DISCLAIMER: I do not own Vandread or any of the Gundam series, but I of course own my OC's and their custom mechs.
REVIVING A DEAD PLANET
It's been three days since the crew of the Nirvana and the Immortal Purpose have been on a no-name barren planet. When they had got there, they had seen the inhabitants of the planet were very ill, every last one of them, which from the look of it, wasn't very many people. Those who died would leave behind a custom made wood doll they made and leave them in a large dome, thinking their souls would be left behind and signifying that they were there. The corpses themselves were taken by the Harvester that made a patrol around that sector.
"Man, I know we've watched this before, but seeing it personally and up close, it really saddens me man," Marcus said as he stood beside Taiho, looking from a cliff down to the dome and settlement the people have beside it.
Taiho nodded, not really wanting to say anything as the stench of death reminded him too much of the deaths of his loved ones. He saw a speck of blond hair and knew only two people who had that color of hair, and the other one was with Hibiki in Vandread Jura,' Bart must be taking this hard seeing as how he found someone to tell his stories to and not have them ridicule him, I can just imagine how he feels about that little girl, Shirley, being terminally ill and just one step away from Death's Door.'
Marcus looked at Taiho and shook his head and put on his hand on his friend's shoulder and shook Taiho a bit, breaking the mixed Mexican and Japanese man from his thoughts," look, me, Barnette, and the others got this, why don't you go back to the Nirvana and help out Meia with things?" Marcus suggested as he gave a sympathized smile on his face.
Taiho just looked at him for a bit, but nodded in thanks," thanks Marcus," he said as he put his hands in his pockets and turned back to the path that led back down to the settlement," I'll see ya later," he said as he kept his back to Marcus and waved goodbye.
"Safe trip, homie," Marcus said back to him. He turned back to look down at the settlement and shook his head," it's really fucked up how our own home planet is doing this," just the thought of it made his shoulder shake in anger. He then quickly turned around and called out," CYCLONE PUNCH," the blue twister like Ki punch darted towards a boulder and drilled right through it,' I'll make them pay for this, with the crest on the back of this hand,' he then looked at the crest the appeared on the back of his right hand and looked at it with determined eyes,' I swear I'll make them pay.'
Marcus then sighed a bit as he want down the same path Taiho went down, back to the settlement. Right when he got there, he noted that Parfet was working on the terraforming the planet into a healthy and livable planet, but wasn't have luck. He also noted that Taiho had already left. Seeing as how his fellow Gundam pilot wasn't there, he went to the hospital the inhabitants had here.
Within Vandread Jura, Hibiki and Jura hear Parfet's progress on the planet," it's no good, I guess we're just going have to terraform this thing from scratch. How's it going over there," she asks from her position on the planet.
"We're inside the planets atmosphere right now," Hibiki answered as he had the shields of the Vandread all over the planet.
"Great, get ready to experiment a little," Parfet said with a happy tone in her voice, though a lot people knew she was just trying to lighten the dark mood down there," hold your position."
"You got it," Hibiki checked out as he looked over to his side at Jura, who was painting her finger nails purple, but didn't seem to have that always cheery look to her. He could tell something was on her mind just from the look on her face.
"You know..." she trailed off a bit.
"Know what?" Hibiki asked as he raised a navy eyebrow at her. He noticed the worried look face of hers again and saw she was staring at the ring on her marriage finger, which Bart had given to her and coincidently put on that exact finger.
She didn't answer for a bit until she shook her head a bit," I'm worried about, you know, Bart. I mean, that little girl he's talking to is really sick and I'm worried about what he might feel after she dies," she said in genuine concern.
Hibiki looked at her with blank stare, but then turned back to typing upon the console of the Vandread. After not replying for few moment, Jura was about to speak more, but Hibiki cut her off," don't worry about him for now, just focus on your work," he said in authoritative tone.
"But..." Jura protested.
"If he feels sad, crappy, or whatever he feels after that little girl's death, it was his choice to hang onto her and feel that way," he then stopped typing and looked at her with a firm stare," just worry about how you are going to help him through it."
"Hey you two," Misty interrupted as she called from the Nirvana to them with pop up screen in the cockpit, with her and Dita in the screen," how's everything going?" she asked in genuine concern.
"We're holding up real good here, we can keep this up for much longer than necessary if need be," Hibiki informed to the normally obnoxious and bubbly girl.
"You sure Mr. Alien, you look a little pale," Dita asked in concern as well.
"I told you for the fifth time today you idiotic girl, I'm fine," Hibiki exclaimed as he was getting annoyed by the red-heads constant worry.
"Okay," Dita said in a sad tone, but then turned back to the most annoying question he hated," so, when are you going to come visit me in my room?" she asked with curiosity. Hibiki only could only rub his temples as he felt a headache coming on while Jura and Misty just shake their heads with smiles on their faces.
Back on the planets surface, Marcus bumped into Gascogne and Barnette on his way to the hospital and waved at them," Wassup Barnette, Gasco," he said as he teased Gascogne a bit and held back a chuckle as he saw her eye twitch a bit.
"Hey," Barnette said in a sadden tone, after seeing so many dolls in that dome where the Harvester take their corpses, she couldn't help but think how sad it felt for the inhabitants of this planet.
"Yo, how's it going Marcus," greeted back to the black male," and how many time do I have to tell you all, it's not Gasco, IT'S GASCOGNE," the mechanic woman snapped as he clenched her right hand in fist in front of her, towards Marcus. The said person just throwing his hands up in defense and chuckling openly now.
Barnette just her head with a small smile, knowing what the black male was up to. He just said that to try to get the mood to lighten up and make them feel better. This was one of the things that she liked about him, not that she was would say it out loud, mind you," hey," she then noticed that her sub-leader wasn't there," where's Taiho, I thought he was with you?" she asked as she looked left and right slowly for the other Gundam pilot.
Marcus shook his head with a sigh," the guy wasn't feeling too good about this place, I think it reminded him something about the past, something bad," he said as the two women looked at each wondering what he meant," it's not my place to say what happened to him back then, but anyway, I told him to go back to the Nirvana and help with whatever Meia needs help with. Besides, I think being near Meia may help him calm down," Marcus said with an understanding. The other two nodded in understanding and left it at that.
The three made there way inside and looked to see patients being treated by Deuro. The doctor was now checking on a middle aged man, who sadly, was nothing but skin and bones from the disease on the planet. They saw the man talking and Deuro smiled and seemed to talk in careful tone, but when the patient wasn't looking, Deuro looked away with furrow of his brow and hardened eyes, signifying that he was really pissed off with what Earth was doing to the people of this planet. They also noted that Paiway was trying her best to keep the children spirits up. They looked with sad smile at this as they make their way further into the building.
When they make it to the area where the most terminally ill people were, they saw Bart talking to the long blond haired girl, telling his 'adventures' to the little girl. As the girl listened, she smiled and giggled at moments at the adventures Bart was telling her.
"It's surprising he would be doing something like that, telling his 'adventures' to someone else," Marcus smirked as he looked from the doorway at the two.
"When someone like him lies that audaciously, I don't even feel like scolding them," Gascogne said with her usual smirk as she leaned on the doorway of the room.
"I feel sorry for her though," Barnette said as Marcus nodded and Gascogne looked at her with a questioned look," that girl," she gestured to the giggling blond girl," I heard she's been in this quarantine ward ever since she was born," she said with a sad look on her face.
"I guess letting her hear a tall tale or two is the least we can do," Gascogne replied as she looked sympathetically at the two.
"Yeah, I hear ya," Marcus added himself as he then turned to leave," come on, we should at least see what we can do to help Parfet with," he said as the two nodded and followed him.
Back on the Nirvana, Taiho was looking over the conditions of the planets surface with Meia. They had been trying various plans on terraforming the planet, but so far, none were really making any breakthroughs. Even though Taiho knew it wouldn't work, with his limited knowledge on the futuristic technology and knowledge on anything else then computers and fighting, he had to at least try. But it seemed that only when Parfet and Duero would come up with the miniature bed that had the Paksis keep the planets atmosphere from affecting a single birth of a baby, would only work.
Taiho, after three hours later of getting another failed plan of terraforming the planet, hit his palms on the table and put his face in his palms. He then felt a hand on his should and looked to see Meia with a stern look on her face," calm down," she said sternly, but he heard the undertone of worry in her voice, so he nodded and took some deep breathes.
"It really frustrating to me, you know," Taiho started as he finally calmed down. Meia sat down beside him and put her hand on the back of his. She then gave comforting squeeze to continue, which he smiled and nodded to," after all the technology we have, the resources, and even the amount of people working on this, we can't help these people. It makes me feel powerless," he said as he hung his head a bit in sadness.
Meia nodded and knew that, just like him, didn't like that kind of feeling. Didn't like it all. So, she went up to him and gave him a hug," we have to accept that there will be situations we can't just help in, this is one of them," she paused a bit to think," but knowing the others, they'll come up with something just in time, I know it," she said with the utmost faith in her friends.
Taiho nodded with a small smile as he held onto her. A moment later, he chuckled and got a confused look from her," you know, your a far cry from the women I first met. Back then, you wouldn't even give the thought of your friends being able to come up with a plan without you. Hell, you wouldn't even think of them as your friends."
She smiled and kissed him slowly on the lips. He responded in kind as he pulled her body closer to his and kissed her back. When she was done, she laid her head on his chest," and I have you to thank for that," she whispered to him with a smile on her face.
After a few minutes of resuming some simulations, Taiho called for a stop," well, we did all we could think of at the moment, but so far, thw only thing I can think of is making a small environment to be terraformed," Taiho said as he gave off a hint to her for the doctor's plan.
"We should relay that idea to the others, just in case Parfet and Gascogne aren't able to totally terraform the planet itself," Meia said as pinched her nose a bit from the headache she felt was coming.
"Yeah, let's tell Hibiki so he can relay that to them," Taiho said as he got and started to leave with Meia not far behind.
As soon as they got the communications room, the two were greeted by Misty and Dita," hey there you two," Misty greeted as Dita just waved them.
"Hey yourself," Taiho said with smile on his face, having felt better since he got on this ship and when Meia got him out of his funk," so how you holding up?" he asked as he knew that from the original storyline, she was very lonely since she was the only one from a society just like Earth.
"Well, I'm feeling pretty good, we should have another match on that game. What was it?" she started to think when she got a bright smile," oh yeah, Halo 3, it's really funny how Marcus sounds when I snipe him on that multiplayer," she said as she remembered the yelps Marcus would make when he got killed by her or someone else. (Did I mention they also had an XBOX 360, well, they do, okay?)
"Leader, I want to ask you something," Dita said to Meia.
"Hmm, what is it, Dita?" Meia asked as she raised a blue eyebrow at her.
"Umm, what do you and Taiho, you know, talk about when your in the same room, alone," she said with a blush as she whispered the last word.
Opening her mouth to talk, Meia close it again as she stopped herself from saying anything she and Taiho did when they were alone," well..." she hesitated to say anything at all now. She then elbowed Taiho and saw him look at her. She gave him a look that meant 'a little help here'.
Raising an eyebrow at knowing what she meant by the look and not knowing what was going on, he nodded his head and coughed to get both of Dita and Misty's attention," well, pleasure aside," he started, not noticing the blush on Meia face, which confused Dita, but made Misty smirk at," what's the condition on Hibiki and Jura?"
"We were about to check on them right now," she then sat down by the console and opened communications with Hibiki and Jura. She saw that they were about to spread the shields again and noted it," this'll be the fifth time they did this."
"Mr. Alien, are you okay," Dita asked as Hibiki came up on the monitor.
"Ha, you've gotta be kidding, this nothing," he said in a cocky voice, though the sweat on his face said otherwise.
"Hibiki, we need you to relay a message to Parfet and the others," Taiho said to his student as he came up the screen.
"What is it sensei?" Hibiki asked as he got ready to memorize what he was going to say.
"Tell them that if all else fails, they should at least try to make a small environment with what little Paksis we can offer, that way, the poison in the atmosphere won't get in and be able to help treat the people in it in any sort manner," Taiho said as he looked at him sternly.
"Got it," Hibiki said as he cut off communications with them.
"Do you really think those two are alright?" Meia asked Taiho as she looked at the monitor that was showing Vandread Jura and the shields it was putting up over the planet.
"What do you mean?" Taiho asked, but of course, he already knew what she meant.
"Although it hasn't been straight through, the two of them have been holding up those shields for quite awhile now," she replied to him as she remembered how long it has been since they arrived on this planet.
"According to the report by Parfet, it depends on their willpower and the condition of the Paksis," Taiho said as he closed his eyes in remembering for the report.
"The Paksis, huh?" she then looked back from Taiho back at Vandread Jura, or more specifically, the planet," what I heard was that this planet had purposefully destroyed the Paksis data, in order to make this current environment. Recently, I have begun to wonder what this substance really is?"
"As well you should, that reactor is in more ways in one alive," seeing the questioned she was giving him, he decided to elaborate," think about it, the time it affected the Dreads and the Vanguards. The were changed by something, I know it has to be the Paksis. Then, when we fought that stingray Harvester and the Grand Gundam, it seemed to be afraid of the red Paksis. Then how all of the Vanguards and Dreads combined to make those mechs in our most dire times of need. I'd say a lot of the contributes to the Paksis helping us out. With all of this, I believe in more than anything that the Paksis is alive, a living sentient being, that is helping us out," he then lifted the arm that had the Paksis fragment in it," and I can feel a sort of Ki coming from the fragment that is stuck in me, and only those living could give off such a feeling."
"Now that you mention it..." Meia trailed off as she felt for the back of her head, as she remembered about the fragment in her head. She could feel something different in that position.
Taiho shook his head, right now wasn't the time to think about the mystery of the Paksis," let's talk about his some other time, right now, we need to get back to thinking up some plans, just in case," he said as he put his hand on her shoulder. She looked up to him for a bit before she nodded, and the two them left the room, leaving the two girls to monitor the conditions on the pilots of Vandread Jura.
Marcus looked up from where he was lifting up some supplies on his shoulder to see Parfet disperse the Paksis they had available in the air of the planet. He couldn't help it but shake his head with frown on his face, he knew it was pointless and wanted to so much help these people get to a safer planet, but the people's body energy and system would not be able to handle the trip, and they just didn't have enough supplies to keep these people in condition as well.
As he set down a box of supplies on the floor outside the building, he saw Barnette working alongside the others, trying her best to help out. Just as she was using a tool to check the systems on piece of equipment, he saw of flash of Nagi pass his mind. He shook his head and looked back at her,' she reminds me of her in way,' he thought as he looked at her more closely,' though she does have more of an ass,' he thought again as she looked at her buns. He had already come to terms with Nagi being gone, but that didn't mean he couldn't be alone forever.
So with that thought, he straightened out his clothes. He may feel like this might be a stupid move, since she has done nothing but whack him around with a mallet seemingly made of Ki, but he could at least read between the lines. All the time he was glomped by Misty, he could see that bit of jealously going through her eyes and the time when he thanked her from the bottom of his heart, he could see the warmth in them when he looked at them.
"Thinking about going for her, huh?" Marcus almost tripped by the sudden appearance of Gascogne, who was leaning up against building with her arms crossed and eyes close, absently chewing on the stick she always had.
"When did you get here?" he asked as he looked back at her.
"When you were checking out Barnette's rump," she replied as he got a blush on that chocolate skinned face of his. She gave a small chuckle when she saw that.
Coughing to get his composure back, he looked at her with a irritated look on his face," so what, it's not like I find her attractive or anything," he said as he tried to cover up what he was about to do. But another chuckle from Gascogne let's him know she wasn't buying it.
"Nice try, I've seen that look before, so don't try and think you can fool me," she said as she got up and walked up to him," just go on and talk to her, it's not like it's going to kill you to talk to her about hooking up with her," she said as she gave him a pat on the back that made him stumble a bit at the strength she was putting behind it.
"Eh, r-right," he said as he blushed a bit. Sure he was thinking about hooking up with her, but having the others see what he was thinking about made it a little bit embarrassing. But nonetheless, despite the embarrassing situation, he wanted to feel that feeling again, of not feeling alone. He also knew that Nagi wouldn't want to hang onto her memory and move on with his life, at least, he hoped that's what she would think now,' I'll live Nagi, I promise you that,' he thought to her spirit and faintly heard giggle from the wind.
Just as he was about to speak to her, she look off to the side and gasps. He blinks and looks to where she was looking and saw that a pregnant woman had collapsed. He stifled a groan from being interrupted from talking to Barnette, it would get a lot of people angry at him if he did. He quickly ran along with her and picked the pregnant up. He looked back at Barnette and saw her looking grateful for helping her out,' well at least that's one point,' he thought, but he mentally shook his head, he had to think of the pregnant woman's condition now, not think about scoring with Barnette. He nodded to Barnette and the two made their way over to the hospital area of the building.
As soon as they opened the door, Barnette yelled out," DOCTOR, WE HAVE A PROBLEM," they then saw Duero come in and see what was going on.
"What's wrong?" he asked from his position as he ran to them.
"We have an emergency patient," she answered to him as he came up to them.
"She collapsed on her way here, we haven't gotten an answer from her since she's collapsed," Marcus explained to the doctor of what happened.
The doctor rolled up his sleeves, getting ready to help this woman in her time of need," take her to the examination table," he ordered them. Marcus nodded and made his way to the examination table and put her down. The doctor then examined her and noted things along the way," she's pregnant and close to giving birth too."
"It doesn't seem to matter who it is, every one of them is sick," Barnette said with a sad look on her face.
"Your right, it's harder to find someone who is not ill," the doctor said as he kept checking the woman," I've been giving a theory at this, if they can avoid contamination at birth, they may be able stop contracting the disease for life."
"Taiho has already suggested to Parfet about making a small environment with what little Paksis we can give them, so we'll let her know about your theory and have her make it now," Marcus said as he tapped Barnette on the shoulder and nodded his head to the exit. She nodded and followed him out the door.
As soon as they got there, they saw that she was trying to fix the launcher that dispersed the Paksis in the air," It's no use, it's just too much to terraform an entire planet," Parfet said as she sighed sadly.
"Then you should go with Taiho's idea and make that small environment for these people," Marcus said as he got her attention," you should make it now, the doctor's come up with a theory and I think it just might work with Taiho's idea."
"Do we have enough Paksis to do it though?" Barnette asked before anyone got ahead of themselves.
"Yeah, since Taiho came up with the idea ahead of time, we've saved some just in case," Parfet said as she smiled a bit, but then it turned into a sad smile," I thought we could at least help these people with their atmosphere, but it seems this is all we can do," she said as she walked away and went to build the machine that would help these people.
As the people down on the planet's surface make the necessary requirements for the woman to give birth to a baby. Taiho was taking a bit break by sparring with Meia. Okay, maybe not a break, but it was at least relieving their stress.
As they gave a flurry of kicks and punches to each other. Taiho couldn't help but think how close to his level she was, if anything everyone who seemed to had a crest on their hands seemed to be of same power and skill. He began to wonder if she would be the next one to be one of the Guardian Spirit members. But which was the question in his mind. The Phoenix of the South or The Chimera of the Center?
Just as he questioned that thought in his mind, he barely dodged a powerful right jab to the face," get your head in the game Taiho," she said to him as she resumed her volley of punches to him.
"Heh, sorry about that, just thinking a bit of something, I'll probably tell ya later," he said to her as he kept dodging her punches. He ducked right under them and went in for a kick, but she merely sidestepped him and went in for her own kick. Taiho made a frog flip to dodge the kick, as soon as it missed, he lunged back with the kicks, but missed as she jumped back. (if your wondering about that frog flip, think how on that game Tekken where Law does that sort of half flip, where he lands on his back and springs back with a double axe kicks)
"When you ready, you'll tell me, right?" Meia asked in a bit of an annoyed tone, knowing that he would only tell her when he felt when the time was right. It really irked her how he still kept some information from her. Information that could beneficially help them get through things faster.
"Yeah, that's right," he said as he kinda liked seeing her angry. It was fun just teasing her like this sometimes. But he shook his head and lowered his stance, signaling that the training was done," come on, those two can't work everything by themselves, let's go look and see if there are any enemies on the radar and then see what we can help up with next," he suggested to her.
"Yeah, let's," she said with a small smile. But just as she was about to turn away, she saw a flash of red and looked up to the window for the garden they were in and and saw a same type of Harvester they saw at Anpathos," what in the...?"
He blinked and looked back and remembered this Harvester, with metal body and large organic open mouth. It was the one that would suck in everything sight," come on, let's get to our mechs and get ready to defend Hibiki and them."
"Right, you contact Hibiki and Jura, while I tell the crew of the Immortal Purpose to get ready for combat," Meia said as she opened up her watch's communicator.
"Okay," he said he opened up a channel to Vandread Jura," Hibiki, Jura, stay where you are and keep the shields up, I don't want to repeat myself," he commanded to the and heard a bit of groan from Hibiki.
Back on the planet's surface, Bart was looking at the little girl, Shirley, with a worried look on his face," Bart," he looked up and saw Barnette, Gascogne, and Marcus standing right by the doorway," the enemy's here, we have to get back to the Nirvana," Banette said. He looked at them with a startled expression and then started to look back and forth between them and Shirley.
"I understand how much you want to stay here with her, but without you, the ship just won't move," Gascogne said to him with a leveled tone in her voice.
"We gotta go now man," Marcus said as he gave his two cents.
He still looked back and forth between them and the girl and whispered," Shirley," as he gazed at the blond girl in front of him.
"Come on Bart," Barnette said as she started to get impatient, but was stopped back Marcus, who put his hand on his shoulder and shook his head. All three of them look at Bart, who was shaking from a hard decision.
The blond man then stood up," Shirley, I'll protect you with my life," he then turned to them with a fierce look in his eyes," let's go," he said to them with firm voice. The three nodded to him and left to get ready for the upcoming battle.
In space, Taiho and Meia, along with those who were still in space, were already launched," Dita," Meia started," until Barnette joins us, I'm leaving you command of the B-team, can you do that?"
"No problem," Dita anwered," Mr. Alien isn't here to help me right now, I'll do my best to cover for him," she said with courage in her voice and eyes.
"Roger that," Meia said with a smirk on her face before she turned back to her front," all units follow my lead, LET'S SHOW THEM WHAT WERE MADE OF," she exclaimed to them and got a roger from everyone.
"Wanna show them what WERE made of Meia?" Taiho asked with a smirk on his face. He got a bit of chuckle from her before they combined to make Wing Zero.
The two then open up the shoulder Gatling guns and shoot down a number of the Cubes that were coming at them. It seemed that this time it was a regular force, but enhanced forms, of Cubes. Four groups were coming in from four sides, but they made Wing Zero split the Buster Rifle and give four quick shots by shoot front to back, then to the sides. The remaining units were quickly taken down when they got close enough for them to use the saber that popped out of Wing Zero's shoulder.
"Everyone, go for the main unit," Taiho said to everyone and got a 'roger' from everyone. Everyone shot down the enemy that got in the way to the main Harvester. But just as they were about to get to it, eight of the Cubes seperated into two groups of four and combined. With the combined form, they started to deflect the shot that were being given to them," let's see you guy block this," Taiho said as he cocked the Buster Rifle and fired a charged beam to them. Their shield held for only second longer before all eight of them were destroyed. But more replaced them and the team had to pulled back, lest they be shot down.
"Come on guys, you can do better than this," Hibiki said from his position on the Vandread. Just as he was about to say more, Jura leaned onto his shoulder," hey, what the hell do you..." he stopped as he saw her fatigued face.
"I guess I'm at my limit," She said as she leaned back onto his shoulder. Hibiki cursed under his breath about this. But was quickly interrupted as the new Cubes started to try and shoot them down. But the two were quickly saved by Dita, who made a hit-and-run tactic to lure the other Cubes away.
"Hibiki, Jura, do you read me?" Hibiki heard BC's voice over the communicator.
"I'd really hate to tell you this, but were started to lose control," Hibiki said quickly, hoping for some back up now. Just as Dita and another Dread were trying to get the Cubes off their case, a Cube Dita shot down pass through the barrier," OH NO," he exclaimed as the Cube fell to the surface and made a giant explosion. Thankfully, it wasn't in the vicinity of the settlement.
"Meia, I made a mistake, we need to separate and cover more of the area," Taiho said as he got nod from Meia. They soon disassemble the Wing Zero and fly off in their own mechs.
Taiho quickly took out his sword and extended it all the way. He then let loose the energy wings on his back and slung the sword over his shoulder. Even though these Cubes were enhanced, they still couldn't keep their sensors straight from seeing the after-images the wings the Dark Angel makes from them. He quickly slices through three of the ones that were shooting Vandread Jura and pulled out his rifle and shot down two more.
He looked back and saw the main unit Harvester was closing in. He then saw it activate its black-hole like mouth and started to suck everything in. Taiho was about to shoot it with everything he had to stop it from sucking in Vandread Jura, when a volley of missiles and gunshots stop him. He looked and saw it was Marcus and Barnette in their Gundam Hearvyarms Kai with Gacogne in her ship close by. He then looked to see the Nirvana in front of Vandread Jura, meaning Bart was in control of the ship now.
"Did we miss he party," Marcus asked in cocky manner.
"Naw, we just got that dip here for the chips, don't even apologize for being late," Taiho said sarcastically, making the two nervously grin at him," just hurry up and cover Hibiki and Jura," he order ed.
"Roger," Barnette said to him.
"Yeah, yeah, sure," Marcus said as he waved him off and cut off communications.
"I'll protect her," everyone heard on their communications.
'Looks like it's time,' Taiho thought as he crossed his arms and waited for the event to happen.
"I'm not going to let those bastards get any closer," Bart said as he narrowed his eyes at the Harvesters in front of him. As the Cubes came in and started to try and shoot the Nirvana down, Bart stood firm, taking in the attacks head one," no matter what happens, I'm not going to budge an inch," he said with fierce determination.
Jura and Hibiki looked at Bart in a new light now. Well, Hibiki was just blinking with a funny face, but Jura was absolutely gushing," oooh, he's being so heroic now," she said with a dreamy look on her face.
"Is it me, or has he changed?" Hibiki asked himself with the same look on his face.
'For all you care, we're nothing at all,' Barth thought as he kept taking in the attacks the cubes were doing to him,' but these people, they're trying to live their lives to the fullest,' he then started to feel the feeling of courage build up within, strengthening his resolve to protect them, and more especially, Shirley,' Shirley, I won't give up. So, so, you can't give up either okay,' he then start chant in his hand about not giving up. His fists balling up into a grip, when he couldn't contain his thought no more," I PROMIS YOU, I WON'T NEVER LET THESE THINGS GET YOU," he exclaimed as the Nirvana went through a change thanks to him. All around the ship, weapon compartments opened up and started to lock onto all the enemy, the cubes and especially the main unit," GET AWAY FROM THIS PLANET," he yelled at them as he fired all the shots a them.
Just as the shots were about to hit Taiho, Marcus, Barnette, and Gascogne, since they were in the way, the beams maneuvered around them and went back to shooting down the enemies.
"Do you see that, that's totally incredible," Jura said as she looked at how Bart took down the enemy.
"Heh, that man proved what it means to be a man," Hibiki said as he chuckled a bit.
"No, he proved what it means to be a warrior that protects what's precious," Taiho said to Hibiki over the communicator," but if you really think that, oh well," Taiho then turned off communications.
Moments later found Taiho and Marcus looking from the side at how Parfet was crying about not being able to help the people better, but they heard the old man thank her from the bottom of his heart about giving a ray of hope and giving a new healthy life for them. The difference in this though was that because of Taiho's earlier idea of a small controlled environment with one bed in it, it now had at least four beds in it, thanks to the saved Paksis fragments Parfet had kept.
"It's a good thing you offered that idea earlier, now instead of one bed for a healthy baby to be born in, they now have at least four of them, just in case there's more than one baby being born," Marcus said as he gave small sad smile to Taiho.
"Yeah, at least we changed something more better than it should have been, but I still feel like I could've done more," Taiho said in a soft voice, but shrugged knowing he couldn't have.
Marcus nodded, understanding what he meant. He then looked over to the building where you entered the hospital area and saw Bart leave with a truly devastated look on his face, held back tears slowly making their way down his face," I'm going to do something, I'll be right back," he said and turned to walk towards Jura.
The said blond now had a solemn look on her face, but then felt someone tap her shoulder. She looked and saw it was Marcus," oh, hi Marcus," she said as she tried to muster up a smile, but Marcus could tell she was forcing it a bit.
"Hey Jura, I think Bart's feeling really down now, I think he just found out that...that little girl Shirley died," Marcus said as he got a bit of a shocked look from Jura. She then got up and went to look for Bart without trying to find out more from Marcus," I guess she likes him more than she thinks," he said as he chuckled a bit, at least something good was coming out of this. He looked up into the sky and wondered what would happen next now.
From the darkness of space, the Master Gundam watched everything that had happened and chuckled darkly," I guess it's about time I issue my challenge to them once again," he said as he started to think on who to fight first. A moment went by before the Master Gundam's green eyes shined and named his first opponent," you had better be ready for my challenge..."
"Hibiki Tokai."
A/N: Well, that's Ch. 16, hope you all liked it. I know I haven't been updating soon enough, but my mind is kind dry right now of ideas. But nonetheless, I'm going to try and get these updated sooner. Now some of you may be disappointed that no major challenges happened, so you could say this was more of a filler than anything. But the next chapter will have a bit of surprise happen, something that many of may just like. Well, that's all for now, PM or review, ja ne.
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