I don't own Vandread.
Chapter 2 Wait What
Hibiki was floored. Hibiki had actually been expecting something else other than what they had just been in. Zoey's final question to them was the place she wanted to eat. She had the nerve to ask them where they wanted to eat. Of all the odd questions she wanted to know about, she had to ask them where to eat. The choices were a mall or a bar. It ended up being tied until they ran into Jura. Jura yelled at Zoey when she made a comment about her outfit, but after hearing about a mall, she forced Barnette into siding with her. So the group had gone to the mall to eat.
Hibiki stared down at his hamburger. He poked it a few times as he tried to figure out what it was. He had never seen meat like the one in-between the two buns. It was sloppy and covered with sauce.
"What's wrong with you?" Zoey asked with a mouthful of french-fries. She blinked innocently as Jura glared at her. "What's wrong with you?" Zoey asked.
Jura bent her metal fork in half as she continued to glare at Zoey. Jura had taken a major hatred to Zoey after she made an evil comment about her outfit. Jura, after trying to come up with some kind of retort, ended up having Zoey make about thirty evil comments about her hair, skin complexion, eye color, nail color, personality issues, and the fact that she needed to get laid. Jura, having no idea what the last insult meant, had decided to just stick to hating Zoey until she was gone.
"What is this stuff?" Hibiki poked the burger with a fork.
"It's called a Sloppy Joe. Don't you know anything?" Zoey took a big bite of her Sloppy Joe, which ended up dropping all of its meat on her plate. Meia looked over at the now goofy looking Zoey with a sigh.
"Is there a reason to why you eat like a slob?" Meia finally mumbled.
"Yes, it makes me look like a goofy girl that doesn't have a clue about anything she does." She said with a smile. "You wanna hear my ultimate female call?" Barnette perked up at this. She actually only wanted to know so she could shoot more men back home when they got back, and only if things didn't change. Zoey took a deep breath and said, "I'M SO WASTED! I'M SO WASTED!" with a big goofy grin. Meia stared at her in shock. Dita blinked in surprise. Barnette went wide eyed while dropping her soda. Jura didn't know what to say or do. Hibiki didn't know what to think.
"What kind of call is that?!" Hibiki yelled. "That would never…" a man walked up to Zoey. "…work?"
"Hey good…"
"What's up, Kyle?" Zoey interrupted the man. The man sighed as he took a seat next to her.
"These your friends?" he asked, motioning the pilots before him. Kyle's hand inched towards its destination.
"What time is it?" Kyle paled as she looked at her wrist. Meia noticed that she wasn't even looking at a watch when she said, "Three o'clock. You know what that means right?" Kyle blinked in confusion. The minute he knew what time it was, it was too late. She shot him in the foot with her handgun. Kyle was on the ground, rolling around as he held his foot and screamed in pain. Zoey stood up and put her gun back in its holster. "That's for grabbing my ass, you pervert."
The girls all looked between Zoey and Kyle. Barnette was in total shock over what just happened. Jura seemed to enjoy the screams the man was yelling out at the moment. Dita was instantly by the man's side, trying to see if he was okay. Meia just stared down at the man as he suddenly became still. Hibiki was staring down at the young man with worry and fear in his eyes.
"That was fun, let's do it again!" Zoey cried. She shot him one more time, this time in the left foot. The man didn't cry out in pain this time. "Looks like the poison is beginning to take effect."
"What?" Barnette questioned with wide eyes.
"I can't feel my legs." Kyle said.
"Oh yeah, I put poison on all my ammo. It makes it more efficient when you need to interrogate someone or need to take someone out without killing them." She told them.
"My body… is trying to die." Kyle groaned.
"Is he going to be okay?" Dita cried.
"Who, him?" Zoey pointed down to the drooling Kyle. "Oh yeah, this isn't the first time I've had to shoot him. Any time he sees me, his hand instantly goes for the kill."
"How many times have you shot him?" Jura laughed. Kyle instantly began to stand up.
"I've shot him about thirty nine times this month. But my brother," Kyle pulled out his gun, but Zoey just hit him with the butt of her pistol. He instantly fell back on the floor. "…he's shot him about five hundred and thirty nine times for being a pervert, ass to me, and making bad comments about our brother."
"Whose you're brother?" Dita asked.
"Alex." Everyone stared at Zoey. Meia dropped her fork and went wide eyed. Dita blinked in confusion. Jura stared at the woman that had just shot a man twice for no reason. Barnette had stars in her eyes over what she had just heard and seen. "You didn't know that, did you?" Everyone shook their heads. "Yeah, he's my brother."
"Wait, how can that be? He never once said anything about you!" Meia screeched.
"I can explain that." Zoey chirped as she finished drinking her soda. "You see, Alex and me came up with the idea to never talk about each other unless we were talking to someone that knew either of us." She said while raising her hands in defeat.
"Why would he keep you a secret though?" Dita asked.
"That's because we had a small fight one day over something we said to our friends about each other. We came up with the idea to never talk about each other unless someone knew about either of us." She replied with a shrug.
"So are you an older sibling, or a younger sibling?" Barnette asked.
"I'm the middle child. Alex was born just four minutes before me." She sighed. "He never truly treats me as the younger sibling though. He prefers to say that I'm the oldest sometimes, just because I'm a little more mature then him. In reality, he's more mature than I am." She answered sadly.
"So… what now?" Jura asked.
(-)
"How long until our ship is repaired?" Gascgone asked. Gascgone was eating lunch with Willow and Suki at a nearby Pizza restaurant. Both Suki and Willow were out of their military cloths, much to their enjoyment.
Suki still had her odd sense of fashion. She was wearing a black haori and hakama. A crimson red dragon wrapped around her left leg and continued around her waist to end with its head on the center of her back. Glowing yellow eyes gave her the appearance that she had eyes in the back of her head.
Willow still had her odd sense of fashion as well. She was wearing black loose fit pants that with grey shin guards like Alex had. They were engraved with a jigsaw like pattern. She had a large black sweater that was under a large silver V like vest. She still had her white mask from before on. A large tan colored poncho was draped over the back of her chair.
"It should be done within a few hours." Suki replied. "I think Magno wants to stay here for a few days to let your crew rest. I think it's a good idea though, it will give us a chance to catch up."
"I second that." Willow said, sipping on a crazy straw that went from her glass of soda and directly into her mask. Willow had always chosen to keep her mask on for reason she kept to herself. Gascgone knew that Alex had picked up his mask habit from Willow, not to mention that he had also learned how to fight from her.
"Yeah, I could use a few days off the ship. We've been on that ship for like eight months." She moaned as she took a bite of her pepperoni pizza.
"I'm sure I would too." Willow laughed. "So, how have things been since last time we talked?"
"You mean since you left the Taraaku military in shambles, left Mejarru with a bunch of technology that needed to have all the parts or would make a large crater in the ground, and left us with a few good words and empty promises?" Gascgone questioned. Willow and Suki rolled their eyes. "So I lied on the last part, but who cares?" She smiled.
"I take it things went well then?" Suki said with a grin.
"Not really." Gascgone groaned. "Things went downhill fast after the Taraaku military picked up what remained of their military and attacked the station that you left your gifts for our home world. They successfully destroyed it, and then we went to war with them. Ever since, we've been helping out in our own way, but things have gotten really bad that not even we can truly do anything to really help out anymore."
"I wish we could have just taken you with us when we left, but…" Willow started.
"But we didn't want to abandon our home world just like that." Gascgone finished. Gascgone stared down at her last slice of pizza. "You know something, I wanted to go with you, but I just couldn't do it. I felt like I was needed a little bit more by Magno's side than yours. I'm sure you think that's strange, but I think I can understand just why I say that." Suki and Willow both nodded. "If I had gone with you, and Magno still ended up in the jam we're in now, I'm sure that a lot of things would have been different."
"Sometimes the best path goes unseen until the very end." Suki whispered. "I remember when I told Alex those words. He was losing to my husband at Chess, and I was the one to show him that nifty trick he used on him quite a bit." She said sadly.
"I remember when I started teaching him how to fight." Willow commented. "I still can't believe he started wearing a mask like me. I had to say, I was a little pleased with his appearance when he showed me. That must have been twelve years ago today."
"The days we long for are the days that we wish to, see in newer generation of life. But with this new threat, it will make things harder for us." Gascgone raised a brow at Suki's words. "I'm certain that you know that our people will not so willingly go to war. After all, some of us are still reeling from our war."
"Alex told us everything about that war." Gascgone said. "He said you five were the best and still are to this day." Suki smiled while Willow's smile went unseen.
"I wish we had the strength like your people did when ya'll were dealing with those idiots on Taraaku." Willow commented. "As strange as it was, I had lots of fun fighting like that back then, but without the fighting, I just feel so… empty."
"I guess life was truly hard once the war ended, huh?" Gascgone questioned. Both women nod their heads as they looked out the window towards a large Bio Garden.
"But now, all we want is peace and nothing more." Suki added. "We now fight for peace, hoping that the younger generation can live in a world without fighting wars. But despite all our efforts, it seems that humanity is not meant to get along with one another."
"Time will continue to move forward, as if making our own decisions for us." Willow added. Gascgone nodded at this as she lifted her soda into the air. Suki and Willow followed a few seconds later. "To peace, harmony, and another way to say peace." She toasted.
(-)
"Thank you for having us over for Tea, Asaugi." Magno said. Asaugi just smiled. Asaugi was out of her military clothing, meaning that she no longer had to be a hard ass like she always was.
Asaugi's hair was done up into a small ponytail. She was wearing a dark blue kimono with rusty red flower peddles. She was still an odd sight to see, but for those that had known her, it was nothing to strange.
"No problem, but I am a little curious as to how Alex was able to get along with your pilots." Asaugi took a sip of her tea. "I knew that Alex has always pushed people away after Rei's death, and always wanted to do things on his own."
"He actually got along pretty well with everyone but the male pilot and our helmsman." Magno said with an evil grin. "You have no idea on how many times that young one, Hibiki, came to me to ask if we could move him to another cell." Asaugi arched a brow at this. "He would always punch him in the face if he made a bad comment about him or women."
"That sounds like Alex." Asaugi mumbled. Magno just chuckled. "But how did he get along with all the pilots?"
"We had a few bad moments with him in the beginning, but he eventually became good friends with most of the pilots. He even fell in love with one of them." Asaugi raised a brow at this. "You remember the family you gave your gifts to?" Asaugi nodded. "He fell in love with their daughter, Meia Gisborn, the Flight Leader for our ship." Asaugi smiled warmly at that.
"Knowing that someone brought down his iced over heart is enough for me to know that he died fighting for what he viewed as precious." She said. Magno nodded. "I can't remember the last time I saw him happy, or with another human being that wasn't a part of our family."
"I'm sorry for what has happened, and I know that my words can do very little. But I'm sure that he'll be watching over us on our journey home." Magno said. Asaugi nodded at this.
"How much firepower do you have on your ship?" Magno blinked as she looked up at Blood. Blood too was without his military uniform. He wore the basic biker attire in all black.
"We have a handful of Dreads, one Vanguard that can combine with three individual Dreads that were altered by the Pexis, and a ship with no weapons." She answered.
Blood closed his eyes as he began thinking. Something was obviously on his mind, because anyone that had ever known him long enough, knew that when he closed his eyes to think, something was really bothering him.
"Asaugi, I'll be heading out with them." He finally stated. Asaugi blinked in surprise. "I am the best Heavy Assault pilot we have. If I go with them, I can promise you they'll make it home in one piece."
"And how would you get home if our Leaders chose not to aid them?" Asaugi questioned. Blood looked shocked, but knew she was right. What chances did they have? It was Taraaku that started the fight, refused to listen to reason, and most importantly, killed one of their best pilots. Sure, Alex killed and entire platoon, if not hundreds of them on that day, along with the space station he took out, but some wounds just never heal.
"I'm certain our people will…"
"I've already selected a pilot to go with them." Asaugi interrupted him. Blood looked up at her in surprise. She chose one already? And what was worse, was that she didn't run it by him. "The pilot is already aware of his mission, and has agreed to take it. The only problem now is convincing our three leaders to take up arms against the Harvester fleet."
"Getting them to side with us will be the hardest part." Blood growled.
"Look on the bright side, at least we only have to convince two of them, rather than all three." Asaugi joked. Blood just shook his head while trying not to chuckle.
(-)
Meia and Zoey continued to talk about Alex. The group had decided to split up and look over the mall while Meia and Zoey continued talking. Sounded good, was good actually. Zoey had wanted to know everything that Alex had done on the ship, along with the things he had done with Meia. Meia blushed when Zoey asked about that, but Meia being who she was, was a little embarrassed over some of the things she asked.
Hibiki and Dita had gone to just look around the mall. Hibiki had found a strange place that seemed to have a bunch of odd gadgets for machines of every sort. They ranged from little remote controlled cars and all the way up to actually mechs like Hibiki's Vanguard and the Dreads. Turned out that during the fight over Taraaku, a lot of the debris that belonged to Vanguards had been picked up by the lunar forces. The Dread parts had been a product of good sign on Mejarru's part. Some of the stuff had already been put on the ship since they ran into Parfait who was telling them about some of the new items.
Jura and Barnette had a mini fight over where to go first. Surprisingly enough, a gun store was in the mall, and it was flooded with marines. From what Barnette could see from outside the store, guns of old and new were hanging on the walls, while display cases showed newer models or custom models people had designed. It was heaven to Barnette. Jura however, wanted to hit ever shopping store in the mall. Barnette knew why, and knew that her chances of getting inside the store were pretty slim anyway, since Jura didn't really like all the guns the store had.
"Come on, Jura, please." Barnette begged. Yeah, she really wanted to go in there. Jura eyed the store as she looked at some of the men in the store. One was wearing a SWAT uniform. Another was wearing an all red suit of armor like Alex's. Another was wearing white robes of some kind. They must have been another cell or something. No one would wear clothing like that. "Please Jura, just this once." Jura snapped back to reality as she instantly found herself staring into Barnette's puppy dog eyes.
Jura groaned. "Oh alright, but you have to help me carry all my clothing." She stated firmly. Jura blinked as she stared at the spot her friend once stood at. Jura began looking around the mall for her friend, but soon realized that she had actually dashed off right after she groaned.
The place was truly a paradise for those that had loved guns. Barnette was eyeing every single one of them with aw. She was checking them left and right. A few were new models that had been recreated from older or the original model. She had already found the same weapon that Alex had given her back on the station they first destroyed. Her hands brushed along side the weapons frame a few times.
She missed him. Despite the fact that they hardly every talked, she missed him. He was in someway, a missing part of her now. She remembered the Christmas incident with him when he caught all the boxes before they could fall on her.
She shook her head to clear those thoughts. She needed to move on.
"Hey, you gonna buy that or just stare at it?" the salesman asked. Barnette looked over at the man with hate filled eyes for a moment before looking over some of the other weapons.
"Come on, Barnette. Don't you have enough guns on the ship?" Jura moaned. Jura accidentally bumped into the SWAT dressed boy by mistake. Rather than appolagize right there, since it was her fault, she decided to yell, "Appolagize right now!" into his ear. The boy, who looked no older than seventeen or eighteen, spun around and slammed a fist into her gut.
"Don't yell at me you dirty tramp." He seethed. Jura doubled over as his fist left her stomach, taking away her leverage. She crashed to the ground as he, and the other two men left.
Barnette went wide eyed as he friend slowly got up. Barnette saw the whole thing, and knew that she was at fault. Jura had a nasty habit of thinking she had the right of way over everyone. It was something that she never would understand. The world didn't revolve around her, it revolved around everyone, and she was just too blind to see it sometimes.
Barnette slowly walked over to Jura, and helped her up. Jura coughed a few more times before whipping around with hate burning in her eyes. "Calm down, Jura. We don't need you making a scene. Besides, you are the one at fault here." She moaned.
(-)
"Are you sure he knows what you asked him to do?" Suki questioned. Asaugi nodded. "This sounds a little dangerous."
"I know, but this has to be done. There's no way other way. He's heading in that direction. We have no other choice if they want our help. They have to do it." Asaugi stated.
"What about Magno, what does she have to say about this?" Blood asked. "I doubt she'll want to put her crew in danger."
"She has not been told yet, but I'm certain that if she wants our help she'll take the mission." Willow commented.
"So you agree with her on this?" Blood commented. Suki nodded. "I see, but why are we putting his life in their hands? Why can't you just send me to retrieve him? He is after all my partner."
"If you went, then you would have to return. But if they went, they could still head home after retrieving him." Asaugi stated. "I also think this plan of mine might work with this. As you know, we have to get two of the three leaders to agree to head to their world to lend some assistance."
"If this doesn't work, they could execute us." Blood warned. "You know that they've got very little tolerance for us. If this backfires, you can kiss your ass goodbye."
"This is worth the risk." Asaugi stated.
(-)
The next day, Meia, Magno, Jura, Barnette, BC, and Gascgone were standing before Blood, Asaugi, Suki and Willow. The reason for the meeting was still unknown to the Nirvana crew.
"Thank you for coming here before you leave." Asaugi greeted. "I hope you all are rested up, since I have a favor to ask." The Nirvana crew blinked in surprise. "As you know, we have multiple stations around planets, and other areas in space. A few hours ago, we received a very well encrypted message from a station that doesn't exist."
"What, if it doesn't exist, then how did you receive a message from it?" Jura asked. A look of confusion greeted her from Suki until she slapped a palm to her face. "Never mind." she moaned.
"Thanks for making me not explain myself." Asaugi grumbled. "This station that we received the message from, had also sent one just ten minutes prior to the new message we received. The first message said that they had found a life pod in space that still functioned. It went on to say that the life pod still had a life form in it, and it was still showing all green. That means the life form is still alive and needs rescuing."
"Why does it need rescuing?" BC asked.
"The second message said that they had been attacked by an unknown group of hostiles." Blood commented. "Maya told us that you have once run into a group of aliens that had killed all of the people on Colony X119. We believe them to be the same ones from before."
"Wait," Meia interjected. "You mean to tell us that there are more of them?!"
"We're unsure for the moment, but yes, we believe them to be the same ones from before." Blood replied.
"You need not worry about fighting them." Suki commented. "We already sent in a Strike Force to take them out. But we've received no word on their progress. But there is another reason we need you to head there."
"Oh and why is that?" Magno asked. She already had a bad feeling about this. Something just didn't seem to fit. She knew they probably had their reasons, but it would have to be one hell of a reason for her to consider putting her crew in danger like that again.
"You want our help in defeating the Harvesters?" Bloods snapped. Suki placed a hand on his shoulder, along with warning glare when he looked at her. "Sorry."
"Yes we want you help, but I don't see how this could help us." BC began. "In truth we owe a lot to you for keeping us off your radars, fixing our ship, and allowing our crew to rest here. But I don't understand how this could help you."
"There is an AI there that needs to be rescued." Willow told her. "This AI is the first of its kind, and as such, must be rescued to make sure that the enemy doesn't get their hands on our technology."
"And why should we go and risk our lives for an AI?" Barnette asked. "Can't you just make another one?"
"Unfortunately… no, we can not." Asaugi said sadly. "The AI is the first of his kind and also the smartest of the original five." The crew looked at her with confusion. "As you know, I am a Super Soldier that was designed for war, but, the five of us were paired up with an AI at the beginning of our campaign against Scion. Only two AI's now remain, and the one on the station was the first of its kind."
"I still don't see how this will help us." Gascgone said. "I understand how it helps you, but how does it help us?"
"Even we have restrictions that we must abide by." Willow stated. "There are three Rulers to our Government. Each one presides over a different region of space that we control. In order to go to war to either help or destroy a planet, we must get their approval first. Since this threat presides over the entire Galaxy, we can not just protect one nation, but since they are now attacking one in particular, we have a shot at it. The only problem is that one of the planets happens to be Taraaku."
"The three leaders are people that went to Taraaku with the peace treaty, and as such, have a deep hatred for that world. We may come to the aid of Mejarru, as a show of good faith to our promise, but not to Taraaku." Blood added.
"The reason you will take this mission is because we need an Ace in the Hole so to speak." Asaugi added. "If you can successfully grab the AI and get away from the station while blowing it up, we will have a good enough reason to head to Taraaku and Mejarru to help out."
"So all we have to do is grab the AI, life pod, and destroy the station?" Barnette asked.
"Yes, but we have to make sure that it's a standard purge. That means you'll have to set the timer again and then run away." Suki told her.
"Yeah, I remember last time." Jura moaned. A sudden thought hit her instantly. "Hey wait, if we're going to a station that you control, then does that mean we get a special soldier to help us out?"
"Yes, and we have already loaded his machine onto the ship. We even gave the manual to your Techs incase it got damaged. Spare parts are also onboard, along side another guest." Asaugi stated.
"And who's the pilot?" Jura asked. The doors hissed open to reveal a teenager in SWAT clothing. His clothing was all black, and his arms had a pair of wrist PDA's on both sides. He had brown hair that was spiky and long, and had grey eyes. From what skin they could see, he had lightly tanned skin. Jura instantly pointed a finger at him while screaming, "You're the little bastard that punched me!" at the top of her lungs.
Said boy raised a brow as he looked over at Asaugi. "For the record, she ran into me while I was talking to Mark. I did punch her, but only because she yelled in my ear over her own problem of perception."
"Like hell I did!" Jura yelled.
"Jura just let it go." Barnette whispered into her friends' ear. "He's not worth it. He is after all a Super Soldier, and possible top of his class like Alex was."
"Get a room you little tramps." The boy grumbled. "No one wants to see you doing it right here."
"Why you little…" Barnette screeched.
"Enough!" Asaugi yelled, interrupting Barnette before she could continue. "Rain, I will not have you starting fights at a time like this! You have a mission with these people! You must learn to get along with them, or I'll be putting you on the next flight into hell!"
Meia went wide eyed at the name. This wasn't going too bowed well for Hibiki, Duerro, and Bart if he was as bad as he sounded.
Said man grumbled a "Yes Ma'am" as he continued to stare at Barnette with a glare that could kill a dead man. Barnette returned it with one of her own. Not as affective as his or maybe even Alex's, but enough for him to back off slightly.
"Now I assume I can trust you to not kill any of them on the grounds you claim as an accident?" Asaugi asked. Rain narrowed his eyes on Barnette one last time before turning to Asaugi with a lazy expression.
"Yeah, yeah I promise not to kill them." He grumbled. "So long as they stay out of my way during combat, I promise not to kill them."
"Good, but you'll be learning some of their flight patterns so you don't accidentally wind up getting shot during a pattern maneuver." Willow told him. Meia went wide eyed at this too. This meant she would have to change her flight patterns again.
"What, you can't really expect me to do that, do you?!" He yelled. Asaugi sent him a warning glare that shut him up instantly.
"I expect you to follow the Flight Leaders' orders to the fullest. When she says "Jump" I want you to ask "How high" got it?" Asaugi stated. Rain grumbled over this as Asaugi continued. "You will be taking a detour to a nearby Satellite to retrieve Dale." Rain snapped to attention after that. "I will have Cole explain the situation." Asaugi nodded to Willow. Willow nodded and pulled a green chip from her pocket and placed it on a control panel. A sand colored male appeared before them, standing no taller than a foot. He was wearing monk robes of some sort, with a long ponytail that waved to an imaginary wind. "Cole, please explain the situation to Rain." Asaugi ordered. The AI nodded and turned to Rain.
"The installations' power grid is currently offline, but in order to work successfully in the installation, you must turn it on." Cole stated. Rain nodded. "The life pods' current whereabouts on the station is currently unknown. I would suggest that you turn the power on, head to the control room, search the recent data logs, and then retrieve the pod. Also, Dale is currently missing, and I would like you to find him at all costs."
"Understood."
Cole turned to Willow and said, "Is there anything else I can help you with, Willow?" with no emotion to his voice.
"You're done, Cole, you may return." Willow told him. The AI nodded and faded away. Willow pulled the chip from her panel and placed it back into her pocket. "Rain, you must retrieve Dale at all costs. If you fail to retrieve him, you may be without a way home. We need you to retrieve him so we can go help the Mejarru and Taraaku forces you'll be taking back to…" Willow was cut off as Rains' fist slammed into the desk, taking a good portion of it off as his fist went directly through it.
"I WILL NOT GO TO THE GOD DAMN HELL HOLE OF A PLACE!" Rain yelled. The women all jumped back in surprise at his sudden outburst. "YOU SAID THAT I WAS TAKING THESE PEOPLE TO THEIR HOME WORLD ON THE OTHER SIDE OF DELTA X108! I HAVE HALF A MIND TO TURN YOU IN RIGHT NOW!"
"You will be taking them to their home world or I'll consider this an act of treason!" Asaugi yelled. Rain narrowed his already hate filled eyes on Asaugi as she returned it with one that cold freeze hell over. "Your choice."
Rain grumbled as he walked out of the room to scream ever kind of curse he knew in another language. Meia raised a brow at some of the words she already knew, thanks to Alex, that he was using. Asaugi and Suki moaned while they rolled their eyes. Blood just raised a brow while Willow stared blankly at the door. A few seconds later, Rain walked back in.
"Finished?" Willow questioned. Rain growled at her. She sighed knowing that he was still rather pissed.
"Can we trust you to not kill the three Taraaku men?" Blood asked. Rain slowly nodded while keeping his piercing gaze on Willow.
"Good, because you leave in three hours." Asaugi told him.
(-)
"This will be your room." Meia told Rain as she opened the door to his room. Rain dropped two large duffle bags on the floor while putting his laptop on the desk provided. "We'll be having a meeting with the rest of the team that will be accompanying you on the mission to retrieve the pod and the AI in thirty minutes."
"I can take care of myself, thank you." Rain stated. "But thanks for the offered help."
"I went to the last station to help Alex in destroying it. The same team will be going whether you like it or not." Meia stated. Rain sat on the bed as he glared at Meia. "I know you don't like this, but you're going to have to deal with it." Rain turned to look out the window with a scowl on his face. "I need to know what type of machine you use and what it can do, so I can come up with some battle strategies."
"I pilot the Infinite Justice, also called "Justice" for sort. It has one rifle, one jet pack, one beam boomerang, and one shield. Two beam sabers are also on it, but I hardly use them. The jet pack also has two turrets and one long javelin on it to either blast or spear the enemy." Rain mumbled as he turned to face Meia. "Any thing else?" Meia shook her head. "Good, because I'd have Maya tell you." He stated firmly. Meia took a deep breath as she left his room.
This is going to be fun. Meia thought.
A/N
Okay, so those are the new people in this story. For those of you that still want to suggest any types of suits, you should know you have a lot of time to think about it. For those of you that don't know a good site to go to for information on any of the suits, this is the site I use.
for those of you that think Zoey is a complete nut case, you should know that she is only like that because she hates perverts and likes everyone in the universe. Also, in case you can't tell, another station chapter is coming up, so expect a few creepy surprises in the next two chapters.
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