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GunDread SEED - The Second Stage

 

Disclaimer: Another disclaimer? OK then, I state that I do not hold any current or prior document citing my personal ownership of Gundam SEED or VanDread. There, happy now? Ok, now on with the show…

 

Chapter 6

 

Part 2

 

Life Choices

 

<>: Thoughts

 

<Italic>: Dream voice

 

*************

 

Dream sequence 1…

 

<Wake up…>

 

Kyo opened his eyes and found himself in what appeared to be a void of pure night, as if he was back in the black world he found himself in all those months ago. He then watched as the world changed and then he found himself in front of a very large house. The house looked like a mansion in the woods with normal light white paint on it and various color tinted windows. A two story building with a garden nearby and the play-ground…pretty normal place as he looked at it, but it felt so familiar to him.

 

<Is this my home…looks very cozy.>

 

Kyo took a tentative step and touched the door, and he was surprised to be able to touch the metal of the door-knob and then he opened the door… he found himself in the living room…the very same one he had seen when he heard Magno singing that song a few days before. He looked around and spotted a picture near the wall. He went towards it and it struck him…

 

<No way…>

 

He saw the same image of the picture in his time of his first `death' in the Paeksis, the same beautiful woman with pink hair and blue eyes holding a baby who was sleeping, and next to her was the same brunette man with deep violet eyes, both were smiling happily at their baby. And he knew them now…the woman was his mother, the man was his father, and the baby…was him. He then looked around and spotted another picture, but this was larger and had more people in it.

 

There was his parents, and many others, there was the same blonde woman with amber eyes sitting next to his mother, holding her own baby, and beside her, smiling was the same man with deep ocean blue hair and green eyes, both of whom might have been his relatives. Next to them was a brunette woman who was rather attractive with her own baby, and the child had blonde hair as well, next to them was a man who had tanned skin and blonde hair and next to him was a woman who had…the same copper hair as a certain girl he worked with in the Crusader Squadron, plus they looked somewhat…

 

<What the…? Are those…no…this picture is very much older generation, so that would mean…those two must be, Sara's ancestors. But what are they doing in this picture?>

 

Kyo then heard a voice call out to him to go out of the house, as he did so, he spotted the people in the picture, all at the road nearby. His parents looked at him and called his attention. He ran towards them…but the scene faded to black instantly.

 

Normal time…

 

“NO!!!!”

 

Kyo sat up and began to breath quickly as he tried to adjust to seeing the interior of his room in the Nirvana. The memories of his past were coming up, but they were still broken and fragmented for him to piece together…but at least he could recall them more clearly than in the past.

 

He looked at the chronometer and saw that it was only one in the morning; he had finished a grueling training session with the Crusader Squadron and in conjunction with the Nirvana's Dread squadrons on new tactics for combating the Harvesters a few hours ago. He gave a groan and went back to his bed and put back on the blanket since he needed to get as much rest as possible since the war was far from over.

 

He then went back to sleep…

 

*************

 

Dream sequence 2…

 

<Wake up…>

 

Kyo shook his head and opened his eyes a second time…but when he looked about, he realized that the whole world around him was dark once more. It wasn't like he was dead or anything, the last thing he recalled was that he went to bed in the Nirvana and went straight to sleep and awakening form his first dream. So why the heck was he back here?

 

<Where am I?> Kyo asked himself as he tried to make sense of where he had gone to this time. <Am I dreaming again?>

 

<Wake up sleepy-head!>

 

<Huh? That's another woman's voice…where am I?> Kyo asked as he tried to make sense as to where he was this time. The scene then changed into a sunny sky and well lighted location. Kyo reflexively tried to shield his eyes, but the glare didn't hurt in the least and he recalled that if he was dreaming then mostly the physical senses didn't always work the way they were supposed to. He moved his hands out of the way…

 

And found himself on a beach complete with sun, sand and surf. The breeze felt…cool, as if it was not yet noon time in where he was. The sands were pristine and clear, no sign of trash anywhere. The sound of the waves were also accompanied by the sounds coming from the nearby inland forest when he turned around to look at the rest of where he was.

 

<Now where is that voice I heard earlier?> Kyo asked as he began scanning the area around him.

 

<Right behind you Kyo!>

 

Kyo turned and then found himself staring at…Jura Basil Elden who was dressed in a deep blue-green swim suit that hugged her gorgeous frame like second skin, the front had an open slit in the front abdomen area to the upper portion which was having a hard time containing the blonde's breasts, allowing an amount of Jura's skin to be revealed in the diamond form along with her cleavage, while strips were in a crisscross pattern on the long slit. Her hair was also in it's normal style behind her and with the sun providing light, the long strands of blonde hair glowed like golden threads.

 

Kyo could have sworn he had a rush of heat fly right from his body up to his brain at the sight. He also found out that even in dream mode, his hormones were very much active no matter what state he was in.

 

<Hi Jura…what are you doing here in my dreams?>

 

Before he could get an answer, another voice came into where he and Jura were in.

 

<Hi Mr. Alien, time to go for a swim!>

 

Kyo turned and spotted Dita in her own swim-wear, namely a two piece bathing suit in pure red and it had thin straps that seemed invisible, this allowed him to see her lithe form and developed figure very effectively, Kyo tried not to blush even harder as he began to stare at Dita very intently and his mind began to recall how she looked with no…. He then realized that there were other people in the dream too.

 

<Hello Kyo, nice to see you here!>

 

<Hi Commander, you like?>

 

<Hi Kyo, you care help me cook?>

 

<Hey my Prince, can you put some oil on me?>

 

Kyo turned and found the previously unoccupied beach was now full of people. It seems that apart from Jura and Dita, Meia, Sara, Mai, and even Misty found their way into his dreams, more maybe his hormones were playing games in his head again. (Which it's really doing anyway! (~_^) )

 

Meia was wearing something similar to Jura, but deep blue, and didn't have the slit but that didn't mean that she didn't look sexy in the least. The swim suit hugged her frame well and it showed her own proud bust, though how the heck he knew that fact was beyond even him. He found himself staring at her from head to toe, and another fact came to him that she didn't have the circlet on her in this dream.

 

Sara was wearing a silver colored two piece strapless bathing suit, and her hair was wet, and considering her well formed body, it took a load of concentration for Kyo to look at her in the eye and acknowledge her. This may be a dream, but that certainly was not an excuse for him to go nuts yet. But his hormones were getting a riot as it tried it's absolute best to make him indulge in the sights.

 

Mai was in a pink swim-suit with flower decorations and her own hair was in a long braid reaching the shallow part of her lower back. She looked very happy as she was near a portable grill. She gave Kyo a smile that made him even more acutely aware of his now aroused male instincts.

 

Misty was wearing a strapless blue swim suit and although Misty wasn't as…busty as the other girls, she still radiated an aura of innocent sexuality that was at this point adding extra merry hell on Kyo's already flayed hormones. She was there on a beach chair reclining and giving him a VERY seductive smile.

 

Kyo immediately tried to turn about and get some distance from all this before his male instincts erupted EVEN if this was a dream…and an apparent wet dream at that.

 

<Crap! This getting out…>

 

He then turned spotted all the girls who were running up to him, their forms…namely their assets making themselves rather obvious. He could see that they were not going to let him go, and they all were looking at him as if he was the most desirable companion of the decade… that was when he felt somewhat drafty and took a look down. It suddenly became apparent to him that the clothes he had previously…had just decided to disappear…along with a certain article of clothing!

 

<of hand…!>

 

*************

 

In Kyo's bunk…

 

“AAAAAUUUUGGGGHHH!!!!”

 

WHAP!

 

Kyo swore as he got up and got his body untangled from the sheet of his bed. He then cradled his head and was happy he was taking a load of endurance training, but for now he wished he took some training on how to suppress his basic hormonal urges.

 

He looked at the chronometer and saw that it was only two in the morning and he gave a groan. He then got up and put on his normal clothes, and took out his lap-top. This was the one hundredth and sixtieth dream he had on record. The past dreams were not that bad, but ever since Magno gave him permission to have a relationship, his hormones wasted no time making even sleeping a hell of a chore. In the dream before he woke up he was able to only scream out just as the girls surrounded him, they then tackled him, and they then placed him on a chair, and they began to remove their…

 

Kyo immediately shook his head clear of those thoughts as he got out and went towards the Hanger Bay.

 

<Damn! I might as well get some work done on I-Freedom and get my latest physical in the Medical Bay…after all I seen in that dream, there's no WAY I'm getting any sleep today!>

 

*************

 

A few hours later…

 

“What is our current status BC?” Magno inquired as she and her fellow pirate officers were in the Conference Room. They needed to know how much longer will it be before they could be entering familiar territory.

 

“Due to various battles with the Harvesters, and that trap we had been caught in, our time table has been affected and we cannot reach Talark or Megele for the next few weeks, or even a few months.” BC said as she placed their location on the star chart, showing that they still had a long way to go before reaching their home-system.

 

Magno sighed and nodded. There was little they could do but keep on moving and hope that they would make it back to their respective worlds before the Harvesters came and gutted them. Nobody deserved the kind of pain and suffering the Harvesters inflicted on them.

 

*************

 

In the other side of space…

 

Rabat gave out a gulp and so did Utan as they found themselves now being faced by another Harvester unit…far larger and better armed than the ones they had fought with not a few days ago, they were low on power and were still trying to get the ship to safety, plus they now longer hand any means to fight back with, and that was very much the worst case scenario. The Harvesters were not attacking instantly, but he knew for a fact that things were going to change in a heart beat. And sure enough they did…

 

As the ship of the inter-stellar mercenary tried desperately to escape despite it's grievously damaged state, the Harvester units attacked, intend in crushing the now worthless former asset of the Harvesters…

 

Space was always known for the fact that no one can hear a scream. But if that law was bent for the occasion, anybody within earshot would have had their blood frozen solid as Rabat's primal scream of fear and despair mingled with that of the now incoming weapons fire.

 

*************

 

Back at the Nirvana…

 

“What's the matter Kyo, you seem to be rather…exhausted, having problems?” Duero asked the Gundam pilot as he was running a physical diagnostic on him. The Gundam pilot looked rather tired as if he had been in a rough bed for the past few hours. Max himself was also curious about the state of the Gundam pilot while he ran through the Medical Bay computer for some information concerning even more methods on how to treat injuries on the female members of the crew.

 

Kyo gave both brothers a rather exasperated look.

 

<Other than the facts that, Magno just gave me the authority to go forth and multiply, Jura stripping naked in front of me and we nearly had sex, Misty using every trick in the book, Meia is wearing dresses and looks damn sexy in them, Mai and Sara, asking me to work with them more closely, and Dita…well being herself, no I don't have a single problem. How about you guys?>

 

Instead of saying all that Kyo opted to just relax and try to explain. “It's just been…rather confusing and frustrating.”

 

“Oh? How so?” Both brothers asked. Duero and Max were still in the Medical teams but also trained alongside Kyo in their respective Gundams as reserve pilots, and thanks to Kyo's training sessions and his teaching of combat tactics, it didn't become long for both siblings to be very capable in their Mobile Suits. Aleck was also in on the training despite his own experience, since Kyo knew the power of a Gundam unit, the elder male decided to pick up some tricks and methods.

 

“Did you guys ever have a day that you think you've got things or people figured out, they suddenly change and catch you with your pants down?”

 

Both brothers looked at each other at first in confusion, but as they recalled stories of Kyo's escapades involving certain members of the Nirvana crew, and the two also recalled their own experiences with a certain pair of female crew-members. So they made the connection and decided to see if they were correct.

 

“You're…what's the term again… having girl problems?” Max asked as he had encountered situations like this on his exile in the desert world with Claire and the rest of the crews on both ships.

 

Kyo gave both brothers a tired look. “That's a mild way of saying it.” He then had a feeling the two men had something to tell him, and if he guessed it right it meant they learned something about the opposite gender. “You guys want to tell me something about girls again?”

 

Duero and max knew that Kyo was rather accurate on such things and both nodded. “Yes, we've found some data on the subject you spoke of.” Duero said slowly, this made Kyo curious since Duero's way of saying it made it sound that he was rather embarrassed, and that in the Gundam pilot's mind was a first.

 

“Which one?”

 

Max also chimed in as he went closer and sat next to the nearby monitor. “The one you called the facts of life.”

 

Both men then began explaining that during one of their forays in the rest of the Nirvana, they came across what appeared to be records, and naturally they decided to view them using a nearby playing system. And that was where they got the idea on how men and women could achieve procreation with one another.

 

(Guess that Jura left a small amount of those tapes, and guess who found them?)

 

When they finished both men had raging expressions of utter embarrassment as they recalled that they also underwent their first nose-bleed at the sight of men and women having sex. Duero and Max felt frightened and curious at the same time and for reasons they couldn't make all that clear they began seeing themselves doing it with a certain woman in mind. Duero saw him doing it with Parfet, and Max saw him also doing it with Barnette.

 

Kyo gave a look of shock and in this case relief, now at least there were some people he could talk about the stress he underwent in the Nirvana when dealing with the female crew. And he could tell that they were thinking about it a lot more now.

 

“Was what we saw…really how, men and women have kids?” Both men asked.

 

“In answer to that…yes. It kind of blows all the ideas you two learned about procreation back home away…doesn't it?”

 

Both men were struck silent as they began to get it into their heads, they didn't know what to say. Until they decided to answer slowly. “Yes…it really does.”

 

Kyo could tell that they were in shock, but from what he could sense they began to see how come they began to act the way they do now with the women around.

 

He just hoped nothing crazy would be the result of this discovery.

 

*************

 

Later…

 

“Three Pairs.”

 

“Full House.”

 

“Damn!, I was close this time…oh well.” Kyo said as he chalked up another loss to Gascogne while he was now in the Register. He still had some difficulty with card games but he wasn't getting all that worked up about it. He watched as Gascogne reshuffled the cards and then began to deal them out.

 

Gascogne was curious why Kyo seemed to be a little out of sorts. “You okay Kyo, you've lost a lot faster than before, are you feeling sick or something?”

 

Kyo shook his head and took the cards he had been dealt with.. “I'm fine…just feeling rather…occupied lately.”

 

Gascogne nodded as they began to play yet again. After a few minutes of silence, she decided to break the ice on the subject she had discussed one time with the Captain. “You planning to ask Mai or anyone else here out on a date anytime soon?”

 

“Maybe…What?!”

 

Kyo put down his cards and stared at Gascogne with a look of disbelief as the Senior female looked at him with a slightly amused expression. He couldn't believe he heard that come out of Gascogne Rheingau's mouth!

 

“I guess that means your still thinking about it then?” Gascogne smirked.

 

“What the heck was that all about?! Don't tell me you had…”

 

“Talked with the Captain?” Gascogne asked, and then she merely nodded. “As a matter of fact I did, and I have to admit I was rather surprised when I found out your situation as to why you've been very efficient to the point of curiosity is because you wanted to get away from the girls before you lost control…of your basic male urges, right?”

 

Kyo looked as if he had just been pole-axed, and figured that if the Captain had spoken to Gascogne about the situation, then there was not much he can do about it. “Yep, I didn't want to discuss this since it might make things…well, inconvenient.” He said as he went back to his hand, though he was now rather cautious as he played hands with Gascogne.

 

Gascogne admitted to it but she found the idea rather intriguing to say the least as she also went back to her cards. “Maybe…but to be honest you can say that a load of things made me ask that question. You want to know what those reasons are?”

 

“What?”

 

“Mai's been asking me to allow her to work more in time with your shifts here in the Register. The other girls also like it more if you came in early so they can have you nearby even if you're busy with other duties. Mai also asked if she can work with you when deliveries have to be made either here in the ship or wherever. The girls also want you to spend more time here when you have nothing to do in the rest of your duties, they also like more if you cook for them more often…the list can go on and on. They really like it when you work here…namely Mai.”

 

Kyo gave a shake of his head, he had noted those changes as well, he however was happy that the event that led to the men being given the full one over in the entire ship wasn't the one they were discussing right now.

 

Gascogne however KNEW about it ever since she had heard about it in the gossip grape-vine considering the time the video of the men taking a bath was on. She however kept the smile that was the result a secret from Kyo…since she knew it would make him very much uncomfortable.

 

“Speaking of which…I'd like to make a little wager with you today.” She replied as she looked at her hand.

 

“What's that?”

 

“Let's have a game of ten hands today. If you lose today…then you take Mai on a date soon.”

 

“What?!” Kyo looked with an expression of disbelief as he heard that one. “If I lose you want me to go out on a date?!”

 

“Why, is something wrong with it?” Gascogne said in her easy going manner as she picked another card.

 

“I can't just go out on a date ON a bet you know!? Besides…how the heck can you be sure Mai will even agree to it?!”

 

“Actually she was the one who asked me, since you also work under me for a chance to get to know you better.” Gascogne looked at Kyo who was struck dumb and smiled at him. “Don't worry, it's just a friendly date, nothing serious…at least to my mind anyway. Actually I was rather surprised she suggested the idea in the first place since she was rather hesitant about all of it, it took her nearly ten minutes to make the first few sentences.”

 

Kyo gave it a thought. As far as he could see, Mai was making a bold move and he hoped that nothing bad comes out of this one. He did recall she wanted to start a relationship with him of all people, so it made sense something like this was going to happen eventually. But he wondered if it would be a good idea considering his other situations with certain members of the crew. He then gave a look to Gascogne and naturally pressed on with his next question.

 

“And if by some way I win, then what?”

 

Gascogne smiled. “Then you'll have to cook for the Register for the next two weeks.”

 

Kyo thought about it and weighed his options.

 

<Lose and go out on a date, win and wind up in cooking duty for the next week…not like all of them are bad choices…at least at a certain stand-point.>

 

Kyo nodded as he got ready to play.

 

*************

 

The Harvester home-world…

 

“What's the current location of the Fleet?” The Harvest Council Leader asked the head technician as he and the rest of the Council watched the screens depicting the area of the galaxy where their Fleet was being stationed.

 

“They are currently hours from the Nirvana's current location. They have not yet been detected by the ship's sensors or their scouting parties. They are either too busy, or they believe that they can handle us now, or the enhancements to that portion of the Fleet have worked perfectly. Either way…we have the advantage.” The head technician replied.

 

“Are all our weapons ready for combat duty?”

 

“Yes, the Devastator, Hell Fire, and Wyvern Gundams are now completed and awaiting the order for attack. The other weapon units are also awaiting combat orders.”

 

“Understood…as of now Operation Burning Paradise is in effect.”

 

“Parameters for the Nirvana?”

 

“Wipe them out…all of them.” The leader said with a tone that might not have any emotional volume…but anybody could hear the hidden desire for the demise of all that opposed the Harvest.

 

*************

 

Out in space…

 

The Harvester battle-ship's CPU glowed as it received the order to begin moving out to engage the Nirvana. Within it's bowels rested three new Gundam units, and they too were now powering up for their confrontation with the Nirvana and the Gundams owned by the pirates…but mostly their target was a certain Paeksis Gundam.

 

However behind them in the massive hanger was an evil shape…and an more powerful looking…

 

Mobile Suit

 

And as the Fleet ship went on the move it seemed that if flew in a formation that befitted that of a large combat fleet…but it was the only ship in the area.

 

Or was it?

 

*************

 

In the Nirvana…

 

(Try and guess the out-come of the game between Kyo and Gascogne?)

 

Kyo gave a sigh as he walked out from the Register and decided to take a walk, he had only won two hands out of ten. Gascogne was happy that he had gained some skills in playing cards, but she still wiped the floor with him, and so he had no choice but to follow Gasco's request that he'd go on a date with Mai. The question was…how.

 

<How and what do I have to do to make it work?> Kyo thought since the first thing he needed to do was deal with the fact that if any of the crew saw that, there would be NO guarantee that the date would be private. Plus he would have to find some way of dealing with the possible out-comes.

 

Kyo shook his head, since Gascogne didn't give him an exact dateline on when he was supposed to take Mai out on a date, he thought he would have more time on what he had to plan and only if he was really going to push through with the idea. He then concentrated on more important matters…namely with what the next session with his squadron would be focusing on.

 

As he made his way, he found himself near the Bio-Park and spotted two certain medics.

 

“Duero, Max.”

 

Both siblings turned and greeted the young Gundam pilot, their friend, Gundam pilot mentor…and the only man in their whole cadre who had knowledge about the nuisances of the female gender and as of today…they had a very serious question to ask him about women.

 

“Kyo…we were actually planning to go and see you.” Duero said as they waited for the Gundam pilot to come to them.

 

“I guess I spared you the time of finding me then.” Kyo then leaned on a nearby railing with Duero and Max joining him. “Okay you guys, shoot.”

 

“Shoot? Why should we shoot you? I mean…”

 

“That's just a figure of speech guys, what I mean is, you can go ahead and ask me.”

 

“Well…it has something to do with what…what we learned on how men and women had children. We don't really know all that much and we think…we think we don't have all that much experience in this sort of thing.” Max began to say as he tried to concentrate on what he needed to say as he had some difficulty with the question both he and his elder brother wanted to ask.

 

<Yeah I'll bet you two do.> “Look, I did say I can answer as much as I can those questions you two have burning in you about women, so there's no need for you guys to act like bashful school kids, just ask me what you want to ask… and I'll try and answer them as best I can.”

 

Both brothers looked at the serious look Kyo was giving them and decided that they should be frank towards Kyo. Though Kyo could be diplomatic if need be, he could be the kind of guy who prized the truth more than others.

 

Duero was nudged by Max so he took the initiative. “We were…wondering on what to do…with a girl who WANTS to have sex with one of us.”

 

Kyo turned into a statue of stone and a VERY large sweat-drop descended down his head as he digested the question from the two siblings…Of all the questions he was expecting from them. This was the LEAST expected, and even more so since he was at a total lose on this topic.

 

*************

 

Back in space…

 

The Harvester battle-ship waited as it scanned the area, hoping to spot the signature of the Nirvana as it deployed it's forces and got ready to engage the thorn on it's masters' side for the past many months.

 

In it's Hanger, the Gundams were kept in their hangers as requested by their Harvester Leader, apparently they were to remain hidden until the best moment for their arrival came to them, like elite shock troopers released out at the last moment. As such, only the other two weapons made by the Harvesters' weapons R&D division would be taking center stage.

 

In the Hanger both weapons began to power up their combat systems and operation software. As power flowed in their systems and energy pathways, they began to run in their combat and response protocols and powered their weaponry.

 

As they waited, the Harvester battle-ship's sensors picked up the Nirvana's transponder signature and it would be only a few hours before they would meet, it then began to relay the information to all of it's units, and when they received the order, it was time for them to reveal themselves for battle with the pirates.

 

*************

 

In the Bio-Park…

 

“Let me see if I heard that right…You two want ME to give both of you advice on how to deal with a girl…if she wants to have SEX with you?!”

 

Both brothers blushed and barely nodded. And to see the two men who were not prone to these flashes of emotion, namely involving women very often made Kyo realize this was serious.

 

“Okay, I can understand that part…but exactly WHY did you two want to ask me that anyway?!”

 

Both brothers then uncharacteristically twiddled their fingers as they looked on the floor for a few seconds. They then decided to at least explain what made them decide to try and ask him the question.

 

*************

 

Flashback for Max…

 

Max took the time and went to work on the Templar Gundam, since he had taken the Gundam unit and trained under Kyo, he knew the value of keeping a well kept and functioning Mobile Suit. Kyo's customized OS for his Mobile Suit also allowed him to customize areas that could accept the changes in the systems without affecting overall combat performance.

 

As he placed the last touches in the Templar's OS he got out of his Gundam's cockpit as the chair was raised upwards. And when he came out he went and got ready to report for duty in the Medical Bay…but as he turned he found himself greeted by a certain somebody.

 

“Hello Max.”

 

“Hello…Barnette.” Was all Max would say…considering what Barnette was wearing at this point…an ancient Chinese style dress that was deep green, with elegant symbols etched into the fabric reaching her ankles, and there was a slit on the left side of the dress, allowing a good view of her thigh and calf, plus the dress had no problem conforming to Barnette's lithe form like second skin, allowing him to see her in her full beauty. She was wearing high heels, and although Max thought those to be highly uncomfortable at first, he learned that the women of Megele had made shoes that kept up the trend of high heels, but were comfortable and well made for balance and strength, and they did well their primary function…which was to make her taller, allowing Barnette to reach Max's chin. On her dress's waist was a light purple mesh that had several diamonds embedded in the fabric, and this gave some emphasis to her eyes well.

 

Max also noted that she had a light but very effective amount of cosmetics, not too showy or over done, but enough to place good and effective emphasis on her natural physical beauty. Her hair smelled of lilacs from her shampoo, and she had the faint smell of peaches on her skin, meaning that she had taken a perfume of that same smell.

 

There was only one word to describe Barnette Orangello in that state…

 

HOT!

 

(The dress is similar to that of Ada Wong of Resident Evil 4, loved the dress.)

 

Barnette gave him a smile as she moved in a slow spin to show the full beauty of the dress. The back of her dress exposed her back all the way to her waist and it gave an emphasis to her slender form. Once she finished her display she asked him a question.

 

“Do you like it?”

 

Max could do nothing but nod. He didn't completely understand all the aspects of female beauty, but at the moment he felt like he was looking at the most beautiful being ever.

 

“You look very beautiful Barnette.” Spending time with women and learning more things from Kyo had allowed Max to see the beauty of the female form and naturally his body began to react. He quickly looked away a bit as more…indecent thoughts began to make their way in his head. He had already seen a video similar to what she had told him before and thanks to his conversation with Kyo…he now had an idea why his body reacted in certain ways towards Clare and now why he felt this way to Barnette, but the video made him rather uneasy at times.

 

Barnette blushed just as well, she planned just to ask max out on a date, and the way Max looked at her made her realize how good a move she made when she picked the dress. She wanted to get to know him more, and her plan was only for a short date…though a voice in her head told her that she was lying like a rug, not to mention a part of her brain began to replay certain indecent images involving her and the man she was talking to.

 

“Is there something you want to ask me Barnette?”

 

Barnette stopped blushing…slightly as she spoke. “I was wondering…if you…have time to go out with me. We could have a quiet meal, and look at the stars.”

 

Max thought about it and recalled one of his conversations with Kyo concerning practices between men and women, namely during the period of courtship. He put two and two together and figured what Barnette was asking him.

 

“You want to ask me out on a date?”

 

Barnette blushed and twiddled her fingers and meekly nodded.

 

Max figured that since he had nothing left to do for the time being so he agreed. This made Barnette smile at him mischievously as she took his hand. And for a strange reason Max was happy he didn't have any smudges of grease, oil, or dirt on him.

 

*************

 

Flashback for Duero…

 

Duero was in the Medical Bay making the last rounds and giving Paiway another set of lessons in the treatment of wounds and injuries of various degrees to deal with the increasing workload, plus it would make her far more capable as a medical specialist. Just like Kyo, he and his brother believed that the young girl was very talented, with the right amount of time and training she could be the best in the medical field.

 

In the past, she disliked getting lessons from Duero, and now from him and Max. She originally disliked the more bloody side of the medical profession, but Kyo came up to her and told her the story of one young woman he met who was just like her who dreamed of being a doctor to help others even if she was always sick, when Kyo helped find the ingredients to make the serum that cured her she was happy and she made well in the medical training courses, and passed the apprentice board, and the necklace he gave her all those months ago was what the girl gave him in thanks. He told her that no matter how difficult things become for her, he would always support her and so would others on the ship. Paiway took that to heart and worked hard, and the results were becoming more promising, it would take a while but she would become even better.

 

“Paiway, those papers have your next tests, study and we'll begin testing soon.”

 

“Sure, I'll just have to clean up the supply trays…oh hello Parfet…” Paiway said as she took an incoming call via the monitor. “Oh…yeah, Duero's still here.”

 

“Who is it?” Duero asked as he was rather busy focusing on several reports concerning the physical well-being of several members of the crew.

 

“It was Parfet, she said she wants to see you, and she'll be here in a few minutes.” The young nurse said as she went to reading her new notes…but she still kept her camera close and her note-book as well.

 

The door alarm chimed much later, signifying the arrival of an individual near the door of the Medical Bay. Duero already knew who was coming and decided to put aside his notes and reports and see what was it that Parfet was asking of him.

 

“Hi Duero.”

 

He then placed the last data-pad down and faced the spunky head engineer. “Hello Par….fet?”

 

He looked surprised as he saw Parfet in a dress. She had a pristine white dress that had straps on her shoulders. The dress was plain but for reasons he couldn't understand, Duero saw Parfet at this moment as a beautiful person with no equal. The dress had two slits on the lower sides of it allowing Duero to see her claves, though why the slits were there, he didn't understand and could only make a haphazard guess. She wore some high pumps shoes that made him wonder why Parfet was wearing such strange looking foot-wear. They looked impractical in his frame of mind but he couldn't deny two things, the first was that they made her taller, making her reach his neck, and they made her look…elegant for some reason. The dress also hugged her chest making her breasts stand out.

 

<I've seen them before…but I didn't know they could be so…what's making me think these things?!>

 

He noted also that Parfet had some lip gloss on her and she wasn't wearing glasses again, but since she wasn't squinting nor did she hit the wall, then it would mean that she was wearing the contacts he had made for her. She was happy to receive them when they were made and kept them close, though she still wore her glasses. This allowed him to see the intriguing shade of violet in her eyes and he admired it well. She also had her hair in a ponytail instead of her trade-mark braids, allowing the hair to be released from the thick braids the young woman normally had her hair in.

 

“Hello Duero.” Parfet said while she tried to resist the urge to twiddle her fingers. She hadn't done anything like this before in her whole life. When she was on Megele, she was considered plain, so she didn't have too many friends, and this naturally made her feel at home with the others in the pirates engineering section. Becoming friends with Duero made her reach out to others, just as being with Chief and the others had done, and being with the other pirates, namely Dita. But when she began to have these intimate feelings for Duero, she decided to try and take a chance for this day.

 

And considering the way Duero was gazing at her in utter appreciation made her realize that she did the right thing.

 

Duero shook himself mentally to get his mental faculties back into order. “Hello Parfet, can I ask…what brings you here.”

 

“Well…” She said as she came into the room, focusing only on Duero, and completely ignoring the fact that Paiway was in the room, who was now looking with awe and surprise…while carrying her camera. “I came here to see if…” She felt her embarrassment continue to climb as she faced the object of her affections. She calmed herself a bit and continued. “if you…have any free time today.”

 

Duero nodded. “Yes, I have just finished my shift and am planning to get some rest, Paiway is taking over for me.”

 

“That's good…I was hoping you and me…could…uh, well…uhmm… go to the Bio Park and see the stars' reflections on the lake.”

 

Duero wondered why Parfet was so nervous about something such as this…that was until he recalled some of the lessons he learned from Kyo, plus he recalled the description Kyo have for the situation he had found himself with Dita. Apparently he was now a recipient of the same process of courtship.

 

“Are asking me to go out with you on a…date?”

 

Parfet's blush became brighter as she nodded. “You know what a date is?”

 

Duero nodded. “Kyo told me about it and told me that it was the best way for…couples to know each other more.”

 

Parfet nodded, placed her hands on her dress and held the fabric tightly to calm her giddy heart. “So…will…will you…g…g…go out…on a date with…me?”

 

Duero thought about it and decided that since Kyo told him to get to know Parfet more closely then this date would be the most logical move for him to learn about the intricate behaviors of women.

 

“Sure.”

 

Parfet squealed in joy and glomped on Duero and before she could calm down, she gave him a kiss on the left cheek, making the blush in his own face go brighter, and she began to guide Duero out of the room…but not before popping her head back and looked at Paiway.

 

“Not a word about this Pai!”

 

Paiway however couldn't help but smile like a kid on a permanent sugar rush. She quickly got her note-book and with her pen and a pair of cat ears coming out from the sides of her head, plus a serious gleam in her eyes…began to write what she saw.

 

“This is an unprecedented event in the history of all Megele women! Parfet asking Duero out…on a DATE!! I must record this!!! PAI CHECK!!!”

 

*************

 

End of respective flashbacks…

 

Kyo couldn't help but have a sweat-drop flow down the side of his head as the explanations were finished. As he looked at Duero and Max he couldn't help but understand the situation as it was developing, besides…he had been dealing with the same situation.

 

“You guys also?”

 

“What do you mean?” Duero asked.

 

“Do you know why Barnette is acting the way she is around me? Or why Parfet's acting this way towards my brother?” Max asked.

 

Kyo gave a sigh and motioned for the two siblings to follow him. “I'll tell you…but this is going to take a while.”

 

*************

 

The bridge…

 

Magno and BC were there making the usual rounds…but that when the bridge crew called out as they picked up signals from the Harvesters.

 

“Enemy units have been detected at least a hundred kilometers from our current location. It's the Harvesters!” Belvedere stated as she, Amarone, and Celtic tracked the incoming signatures.

 

“How many?” Buzam asked as the girls reported in the results from their sensors.

 

“At least thirty dozen of their Urchin Ships, about a dozen Seed Ships, gods only knows how many Cube Fighters…and a Harvester battle-ship.” Celtic reported, saying the last with a shudder.

 

The rest of the bridge crew shared the same sentiments and so did Buzam and Magno. They hadn't forgotten how their first encounter with one of the Harvester behemoths went, and what they had done in order to defeat the first. But they couldn't ill-afford to cut and run. They were close to home and had a chance to warn their worlds of the incoming threat. They only prayed that the experience, skills, weaponry, and talent they had accumulated over the years would be able to aid them…along with some good old fashioned luck.

 

“Have all the teams ready for combat offensive! All pilots to combat stations!”

 

*************

 

Back at the Bio-Park…

 

The three men were sitting down and were still busy talking. Duero and Max looked at the lake very seriously and seemed to contemplate what Kyo had told them concerning the situations they had recently gotten involved in with the girls in their respective lives.

 

“It's still kind of hard that Parfet wants to be more…intimate with me.” Duero said slowly as he digested why Parfet was so interested in him.

 

Max said nothing but both his brother and Kyo knew that he had the same feelings. Though he and Clare were close, none of them were that close…so it made sense that he would also be uneasy about the situation as well.

 

“Yeah…well, it's not something just anybody can be used to.” Kyo said with his arms crossed over on his chest as he looked at the lake. He then noted from the corner of his eye the signs of apprehension on the two. He couldn't blame them, having to deal with the affections from the women who liked them.

 

“Look, I know you two feel rather overwhelmed and confused about the whole thing. Trust me, I can relate…It's hard working alongside the girls when part of my brain is screaming for me to give in to my basic urges, while my other side is also screaming for me not to do something I'm going to seriously regret.” Kyo said as he looked at the lake and then faced the two siblings.

 

“I can understand…you see, I don't want to do something that would jeopardize the friendship I have with Parfet. She's been the only female friend I have here on the ship since I came onboard months ago. I just wish I knew more ways on how to deal with this. Physical problems I can treat with my training and skills…but.” Duero said as he twiddled his fingers a bit.

 

“The emotions of a person, namely feelings of the heart aren't restricted by science Duero. This is something no amount of academics can ever prepare you for. No matter how much you wish it could.” Kyo replied as he thought about the situations of the siblings…and himself. “What about you Max?”

 

“Well…I can understand the situation. I mean, I was with women like my brother also…but under different circumstances.” Max said as he thought about the situation. “But like my brother…I wasn't…at such a level of familiarity with Clare, and I'm just starting to take the first steps with my friendship with Barnette…so yeah, learning that she wants to be more intimate with me…is a little bit unsettling.”

 

“Yeah, that kind of reminds me…exactly what happened between the two of you to have change her the way she was those weeks before? Not that I'm complaining or anything since the changes are nice, but what happened between you two anyway? I can say that Barnette has a lot to thank you for, so I'd like to know what those things were.”

 

“Yes, I have to admit brother, the changes in Barnette have intrigued me as well, since I met her before you did, she didn't strike me as the kind of person who would give up her beliefs easily. Naturally I think it might have to do with you saving her from that monster previously, and she then took care of you. But what did you tell her to make her change?”

 

Max gave a bit of a sheepish groan and was about to explain himself when the combat alarms blared all over the ship. The three men took that as their cue to suit up. Duero would be in the Medical bay and would only fly out in the Morpheous Gundam if he was needed. Max would fly alongside Aleck as both he and the elder Talark soldier would be under Kyo's command in the Crusader Squadron.

 

“We'll have this conversation later. You guys fight hard and stay alive.” Kyo said as he went to his locker to retrieve his pilot uniform and helmet.

 

*************

 

The Harvester Fleet…

 

The Harvester battle-ship ran up all of it's combat systems and weaponry as the fleet would now make contact with the Nirvana. As it deployed it's forces, it suddenly began to send out short yet power transmission bursts from transmission ports that appeared from the ship's areas.

 

Anyone familiar with ship-to-ship communications would know that such bursts of data would only be done if there were other ships within the vicinity. But the Harvester battle-ship was the only one nearby within hailing distance.

 

Or was it…

 

The space near the ship came alive with Urchin ships, Seed Ships, and innumerable Cube Fighters…and…

 

Strange nearly transparent shapes began to follow the Harvester battle-ship as it went out to face the Nirvana.

 

*************

 

In the Hanger of the Nirvana…

 

“Kyo! Wait up!”

 

Kyo turned and spotted none other than Jura Basil Elden. Seeing the blonde Dread pilot was a normal thing, but she was not out there in the fighting since Meia and Dita had already launched alongside the rest of the Dread pilots. Kyo had deployed the others and his girls in the Crusader Squadron ahead as he suited up. The situation made him very curious since Jura would be in the front lines alongside the others.

 

“What is it Jura? We have to be launching now, we're under attack!”

 

“I know that…but I need to talk to you…it's important!”

 

Kyo stopped as he was already climbing up the paddock to be lifted into his Gundam's cockpit via the harness cable. He then faced Jura and waited for the blonde to say what she wanted to say.

 

Jura tried to resist the urge to blush as what she was going to say would make things between her and Kyo more difficult.

 

“We've…we've been through so much together haven't we?”

 

Kyo wondered where this train of conversation was going to, but when the ship began to shudder a bit he knew that now wasn't the right time to go down memory lane.

 

“I know…all of us have gone through a lot. But Jura, now isn't the time for this sort of thing!”

 

“Please listen to me…you…you recall me wanting to have a baby…your baby?”

 

<Oh no, not this again!> Kyo didn't expect this topic to be the crux of the whole matter. “Look Jura, I know that having a baby from a man would make you a new heroine on Megele, but having a baby with a man isn't some sort of…”

 

“No.”

 

This stopped Kyo be mid-sentence. “What?”

 

“That's not the reason I want to have a baby with you…it was before…but not anymore.”

 

“Then what's the reason?”

 

“The reason is that I want a baby with you because I…”

 

Jura stopped and thought back on a conversation she had with a certain elder woman.

 

*************

 

Flashback… three days before…

 

Magno was busy reading a small book in her quarters when she got the message telling her that she had a visitor. She sighed and put the book aside and looked to see who her visitor was. She was surprised to see none other than the second in command of the Dreads, Jura, who she then noticed had a strange look about her.

 

“Oh, Jura, I wasn't expecting you here at this time of the day. Is there something you want?”

 

The blonde nodded as she spoke to the eldest of the pirate crew. “Hello Captain…I, I wanted to ask you something very personal…and if I'm intruding, I can ask the question some other time.”

 

“No, not at all. I always have time to listen to what problems any of you have.” Magno then sat up and took a new seat on another chair in her room as she beckoned the young woman to take the previously vacated seat. “Please sit down and tell me what is it want to ask me.”

 

As Jura sat down she began to wonder how will she be able to ask her question without being offensive to the elder female. After a lot of mental deliberations on her part she decided to take her questions slowly as to avoid making the wrong assumptions once Magno spoke to her.

 

`Captain…you were alive when…men and women…lived together, right?”

 

Magno gave a curious look at the blonde woman. This was a question she herself didn't expect from Jura. It was already a proven fact that youngsters like Jura disliked listening to history, and it was a proven fact that older people like herself would love to talk about it if only the younger generation would listen, so it was a first for any of the girls to ask about the old days of the First Generation on Megele. They didn't question Supreme Lady Grand Ma as children, so it wasn't surprising that they didn't question history. But there would always be doubts no matter how hard the truth was hidden. The way Jura asked the question however also made her curious as to what part of the past the sexy blonde was interested in.

 

“Yes I was, it may have been some time…but I do recall a great deal of things about that time of our ancestors, when men and women lived together. Is there something about that time you are interested in Jura?”

 

Jura nodded as she bowed her head and twiddled her fingers, that plus the faint tinge of pink on her cheeks made Magno slowly smile as she had a fairly accurate idea what Jura wanted to know.

 

“Yes…I…I was…wondering how I could get a man to do…something with me.”

 

“Does that `something' you mentioned involve certain…intimacies with a man by any chance?” Magno asked with a wicked grin as she now knew where this train of conversation was going…and what was the reason behind the question.

 

“Y..yes.” Jura said as she looked at the Captain. “You see…I found some…videos about that certain… something I want to…I want to do with a man.”

 

“And does your desire to do this particular something by any chance involves a certain young man on this ship?” Magno prodded even further, while trying not to laugh at the look of utter embarrassment which was now being shown on Jura's features.

 

Jura slowly nodded as she began to explain what had happened between her and Kyo not a few weeks ago when the Nirvana was in the desert world…and despite her immense reluctance she decided to also speak of the times she had been VERY close to Kyo. And she also decided to speak of the time she had nearly snared Kyo…and the things they did before he left her room.

 

It took nearly an hour for her to explain all the events that led her to this point. All the while Magno was listening intently, and much to Jura's surprise the elder woman began to laugh as soon as she finished outlining the last event. Jura was utterly embarrassed but yet happy when she recalled that time when she nearly got Kyo's seed.

 

“What is so funny?”

 

Magno calmed herself as she wiped the tears from her eyes. “It's nothing against you Jura…I was just imagining Kyo's reaction when you…shall we say…followed your natural desires and needs.” She then gave another amused cackle at that last part of the sentence.

 

“My natural desires?” The confused blonde asked.

 

Magno smiled a bit more as she spoke to the younger woman. “Tell me the truth Jura…when you were able to finally see how men and women would have a child in the natural way…did you feel disgusted or horrified?”

 

Jura shook her head fervently as she recalled the feelings the video had sent into her at the time of her viewing it. “No…not at all. I..I…felt hot, warm all over….every nerve in my body was on fire! And I felt this intense feeling of…ah…arousal in my body…and.”

 

“And what else?”

 

“And I couldn't get it out of my mind…and I couldn't help but see myself…and Kyo…doing it.” She said the last part in a whisper.

 

“Ah…you didn't find it the least bit disgusting or horrifying?”

 

Jura shook her head.

 

“I see….so why do you want to do it with Kyo?” Magno asked with a grin.

 

“Because…that is how…men and women had children…and it looks…very pleasurable.” Jura said slowly while trying to contain the raging blush threatening to spill over her as she recalled how CLOSE she came to doing the very same thing with Kyo previously..

 

“No arguments there, the act of sex between men and women is very pleasurable. But why are you only interested in Kyo? Surely the other men would be also viable candidates? Duero is a prime one, so is his sibling, Aleck's not too old, and Bart's…”

 

Jura shook her head fiercely in disagreement. “No! I don't want their seed! I want Kyo's and only his!!!” She then realized what she did and gave brief apology to her commanding officer.

 

Magno was taken aback by the reaction, but immediately smiled as she now had an idea as to what was driving Jura now instead of fame or recognition. <Well…who would have believed it?>

 

“And why must the seed only come from Kyo?”

 

“Because…well…I…uh…I just want his seed and nobody else's!” Jura said as she managed to regain focus on why she was here. Jura then thought about it, the other men were viable candidates for her plans to have a child. Duero was a good man and his skills, physical abilities, and more were a plus, despite the fact Parfet would argue about that, Max was also a good candidate, but she had no intention of taking him away from Barnette, Aleck was a good man also, he was tough, smart and very well versed in many traits that were very useful…but he seemed to…old for her for some reason. And although Bart had matured a great deal and wasn't a coward or cry-baby anymore…she still couldn't think of taking his seed. She only had eyes for Kyo and no other man seemed to hold her attention but the Gundam pilot.

 

“Hmmm. So you want his seed more than any man's, and you want to be the one to have only his child?”

 

“Yes.” She said without any hesitation.

 

“Hmmm. I must say that things have really become very interesting ever since the men set foot on this ship.” She said with a very prominent smile.

 

“So…Captain…how can I…make Kyo want….to do it with me? I…mean, he told me…he liked it…but he stopped me…and well…I just want to know…how to make him want to do it with…me, and finish it with me?”

 

Magno thought about that and recalled the reason why Kyo was extremely reluctant on pursuing a relationship with any of the girls on the ship including Jura. He had a good reason not to try to release his own passions in fear of hurting them, but she knew that he would only do more damage to himself and others if he kept on denying it. However she was also aware of Jura's reason in trying to seduce the young Gundam pilot. But the way Jura seemed to want Kyo's seed and the way she was now acting towards him…made Magno very aware that there was another reason Jura was still pursuing Kyo and Kyo alone…now the trick was to see if that reason was for real.

 

“Before I hand you any advice on this matter Jura, I need to ask you a few questions and they are very important, so you must answer me with all your heart and with the truth. Do you understand me?”

 

“Yes.”

 

Magno nodded and looked squarely at Jura. “First, what do you really think of Kyo? How did you feel when you met him, and what do you think of him now that you got to know him?”

 

Jura realized that it was time for her to come clean with what she thought about Kyo the day he came onboard the Nirvana. As she began to recall all those times the young man had been part of the crew she began to smile a bit.

 

“It's…kind of strange when I think about it now. The first time I met him…I thought he was just another man that I'd see after we'd raid their ships and steal their valuables. I thought just like Barnette that they should just stay in the bring throughout the whole mission when we were getting back home. I though Dita was being twice the ditz I thought her to be from before when she began to chase him around, trying to get to know him more.”

 

“He can be rather harsh and difficult at times, but he only does those things when he needs to. He was very different as time passed. I saw him inspire others around him, how he would fight fiercely to protect his allies. He meant a lot to many…but to me…he was more.”

 

“He was there to get me back on my feet when we nearly lost Meia, sure we argued, but he apologized and gave me some really good advice. He's talented, no arguments there, he can dance, cook, sing, and do so many things I thought was impossible for a man to do at all. He was there to help and stay with me if I needed help, and keep me safe when we were on that desert world. And the day he kissed me in Anpathos…I never felt like that before…and the other times we kissed, the feelings in me…grew every chance I was with him….even when, I tried to…ah…convince him…to give me his seed. I told Barnette how it felt once and how I felt so at home being beside him, and that I can do anything…as long as he was beside me.”

 

“So…you came to like him a lot more than before?”

 

“Yes…I REALLY like him now.”

 

“You like him enough to spend every moment of your life with him?” Magno asked in a sincere tone.

 

“What?”

 

Magno sighed and explained. “Jura, you apart from BC and Kyo, may not know this but I had a man as an ohma…or in the past terms a husband...and I did have a baby with a man.”

 

Jura was surprised. “Then you do know how…!”

 

“Let me finish Jura. When I gave birth to my baby, who was a boy, my husband was right beside me, and he did a lot of things when our baby was growing up, feeding our child when I was too tired, changing his clothes, even changing the baby's diapers, he'd sing beside me when we wanted our little bundle to go to sleep, tell stories and when I couldn't breast feed my son, he'd provide the baby bottle to feed our child.”

 

Magno thought back on those fond memories and tried not to cry as she recalled what was the thing that separated her from her two men. She focused herself on the now and spoke again.

 

“Jura…having a baby with a man is totally unlike that of Megele. The first thing is that men would also want to have a hand in raising their child alongside their wife. I know Kyo well enough to say that if he did become your child's ohma…or father, he'd be very serious about his role as a parent. A child born the natural way between man and woman is a very emotional and personal experience, even more so since the child is carrying a part of him, and since it's unlike the birth methods back on Megele, you can bet that Kyo will not allow the baby to be apart from him. It's a very emotional thing to have a baby…I should know. And Kyo will no doubt want to be a good father. As much as you need to have Kyo to have the baby, you will need to have Kyo close to both you and the baby as well, since the child is also his son…or his daughter.”

 

Jura thought about that fact and thought about it. Kyo being there, raising their child beside her. And for some reason…she began to smile. “You know…the idea of Kyo being beside me…for the rest of my life doesn't sound that difficult. In fact I would welcome that chance.”

 

She then wondered what she should do. Jura was no fool in the fact that what she felt for Kyo totally went against everything she had believed in growing up. And despite her acceptance of Kyo, she still wanted to know WHY she felt this way towards him.

 

“Captain…I don't know what to do anymore! I don't understand why I feel this much for Kyo! When he's not near me, my heart has this ache that only grows worse if I don't see him! And when I do see him, my heart beats even faster I feel like I have a concert in there! I want to see him smile and not cry or be sad! I feel so weak when he's with me…yet I feel so strong when he's there! I want never forget the way he feels under my hands, or even how he tastes when I kissed him! I want to feel the warmth of his skin and to never forget his smell! I want to feel his muscles and form with every part of my body and being! I WANT him so badly!”

 

“I shouldn't be like this! This is not how a woman of Megele should act or think towards a man! But I CAN'T stop! And part of me doesn't want to stop at all! I WANT KYO SO MUCH IT HURTS!!” Jura sobbed as tears rolled down her eyes. “Why do I feel this much for him? Why?”

 

Magno reached out and held Jura's hand in a grip that spoke compassion and understanding. She then pulled up Jura's face and helped wipe away the blonde's tears as he gave her a motherly expression. “Now there's no need for you to cry Jura. There's nothing wrong with you nor is there anything wrong with the feelings you have for Kyo. What you are feeling is one of the things Megele has been trying hard to suppress for many years. The reason you feel this much for Kyo is because you…”

 

*************

 

End of Flashback…

 

“Because you what? Jura, because you what?” Kyo asked as he was wondering what the blonde was thinking about again.

 

Jura looked at him, no doubt realizing that now wasn't the right time to tell him what she knew what she felt for him after the many months they had been working together side by side…no matter how much she wanted to say it…they still had time.

 

“Never mind…when this battle is over…I…I'll tell you.”

 

Kyo wanted Jura to finish, but as the ship rocked from another explosion, he also knew that now wasn't the time for it. As he rode up into the cockpit he then came into contact with the bridge and confirmed that he was heading into the fight.

 

As Jura watched the Infinite-Freedom Gundam prepare to launch she made a promise to both herself and Kyo.

 

<Not yet…Now isn't the right time…but I will tell you soon…what I feel about you now.>

 

She wasted no time of her own as she sprinted her way to where her own Dread was waiting for her.

 

*************

 

Out in space…

 

“Where were you?!” Meia called out as she spotted the I-Freedom arrive on the scene as it began to rain plasma bolts and rail-gun rounds at a mass of Cube Fighters, many were trashed by the weapons fire and the rest had no time to react as the Gundam pulled out both it's beam sabers and just dashed between them, but not without shredding many of them into jump with it's beam sabers.

 

“Sorry I'm late! What's the situation?” Kyo said as he flew beside Meia's Dread. All over the place were the Vanguards and Dreads of the pirates fighting beside each other while the areas of space were filled with Cube Fighters and Urchin ships. Next to them were the Seed Ships which naturally spewed out even more of the nasty Cube Fighters in their pre-set intervals. The whole of space was filled with explosions, missile trails, and floating junk…but thankfully there were no serious casualties on the side of the pirates.

 

“The entire force we're dealing with is something else!” Meia said as she and Kyo fought in tandem as Harvester units fired at them and tried to swarm them every chance they got. “They began attacking the very second they spotted us. The Cube Fighters act as forwards and cannon fodder, while the Urchins give even more headaches, then the Seed Ships send even more at us.”

 

Kyo spotted several of the said Seed Ship's ready to unleash more of the Cube Fighters and he quickly decided to do something about that.

 

“I'll see if I can give them something to keep them occupied!” He said as he triggered his SEED mode and did the same to trigger his Gundam's own SEED program.

 

Kyo and his Gundam rocketed towards the Seed Ships as two squadrons of Cube Fighters and some Urchin vessels tried to way-lay him, as the Gundam moved like a bolt of lightning. The Cube Fighters unleashed everything they had as blaster bolts exploded all over the place and streaked past their target as the Paeksis enhanced Gundam dodged and weaved from every blast aimed at it. It would look as if the Gundam was dodging with no effort when it suddenly stopped in mid dodge.

 

The Gundam's plasma cannons, which had been retained suddenly appeared, along with the rail-guns, and it took it's beam rifle to it's separated form. In that moment the Gundam fired all of it's weapons, including the head and shoulder mounted guns. The barrage caught the Cube Fighters off guard and many were torn to pieces by the fire-power of the Gundam. Those then recovered were not any better as they were slashed to bits by the beam sabers when the Gundam charged.

 

The Urchin ships fired all their spines in an effort to destroy the Gundam despite the presence of the Gundam's Prominence Phase Shift Armor System, which naturally made ballistic attacks worthless against the Gundam. And that fact became apparent as the spines bounced off the Gundam like they were tooth-picks hitting a steel wall. The Urchin ships had no time to react as the Gundam's speed and maneuverability out-classed theirs. The Gundam then sliced two of them to bits with it's two beam sabers. The Gundam then took out it's anti-ship swords and torn apart the last pair of the Urchin ships. The Gundam then combined both anti-ship swords into the staff formation and tossed the combined weapon at the Seed Ships and the remaining Cube Fighters like a boomerang. The speed of the weapon when it was tossed caught the enemy off-guard as many of the Cube Fighters were torn apart by the weapon. It didn't stop until it was embedded into the opening maw of one of the Seed Ships, causing the unit to explode. The other Seed Ship was about to unleash more Cube Fighters and nearly succeeded, but then energy darts slammed into the mass of Cube Fighters, making them explode, wiping them out in a moment and forcing the Seed Ship to back away but not in time to close it's maw…therefore it had no time to escape when from the wreckage of the released Cube Fighters came one of the I-Freedom's anti-ship swords…skewering the ship in the mouth.

 

The Gundam appeared and then disengaged it's anti-ship sword/staff and made it return to it's normal formation. It then yanked upward the sword in the Seed Ship's mouth and when it slashed the Seed Ship from bottom to top, it followed with the other sword that smashed at the side and tore the Seed Ship as the Gundam turned and then rocketed outwards to take out the rest of the enemy units. The Seed Ships however were able to escape and were then able to get support from several large squadrons of Cube Fighters and Urchin ships came on the scene. The forces then surrounded Kyo and his Gundam, and in a heart-beat unleashed a full barrage. The Cube Fighters fired a massive salvo, the Urchins fired all of their spines in a heart-beat, and the Seed Ships unleashed their kinetic spear tendrils at the same spot where the barrage would be. The placed where Kyo was now as bright as a small star as the Harvester units pounded the Gundam with everything they had.

 

*************

 

“KYO!” The girls near him screamed along with Jura, Dita, Meia, and naturally Sara and Mai who were in their Vanguards. They were shocked and nearly thought that Kyo was in danger once more. They then began to charge, and even the pirates on the Nirvana were somewhat panicked when they saw that.

 

*************

 

Their fears however were for nothing as a large form came out from the explosion, startling the Harvesters and making them break their formation…which was a bad mistake.

 

The form turned out to be…the I-Freedom Gundam with it's wings covering it. The Gundam's crystal-feathered wings were able to protect the Gundam, with the two outer wings protecting the front, while the inner wings covered the rear, and it became apparent that the feathers in their crystal form could deflect BOTH beam and ballistic fire, thanks to the Paeksis energy being emitted by each feather. It had already stored back it's anti-ship swords on the back and was now ready to fight back once it's wings once more opened…leaving behind streaks of blue-green-white energy to surround the I-Freedom as it's wings went back to normal formation…almost like an angel taking flight. The Harvesters had no time to reconsider the results when the Gundam's eyes suddenly flashed. (*)

 

Kyo locked in the HiMAT system and aimed at all available targets…and once he locked on…

 

“STRIKE THEM!!!”

 

The Gundam responded as it's feathers once more became metallic and released themselves from their moorings on the wings. They streaked out from the wings and began to fire a massive network of crossing beam fire that caught all the Harvester forces totally off-guard. Nearly all the Cube Fighters were decimated as the beam cannon feathers fired at full power, even Urchin ships were caught off guard and were torn apart as the Paeksis powered beams tore past their defensive armor. Even the Seed Ships were so badly hit in strategic areas that they were totally rendered useless.

 

The feathers then retreated back to the Gundam of their origin and became crystal covered once more. The Gundam then took out both beam sabers and went on to lead the pirates on a counter offensive as it's wings moved like a bird and it's thrusters pouring out massive thrust and power.

 

*************

 

The Nirvana…

 

“That was something! Bart we need to thin them down!” Magno ordered the bald navigator as she and the rest of the bridge crew worked hard to maintain order and to properly coordinate their defensive forces.

 

“ROGER!” Bart said with conviction as he also accessed the Nirvana's cannons. The ship then told him that full power was his to use. He then began targeting the more important ships of the Harvesters. The Seed Ships were prime targets as the pirates had learned now that they must damage or destroy the Seed Ships to maintain the numbers advantage to a balance. The pirates may be better armed in the sense of new weaponry, tactics, and experience, but the Harvesters still had the advantage in numbers.

 

Bart smiled as he completed his targeting and in that instant the Navigation Well was filled with target designator icons as he locked onto the Harvester forces.

 

“OUR TURN!”

 

The Nirvana's cannons glowed only for a moment and in that instant, plasma bolts streamed out from the pirate vessel and attacked the Harvesters. The beams avoided hitting the Dreads, and Vanguards with precision thanks to Bart's off hour training sessions. The results of Bart's maturity and training were evident as he hit the targets dead on, and any Cube Fighter caught in the cross-fire was turned into worthless junk.

 

The bridge crew cheered Bart for the precision strike and went on to coordinate the attack.

 

*************

 

In space…

 

“All Dreads…maintain full defensive line and keep in contact!” Meia said as she and her teams were fighting their very best. Meia was also happy to see that Jura was back and fighting hard, along with her was Dita, and Barnette, who had decided to use her Dread and not her SwitchBlade Gundam.

 

The Dread pilots knew that they needed to do and did it well. Despite the vast numbers of Cube Fighters, the pirates had learned enough from previous battles on how to make due with their weapons and own numbers. Plus the support from the Vanguards of Kyo's Crusader Squadron more than made up for it.

 

Barnette took down more Cube Fighters and smiled as she got back into the rhythm of being a Dread pilot. Her skills had become sharper, no doubt thanks to her use of the SwitchBlade Gundam's Mobile Armor mode. She then scanned the battle-field and then greeted Jura as she and her closest friend among the pirates fought side by side as they always did.

 

“So, did you get the seed yet?” Barnette asked her blonde friend as both of them took down several Cube Fighters.

 

Jura shook her head, but she didn't have an angry look though. “Not yet Barnette, but I'll still get it, no matter how long it takes.”

 

“Uh huh. Well I hope you snare Kyo before we get back to Megele.” Barnette merely said as she and Jura avoided some incoming spines from a Seed Ship that got struck by several Dreads, and before it could regenerate more spines, it got skewered by a pair of Vanguards that snuck up to it and plunged their spears into it's thin armor once they got off their Dread counter-parts…apparently Kyo had been teaching the girls of his team new tricks and it didn't take long for the Dreads to try out the idea… another Urchin ship tried to fight back and got bushwhacked by a high speed team of Dreads as they blasted it to bits.

 

“I know…by the way, how are you doing with Max?” Jura asked slyly as she took out a pair of Cube Fighters with her Dread's blasters. Another pair got blown up as Barnette used her Dread's missiles on them.

 

Barnette blushed a bit as she recalled her…date with Max. “Uh, we're fine…so far. I got to know him a little bit more and things are…fine.”

 

Jura smirked as she saw the blush on her friend as they flew into the battle, dodging incoming fire. “Yeah I can see that. So…you want to try having his seed too?”

 

Barnette's eyes widened and her blush turned a full twenty shades of red, almost mimicking the color on Jura's Dread armor. “JURA!!!”

 

Jura merely laughed at the embarrassment of her friend. She had seen how Max and Barnette were getting along and although she congratulated her on getting closer to the Talark male, she was a bit envious as she still had some difficulty getting closer to Kyo, but she wasn't going to let that stop her from getting Kyo. But for now she wanted to see how Barnette would react to her question.

 

“What?” She asked with as much innocence as she could get while she looked at her close friend among the pirates.

 

“Wh…why did you ask me that of all things?!”

 

“Just curious, you've been acting more forward towards him for a while now…does that have to do with you seeing that video I had found…AND seeing him nude a few days ago?”

 

“Jura!!! I…I…”

 

“Don't worry, it's just that you would have a great chance at it. Who knows, you might even have a baby once we get back to Megele. And I think Max would make a very good ohma!”

 

“Hey! Can you two please concentrate on the battle? You can discuss those things later!” Meia called in as she hailed both Dread pilots.

 

“ROGER!”

 

Jura and Barnette's Dreads dove into the battle. While n her Dread, Barnette was still blushing as part of her brain focused on the idea of becoming a fahma…or a mother with Max as her partner in raising a daughter. She put that idea aside for the moment, but not before a silly mental smile appeared in her head. She decided to think about it, and hope there would be time to think about it, and she wondered how Max would take it if she asked him if he'd like to have a baby with her.

 

As the combined forces of the pirates hit back, they knew that they were going to have their hands full as more Cube Fighters came into the mix to attack them.

 

Kyo also knew that and contacted the Nirvana. “Captain, have Gascogne take the ATCISS with her when she makes her deliveries. We're going to need the fire-power.”

 

Gascogne nodded as she guided her shuttle the Dreki out to reload the Dreads and provide any supplies for the Vanguards. As her ship was released, it turned out she wasn't alone in her heavily armored shuttle as Aleck was also inside…he was there to aid Gascogne with her work while Kyo was fighting, unlike Kyo who wore his Register uniform, Aleck had on only his pilot uniform.

 

“I can handle things from here Aleck, you'd better get into the fight, and escort the ATCISS to Kyo.” Gascogne said as she released a batch of Dreads as the fighters had been taken in for reloading. Aleck nodded as he put on his own helmet. Aleck had decided to update his pilot uniform to follow the pattern of Kyo's own uniform, complete with combat armor padding and ballistic underlays.

 

“All right Gascogne. I'll get ready and back you up if you need to fall back.” Aleck replied as he got on his helmet and ran to the supply dock where his GUiAZ unit was waiting.

 

A few minutes later, he got in and uploaded his password to access the OS of his Mobile Suit. Once he was done he checked his GUiAz's weaponry, namely it's sword, assault rifle and other tools. He had also requested some extra goods for his Mobile Suit including a HEAT whip and some grenades. The grenades came in several forms which were High Explosive, Incendiary, and EMP and were stored in a compartment next to his sword.

 

Next to the GUiAZ was the ATCISS unit and both were quickly released into the fight. The GUiAZ took out it's assault rifle and blasted apart several Cube Fighters that tried to attack both it and the ATCISS unit. Aleck escorted the ATCISS as both it and his Mobile Suit homed in towards Kyo's location.

 

The Liberty then began to expand as the I-Freedom came on the scene. The front opened up to reveal the interlock socket and the beam cannons on the front loosened from their moorings and revealed their handles for the Gundam to use.

 

Kyo quickly turned the I-Freedom around as his Gundam's wings moved to lock in position as it's own interlock socket came in. In less that a few seconds, both Gundam and ATCISS were decked in the colors of the Prominence Phase Shift Armor.

 

“Okay…time to take the fight to them.”

 

Both the units took off and in that moment Kyo once more activated his HiMAT system, this time his Gundam's feathers once more became metallic and launched themselves from the Gundam and flew around the combined mecha. The ATCISS then activated the missile launchers and beam weapons as Kyo locked in every target he could lock on who were from the Harvesters. Cube Fighters, Seed Ships, and Urchin vessels…and even the battle-ship got the dubious honor of being included.

 

“TAKE THIS!!!”

 

Kyo also activated his Gundam's Overcharge mode for it's beam arsenals, including his new feather beam cannons and it became apparent that he also activated the same feature in the Liberty. In a heart beat, high powered beams of destruction and massive barrages of missiles streamed from the combined units.

 

The entire sector of space where the largest numbers of Harvester units were was filled with massive explosions as hordes of Cube Fighters were turned into exploding wrecks as they were hit by the barrage of weapons fire. The spines of Urchin Ships were brushed aside by the high powered beams and many of them exploded like balloons hit by a super-heated pin. Seed Ships were not spared as their armor was melted like butter from the sheer power of the blasts and they were torn to chunks by the beams or by the missiles.

 

Even the units which were not in the firing path were not spared as the power waves tore past them and they exploded and even when the energy barrage began to lose strength, the sheer power of the barrage and the sudden release caught the Harvesters and put them between the anvil and hammer. The barrage then slammed into the Harvester battle-ship…tearing into it's armor and scarring it significantly, but the battle-ship remained intact and systematically released more Seed Ships and reserve Urchin vessels to reinforce itself and the fleet despite the losses.

 

In less than ten seconds, nearly a thousand Cube Fighters were turned into unsalvageable junk, while many Urchin vessels were turned into smoking wrecks like shattered watermelons…while many Seed Ships were also rendered worthless by either the beams or the missiles, or were caught in the backlash of explosions that followed from their fellow units. The Harvester Fleet still had the numbers advantage…but they lost almost two quarters of their forces.

 

Kyo wasted no time as he disengaged from the ATCISS unit and allowed it to fall back and support the rest of the pirates. Once he did so, the three Dread pilots and their Paeksis enhanced Dreads flew beside his Gundam. He then got into contact with them and made their plans.

 

“We need to break the Harvester lines and strike at the heart! Meia, we'll form our GunDread and charge past the ranks, Dita and Jura, you stay close and be prepared for me to form our respective GunDreads. The rest of the pilots form up beside us once we break the lines of the Harvesters.”

 

“Let's go for it.” Meia replied.

 

“I'm right with you Mr. Alien!” Dita chirped in glee.

 

“Let's make this quick!” Jura said with enthusiasm since she wanted to get Kyo alone and tell him what she wanted to say.

 

The Gundam and the silver Dread combined once more and formed GunDread Meia. The dragon mecha then charged right for the Harvester lines with the other Paeksis enhanced Dreads behind it. The rest of the pirates moved in to support their comrades, it looked like this would an easy attack.

 

But in Kyo's mind something was off…

 

*************

 

In the Nirvana…

 

“This is easy…way too easy.” Magno said as she watched the screen. The Harvester battle-ship had done nothing except release more units. In their first battle with one, it didn't stop pounding and hounding them with weapons fire. But this one ship was too…silent.

 

“I agree…the main Harvester ship isn't even fighting back.” Buzam said as she watched the monitors showing the closing distance between their forces and the Harvester battle-ship. “There's no way it would allow our forces to come that close to it. Kyo was nearly killed by the first one he fought with when he was with the people of Melanos. What's going on?”

 

“I don't know…but I can bet if those sadistic bastard Harvesters have a plan we're not going to like it!”

 

*************

 

In the Harvester battle-ship…

 

The CPU determined that it could still fight and retaliate…however, in order for the operation to be labeled a success it needed to lure the Nirvana's forces closer. So it decided not to fire back…

 

But once the GunDreads made their appearance, it was time to unleash the two weapons it had hidden for a while.

 

Inside it…the moorings holding the largest of the weapons were released and it began to make it's way out of the behemoth hanger…followed by it's smaller but not less lethal companion. But to further ensure it's success, it began to initiate a count-down…

 

To the true size of the fleet to be unleashed…

 

*************

 

In space…

 

Kyo didn't know why but something was really bothering him, and it had plenty to do with the Harvester battle-ship and the others were approaching.

 

<This ship is acting strange…it's not even fighting back, all it's doing is let the Cube Fighters, Urchin Ships, and Seed Ships do the fighting…it's not even firing any of it's weapons. Something's wrong.>

 

Kyo knew this and focused on piloting the GunDread he and Meia flew. The GunDread smashed through so many enemy units that the path they had made was filled with hundreds of smashed wrecks, both of Cube Fighters and Urchin ships. Beside them and behind them, were Dita, Jura, Barnette and many of the pirate forces. He however still couldn't get the feeling that this was beginning to feel like…

 

A trap…

 

“We're turning back.”

 

“What? But why, we've got them right where we want them?” Meia asked as she was curious why Kyo would want to retreat at this stage.

 

“Something's not right…that ship's been acting too complacent ever since this battle started. All it's done is deploy it's forces and stand by. When I hit it with the Liberty's weaponry and my beam arsenals, all it still did was stay there and take it…and not fire back. The ship I fought with before wasted almost all of it's fire-power to kill me…but this one's just staying there, it's hasn't even fired a single torpedo at us. And we're already at a very good distance to attack it and cause considerable damage…so why is it not firing back? No way would it let us get this close.”

 

Meia then realized that Kyo had a point, the Harvesters would never allow them to get this far without a serious fight namely when protecting an asset as a battle-ship, she knew that in the economics of war, losing a battle-ship was a serious flaw in anybody's thinking. Sure the smaller ships were doing just that by fighting them…but why wasn't the battle-ship even fighting back to aid in the defense and to destroy them…all it did was release more fighters for them to destroy.

 

“You're right…something's wrong. Dita, Jura! All pirates retreat and get a safe distance from the Harvesters!”

 

“Why?!” Dita called in, confused by the sudden change of orders from Meia.

 

“We've got them now, why are we pulling back?!” Jura asked, as she too was confused by the sudden change of orders.

 

All the other pirates in all squadrons were also confused by the sudden change of orders. So Kyo decided to explain the sudden change.

 

“That battle-ship isn't fighting back…and that is not a good sign. No way would the Harvesters let us get close enough to be serious threat to one of their main battle-ships like this…no way. It feels like they WANT us to get closer to their ship…now I want everyone to pull back immediately, for all we know this might be…”

 

The threat alarms blared in the GunDread's cockpit and made them turn to see the Harvester ship suddenly open it's maw. The two pilots and their comrades braced themselves and scattered, expecting a powerful shot from the battle-ship's main cannon…

 

But instead out came a massive war-machine that resembled a UFO with legs, on the top of it were two twin barreled beam cannons. And on the sides were apparently beam cannons surrounding the rims of the strange machine. The pirates had no time however wonder what it was as it unleashed a massive barrage of beam fire…totally similar to that of both the Nirvana's cannon batteries and that of Kyo's Gundam when it used HiMAT mode to fight back. The pirates were able to dodge the incoming barrage, but some of them were not so lucky. Several Dreads were badly hit and a few Vanguards had either arms or legs blown off. The pilots were lucky to have been able to get their machines far back before they would have been blown apart by the incoming storm of weapons fire and they were immediately rescued by both Aleck and Gascogne, both were accompanied by Max in his Templar Gundam. Even the GunDread and the other Dread counterparts were nearly hit, but they were lucky as their reflexes honed by training helped them.

 

*************

 

In the Nirvana…

 

The bridge crew was shocked by this sudden development as they stared at the latest weapon of the Harvesters.

 

“What is that thing?!” BC said in horror as she gazed that the new harvester monster. It was easily the size of one of the Nirvana's arm sections and seemed to be bristled with weaponry.

 

“I don't know…but there's more to it I think than what we are seeing!” Magno replied as she too was unnerved by the sight of the strange weapon.

 

“Captain! It's transforming!!” The bridge crew reported as they watched the new weapon begin to change.

 

*************

 

The pirates then watched in horror as the UFO biped suddenly began to transform into a newer form…

 

The machine then became a Mobile Suit that was….huge! It stood almost to the height of three Megele housing complexes, easily dwarfing the I-Freedom by almost two dozen or more meters! On it's chest were at least three high output beam cannons, and another in it's mouth, and it appeared to have four of the same assault guns I-Freedom had on it's head. The UFO-like system it started with was on it's back, allowing the cannons to surround it while it's double barreled beam cannons were ready to be deployed on it's shoulders. The body also had several areas loaded with missile launchers, from head to foot. It seemed to have beam cannons even in it's hands and fingers as well! On the forearms appeared to be energy emitters. The machine was decked in black and red armor similar also to Phase Shift Armor. (**)

 

The…thing then seemed to be looking on the pirate forces with deep green eyes demanding blood-shed and death as the prize for being it's enemies…sending chills down the spines of several of the Dread and Vanguard pilots.

 

But that was only the icing on the cake that the Harvesters had whipped up as another form came out from the bowels of the Harvester battle-ship…

 

Out of the bowels of the battle-ship came another weapon of the Harvesters…but to the disgust and horror of the pirates…it was another clone…of their ship the Nirvana! The thing looked to be totally made out of red and black metal, with a massive center of crystal in the middle. It beat like an evil heart as it left the confines of the Harvester battle-ship and went to flank alongside the new weapon of the Harvesters.

 

*************

 

“NO WAY!!!”

 

“THIS IS HORRIBLE!!!”

 

The pirates were in shock and horror by another level as they spotted the latest weapons of the Harvester units. The Nirvana clone and it's new Mobile Suit counter part began to move forward and get ready to fight. But it was when Kyo detected a powerful energy pulse being emitted in different directions from the Harvester battle-ship. The transmissions matched that of data bursts, and he wondered just what was going on…until he spotted it…

 

From various sectors beyond the Harvester battle-ship came Seed Ships by the scores and from them came massive waves of Cube Fighters. But they didn't come from the main battle-ship that they were facing, but they appeared from the very void of space.

 

<No way! None of the Harvester ships in record have the ability to cloak and only Seed Ships of that number can be released by a Harvester battle-ship! But how can there be more battle-ships?! We don't even detect any…unless…>

 

Kyo quickly made some adjustments to his sensors and when he filled in the variables…he gave a curse. During his time with the people of Delta 6…namely with Kouji and Maia Asuka, he was able to determine how to detect certain properties of the Kunoichi and Shinobi Gundams' stealth system. By calibrating his sensors to detect concentrated magnetic fields designed to cover certain three dimensional shapes and place them in a spectrum detectable, he was able to see the outlines of any machine covered by Mirage Colloid particles.

 

And what he saw was horrible.

 

************

 

The bridge…

 

“Where did all those Seed Ships come from?! We barely detected them and now they just came out of nowhere!?” The rest of the forces of the pirates chimed in as they were caught totally unawares by the sudden appearance of the forces of the Harvesters.

 

Magno and Buzam were stunned, how did those Harvester units evade their sensors?! There was no way they could have not been detected…so how did they?

 

“Kyo to the Nirvana!”

 

“Go ahead Kyo.”

 

“We've got a serious problem…This IS a trap and we walked right into it! Change the Nirvana's sensors to detect magnetic fields to these parameters…the Harvesters are using Mirage Colloid!”

 

It didn't take long for the Nirvana's crew to make the adjusted settings and they were stunned…

 

In the sensors and from what they were being told…there wasn't one Harvester battle-ship…

 

But five of them! And the four were armed with Mirage Colloid, just like that of the Gundams of the Asuka siblings! No wonder they were not spotted by the Nirvana's sensors! (***)

 

Things just went from bad…to horrifying as the newly detected forces of the Harvesters swarmed towards the Nirvana and their forces.

 

The true nature of the Harvester battle-plan: Operation Burning Paradise had just been revealed!

 

*************

 

The Harvester home-planet…

 

“The Nirvana has been able to bypass our forces' Mirage Colloid systems. They know now what we have really sent against them.” An aide reported to the Council as they watched the battle unfold in front of them.

 

“It doesn't matter anymore…they will have no chance against all of them.”

 

The Harvester Council merely watched as they hoped to witness the end of the Nirvana and it's crew's defiance against their whims.

 

*************

 

In the battle in front of the Nirvana…

 

The fight had become very chaotic, but the pirates held on, despite them now being far beyond overwhelmed.

 

Dreads and Vanguards moved together as they did their best to destroy many harvester units as they could. But they knew one thing, they would have to retreat and re-supply soon…but that would be very difficult.

 

Gascogne found herself burdened to the extreme as she tried to re-supply both Dreads and Vanguards, along with rescue downed pilots who abandoned their damaged machines. She and the others were blessed at least that none of them were caught by the Harvesters. The Dreki had no weaponry, but Aleck's GUiAZ unit provided point security along with the Templar Gundam of Max McFile.

 

The fight had become outright deadly as the hordes of Cube Fighters threatened to overwhelm the pirates every chance they got. For one shot down, nearly ten would appeared to take over the place of the destroyed unit. The pirates knew that despite their experience and improved weapons, they were now seriously outclassed in the numbers department, plus they were going to run of fuel and ammunition soon…and they would have been overwhelmed if it hadn't been for two things.

 

The first being support fire from the Nirvana as Bart poured beam barrage after beam barrage at the swarms of Cube Fighters, totally hundreds of them to lessen the pressure, plus taking out even more of the Seed Ships. He was getting exhausted from all the firing, plus taking the damage from the Harvesters, but he knew better than to stop and let them attack his comrades.

 

The second and last was the actions of Kyo and his Dread pilot companions. While in their GunDread, which had went into Alpha form, both Kyo and Meia's SEED modes went online and the two began to literally smash into the front lines….totaling hundreds of Cube Fighters, they smashed through Urchin vessels and tore them to pieces, and turned Seed Ships into exploding wrecks, all the while dodging incoming fire from all forces involved. Dita and Jura had also gone into SEED mode and began pounding the enemy left and right, while dodging incoming fire, they had began to try and control the Seed mode that they gained, just like Kyo could use his easily, but they still had some difficulty and needed time. Kyo wanted to train them, but he had little time to do so.

 

The other pirates were impressed and rallied behind them, and they made a great deal of resistance. But they knew that the Harvesters had their own advantages.

 

They had numbers of their side.

 

The hidden ships were nearby, though they seem to have reduced power in their armaments to use their Mirage Colloid feature installed into them, it certainly didn't mean they were less lethal than their uncloaked counter-part as they bombarded the pirates with their weaponry. They kept the pirates on their toes and pinned down.

 

The new Gundam model was busy firing so much weapons fire at the pirates, they couldn't mount an effective response, and their weaponry was worthless. The Gundam had the same Phase Shift armor as the Dominions, rendering the Dreads' missiles worthless, and the Vanguards' melee weapons were nothing as they both couldn't get close enough to hit it, plus their weapons would be worthless anyway. And even the beam weapons of the Dreads, or even the Nirvana's were not as effective as the new Earth Gundam was armed with energy shield emitters on both arms to deflect BOTH beam and ballistic fire, plus they saw that it's fore-arms could detach and defend their master unit effectively while still firing at full tilt. It didn't care if it hit it's own side's units, they could be replaced anyway.

 

The clone Nirvana wasted no time and fired the same barrage at the pirates, making it just as impossible to attack it at long range, and closing in would be impossible with it's Gundam escort supporting it, along with the Harvester battle-ships and it's forces. Bart knew better than to focus on it while he had to support the rest of the pirates in their bid to survive this ambush, he had barely made the Nirvana evade an incoming barrage from it and had to focus in holding the ship together, though he had several wounds on his arms, left shoulder, and right hip as testament to his escape. He focused himself from the pain and focused on fighting back. He also had to dodge even more attacks as well.

 

Kyo knew this for a fact and knew that they had to do something fast or they would be totally overwhelmed. He then knew that the two new weapons of the Harvesters would have to be taken out. Meia read his mind and then got into contact with their two companions.

 

“We need to take out those two units, they're the big threats right now! Meia and I will strike first and break their line walls, once we're through we can take the fight to them!”

 

“Do you think we can do it Mr. Alien?” Dita asked as she was in a panic while still using her SEED mode. They were being re-fueled by Gascogne as the shuttle was escorted by Barnette, Aleck, and Max in their respective units.

 

“We HAVE to…or we'll be in serious danger!”

 

The GunDread and the two other Paeksis enhanced Dreads, plus several other units, including Barnette's Dread, Max's Templar Gundam, and Aleck's GUiAZ unit made their move the very second they could. The pirates heard of the plan and did their best to fight and hold the line.

 

The GunDread formed by both Meia and Kyo took the lead as their friends followed them. Their attack caught the Harvesters totally off-guard as hordes of their forces fell in combat. But as they broke through and were ready to attack the two new Harvester units…they got into another shock.

 

The Nirvana clone began to shift and reform it's appearance. The body became more human-like and become heavier in armor. The arm parts of the ship form became arms and had large blades like anti-ship swords strapped at the forearms, the lower portion formed the torso and legs, while the middle with the red crystal became the chest, the front section also split, the head came out and the split section became two parts, one section melded to the back forming two spikes that also split and reveled red crystals that gave out tendrils of red energy. The last sections acted as shoulder armor bristling with gun ports. The cloned Nirvana became a Gundam!!! (****)

 

“OH HELL!!! YOU CAN'T BE SERIOUS?!” Kyo said as he saw this new change. This also stunned the rest of the pirates as they gazed at the second Gundam model.

 

The thing suddenly charged it's red center and fired a massive ball of destructive force at the GunDread and it's team-mates.

 

The group dodged the attack…but not all of them were lucky as a certain red Paeksis enhanced Dread was a little too late and got hit in the rear thrusters while trying to dodge, this caused several arcs of power to slam all over the Dread.

 

“ARRGHHH!!!”

 

The others watched as Jura's Dread was hit.

 

“JURA!!!” Barnette cried as she rushed to check on her close friend. She was able to reach it and was thankful that her blonde friend was still conscious, but knew that they might need to pull back. Dita's Dread was there as others checked on Jura. Meia was also concerned but then she felt Kyo's body tense up…she looked at Kyo and saw something change.

 

Kyo on the other hand was in shock and rage. The way Jura screamed froze his blood as he heard her pain. His heart stopped beating as he hard her voice, and in a second his body was filled with rage and anger…

 

HOW DARE THEY HURT HER?!?!

 

He turned and faced the GunDread and with a cold tone spoke at the two Harvester weapons.

 

“You DARE to hurt my loved ones?!”

 

The pirates and even the Harvesters were caught off guard as something happened.

 

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The Nirvana…

 

Parfet was surprised as the Paeksis suddenly spiked in power readings and glowed even brighter. The pirates then watched as the GunDread Meia and Kyo formed with their respective machines suddenly split. But the Gundam of Kyo began to glow in deep hues of gold and blue-green. Duero was also surprised when he detected massive spikes in Kyo's physical and mental abilities…these were the same as when he went into SEED mode…but this time…they were even higher.

 

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In the I-Freedom Gundam…

 

Kyo's eyes were still in SEED mode but this time they were literally glowing as the cockpit began to fill with panels around the young man, these panels had crystals in them that seemed to be glowing as well. The young man then went once more into SEED mode, but unlike the SEED in the past, the SEED glowed deep blue/violet and when it exploded it seemed to be absorbed by both Kyo into his eyes. The panels sensed this and reacted…glowing even more intensely.

 

The Gundam suddenly charged at full speed, dwarfing even the speed of the enhanced GunDread Meia, nearly vanishing from sight, but not before it was nearly meters from the transformed Nirvana clone with it's beam sabers ready. The new Earth Gundam was able to intercept it with one of it's free flying fore-arms with the shield on. The shield blocked the beam sabers, and the behemoth Gundam fired it's weapons in hopes of killing the Gundam, but it's left wings merely deflected the beams with frightening ease. The arm was able to force Kyo and I-Freedom back. But that barely meant that Kyo was out.

 

The I-Freedom suddenly glowed even brighter as sections of Paeksis crystals began to appear on various areas of the Gundam. There were some on the fingers, mixing with the gold color, more appeared on the shoulders, some on the elbow joints like blades and a few on the wings from links to tips, there were a pair on the knee joints like blades and shins as well. The new crystals suddenly glowed with intense energy…almost the same and in perfect sync with the power spikes coming from the Paeksis in the Nirvana…and with Kyo's apparently enhanced SEED mode.

 

Kyo merely replied as his eyes glowed with energy, while his own Gundam's own eyes glowed as well. “PREPARE YOURSELF!!!”

 

The Gundam's new crystal parts glowed even more along with the golden joints and it's eyes as it took out it's anti sword swords and then attacked at amazing speed…literally leaving after images of itself. The Earth Gundam deployed it's arm once more. But this time the shield couldn't hold off Kyo as he dodged it's attempt to stop it.

 

The behemoth Gundam came in to stop Kyo and got skewered in the shoulder by one of the anti-ship swords. The I-Freedom lifted it's sword, causing considerable damage to it. Plus Kyo's other anti-ship sword slashed right across the chest of the behemoth Gundam, making a considerable scar on it.

 

Kyo then got into contact with his allies. “I'll hold them off! Get back to the others and get some distance now!”

 

Kyo moved back as he covered the retreat of his team-mates, including the injured blonde pilot who held a part of his heart. He watched as hordes of Cube Fighters, Urchin Ships and Seed Ships came at him.

 

He didn't flinch at all as he charged once more at the mess of fighters, intent on making them pay dearly for harming Jura…or anyone he loved and cared for with all his heart. The Gundam's wings glowed along with it as the Gundam charged with anti-ship swords at the ready.

 

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Magno knew that they wouldn't be able to gain victory if the stayed here and kept on fighting this battle with overwhelming odds against them. She didn't like the idea of retreat as the next person, but better that than lose many valuable crew members and friends. Kyo knew what to do and she trusted him to make it back, his abilities and experience was something she trusted, plus he wasn't planning on dying today..

 

“Tell all our pilots to pull back now! We need to retreat and make new plans to win this fight!”

 

BC nodded as she circulated the order to pull back.

 

In moments, all the pirates began to fall back, with them having regular intervals of defending themselves and their fellow comrades. They however knew that they would have make their shots count as they wasted precious amounts of ammunition in the first half of the fighting and didn't have enough to maintain a proper attack.

 

Kyo was busy as he faced off against the Harvesters…almost reminiscent of his time fighting the Harvesters when with the people of Melanos, and before he was killed after facing the first Dominion Gundam model. He swung his anti-ship swords like scythes at the Harvesters and turned countless numbers of Cube Fighters into burning wrecks, his anger was in him, but he kept his focus, he'd make the others even sadder if he got killed in this fight. More Seed Ships were diced like chicken on a spit as he tore through many of them. Urchin ships were slashed to ribbons as he streaked past them, his Gundam's speed was off the charts, making the formerly fast Urchin ships look like statues as his Gundam jetted past them and slashed them to bits.

 

He then scanned his OS for more weapon options, and decided to try the next set. The I-Freedom then unleashed it's wings and the crystal feathers once more became metallic and burst free from their moorings on the wings, and that was enough for another barrage of beam fire to erupt from the feather cannons, the separated beam rifle, and from the extended plasma cannons and rail-guns of the I-Freedom. The result was another massive fire-works display as hundreds of burning hulks littered the void of space. He wasn't stopping as more fighters began to attack. The feathers moved everywhere spitting out high energy beams and hitting even more targets.

 

Despite the numerical superiority of the Harvesters, against Kyo, his evolved abilities and his Gundam, they were just masses of targets for him to reduce to scrap. He then used the new option for his feather cannons. The feathers began to fly about, making the Cube Fighters break apart so as to remove the chance of more of them being destroyed…but they were in for a shock as the feathers stopped in mid flight and charged right at them!!!

 

The feathers began to collect energy…but not as beam fire…the energy extended and became medium length beam blades…the feather cannons had now become beam sabers. The new weapons sliced right into their unsuspecting targets as they flew past them…leaving behind dissected Cube Fighters and even some Urchin ships. The feathers then flew back to where Kyo was and appeared as fifty floating sabers around the Gundam. They then charged alongside the I-Freedom as it flew into the fray of enemy units, placing aside it's anti-ship swords and reverted to it's beam sabers.

 

The shock was still there as the Cube Fighters were hit fast and hard…those not being turned into scrap by The Gundam's beam sabers as it streaked past them and tore them up, found themselves being shredded by the flying beam sabers. In a few moments as Kyo dashed past the cloud of Cube Fighters he dived into, the cloud exploded like a massive fire-cracker and when the light faded, there was nearly uncountable junk all over the place.

 

The transformed clone and it's smaller but still massive Gundam counter part however paid little heed to the loses of their side. They were machines with AI controlling them after all. They focused on eliminating the Nirvana and it's forces, since even the now more powerful Gundam and it's pilot would be helpless without back-up with a force of their size. The AI cores of the two machines began to target the Nirvana and it's forces…time to end this war.

 

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Kyo spotted the bastard machines begin to power up their beam arsenals…and he knew what the target would be…the retreating pirate forces…and the Nirvana.

 

<Crap!!! What do I do?! I don't know if the I-Freedom can take a blow from those two the way it is now…but I don't do something…the others are going to be massacred!!!>

 

He then detected the signals of two incoming units from the side of his friends…one was his Liberty Unit…the other belonged to a certain blonde pilot's Dread.

 

<Jura…NO! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!>

 

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The retreating fighters of the Nirvana…

 

“Leader!!! Jura's gone back with the Liberty unit of Mr. Alien!!!”

 

“WHAT?!”

 

Dita, Meia, and the others were shocked notice that the two mentioned were not in the retreating forces. Apparently Jura had disabled the recall system on her Dread…but in her injured state she would not be of much help to Kyo. Plus the ATCISS must have been commandeered by the blonde since she had been able to gain some of it's control codes.

 

They could do nothing however as they didn't have the time of over-ride the system as they and the Nirvana made a full retreat.

 

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Things on the Nirvana were also far from fine…

 

The bridge…

 

“Parfet…how's the Paeksis doing?!” Magno asked as she checked on the head engineer on the condition of the temperamental power source of the ship. Buzam was busy coordinating the retreating action of the pirates until they reached safety. Bart was out of the Nirvana's Navigation Well, he was surprised but rightly guessed that the Paeksis had taken over command of the ship. The old woman however didn't mind as he needed medical treatment.

 

“The Paeksis is reacting to the damage and healing some of the systems…but we'll have to do some very complete repairs once we're out of here.”

 

In the Engineering Bay…

 

Parfet could do little but try to control the damage to the Nirvana and keep the Paeksis calm, apparently the beams fired by the clone had a deadly effect on their Paeksis since it took over the ship when they began to retreat. She had been able to seal off damaged sections of the ship and her engineers were doing very well. But her concern was on the Paeksis.

 

“Are you afraid or something?” Parfet asked the Paeksis silently as the thing acted like a kid badly hurt and running away from the pain.

 

In the Medical Bay…

 

Duero was once more in his worst case situation as more crew members came in with injuries, Max was there also, and recalled the battle he was involved in with the crew of the Shard, both brothers worked around the clock to heal the crew, Paiway was there, and although the men could tell she was scared, she learned enough to bit down her fear and did her best to help them and her comrades.

 

Back in the bridge…

 

“Meia? What?! Where is she now?! She's going WHERE?!” Buzam said in shock as she got an incoming transmission from their Dread team leader.

 

“What's wrong BC?”

 

The sub commander faced the elder woman with a look of shock and horror. “Jura's disabled the recall system on her Dread and hijacked the Liberty…she's heading back where Kyo is!!!”

 

Magno was stunned silent along with the others as they saw the Dread of Jura and the ATCISS on the monitors of the bridge.

 

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In the Dread…

 

<God….it hurts so bad…> Jura moaned once more as she tried to ignore the pain as she guided her Dread to where Kyo was. Despite it appearing that she had gone mad, she knew what she was doing.

 

<No…I won't lose you Kyo…I won't let you face them alone…this is my choice…>

 

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In the Gundam…

 

“Jura!!! Get out of here!!!” Kyo shouted as he closed the gap with the Dread, making sure to terminate any Harvester unit trying to harm the Dread. The Harvesters knew the GunDread he and Jura formed had deadly defensive abilities and they could stop their attack so they went after her.

 

After he turned more Cube Fighter units into scrap, he merged his Gundam with Jura's Dread.

 

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In the GunDread…

 

“Oh god…no…no…Jura…”

 

Kyo's voice was pained with shock and horror at the state Jura was in. She had a gash on her forehead, and blood streamed down her beautiful face, her hair was a mess, and her clothes were torn, and had several crimson stains, showing cuts and gashes, plus there was a long streak of blood running down her left leg, showing she had a serious wound near the hip.

 

The blonde gave him a smile despite her pain. “S…s…sorry I'm late…We have to hurry.”

 

Kyo wanted to scream at her for placing herself in even greater danger and not getting treated in the Medical Bay! He wanted to try and do something…anything to save her from the pain she was going through! But he knew that the shield of their GunDread might be enough or the shield of their GunDread Alpha might do the job. So he had no choice…

 

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The ATCISS under the command of it's master fused once more with the GunDread, calling in the cybernetic Amazon fighter who quickly activated it's shield system, and in time as the fire-power from all the Harvester's forces was unleashed.

 

Kyo only had enough time to calibrate the shield's power absorption rates and prayed it would hold…

 

The beams hit hard and for several minutes, it seemed to be working…but it was too much…

 

The shield released a massive wave burst and the sheer power overloaded systems of the Harvester units, causing them to freeze and jerk from the massive energy waves. Even the two Harvester behemoths were affected…along with the Earth battle-ships. Kyo needed to create a power setting to not just absorb but dissipate and did so…praying it was enough, it was though… barely.

 

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GunDread Jura Alpha was no better… The shield couldn't handle the power and exploded, ripping off the left fore-arm and sending the mecha rocketing backwards like a missile, parts of it broke off and some of the metallic hair was blown away, along with chunks of it's armor, even it's face had tears and scratches.

 

Inside…it was no better. The only bit of good news was that the Gundam's Neutron Jammer Canceller was able to absorb all of the massive energy pulses, so the two were not hit by negative energy waves…but that didn't mean they were safe. The Prominence Phase Shift held, but in the insides, the two were hit by incoming shrapnel. Kyo was lucky to have his uniform on and the protection came in handy…but Jura had no such protection…

 

Kyo heard a great scream of pain and knew what happened…

 

“AAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUGGGGHHHHHH!!!!”

 

And his anguish mixed with horror came out in a scream…

 

“JURA!!!”

 

When the haze cleared…all he saw was Jura slumped over her area of the enhanced GunDread…with blood on her…a lot of blood. Fighting back his tears and grief to try and save her and himself, he checked her neck for a pulse...and found one…faint but very weak…if he didn't hurry…she could…die…

 

“NO! I WON'T LOSE YOU JURA!!! I WON'T!!!”

 

He gathered enough power and rocketed the damaged GunDread back to the Nirvana as fast as he could towards the Nirvana.

 

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The Harvesters pulled back for now, they had to clean up their OS for all their units…and they would resume the hunt.

 

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In a gaseous nebula, the pirate vessel limped in like a wounded beast. In the Hanger the I-Freedom was damaged badly, but was healing nicely, and so was Jura's Dread and the ATCISS unit as Parfet's engineers came to repair them…but the pilots of the Dread and the Gundam was a different matter…

 

From the very second the GunDread split, Kyo leaped out of his Gundam, not caring for his own injuries…not caring about the heat coming from Jura's Dread… he ripped off his own helmet not caring where his helmet went to as he tossed it away.

 

He pried the cockpit open and gently took the unconscious Jura from her Dread. He didn't care as she bled on him as he carried her towards the Medical Bay…he didn't care about the people around him trying to help, he didn't care about the shrapnel on him… cutting him…he didn't care about the blood trail, both his blood and hers that was behind them… All he cared about was that Jura would be alive…

 

Without any care at all he tore through the door of the Medical Bay and headed straight for the emergency room, Duero and Max were nearby and they said nothing as they knew that Jura needed to be helped. They however pointed to a nearby gurney table for Kyo to place her on.

 

As the two men wheeled the severely injured blonde pilot into the surgery room, Kyo stood there like a statue…a statue with tears as he recalled what Jura said to him before all this started.

 

Flashback…

 

Jura: “We've…we've been through so much together haven't we?”

 

Kyo: “I know…all of us have gone through a lot. But Jura, now isn't the time for this sort of thing!”

 

Jura: “Please listen to me…you…you recall me wanting to have a baby…your baby?”

 

Kyo: “Look Jura, I know that having a baby from a man would make you a new heroine on Megele, but having a baby with a man isn't some sort of…”

 

Jura: “No.”

 

Kyo: “What?”

 

Jura: “That's not the reason I want to have a baby with you…it was before…but not anymore.”

 

Kyo: “Then what's the reason?”

 

Jura: “The reason is that I want a baby with you because I…”

 

End of Flashback…

 

<No…please…Jura…you…you wanted…to…because…you?>

 

Kyo was no fool, he had a suspicion on what Jura wanted to say, her new reason. He tried to deny it…but he couldn't…he couldn't pretend that it might be something else…since he…felt the same…

 

Kyo turned and with intense fury slammed his fist on a nearby table, shattering an unused data-pad in full force…he cared little as his hand began to bleed. That form of pain was nothing to the pain he was feeling inside of him.

 

<DAMN YOU HARVESTERS!!! I'LL MAKE YOU PAY FOR THIS!!!>

 

He said in a small but very clear pleading voice…

 

“Jura…please…make it through this…”

 

He turned and looked at the occupied surgery room…with even more tears in his eyes clouding his vision.

 

“Please…don't die…”

 

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To be continued…

 

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The first dream sequence is another one of Kyo's memories coming back to him, so it's still up to me what other memories will Kyo be getting back as the series progresses.

 

I got to see a good number of video clips of Dead or Alive Extreme Beach Volley Ball 1 & 2. Seeing Helena, Hitomi, Ayane, Kokoro, Kasumi, Lei-Fang, Christie, Tina, and Lisa in their various bathing suits, poses, and more… I just couldn't help myself and try to make the second dream sequence rather…risqué, so to speak. I was laughing my head off when I had this idea, I'll admit it's not completely original, but the idea of it didn't leave my mind so I decided to write it anyway. Tell me what you think…

 

(*) Similar to Gundam Wing ZERO Custom in the Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz using it's wings to shield itself when entering the atmosphere…and when the wings would open to reveal the Gundam.

 

(**) If you recognize this appearance…then you win the guessing game. The latest weapon of the Harvesters in the Mobile Suit category is none other than the Destroy Gundam of the Earth Alliance! Apparently the Harvesters found some extra records from the old days. How will the Nirvana deal with this behemoth…considering the arsenals it has?

 

(***) Idea for the ships was based on the Girty Lue, or the Alliance ship known as the Phantom Pain. If you all have seen Gundam SEED Destiny, then you'd recognize the meaning behind it's name as the ship as been given Mirage Colloid abilities which was outlawed in the original series by the Junius Treaty, now it seems the Harvesters have this in their latest weaponry set!

 

(****) Fusion of Jehuty from Zone of the Enders or ZOE and the Strike Gundam.

 

 

Looks like Kyo's hit what could be the final stage of the Paeksis's energy influence on his cells and genes as an Ultimate Coordinator. You could say that Kyo has evolved rather well. But if you think it's too much, then you tell me. Plus the crystals were inspired by the same ones I saw on Hibiki's own Vanguard.

 

Makes you wonder what new abilities Kyo has, plus what new abilities this would give to Dita, Jura, Meia, and their GunDreads doesn't it?

 

This is seriously bad…Jura's life is on a thread…will she make it…or not? This ends this part of the Chapter 6 series, on the next we'll see if Jura lives… plus what Kyo will do now that he realizes he might lose more than just his life…but his loved ones too.

 

I'll stop and take a break and make a new part for Chapter 6 next week, so in the mean time, please send me…

 

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