a mere 100 miles away from the ship, they were engulfed in a massive explosion. BC as well as the captain looked in surprise as they each viewed the two pods' destruction through the screen, and in an instant later she spotted a quartet of enemy cube fighters came into view in an obvious attack position.

"RED ALERT! ALL HANDS TO BATTLE STATIONS!"

Alarms and Red alerts were going off all out throughout the ship, as members of the Dread unit began scrambling to respond to the incoming threats. As the two highest pilots on the chain of command Meia and Jura were already on their way to their own Dreads suited up and prepared for battle when they saw Dita standing near her own ship.

"Dita, what are you waiting for? Board your Dread already and get out there!" Meia cried out as soon as she got close to her apprentice pilot.

Dita faced both her and Jura as she spun in pirouette as she stated why she was still standing around.

"It was Mr. Alien! He got into his partner and flew right out of here! WHOOOSH! He was SO fast!"dita practically screamed her voice filled with affection and awe for the vanguard piolot.

"What? He's out there already!" Jura exclaimed. Shock evidenced within her voice as she looked to meia to gauge her reaction, they had only gotten the call for combat a little less than twenty seconds ago and Hibiki had managed to beat them both here

Unbeknownst to the two senior dread pilots, the young man named Hibiki was in the hanger before the alarm system was going off. He was already stationed in the cockpit of his mecha hiding for dear life from the hyper active red head who wanted to learn all she could about his alien species, thus giving him a head start when it came to preparing for the space battle.

Jura noticed that her blue haired friend and squad was quite pissed off but seemed to hold an almost placid look on her face ,as if controlling her anger and keeping her emotions in check knowing a full outburst will not nothing to help the situation. She knew better however, she's known Meia for years and she knows that if anyone would cross her they are in a world of hurt. Hopefully for Hibiki, the captain would more than likely keep the punishment to a minnum, and won't allow Meia to kill him for blatantly going against his orders, maybe a savage beating would be in order on the other hand.

(by the goddess I think I might never get used to being surrounded by men.)

while this is going on Out in space…

Hibiki was out in space, in the mist of fighting off the enemy cube fighters single handedly, one by one they fell to the modified Vanguard.

Hibiki then went full out toward the last of the enemies with his two massive broad swords slicing them in to two separate pieces as they drifted away from and exploded, Hibikis ego growing with the destruction of each and every enemy mechs.

The monitor in front of his face lit up showing the face of the elderly captain, whose face looked to be a cross between one of contempt and one of mild

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAA. See just leave this to me only a man can do moves like that. HAHAHAHA. Hibiki laughed at the captains face, fully aware of his apparent skill with his mech and just how impressive he must of looked to every single member of the crew that watched him destroy their enemies by himself.

Hibiki rocketed back towards the ship with his partner without even waiting to hear the captains response to his statement. He imagined that he was going to receive a heroes welcome when he returned

Back in the hanger

As soon as Hibiki landed his Vanguard he saw the three dread piolits Dita, Jura, and Meia standing in a circle as if they were waiting for him. As soon as Dita saw him enter she immediately place all of her attention on him waving her hand over her head uncontrollably, her glee and happiness shining through the opposite feeling of her two companions. Jura who seemed indifferent towards the whole thing and only seemed to be somewhat happy for the fact that she didn't have to go out and fight herself. Meia seemed to barley control her contempt and anger for the Turok teen, as stared un blinkingly at Hibiki with a stare that promised immense pain towards him.

Hibiki then looked at the three women, assuming the feelings of all three mirrored the feelings of the red head.

"You ladies can take a break, Hibiki the man has taken care of the enemy."

Meia's anger was rising with each word leaving the blue haired teens mouth. The levies of her emotion which had tried so valiantly to keep them in check had finally had enough and broke.

"JUST WHAT DID YOU THINK YOU WERE DOING!" Meia snapped at the Vanguard pilot as he left his robots mecha to joined the three women.

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN WHAT DO YOU THINK I WAS DOING I WAS SAVING YOUR BUTTS FROM THE ENEMY WHAT ELSE." came Hibikis aggravated response, does she know what he just did for them?

"You went out there without any authorization!" Meia called out with her anger now somewhat more controlled after her previous emotional slip.

"Without Authorization? I saw an opportunity to help you women and I'm getting all this flack about following your "orders" when you weren't even out there?"

"Your under my jurisdiction as a temporary member of the dread combat unit, as the squad leader my input is directly involved in all planning and all combat movements."

"Who said I had to listen to your input and if I need to remind you I am a part of this crew and if you got a problem with that you can take it up with your captain if you have a problem with how I'm operating to help you damn women" hibiki was starting to get loud, his short fuse already almost set to erupt.

(wow, this one sure has a high temper.) Jura thought to herself as he gazed at Hibiki trying to get into the face of her squad leader, despite being several inches shorter than the woman.

Meia for her part was keeping her cool as best she can with Hibikis face near inches away hers with his chest puffed up and his brow bunched up, as if he was trying his best impression of kratos, to try and back the squad leader back down. Unfortunately for him it didn't seem to work.

Dita relishing the massive amounts of tension in the hanger tried to diffuse the situation, before the two came to blows, knowing that the two wouldn't back down from the other due to pride or the chance to save face in front of her and Jura.

Mr. Alien, Meia we shouldn't be fighting each other, please lets just calm down"

Forget this I don't need this, I'm outta here" Hibiki said briskly as if he was waiting for an excuse to leave without him seeming like he was a wimp. leaving through the sliding doors with Dita following closely behind him as she tried to calm him down.

This left Meia and Jura the lone occupants of the hanger, Jura being slightly entertained by the two antics slowly left the hanger as to not bother Meia in her obviously annoyed and frustrated state. Meia was currently in the frame of mind that asking the captain to through the brat in the brig seemed like the best option for her and the overall crew. She will have to discuss with captain first before making such a rash decedicion. but she would be lying if she said she didn't want the figurative book to be thrown at the teen aged boy.

At the bridge…

"He's a danger to the ship and to the morale of the crew!" Meia said to her Captain emotionlessly despite her feelings of annoyance and slight anger towards the hot headed blue haired vanguard pilot. It was rather obvious that the only thing keeping her barley controlled anger in cheek was out of respect for the elderly captain.

"I take it that you don't approve of the newest addition to our crew?" Magno Vivian asked her Dread squadron leader. she knew full well that the personalities of the two pilots were so radically different from each other and that they would eventually clash with one another, but not even she could imagine it would be this fast.

"That's putting it too mildly" Meia paused as if she was collecting her thoughts "captain. He doesn't follow orders he might have a problem with authority in general, he's absolutely reckless, his rash decisions might get the entire crew killed one day if this goes unchecked, and if I may speak freely captain he is simply infuriating to be around with!" Meia said as she tried to rein in her temper.

"I see. Well… I'll be the first to admit that he is a bit reckless and that attitude of his doesn't quite install confidence . But he's already done us a couple of favors. besides, his skills and the power of that Vanguard are quite helpful assets, considering our current situation."

"If I may be allowed to speck captain" kratos boomed making his presence first known to the occupants of the bridge. His distinctive voice coming seemingly from nowhere surprised and even frightened most if not all of the crew station on duty. Belvedere Amarone nearly jumped out of their seats, as a third bridge bunny nearly fumbled out of her bear costume. Bart who was navigating through space nearly halted and stopped the ship dead in is takes but barely managed to keep his cool. Even the normally un flinching Meia, held her breath as sweet became to form over her brow as she gazed at the ghost of Sparta through the holo monitor, his presence still palpable even when not in direct contact. even the captain straightened herself up right and put forth her attention toward the man.

Magno entertained the notion of how kratos was able to keep his movements so quiet and undetectable despite, as Gosco once said, being the size of a small dread. she often wondered if the crew would evacuate the halls whenever they caught sight of him and it just seemed as if no one knew where he was or going and people were just to intimidated to say anything. She truly did not blame them

Despite being able to cut the tension and fear with a knife whenever kratos walked into a room, Meia got past her moment of awe to voice her displeasure with what she thought the mountain of a man was going to say.

"Captain, he only wishes to keep punishment off his fellow man, I find that his opinion in this matter is purely..." meia was cut of swiftly by the Spartan

"I assumed you were much too smart to bad mouth someone who shares the same opinion as you, silly girl" Kratos said almost emotionless, smirking slightly as he saw the look on the dread leaders face as she relised what his words meant.

"If I may be so bold, the child n question is much too brash in his actions as you already know, since he doesn't seem to follow orders or listen to planes that have been written up he endangers everyone on this ship whenever he goes out to battle."

:You feel strongly about this?" Magno said evenly interested in not only kratos seemingly expert opinion on the matter but also the chance to probe more information out of the stoic pale giant.

"A true warrior worth is measured by the worth of the warriors he serves with, that is the way I was taught and that s a lesson the boy will have to learn before being placed on the front line of combat" said kratos confidently, so sure of his convictions it came out like he was reading it from a history book, more fact then opinion.

Though I truly hate to admit it myself and goddess help us if the boy were to hear this, I feel the boys skill is a priceless asset to this mission" she paused so that her words may be able to sink in.

However, if the both of you really believe that the young man is in fact hampering the Dread teams' performance, and then perhaps he will benefit from a reassignment of duties, what say you kratos any suggestions?"

"it is to my knowledge that this woman Meia is currently the leader of your fighting squads I find it best that she decide what is to be done with the young man's reassignment" boomed the deep voice of the former god as he looked up towards the holo monitor as if to say that whatever meia had in mind as far as punishment should be interesting.

Meia felt a surge of accomplishment as her smirk grew with each word from kratos mouth. Her smirk turned into a full blown smile when she heard him tell the captain that she should be placed in charge of the transfer and she knew the perfect spot, hell maybe he might even learn something from this.

In the Garden…

"I just don't get what the big deal is" Hibiki said to himself as he walked alone throughout the Bio Garden, it had been a few hours since his argument with Meia, and only one since he managed to shack Dita off his trail to allow himself some alone time.

Before he joined the crew of pirates, and Before he had an outlet to show case his skills in combat Hibiki was viewed as less than nothing by his society, his supposed friends, and even himself. he was the lowest of the low, a third class citizen whose sole purpose in life was to work his fingers to the bone at an assembly line. No future and no life outside the factory he was treated as a slave by the owners and by his fellow workers he used his anger and temper as a security blanket, to keep people away before they had the chance to hurt him. in his life the only person who he ever trusted was his Grandpa and even he threw him out left him alone in a world who truly didn't care for people like him. he always told himself he needed no one to be strong, that he was strong despite being alone, because he was alone.

If he would have stayed on his home world his pride and loathing for everyone around him would have gotten him killed sooner rather than later, however since being thrown into this particular situation, with people radically different from the people he had grown up being around had confused him as well as put him on the Defensive for the most part. He inner thoughts telling him that by showing people he was strong, that he was useful then for once he would gain the respect he thought he had the right to have.

"I mean they should be grateful that the great Hibiki is here to protect them, but NOOO, they throw everything Hibiki did back into Hibikis face" Hibiki said of himself clearly speaking in the third person after sighing and letting lose a breath he didn't even know he was holding.

I see we're talking in the third person now are we" a voice came from the darkness.

Because of his upbringing Hibiki had to be as strong as he could be or at least act as strong as he could be so no one would push him around, himself being on the short side already made him an easy target amongst his peer group. Normally he would have screamed at the top of his lungs about him being able to talk however the hell he wanted, this time however was to one of those times.

The voice was so distinctive he would remember the tone the literal power that carried the words it spoke for the rest of his life. it could have been one person and one person only

Kratos stepped out of the shadows as the lights form the light poles illuminated his massive form. All 6 feet 4 inches of his height and all 290 pounds of his pure mass, not only seemed to tower over Hibiki but in a way surround him from all possible corners, making Hibiki feel as not matter where he was Kratos was all around him.

"wh-what are you doing here" Hibikis pride was the only thing that kept him from running away right at this second. Kratos was the first and so far only person Hibiki ever met that truly terrified him. his size, demeanor, attitude, power, he was everything Hibiki wanted himself to be. No one in there right frame of mind would dare mess with him and even if they did he was capable of making them soon regret that decision.

"where's the confidence I usually hear from you boy" his voice boomed making Hibiki seem even smaller then he felt when he started comparing himself to the Spartan.

Confidence, Hibiki lost his strength, his instincts failed after only a few moments in front of Kratos. He was drowning in the sheer presence of the Spartan. his limbs were numb and he couldn't find the strength to move them.

You've seem to lost that power you were bragging about having earlier, Hibiki the man how lucky we are to have such a fierce warrior to protect us from evil" kratos mocked as he took a step closer, causing Hibiki to take a step backwards away from him.

"So you're only strong when you have that Vanguard you use" it was more of a statement then it was a question.

Hibiki eyes darted to his feet his once over flowing confidence deflated to the point of self loathing, Noticing this Kratos seemed to change his tactics. he quickly decreased the distance between them standing directly in front of the younger man. Kratos lowered his massive body until he was standing on one of his knees as his eyes met with Hibikis.

"I can tell you want to be strong and that you truly want to be a true warrior" kratos said, his voice softer then Hibiki thought possible for a man like him, still stern and powerful but somehow gave his inner self the boost it desperately needed.

"you need to learn a few things first before you can even hope to become a true fighter in the eyes of this crew the eyes of me and most importantly the eyes of you" with that he stood from his knee and took a step back to almost size Hibiki up.

a true warriors effectiveness is measured by the warriors he fight alongside with"

"Without this basic fact you put yourself and others in unnecessary danger, with that in mind The captain, Meia, and myself have decide it would be for the best that you be taking off the front line temporarily a given a more supportive base role"

"Now before you go off the handle like I know you are going to do, understand this, this will do you nothing but good in the long run"

Hibiki stared at the man as he turned and left leaving Hibiki to his thoughts. He was pissed off at not being able to fight, he couldn't remember a single time in his life when he was this angry before. Kratos words played over and over again in his mind. If anyone was going to know just what it took to be warrior and to live strong it had to be kratos.

Hibiki thought to himself "You know maybe it won't be so bad yeah I mean where are they going to put me"

At the Register…

(THIS is where we'll be working?) Hibiki thought to himself as he stepped in the ship's supply depot center looking like he was out of his element, his eyes were wide and seemingly bulging out of his head and his mouth hung open like a fish, taking desperate breaths as it was taken out of the water.. Everyone in the center's staff were all dressed in matching white and red outfits, almost like waitresses giving the depot more of restaurant feeling and less of a armory.

Gascogne was busy giving her staff the orders for the day, the department head easily distinguishable from the rest due to her height and physique, as well as her less then lavish wardrobe. when she spotted the vanguard pilot she instantly smiled a smile that almost screamed "fresh meat".

"Ah yes! The new arrival! hey Girls, what's our motto?"

"SMILE! SMILE!" every single girl in the room said in complete unison as they faced the young man and simultaneously gave him a friendly wave, officially freaking Hibiki out with their complete unison.

Hibiki looked at the scene with his eyebrow twitching un controllably. (Just what the heck have I gotten myself into this time?)

Welcome, to the team kid, I hope you enjoy your stay as a member of my team" Gasco

Hibki scoffed and refused to meet her eyes, clearly still upset about being transferred but mostly upset about what kratos said to him about not being a real man as well as the fact that he the brash loud mouth he was couldn't and even wouldn't say anything to the monster of a man to refute his claims, not that he even could think of anything to say.

"I guess they were right about that attitude of yours, a shame that that was all gossip"

fine don't say anything to me, I guess I'll just tell that big guy he was right all along about you

That did it Hibikis eyes shot up towards the large woman's face to see if she was telling the truth about knowing what kratos said, he saw no bluff of sense of lies in her eyes or her stance to identify she was being deceitful. that or she had one hell of a poker face.

"You know what fine I concede, you win I'll work with you and your creepy girls. I won't like it but I'll do it" Hibiki said defiantly, he was going to show that bastard how much of a real man he was.

"but I am not I mean am not going to wear that outfit do you hear me I don't cant what you say or what you do to me I am not wearing...'

Five minutes later...

I can't believe I'm wearing this thing" Hibiki said in a defeated tone of voice

Hibiki looked down at himself in shock as he took stock of his new uniform that were worn by every woman on Gascogne's staff. The frilly apron and low skirt looked well on a women's frame and body type Hibiki supposed but on a man and especially if that man was him it wasn't especially pleasing to see or to be in.

who you look pretty good like that, you know if you did decide to live among women, you might just blend in fine" Hibiki was shocked that Gosco was able to mutter such a statement and not burst out laughing, the idea of her having a great poker face was becoming more and more of a possibility by each passing moment.

"Whatever do you think I like wearing this thing?"

Gascogne smiled and tried not to laugh at the looks of anger and embarrassment on the man's face who was now under her supervision and also took stock of their appearance.

"Now that's better. Now you truly look like part of the stagehands."

"Stagehands?" Hibiki said,

Gascogne nodded towards the boy as she decided to explain her role and the role of her girls to the hot headed piolot.

"That's right. It's our job to make certain that all the supply orders or filled… with a smile of course. Don't think that the actors have their own up on the stage." she said hoping her analogy was paying off and was sinking into Hibikis skull.

said teen was still in a deep state of shock and embarrassment over what he was now ordered to wear, when the chief supply officer came up to him. He couldn't resist giving out a growl of annoyance and irritation, but Gascogne shook her head at that.

"You should remember our motto here. Smile, smile!"

Hibki tried to force a smile as he tried to keep his temper in check.

Gascogne smiled and then motioned for him to follow her for his first day of work. He would first be given a tour of the facilities and then be given his first assignment, moping the floors. The entire time Hibiki never stopped his growls of irritation as well as his string of curses.

Elsewhere on the ship…

"Wow! What is all this?" Dita asked as she and her companion the Navi-bot Pyoro explored the other sections of the men's side of the ship. She had already given her suggestion to Parfet that the ship's name be Roswell. Once she did that she went on a little trip to the men's side deeply interested in learning all that she could about her Mr. Alien. The two of them had come across one of the food storage compartments and were now gazing at the massive flood of variously colored nutrition pellets.

"This room is where the men keep their food supplies." The Navi-robot explained to the young redhead. "One of these pellets is good enough for a full three hundred hours worth of labor." the little robot said, almost saying the exact same thing Bart said to him describing the "miracle food substance" that his family was responsible for supplying the military ship.

Dita knelt down and took one of the pellets and began to nibble it. the solid food suddenly exploded into a powder like substance as it entered her mouth. dissolving almost instantly. She grimaced immediately and spat out the pellet as her tongue's taste buds were subjected to the pellet's foul taste .

"Ewwwww! Mr. Alien actually eats this stuff!"Dita said spitting out what little bunches where left in her mouth. shocked why anyone man or woman would willingly chose to eat these disgusting pills.

"Well…." The robot spoke out as it decided to tell the redhead on what it had learned about from the four men on the ship. "From what I've been able to gather, the only one who seems particular on the taste seems to be Bart, the other three don't care for the taste either, but these pellets are all there is to eat on Tarak."

With that little bit of information engraved in her mind, Dita bolted up from her seated position, with the intension of fixing the preserved problem. If this was truly the only thing that Mr. Alien had ever eaten his whole life, then no wonder he was in such a bad mood all the time. She knew just what to do now and then everyone would be happy and get along.

At the Register Depot…

Though he absolutely hated the idea of having to wear a skirt and apron to do work even more annoying than the work he did back home, Hibiki had to admit that Gascogne ran a very effective and efficient operation for a woman anyway. The members of her crew were completely professional, though they kept on offering those somewhat annoying smiles. He felt kind of weird with the sometime overly friendly crew, he wasn't used to the idea of having a work relationship that didn't involve mutual distain for one another, these girls were the polar opposite of what he was used to back home.

The one thing that pissed him off beyond all else however was his job in his new department . He was now a glorified janitor... in a dress.

hibikis anger was at the high notch at this juncture of his treatment, as he had a VERY accurate idea on why Meia had removed him from the combat roster.

(Humph! Now I understand why Meia was so happy when she was given the authority to have me reassigned. She's probably gloating right now)

Gascogne had arrived and spotted the sour look on hibikis face as he leaned his torso against the bucket and mop, so she decided to have a chat with the only male member of her Register staff.

"Well now, it seems that some people don't remember our little motto." she said hopping to get some sort of reaction out the teen other than a grunt or another string of curses

"Hmmm?" Hibiki turned from where he was while scrubbing the Launching Bay relishing he was day dreaming and not paying attention to his surroundings..

"Smile, smile."

Hibiki gave a slightly icy glare as he gave a growl as his only response to the woman. disappointed in the reaction Goscogne sighed knowing full well that the blue haired teens attitude wasn't going to change any time soon at this rate. It was then that Gascogne gestured for him to follow her. She wanted to show him something.

"Don't start thinking that the jobs you were assigned to do aren't as important as destroying the enemy."

The head supply officer said as she and hibiki stood alone in what seemed to be a small projection viewing room of some sort.

"We all have to do our part to help keep the ship running and keep everyone alive. Don't think that we have it easy down here."

"I get it geez, What you do is important I get it you don't have to hammer that into me anymore, now are you gonna tell me why you brought me here." Hibiki said as he faced the supply officer.

Gascogne noted that she had a part of the man's interest, no matter how small and no matter how much he wouldn't admit to her face. She then reached over and pressed a small button.

"Take a look at this."

A holographic image appeared on a screen, which caught the ex-soldiers attention. He saw the women's home-planet of Mejale and what seems to some sort of apartment complex in the residential areas. As the images continued to play, Gascogne began to explain.

the first thought that crossed Hibiki mind was that what he was seeing was the single most gaudy thing he had ever seen in his life, so many bright light, and loud color almost caused sensory overload in his mind.

When he happened to voice his opinion on the fact he was surprised to hear the woman he was alone with laugh at his observation and calmly say that she couldn't agree with him more.

"This is our home planet of Mejale. On the outside, it seems to be a rather beautiful and peaceful world. However, appearances are very deceiving. The people of Mejale are more concerned with their appearances than on practicality. They constantly waste precious energy and resources on very trivial pursuits, like who has the better garden. Often, these personal contests have gotten in the way of the more important things and what is needed to be done. One time, there was a massive power consumption and as a result… one of the residential units had to be shut down."

Hibiki nodded with disgust on his face as he watched the image of a housing complex became dark as it was stripped of power. Gascogne continued further with her explanations.

"Our captain had lost her home as a result of what had happened and that was when she started this pirate gig. It was the perfect solution for those who had nowhere to go so we followed her and it's been that way ever since. In piracy, there was no real difference between males and females. Everyone had to work hard, but everyone shared in the rewards. Don't get the idea that certain people reaped the rewards while others did all the work."

Hibiki said nothing, but he had a good idea where the head supplier's conversation was hinting at. Hibiki didn't want to acknowledge the head supply officer views for a moment, but the more he thought about it the more since they made to him. No person should be forced out of his or her own home, just because of the foolishness of one's neighbors. He could understand her view, he was always the scapegoat for some of the other guys of his factory back on Turok, always pinning the blame on him whenever something bad happened even when they knew who really did it.

"You know, you should be considering yourself lucky. If it had been the Mejale military that had attacked the men that time, then you would have been dead long before you could have even said mercy." Gosco said thinking about how her planets special forces would have done when in combat with the men on board the male Flag ship

Hibiki thought about it, flashes of bodies of cadets littering the floor as the women showed no mercy towards anyone they found.

"I wonder what Kratos would have done if he felt you posed any sort of threat to him?" Hibiki said quietly, thinking about what the man did to that great beast and how normal military would be able to combat that type of power

Gascogne gazed at Hibiki as she thought about it for a moment. She had to agree her maybe it was for the best that it was the pirates who hijacked the vessel, no doubt the amount of bloodshed spilled on that day would have been something akin to a blood bath. At this point she wouldn't be shocked by the prospect of Kratos fighting off the entire Mejale military by himself.

"Yes, I highly doubt someone like kratos would go done because of a shot with a laser"

"Yeah I know." Hibiki replied with a laugh imagining the looks on the faces of those unfortunate soldiers as they discovered exactly what a man like kratos was capable off doing , with that hibiki exited the room preparing to finish his work for the day.

Gascogne smiled a bit as she watched the young man leave. Thinking to herself how she finally got through that thick head of his and got him to somewhat open up to her.

A week after Hibiki joined the Register System…

"So Hibiki I got to ask you something" Gosco asked her subordinate, as she watched him finish up the last of his assignment of the day.

Over the Corse of the past week, Hibiki and Gosco got a bit closer in heir budding relationship, in terms of Hibiki know answering questions with actual words instead of angry and frustrated growls or annoyed grunts, so Gosco felt they were making progress.

"Yeah what is it" He was still as brash as ever, but when I came right down to it Hibiki showed and treated the Supply manager with the respect he knew she deserved.

"You and Kratos seem pretty close so I was just wondering if you knew what made a guy like that tick" Goscogne said honestly at her wits end about the pale skin man.

From the start of the journey, it seemed as if Kratos was one nearly everyone's mind. From his strange and sudden arrival onto the fused ship to the man's almost barbaric looking appearance to his frightening presence and fighting ability has been the source of much heated debate amongst the entire crew.

The first couple of days he became something of a boogieman to a good portion of the crew especially the younger ones who had never seen a man before, they created a crazy notion that most of the Turok military was just like kratos, That idea was quickly extinguished by the captain before her entire fleet of fearsome pirates were reduced to nothing more than a paranoid group of children to scared to run into a platoon of Kratos to even bother attacking Turok ships.

As days went on people seemed to calm down around the man, even though he happened to scare the wits out of anyone who talked to him or saw him if he didn't make a conscious decision to put effort into not making one run away from him.

He liked his privacy and usually kept to himself most of the time, the times where he did interact with the rest of the crew he seemed almost parental in a way , Which just seemed strange for a guy like him to be considered that considering it was a huge shock to discover that a man in general could even be remotely Parental.

She would hear stories of how the girls from every department of the crew from engineering, to the dread squad, to even her Register who had gone to talk with the man overcoming their fear of him in the process only to discover that he reminded them of at least one of their parents with the way he treated them.

He seemed reluctant at the start brushing them off to the side or even straight up ignoring them, but after awhile he allowed a few of them to get close and this only encouraged more and more of the crew to join in.

Like she was with Hibiki it seemed as If Dita was his biggest fan In that regards. almost every day when she isn't chasing Hibiki around trying to get him to try one of her boxed lunches she made especially for him ( to which he called poison and ran for his life) she seemed to be at Kratos side with a number of other crew members begging for the large man to them stories of his past adventure and life before he came on the ship.

Despite some weak protest at the start kratos would always tell anyone willing to listen, which happened to anyone within ear shot of him which was allot of people, stories that would engross all of it listeners. Tales of his supposed past adventures enthralled all who heard them, their imaginations running wild with the detail descriptions of beasts and creature they could never have seen in the real world. as well as tales of valor and heroism.

The sordid lives of the Olympian Gods, their servants and children among the mortals, and even the Titans played out like the soup operas the crew were used to watching back on their home world.

There were dozens of incredible stories of mighty heroes and horrible monstrosities, that pumped their adrenaline up and made them beg for more. Many of them were especially moved to tears by the tragic tale of Orpheus and his wife Eurydice. However anyone could tell you the most popular story Kratos ever told was the unshakeable bravery of the 300 Spartans at the battle of Thermopylae. He must of repeated that story at least twice a day since the crew had agreed upon that he was one of their new favorite group activities.

"Why would you think I'd know that?"

I don't know you seem kind of close aren't you" Goscogne said, getting confused about Hibikis answer thinking that being some of the only men on the entire ship, they would at least try and get to know each other

"Yeah right" hibiki spat out, sarcasm dripping off of each word

"that guys a complete psycho, always watching me, talking down to me, he's always treating me like I'm just some kid" Hibiki finished with a huff.

"Uhh you are a kid" Gosco said after a pause, she was taken aback by Hibikis sudden explosion of dialogue

"NO I'M NOT!, seriously the next time someone calls me a kid I swear I'm gonna.." Hibiki didn't finish his pseudo threat because he was cut off from a voice coming from the direction of the sliding door

"What is the child going on about now?" kratos said walking towards the two, girls parting a pathways for him to walk through all the while greeting him with genuine kindness and affection, two things kratos was still getting used to.

Noticing no response from the usually load mouth pilot kratos decided that embarrassing him more would hopefully cause some reaction to jolt him from his moment of complete and utter mental shutdown "I'm sorry did I break your concentration Boy" kratos said looking at the brash teen stammering and unable to form a complete sentence

"Oh you were finished, good you can leave now the adults have to talk" kratos said seeing no immediate change from Hibiki, he decided to send the brat away so that he can get what he needed to do out of the way.

"I'm almost afraid to ask but, can you please just humor me and tell me you were forced to wear that"

"Oh don't worry he went kicking and screaming" Gosco said almost trying not to outright laugh at the face hibiki had on when kratos asked the question.

"Good to be thankful for small miracles I suppose" he said as he watched Hibiki face light up bright red and walk off to finish his work all while muttering his immense hatred for the outfit he was wearing as well as the fact that no one seemed to care that Kratos himself was wearing a skirt.

when he knew hibiki was out of ear shot he turned towards Goscogne "So how is the brat doing under your supervision" Kratos asked curious on the effect if any that the change of seanaery had on the boys work ethic and over all attitude.

"he's been getting better, working better with others and all that, he's even calming down a bit, but you'd have to pay really close attention for that little piece" Goscogne said, smelling at the last part as Hibiki had started growing on the veteran pirate more then she originally though he would.

"Not too much I hope, that's part of his charm" a smooth voice called out from the sliding door, Both Kratos and Gosco turned around to find The ships new resident Doctor Duello calmly walking towards them.

"Hello Doctor, not that I'm complaining or an thing but what are you doing here?" Gosco greeted the young man

"I got a message saying a member of the Register was having some troubles so I ran right down "Duello said as he began to walked towards a group of women circling around another woman who was fanning her to keep cool as she sat on chair.

As he neared them the group parted to allow Duello excess to the Feverish woman, all the while greeting him and telling him how well he looked today.

Looking at the situation unfold Gosco began looking back and forth between all corners of her department relishing that work had seemed to slow to a crawl the second the good doctor had entered the room, in fact all of her girls were either in that group watching over the doctor or just simply watching from a distance too shy to be near the man.

She turned to look at two of her workers who seemed to be standing near the communication panel, obviously the ones who called the doctor down to "help" their friend. While both of them were off looking at the doctor do his thing, they seemed to still have the since of thought to actually bump each other's fist

Gosco laughed at the whole situation and the actions of her entire department, whole could find any reason In her to disagree with their actions.

"You seem to be a regular Adonis boy, might want to give the other two some advice in that department one day" Kratos said amazed at the sight before him, as I Aphrodite herself blessed the young man at birth

"I can't say I know for sure what you are talking about" Duello answers truthfully as he checked the heart rate of the girl he was currently kneeling in front of.

"If you need someone to tell you then it might be best you don't know" Kratos said to himself more than the doctor.

Duello didn't respond, his primary attention on nursing the sick woman back to health as her friends looked on in morbid concern watching his every movement.

Duello hated not knowing about something, it was as if there was an immense conspiracy going on through the ship about alienating then men from this information because neither Hibiki nor Bart seemed to grasp the concept when he Relayed his findings, And it comes to his attention that Kratos is also in the fold.

The Quest for knowledge always seemed to drive Duello to push himself forward in life he truly wanted and needed to know everything about everything, and women weren't any different in that department.

With every probe he conducted about their thought processes as well as their emotions they've seem to instinctly have some sort of defense mechanism that Duello has been taking notes on. His knowledge growing within each passing day. he now felt that he has hit wall, Whenever he got close to any of the women, their faces would gain a reddish hue, their hearts began to beat faster, eyes would water, they would lightly touch him as if to gauge his own reactions, as well as effecting their movements Which tended to distract his eyes.

It seems after all this time The women had caught on to his experiments and viewings and their defense mechanism have increased in , as if they instinct know what he was trying to do.

Duello thoughts were derailed however when he overheard a chorus of gasps and what he thought sounded like laughter coming all around him, he noticed the girl he was examining had passed out, from what he hypnotized was due to the heat stroke steaming from the fever.

His job as a doctor came before his curiosity, he had a job to do and he had to put all his power into "helping" the young woman. While checking her vitals he paid no mind to the multitude of women all around him with hearts in their eyes practically squealing at his every move.

Later that Day...

WAAAABOOOOOOM!

"Enemy attack!"

Magno nodded as she got confirmation from both Belvedere and Amarone, as she and her bridge crew prepared for the latest assault of the enemy. All throughout the ship, crewmembers rushed to their assigned posts, as the Dread pilots rushed to their waiting fighters. In a full thirty seconds squadrons of Dreads were now in front of the ship ready to engage the enemy. After the many previous encounters, Meia was confident that she and her comrades would be able to handle this new threat without the help of the males, namely Hibiki and his Van dread.

The enemy group comprised of at least several dozen Cube Fighters, two other vessels which acted as a Cube Fighter factory, that they tagged as Seed Ships were to each side of the group. A third unknown type was in the middle of the enemy group, The very large machine seemed to be a massive sphere which comprised of globes on its surface. The alien forces maintained a fixed distance in front of the pirates, as if they were almost daring the women to make the first move in this little encounter.

On the command bridge, Magno ordered Bart to direct the ship in some evasive maneuvers, which the helmsman did without any hesitation, (his specialty is running away after all). However, for every maneuver the ship would attempt, the alien forces countered effectively, keeping the distance between them and the pirates in deadlock. After several more attempts that were easily countered, the pirates halted and decided to face off with their alien enemies.

The Register…

"Why are we running from these wimps?. What are those women doing? ATTACK ALREADY!" Hibiki said sounding like he was getting ready to start ripping his hair out due to frustration as he watched the situation unfold along with the rest of the pirates via monitors.

Kratos had heard Hibiki from the other side of the room and walked over to him.

" I'm going to tell you something useful never rush into battle without analyzing your enemy first. Once you've analyzed the enemy wait for them to attack first. I want you to so remember that because I hate repeating myself, got it brat."

Hibiki seemed to obey Kratos words, as he instead of yelling at the screen, he shut his mouth and paid closer attention to what was happening on the screen. Even though he could quite know what the enemy was planning, his instincts were screaming at him that something big was going to happen"

"I've got a REALLY bad feeling about this."

Kratos silently agreed with the teens sentiment as he viewed the battle via the monitors, Since the battle had begun kratos had been studying the weapon, measuring its strengths and weaknesses, knowing full well with the way the dreads have been fighting there was no way they would be able to defeat the machine.

Though he could tell, that in the next few moments, that things were going to get even worse for the front line…

In that sudden instant, the enemy attacked…

Meia immediately placed the Dread squadrons into the fray. The agile pirate fighters darted in and out of the mess, blowing up a small number of the Cube Fighters to kingdom come while trying in vain to engage the alien's main attack ship. However the strange craft was easily evading the first wave of dread ships with speed that contradicted its massive size. Then the globes covering its surface began to rotate and extend out massive, jagged purple tendrils turning at an incredible speed turning the massive razor sharp spikes into a complete weapon of mass destruction, All the while making the machine look like a…

"Sea urchin? How disgusting!" Jura commented as she directed her Dread into a strafing pattern attack against the new alien ship. She was immediately followed by her best friend Barnette who also launched her own barrage of missiles against the target. However, the spines immediately became jagged and started rotating even faster. The missiles fired by Barnette were immediately brushed aside by the spines leaving the main body unharmed, as the missiles exploded harmlessly into space.

"No good! We can't get close enough to it for a direct shot!" Barnette called out as she moved her Dread away from the battle zone to regroup with Jura.

Then the spines became straight and were suddenly launched outward like over-sized high velocity darts. A few of the Dreads were caught unaware by the sudden attack, getting hit and placed out of action. Meia thought that now was their chance as she directed the still operational Dreads to immediately attack. However, the machine rapidly extended more spines and began spinning them again, causing the next barrage of missiles to totally miss and explode without any effect.

"Damn!" Meia swore as she evaded the barrage of fire from a few Cube Fighters that rushed in to protect their main system of attack. But it didn't help matters when those Seed Ships were spewing out periodically more Cube Fighters.

"Let's ask Mr. Alien to come and help!" Dita called in her communicator as she also managed to evade the incoming barrage from her own pursuers.

"NO! WHAT HAVE I TOLD YOU ABOUT RELYING ON OTHERS?"

"But he's a good alien, and he can really help us out right now!" Dita countered as she dodged more shots from the enemy.

"WE DON'T NEED THERE HELP! THERE MEN AND OUR ENEMY! WE CAN HANDLE THIS ON OUR OWN!"

Meia gritted her teeth as she directed her fighter teams once more.

(I WON'T ask for anyone's help! Namely from that MAN!) Meia mentally said, her pride not allowing herself to admit not even to herself that she needed help

Though Meia was confident of her skills and abilities and that of her fellow Dread pilots. She wasn't aware that she was breaking one of the most important rules of the battle field ,

Ones better judgment must overcome ones pride in order to achieve victory

Back at the Register…

Hibiki shook his head in disgust as the fight continued. "This really doesn't look good."

Gascogne nodded in agreement as well as she watched the battle through her tactical monitors. With the Cube Fighters running interference and defense, and the Dreads being unable to attack the new alien attack ship due to its defenses, it seemed that the pirates were now fighting a one-sided battle with them at the losing side. She checked her monitors again and noted that several of the Dreads were knocked out of the action and returned to the hanger for some quick maintenance. It wouldn't be long until the enemy would make their assault on the ship itself.

"Those Dreads aren't going to last much longer. Not to mention the fact that the current battle tactics they're using are now useless." Kratos said as crossed his massive arms over his chest, his voice calm as if he were talking about the weather

"Oh? What would you suggest then?" Gascoigne asked as she gazed at the Spartan, curious on just what the Spartan knew about the enemy

The Veteran warrior simply pointed at the urchin like vessel of the aliens on the monitor. "That new ship was designed specifically to combat those Dreads. The spines were designed for at least three different functions. The first being to act as a form of defense, with the spines being jagged and in fast rotation and considering the flow of energy in them, they then would deflect the incoming barrage of missiles and other projectiles, as they now know that the Dreads are only effective on long and medium range attacks. The second is for a ranged attack, the design is to utilize extreme speed, they are designed to get in and get out before you even noticed what happened, they're very hard to dodge, even more so with those Cube-Fighters around, and to make things even more hazardous, there's two of those Seed Ships causing interference. The last will probably to act as melee weapons, as soon as they break through the Dreads' ranks, the aliens will use their main ship to attack us like it was launched from a catapult."

"It's an interesting strategy but..."

"But what..." Gosco said almost completely enthralled listening to kratos speck

"its greatest strength makes it most crippling weakness all the more visible, its speed is a result of its lack of armor, it leaves itself open for attack every single time it attacks"

Kratos then pointed at the image of the urchin ship as it once again fires it's spines at the formations of the Dreads. He then pointed out the now spineless ship.

"The ship can be destroyed only when the spines are out of the way, and not from long range as that would give it the needed time to regenerate its spines. All you need is one good shot from up close to kill it" He said

Gascoigne nodded in amazement at kratos as he had already discovered the weakness of the current attackers. "Getting up close with that ship, with all those fighters guarding it and those spines shooting out? Sounds real risky."

"The Hardest way is almost always the best way of doing things"

As soon as the words left his lips the ground began to rumble as the ship was impacted by enemy projectile, the impact sending everyone in the registry hurdling to the ground, everyone except kratos as he still stood with his arms folded watching the monitor.

As everyone was lifting themselves up off the ground, kratos attention was placed solely on the monitor in front of him with the captain face shining brightly at him.

"Captain" kratos says passively, having a feeling as to why the captain image was in front of him

"Kratos we seem to have a problem" the captain, no humor in her usually friendly voice, she was all business right now

"Go on"

"The tremor I'm sure you just felt, was caused by an enemy vessel colliding with the ship, our radar sensor have located the breach and we've sealed the door however it seems that the enemy is in the ship"

"Where" kratos said already knowing where the captain was going with this, good it's been a while since he a had a nice work out with living targets.

"The motion sensors located unknown movement within a spare hanger on a bottom section of the ship, we've managed to look the hatches for the time being but we don't know how long the door will last, and we don't think our security forces are up to the task"

"Consider it down" Kratos said his voice dripping with malice as he smiled a smile that would have sent the most hardened criminal weeping to his mother like he was a child.

Kratos turned away from the screen as he walked his way out of the room, As he past Gosco he stopped and looked at her from the corner of his eye and said in a in as quiet as possible for kratos" I expect the problem with the outside battle to be finished by the time I get back here" with that he left through the sliding door intending to show the errors of the enemy ground forces ways.

As she watched his retreating form, Goscogne smiled knowing full well what he wanted her to do, and she could help but agree with his sentiments.

"Now where did Hibiki go?"

Space, outside the battle

The Dreki, Gascogne's supply ship, detached from the main ship and made its way to the battle zone. The ship resembled a deep gray metallic ladybug and was protected by high-density armor plate and had several grappling arms located on the undersides. As four Dreads came in to be rearmed and refueled, she then extended the arms and then grabbed the fighters bringing them closer so that the ordered weapons could be loaded on the ships.

On the main bridge of the Dreki, Gascogne sat with Hibiki and they each watched the procedures.

"Okay, we're going to get all this done in forty seconds, tops. Let's do this all in one go."

Hibiki nodded they efficiently and systematically loaded the Dreads with their newly ordered ordinance of missiles and power packs. The head supplier nodded in satisfaction as she watched the Vanguard pilot's amazingly flawless efficiency, The somewhat haggard look on his face showed that Hibiki took his job seriously as he pumped the orders and fitted the ships as fast as he humanly could.

In a little less than a minute, the Dreads were now ready to go into battle once again, With all of the pilots itching to go back to the fight to get back at the enemies .

"I'm so full!" Data called out happily.

"Give them Hell, girls." Gascogne said as they launched away from the Dreki.

As Hibiki watched the Dreads re enter the battle, he gave a sigh. boredom taking its toll on him, he needed to get out there to help, he just couldn't stand simply being on the sidelines . He spoke his opinion to Gosco. "Not that I'm saying that being a stagehand isn't a good job or anything, but we all need to change tactics soon. Unless the Dreads can take out that urchin vessel before it can make more spines, then it won't matter just how many times they shoot at it all and how many times they reload."

Gascogne nodded. "I couldn't agree more. However, the reloaded fighters can buy us some extra time."

"What are you getting at?" he asked.

Gascogne gestured to the display. "That's the reason why we brought this along with us."

It was at this time Hibiki noticed that there was one last object in the cargo bay. Hibiki looked at the screen confused with why Goscogne didn't deliver it yet . "Hey, you still got one more delivery to make."

"That's correct." She then accessed cargo manifest. "It's your vanguard I had some of the girls from the register load it in before we left. Now go do what kratos said to do and send these bastards back where they came from."

For a split second, Hibiki just stood there not knowing what to say at the moment, tied up between the excitement of the situation and the emotions he was feeling

"What are you doing Hibiki come on and lets go you don't have a second to waste."

"All right about time. I can't wait to go out there and kick some ass." Hibiki said, getting himself pumped up as he began a mad dash down the hall but seemed to stop abruptly, turning around to face the head supplier as she continued flying her transport ship.

"Thanks… Ms. Gasco." Hibiki yelled out as he ran for the cargo bay as fast as his legs could take him.

"It's Gascogne!"She smirked as she shouted backwards knowing full well he was already getting ready and didn't hear her. happy that for the first time he referred to her by name, even if he messed it up

Deep inside the ship

Kratos walked alone down the empty staircase as the sound of crashes and the ship rocking back and forth filled his ears as he descended the stairs. After years of fighting and war He was prepared to face anything.

He followed the directions given to him by the captain perfectly and he soon found himself in view of the spare hanger. As he neared the thick metal door, Kratos noticed a load banging emanated from the other side of the door, the rhythm as well as the volume of the blows told him it was more than one trying to get through the massive door as well as it no way being a member of the pirate crew.

Thinking it was better to act than to stand around waiting for them to get through, Kratos jumped into the fray. With a mighty push kick he broke the massive 15 foot tall metal door off its hinges with enough force to send the hunk of metal flying back impacting the wall with a dull loud thud instantly killing who ever or whatever was trying to get through the door.

As Kratos stepped through he door into the massive hanger he came face to face with the being the captain sent to destroy.

The creatures seemed to be somewhat human like ,standing on two legs with two top limbs that seemed to be able to manipulate like hands and arms. It appeared to have three eyes in a triangle formation as well as what could be considered a mouth, as the majority of its face, except the eyes, was covered in pseudo-organic metal, that seemed to be crimson hued grey in color, the same metal alloy seemed to cover not just face, but the upper and lower chest regions with small ridge-like plates on the abdomen and the fore-arms as well as going along with the sides of the hips and the lower legs with what looked to gauntlets going up the majority of its arms ending right above its elbows. The rest appeared to have exposed flesh which was in a deep red color. each one of these creatures were large ,standing just over seven feet tall each and by the ways the stood and moved around looked to be in the 500 pound range

With a fluid motion, he whirled his twin blades over his head. The humming sound the blades made as they became unsheathed being the last things many living thing heard before they stopped being living things, the bluish Aura the blades gave off shined like sapphires in the bright lights over his head. Then with power no other human could match, Kratos brought them down directly over a group of three of the "creatures" slicing the middle directly down the middle and as the blades connected with the ground a pillar of darkish blue fire erupted out of nowhere from the ground engulfing the other enemies with a searing fire that caused them to howl in pain as their metal armor sizzled and melted onto what kratos assumed was flesh.

His blades returned to his hands as he then charged the group all the while creating a whirlwind of metal, cutting anything that was unfortunate enough to be in its path into ribbons. Metallic limbs and other body parts falling off and through against walls creating a Symphony of destruction with every crash and bang.

The impact of some blows sending some of the creatures flying and crashing them into the metal crates littering the floor, sometimes denting the crates while snapping the creatures spins like trigs, other times the blows sent them flying threw the crates only for them to land head first into the solid wall popping their heads like grapes and breaking their necks in one powerful blow.

As Kratos dodged a laser that was aimed for his head he rolled towards of his opponents catching him with a powerful uppercut, a sickening crack audible as soon as the fist connected, In the same fluid movement Kratos then grabbed the same creatures body and began using it as a make shift battering ram. Charging into a group of them knocking all he collided into on the ground while stomping them to death when they tried to get up. Kratos stopped abruptly and with his hands placed firmly on the creatures neck and lower torso, he pulled and literally tore the hapless beast to two separate pieces dropping each piece on the ground like pieces of trash.

grabbing his blades again he thrust one into the chest of another who unwisely ran straight at him, gutting him in the process the blow from the impact lifting the creature off its feet into the air. As It began to return to the ground, Kratos removed the blade and threw it behind him, effectively sticking perfectly between the eyes of another enemy who tried to attack him from behind.

With the blade still embedded in its skull, the chains pulled the now dead opponent to kratos. With the momentum of the chains returning to kratos lifted and threw the corpse over handed like a foot ball at another creature, sandwiching it between the wall and its fallen comrade killing it instantly.

With both blades in hand Kratos seemed to stalk the remaining creature killing them off one by one like a serial killer in a slasher movie.

One of the creatures left hand began to glow as a wicked metal blade erupted from the top of it wrist. the blade looked to three feet long and six inches across with a wicked curve that looked like it was designed to do nothing except slice flesh and hack limbs off.

The beast shot out in a mad dash aiming to take off Kratos's head with a single slash. It was a lightning-fast blow, almost invisible to the naked eye, one that was almost impossible to block or dodge, but Kratos had faced beings far faster than this monstrosity. With a savage swing of his blade, he struck the creatures blade, shattering it as if it was made of glass. the power placed into the blow was enough to take the beasts arm out of it sockets and launch it a few feet into the air. Seizing the opportunity Kratos through his blades up into the air both of them penetrating the flesh of the beast and jumped with all his might whilst pulling the creature back towards him catching the creature with a tackle that was strong enough to break every single one of its ribs, some of the stray buts sticking out of its flesh, visible for anyone to see.

Kratos turned his body, away from the beast as it slowly bled out, towards the last of the creatures who all seemed be group together as if they planned on ganging up on him at the same time a s a last resort. With his blades in his hands he crouched down and growled at his opponents sounding almost like a promise to what was to come next.

With one powerful thrust Kratos threw his blades up into the air directly above the enemies, with another powerful pull he brought down both blades on the group. The blades seemed to miss every single creature, but the force the blades carried impacted the ground it created a massive crater large, the force of the blow was powerful enough to instantly kill every single enemy except for one. The creature closest to the side managed to escape the direct blow but was still thrown against the wall due to the sheer force of the attack.

the last remaining creature laid leaning against the wall battered and beaten, sputtering and coughing up liquid as it struggled to regain its bearings. He tried to regain his footing, but fell back down as his legs seemed to give out from under him. Sheathing his blades, Kratos calmly walked over to him wondering if he should drag this out longer then already has or put this thing out of its misery. Seeing Kratos coming after it, the creature deployed the same blade from its wrist that kratos saw before and made a stab at Kratos chest. Contemptuously, Kratos caught the blade in his bare hand and gave a moderate squeeze bending the metal as if it were a loose piece a paper getting bunched into a ball to be thrown out.

Deciding he found the answer to his little problem he seized the enemy by the throat in a powerful grip, His fingers leaving distinctive marks in the metal. He then rammed his forehead into the things face and felt it break under the strain. The enemy struggled to free himself, batting kratos with its arms but Kratos seemed to ignore the blows and held him firm. Again and again, Kratos slammed his head into the beasts skull. Soon the struggling stopped as the body in kratos hand went limp and cold. Without so much as a sound kratos through the beast to the ground

Overlooking his work Kratos turned towards the exit intent on seeing just what Hibiki would do in his own battle.

In Space

"Hey it's that guy" Jura said as she spotted a new machine enter into the fray of the battle.

"It's Mr. Alien and his partner!" Dita cheered as she spotted the vanguard pilot, thankful for the Calvary arriving in the nick of time.

On her own Dread, Meia gritted her teeth in anger. (NO! It can't be HIM!)

Before Meia could tell Dita to stay away from Hibiki the two had already began maneuvering towards each other to try and combine to hopefully change the tides of the battle

(There's no way I'm going to let a man out show or beat me.) Meia then continued the battle.

The gigantic urchin vessel however seemed to understand what the Blond-haired pilot had in mind. It responded by unleashing a slightly faster barrage of spines, intent of impaling, Dita, Jura and the other Dread fighters. Meia had suddenly appeared and her Dread took most of the damage, while saving the others.

"Dita, watch out!"

While Meia's Dread took the hits, sending itself hurdling to the side, though not badly damaged as she knocked Ditas dread to safety, but at the same time sending Hibiki off course. As if by Destiny or by pure coincidence, the Vanguard and the Dread were in close proximity to one another as both individual pilots voiced out their same desire to defeat their foe.

"There's no way…" Meia shouted out.

"… I am going to let that machine beat me!" Hibiki declared in a fierce voice.

It was then that the same process that caused Hibiki's vanguard to merge with Ditas Dread went into effect again with Meia substituting the bubbly red head, as both of the machines turned into a new force of power. Meia's Dread seemed to swallow up the vanguard and began to shift its own form around. The entire craft flipped itself over As twin appendages shot out parael to each other forming into massive talons similar to those found on a Bird of prey like a hawk or eagle. The front of the vessel then extended further and took the form of a serpentine head with tusks on each side. As its wings then expanded to somehow resemble the wings of a massive predatory bird. It hovered in space, ready to wage a bloody encounter with its foes like a Mythical Dragon ready to defend it territory.

"What!" Dita said in shock as she looked at the new machine that had been born with the fusing of Mr. Alien and her leader Meia's own Dread.

"Did you see that?" Barnette called out as she flew alongside her partner Jura.

"It's SO cool, that means I can make magnificent machine with that man just like the other two" Jura declared with a awe filled expression as she eyed Meia's fighter that now resembled a massive Dragon-style mecha with literal stars in her eyes..

On the pirate vessel, the bridge crew along with Magno and BC were also in awe as well, along with nearly everyone else onboard watching the radical transformation.

"That guy's got a ton of tricks up his sleeve." Bart said as he gazed at the new mecha.

Inside the cockpit of the new fighter…

both Hibiki and Meia were already beginning to recover from the fusion of her Dread with his Vanguard, still not aware of the other. When Hibikis back collided with Meia's chest, They both froze and turned around when they saw one another, they were in complete shock for a few moments, then the yelling started.

"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING HERE!" Meia cried out in anger and embarrassment as she found herself in a rather undignified position. The cockpit of their own Vandread had her sitting in a reclining position, with Cloud out in front in a hunched over position.

"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU SHOUTING ABOUT NOW…!" Hibiki shouted back as he found himself in a rather embarrassing situation once again, more annoyed then mad about getting screamed in the ear by Meia.

"I NEVER ASKED FOR YOUR HELP, SO GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE!" Meia shouted as she tried to force Hibiki out of the cockpit, as her body seemed to tingle slightly from his proximity.

"FOR YOUR INFORMATION, I DIDN'T WANT TO EVEN BE HERE! SO QUIT PUSHING ALREADY!" Hibiki said pushing himself back to keep himself being squished against the control panel.

At that moment their little awkward verbal sparring match was cut short when the Vandread shuddered from the impact as the alien ship outside attacked it. Despite feeling mad and uncomfortable over the whole situation Hibiki was able to focus himself to the threat at hand and grabbed a set of control systems in front of him. The Vandread came to life as he began accessing the systems of the massive machine as he then glared at his unexpected and reluctant co-pilot.

"As much as I want to yell at you a bit more, we don't have the time right now, so work with me here and we can go back to hating each other afterwards!"

Meia gritted her teeth but slowly nodded in agreement as she went to work on the foot pedals and the controls on either side of her chair.

The Vandread responded well as it darted with unbelievable speed after the enemy vessel with an acceleration rate that made the other nimble Dreads look like turtles with bum legs.

"That kind of acceleration is totally impossible!" Barnette declared as her sensors couldn't determine the exact speed that Meia's new machine was doing.

"Meia is SO lucky! I hope my Van dread can move as fast as hers!" Jura said as she eyed Meia's machine wistfully like a child who saw a new toy she really, really wanted.

"Mr. Alien!" Dita chimed out as she watched the show, smiling at the amazing powers she always knew Mr. Alien had.

Vandread Meia ran rings around the urchin ship almost as if it were standing still and the giant urchin vessel tried in desperation to hit its unbelievably nimble target with every spine it could fire. However, the machine's barrage totally missed its intended mark as it would flash in and out of viewpoint due to its insane amount of speed, light itself not being able to catch up to it in time to be able to show it's movements. Suddenly it vanished again but stayed unseen longer than it did the last few times. Every sensory function on board the urchin was computing at its maximum efficiency to find the Van dread, suddenly it reappeared once again behind vessel with the intentions of finishing the fight.

Inside the cockpit of the Vandread, both Cloud and Meia voiced out their mutual desire for victory as they planned on delivering the finishing blow.

"This is just…" Hibiki cried out, his voice filled with determination.

"… What I've been waiting for!" Meia declared as well in the same tone of voice.

It was then that Vandread Meia fed its massive power to the machine's main systems. The entire craft was bathed in a bluish-white light of immense power as it dashed in like a comet.

The enemy craft was skewered right through the center as the Van dread rammed straight through it like a bat out of hell. A moment later as the Vandread ran through it and out it's eye, it exploded into massive fragments and smaller spheres were scattered all over the place. raining debris all over.

The battle ended with the pirate crew of the unnamed ship victorious.

Inside the now dormant Van dread

Meia and Hibiki were to put it simply completely and utterly exhausted.

"Well! Now that was… fun lets never do that again." Hibiki commented as he leaned on the console in front of him panting due to the immense strain the attack placed on his body, as the adrenaline in his body decreased to its normal levels, he began to feel all the pain and wearyness his body was feeling.

"I…never thought we'd agree on the same thing." Meia said as she also tried to regain her breath, and then added. "Now do you see? You can't just win every battle with just your Vanguards."

Hibiki shot a tired glare "And I suppose you were doing better with only your Dreads?"

Meia didn't answer that question as Cloud had raised a good point. How could she have been hypocritical to think they didn't need the Vanguards to survive their enemies, when she condemned Hibiki for his previous views on the dreads.

But before Meia could say something the Vandread split apart separating the two prideful pilots from each other. As soon as he saw a chance to get away hibiki took it to tired and to emotionally and physically exhausted to do anything else, he barley had any energy left to rocket his mecha back to the ship

(That man is…weird) she said to herself before following him as she returned to ship as well, his words still lingering in her mind.

Later…

"The ship's new name? You want me to decide this?" Magno asked as she got into contact with Parfet through the Comm.-link via Pyoro. truth be told, the name of the ship never really crossed her mind. She had never given her previous ship a name, mainly because she never saw the point of it. She didn't really mind the name Ikazuchi, but apparently the crew did mind and went behind her back and got together to think up a name for the ship.

Parfet nodded as Pyoro showed the names suggested by the crew to her captain through his monitor." All of the crew contributed and we want you to pick one."

"You sure that you don't mind?"

"Just pick a really cool one!"

As she scanned the names, Magno spotted one that caught her eye as she considered it. "Hmmm...The Nirvana. Not a bad suggestion. Who came up with that one?"

"It was the commander's idea." Pyoro answered for the old pirate leader.

"Fine then. From now on, this ship will be under the name of Nirvana."

In the engineering room, Parfet lowered her head in defeat. "I knew it." After turning off the communications, "and I thought for sure Pegasus was a sure thing too ."

Later at the men's quarters…

Hibiki munched on the food he had gotten from Dita as she met up with him. He tried to leave quietly still thinking Dita was trying to kill him, He was surprised when he found the food being vastly superior to the pellets that was forced down his throat since the time he was a child. He devoured the entire lunch like he was truly eating food for the first time in his life, experiencing the different flavors and textures contained within the lunch box. Dita simply stared up at him smiling the entire time, ecstatic about the idea that she was the sole reason for his apparent happiness.

As he was finishing up on the meal, he spotted Dita looking at him with the dreaded Sad Puppy Dog eyes, and that look was making him somewhat uncomfortable.

"Why are you staring at me like that?"Hibiki said not knowing what to do to in this situation thinking she was going to start crying out of the blue due to her eyes becoming watery. the look on her face as well as the emotion emitting from her eyes and posture did weird thing to his insides, a warm pleasant tingle which he attributed to the food encased his entire body and increased his heart rate.

Dita smiled and came closer, her face mere inches from his. "Mr. Alien, will you promise to only combine with me in the next battle?"

Hibiki tried not to blush as he found himself looking deeply at Dita. "I told you so many times already! I'm not Mr. Alien! My name is Hibiki !" He then that all the other men in the room seemed to be looking at him

Bart look something akin to either disgust a for what was going on and fear for what he thought was going to happen to him after Dita was done with Hibiki, Duello looked on with morbid fascination, watching the two teenagers as if it were a science experiment and they were the test subjects, all the while making mental notes to himself about their interactions and reactions to each other. Kratos was smirking from across the bunks, seemingly enjoying the situation Hibiki was in as well as knowing full well just how uncomfortable he must have been.

"looks like you got yourself a girlfriend boy, I'm proud of you" kratos laughed deep and load, the metal walls giving his laugh an almost echo effect that filled the ears of the rooms inhabitants, who didn't know just what he was talking about.

Hibiki gulped, and developed a stutter as he began specking without a solid thought in his head as he noticed Ditas smile grow larger and her eyes almost become a deeper shade of blue after hearing the large mans words.

On the bridge…

"So those spheres will help mask the message pods?" Magno asked Parfet

Parfet nodded. "Yes Captain, I designed the pods to transmit the recognition code we received from the enemy ship so they won't be destroyed by the aliens." Parfet said just finishing putting the finishing touches on the programming of the pods communication units.

"Very well then. Launch the pods."

The twin canisters with the new messages rocketed off into the dark abyss of space, all the way to Tarak and Megele half way across the universe, Though the paranoia began to rise within most of bridge crew as the watch the pods launch and begin to disappear into the darkness of space.

"Even if they receive our messages, I doubt that there is a guarantee that they'll even listen." Parfait remarked as she gazed at the moving pods. not fully believing that the respective leaders of the two worlds would even entertain the notion of reading the message from known criminals like themselves.

"Wish for it Parfet." BC said as she too gazed outward. "It's not much, but that's all we can do and hope for."

The captain silently nodded towards her seconds words, silently contimplating the consequences of the two words not fighting off this threat.

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Been a while since my last update, sorry lot of stuff going on in my life and I literally hag not free time what so ever to write. I'm trying to revaluate my time to update more frequently.

write a review if you liked it or hate it or whatever

To the people who actually seem to like this story(I'm a kind bad writer) you have no idea how shocked I am that people would like it as mush as some of you did

I also decided that Kratos bother will soon join the crew of the Nirvana, as well as some other GOW guests, leave some suggestions in your review and i'll see what i can do

In a unrelated note, i think i'm going to be on a reality TV show come this March called the Ultimate fighter, would be awesome if some of you would watch to see my ugly ass, or not that probally the smarter option

once again i'm so sorry for the huge time gap of no updates, not gonna happen again

till next time peace The F%&K out