At the farthest end of the galaxy a bright light ripped through the darkness, spewing out two ships before vanishing as quickly as it came.
One of the ships was heavily damaged while the other was completely untouched.
Inside the undamaged ship's bridge several women were shaking the cobwebs from their head. "This doesn't look like the afterlife" the eldest of them said, clearly the captain of the group "Just where the heck are we?"
Once the aged pirate finished speaking the entire ship began shaking violently, as the crystal engulfing both of the ships began pulling them together and merging them.
"What the?" the elder pirate asked "Is the crystal trying to eat the ship?"
Inside the other ship, four people were lying on the floor.
"Why does the weird stuff only happen to me?" one of them groaned as he pushed himself up and sat back on his knees. Taking both of his hands and slamming them on both sides of his flight helmet he shook his head before looking at the body of a blue haired girl next to him. "That pilot" he muttered before gently smacking the back of his hand against her cheek "Hey wake up".
The pilot groaned as she lifted her head up and placed her hand against her face "That light" she muttered.
"Hey you ok?" the pilot asked her with a static filled voice.
"I'll be fine" the female pilot muttered before realizing that she was talking to a man "You" she gasped looking over to the pilot next to her.
"You remember me?" the man asked before standing up and holding his hand out to help her to her feet, but the pilot refused his offer and got up on her own.
"You're that man from before" she recalled.
The pilot nodded his head to the side "My name is Cipher, your Meia right?"
The blue haired pilot kept a hostile gaze on Cipher before hearing another voice call over to them "Meia a little help over here".
Across the platform stood another of the female pilots; a tall blonde wearing a revealing black dress, Jura was her name as Cipher recalled.
"Dita's trapped under this beam and I can't move it" the blonde pilot called to them.
Meia took two steps back while keeping her eyes on Cipher before turning around to look at Jura and Dita.
"There's really no need to be so suspicious of me" Cipher said to her as he walked past her and toward Jura "I have no reason to cause any harm or trouble for anyone here".
Stopping in front of Jura and the trapped pilot, Cipher looked down at the red head and asked "Are you hurt at all?"
The young red head smiled slightly "No, I'm just stuck".
"Alright" Cipher nodded before grabbing the bottom of the beam pinning Dita to the ground "Let's see if I can move it".
Slowly crouching down, Cipher stiffened his arms and began pushing up, lifting with his knees, but the beam barely budged. "Damn, this is heavy" Cipher gasped "The hell is Pixy? The one time he'd actually be useful".
"I heard that" a male voice called out to them.
Stepping out from behind a corner, a tall man standing at 6'0 exactly with brown hair and eyes, his flightsuit was tattered and scratched, but he seemed unharmed.
Pixy walked over to Cipher and grabbed the beam "Alright on three" he said before counting to three and both pilots lifted the beam just enough for Dita to crawl out from under it.
Once Dita was clear Cipher, and Pixy dropped the beam and stepped away from the three women "So what happens now?" Pixy whispered to Cipher after seeing the way Meia was glaring at them.
Cipher leaned over to him and whispered. "We play it cool for now, we don't need to start any trouble until we're sure if they're a threat to us or not".
Pixy looked at Cipher "Your comm. Sounds like its broken, might wanna get that fixed".
Cipher sighed "..eah".
"So who are you two?" the blonde female pilot asked them, the one called Jura.
Before either of the Ustio pilots answered a small ship landed in the platform and an old lady along with a group of younger women walked over to them. "Your report Meia?" the old lady asked Meia.
The blue haired pilot shifted her eyes to the side "Nothing to report captain. I'm sorry you had to come all this way".
The old lady smiled "There's no need for you to apologize, I don't think any of us can make heads or tails of the situation for now".
The old captain noticed Cipher and Pixy and regarded them both with an unconcerned expression "And who might you two be?"
Cipher answered "My name is Cipher this is Pixy. Ustio 6th Air Division 66th Air Force Unit, also known as the Galm Team".
"The Galm team?" the woman with platinum colored hair repeated.
"You know about them BC?" the captain asked.
The platinum haired woman shook her head "I only know the name. Supposedly back when people still lived on Earth, during the time of a great war there was a fighter squadron comprised of only two pilots, but most of Earth's history was lost over the years".
"What do you mean when people still lived on Earth?" Cipher asked before an endless wave of static came from his helmet.
"Argh, damn voice filter" Cipher growled through the static before placing his hands at both sides of his helmet and turning it to the side before pulling it off slowly, revealing golden brown hair that stopped just past ear level and smooth white skin. Dropping the helmet to the ground Cipher's eyes opened and she sighed "Much better without the static in my ears".
"You're…" Jura began in a surprised voice "A woman".
Cipher ran her hands over her hair to make sure it was straight "Who said I wasn't?" she asked calmly as she reached up to her shoulders and unbuckled the straps of her flightsuit before pulling the center sipper down to her waist.
While Cipher pulled her arms from her flightsuit Pixy looked back to BC "So what did you mean when you said back when people still lived on Earth?"
BC looked over to Pixy "Humans left Earth over a century ago to colonize new worlds; something happened that left the Earth unsuitable to sustain life any longer".
Pixy lowered his eyes "Something happened huh?" he repeated in a solemn tone.
Cipher had finished pushing her flightsuit down to her ankles and stepped out of it before placing her boots back on. Underneath her flightsuit she was wearing a pale blue shirt with black tight shorts that stopped right above her knees.
"Hey Pixy" she said looking to her wingman.
"Yeah?" Pixy asked looking over to Cipher before she punched him across the face, knocking him to the ground.
Immediately after Cipher hit Pixy the guards the captain brought with her tensed up and were aiming their glowing rings at both of the Ustio pilots.
Cipher stood next to Pixy and held her hand out to him as he looked up to her "That was for trying to kill me. We're even now" she told him as he took her hand and pulled himself up.
"Well I did deserve that" Pixy admitted rubbing the side of his jaw.
The old captain watched as Cipher helped Pixy up and sighed "Well it seems things keep getting more and more unusual today". Noticing a body lying at the far end of the room the captain walked over to it "Well now what do we have here?"
"This is the man that Dita was chasing" Meia told her.
Cipher slowly fell back and dropped into a sitting position "You said that people from Earth went to colonize other worlds over a century ago right?"
BC looked at her "Yes, that's correct".
Cipher sighed as she buried her face in her hands and rubbed them back over her hair "So how did Pixy and myself get here?"
"I'm afraid I can't answer that" BC admitted.
Cipher sighed again as if she was thinking "Maybe it has something to do with that light I saw" she muttered to herself.
"I'm afraid you'll have to catch up on your history later my dear" the captain said turning to face Cipher and Pixy "We are pirates after all and since we're not sure what to make of the situation or the two of you I'm afraid we'll have to treat you as our prisoners for now".
"That is..." Cipher paused to breath "Acceptable". The Ustio pilot got back to her feet "Our cooperation will come under the conditions that nothing will happen to either us or our fighters".
The old captain closed her eyes "You have my word that no harm will befall either of you or your fighters as you call them".
The captain gave the guards orders to escort Cipher and Pixy to the brig along with the unconscious boy they found lying on the ground.
In the brig, Pixy was placed in a different cell from Cipher.
"Should we work on a contingency plan?" Pixy asked as he sat himself against the wall that separated his cell from Cipher's.
Sitting in the same spot on her side of the wall Cipher closed her eyes "It would probably be a good idea considering the situation, but we are outnumbered and outgunned, add to it we don't know where our fighters are and even if we found them where would we go?".
Pixy lean his head back into the wall "Yeah you're right on that, guess I just don't like being in a prison cell. I remember this one time as a kid I got caught stealing a remote control helicopter and my dad told the police to lock me in a cell for a few hours to teach me a lesson" Pixy chuckled "I haven't seen the inside of a cell since".
Cipher smiled and leaned her head forward "Already sharing stories from the past? You really don't like being locked up do you?"
Pixy grunted a laugh "Well, we are prisoners and while our captors may seem friendly we have no idea what they intend to do with us so I'm surprised you're not nervous at all".
The two pilots heard the door at the end of the hall open "Five bucks says they're here to execute one of us" Pixy joked.
Cipher scoffed "It was nice knowing you then".
Two guards as well as the tall woman with platinum hair, the one the captain called BC. They were escorting another man they found on this ship.
He was pretty tall, with long dark hair that reached the center of his back and even covered half of his face, reaching down to his chin.
He wore a uniform that Pixy didn't recognize, but he assumed he was someone left over from the raid the female pirates conducted.
BC opened the cell and the man stepped in calmly before the cell bars were reactivated.
BC stepped in front of Cipher's cell and asked her "You said your name was Cipher correct?"
"That's right" The mercenary pilot answered.
BC placed her hand against her hip "I'd like you to come with us; the captain wants to speak with you".
Cipher stood up and locked eyes with BC "And why is that?"
BC smiled "Come with us and you'll find out".
Cipher nodded "Alright, lead the way".
Using a small remote in her hand, BC unlocked the cell and Cipher stepped out before following her and the two guards down the hall.
After BC left with Cipher, Pixy looked at the other man in the cell "So who are you?" he asked.
"My name is Duelo Mcfile" he answered "You don't look familiar, did they capture you before they attacked us?"
Pixy shook his head "No, we were nearby when the raid happened. I don't even know the whole story".
"That's not a Tarak uniform you're wearing" Duelo noted, seeing the flightsuit Pixy was wearing "So who are you?"
Pixy cupped his hands behind his head and leaned back against the wall "You can call me Pixy for now".
About ten minutes after being escorted from the brig, Cipher was led to what looked like some kind of briefing room. In the center of the room was a large table with a gap in its center and some kind of computer inside it.
Sitting at the end of the table was the captain of the female pirates. "Please have a seat won't you?" she said to Cipher.
Cipher calmly sat in the seat in front of her and stared at the captain across the table while BC walked over to the captain and the two guards stood behind Cipher.
Cipher shifted her eyes to BC and immediately back to the captain "You sub-commander said you wanted to talk, so…talk".
The captain gazed at Cipher "How did you know BC is my second in command?"
"The way she walks" Cipher answered "The way she carries herself and speaks, it's in her eyes and her stance. She's a woman of high rank and authority; so far I've only seen two on this ship who carry themselves in such a way. Meia and her, since you're the captain I guessed that BC was second in command over Meia".
The captain smiled "I see, quite observant of you. So why don't you begin by telling us who you are. You're obviously a soldier of some sort, but I've never seen that uniform before or the insignia you wear".
Cipher looked at the left breast pocket on her flightsuit where the orange dog emblem that signified the Galm team rested. Looking back to the captain, she answered "My name is Fiona Amagi, but I go by my callsign Cipher. I was a mercenary pilot for the Ustio military during the Belkan War in 1995".
"1995?" the captain repeated "That was over a century ago my dear, are you sure you didn't hit your head?"
Cipher closed her eyes and exhaled "I assure you my head is fine and so is my mental health. I fought in the Belkan War and if it really is over a hundred years in the future then something really abnormal happened to me and Pixy for us to be here".
The captain looked right into Cipher's eyes once again "If what you say is true and you really did fight in a war that ended over a hundred years ago. I must say you are taking your situation surprisingly well".
"In all honesty captain" Cipher began "I'm really hoping that this is all just a dream and that I'll wake up in an infirmary somewhere back in Ustio, but I'm pretty sure that's not going to happen. What's going on here is definitely real and no situation can be dealt with without understanding it".
The captain mused "That's a pretty logical and cool headed mind set you have, pretty rare for someone so young".
Cipher merely nodded her head to the side.
The captain continued "Now what about your friend, Pixy I believe you said his name was".
Cipher resumed "His name is Larry Foulke, callsign Solo Wing Pixy. He's…was my wingman during the war. We both went through a lot and even after most of our allies were shot down over the course of the war, somehow we continued to survive. Together the two of us made up the Ustio 6th Air Division 66th Air Force Unit. We were called the Galm Team".
"Yes I remember you telling us that earlier when we first met" the captain noted "It is pretty strange that two pilots who claim to be from Earth show up such a long time after the human race left the planet behind".
Cipher agreed "It's definitely strange, but I find something just as strange".
"And what might that be?" the captain asked.
"That raid you carried out" Cipher began "When it ended and that missile impacted the ship I was on along with some of your pilots, we were all engulfed by a bright light before ending up here. Since we're not under attack at the moment I gather that we're no longer in the same area are we?"
The captain was impressed at Cipher deduction skills "You're quite right. Whatever that light was it transported us to an unknown location in the galaxy. As of right now we still don't know our exact location, but I have people working on that".
"That light that swallowed us" Cipher said "Was the same light that swallowed me and Pixy before we got caught in the middle of your raid".
Both the captain and BC eyed Cipher "Are you sure about that?" the captain asked.
Cipher nodded "Very. The light we all saw was the exact same light that swallowed Pixy and me during our dogfight".
"You're dogfight?" BC asked "The two of you were fighting?"
Cipher nodded again "Yes, after the war ended and the peace treaty was signed a terrorist group emerged and attacked the peace conference. They called themselves a World with No Boundaries. Just before the war ended Pixy defected from the Ustio Air Force and vanished. He later resurfaced at the final battle; he was flying for the terrorist group. He shot down the pilot that replaced him as my wingman. The only way to truly end all the fighting was to finish him off, but before I could that light swallowed both of us".
"So that's why you hit him back there?" BC asked, referring to earlier when Cipher punched Pixy before they agreed to be taken prisoner.
Cipher smiled "Well he did try to kill me after all".
"You're awfully chummy with the man who tried to kill you" the captain noted.
Cipher dropped her smile "Well I don't really hold grudges, plus he was my partner for most of the war. He was just fighting for what he believed in, good and evil are just matters of perspective so to me there was no good or bad side. He was fighting for his beliefs that's all there was too it".
"And what about you?" the captain asked "What were your beliefs?"
"I didn't have any" Cipher replied "Like I said. I was a mercenary pilot; I was in it for the money. I may not like war, I may find the thought of it sickening, but I'm a fighter pilot one of the best. I was hired by the Republic of Ustio and I flew for them as long as they continued to pay me".
"I see" the captain responded "Well I think its time we gather everyone together then. BC bring the other prisoners to the lounge will you?"
The sub commander nodded "Right away captain".
BC and the two guards left for the brig, leaving Cipher alone with the captain.
"So what happens now?" Cipher asked as the captain stood up.
"Well" the captain began before she smiled at Cipher "For now I think I'll keep you around, if you're as good as you say you are you might be useful".
As the captain walked over to her, Cipher also stood up "Well if Earth really is a hundred years behind us, I suppose that would mean my contract with Ustio is long past its expiration. So that would mean my services are available".
The captain chuckled "Would you follow me please? I'd like to go somewhere more comfortable".
Back in the brig, the unconscious boy that was found nearby Pixy, Cipher and the three female pilots had finally awakened. "Where am I?" he screamed after realizing he was in a cell.
"You're awake" a calm voice said from the shadowed corner.
"Who's there?" the boy gasped, snapping his head to the side.
"My name is Duelo Mcfile" the young man in the corner replied "Do you have a name as well Mr. third class citizen?"
"Don't make fun of me!" the boy snapped "My name is Hibiki Tokai! And I'm not just another third class citizen".
"Well you're definitely a first class loud mouth" Pixy said from his corner of the cell. He was lying on the floor with his hands cupper behind his head "You can talk all you want, but could you not yell while you do it?"
"And you are you supposed to be?" Hibiki asked him.
"My name is Pixy, that's all you need to know kid".
At that moment, the white egg shaped object in front of Hibiki began shaking before it popped up and sprouted small arms and legs. "Pyoro. Who am I? Where am I?" it asked while scratching at the side of its shell.
"What the hell?" Pixy muttered seeing the small robot.
Right away the robot's screen, which was also its face began buzzing in a wave of static and the robot shook a little before returning to normal.
"Want me to fix you or something?" Hibiki asked it. The robot didn't seem to like that comment. It retaliated by screaming "Don't make fun of me! I'm not broken!"
"Well it sure as gotten noisy down here" BC said as she stepped in front of the cell.
Seeing the ship's sub commander and her guards Hibiki screamed "Ah women! What do you want? Why are you here!"
"Will you please stop yelling" Pixy demanded calmly before sitting up and turning around "What is it now? Come to execute us?"
BC smiled "Nothing of the sort, I'd just like you all to come with us is all".
Hibiki glared at her "Yeah you say that, but you really want to eat my guts don't you!"
"Eat your…guts?" BC repeated while her two guards began laughing. The sub commander smiled again, almost in a seductive manner "Before we eat I'd really like for you to come with us".
After opening the cell, BC waited for her guards to place binding cuffs on each of the three men before they escorted them out of the brig and to another deck of the ship.
A while later they arrived in a large lounge like room with a couch and table in the center.
Waiting in the room was the ship's captain and sitting at the table was a woman in a light brown flightsuit with short golden brown hair, she was resting her head against her fist with her eyes closed.
"Hey buddy" Pixy said after seeing her "Still alive?"
Cipher opened her eyes and looked at Pixy "For now, hopefully it'll stay that way".
Pixy, Hibiki and Duelo were told to sit on the couch in the middle of the room just as another door opened and Meia walked in with another prisoner.
"What's up, you found another?" BC asked her.
"Yes, this one was hiding in the platform" Meia replied.
"My, my" the captain said after assessing the prisoners "I knew we captured some prisoners, but they're all just kids".
"Hey!" the tiny white robot yelled before jumping over to the captain's side "Its interrogation time. I'll tell you everything!"
The captain smiled "My how nostalgic, a little NAVI robot. And it seems like this one still functions".
"A Navi what?" Cipher asked looking down at the white robot.
The captain looked over to the Ustio pilot "A NAVI robot. There primarily used by electricians and mechanics to help with wiring in small places, but they have other uses as well".
"I'm not following here" Duelo said.
Hibiki cut in "Yeah isn't this a men's ship?"
"Yes and before that it was used for colonization" the captain told them "You really don't know anything do you?" she asked after seeing their surprise "This ship is one of many that departed from a planet called Earth. This was a really long time ago before your fathers were born. Fortunately your cowardly grandfather severed this section of the ship and ran away into the night".
The NAVI robot continued the story "They overhauled the old battleship and built in residential quarters".
"And now we find ourselves back on this battleship" the captain finished "This is our business you know so we'll gladly take the ship, the only question is what should we do with all of you?"
"We should get rid of them" Meia suggested "Things are already unstable enough".
"There's no need to be hasty" the captain told her "We'll carefully consider how we'll want to cook these guys up".
"Cook them up?" Cipher muttered.
A guard entered the room and handed the captain a bowl of red liquid before standing against the wall at the back of the room.
"So that long haired boy is a doctor?" the captain asked looking at Duelo "So what abut the other one?"
"He's an attacker" Meia replied, referring to Hibiki.
"Hey now wait a!" Hibiki protested before the blonde haired man elbowed him in the stomach.
Meia continued "I saw him climbing into a Vanguard".
Cipher asked "Vanguards are those machine things that attacked us right?"
The captain nodded "That's correct. While we're on that subject I must say you and your wingman handled them quite nicely".
"Well there is a reason we were called on for the important missions" Cipher told her "Right Pixy".
Pixy tilted his head to the side and bumped his eyebrows "More or less".
BC's communicator beeped and she held it up to her ear "What's wrong?"
"There's something approaching" a voice said from the other side.
"Is it male reinforcements?" BC asked.
"It's a UFO!" Dita's voice cheered.
The entire ship shook violently causing every except Cipher and Pixy to fall. "What the hell1?" Pixy yelled "Did something just hit us?"
"We're under attack!" the same voice yelled from BC's communicator.
"Dreads are going out!" Meia said before running out of the room.
"Parfet can you get us to move?" BC asked.
A new voice answered over the radio "I can't control this thing at all. The automatic defenses aren't working either, there's nothing I can do right now".
"BC go take control of the bridge" the captain ordered just before a loud crashing sound roared inside the room and one of the guards screamed.
The backside of the wall and ceiling had collapsed on one of the two guards trapping her.
"Hold on I'll get you out!" the guard panicked before removing the debris from her friend.
"No you mustn't move her!" Duelo yelled before jumping over the couch "You don't have to worry about me I'm a doctor" he said after the guard glared at him. "I just want to see what I can do for her. Help me move this away" he said slowly moving the fallen ceiling debris from the trapped guard.
Cipher watched Duelo helping the guard and looked to Pixy "Larry!"
Pixy looked at Cipher and nodded "Right let's go".
"Captain!" Cipher said "Where can we find our fighters? We'll help you fight".
"Well now it certainly appears that you could use some help here" the blonde boy said "While the fact remains that we are enemies right now we have to make our survival the top priority and well…you may want to utilize my skills in the matter" the boy stood up and straightened his collar "You see the truth is that I'm actually a helmsman".
"Oh?" the captain hummed "So the gentleman claims he's a helmsman?"
"Warning!" the white robot screeched "This one's trying to pull something!"
"Pyoro you keep quiet now" the captain told the robot "So what do you propose then?" she asked the blonde helmsman.
The boy casually stepped forward "Well I suggest we call for a ceasefire, temporarily of course until this crisis has been averted".
"That's not a bad idea" the captain agreed.
"Glad you see it my way" the helmsman chuckled "How about we shake on it?" he asked extending his hand, but the captain gently smacked it away.
"I've no wish to get chummy; you'll still be treated as one of our prisoners".
"I can't do anything here!" Duelo yelled "Take me to sick bay!"
The captain turned her head to BC "Alright then, BC take the two pilots to the hangar and the attacker to the warehouse" she looked back to the blonde helmsman "You come with me to the bridge" she looked at the guard in the back "Take the doctor to the infirmary and assist him as needed".
Cipher and Pixy followed BC out of the lounge and to the hangar where they found their respective fighters.
"I really hope you're as good as you said you were" BC said to Cipher before leaving to return Hibiki to the brig.
"Let's go Cipher" Pixy said as he ran to his ADFX-02.
Once inside her F-15C, Cipher did a quick systems check to make sure her fighter was fully functional. "Everything is a green light on my end, what about you Pixy?"
"I'm good to go, just say the word" Pixy responded.
Cipher took a quick breath "Alright Galm Team launch!"
The engines of both fighters roared to life as they flew out of the hangar doors and into space, heading right for the three Dreads that were already engaged with the enemy.
Seeing the enemy on his radar Pixy said "Enemy sighted, waiting on your command Cipher".
Cipher also spotted the enemy and narrowed her eyes "Alright Pixy split up and engage at will if you have any special weapons left keep them locked for now".
"Pixy roger, time to dive into the fireworks".
The two mercenary pilots joined the battle and with swift ease shot down several of the unknown enemies within seconds of joining the fray.
"Those fighters!" Jura gasped after seeing the two fighter jets zoom by her Dread".
"It's two of the good aliens!" Dita cried.
"You three look like you could use some help" Pixy laughed after shooting down an enemy chasing Dita.
Jura moaned "I'll take all the help I can get, these things sure are persistent".
"Pixy at your six watch it!" Cipher yelled before being hit by one of the enemies "Damn bugs, get lost!"
Quickly pushing her flightstick forward and immediately pulling it back while decelerating, Cipher performed a steep loop the loop and got behind her pursuer to shoot it down "Cipher, splash one more".
"Pixy here, I just bagged another bandit".
"There's so many of them" Cipher yelled "They just keep coming".
"They're spewing out of that thing back there" Pixy yelled "That giant thing has to be some kind of carrier, the more we shoot these things down the more they just keep coming, if we want to end this we should attack that".
Cipher agreed "Alright, concentrate fire on the enemy carrier…or whatever that thing is".
"Pixy roger that".
Back on the bridge, the helmsman, Bart had stepped out to the end of some kind of portal and recognized it.
"Well go on" the captain told him "You do know how to use it right?"
"Of course I do" Bart replied sheepishly "It's just…well how do I put this? This is a secret weapon of our military". Just then the portal sprang to life and swallowed Bart whole.
"My, that's some weapon" the captain noted with a surprised expression.
Once inside the helmsman portal, Bart began looking around, there were no visible controls or anything, but he could see everything going on outside the ship and panicked when the enemy began firing at it.
Bart waved his arms screaming for the enemy to go away and the ship moved.
"So the ship moved, maybe he does know what he's doing" the captain muttered just as giant screens of the three Dread pilots appeared high above the bridge.
"The intensity of the enemy's attack is increasing" Meia told her "Its getting more difficult to defend ourselves, at this rate we may have to retreat".
"Reinforcements are on the way" the captain told her "But we don't know how helpful they'll be".
"More reinforcements?" Meia asked.
A Vanguard launched from the ship with Hibiki as its pilot, the young teen screamed when the enemy immediately turned its focus against him and began attacking.
"What is that?" Jura asked after seeing the embarrassing way the Vanguard was being tossed around.
"It must be the other good alien!" Dita cheered.
"That's really our reinforcements?" Meia asked herself.
Shaking the daze from his head, Hibiki activated one of the hidden weapons of the Vanguard, but its ammo supply had never been filled. "No ammo!" the pilot gasped "Alright we'll try this then!" he yelled as the Vanguard's sword sprang from its side.
Quickly cutting down several enemies, Hibiki opened a straight path toward the enemy's main system.
"The enemy main system has stopped its advance!" one of the bridge operators announced "It's targeting the Vanguard!"
Dita followed the Vanguard, completely mesmerized by it "Meia can you see this, the good alien is helping us!"
"Dita pull back now" Meia ordered.
"Cipher I don't like the looks of this" Pixy said "We should be ready to pull back if this goes south".
Cipher didn't respond, she watched the Vanguard fly closer and closer to the enemy's main system before several of the cube shaped enemies slammed into it and held it down.
"Just a little closer" Hibiki muttered "Just a little closer and I'll be there. I just need enough power to take one last step…I can't lose!" he roared before several arching spikes shot out from the enemy's main system and impaled both the Vanguard and Dita's Dread before an explosion erupted around them.
"That little fool" Jura said as she closed her eyes and turned her head away.
Pixy turned to look at his flight lead "Cipher we should pull back we don't have the ammo to deal with that thing".
"Not yet" Cipher muttered "This isn't over".
"What?" Pixy asked before something began to emerge from the ball of molten steel in front of them.
Emerging from the fireball was a giant blue machine. It was humanoid in shape and had neon green joints with dual shoulders mounted cannons that ran the length of its body.
The new machine immediately began flying toward the enemy's main system and Cipher quickly flew forward to shoot down the remaining enemies before they could get in its way.
The enemy's main system closed is mouth and attempted to retreat, but the new machine grabbed hold of it and pried its mouth back open before its dual cannons slid up and mounted themselves on its shoulders aimed directly inside the enemy before firing.
The high powered lasers easily ripped through the enemy destroying it instantly and ending the battle.
"What was that?" Pixy gasped "Cipher?"
Cipher gazed at the giant machine, in complete awe at its fire power. "What have we gotten into this time?" she asked herself.
A/N.
Sorry it took so long to update, I really needed a break from the whole fanfiction scene for a while.
I decided to make Cipher a girl in this story because I think it would make for a more interesting story than keeping him male.
Anyway hope you enjoyed.