Disclaimer: I do not own Vandread, it belongs to Gonzo, the things are mine are characters from Theora.

Allies Out There

By Eric Tsai

Prologue "The Patrol"

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This is the sequel from "The Actions and Words That Mattered", so I will disregard everything happened after Episode 8 of the First Season.

I don't really know how long it is going to take for me to finish this story, but I know one day I will get it done eventually. So on we go. More Hibiki/Meia story, yay. See you at the end.

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It had been quite a few weeks since their confession and Hibiki and Meia's relationship was growing, but slowly.

The other onboard the Nirvana had different responses to this turn of event.

Most of the crew was either neutral or supportive of the relationship with the exception of Dita, who had been so infatuated with Hibiki. She had not taken it well, but they believe that time would eventually heal this wound.

"Hibiki, do you think Dita is going to be okay?" Meia asked as Hibiki looks at the stars in HUD of Vandread Meia, while they flew in the space, carrying on their patrol.

"I thought you don't really care about people other than yourself." Hibiki was half joking as he said that, but he gulped as he saw Meia's hurt looks.

"Sorry." Hibiki apologized, which was something he had learned over the past few weeks.

Meia smiled, which was something that she learned from their relationship so far.

They both learned a lot from one another, as though they were similar, their approaches to things were quite different.

Of course, it was only done by arguments and reconciliation, but now their relationship was growing slowly due to the fact they knew very little about the romance between the two sexes.

But they were content with it, at least so far they were.

The difference in age, although at first was also a problem, was also solved as they progressed on.

Everything seemed just so perfect right now.

"Hibiki, when we get back, you are coming over right?" Meia asked with a happy voice and a smile as she unintentionally pressed her body against her boyfriend's back.

Hibiki blushed as he felt two soft orbs pressed against his back.

"She really changed." Hibiki thought as he turned his face to answer her.

"Yeah, sure." He replied with a smile.

He remembered the last time he went over, they spent a lot of time talking and it ended with them eating the dinner she cooked, which was something very unusual for the flight lead of Nirvana, who was known to be cold and emotionless.

"Meia, about last time…" He paused for a few seconds as Meia paid close attention to what he wanted to say.

"Meia, was that the first time you cooked?" Hibiki asked as he remembered that Meia had always ate in the cafeteria.

"Well, yes." She answered shyly with an embarrassed smile as a blush appeared on her face.

"She is really cute when she does that." Hibiki smiled as complemented her in his mind while his eyes remained on him.

The conversation lasted on in the small space that was the cockpit of Vandread Meia and just as they were about to return to Nirvana, they noticed something on the far corner of their radar screen.

"What do you think it is?" Hibiki asked as Meia pressed a few buttons and made a few adjustments.

"I don't know, but let's report in then check it out." Meia said as she turned on the radio connection to Nirvana.

"Nirvana, this is Meia, we have detected an unknown object, we are proceeding to ID it to determine if it is hostile or not." Meia then waited for an reply.

"Roger that, Meia." Ezra's voice came back, and Meia smiled as she turned her gaze to Hibiki.

Then remembering Ezra's baby made her think about the future, in which she and Hibiki would live happily together and she would have a son and a daughter.

She had heard about how to have a child with a man from Pyoro, which sounded somehow scary and yet excitingly tempting.

But really, she knew this was not the time to think about such things, because they have a task at head.

"Let's go Hibiki." Meia said while slowly increasing the speed as Hibiki nodded in agreement then laid back onto her body because of the G acceleration.

The objects increased speed at first, but then it slowed down as other objects appeared on the radar.

"We have three more objects appearing on the radar." Hibiki said as they carefully maneuvered the Vandread while asteroids were appearing.

Then energy beam began blazing in front of them and they turned the ship on a hard right, avoiding yellow energy beams.

"This is a trap." Hibiki said as Meia tried to raise Nirvana on the other side.

"It's not working, something is jamming our communication." Meia shouted as Hibiki noticed that they were not the only fighting Harvester cubes.

"Meia, there is something over there fighting them as well." Hearing that, Meia flew the ship across an asteroid that was blocking the view of the other fight.

What appeared before them was a large blue ship, perhaps even larger than Nirvana, firing its defensive weaponry along with several fighters and other flying objects firing different sorts of weapon at the Cubes.

"Should we help them?" Hibiki asked as Meia was still a little stunned by the unknown ship.

Just as she was about to reply, she noticed that the unknown forces was actually fending off the Harvest Cubes pretty well, actually better than they were.

"Even though they probably don't need it, let's help them." Then they flew in and commenced a strafing run against the enemy.

The fighters and other flying vessels belonging to the unknown forces were surprised, but seeing that they were also fighting off the cubes, began to coordinate attack with them through accurate prediction of what the other would do.

"These people are quite good." Hibiki said with a smile as he was happy to see strong people on their side.

Then a garbled communication came in, it was a language they did not understand, but the writing that came along with the language was something Meia could read.

"Activating subspace jump in two minutes, all fighters and gunboat, please dock." Meia read as she knew that they would probably be dragged along as well.

"There is no way we can get out that fast." Hibiki said as several cubes tried to grab hold of them.

Two minutes went by very fast and as soon as the count down reached zero, all smaller vessels belonging to the unknown forces had entered into the fighter bay and the bay was closed as a bay door slowly slid down from the top.

Mean while onboard the bridge of the large ship, which was a room as large as university lecture hall with the captain's chair in the back opposite higher level to the large reinforced glass window while tens of terminals manned by crew members dressed in navy blue uniform.

"Sir, the unknown vessel won't make it in time." A man who appeared to be the first officer said as the defensive weapon continued their fire barrage.

"Do they have shield?" The captain asked.

"Yes, they do, sir." The first officer replied.

"Then, it should be okay." The captain said as he hand signaled the man who was on the terminal to his left, while another officer on the lower level typed in a very fast manner.

"Activating subspace." The officer who was typing said as a energy rift appeared before the ship.

While outside, Meia and Hibiki was trying to struggle free, but then the sight of the a wormhole opening caught their complete attention.

They both nodded as they looked each other as they braced for impact as the ship entered the wormhole, taking Vandread Meia with them with the pull and seconds later, the space was left only debris.

To be continued…

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Quite interesting, I hope. Anyway, please read and review, feedbacks and comments are welcomed.