DISCLAIMER: I do not own Vandread or the Gundam series, but I do own my character Taiho Lobo and his spiffy gundam.

A/N: Alright, now just incase you guyz don't remember, it will be from a 3rd POV from now on; now, on with the story.

DARK ANGEL, SPREAD YOUR WINGS

The battle was not going good for the dreads the women were piloting. Seeing the dire situation, Meia makes a call to the captain," the intensity of the enemies attack is increasing. It's getting more difficult to defend ourselves."

"Reinforcements are headed your way, though we don't know how helpful they'll be," Magno says while keeping a cool head on the situation.

"Reinforcements?" the dread team leader was confused, who else other than them would be able to come out and help them.

But she was cut off as one of the cube enemies got a hold of her dread. The enemy was about to fire its weapons at point blank range into her cockpit. She knew at such a distance that she would immediately be taken out, so she resigned herself to her death.

"NOT ON MY WATCH," that yell took her out of her thoughts as a mecha twice the size of a regular vanguard takes the cube with its hand.

"Who the?" was all she could say at the moment.

Taiho had just got to the cube just in time to save her. Just as he held it in place, he popped open the shoulder gatling guns and fired right at the enemy at point blank, thus destroying it," reinforcements have arrived leader."

'The males, what are they doing her?' she thought as she went back to taking down the cube enemies.

Taiho looks over to Hibiki and hears him yell about some ridiculous technique, which doesn't work at all," HEY, HIBIKI," he then turns his attention to the custom gundam," let me show you a real good attack," he then cocks his right hand and charges forward to one of the cubes. As he was nearing one, the hand bursts out flames. The hand then turns bright orange and red. He then thrusts the hand into the midsection of the cube," That was called Erupting Burning Fingers, and now HEAT END," as he said that, the cube enemy explodes into pieces.

"Woah," the navy haired boy said, but then got back to slaying enemies left and right as he took out his sword,' I'm going to need him to teach me that, that was a cool technique. Maybe he can train me, that way I won't lose to anyone and prove my existence,' he thought to himself as he rushed through the enemies while heading towards the enemy's mothership.

"I see where you're going with this man, I'm right behind ya," Taiho was about to follow until he notices something," huh? Ah shit," right in the opposite direction, another mothership appeared," looks like I'll have to take care of that one myself."

He then reaches for the his gundam large beam sword," let's see how good I am with this big guy," he then busts it forward as it elongates to its full size and activates its beam. He then opens the wings, bursting out the energy wings to confuse the enemy with its ability to do a sort of after image.

The dread pilots look in awe of the custom gundam. Jura then speaks out what everyone thought it looked like," it looks an angel," she then corrects herself for a moment," no, like a death angel," the pilots nod in agreement.

On the bridge, they see the Dark Angel Gundam taking out enemies as it heads toward the mothership," that is no normal vanguard, just what is that?" BC asks clearly confused and impressed with the piloting skills this weird man has.

"Who knows but I bet he is the one definitely knows. We will need to talk to him, if we ever survive this," the captain says as she looks upon the gundam and Hibiki's vanguard, as they both take out enemies.

"If we do survive this, our ideals will definitely be turned upside down," the platinum haired woman says, to which Magno only nods in agreement.

Hibiki was not fairing well against his enemies as he had already broken his sword on one of the cubes. The harvesters then gang up on him and hold him in place. He struggles to get out of the enemies grasp," just…a little…more, just a bit more." he said as he tries to reach for the mothership.

All the while, Dita was charging in to help Hibiki," Dita, pull back," her leader ordered.

"There's nothing to worry about. Mr. Alien is going to get us out of this somehow, I'm absolutely positive," Meia protests were cut off as she turned off her communicator

As she closes in, the mothership opens its mouth," I just need the power, just enough power to take one last step," the ship then sends out a spear like attack towards him," I CAN'T LOSE," the vanguard then explodes along with Dita's dread.

At the same time, Taiho was easily going through his enemies. He then sees that Hibiki was being held in by the harvesters," it almost time for him to combine, gotta finish quick," he then opens his wings again and charges in with his sword slung over his shoulder.

He then slices on cube right in half, but then two other came in to grab him. But he sees this coming and stabs his sword right into the one in front of him. The enemy thought he had his back unprotected and charged in, but stopped right when it got close. Taiho knew it would take the chance to attack him from behind, so right when it got close, he pulled out one of the beam boomerangs that was on his right shoulder and used it as a small sword. He then positions himself and spun around, cutting the enemies in half. Two more enemies came in and rushed him, but he caught them by letting go of the swords for a quick moment. He then crushed the parts where he had his hand on, and then he throws them into two more enemies. Right when they crashed, he took back the beam boomerang and took out his remaining one and threw both of them to the enemies, destroying four enemies at once. When the boomerangs came back, he caught them and put back in place. At that moment he took back his sword, and also put it back in its place.

Taiho then charged forward to the mothership," alright, time to test something out, ERUPTING BURNING FISTS," the hands then erupt into flames, while also bursting out his energy wings.

The ship, not wanting to be destroyed fired its spear like attack but Dark Angel Gundam evades the attack easily. He then punches his fist right through the opening it makes. He then pulled the mouth open and cocked the long range beam cannon he had in his gundam's back," EAT THIS."

At the same time he was about to fire, out of the flames of explosion, a new mech comes into view. Revealing it to be Hibiki's and Dita's Vandread. The Vandread batted away the spears, and it then punched right into the mouth of them ship and opened it. It then cocked the shoulder cannons it had.

The two mechs then fired at the same time, the their individual beams went right through the enemy ships. The ships then explode, leaving the mechs unscathed from damage.

In Vandread Dita, Hibiki starts to wake up from being knocked out earlier,' I got here…I finally…huh?!' he then notices his hands are on someone else. It turns out to be none other than Dita herself," w-what's going on here?" he nervously asks as she leans against him.

"I just knew Mr. Alien, you would protect us somehow," she says as she has her eyes closed, seemingly still asleep.

"Is this the proof of my existence?" he asks himself with a nervous voice.

"Hibiki," he then turns to a screen revealing an image to be Taiho," we need to get back to the ship, come on."

"Right, uh," he then starts to fiddle with the controls and tries his best to pilot the big behemoth. When they got close, the two machines separated," ooh, don't know if I could've handled that for any longer," he then takes the dread and leads it the hanger.

Once everyone got back, Taiho and Hibiki, along with the other two were taken once again and cuffed," 'sigh' I don't suppose you ladies could at least give us something to eat," he was met with silence," I guess I'll take that as a no."

They were all taken back to the storage room to be held prisoner once again. The ladies then told them all to strip," I don't why the hell…" Hibiki was then sprayed by water from a hose," HEY, WHY THE HELL…"once again he was cut off by the water. Duero stood there, taking it as it comes at him, while Bart squirms around like Hibiki is. Taiho on the other hand was enjoying it; it felt good even though it was cold.

While they were being washed by hoses by the women, BC and Magno were watching and discussing the current situation," so these are the only men left, huh?"

"We'll have to depend on them till we fully understand the systems on this ship," BC replied to her captain as she looked at the screen, showing the men being washed.

"Yes, I never seen anything like it before," she then thinks back to when Bart was sucked up into the little portal on the ship's bridge," it was as if this ship had a will of its own and then those two machines those two piloted were very powerful and are a complete mystery to us. Very unnerving."

We then go back to the men who were being held in the storage room," it was so unnerving. My comrades were falling one after another and before long, I was the only one left. The one thought on my mind was how close I was to death, but I persevered because I knew it was my duty as a soldier to live on and retake this ship from the women no matter the odds. Now fate has provided me with three allies, so what do you say?" the blond of the group asked to the men in the room. Duero was dealing with it without much problem, Hibiki was staring out to space, and Taiho looked like he was taking a nap.

In that nap, he was having a bit of an odd dream. It was a repeat of the vision he had before (last chapter, remember). He was fighting alongside his comrades, while taking down the harvester copies of the Vandreads. But one sticks out the most, one that was almost totally white with blue highlights on it. Last time he could hardly make it out, but now it was starting to look recognizable,' it can't be, could it? The Strike Freedom?" the image then flashes to the pilot with the same cockpit as his Dark Angel. The image of the pilot is blurry, but the clothes,' no, it can't be. Is that…' but he was brought out of his dream as someone got his attention.

Taiho and Hibiki were drawn out of their actions as Bart asks a question to the two," just what the hell happened back there?" the two then look to his direction," who made those vanguards. Yours was too big and powerful to be a regular vanguard," he said as he pointed to Taiho, he then looks to Hibiki," and yours, how come it combined with the women's machines?"

Taiho then closed his eyes and went back to what he was doing, but still spoke his answer," my mech is not a vanguard, well not anymore," he then opens his eyes to see everyone look at him," its called a gundam. I call it the Dark Angel Gundam."

"Why?" was the intelligent question the blond asked.

"Well three reasons," he then held up one finger," one, the wings on its back can open up and let out energy wings that confuse enemies image on it, because it leaves behinds after images when they're open," he then lifted up a second finger," two, because of it color scheme," he then held up a third finger," and lastly…" they all were really interested in what he was going to say next," because it sounds cool."

Hibiki and Bart then facefault, but the doctor resisted the urge and chuckled," what the hell kind of reason is that?" Hibiki asks as he gets his face off the floor.

"My own," Taiho simply said.

As soon as Bart got back up, he then looks to the navy haired boy," well what about you?"

"How the hell should I know?" he then gives a glare to him," but forget about that, you think I'm going to be forgiving you for socking me in the stomach before!"

"Now, now, calm down," he then sweats a bit and raises his hand in front of him," there's no need to be upset. I was just thinking of your best interest."

"You really don't know when to shut up, do you? There's enough hot air in here already," he says as everyone feels the heat rising in the room, as it is also spreading out throughout the whole ship.

"He's just worried," everyone then look towards doctor who spoke," he's simply trying to take his mind off things with conversation. Try to forgive him."

"Wow, you're pretty sharp. You must be one of the elite," Bart says as he is clearly impressed, he then gets an idea," so what do you think then? With my superior speaking ability, your brains, and his fighting abilities," he says as he point his thumb over his shoulder to Taiho," we won't have any trouble dealing with those…" but he was cut off from a voice behind him.

"Care to repeat that," BC says, quite amused that she caught him off guard.

"Oh, uh, we were sorta just joking around," he said nervously.

"I would like to hear those jokes, you'll come with me won't you," she sarcastically said to the helmsmen.

"Hehe, I'd be happy to as long as it's of a social nature, hehehe," he says as he puts up a shaky smile and scared face at the same time. They open the laser grid for him to come out and they both leave.

A little later on, the ship suddenly shook with force," so that idiot has started the ship, huh?" the black Dickies wearing man said under his breath," you two alright?" he asks as he looked at the two.

"Yea, I'm okay," Hibiki then flares up angered," just what the hell was that?"

"It was most likely Bart," the doctor simply answered the navy haired mans angered question.

"Well, there's nothing we can do about that, so let's just relax a bit," Taiho said as he leaned back up against the wall," when they need us for something, they'll come get us. So we don't need to worry until we're called upon."

"What the hell do you mean? We need to take back this ship from those women," Hibiki says with a voice that says 'are you fucking crazy'.

"Oh, and how do you intend to take it back when there are women roaming around this ship who can immediately call upon reinforcements?" the navy haired man was taken back by the question, he then hung his head in defeat," see what I mean, we don't have any choice but to comply what they ask us to do, plus," Taiho then got a lecherous smile," I don't mind being ordered around by such fine ass ladies."

"What you mean by that?" the doctor asked, clearly confused to what the gundam pilot meant.

"Oh, you'll find out later my friend, but don't worry. I might educated you guys on the fine points of women and what men used to be when they lived with them," Taiho said, leaving the two men mouths hanging in shock.

"You mean that men and women used to leave with each other?? Impossible," Hibiki asks as he is disturbed by the image.

"Trust me, back then when every human lived on Earth, men and women lived with each other in peace instead of war," he replied as he uncrossed his arms and put his hands in his pockets.

Duero then narrowed his eyes at Taiho,' just who are you? And how do you know such a thing? I will need to find out for myself who you really are,' he then simply nods as if understanding. Hibiki just sits there, trying to process such a thing in his head, so he does what he can do now. And that is sleep.

Up on the bridge, Magno looks upon the screen and thinks upon the conversation they just had,' this man is truly more of a mystery then those machines. How does he know such a thing and why is he so at eased when women are around when the others are a little frightened? Truly you are an enigma and one that I will figure out,' she then turns back to her crew at the bridge and tries to get them to get control of the ships actions.

After a few minutes, Hibiki starts to sweat and looks like he's having a fever while mumbling words. The only word that they could make out was 'grandpa'. So the doctor did his thing by using his forehead to check the boy's temperature. Right after his head touched his, Hibiki wakes up and immediately pushes him off," w-w-what the hell do you think you're doing?"

"I was checking your temperature, that's all," the doctor answered as he had a calm voice and face.

"I-I'm alright doc, there's nothing wrong with me," he says, as he is a little creeped out by what just happened.

"Except that you were mumbling in your sleep, whose grandpa?" he asks, trying to figure out the third class citizen by what he meant by that.

"Grandpa is just grandpa, he's nothing special. He's the one who raised me ever since I was little," he answered to the suspicious doctor.

"Peculiar, I find it hard to believe that one of the first generation would be in contact with you," he said as if he knew everything.

"Duero, ease the fuck off," Taiho said in an angered voice,' jeez, this guy really needs to get off that whole rank thing, it's getting on my nerves,' he thought as he scowled at the doctor.

"You're called Duero, correct?" BC asked as she, yet again, interrupts a conversation. Everyone eyes then look up to see her," it's your turn to come with me, if you aren't too busy, of course," he just nods and leaves the two men in the so-called cell.

As time passes by, the heat in the ship continues to increase,' god damn, it's like being in California in its hottest day while eating a bag of jalapenos,' Taiho thought as he took off his sweater and shoes. He then looks towards Hibiki who has stripped all the way down to his underwear,' heh, I guess being used to such heat must have its advantages. 'Sigh' I just wish the AC would kick in.'

"My, my, we aren't doing anything naughty in here, are we?" BC asks as she sees Hibiki in his underwear and Taiho with just his pants and white wife-beater on.

"So whose turn is it to go with you now?" the navy haired boy asked in an annoyed voice.

"No ones, because I have come to ask you two a favor," she says with a calm face.

"Favor?" Taiho asks, clearly confused,' why would she need the two of us, wouldn't Hibiki be enough to retrieve Dita and Gascogne. Who else would ne…oh,' he then remembered Barnette and Jura were trapped in an elevator.

"I'm going to be honest with you two, we left two crewmen behind. I'd like you," she points to Hibiki," to help us get them back. And you," she says as she looks to Taiho," I'd like for you to get two of our crewmen free from an elevator shaft."

"Heh, give us one reason why we should care about helping you?" he says as he has a smug attitude with a smirk.

"There is no 'we' in that question, just you," he then looks over to the last male in the room," like I said before Hibiki, its better that we help them. It would be better that we all become allies, rather than stay as enemies that are always at each others throats, besides," he paused for a sec," aren't the strong supposed to protect the weak, it's our duty to protect these women and help them when the time comes," Taiho then looks to BC," so, you gonna let us out."

"'Sigh' fine, fine, you win," he then pauses himself for a bit," umm, Taiho," the gundam pilot then looks at Hibiki," after this is all done, could you maybe train me on how to fight?" he asks a bit nervously.

"Hm? Let me think," he then puts on a fake thoughtful pose," mmm, sure, but I ain't going to be easy on you. I'm going to be pushing you to your limits and beyond," he says with an evil smile at the end.

"Uh, sure, thanks Taiho," Hibiki says even more nervous now,' what have I gotten myself into?'

"Now if you two are done chatting, you have some of our crewmen to save," BC said as she gets nods from the both of them.

They walk together with a guard that was with BC; they then come upon a fork in the halls. She then point to the left hall," you will be taken down this hall, the guard will guide you to the elevator shaft that hold the two crewman," and with that, she took Hibiki down the other hall, leaving Taiho to be lead by the guard.

It took a bit of time, but they made it to their destination no problem," this the elevator shaft that has them, here is the equipment you'll use to get them, good luck," the guard then leaves him to do his thing.

Taiho then looks at the equipment given to him which was just a plain rope," 'sigh' you think they could at least give me something more high-tech. but noooo, they give a plain rope to me," he then lets out another sigh," well let's get this over with."

He then pops open the top of the elevator," WHOSE THERE? HELLO?" a voice asks, he then looks down to see who asked it. The voice belonged Barnette, Jura's faithful partner and best friend.

"IT'S YOU, WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING OUT OF YOU CELL?" she asks in an angered voice.

''Sigh' like always, why does she have to be such an extreme sexist?' he then looks down to them," I'M OUT BECAUSE I'M HERE TO HELP YOU TO GET OUT OF THE SHAFT, NOW HOLD ON,' he then looks around for somewhere to tie the rope," ah, here we are," he then goes over to a pipe that is coming down from the ceiling, all the way through the floor. He then ties the rope and makes sure that it is firmly in place.

"ALRIGHT, I'M COMING DOWN," he then throws down the rope into the elevator shaft. But it doesn't reach them far enough, as he had anticipated. So he went down the rope carefully, while making sure he doesn't go too fast that he loses control and falls. When he gets close enough to the end, he lets go of one hand from the rope and extends it to the two ladies," come on, take my hand and I'll help you up the rope."

They were a bit reluctant, but they nodded. Jura was the first to get up the rope as she took his hand. She had no problem getting up the rope above him. He then extended his hand to Barnette; she stalled a bit to take it, but took it with a bit of disgust and was put below him. They all climbed up the rope to get out.

When they got up top, Jura was glad that she finally got out of it. Taiho got out with no problem," now was that so bad to be helped by me?" he asks the dark green haired woman.

"What? You damn, uh," she got mad at the male that said that and lost her grip on the rope. She was about to fall down to her death, but a hand stopped that from happening. She looks up to see Taiho trying his best to get a grip on her, so he can pull her up.

"Don't ever do that again," he says as he struggles to get her up. She took the opportunity to help him get herself up. But one thing happened, which neither of them expected at all to happen. Right when he pulled her up, she tripped and landed right on top of him, while locking each other's lips in the process.

They both got up with their faces beet red, staring at each other with wide eye,' damn, for some reason, that kiss felt good, even though it was accidental. I wonder if I could at least see is she's interested in me,' Taiho thought, but then the woman fainted on him,' well, I guess that's to be expected.'

After that little incident, everything went back to being okay. They crew were told about their new enemy and how they need us 'males' to help them, also that we have to save the two home planets Mejale and Tarak. I was glad we all had gotten through that situation and that we now could walk around freely. Though it still ticked me off that we had to use the storage room we were held captive as our new room, individual storage rooms of course.

It was at least two days later after all this happened. In the garden below the bridge, we see the two pilots training, or should we say Taiho giving Hibiki that beating of his lifetime.

Hibiki charges in with a practice sword they made. He has it slung over his shoulder and brings it down to bust his new sensei's head, but the said man just lifted his sword to block. When that didn't work, he freed his right hand and tried to hook punch him in the face. Taiho sees the punch coming and catches it; he then kneed him right in the gut. He then pulls back bit, then pulls head back bit. He then rushes it forward, toward Hibiki's head, thus head butting him. That makes the student lose his grip and fall down, while clutching his head in pain.

"Get up," Taiho says in a cold voice," this is not your limit and I know it, so get up now. If you don't, I refuse to teach you anymore," he said with stoic posture,' come on Hibiki, I know you can do this. I'm training you so that when you face Rabat, he'll have quite the challenge when he fights you. Not to mention is that you'll be able to face and protect anyone with your own two fist.'

"A-alright," was all he said as he struggles to get to his feet, though the weights bands they found in a room earlier were making it really difficult to do so. He then gets into a fight stance. And so this is how the lessons went on, all the while a few eyes were watching them train.

One of these eyes belonged to Barnette, she felt something strange from being around the man,' just why do I get a weird feeling in my stomach when I'm around him? I wasn't like that when I met him before, not until that…' she trailed off her thoughts when she started to think back to the kiss and blushed madly,' why did that even feel good? I should have been mad at him, but for some reason I'm not. 'sigh' I'm just confused, I'm going to take a hot shower,' and so she left to take one.

The second pair of eyes belonged to Meia, she wondered what it was about this man that attracted her attention to him,' what is it about you? You're just so mysterious and why is it that you don't act like the other three men here? I have to know, and I will know,' she then left to work out, to shake the questions in her head off.

The third being Dita, she looked upon 'Mr. Alien' with worry in her eye,' why is Mr. Angel doing that? Are they training? Maybe I should go get some medical stuff for Mr. Alien when they're done,' she then ran off to get some medical supplies.

The fourth, along with the fifth was Magno and Duero; both of them trying to figure out the mysterious man that is Taiho Lobo,' who are you?' the both though at the same time.

Taiho was really getting tired of all the people watching as he parried a hit intended for his mid-section,' 'sigh' I wish people would just come out and just confront me or Hibiki about what's on there minds. It would be a lot easier that way,' he then punched the navy haired man right in the face, thus sending him right to the floor," alright, that's enough sword practice. We'll now take a ten minute break, afterwards we will proceed into hand to hand combat, or as I would say, a plain out fist fight," Taiho said with a big evil smirk on his face.

"You're the 'pant' devil 'pant' you now that?" Hibiki said as he gladly lies back on the ground to get whatever rest he could.

"Heh, correction, I'm a dark angel. An angel giving the blessing that you need to get through any situation," the gundam pilot then plops himself right down beside him," the reason I'm being so tough on you man is to prepare you for any situation that is to come and I also believe that you have the potential to be a great fighter."

"R-really?" he said with a little happiness in his voice.

"Now don't let that get to your head, you haven't reached to that point yet and you have yet to be match for me. But when you do come up to my level, I will acknowledge your skill my friend," they both just laid there in silence, letting some the moments go by. He then looks at the watch he still had on since he came to this dimension, he saw that the ten minute break was up," alright times up, time we get down to our hand to hand combat training," Hibiki confidently nods and gets back up, though he still has pain from the last bit of training he stands up with the utmost confidence in his stance and face. The training went up to at least two more hours. Though Taiho hardly had a scratch on him, Hibiki came out looking like he was mangled and beaten by a mob.

"You did good for your first day of training, we will continue to do this everyday and every morning time," Taiho said in a sensei type voice. He then quickly turned back to his usual attitude," if you can't do this, you won't be able to last two seconds against me even if I had two hand tied behind my back."

Hibiki then glares a bit to his sensei," heh, whatever," he simply said," I'm going to work on my vanguard, see ya," he then ran off, but with a bit of a limp to it.

"Hehehe, you'll thank me for it someday man. Now, time to get some grub," the gundam pilot said as his stomach loudly agreed with him as it growled," hehehe, I guess you agree with me don't you," he then ran off towards the mess hall.

When he got there, he saw that there was nobody around," hm, they must still be out working, well anyways let's see what they have," he then looked at the food they had out for those who came in. He saw at least some he liked, but not the ones he wanted to eat right at this moment," what? No Mexican food, that hella sucks," he then thinks for a bit," ah, I know, it's time these ladies and some of the guys have apart of my heritages food, the Mexican heritage that is," he then goes into the kitchen and starts to cook up some food for everyone.

Dita comes into the kitchen after treating to the vanguard pilot's injury, although he was a bit reluctant at the time, he did take the treatment. When she sees Taiho cooking in the kitchen, she was a bit surprised that man would be cooking," Mr. Angel, why are you cooking?"

The gundam pilot gets startled a bit, but relaxes when he sees it is Dita," oh, well, it's just I wanted everyone have a taste a food where I come from," he says in a happy voice,' I'm actually surprised that they have the ingredient in need to make the food. I guess I should count my luck they do,' he then thinks for a bit and is struck with an idea," hey Dita," the girl then cocks her head cutely to him," could you help me with the food? I can't finish it all by myself, and don't worry, I'll guide you on how to cook the food."

"Okay," she said while jumping up and down with excitement,' yay, I get to make some new food, this is going to be so fun,' she thought enthusiastically. And so they both went into cooking mode and made the food with out any problems.

"Ooh, that was some hard work, but we made the food with out any problems," he then turns to the bubbly red head," you're a good cook Dita, you'll make someone a happy person when you get with them," he said,' namely Hibiki, but you'll find that out for yourself,' he added in his thought.

"Oh, t-thank you M-Mr. Angel," she said, as she blushed a bit,' I just hope with this food, Mr. Alien will be happy that I made some of it for him,' she thought happily.

At that moment, women started to come in and look at the selection of food laid out on the conveyer food belt," hm? I don't even know what half these are? What are they?" asked Barnette.

Taiho then comes out of the kitchen with Dita, drying his hands and taking off the cooking apron," they're food of my culture. Trust me, they're good to eat, so go ahead and try them out," all the women who were present were shocked that a man had cooked, so they started to back away from the food," if you guys don't trust me, then know that Dita helped me in making it," that got back their attention to the food, they knew that her cooking was really good. So they all picked up a plate of Mexican food. When they all settle down, they all paused a bit, just looking at the food with caution in their eye.

"Well, here goes," Barnette said as she took an enchilada by cutting it up with a fork. She then stuck the fork into the cut up piece and slowly took it towards her mouth. Everyone who saw this watched with great anticipation, ready to discard the food at a moments notice and beat down the male who made it. She then took it in her mouth and chewed for a bit, after that she swallowed the piece of food.

"So…how was it Barnette? Was it nasty?" Jura asked as the tension was building in the mess hall.

The green haired woman slowly put her fork down slowly. She then slowly opened her eyes and immediately took the taco in her hand and munched on the food madly," ifs fo goo (translation, it's so good)," she said as she talked with a mouth full.

Everyone was shocked at the way she was eating, so they looked back at their food. The shrugged a bit and took a bit of the food. To their surprise, the food was really good and they happily ate the food Taiho and Dita made.

Two people though just got more suspicious of the gundam pilot. Those two happened to be BC and the captain Magno," this Taiho is getting more mysterious by the second," the old lady says to her second in command.

"Yes, I know what you mean. One is that he acts to casual around women, second is the clothing he wear, that is not normal attire for men of Tarak. And now this, how can someone like him cook food like this when men of Tarak hardly eat this kind of food," BC says as she tries to break down the enigma that is Taiho.

"We should talk to him privately sometime, but right now I want to enjoy the food he made," the captain sound serious for a moment, but when she turned the conversation to the food, her voice became a happy one.

"Captain," BC said with a bit of disappointment. She wondered why Magno would act like that sometimes, but just chalked it off as old age coming up to her.

Back with our gundam pilot, he feel great pride that his cultural food is being consumed with smiles,' I'm glad everyone loves the food. I didn't slave myself away in the kitchen of nothing, not that Dita didn't have her share as well.'

Taiho then turns to walk out, but Meia stops him at the door," hold on, I want to ask you some questions," she then walks past him to the door," follow me," she then walks out of the door without looking back to him.

'Hmm, I wonder what she wants to talk about?' he shrugged and casually walked out the door and follows the dread team leader to where she wants to talk.

When they get to their destination, he notices it to be the same area that he trained Hibiki," so, what is it that you wanted to talk about?"

She then immediately turned around and charged at him. A bit taken back by the action, Taiho had no time to evade the punch that hit his face," just what the hell was that for?" he asks in angered voice as he rubs the area he was hit.

"Who are you?" she asks coldly and resumes her attack. She tried to punch his face again, but this time he was ready and caught the punch just before it hit his face.

"What you mean?" he says in his own coldly. He then quickly put her into a lock, putting her hand behind her back while twisting it a bit. He also had his remaining free arm around her neck, he then kick the back of her knee and had her kneel down.

She grits her teeth in anger that this man had easily put her in a lock she can hardly escape," what I mean is just that, just who are you? You act so casual around us, you even treat us with respect like the other men, as if were equals. Then there's the time you save me from being killed, why did you save me? I thought you men would've been glad to have another woman out of the way," she asks while still being held in the lock. But then the man, who confused her, released her. She then looked right at him and was even more surprised, the look he had was a bit sad.

"Well to answer you question in order, I am who I am, nothing more nothing less. I treat you girls as equals because that was the way I was brought up as a child and I will continue to do so. As for saving you, my mind was telling me to save a comrade in battle and I wouldn't be glad that you would be gone, I would actually be sad if you died," the gundam pilot explained to the blue haired woman in front of him.

She was taken back by all the answer. She never expected him to say all of that, but with the last answer, she just had to ask one more question," why would you be sad?" when she asked, as her anger was forgotten and taken over by curiosity and something else she couldn't explain.

"Because Meia, you're a comrade that everyone needs. All the women would lose hope, they would all be lost without you and plus, I wouldn't be able to see that beautiful face of yours," when he said that, she blushed a bit and hung her head, so that he won't see that very blush. He then turns to the exit of the garden," well, if that is all you wanted, I'll be going now. See ya later Meia, I hope we can become real good friends during this little journey of ours."

She didn't bother yelling back as she was still a little confused by the answer he gave,' I get the answers I wanted, but now I have so many more that are in my head. You're truly someone that none of us can figure out Taiho. But yea, I hope we do become good friends and then, just maybe, the truth about you will be revealed to me,' she then got up to take a shower, all the while not noticing that the two of them were being watched by the captain and her second in command.

"He is someone we need to watch out for. Even though he has given those answers, he still is too much of a mystery for us to fully trust," Magno says as she turned off the live video screen. She then laid back on her chair and rubbed the temples on her head,' 'sigh' I am just too old to be figuring out mysteries.'

"Yes captain, I agree with you. Taiho has too many secrets we don't know about. We should keep a close watch on him at all times to see what answers we can come up with," BC said as she gets a nod from her captain,' we will figure out just who or what you are Taiho, it will only be a matter of time.'

A/N: well I hope I made this chapter good for you guyz. Now need some more advice, should I have Taiho tell everything to the two captains (BC and Magno), or should I make him come up with a cover story. Also, should I give him an enhanced mode like seed mode, or should I have him make a system close to the ZERO system. Anything else than that, just review your votes on the pairing. Now with that said and done, see ya.

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