THE PEREIRA STAR EMPIRE
Let's remember that Vandread remains (and rightly so) the trademark of Gonzo. You know what other trademarks the others belong to, right?
Picking up where Vandread, The Second Stage left off,
here's what happens, one year after Hibiki Tokai
(Japanese for Echo City) & co. bested once and for all,
the Earth Harvesters.
Dedicated to all Vandread otaku worldwide!!
PROLOGUE: THE ALPHA
Below the blue skies of a fully healed planet Earth was a seaside city that had been centuries ago, once known as San Francisco--a city that had been full of vibrant buildings, places and people before it would be ravaged by poison air, acid oceans, and all other machinations caused by the seeds that evolved into The Earth Harvest.
But that had been years, possibly eons ago, until The Harvest had been defeated by the combined efforts of the forces of the males of Taarak, the females of Mejere, the crew of the pirate ship Nirvana, and many other planetary races. After that, several unification projects were in the works, including the reunification of the genders of Taarak and Mejere, as well as the gradual restoration of the planet Earth, a task that would take years, many at least.
In the end, all that work was well worth it, when the Earth was finally restored to its original state, with thousands of populations repopulating it, new cities and nations spreading all over the globe.
But today was a day of sorrow for one blue haired woman
in her fifties, dressed in black, now arriving at a big graveyard,
where several folding chairs had been set up, before a gravesite,
with many other people also dressed in mourning. Ahead of
the blue haired woman known as Misty Cornwell, were four
other women, three of them in their forties and one in her fifties.
One was blue haired, like Misty, with a pointy face. The second
was a redhead, with an elegant look of beauty. The third was
another redhead that was as lively in spite of her mature age.
And the fourth and last one was a blonde with deep brown eyes
that were as brilliantly bright as crystal.
Right now, the blonde spotted Misty and said, "Misty!! You made it!!"
"You're all here!!" said Misty, who ran up to the other blue haired woman and hugged her before they cried together. Then Misty did the same thing in turn with the other women, and said, "It's been years since I last saw you, don't you think?"
"It kind of seems that way," said the pointy faced blue haired woman.
"But I am SO HAPPY you could come...!!"
"Me too," agreed Misty. "I am sorry 'bout your father...he was a good friend to me and your mother..."
"And a good friend to me too," agreed the lively redhead. "To think we all once fought side by side against The Empire..."
Upon hearing that, the blonde said, "You all fought in the war of The Pereira Star Empire?"
"Yup," said Misty. "I was a Dread pilot just like your parents, and my good friend, Cara here."
"Yo, youse better believe it," said the livey rehead in her fifties known as Cara, in a Brooklyn accent. "It's been...40 years ago, an' it seems like it was just the other day..."
"Seems that way," agreed the 40 something redhead. "Now we're the only ones remaining to carry the torch for the Mejere pirates, for the honor of Magno and Gascogne."
"The torch," said the blonde, "hath been passed on..."
At that moment, the priest arrived, which meant the funeral was beginning; Misty, Cara and the other women, along with the rest of those invited to the funeral took their seats. After that, the priest began with, "In the name of The Father, The Son, and The Holy Ghost, amen..."
The Vandread saga continues in the new Third Stage in which
we got quite a story to tell, regarding the further happenings of
Hibiki & co. It beats winding up out of work, right?
--a440.
Next: Chapter 1: An Unusual Reunion