Note: Scene starts after Hibiki's speech that has opened the eyes of people of Tarak and Majale. I know the last chapter was short, but I didn't think it was that interesting.
Chapter 19
"Captain, Rebecca's Paraiso is approaching from behind." Ezra mentioned, Magno smiling at the advantage.
"I hope you and your crew are ready for battle." Magno mentioned.
"Armed and ready, we've prepared ourselves for the Harvest fleet." Rebecca replied to Magno with a smile.
Meia took a breath, finally deciding how the fleet should align.
"All ships, Attack formation Alpha, behind the Vanguard Zero, Dread Bluestreak and the Phoenix." She ordered, as a familiar ship approached her.
"Hey Valore, their pretty slippery, you might-"
"Meia, must I remind you the odds are really low if we face them ourselves!" Vyse stated, as Meia groaned.
"Hey, the least you can do is let me make a crack!" Valore stated annoyed.
"Let him be Valore, Vyse isn't playing around, we're facing more then one flagship, and we lost a good crewmate during the battle when we faced the second one." Misty said, a sad tone at the end of her voice.
More ships aligned, as the elites came in, aligning in with the Nirvana's dread fleet, making a larger fleet. Barnette flew above the fleet with swift ease.
"Huh, wait Barnette-"
"Their going to be deli orders anyway, I might as well start here, right?" She asked.
"Or maybe you just want an excuse to fight!" Pyoro mentioned.
Behind the scenes people can pull their own weight too!" She stated, as the alarm went off, as a golden harvester flagship approached.
"Large magnitude object!" Amaro stated.
"Unmistakable, a harvester flagship!" Bel mentioned.
"Impossible, how did they manage to get through the field!" BC demanded.
"As far as I can tell, they used the Nirvana's recognition code, making it easier to pass!" Cel answered.
"Those slimy bastards!" Magno said, very surprised they had gotten through.
The delivery ship turned around, charging towards the oncoming flagship. Vyse immediately took off, as he moved to intercept Barnette.
"I'll take the lead, you gu-" She was cut short as Vyse stopped her in her path, with both of the vanguards arms pushing against the ship, halting her in her place.
"What the hell Vyse! Our enemy is here!" Vyse mentioned in a scowling tone.
"Hasty choices lead to bad results, haven't you learned that?" He said, as Barnette was about to call him a traitor for his actions when someone familiar spoke up.
"This wouldn't be the first time this ship was considered to be with the harvest. Though I must say, you've changed since I last saw you Vyse!" Gascogne stated amusingly.
"NO FUCKING WAY!" Vyse said, shocked to even hear the lady speak turning his vanguard around.
"Th-that voice!" Barnette said, surprised as well.
"Ms. Gasco." Dita mentioned.
"So Ms Gasco was on that ship." Bel stated.
"So that's how she knew our recognition code!" Cel said relieved.
Immediately did a comm window appear, as a purple haired female in her early teens with glasses on looked on annoyed, Gasco sitting behind her with an irritated glare.
"Dammit, how many times does she have to tell you guys, it's NOT GASCO, IT'S GASCOGNE!" Lucca yelled, as she scolded them.
"It's good to see you again." Magno said warmheartedly.
"It's been a pretty amusing, but long journey, but I brought this baby to help you guys fight Earth. The allies though you can thank Mika and Pearl for." Gascogne mentioned as Magno looked with a puzzled glance.
"Allies?" She asked.
"That must be the fleet of several different ships, but who are they." Bel mentioned, as a fleet consisting of several different constructed ships approached.
"Several unknown ships approaching... but they seem to be en route to the Ichazuchi!" One of the men aboard the Todoroki muttered.
"What the hell's going on here!" The Captain muttered to himself.
"It's a pleasure to finally meet the crew that has caused so much trouble for the Earth Harvest operation." A voice mentioned, as a female with red hair, and brown eyes in a red and brown high ranking officer's uniform appeared in a communications window.
"I'm Lucile O'Connell, head Admiral of the Crimson Rebellion and Captain of the Homeland. We've kept a low profile to avoid Earth finding us, but our pilots are trained to fight any Harvester squads." She stated.
"Sounds more like you've ran for a time, but considering Pearl and Mika are with you, you have earned my trust in your abilities." Magno said smiling.
"Trust me, we've been looking for someone like you for a long time. We will help defend your planets from becoming harvested."
The fighters moved out, flying alongside as they all aligned to the left side of the Pirate fleet, the leader being a red oval shape ship (Millinium Falcon but altered greatly) with two ships beside.
"Gold leader to all units, keep a tight formation on this side, got it!" Wallace ordered, as everyone answered with a 'yes sir'.
"Surprise Vyse!" Mika said as she appeared in a comm window.
"We've become the wing girls of Wallace Gilder. He's known to be a womanizer, but when it comes to leadership, he's one hell of a leader." Pearl completed with a smile.
"Okay." Vyse said confused.
Several mech units flew in, a couple in their jet mode, as they aligned to the right side of the Pirate fleet, a Mech with a mounted cannon on his left shoulder, and held a scythe weapon (Vile from MMX, but more mechanized) was at the front.
"Forest Antilles to Sigma, Epsilon and Chi units, keep in formation, no rashness, understood?" He said with a bold, and demanding voice.
"Roger!" All remarked.
The Flagships of the Crimson Rebellion aligned aside of the Nirvana and Paraiso, as they took their stance.
"Wow, with this many allies, we're sure to beat the earth this time!" Dita said hopeful.
"Hope theirs still room, I didn't expect they would be here!" Rabat said, as he and several ships approached the already growing squadron.
"Rabat?"
"Thanks to all the markers you laid out, you might find a few spectators!" He mentioned, as two familiar people appeared on the comm window, BC smiled, remembering them from the outpost.
"There's another fleet approaching, right behind Rabats group now!" Amaro stated.
"Another fleet?" Magno asked.
Several familiar ships approached behind the fleet Rabat brought in, as the head Admiral opened communications.
"Greetings, this is the anti-Earth fleet of Melanis, we've come to offer our friendship to Hibiki Tokai." They stated, as Hibiki thought back to the fleet that died, but knew they would reclaim the spirits of their friends from the fleet that saved him.
From the right did a Tarak fleet approach with several dozen Vanguards.
"This is the Todoroki, flagship of an Ex Tarak fleet, we are in agreement with your objectives and would like to help out!" The head Admiral stated.
"Ahoy there, this is general Ozeki Kyunmel of the Gale squad, a group of attack vanguards, we would like the honor of being the first to attack!" He said, moving in front of all the others as the entire bridge of the Nirvana sighed.
"Idiots!" Misty and Vyse said at the same time, before noticing the other squad.
"This is the Majale border guard here, may we offer you some assistance as well?" The head leader asked as they approached.
"Wow, seems everyone's coming out of the woodworks aren't they." Ezra commented, Magno smiled on, so many already had come to their aid, to fight alongside of them to defend their home planets from the harvest.
The elders of the First Generation watched in amazement as all the allies came, they never had seen so many ships assemble to fight off the harvest. Many who resisted died, but something about this squad was different.
"There are so many of them, in answer to Hibiki's call!" Grand Ma said amazed by the many squads.
"Well then, I guess its out of our hands!" Grand Pa said.
"Alright everyone!" Hibiki stated, "This is where we stand up to Earth, let's show them what we can do!" He shouted, as everyone cheered him on.
Immediately did the alarms go off, as the Harvest flagships approached.
"Admiral O'Connell, we've detected six flagships emerging from the magnetic storm, one's approaching the mine field!" One of the crewmates in the bridge announced.
"All units, hold your positions... let's see what they're up to!"
Immediately did the mines activate and begin to fly towards the Harvester ship that moved passed the safety point, causing a huge explosion to occur right before the alliance. As the explosions died down, the battered flagship sunk down and blew up, the attack more deadly then the one used at the forming star battle. Five ships already begin to unleash pods, as cubes showered around, forming the fake Vandreads and Nirvana's, plus a few others from the urchins to the speeders approached, millions forming all around as they advanced towards the defense squad.
"Nothing but Doppelgangers, but still so many!" Vyse muttered to himself, as he looked on at the storm of enemies before them.
"Hah, look at that!" Ozeki stated, as he twirled his lance around, as he and the other Vanguards advanced forth into the storm of harvester squadrons. "I'd say it's a good day to die!" He said going forth.
"All units, hold your positions!" Wallace and Forest stated, as the some of the advancing fleet halted behind their leaders.
Ozeki moved in, as he evaded the claw of the fake Jura Vandread with ease, he thrusted the lance into the bottom of the ship, as he spun it around, throwing it into a pod, as he shot at it with one blast, blowing it to smithereens.
"Here we go! Follow me boys!" He stated, as they charged forth.
"Oh wow!" Dita stated surprised.
"We've got to stop them!" Hibiki said, as the cannons mounted, sending a blast that blew a small squad of the harvest fleet up, as more drones came forth from the ashes.
((All three happen at the same time, I divided each with break lines))
"Gold Leader to Alpha, Beta, Delta, Phi and Lambda fighters, follow me!" He shouted, the Neo Vixen taking lead, as the other ships followed, as they spread out upon reaching the enemies, fighting whatever was in their path, as they moved swift and soundly, taking out whatever automated bogey was in their path.
"Alright! Sigma, Epsilon, and Omicron units, CHARGE!" Forest ordered, as the fleet moved forth, firing their lasers as they shot down a small portion of the drones.
They continued forth, as attacked with their close range weaponry, slicing and dicing cubes, pods, and any other harvester drones that attacked, some even fired their guns at point blank range.
Forest used his mounted cannon to blow the head of the fake Dita Vandread down before it could use its twin cannons on him.
"Save the bombs for the flagships, use artillery laser shots and close range weaponry for the enemies." Forest ordered, as he continued into the enemy swarm.
"Launch the attack!" Meia ordered, as several 'Rogers' followed, the dreads charging forth into the storm of enemies.
The golden harvester moved up, as Lucca cracked her fingers.
"Time for Lucca the great to make her move!" she said to herself, as she typed in several commands, as the pods moved off of the golden flagship, and spat out some cubes, as they separated and charged forth, attacking all enemy units, as several fake Vandreads where torn apart by each of the golden cubes. The Alliance flagships fired back, keeping their range of attacks away from their allies. Bart took the opportunity to make his move, as he showered the enemies in laser fire. Melanis showered the field with high powered shots, slicing through enemies coming closer to their fleet. More and more did ships put up a front, the rebellion using old age artillery lasers, others beam busters or sheer linier shots of lasers.
Spectators looked on in awe at the already intense battle as the war for their freedom was being fought. So many fighting to bring down the harvest operation that had plagued the galaxy for so many decades.
"Now this is what I call one hell of a show!" Rabat said, looking on at the already increasing battle.
Utan groaned, as she looked at him with begging eyes, as he gave her a understanding face.
"No, not yet, okay!" He said.
Charging forth into battle, did Vyse cut apart cubes and doppelganger vandreads as he moved through, heading towards the flagship on the left side by the view of the alliance.
"Mist, stick with Meia!" He ordered.
"Why? What are you planning?" She asked concerned.
"Flagship busting... and I already have a target, stick with Meia and help them out, understood?" He asked, as Misty sighed, and replied with a 'understood'.
She flew off, as Vyse looked to his target, slicing down urchins, pods, and a doppelganger Nirvana, but had more help as Demi fired several shots to the head, blowing the head to smithereens.
"Demi... this shots going to drain my energy... I need you to get me out of here after I stop my shots, got it?" He asked.
"I recommend that you merge with the phoenix, it will amplify your power by ten fold as you would say." She mentioned.
"Ten fold huh? Alright, lets do it!" He replied as the Phoenix split in three, the bottom merging at the torso, as the wings merged upon the blasters, as Vyse took position in front of the harvester flagship, as he charged his cannon, as the flagship did the same.
A shot commenced, Vyse was first, as it intercepted the shot of the flagship, sending a counter attack as the front blew apart, as the already high magnitude blast from Zero tore through the flagship, as it made its way to the core, eradicating it to nothing, before blowing out form the other side, as the flagship began to explode. Vyse immediately flew off, as the flagship blew up with a intense wave of fire coming from behind.
"And then there where four!" Vyse stated.
Hibiki and the others looked on in awe, amazed that one flagship went down so easily.
"Hibiki, look out!" Misty called out, as he turned in time to blast down a speeding squid, as he took a breath.
"Damn that Vyse, he's stealing the spotlight!" Hibiki said with arrogance.
"Don't worry about him, let's just see if we can even the score!" Meia said, as Hibiki left Dita and combined with Meia.
The Neo Vixen flew fast, with several cubes on its tail. Two Alpha wings flew in, as they shot them down.
"How's things going!" Pearl asked with a tease.
"I'm still kicking, what do you think?" He replied arrogantly.
"Cool your jets Wallaby, anger leads to death!" Mika warned.
The ships flew forth, approaching one of the flagships.
"All units, fire missiles only upon the flagships, we need to take them out before anything else!" Wallaby ordered, as the Crimson Rebellion fighters acknowledge his orders.
Missils streamed out, as the Phi hornets launched several missiles from the missile packs upon their ships. The Alpha wings, Beta Pursers, Delta Stingers and Lambda Hawks fired missiles, causing a huge blast as the explosion died down, revealing a small crack upon the flagship.
"Gold Leader, we've breached the surface, but its too small for any ship to fit in!" One of the pilots mentioned.
"We've drained all available missiles!" Another mentioned.
"We've got it covered!" Came a voice, as a Melanis fighters came in, delivering several streaming missiles to the crack, breaking it down into a larger gap as they flew inside.
"We'll take out the core, you guys get your missiles restocked!" They muttered.
"Gold leader to all units, restock at the Star Runners, and prepare to run another attack!" Wallaby ordered, as the ships flew back towards the blockade.
Ozeki charged forth, as he punched down a Urchin, as he moved on, but was intercepted by the fake vandread Meia, as it crashed into him. Immediately did his lance fall out from his grasp, as his ship took damage. The Vandread was suddenly destroyed, as Forest approached him.
"Pretty reckless for an old timer!" He commented.
"Shuddup! I've got more experience with this vanguard then you have in your lifetime!" He yelled back, showing his arm with the scar. "It takes work to survive, dyings easy!"
"Got me there!" Forest said, as he charged forth "Lets combine our forces and do some real damage!" He requested.
"Now your talking!" Ozeki agreed, as the two moved forth, ordering their fighters to work together.
Another flagship blew up with Melanis ships flying away. Vyse looked on in surprise.
"Three remaining!" He said with glee.
Hibiki looked on, as he thought back to how the Melanis fleet died.
"Somethings wrong!" He said, looking at them, as Meia heard him.
"What is it?" She asked.
"The flagships... they seem to be holding back... they could easily fight back, but there not!" Hibiki answered, as he saw them.
"Why do you think they're waiting for?" Meia asked, not getting an answer.
Vyse flew off, towards another flagship, as the Phoenix and Bluestreak came with him.
Gasper glowed green, as his aura spread upon the Pheonix. Immediately did cables come out, as they pulled Vyse into it, as others restrained the Bluestreak.
"What the hell!" Vyse muttered, as he was pulled towards the ship.
"Demi, whats going on!" Misty demanded.
Immediately did the three ships glow green, as a large green orb surrounded them.
"There is no need to fear... I will always be with you both..." Gasper said.
"What the... whats going on?" Vyse said, feeling different.
"You are no longer immune Vyse, you now are more human then ever." Gasper answered, as both Vyse and Misty floated within the green aura.
"What are you doing!" Misty demanded once more.
"Giving birth to a powerful weapon... its power grows stronger as your bond strengthens." He mentioned.
The bridge of the Nirvana looked on at the light.
"That energy level, its similar to the paksis, but less powerful!" Amaro stated.
"Another miracle?" BC asked.
"That cat sure has many tricks!" Magno thought smiling, knowing he was at his end. "I'll sure miss having him on my lap."
A metallic roar rang out upon the battlefield as the orb charged forth, destroying all enemies within its path, as it left a large hole within the fake Nirvana bot, proceeding to ram its way through on of the three harvest flagships leaving only more damage within the ship, as it exited the ship blowing up from behind, the sphere of green vanishing, as before was a panther like beast, with a scorpion tail and two mounted guns. Its color a metallic dark green, with shades of black and metallic gray upon it. Its neon green eyes glowed as it let out a roar.
"Misty is the pilot, Vyse is the navigator and gunner. Together can you both make good use of this machine." Gasper said.
Misty sat in the front, as Vyse took the backseat. They looked in awe at the controls.
"Wow, talk about powerful." Vyse said.
"It may not be a Vandread, but it should have a name" Misty said.
"Feline of Hope!" Vyse suggested, Misty nodded at the name.
"Perfect!" She said with a smile.
"Admiral, unidentified object heading this way!" One of the bridge hands called out.
"What could this be?" She muttered to herself.
"The Big Boy's here!" Rabat said, "That things no harvester flagship, that ones a planet buster." He said, hearing gasps.
"The powerhouse of the harvest?" O'Connor asked.
"The heart and brains of the operation, the Earth paksis was placed into that ship." Rabat stated, as O' Connor took a gulp.
"Mist, head forth to that ship!" Vyse ordered, as she pressed on the accelerator, but the thrusters did not go.
"Huh?"
"Mist, stop screwing around!" Vyse scowled.
"How dare you say such a thing! This thing must be broken." She stated, as she started to kick at the accelerator.
"I cannot allow you to intervene with them!" Gasper stated, as his cat like face appeared on the monitor.
"Why?" The two demanded.
"Interference with this fight may result in Earths victory... we must leave this to Hibiki!"
Vyse sighed, as he crossed his arms.
"Fine... but if things take a turn for the worst, you best let us intervene." Vyse stated.
"Have faith in Hibiki... he will be the one to take down the Big Boy."
The three sides opened, firing a beam that impacted upon vandread Jura, separating the two components. Hibiki groaned, as he decided to even the odds. Thus did the four ships combined, knowing it was time to use the untimate form, as the ships swirled together, glowing blue, as all four combined.
Super Vandread formed, as it charged forth, slicing all automated beings in its way. Lasers shot forth, as it changed into its jet mode as it moved forth, as it fired a blue blast that intercepted the red beam already advancing towards them, both colliding, before the blue beam moved forth, blowing apart the ship. The dust soon cleared, as a shield remained around the Big Boy, leaving the middle area untouched.
"We've found it, the scariest of them all!" Pyoro stated, as within the compound sat the leader of the harvest, a mere child.