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I do not own the copyrights to Gundam Wing, Endless Waltz, Evangelion, or any songs that are used in this story. All copyrights belong to their respective owners.Readers Note:
This is a re-post. Also this contains major spoilers for Evangelion, so if you haven't seen the whole series I wouldn't recommend reading this.Neon Genesis Evangelion
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Gundam Wing
Evangundam
Chapter 2: Unknown Attack
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The Preventers and the Evangelions watched the screen as this monster tore away at the satellite. Each of them was wondering what would happen next, each of their minds was filled with confusion, hatred and fear. What would be the next step? With this bounty on their heads, they can't be seen by anyone in the colonies or on the Earth. The tables have turned, now they will know what it's like to be the prey instead of the hunter.
The Evangelions watched the screen and the faces of the Preventer crew and wondered if this sort of thing happens very often. Apparently from the looks of wide eyes and open jaws that wasn't the case with some of them.
Then like a bolt of lightning on a cloudless day, a voice boomed out, "Lady Une! We're under attack!"
The white lights around them suddenly went red as if they too were preparing for the battle ahead. The Preventers dashed out through the door, some went in one direction while others went in another. Leaving the guests and the Evangelions behind in the shuttle bay wondering what the hell is going on.
Misato decided to follow Lady Une while Shinji and Asuka decided to follow the Gundams. Perhaps it was that instinct that was built into their systems that the pilots would stay with the pilots and command would be at their command post. It is amazing how so much integration can be made into one's systems.
The Gundams were up ahead of Shinji and Asuka making their frantic dash to wherever it is that they go during this kind of an emergency. While down the hallway a few feet away, Misato was running after Lady Une.
"What the hell's going on?" Misato shouted
"Didn't you listen?" Lady Une called from ahead, "We're under attack! We have to fight!"
Suddenly Lady Une reminded Misato of herself whenever she's in the command room at Nerv. Even though she isn't completely in charge she still did have some authority as Nerv's Operations Director.
Misato felt her shoes pounding against the metallic floor as she caught up to Lady Une. She stood at a set of doors, waiting impatiently for whatever was to come through it. Obviously it was an elevator. The doors opened and the two of them got in and they felt the elevator make a fast jerk upwards to it command post.
"Who are we under attack by?" Misato asked, "Who are you at war with?"
"We're not at war with anyone."
"Then who the hell's attacking us?"
"That's what we're going to find out."
Lady Une and Misato stepped out onto the Bridge and looked at the screens to see who was attacking them. They saw mobile suits attacking them; on each screen they saw four different mobile suits attacking them. The one suit that caught Lady Une's attention was the one on the closest screen; she looked at it, closer and closer. The suit was red, like the suit that attacked the resource satellite, but this suit was in its humanoid form. Could a suit change into more than two or three types?
"Could it be, him?" Lady Une thought
"If this was an Angel attack." Misato said, "I'd suggest we launch our robots, the Eva's, but since we're here let's see what you can do."
"Launch the Gundams!" Lady Une commanded
"Roger that." Howard called as he relayed the order to the mobile suit bay.
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"We have the order!" Johan called, "Let's go."
He stood on the cockpit platform of his Gundam Ryu; he was about to get into it as he heard a voice come down from the ground. It was almost as if an ant had a loud enough voice to reach Johan at the cockpit of his Gundam.
"Hey!" The voice called, "What about us?"
Johan looked down and found Shinji and Asuka there.
"I suggest you get the hell out of here."
"Don't take that tone with me, buddy!"
"I'm saying it for your own good!" Johan called down, "If you stay here, you'll be blown out into space. And I don't think you want to die today!"
Johan watched as Shinji tugged at Asuka begging her to get out of the mobile suit bay. Yet Asuka didn't move, she stood still in the very spot as if her feet were anchored to the floor.
"I'm not moving until I go out there and fight with them." She said
"Roger that!" Johan said as he got into the Ryu. He turned on the controls, watching the screens come to life before his eyes. He looked at the screen in front of him and saw the two Evangelion pilots in front of him.
He opened the Com to the speakers within the head of the Gundam, he called out, "I think you should move if you don't want to get squashed!"
Johan moved forward and Asuka watched as the Gundams enormous foot came forward over her head and was about to come down on her until she dashed out from under it and headed for the door. She ran out, hitting the wall with Shinji behind her. They watched the enormous doors close and heard the locks shut.
Asuka's look of fear turned to anger as she stood up holding out a fist at the door.
"That guy's crazy!" She shouted, "Who does he think he's dealing with?"
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In the hangar the Gundams had launched, the Wing Zero, DeathScythe Hell, Heavyarms, Sandrock, Nataku, Tallgeese III, Epyon, Clockwork, Waterproof, and Ryu. They launched into the blackness of space to see whoever that was attacking them.
"Let's rock." Johan smiled once again as he began to play the song, "Born to Raise Hell". As he felt the G-force pinning him to his seat, his hands worked the controls as the Gundam was in its mobile suit form.
Johan looked at the screens as the picture moved swiftly through space making the stars look like streaks of snow against a black background. Johan's vision came back to Peace Million; he looked on the hull of the half circle shaped ship. He saw four mobile suits on its hull like ticks on a dog. Johan increased his magnification to see what these mobile suits looked like. The first one that he saw looked like the Wing Gundam, yet at the same time it didn't. It had the shield and heat rod of the Epyon, yet the shield and heat rod looked like it was white and yellow.
The Gundam Ryu tried to identify what these mobile suits were; yet the analysis only showed that they were unknown, unknown name, serial numbers, builders, and especially what materials they were made of.
Johan looked further over to his right and saw a suit that was completely black, it looked almost like the Clockwork with its bat wings and the hint of the gattling arm. Yet when the suit turned around it wasn't at all like the Clockwork. It was completely black; it had the body of the Heavyarms custom, yet it had the wings of the DeathScythe Hell Custom. Then to top it all off, on its left arm was a shield that was like the cardinal points on a compass. Up, down, left, right and points in between, there were petals of Gundanium pointing outward. This Gundam was like the one before it, unknown.
The next Gundam that Johan laid eyes on the hull of Peace Million looked like a mobile suit tank that was given legs. It stood up on two legs with twin cannons, one on each shoulder and covering each arm were gattling covers, like Gundanium gloves. They fitted over the hands and reached up to the elbows of the mobile suit with gattling edges to it. The gloves were like an organic version of Trowa's gattling on his Heavyarms.
Finally the last one that caught Johan's attention looked just like the suit that had attacked the resource satellite. It looked almost like a red wolf to Johan, it suddenly turned it's head to look at Johan with it's animal-like Gundanium face. It had red eyes that began to glow in the magnification view that Johan had set. It wasn't like looking into the eyes of a wolf in the wild, this thing looked as if it had a human intelligence of sinister mind behind it. The eyes were like looking into the eyes of the devil himself. Johan was so transfixed by those eyes that he did not see what was happening.
The suit was changing; it was changing into a mobile suit. It wasn't until Johan saw that it's face had become humanoid that he snapped his attention and zoomed back to regular vision and stood ready to fight them.
"Gundams." He called, "Get ready."
The other Gundams were ready; except for Milliardo he kept his eye on that red suit. It kept reminding him of the stories he head while he was in training and what it could do. If those stories were true then he would see it for himself, but he would see it attacking his own family.
"I can't let it attack Johan." He thought
Miliardo's nobility was thwarted when he saw the red suit stop at point blank range in front of the Gundam Ryu and it began to make its attack. The first shot was a missile right to the cockpit area. The shockwave hit Johan as he was pinned down.
He heard the speakers start to crackle and the screens that show static for a fraction of a moment in the cockpit. He felt the shockwave shove him up, then it came from the right knocking him over to the left. The unknown Gundam was not only punching him, but it was firing missiles at him from its chest as if it was like the Heavyarms.
"Don't fire your buster rifle at Peace Million!" Quatre called to Heero
Though Heero didn't hear Quatre's plea, he tried to fire a shot from his buster rifle at the suit that looked like the Wing Gundam as it was standing on Peace Millions hull. He felt the surge leave him but when he saw the beam come at the Wing Gundam copy he saw deflector plates pop form it's back. The Wing Gundam copy had a shield like the Virgo mobile dolls.
"Damn it." Heero cursed as he set aside his Buster rifle and took out his beam saber and went for the Gundam itself.
While the Heavyarms / DeathScythe Hell copy set it sights on the other seven mobile suits that weren't occupied. It brought up its gattling arm, he began to fire at the Gundams, and they dodged it like flies dodging a fly swatter. Yet the Gundam took aim in front of them and began to fire. The DeathScythe was already severely damaged, Duo couldn't see out of his screens since they were broken like mirrors. It was inoperative, the same with the Clockwork, Waterproof, Epyon, and Tallgeese III.
The ones that remained were the Heavyarms, Sandrock, Nataku, Wing Zero and Ryu. Though those two already were suffering the casualties on their suits. Wing Zero was getting the same kind of abuse from it's own kind of buster rifle. There were a few near misses when the Wing Gundam copy tried to fire at Heero, but when Heero dodged it nearly melted the Gundanium. Heero kept trying to get through the shield but it was worse then trying to beat Virgo mobile dolls.
With Johan, he felt as if he was inside a rag doll with his Gundam being kicked, shot, and had taken missile fire nearly to death. It was more than he could take, even the Zero system was inoperative, there wasn't that much to take.
With the cockpit rocking back and fourth as well as up and down. Johan reached over to the yellow and black stripped square to his left. This one wasn't the button for the zero system that was above his head, this was for the self-destruct device. As he pushed it watching the detonator rise out of the square hole, he opened the COM system to the other Gundams.
"Heero." He called, "Duo, Trowa, Quatre, Wufei, Milliardo, Alexandria, Kazuki, and Id? Tell my wife I love her very much. Also Heero, I don't want to copy you but I have to do this."
The message was heard even within Peace Million, there was fear among the bridge crew. They knew what Johan meant by that and what he was going to do, at least except for the Evangelions.
"What does he mean by that?" Shinji asked
"It means." Lady Une explained, "He's going to self-destruct along with his Gundam."
Misato snapped her head to Lady Une, "You can't be serious!"
"I am, and so is he."
"That's crazy!" Misato shouted as she reached for the nearest microphone, "Johan! Can you hear me? Answer me!"
"He can't hear you." Haruka stated, "Once Johan's mind is set on a certain task, he won't divert his attention to anything else. You'd just be wasting your breath."
"He mentioned his wife." Misato said with her hand hanging from the microphone, "Who is that?"
"Me." Haruka answered
"He's married?" Asuka exclaimed as she looked back at the screen with the red Gundam beating hell out of the Ryu
Back in the cockpit, Johan grabbed the self-detonation device, his thumb reached over the shining candy red button. Feeling the sharp jerks still from above, below, to his left and to his right he kept his hand steady as a rock. Thankfully, he had on his space suit the black, white and green suit that he wore to the Eve battle at Libra. He strapped on his helmet, keeping the self-detonation device safe.
"The reactor alone," Johan thought, "The reactor in this Gundam would be enough to blow up several mobile suits, but with the explosives that I packed into this, it'll be enough to blow up Peace Million."
His helmet was secure, he had the self-detonation device in his hand, and he reached up and pressed the red button. The lights within the cockpit went red as its alarm blared through Johan's ears. He only had a few seconds to get out, though the question was whether that Red Gundam out there would stop him from getting out.
He reached down under his seat where he saw the edge of the yellow and black bar. This was the ejector seat in the Gundam, he reached out feeling it's curves and he yanked on it. He felt the air push underneath him like a ride called "The Rocket" where a person is shot upward at 4.5 G's to 200 feet and brought back down. Only this time Johan would come back down. He felt himself being shot out of the cockpit of his Gundam Ryu, he opened his eyes and saw that the Red Gundam was no where to be seen. He looked around him and saw that the Red Gundam was still beating up Ryu.
Johan set the timer for 30 seconds before he pushed the button, and that was only 25 seconds ago. Now there was only five seconds before the self-destruct device blows that suit all to hell.
5…4…3…2…1…
The suit began to glow as its self-destruct began to chain react with the explosives inside. The suit began to explode from the inside out, Johan watched as a bright light consumed both Ryu and the red Gundam and then came the explosion. It was so spectacular that even the best fireworks show on earth would just be a bottle rocket to this. The sock wave was so immense that Johan felt himself and his seat being shoved out into space.
"A man can't go out in glory." Johan thought, "But at least I can go with dignity."
He looked back and saw the Red Gundam in near shambles, its right arm and leg were gone with its chest nearly singed of its red paint. The other unknown Gundams the Wing Gundam copy, the Heavyarms / DeathScythe look-alike and the Spider came over to the downed red Gundam. They carried it off into space, away from Peace Million and the Preventers.
Back in Peace Million's Bridge, one of the visitors, Relena Dorlin saw the Ryu explode. She shouted out, "Johan!"
There was no answer, the only sound was the phrase uttered by Asuka.
"I never though anyone would be that crazy." She said
"It's not crazy." Lady Une refuted, "It's nobility. Johan was going to sacrifice himself for the safety of us. He saw that we weren't winning, so this was the only plan he could take."
"But he's dead now." Misato stated
Lady Une smiled and laughed, "He's not dead, not yet."
"Then what are you doing standing there?!" Misato shouted
"We're waiting for the rescue teams to come back. The team was already deployed when the unknown Gundams retreated."
"So he's not dead?" Misato asked
"Of course not," Lady Une smiled, "it takes more than that to kill a Gundam."
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In Peace Million's sickbay, Johan was lying on one of the many beds that sick bay had. He lay on the bed with casts on his lower arms, an oxygen mask over his face as he breathed slowly in and out, as well as the blood splotched bandages around his head. Around Johan's head and his temples were nodes attached to a machine to his right. The machine beeped constantly, it was measuring his brainwaves as well as his heart rate. He did look like a man who has been through hell.
Sitting next to the battle torn Johan in a metal frame, cushioned seat was his dear Haruka. She gazed at the motionless face of her husband and wondered if he would ever come out of this coma that he was in.
When Johan was brought back to Peace Million, the Gundams had already suffered heavy damages. Most of the mobile suits were so heavily damaged that their Gundanium frame could be seen under the flecked away paint and hole burnt hulls. Amongst all the damage their was one that seemed so severe that the others wondered if he would survive. It was Johan, the Gundams and the Evangelions watched as his beaten up body was brought in.
Dr. Mizuno explained to the senior staff as well as to the Evangelions that Johan had suffered broken bones in arms, a few cracked ribs and a hair line fracture in his skull. She estimated that he would recover in a few months at most, but with the newer technologies that they had onboard, they estimated that he would be on his feet again within a couple of weeks.
"I'm not surprised," Haruka said with a grin, "You've survived worse than this, but now that we're criminals, what can we do?"
Haruka reached for Johan's hand, she gripped it, still feeling the warmth in his fingers. She lay her head on Johan's chest making sure that she wasn't disturbing the bandages. She felt Johan's warmth against her face as Johan's chest rose and fall with each breath he took.
"Wake up Johan." Haruka whispered
Suddenly she heard the door open from behind and she sat up and looked. She saw one of the visitors, the Evangelions, Shinji Ikari. He walked in surveying the scene before him with inquisitive eyes that looked at Haruka holding onto the hands of the unconscious patient.
"Hello," Haruka smiled at Shinji
"I came by…" Shinji paused, "to see how he's doing."
Haruka turned to look back at Johan; she looked at his face, that motionless, emotionless face. "He seems peaceful." She said
Shinji came over and looked at him, he leaned over the bed looking at the injured Johan, and to Shinji, Johan reminded him of the times he's been in the hospital bed. Struck down by Angels, head injuries, injuries on his Eva that was inflicted on him, and God knows how many others. He looked at Johan with sympathy and empathy for this fallen soldier.
"He's strong." Shinji stated with awe, looking at him, still alive yet badly hurt.
Haruka smiled, "That's part of being a Gundam Pilot."
"I wonder." Shinji spoke softly, "How you can pilot machines like those and yet still have the will to go on. When I pilot my Eva I do it because…"
Shinji paused trying to remember his reasons.
He continued, "I pilot because, people respect me for it."
"BAKA SHINJI!" A voice broke through the softness like a shattered glass.
Shinji and Haruka covered their ears and closed their eyes, with their eyes closed they didn't see that Johan was sitting bolt up right after that voice cracked through the room. The two visitors for Johan turned around to the door and opened their eyes to find the red hair and fiery tempered Asuka.
"Shh!" Haruka said, "This is a hospital room."
"Aw! Did that suck!" Another voice came out,
This time Haruka and Shinji spun around to find the until-now-unconscious Johan sitting up in bed. He seemed as awake as he could ever be in his life rubbing his head and moaning. His eyes closed shut as he tried to get over whatever kind of pain was gripping him. He opened them and looked at the staring onlookers.
Asuka didn't pay attention to Haruka or the awakened Johan, she went straight to Shinji, "Misato's looking for you, you know that Third Child?"
"Hey!" Johan shouted above his normal voice and jumped out of bed in his hospital gown with the bandages still clinging to him, "What just happened to me gave me a fuckin' migraine, so if you don't pipe down, I'm going to yank your tits off like paper towels."
Asuka's backed up a few steps with eyebrows so high up that one would think that they were touching her hairline. No one had ever, ever spoken to her like this. Then again Johan had good reason to be in this state.
Haruka rose up out of her seat, her jaw dropped but she regained herself and said, "Calm down Johan." She spoke softly placing her hands on his shoulders, "I haven't seen you like this before."
Johan placed a hand on one side of his temple, "Sorry about that," he said, "I'm just pissed that not only did I have to self-destruct my Gundam, but I'm immobile. What if there's an emergency and the others need me?"
"They'll be fine. They're having a meeting right now."
"I'm going." Johan said as he passed the severely shocked Asuka, "Excuse me miss." He said to Asuka as he passed out through the doors.
Haruka said to the two Evangelion Pilots, "I'm sorry, he's normally not like that. He's a real lump of sugar."
Asuka didn't say a word, neither did Shinji, he too was in the same state of shock with his eyebrows wide and his jaw dropped. The two of them looked as if they had seen a ghost, but this ghost was from a living person.
Haruka passed Asuka and Shinji and headed out the door going after Johan leaving the two behind to try and figure out what just happened, and the two looked at each other without a thing to say to one another. At least for the moment.
"What did I do?" Asuka asked
Shinji shrugged
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Inside Peace Millions briefing room, the officers of Preventer as well as the visitors were gathered around the table. The visitors included Treize Kushrinada, Relena Peacecraft, Hilde Schbiger, Catherine Bloom, Dorothy Catalonia, Sally Po, Mariemea Kushrinada, Lucrezia Noin, as well as Major Misato Katsuragi. These distinguished visitors sat around the table waiting for the meeting to get started.
Though there seemed to be a small fire burning between two members at that table and it was between Hilde and Alexandria. The two of them looked towards Duo and towards each other, the two of them were wondering the same thing of each other, "is she involved with Duo?"
This small flame was put aside when a question was arisen.
"What are we here to discuss?" Misato asked out of annoyance
"It's about." Quatre was about to say what this was all about when the door opened and in walked the hospital gowned Johan Rodriguez, he came through with the casts on both arms, around his ribs and the bandage around his head. Every single head turned to look at him.
"You should be resting." Quatre stated like a concerned parent.
"I'm fine Quatre." Johan said as he took a seat at the far end of the table, he took it with Haruka at his side as Shinji Ikari and Asuka Langely Sohryuu came walking through the door. They took their seats.
"Johan." Lady Une stated, "Quatre is right you should be in sick bay recovering."
"I will get back to sick bay, once I know what the plan of action is." Johan answered
"Calm down, Johan." Relena advised
"Calm down?" Johan asked looking across the table with the fires of hell burning within his green eyes, "Every one of us at Preventer has a one million dollar bounty on his head and you want us to be calm?"
"You should keep your cool at least." Wufei advised
Johan sat back in his chair and took in a deep breath and let it out slowly, "You're right Wufei."
"Very well, Johan." Lady Une stated, "I'll let you stay to hear this, continue Quatre."
Quatre cleared his throat, "We know that we can't stay here in the middle of space for too long. We'll be spotted for sure."
"So we need a hiding place." Misato stated
"Yes, the question is where. I happen to know of an abandoned resource satellite that's roaming towards the outer edges of the moon. It's big enough to house Peace Million, plus it was only used to mine silicon. Though I don't think we'll be needing any resources right now, right Howard?"
Howard nodded, "That's right, we have enough supplies to last a few months."
"The other thing we should add to this," Trowa spoke up, "is the Evangelions."
"I had given that some thought." Lady Une replied as she looked down towards Misato Katsuragi, Shinji Ikari, and Asuka Langely Sohryuu, "I've decided to deputize all three of you into the office of Preventer. We're going to need all the help that we can on this mission. From what you've told us, Major." She referred to Misato, "Is that your friends are experienced pilots with robots. I'm sure that a mobile suit wouldn't be that much different from your Eva's."
"Probably not." Misato replied, "But I'm sure that they will have to have some training for it."
"That can be arranged." Lady Une smiled, "It's settled then. We'll set a course for the satellite, while there we'll continue further planning, repair the Gundams, sharpen our skills, train the Evangelions as well as rebuild a new Gundam Ryu for Johan. Though, Sir. Rodriguez, I would suggest you head back to sick bay and recover."
"I understand." Johan stated, "But I'm not going to get weak by lying in bed. This is our mission now, to find out who is framing us and to expose them." He looked to his right down the table to Heero Yuy, the two of them locked eyes with each other.
"Mission accepted." The two stated in unison.
To be continued…
Author's Notes:
I'm sure that there will be questions as to why I only brought a few of the Eva characters into the Gundam Universe. I already stated for practical reasons in the first chapter but I do have a few personal reasons to add to that. The reason why I didn't want to bring anyone else is because I felt that Shinji, Asuka and Misato were the most essential as well as the best group of out Eva. Not only that but I didn't want to bring Rei to this Universe, personally it's because I'm more of an Asuka fan then a Rei fan. Plus I wanted to see how she would act around the Gundams. Shinji on the other hand I did want to bring him to the Gundam Universe, mostly because I wanted to see what I could do if he came into contact with the Zero system.Come back soon for more chapters of Evangundam.
