Experimental Fate - Vandread

[GargantuaBlarg]

Re: Experimental Fate - Vandread

5 sounds Fun.

 

[the_taken]

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Outside the ship, the space pirates' eight fighter crafts were circling the Ikazuchi, using the debris from wreck satellites, asteroids and the destroyed escort ships as cover. Their heist was going off without a hitch. The entire Tarak space fleet was scattered around the whole planet evenly while the target of the week was isolated with only two small cruisers for protection, which they easily overpowered. All they needed now was a way into the enemy flag ship to relieve the crew of it.

"These energy shields are really useful," said Jura in her resonating and melodic voice, "I'm so glad we got them working." She had insisted on a custom design for her ruby red painted fighter craft, having a few extra generators so that she would never had to worry about her beautiful craft getting marred or damaged again.

"Don't get cocky, Jura," replied Meia, their aloof flight leader. "These shields are not impenetrable. Break off if you take a hit. Let them recharge." Her own craft kept the spartan colours of the Majere's military, however she had it retrofitted with slightly larger engines, designed for high speed aerial acrobatics.

"I know, I know. You briefed us for ever on how to use them," Jura retorted. Her flight leader's stoicism was getting on her nerves.

"I'm having trouble finding that last fighter, Meia," came the bright voice of Dita, another pilot. Her retrofitted sapphire craft had a sinister paint job that was at complete odds with her personality and intention.

"Don't worry, I just spotted it." Barnette, the fourth member of the pirate fighter squadrons flying the standard chrome Majere military space fighter. She fired off a barrage of missiles, destroying a small ugly craft that they had been chasing. "That's the last of the escort's fighters. Man these things are shoddy."

"Not quite the last one," Meia corrected, noting a new blip on her radar screen. "I'm detecting another target, slightly smaller than their usual fighter. It just came out of the flag ship. I'm not getting any information on it. It must that new Vanguard fighter that we've been hearing about."

"Just one? That's pretty arrogant, considering the damage we've done without taking any in return," Jura said in a haughty tone, as if taunting the Tarak forces.

"Follow my lead, but don't let your guard down." Meia veered her craft around a piece of debris from a cruiser, exposing her self to the weapon batteries firing from the Ikazuchi, her wing mates right behind her. "The hanger that fighter came out of is out ticket inside."

As Meia sped her ship towards the new battle attendee, her ship's weapon system automatically began locking missile targeting information. She unloaded a battery of super heated particles at the target with the forward mounted canons. She had a small moment of satisfaction when the volley connected with her target, which went away when her sensors didn't indicated any change in the target's velocity or mass. The missile guidance system indicated a successful target lock, and she fired a pair of missiles, which sped off ahead of her ship, straight at the strange fighter.

In his stolen Vanguard, Hibiki was ventilating. He was caught off guard by the sudden attack, not expecting the enemy to be using such agile and fast craft with rapid firing particle weapons. He felt such relief when the attack merely made some soft pinging sounds as it struck his stolen fighting machine. "You're a tough nut to crack aren't you, partner?" he said to the vehicle, not exactly knowing what the term meant. It was catchy, though.

His near calm demeanour was broken when the automated attack detection system detected a pair of target seeking projectiles. His eyes widened in fear, uncertain at what to do. Then at the last second, inspiration hit, and he spun the Vanguard while flailing it's arms out. The missiles flew right past him, and veered into each other as the attempted to correct their course to hit their target.

Elated at his luck and genius, he grinned. These space pirates weren't so tough. He looked at the radar and noted that he had four of their craft heading straight for him. He picked one and decided he would concentrate on attacking that one, while keeping a sharp eye on his radar to avoid any attacks.

Meia nearly growled in frustration. Not only was the tiny fighter incredibly tough, but it was also nimble enough to dodge a pair of missiles, and they were still speeding towards it. "Squad One, concentrate weapons on that fighter," she ordered, "let's see how tough it is." She barely registered the affirmation of Jura, Dita and Barnette as she held down the trigger for the particle cannons.

Four constant volleys of the super heated matter flew towards the Vanguard, as well as a few missiles from Dita that were unfortunately destroyed by the attack they were accompanying. The four large fighter craft and the lone Vanguard continued to speed towards each other, until the blue and red craft veered off to avoid collisions, followed soon after by the chrome ship, leaving Meia's craft heading straight for the Vanguard.

Meia was scowling as she approached. The enemy craft wasn't firing back, just taking every hit it could while continuing on a direct course. If it intended to collide with her, he ship had nearly eight times it's mass, and she had the shields to protect her. Even then, she wouldn't let it hit her.

Then the instant were she was in visual range of the fighter came. She could easily make it out between her cannon blasts. To her surprise, it had a humanoid shape, and she suspected it had fully articulate motions as well, since it was brandishing a sword.

She turned her craft an instant too late, and she heard a loud screeching noise as she flew past the Vanguard. She looked over her should to the wing and noted a huge gash in the armor running for the front to the back. Her collision alarms were going off, but didn't note and damage. The Vanguard's sword luckily didn't hit any system, only managing a superficial hit.

"Regroup behind cover," Meia ordered as she manoeuvred her fighter around and back behind the debris cloud as weapons fire from the enemy flag ship caught up to them. "Keep an eye on that Vanguard."

"Meia, are you all right?" she heard Dita inquire through the coms.

"I've taken minimal damage. My shields held, however that sword went right through it."

"Sword? That thing tried to fight you in melee? In space?" Jura asked in disbelief, before breaking down in laughter.

"Avoid the Vanguard. It has an idiotic design and attack strategy, but can be dangerous if you're not careful. Concentrate on the enemy flag ship. Squadron Two, provide cover during out boarding run." She then noted that several more fighters had poured out of the their target vessel while they regrouped from their attack run. "More Vanguards have been deployed. Squadron 2 will distract them using formation Queen Three.

"Roger," the flight leader for the other half of the fighter crafts replied.

Back in the Vanguard, Hibiki was having trouble. He had successfully damaged the pirate's fighter craft, but didn't cripple it in the least. He had also lost sight of when the weapon's fire from the Ikazuchi suddenly filled his radar, which he was busy dodging. Part of him wanted to scream out, high off his own adrenalin.

The artillery barrage subsided, letting Hibiki catch his breath. He then noticed the slower blips on his radar coming from the Ikazuchi: Other Vanguards.

1. "COME GET SOME!!!"
2. Back to the Ikazuchi: That artillery fire from the Ikazuchi is giving him a headache. He should fly back to the vessel and convince them to stop firing in his general direction. With his Vanguard's fists.
3. Just leave: He's tough enough that he should be able to evade all the fighting and get back the surface. It's only a matter of time before his luck runs out.
4. Finish her off: Hibiki already has a target, a space pirate's fighter craft. He should hunt it down and finish it off. He scored a hit, so he should be able to score another.
5. Find a new target: They space pirates aren't so tough. But maybe he should try to sneak up on an unsuspecting target instead of chasing a foe wise to his antics.
6. Find the enemy command ship: Those fighters didn't come out of nowhere. They need a place to hang out when they're are blowing shit up, a place to hold all the loot they gather.

 

[Darkboy]

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5.

I would've chosen 6 but I'm getting a bad vibe from it.

 

[Diagasvesle]

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5.

 

[BlueSlime]

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6.

 

[Dragontear]

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Hibiki's original objective was to escape, so why the fighting? 3! Make like any scientist with a sense of self-preservation and get to saftey, the navy can fend for itself. And why make himself even more known to the forces?

 

[Ranger Princess]

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Just read everything to catch up. ^_^

6.

 

[Ryka]

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Do 6. Gogogo!

 

[plmnko]

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3

 

[the_taken]

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Hibiki's sense of self preservation was warring with his adrenalin high. He wasn't a soldier, let alone experienced at fighting, and his original goal was just to steel the Vanguard and disappear with it. But the excitement was too much to ignore. He never felt more alive than right at this moment, lost between two warring faction that wanted him dead.

However, he wasn't going to be very effective if he just flailed his ship around, attacking anything that moved. He had to use some semblance of intelligence. He flew manoeuvred the Vanguard out of the range of the Ikazuchi's artillery, and hid behind a decrepit satellite, then stared at his radar to make sense of the battle.

"Hmm..." he thought aloud, "eight pirate fighter crafts in two groups... against two cruisers and one huge battle ship. What exactly are they after? Besides out innards..." If they wanted men to eat, it would have been easier to sneak down onto the planet and kidnap civilians, and therefore they had to want something the military ship had. "Weapons? Not really. They have better technology, it seems. What are they after?"

He shrugged. "Well, whatever it is. They'll need place nearby to keep it all. I don't think they keep everything in those fighter craft. And it's probably a big ship, cause flying back and forth from Majere in those things probably isn't comfortable."

He grinned. "Maybe they'll surrender if they're mother ships is wrecked. They'll have to, since they won't be able to leave Tarak without it, and they'll be depresses at losing all their loot." He laughed, "And I'll be named a war hero for single handedly defeating the pirate women. They'll forgive my criminal actions and give me funding for my research! They'll give me an army of Vandreads to play with!" He began fiddling with the Vanguard's radar and communication system, searching the area for a larger ship that the wasn't part of Tarak's military, occasionally cackling with glee.

After several minutes of staring at the scanner screen, Hibiki noticed that the Ikazuchi had split into two pieces. It wasn't destroyed, it had simply separated apart. What once was a huge rectangle was now a large boxy cruiser which held the Ikazuchi's bridge and it's two large gun platforms, the new section, moving away from the other half; and the large sleek and curved section with a protruding sphereical structure that was the cargo hold, Vandread hanger and power plant for the weapon platforms, the old section. "What is going on over there?" The old section was launching dozen of small craft from the around it; the escape pods.

It was then that Hibiki noticed an odd asteroid moving towards the old section. When he looked at it on his video screen, he saw a completely different shape than what was on the Radar. He saw was looked like a red oval with large egg like section at the back, and several lights.

"There it is," Hibiki exclaimed, having found the pirates' command ship. Of course, it was easy since they revealed themselves en route to the old section of the Ikazuchi, but Hibiki congratulated himself none the less.

He came out of his hiding space and sped towards the pirate command ship as it connected with the Ikazuchi's old section. After a few moments, his radar system picked up a couple of huge missiles coming from the new section of the Ikazuchi. Soon afterwards, the pirate command ship disconencted from the abandoned section of the Tarak's was ship, and Hibiki then realized that both torpedoes were headed for the old section of the Ikazuchi.

Then inspiration hit him. The pirates had taken what they wanted and kicked the men out of the ship they had boarded. Then brought their mother ship out of hiding to move all the loot they got and recollect their boarding party. On the other hand, the Tarak military was pissed off at losing their new ship, and decided to blow it up while the women were looting it, and they were now scrambling away. The ship was now empty, but the torpedoes would destroy it. But where the pirates' fighters?

1. Time to go: Hibiki has what he wanted all along, the Vanguard with the modified crotch component. He should leave.
2. Save the Ikazuchi: If no one wants it, Hibiki should prevent its destruction by destroying the torpedoes, then take it for himself. Uncertain where he'd put it, but he's confident he could figure it out with a dubious application of Science!
3. Join the Pirates: Well, the Ikazuchi may have been lost, but maybe the pirate women would be willing to take Hibiki into their crew. It would be a pain avoiding the authorities back on Tarak, and hopefully they wouldn't want to eat him if he impresses them enough.
4. Attack the Pirates: Although they would take collateral damage from the torpedoes' explosions, they'd get away. Hibiki should make sure they pay for their pirate ways!
5. Attack the Army: The Pirate Women of Majere are about to leave, but Hibiki still has an adrenaline high! Blood lust even! He should vent it by attack the forces of Tarak. He won't run out of targets anytime soon.

 

[Diagasvesle]

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2!! Doom!!!!! DOooooooooooooooommmm!!!

 

[Ranger Princess]

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I agree; 2 sounds fun.

 

[Darkboy]

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4.

 

[plmnko]

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Fuck is true, the 2 its so fun.

 

[GargantuaBlarg]

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Do you want to live forever?!

2. We can turn it into a giant Macross. With Science.

 

[the_taken]

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Hibiki though about his options. He considered just leaving or continuing to fight, however, the pirates had just ditched the Ikazuchi's old section and were making an escape, while the Tarak military decided it was best to destroy it. If he was fast he could neutralize the torpedoes heading for the abandoned battle ship, then fly back into it, find the bridge and fly it out of the battle area. Instead of a tiny Vanguard, he'd have a whole battle ship all to himself!

He shifted course and flew straight for where the torpedoes would be, noting that the pirate's mother ship was firing some powerful lasers at the torpedoes in a vain attempt to destroy them. The torpedoes' armor was somehow reflecting the light based attack. He wasn't certain how he would stop the torpedoes without detonating them in his face, but he was confident he could figure it out on the way.

He reached the path the torpedoes where on with time to spare, and charged towards the nearest one. He had a plan, a crazy plan and he hoped it worked. He flew the Vanguard in a spiral to avoid the laser blasts from the pirates as he closed with his target. The tiny spec on his view screen became a near black dot, then grew as he closed with it, the occasional laser lighting up the torpedo when it was struck. Alarms started blaring in the cockpit, warning of a collision with an object and proximity to an extremely volatile material.

The laser fire stopped as he neared with the torpedo, and in that moment, the sheer size of the torpedoes became apparent. The where elongated egg shape rockets with out stretched prongs designed to puncture the hull of a vessel to avoid being deflected before unleashing the payload of irrational and unstable particles. Hibiki knew there was no way he could destroy the torpedoes without being destroyed himself, but he did have a solution. At the last second, he had the Vanguard's sword resheathed while he spun the Vanguard around and aimed its feet so the he would crash the Vanguard between the prongs.

He grit his teeth as the collision occurred, the impact driving the breath from his body and likely bruising several places all over. He grinned when he realized he didn't detonate the torpedo, but quickly set about the next phase of his insane plan as he fire the Vanguard's thrusters. He was worried for a second, until he felt the G-forces of a spin he was inducing in the torpedo. He looked at his radar screen to watch for the right moment, swallowing back the motion sickness that was setting in. He was glad he skipped launch. When he brought the torpedo's spin to barely bearable level, he shifted his Vanguard's position and which thrusters where firing, throwing the torpedo off it's course.

He could feel the unmanned weapons fighting back, attempting to correct its course, but his Vanguard's manoeuvring thrusters where superior. From the way everything else was moving on his radar screen, he could tell her was creating the conditions he wanted, and at the right moment, he drew the Vanguard's sword back out from his back, slicing off a couple of the torpedo's prongs and setting himself free. He then flew the Vanguard in a straight line away from the path of the two torpedoes.

He knew he wouldn't be able to stop the torpedoes. But he did manage to have one diverted. He sent it into a spin to throw off it's navigation computer, then threw it off course. It tried to revert, however the spin he induced was creating a gyroscopic effect, as well as messing with it's calculations. It over compensated and was flying in an expanding spiral. And just as Hibiki intended, it collided with the other torpedo, their prongs tangling and locking them together, the momentum of the first transferring to the other and trapping them both in a an expanding spiral as the sped way off course towards their target.

Hibiki howled as his genius plan went off without an hitch. He was sore, and was certain his Vanguard was damaged, but nothing that couldn't be fixed. He sped off towards the discarded section of the Ikazuchi, cackling like an evil clown as his Vanguard carried him there.

A moment later, he was speeding down the wrecked Vanguard runway of the Ikazuchi, with his elated smile plastered to his face. He had never done something so exciting in his entire life!

However his good mood died when he reached the cargo bay next to the Vanguard hanger. Three of the pirates' fighter crafts where sitting in it, and he recognized the white and black one he damaged earlier. He also could see a huge section of the wall and ceiling missing, exposing what he suspected was the power plant section of the ship, and another of the fighter crafts embedded in one of those walls next to a huge ribbed sphere that was faintly glowing.

Meia was frustrated inside. Dita had lost control when breached the Ikazuchi, and blasted her way into a different section of the ship. While the troops they were carrying had succeeded in capturing all the men on board and ditched them into the escape pods, Dita had run off chasing some sort of tiny robot. She and Jura had to find her in the evacuated ship when the Captain had ordered them to evacuated. While they were beginning to fly out, they had discovered that Dita's Dread fighter craft was trapped.

She had just heard that not only had they failed to escape the Tarak ship before it was destroyed, but that a Vanguard had somehow stopped the missiles. The second Dread squadron had reported that they either destroyed or driven off the Vanguards. She, Barnette and Jura had re-landed and gotten out of their space crafts to talk to Dita and decide which of them would give her a ride back to their mother ship when they got the order to be ready for the lone Vanguard's return. And before they could get back into their Dread, it did show up.

Suddenly, the soft blue glow from the power generator became blinding, engulfing the four women and their fighter craft, the lone man in his mech, the ship they were on, and the nearby pirate ship. In a flash they were gone.

Back on the bridge of the Ikazuchi, the whole bridge was stunned when the stolen Vandread reappeared in the battle and took out the two torpedoes he ordered to destroy the old section of the Ikazuchi he didn't want the women to get a hold of. After a long awkward pause, he shouted for another pair of torpedoes to be launched, then changed his mind and ordered a dozen to be launched. He was impatiently growling as he received sit reps from the bridge crew telling him the status of his attack order, trying his best not to get angry at the complements some of the officers were giving to the insane thief. Then, through the large windows of the bridge, he could see a blue flash of pale light in the distance as he received a report that the old section and the pirate ship disappeared from there scanners without a trace.

~--- End Chapter 1 ---~

1. Continue to Chapter 2?
2. Restart?
3. Change Story? Evangelion and Escaflowne are the options.

Well, that ends the first episode of the anime Vandread, rewritten with a different Hibiki. I'm going to post it in a compiled and cleaned up version to Fan Fiction do Net, and am looking for an editor/proff reader. If you're interested, please drop me a PM.
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[Diagasvesle]

Re: Experimental Fate - Vandread

1. Hell yah!

 

[Ranger Princess]

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Definitely 1. ^_^

 

[plmnko]

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1

 

[BlueSlime]

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1.

We have not come all this way through fire and death to avoid bandying words and possibly other things with these strange women beings from another world.