VanDread The Fox

by Freedom Guard

Yet another creation of mine using Naruto, the Megele crew strike out at the Ikazuchi, unaware that there is a new person in the ship who is a man, but NOT one of the men of Talark.

2. Maelstrom

VanDread: The Fox

Disclaimer: I don't own VanDread or Naruto, I wish I did though…

Chapter 1

Maelstrom…

( ): Thoughts

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On the desert world of Talark…

As soon as the latest propaganda film that was approved by the Ministry on Talark was ended, the Prime Minister's speech began as the city was soon bathed in steam as well as lights as row after row of graduates from the military academies of Talark. Behind him and a retinue of higher ranking officers and a detachment of spear wielding Vanguards was the retrofitted colony ship that brought the men to this world, the Ikazuchi, only this time, the ship was now serving as a military vessel and was the flagship for the Talark naval force that was soon to answer the attacks made by the women pirates of Megele.

Among the young recruits was a man who had one side of his face covered by his long mane of black hair, this man in question was none other than Duero McFile and unlike the rest of the fresh faced and eager cadets, he was calm and collected in appearance and attitude for the time being, almost as if he was not concerned with the speech of the Prime Minister.

Another man was also not paying attention and was actually looking sleepy and yawned as well to prove that point, the man was a blonde youth and looked rather out of place for a military cadet. This one was Bart Garsus and was actually part of the military contingent for a far different reason than the rest of the students of the Academy.

As soon as the Speech ended, the Prime Minister shouted out to the men who had cheered at what he had said to them .

"Why must we wait for the designated hour to finally mete out the fist of justice on the women who have long oppressed our people? Why must we wait to take what is our birthright and claim the stars? We shall go NOW!"

The crowds cheered out loudly and soon the cadets were eager to get into deep space to take the fight to the women.

…

However, the men who were running the ship's various systems and engines were stunned at the pronouncement of the Prime Minister. However, they had no time to complain as their senior officers barked out orders to get the ship ready for the early launch. They were soon loaded with the cadets and the command staff of the Prime Minister and as soon as the ship as on lockdown, the engines roared to life.

As the ship's massive thrusters were firing up to push the ship out of the gravitational well, a man who was tilling the harsh Talark landscape with a hoe in what was an obvious attempt to actually grow things on the world. He looked up and smiled a bit and knew that onboard there was someone who was going to help change the future of the world he lived on, to what end was still unknown to him, but one thing was certain, it was going to be interesting.

…

In the large room…

The ship was now currently orbiting over the desert world of Talark and soon was awaiting the arrival of it's escort ships. As the cadets drank their wine and were chatting about their soon to come adventures in defending their world and their soon to come battles with the women, they were also eager to finally get their hands on the newest toys provided with to fight the women.

Duero was busy chatting with some of the men, some mentioning that Duero was actually one of the top graduates in the Academy but had placed on his papers no exact position that he wanted to take while in the Ikazuchi. Many of the men were confused by that but that was cut short by the arrival of Bart.

The man peddled a box of pills that were different from the usual bunch and when he left to talk to the others, the men were curious as to who he was, once his identity was revealed by one of the others, they sighed a bit and made a number of comments on the matter, though Duero remained silent on the whole affair.

It was then that the film portraying the Vanguards was shown to them and while the majority of the men onboard were eager to field the weapons in battle, both Duero and Bart were not all that impressed to say the least.

As the film came to an end, the back of the room where the Prime Minister was speaking parted to reveal a number of the Vanguards that were to serve as the examples for the men and were combat worthy as well…unfortunately for the men, one such Vanguard was marked by a certain symbol and was not alone as the one who marked it was sleeping nearby though this time he was fully awake.

…

Naruto was quickly roused from slumber when he suddenly felt the entire room move and lights were coming on. He wondered just what was going on and when he realized that the room was being lifted up, he knew that something was wrong. Normally the blonde was hard to wake up even with an alarm clock, the only thing that would prevent him from getting to sleep was when something troubled him to the point that sleeping only made the problem worse.

When there was nothing in that level, he was like a dead person to the world, however, his wives did find that there were two ways to wake him up, one was to say that he had a mission to do and he would be up, and the other one, the one that they all knew worked the best since it had no need for them strain their vocal chords in waking up their mutual husband, was to say ramen for breakfast into his ear. The latter was undeniably more effective than the former which was why they took to cooking ramen for him and he loved them even more for that and that was a mutual win situation for all involved.

However, Naruto had developed the habit of waking up on his on power when something was happened around him that was not normal. And this rising room was not normal in his mind. He looked about and quickly got his gear stored away and readied himself just as the wall before him parted and he found himself looking at a large number of male graduates and one irate Prime Minister who was shouting out orders.

(Oh you have got to be kidding me!)

Naruto looked at crowd before him, he had hoped that he was going to be able to find a way to get his Vanguard tucked away at a later date and eventually get himself out of the Ikazuchi. Now it seemed that it was not going to happen the way he hoped it would be. However, this was hardly something that he had to worry about as he got himself ready for the soon to come fight. He might however have to find another way to get his new toy out of the hands of it's soon to be former owners.

But to do that, he had to escape first, though he had no doubt that the guards before him were not going to make that part of his plan easy in any case.

…

"Look!"

"It's one of the Third Class Citizens!"

"How did one of them get into the Ikazuchi?"

Duero was not convinced that the man before them was a member of the Third Class as he looked at the blonde despite having the identification card that was used by the Third Class around his neck. For one thing, there was no way that any Third Class Citizen wore clothes like this man did. He wore was appeared to be some sort of uniform in black and orange with several areas near the forearms, upper arms, calves, and thighs showing what appeared to be armor plating underneath.

The blonde male also had a headband made from black cloth and there was a metal plate there that had a strange symbol etched into the metal itself. The man also wore a vest that was made of green leather and to the man's sharp eye had metallic plating underneath the cloth which meant that it was some form of armor and had a number of pockets as well, and he also had a sleeveless overcoat which was red with black flames on it as well.

The clothes looked to be high quality so there was no way that this man was a Third Class Citizen by any range as they had no way to afford such clothes and armor. The man was also not one would expect from those in the Third Class. He was in the bloom of health and appeared to be around mid to late twenties, something that was odd for the Third Class as they only had basic health care and supplies to go with it.

He had deep blue eyes, a well defined face which was given a more exotic look by the three whisker like marks on his cheeks and blonde hair which was spiky on the stop as well. All in all, the man was actually very good looking as well

If the three guards thought they were going to have an easy time with the Third Class trash they found…they were dead wrong.

The first guard tried to strike hard with a blow to the side, Naruto quickly evaded the attack and lashed out with a strong kick that sent the guard down to his knees, Naruto then leaped onto his back and flipped backwards to avoid a strike to his back from the other guard, while mid flip he grabbed the guard's shoulder and quickly pushed himself into air at high speed, he ducked quickly as the third guard tried to attack, only to miss and have Naruto turn and introduce his left knee into his stomach.

The blonde Sannin and former Hokage turned and lashed out with a hard punch that hit the second guard right in the jaw, sending him out cold while landing a spinning reverse heel kick on the third guard to send him to lala land and striking with a chop to the back of the head on the first guard that tried to hit him while side stepping the first guard's attack. Naruto turned and spotted six more guards armed with clubs and spears this time around. The blonde frowned briefly but then grinned as he reached behind him and pulled out what turned to be a sword of some sort from his back. Naruto had a pair of special sheaths made to hold his swords, they were made from special wood that had chakra to hold the swords in place no matter what happened and keep them sharp, the only way for the swords to be removed was when he held it as the weapons were attuned to his chakra.

The two swords were Ninjato and were very useful to him in his career ever since rising to the rank of Hokage and were the ones made for him by his wife Koyuki as her wedding present to him. They were made to be light but very strong and could have chakra channel through them as well and they had seen Naruto through many battles. One sword was on his back and the other was on his waits though at a diagonal angle and both swords were hidden by his long coat yet were within easy reach.

Duero looked on in surprise as the weapon was a straight single edged sword that was at least two and a half feet long and appeared to be a well made weapon and very well kept too with a small pentagon like hilt guard there along with a two handed grip handle. That told him even more that there was no way this blonde was a Third Class Citizen, the money given to the Third Class was only enough to make them survive with the bare minimum of support and medical care. There was no way any Third Class Citizen could save enough with their wages for a weapon, even if it was an inferior one, and this weapon looked too well kept and maintained.

The first guard stopped a bit as Naruto held his sword in a one handed grip but he charged in, the blonde dodged his wild attacks with his club, then blocked the next one with the back of his sword and slammed a punch into the guard's stomach with his free hand and then cutting the man's weapons into nothing but useless handles, he turns and evades the spear strikes of two men, he then manages to cut the first spear in half at the middle and deflects the next spear while leaped over both men and striking the two men in the back of their legs with the flat side of his sword and strikes both of them in the back of the head with chops from his free hand, sending both guards to unconsciousness.

Naruto then took out his other sword, adopting a dual wielding style that he had learned from his old friend and fellow Jinchuuriki Killer B, as the others attacked en masse, Naruto quickly began to move through the battle, blocking incoming stabs and swings by both clubs and spears while lashing out with kicks, slashes and stabs to force the enemy away while dancing away from attacks that he could not block with his swords because they were occupied. He then leaped over them and then released both swords from his hands and began unleashing a flurry of punches coupled with high speed and powered kicks to stun the guards and he quickly got both swords as they spun back down and cut the guards' weapons once more as the guards fell down to the ground.

Naruto looked and spotted several more guards coming, only this time, they were armed with assault rifles. Naruto quickly realized that now was not a good time to be fighting guys with guns and he quickly placed his swords away, they locked into place and he smiled as the guards came and were about to fire at him, he then threw down a paper ball which exploded into a massive cloud of smoke, surprising the guards as they rushed in to track down the man. However as soon as the smoke cleared and everything was back to full view, the guards and the cadets were surprised to find out that the blonde man was gone.

The guards looked everywhere, even behind Grand Pa's statue and they found nothing at all, there was no sign of the man who had just devastated a number of the guards of the Ikazuchi with seemingly no effort. The men were confused as to where the man had gone until they heard a voice above them.

"Up here!"

Everyone looked up and to their surprise and disbelief, the Third Class Citizen was there…standing upside down on the roof!

"What the?"

"How did he get all the way up there?"

Naruto grinned at them and to their amazement, he began running to the other side of the room while still on the roof, the guards armed with Assault Rifles aimed and fired several rounds at the man, unleashing the sounds of gunfire into the area but the bullets missed the man as he continued to move at a speed that was not possible for someone who was upside down on a roof a good twenty to fifty feet in the air.

The blonde then leaped off the roof and then turned in mid drop the throw something at the guards, all the men heard were several sharp sounds of metal hitting metal and the guards looked to see the barrels of their guns hit by some sort of weapon. The men looked at the blonde male who smirked at them and spoke only one phrase.

"I am out of here!"

With that, he vanished before anyone could react as the guards shouted out and were now chasing the man to catch him.

…

While the other men were gossiping like mad on what they had just witnessed before them, Duero moved quickly and silently as he could to the site of the battle and picked up one of the apparent weapons of the Third Class Citizen…if that man was one to begin with. He studied it carefully and found the weapon to be very interesting. The weapon was yanked out by one of the guards and tossed aside and now that it was ignored, the young man had the chance to study the weapon.

It was a four pointed star with sharpened edges on all four points on either side, and it seemed to be very light weight. This plus it's well made aerodynamic design meant that it was quite effective in the right hands, and seeing as to how the man had used these weapons to jam the barrels of the guards' assault rifles with ease while in flight as well.

Duero turned to the door that blonde had just went through and began to think about what he had witnessed and he smiled a bit.

(This day might not turn out to be boring after all. Who was that man?)

…

In the bridge…

The Prime Minister was in a foul mood when he and his second in command entered the command bridge, what should have been a good show for the planet's latest weapons against the war with the vile women had been turned into a fiasco by the Third Class brat who had the gall to sneak onboard the Ikazuchi and ruin everything. However, what he had witnessed was not entirely bad, but he had a job to do and pressed a switch to activate the ship wide inter-comm. system and barked out his orders to the security personnel.

"Attention to all security personnel, this is the Prime Minister! I want every deck section of the old and new sections of the Ikazuchi searched from top to bottom! Find that brat and make sure to tie him from head to foot and then bring him to me alive so I can kill him myself with my bare hands!"

As soon as that was over, the Prime Minister sighed as he leaned back and spoke

"The whole match was ruined…"

That was when the second in command spoke.

"Prime Minister, are you sure that killing that boy is a good idea? The skills he showed were rather exceptional after all. It would be a waste to kill off such youth and talent."

"I know, but when I have him here before me, I'm going to give him a choice, either serve the Talark Military as his duty to Grand Pa with his skills and teach them to his fellow men, or I will have him tossed out an airlock."

…

In a hallway…

Naruto whistled a bit as he looked at the inter-comm. having heard the announcement of the Prime Minister concerning him.

"Wow, I must have really pissed him off…good; it's high time that windbag got some that hot air out of his brain."

"Hey! It's him!"

Naruto turned lazily to the side to see three of the guards of the Ikazuchi looking at him and carrying guns, he smirked and replied.

"Oh, hi guys."

"Don't hi us you Third Class reject; you're going to come quietly with us to the Prime Minister right now!"

"And if I say no?"

"The Prime Minister said to bring you to him alive, he said nothing about brining you to him beaten up kid, now are you going to come with us quietly or do we have to mess you up?"

"Let me think…oh yeah, here's my answer. You want me…"

Naruto then gave them the universal message to leave him alone, which was the upraised middle finger and turned around quickly and moving to another corridor but not before completing his statement.

"Come and get me!"

Needless to say, the guards who had gotten the finger were FAR from amused, they were seeing red as they vowed to get Naruto, beat him until he begged for mercy and then they were going to drag his beaten carcass to the Prime Minister. As they reached the corridor, they grinned evilly. They knew that the corridor that the blonde had disappeared to was leading to a dead end.

(That guy is going to be….gone?)

The guards were stunned and for good reason, they had expected the blonde to be trapped and ready to be beaten down for his insolence, but he wasn't around.

"What the?"

"Where did he go?"

The guards looked around and tried to find their target, but they were not going to get the chance as the Naruto they had been chasing had disappeared and for good reason, the Naruto they chased was none other than a Kage Bushin.

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In another corridor…

Naruto grinned as he got the knowledge of the Kage Bushin who had just disappeared and lost it's pursuers and he decided to keep moving and find a way out of the area, he was going to get his Vanguard at a much later date, once the search for him died down.

However, it was then that a series of explosions rocked the ship itself and soon sirens began blaring all over the place. This stopped the blonde cold and he decided to take a gander at a nearby porthole and see just what was going on. The second he saw the slender looking fighters attacking the male fleet, he wagered a guess on who was attacking.

(Looks like the women have made a sneak attack.)

The warning sirens and the calls of the men to go to battle stations was also more than enough to convince the former Hokage that this was a serious attack. No doubt the men were soon going to rally and fight back, and no doubt the Vanguards were going to be deployed, but with the men being trainees and overeager, this was not going to end well for the men.

As much as he was tempted to be able to see women again, the blonde knew that being around women who no doubt do not want to be around men and might kill him on sight was not the best of ideas. Not that he was adverse to the idea of flirting with danger since he used to do that on a regular basis in his younger days, but now was not the best of time for that.

With that in mind, the blonde moved on, knowing that the only concession he was getting from all this was the fact that the men now had other things to focus their attention on. However he did spare a thought on one thing, he was curious how women in the planet of Megele had kids. He knew that only women were able to have children so they had to use some different method of having children without men on their world, otherwise they wouldn't be able to colonize a whole planet, how did they do that?

It was then that a particular thought began to worm it's way into his brain concerning the women of Megele and that was on how they…relieved stress and built up relationships with one another in the romantic and physical sense. The second he had that thought his head, the blonde showed a perverted grin on his face as he realized HOW they might do that.

(Whoa! Not now, we can entertain those thoughts later! First we've got to get out of here before things really out of hand.)

…

Pandemonium was all over the bridge of the Ikazuchi as the men were trying to counter the sudden and unexpected attack. The escort ships were already being hit hard and the Prime Minister was not in the best of moods as the reports came in.

"Damn those women and their vile tactics! They're using our own escort ship's hulls as shields so we can't fire at them without the risks of hitting our fellow men!"

The Second in Command of the Ikazuchi tried to make the orders to have the remaining ships to defend the Ikazuchi's vulnerable spots as the turrets on that side didn't have the speed needed to match up with the nimble Dreads. The women had more technology at their disposal and that was why their Dreads were more agile in combat and could be harder to hit.

The Prime Minister ordered the release of the Vanguard forces, even though his second in command was telling him that all of the pilots they had for the Vanguards were mere trainees with no actual combat experience. The Minister retorted that they would shame their forefathers if they allowed them to be defeated like this if they didn't use their new weapons to combat the women.

…

The announcement came all over the ship as the men rushed to get into their uniforms and get into their Vanguards and fight with the women, never mind the fact that none of them had any actual combat experience in space and against the Dreads of the women. With some of the mechanisms for launching the Vanguards damaged or offline from the initial attacks of the women, the men had to improvise in releasing their machines and soon a large force of Vanguards were unleashed to face off with the women.

However, without the proper experience to help them adapt and with only their fists as weapons, the male pilots were not doing well.

Some had latched on to the Dreads and were attacking them, but they were not able to do much as they had no weapons to speak of.

One Dread pilot commented as she spoke out at the sudden appearance of the Vanguards.

"Eeek! What are these things?" They're in my way!"

One voice however spoke out and seemed to bring the women back into focus on what they had to do.

"Don't worry about the Vanguards! Ignore them and focus on the main ship of the men's fleet!"

"Roger!"

…

Naruto moved through the corridors and tired to find an alternate route to the hanger to get his marked Vanguard back before things got too dicey. SO far, the blonde Hokage's predictions that the attack of the women had diverted the attention of the men away from him proved to be spot on, but he was still wary of possible encounters with the Ikazuchi's security force. He moved through the room and quickly turned to hide from a group of guards running in another direction.

"Halt!"

Naruto turned to look and spotted an egg shaped thing floating before him, he quickly realized that this must be one of those robots he heard about. This model series was supposed to have been repurposed as some sort of sentry.

"Identify yourself!"

Naruto didn't want to do anything rash, after all, it was just a machine doing what it was built to do, but time was not exactly on his side so he tried to reason with the thing, though he had his doubts on the matter being easy to resolve with only words.

"Look shorty, I don't have time to explain those things, nor do I plan to introduce myself, so if you don't mind I have to leave…"

"Subject is an intruder! Switching to restrain mode to capture subject!"

(There goes the neighborhood!)

Naruto quickly leaps away as the floating robot fires a stun bolt at him, as soon as he landed on the ground behind the robot, he quickly takes out one of his unsharpened kunai with the blade covered with hard rubber, it was a none lethal weapon he cooked up to hit a person without killing or wounding them knocking them out with blunt force trauma though he made sure to keep his strength from going to too high.

This attack did it's job as the robot was hit in the back hard and sent flying into a nearby cell, Naruto quickly rushed in and pressed the nearby switch to activate the energy bars to seal the robot in. He moved away as the robot turned and spoke out.

"Subject has resisted! Stronger voltage author….zzzzzttttt!"

BOOM!

Another hit struck the ship and made the ship move to the other side, Naruto managed to hold himself quickly as he used his chakra to anchor his feet to the floor but the robot didn't have that as it was slammed hard into the cage and was now being shocked. The blonde recovered quickly enough, but when he saw the robot squealing in electronic cries of pain, he couldn't find it in himself to abandon the robot even if it was just a machine. He quickly hit the switch and the bars went dead.

He looked at the downed machine and decided to take it along, the machine could be useful and maybe he might finally get to try those programs he had managed to rustle up and modify for himself. He was no tech savvy nut like some of the men who worked in the information centers he had infiltrated more than once while on Talark, but he got by and besides, the robot might be good company, though he rather preferred living companions to mechanical ones.

…

The space battle was still very much in full swing and soon the Dreads were able to make their way into the Ikazuchi, blasting through the hull and diving into several openings made by their weapons. The men quickly sealed up the atmosphere and soon restored gravity into the ship to fight the women. The women came out of their Dreads and were dressed space suits and wore masks designed to look like monsters, no doubt to capitalize on the propaganda portrayal of women by the men.

It was not long before another man shows up and it was none other than Bart Garsus, the young blonde cadet had been hiding ever since the attack had began in the same room that had been vacated by the other cadets the very second they had been given the launch order by the Prime Minister, he was sent free floating into the atmosphere when they deactivated the gravity in the room to launch some of the Vanguards in the same room and had managed to hide inside the statue of Grand Pa.

As soon as he saw the women in their disguises, he panicked and shouted out in fear.

"THOSE THINGS ARE WOMEN?"

He turned around as another Dread came barreling into the room and he quickly panicked again and hide once more in the statue, which was soon decapitated by the Dread and Bart's head popped out from the now headless statue like a twisted version of a jack in the box.

In the Dread itself, the pilot was not doing well as she cried out in panic.

"I can't stop!"

She accidentally fires her Dread's weapons and those said blasts are heading right into the wall which led to the reactor of the ship.

…

Naruto found himself in a massive room and one seriously huge glowing sphere with lines of power around it. He decided to keep moving as he knew that this was going to be his best chance of finding that marked Vanguard and getting out of this ship as the continuing sounds of fighting was not a good sign in his mind. But as he was crossing the half way mark to the other side, something stopped him.

It felt like a voice of some sort trying to reach him, and for a moment, the blonde Sannin wondered if he was hearing things or a ghost was nearby, he looked about and then wondered why it seemed that the voice was actually coming from the massive sphere before him.

(Okay, this is just plain creepy…that thing is supposed to be a power supply or something, it's not like the things I've seen back home,)

But just as Naruto was about to chalk it up as a figment of his imagination, his danger senses kicked into overdrive and he turned to see the walls glow, signs of an explosion and the blonde tried to move away from the coming explosion, but it was too late as he was knocked aside.

…

Meanwhile, the ship was soon rocked by another set of explosions, but this was not due to another attack by the women this time around, the Prime Minister had just activated the explosive separation charges. The Prime Minister decided to separate the new section of the Ikazuchi from the old section to keep the new section of the Ikazuchi from falling into the hands of the pirates. The second in command tried to reason with the man but it was too late as the switch had been activated.

The sight of the old section being separated from the new had a dismaying effect on the young cadets who were still in the old section. However, Duero was not too badly bothered by what he was seeing as he knew that for all their talk of bravery and honor, the leaders were the real cowards and liars.

…

In the reactor room…

(Ow…that was not what I was expecting.)

Naruto felt his body begin to respond to his brain as he decided to move his hands a bit as he realized that something was on top of him.

The very second Naruto reached out with his hand to move away what was on top of him, he touched something that was soft, warm , and squishy. The blonde briefly wondered just what he touched, but the second he touched a bit more and moved his hand, as well as hearing the moan that followed, he recognized it.

(I'm touching a woman's…this better not be a dream or I swear I am going to really pissed off!)

Naruto opened his eyes and saw a being on top of him with a weird monster like mask but he knew that it was a woman on top of him, not some monster, most men of Talark would have been frightened by what they would see, but not the blonde, he had seen far worse disguises in his day, and truth be told, the women's use of masks and body suits to hide their appearance and fool the men into being afraid of their supposed, monster visage was fairly normal.

He quickly however moved away and managed to rein in his mind's sudden burst of happiness and perverted ideas. He didn't blame his body's reaction at all, and for good reason as it had been hard being on a world of men for six months.

Of course, his previous experiences with girls, namely his wife Sakura when they were younger told him that getting frisky with a woman without her express permission was an open invitation for a serious slap, or a serious beating, neither of which was promising to the blonde Sannin as he was now looking at the disguised female.

The Megele Dread pilot, one Dita Liebely by name was utterly happy and eager to look at the actual alien before her. She quickly removed her helmet as well as get her tiara free from the lower part of her suit and soon spoke to the blonde and blue eyed male before her.

"Wow! A real live alien!"

Naruto on the other hand was admiring the now revealed girl, being deprived of female companionship in every sense of the word for six long months made him very eager to devour just about every detail he could see on this woman.

(Deep blood red hair all the way to her legs and with two lush tails on the sides of her head, heart shaped face, nice lips, and blue eyes. Damn…she's VERY cute.)

As for Dita, she marveled as she looked at Naruto, she had heard the stories her fellow women said about men, they said that they were ugly, inferior and all that. But she was not really caring for those stories, Dita was a very open minded girl and she wanted to meet men as she saw them as aliens. And this alien before her was VERY interesting.

His eyes were deep blue, deep and slightly glowing somewhat, but they were not terrifying to the redhead, in fact those slightly glowing blue eyes were cool looking in her mind, it made her even more intrigued by her first alien contact. She also noted the odd whisker like marks on his face, there were three of them on either cheek. They didn't look bad to her, they just added to the overall picture of a very interesting alien in her mind.

She decided to try and establish first contact by moving her hand in a few gestures.

Naruto wondered just what the cute redhead was trying and decided to amuse her by repeating the exact actions she was taking and see what the results of his reply to her gestures was going to be. Once he did that, the redhead smiled even more and became livelier than ever.

"It worked! I did it! I made First Contact!"

Naruto had no idea what she was going on about, but he decided that he needed to get going, there was no telling if and when the other women from Megele were coming and while this girl before him was not one of the man hating kind, he knew better than to stick around for one if not all of the women who were the man hating kind would find him since he had no idea what they might do to him when they caught him.

With that in mind, he decided to get up and get moving, he checked his person to see if everything was there and when he was sure that everything was there and he then picked up the robot, he turned and smirked a bit at the redhead.

"As much as I'd like to entertain you, I have to get going, and I am not an alien, I'm as human as you are…just a bit different than most."

Naruto got ready and moved away, hoping to get enough distance between him and the girl which was not going to be too hard even though he kept his speed normal as he sensed no immediate danger around him just yet. Dita however was not keen on losing sight of her first alien contact and shouted out as she tried loosen herself free of her suit to reveal herself wearing a tank top, short length boots, a long sleeved short jacket and mini-skirt.

"Wait! I want to take a picture!"

Unknown to either of them, the reactor known as the Paeksis was glowing as if sensing the two of them…

…

Meanwhile, the men were not in the best of moods as they were all being herded away as they had been forced to surrender to the women who had finally secured the ship. They were soon being herded to the Ikazuchi's escape pods, along with them was a certain Talark First Class graduate. Duero looked about and wondered just what was going to happen, though his attention went to the women. They certainly were different looking than in the films the Ministry usually showed to him and his fellow men.

For one thing, despite the difference in the chest region as well as facial features, skin tones and the like, they looked human to him.

"I know this stuff is a disinfectant, but even so, I still can't stand the smell."

One of the women said as she removed her suit's helmet and began to remove her suit as well. This woman was none other than Jura Basil Elden, she served as the second in command of the Dread Squadrons. She was a statuesque blonde woman with her lush blonde hair reaching up to the back of her posterior, deep emerald green eyes, a well formed face, and deep red lips. She had the face of a model and the figure of one as well as she had all the curves and swells in the right places that a woman should have them, plus her bust was very well formed and natural in the way they moved when she finally removed her suit.

Jura had on a dress which was rather revealing to say the least as it had an open front that was up to her navel that showed the inner areas of her breasts with the parts of said dress that covered her bust held by a metallic ring. The dress was a dark violet style dress with slits on either side of the long skirt held at a type of comfortable collar with rather thin leather straps there as well. She had a set of sleeves which were held by several soft brown leather straps that were comfortable to her skin, as well as a pair of comfortable ankle length boots. She also had a rapier on her side and seemed to know how to carry it.

The next to remove her helmet was an aqua haired woman who had some sort of circlet there with her that was covering the left side of her face. She had her hair in a short boyish style and wore something that was similar to a flight suit which was in white and black that allowed any observer to see her curves and swells. However Meia was not the kind to be mistaken for a regular girl, she was the ace pilot of the Dread Squadrons of the pirates and despite the fact that she was only a year younger than Jura, she was the undisputed leader of the Dread Squadrons as well.

She looked about and asked around to her fellow women who were in the room overseeing the removal of the men while also tending to those who were injured in the initial attack on the Ikazuchi.

"Has anyone seen Dita?"

"I have seen her, the last I saw of her she was barreling down the corridor and crashing through that bulkhead wall over…ow!"

The woman in question was an emerald haired and violet eyed beauty by the name of Barnette Orangello, she was also a Dread pilot like the other two women as well as the redhead in question. She wore a swimsuit like uniform that showed the upper portions of her breasts while covering them at the same time, along with showing her back, she also had thigh length boots and her outfit was in dark and light violet colors. She had some sort of decorative hairpin on her hair and wore long gloves that were up to half of her arm though one glove was off.

She had been wounded by a Talark bullet round during the attack and was currently being treated by a young girl who was dressed in something that resembled a French Maid outfit, on a fully grown woman at a young age, this would have been rather tempting, even more so if said woman was like either Barnette or Jura, but the wearer of said uniform was actually an eleven year old girl with her hair in two large odangos.

"Sorry about that."

"Careful Paiway, my skin is very delicate you know!"

"Just try to endure it."

Barnette didn't like that and was not happy with the fact that her once perfect skin was now marred.

"Nurses are supposed to be more gentle and understanding towards their patients."

"I'm trying you know!"

Paiway Underberg was the pirate's official nurse despite the fact that by most technical laws, she was too young to hold such a position. This was obvious to Duero who had observed the situation and while he saw that she had promise, she didn't have the medical training and experience to be fully fledged healer.

However, he had little time to think about that as he was being guided along with his fellow men to the escape pods, however, he had an idea and decided to move away to a nearby locker area in the room they were in at the moment.

As Meia looked about to find her fellow Dread pilot, Jura looked about the room and was noit the least bit impressed with what she saw.

"I went along with the group since they said this was going to be a good haul, but all of this just turns out to be nothing but junk."

Meia then found the access area and knew that she now had the chance to go and find her young subordinate, but she knew that having some backup was a good idea.

"Jura, I'm going to go and look for Dita, I need you come with me to help make the search easier."

The blonde sighed a bit and replied.

"This is the reason why I didn't like the idea of bringing a trainee."

Meia managed to keep her thoughts cool but she made it clear to Jura that now was not the time to complain.

"We're shorthanded as it is since this was supposed to be a training mission for the new recruits in the force and the veterans were taking a break, if you didn't want to come along, you should have said so back in the base."

The blonde sighed and got to follow her leader.

"All right, I'm coming, but I've got a feeling that Dita's doing something that she's not supposed to be doing."

…

In a sub bridge, three other women were busy doing their own work. One was Ezra Viviel, a kind looking woman who was dressed in an outfit that was like the kind seen on a housewife. She was such that the idea of her carrying a laser rifle was plain wrong and she was rather attractive as well. The next woman was a bespectacled young girl who had her thick brown hair in two thick pigtails and wore the uniform that one would associate with an engineer and had the demeanor of one as well. Her name was Parfet Balblair and she was head of the engineering group of the pirates and was there to give her mechanical and electronic expertise to the group.

The last one of the trio was a tall woman who had dark skin, silver hair and wore what appeared to be a futuristic version of an Arabian harem girl outfit. The woman was very good looking and would have attracted the attention of any man. But she had the aura of a skilled fighter and a no nonsense attitude as well as a high understanding of military tactics, plus the body of a fighter. These things suited her well as she was the second in command of the pirates and her name was Buzam A Calessa or just BC to those who knew her.

The commander was quick top begin accessing the database once she and the other two were in what appeared to be a sub bridge of some sort. Ezra looked over the data but was unable to understand anything as it was in the Talark language.

"Oh my, I can't understand anything written in the men's language!"

Parfet grinned and replied as she pulled out a device that got Ezra's attention and the woman spoke to her younger companion.

"What's that thing Parfet?"

"It's my Inter-pricko device! I made to translate any new language we encounter to our own so we can understand it, I made one for this chance. I can even make another one for the Commander…"

However, much to Parfet's surprise, the silver haired woman seemed to be doing just fine when it concerned the data of the men in their language as she spoke.

"Meia, give me a status report on the men who we've rounded up."

Meia's voice spoke out as well in answer.

"We've herded most of them to the escape pods and they are locked down at the moment Commander."

"Good, dump them now, we'll let the men take their own alive."

Parfet was stunned at that as she spoke.

"You can read the language of the men?"

Ezra smiled at that.

"That's the elite for you Parfet."

The head engineer pouted in disappointment at that discovery.

"Darn! And I worked hard in making this too!"

…

Naruto was moving along, still trying to get to the other side and hope that he would find his Vanguard, he had managed to learn that this was the best path back to where his Vanguard was stationed and as such, he took this route than any other. It would have been easier but he was not alone as a certain redhead was still following him.

"Wait up Mr. Alien!"

Naruto turned and couldn't help but smirk a bit as he spotted the redhead.

(Got to admit one thing, she's persistent.)

"Don't you have anything better to do, places to go, or something…wait what's your name anyhow?"

"My name is Dita! Dita Liebely! Can't we at least have a little chat first?"

Naruto smiled as he looked at the young woman who was still following him and replied.

"Now isn't the right time for that sort of thing Dita, I've got to go."

"Please?"

Despite the fact she was still a few ways from him, Naruto could tell that she was giving him the sad puppy dog eyes bit and it was tempting to him to give in to the idea, but his practical side told him otherwise. Besides that, there was another side of him which was telling to do something other than chatting with the cute redhead…

(Hold it together! Just my luck….six months away from women and now my randy self wants to do that in the middle of a ship in space…man I really need to keep my focus!)

…

Meanwhile on the ship of the men…

The Prime Minster was in a very dark mood as he looked at the image of the old Ikazuchi section which was soon being approached by the pirate vessel. The chance to bring glory and honor to the men of his world and to himself was ruined by those vile females. And now it seemed that they were going to pillage the Ikazuchi's old section. That fact made his blood boil even more as he was listening in on the incoming reports of the pods being released.

The Prime Minister ignored the words of the second in command on trying to find a peaceful solution to this mess and gave the order to unleash another of their super weapons.

"Ready the Murumase Torpedoes, target the old section!"

"What? Are you seriously considering destroying the old section Minister?"

(I will rather have it destroyed by my hands than let those filthy women desecrate it even more!)

…

Duero finally managed to mend the last bandage on the arm of his last female patient who was none other than Barnette herself as he made sure that she was not going to have a mark at all when the wound healed. The young man had earlier broken away to retrieve a coat from one of the lockers there, his actions had nearly gotten him in trouble with one of the women armed with a laser rifle. But he mentioned that he was a doctor and he wasn't lying as he was highly qualified in the Talark medical course in the Academy.

This had allowed him to stay and help the women though he had no doubt that the women were not too happy with a man healing them. This had allowed him to study them even more and his last patient was the last he had to study.

"Interesting…"

Barnette did not like that as she spoke out.

"What? Why are you staring at me like that? Do you find something interesting about me?"

Duero smirked at that and replied.

"I do actually."

"Don't expect me to thank you."

"I don't, I think it's my time to leave."

Paiway recorded the whole thing and spoke as she looked at Duero.

"He touched a total of five girls."

However, things got to be rather interesting as the ship was suddenly rocking about.

…

When the pirates found out that the men were aiming a missile at them, they tried to find a way to move the Ikazuchi, but the engines were offline and there was nothing Parfet could do about it, with that problem in hand, the elderly leader of the pirates who was on their ship gave the order to evacuate even though they were going to lose this catch of theirs.

Magno had been the founder of the pirates and had a century of experience that was valuable to the women in many ways and she treated them all more like daughters than followers, which was why she didn't hesitate to order them out of the ship before the missile was fired. Buzam nodded and sent the order to Meia, who responded that she had lost Dita and would join up with them along with Jura once they found the wayward Dread pilot apprentice.

However, it was not long before the men fired the torpedoes at the ships.

The Prime Minister had ordered the missiles fired as they in his mind had more than enough fuel and soon they were on their way. The Pirate cruiser which was previously trying to stop the men from firing the weapons at them with their ship's own beam weapons now found themselves with an even bigger problem.

The Pirate cruiser had just docked and attempted to fire at the torpedoes in the hope of destroying them while evacuating the crew, but with the missiles somehow coated with some sort of energy resistant alloy and being too small to hit with their weapons, that proved to be a bad idea.

…

In the reactor room…

"DITA!"

Meia and Jura were looking down as they spotted Dita pursuing Naruto and while it seemed that the man the redhead was following was being….calm about this, the two were not happy, or at least Meia was as Jura spoke in an amused tone.

"See what I meant before Meia, she's chasing a man of all things."

The two wasted no time and were soon after the redhead and it was not long before they were able to catch up with Dita as Naruto had to climb over some debris. But as soon as they reached the redhead and Meia was about to scold her, the blonde male turned around and spoke to them.

"Well now, company's arrived I see. Nice looking company too."

That was enough to force Meia aim her laser ring at the blonde while making sure that she was between him and her two companions.

"Hold it, one wrong move and I'll shoot!"

…

Naruto gave both Meia and Jura as well as Dita very appreciative looks and he grinned warmly, three beautiful honest to Kami females before him at last, a very cute red head, one tough looking but undeniably sexy aqua haired girl, and one gorgeous blonde who would have been a bombshell back home. If all three of them were to walk in Konoha, he would have no doubt that every man, young and old, civilian or ninja would have been trying everything to get to know them and it was not just for the sake of talking to them either.

(Now this is a sight worth looking at…shame that I have to go.)

Meia did not understand why was it that even though she had her laser ring at him in a posture of attack, he didn't seem the least bit bothered by that fact and this confused the blue haired girl, and it was not long before she snapped at the smirking blonde male.

"What are you looking at?"

Naruto gave her a confused look and replied.

"What? I'm just admiring you three ladies, your red haired friend's very cute and she has an innocent and kind aura around her and I find that very nice. You've got the 'I can kill you without any problem and still look good doing it' look going for you and that has it's own attractive qualities. And your blonde friend…I mean…wow! She's as gorgeous as a fashion model, even more so with the sword and the dress, she's definitely a blonde beauty for sure!"

Jura was utterly confused by what just happened as the blonde male gave her a very warm grin.

(Did that man actually…compliment me?)

Meia was completely confused by this…male; he was NOT acting like any of the men that she and the others had dealt with earlier. She was used to many situations in her long career as a pirate and leader of the Dread Squadrons, but this was one situation that she had no experience in. Instead of being scared of her and her fellow women, and not wanting to do anything around them…this male was actually…admiring them, he even considered them attractive!

(What is going on here? Who is this man?)

Naruto was enjoying this as he looked over the three Dread pilots, making sure to remember every detail of their appearance and build. He was not kidding with what he said to Dita, Meia, and Jura either.

The redhead was an innocent and yet had a body build that was very attractive, especially with the way she was dressed, tank top that hugged a very nice bust which was right for her frame and build, long sleeved short jacket, soft boots and skirt that showed some very nicely shaped legs.

The aqua haired woman had a very serious look yet she also had beauty in her face as well as her body, the suit showed her very much athletic build which showed a woman who was well toned and trained, in itself attractive and the odd looking circlet she had didn't detract her beauty at all, just made her look more exotic, and after his life being married, he liked the exotic look every now and then.

As for the blonde with them…well, she was undeniably hot in the mind of the blonde ninja, she's got a figure that would have made any man worth his manhood get hot under the collar, her bust looked real nice they moved naturally as he looked at

Once again, the blonde Sannin and former Hokage thought to himself about how the men of Talark saw women and reinforced his belief that they had NO idea what they were mission.

Naruto however knew that now was not the time and reluctantly stopped his study of the three women and spoke.

"You know, as much as I'm enjoying this moment, it's time for me to leave and you as well, so I think now is a very good time to part ways. Bye!"

With that Naruto turned around and left, leaving the three Dread pilots alone, Dita however was not planning to let Naruto leave just like that as she moved to follow the blonde male.

"Mr. Alien, wait up! I still need to chat with you!"

However, she was stopped by Meia who managed to recover from the rather odd meeting with the blonde male and realized that he had a point.

"There is no time! We have to leave now!"

Dita nodded and soon followed Meia though she gave a sad glance to Naruto who was already on the move to his own Vanguard to get out of the area quickly before the men decided to turn the old Ikazuchi into nothing ruined metal and debris. Jura decided to follow but as she looked at Naruto who was now moving away, she had to admit that she had given him a studying look earlier.

(For a man, he's not bad looking, he's got very intense blue eyes, and those whisker marks make him look rather…wait a minute! Why am I thinking about him like that? I hate men, even if they compliment my beauty.)

The blonde shook her head of such unladylike thoughts and joined the others as they were soon in their Dreads and ready to fly out of the place before everything went down the drain. Meia contacted Buzam that the team was together and they were now going to escape as Buzam and the others were now in the pirate ship.

…

However, just as it seemed that the three Dread pilots were going to escape, one of them ran into a bit of a problem.

When she had barreled through the Ikazuchi in her entry attack earlier, Dita had inadvertently fired her Dread's weapons and created two holes in the walls, these same holes had expanded somewhat when her Dread hit the wall, and now they were holding the Dread fast.

Dita realized that quickly and was trying her best to get her Dread free but it seemed that the wall was holding her fast.

"Oh no! My Dread is stuck! I can't break free!"

Naruto was quick to notice the problem and was on his way to remedy the situation as he changed direction and rushed to the Dread at high speed, which was seen by Dita who was surprised by Naruto's sudden action to come towards her. It was not long before he arrived to the area where Dita's Dread was still trapped.

Naruto quickly made the seals to use his trademark Jutsu since he knew that he was going to have to make this quick before this entire ship would go down into atoms. Most men of Talark would have just left the young redhead to die as she was an enemy. And in most cases, Naruto should not be bothering with this kind of situation. But Naruto was not the kind of person to let innocent people suffer, and the cute redhead certainly qualified as an innocent person.

"Kage Bushin No Jutsu!"

In several bursts of smoke Naruto summoned three Kage Bushin to aid him, as soon as the Kage Bushin were present, he quickly gave several hand gestures to them. They nodded as they all took out one of their swords and the four ninja summoned the Wind Elemental Chakra into the swords, making them glow deep blue in a moment. Naruto smiled as the energy was enough and both he and a Kage Bushin were near one of the front sections of the Dread then a pair of them moved to the other side of Dita's Dread and then all four of them cut into the metal.

The Wind Element Chakra enhanced blades cut through the metal with ease as Naruto's control over his chakra had improved considerably since his rise in the ranks. As he and his Kage Bushin were finished cutting the metal, they quickly kicked away the sliced off metal, effectively freeing the Dread and the young girl, the two other Kage Bushin joined the original and their companion and they placed their sword back in their sheath, the three Kage Bushin then disappeared in clouds of smoke and that left the original Naruto to give the redhead a warm smile as he spoke.

"Okay, you're free to go!"

Dita was utterly wide eyed at the show of power that the alien had shown before her, he had made copies of himself and somehow made his sword and those of his other copies to glow and cut through metal. She smiled happily and knew that she had really found herself a really cool alien and a kind hearted one too!

She spoke out through the Dread's communicators to Naruto.

"WOW! That was so COOL! You're a really nice alien!"

Naruto sighed and nodded as he moved away, happy that he had freed the young innocent redhead from harm. Now he headed to his Vanguard and get moving out of the Ikazuchi, his danger senses were already telling him to vacate the area and he trusted his danger senses a great deal. As soon as he got into the Vanguard, he began to power up the systems and soon the machine was at full power. He grabbed the controls and began to move the Vanguard out of it's reclining position.

Both Jura and Meia had not been close enough to see Naruto free Dita's Dread so they were in the dark about the powers that Naruto had just shown to their much younger comrade. They were very happy that their comrade was free and soon they were all going out of the Ikazuchi as best they could, just as Naruto's marked Vanguard was now on it's feet and joining them in escaping.

However, they were few moments too late as the missiles were now too close for them to get out in time, and the same could be said for the pirates.

…

In the Pirate cruiser…

"Missile Impact in twenty five seconds! We can't avoid a direct hit!"

Magno spoke to that.

"Hit or Miss, it's our destiny."

…

In the reactor however, the Paeksis suddenly glowed brightly and soon flashed out in a blast of pure light. This was not lost to Naruto as he suddenly sensed the energy coming from the Paeksis as it hit his chakra senses alerting the blonde that something was happening.

(What the heck?)

It was then that the missiles hit hard, just as the Paeksis unleashed a wave of energy all over the ship itself internally.

…

BOOM!

…

In the bridge of the new section.

"Minister! Scans indicate that we're losing mass, the Ikazuchi and the Megele ship's signatures are nowhere to be found!"

"I hope you pirates enjoy the embrace of death and the taste of defeat."

…

Inside a sea of pure glowing blue-green light, Naruto wondered just was happening but he looked to see that he was not alone as a massive figure that looked like a machine appeared before him.

"What is that?"

He then felt like he was falling and turned to see that he was not alone as there was the egg shaped robot with him and the three women as well, all of them crying out as they all fell, Naruto on the other hand felt something else entirely as Dita cried out towards Naruto.

"MR. ALIEN!"

Inside of the blonde Hokage and Sannin however, another voice spoke out.

((Hmm…this is odd, it's been some time now, but I feel something calling out.))

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To be continued…

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Author's notes:

Well, this wraps up the first chapter of this Naruto VanDread and it's not too bad I hope for the first of a handful of chapters that I will add to this before I dive back to G I Joe Halo is it's newest chapters are already in production as well as Naruto Dragon Champion. With that said, I hope that this will be enough to get things rolling. If there is anything wrong with the story, feel free to tell me and I'll locate the problem and fix that at a later date.

Now as you can see, Naruto is not Hibiki so he's a lot different than the original lead in the VanDread anime so expect things to be rather different from what you happen to be used to in the first anime. Naruto has not lost his edge nor his skills though he only uses a small amount of his abilities.

I do plan to have him use the majority of what he has learned and used in both the anime and the manga as well as some choice elements from the games that can be used in the story. This way you can bet that Naruto has indeed grown in strength and ability though he will still be something of a goofball and naturally a pervert.

As you might have read, he's not shy about saying what he thinks and feels, he's more vocal than even Hibiki and can back up his words with action when the need for such action is called for, but he's still a mature person as he will know when he has to be serious and focused. And his encounter with the three Dread pilots is a lot different from Hibiki's meeting with the three Dread pilots, so you can bet that his interactions with them will be rather different.

The reactions of Jura and Meia are merely the beginning as soon as Naruto gets to join the crew, and you can bet that when he reveals a fraction of his abilities, the women are going to quickly find out that he is not the same as the men they know who are from Talark. And when he reveals his…perverted side which he is not afraid to show, obviously a trait he inherits from you know who, things are going to get hectic.

As for his Sexy Jutsu, I think I can find a use for that soon enough.

On the Vanguard that Naruto will be piloting, it will have some unique features and other traits that will be based on Naruto himself to expect some very interesting changes from the Vanguard that Hibiki piloted in the original anime. As for the meeting that occurs in the room between the men and women, here's a little taste of it.

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Trailer:

"You're not from Talark?"

The blonde ninja nodded replied to that question in his usual fashion.

"No I'm not, if I was one and I actually believed all the crap and lies those idiots in their government fill their ears and eyes with every day about women like you and your lovely crew members in this very room, I'd be like Mr. Piss-Pants over here when you said that line."

Naruto said as he pointed his thumbs at Bart, who naturally was shocked and a little offended by Naruto's blunt comment.

"Hey!"

…

At any rate, I'll see to the next chapter so if you have any questions, critiques, and comments, you know the drill already.

Bye!