SD GUNDAM FORCE X

Cory "Core" Belote

Chapter Two


"Deadly Shot"

Kroc Ace growled as he paced back and forth the bridge of a destroyed land battleship left abandoned in the woods, the mono-eyed robot's metal feet scraping and clicking against the rusty metal making up the ships floor. "I can't believe that we got our cans handed to us by a one armed relic and a Gundam that looks like he just stepped out of the shower with a fresh coat of paint!"

"I can't believe it either, but at least one good thing came out of it." Slasher said, digging through a box of parts looking for a horn to replace the one cut off in the battle, the robots voice now that of a female robot.

"And what would that be?" The black and purple robot asked, glaring at the robot.

"That hit that new Gundam X gave me fixed my voice box." The red armored robot smiled, attaching a new horn to her helmet. "At last, no one will mistaken me for a guy any more."

Kroc's shoulders slumped as he hung his head, "Slasher… I think that hit also knocked some of your logic circuits off balance."

"No, I don't think so." The other Dark Cirrus robot replied, checking her sword, "I still want to get that one armed freak of a Gundam back for what he did to me. Disfiguring me like that, and making a mockery of my sword fighting skills. I can't forgive him for that… I am suppose to be a master of swords, and yet he beat me back with only one arm!"

"We would have won that fight, if it weren't for that human girl activating that other Gundam X." Kroc snarled as he clenched his fists, "He took out the only remaining soldier of our army! Sure he was a cowardly twerp, but he was still a survivor of our once proud army. I can't forgive him for destroying him like he did, a one shot kill… after surviving all these years on this wretched planet."

Slasher rested a hand on the shoulder of her leader, "We'll get our vengeance on those Gundams, and I know we will. We just have to come up with some kind of plan that will destroy them both, and allow us to have the base. I am sure that there is something in there that will help us get back into space, and then we can rejoin our brothers and sisters in arms back at the colonies."

"I know Slasher… I know." The dark armored robot smiled as his optic flashed, "And I think I know just the way that we can defeat them."

"Oh?" The horned robot perked up as she leaned in closer to her commander, "Please tell me what you are thinking."

* * *

"So, we lost the war..." The younger Gundam said sadly, looked out a large wall of blown out windows at the sun setting behind the remains of the ship crashed in the center of a city. "A colony drop of that size, it is un-imaginable."

"The truth of the matter is that no one won the war." Lieutenant informed the newly activated Gundam, after bring him up to speed with the fifteen years that he missed. "The colony drop destroyed much of the planet and life on it, but the battle in space was just as deadly. The forces of the Dark Cirrus were devastated to the point that there was no winner to the conflict. At best, you could say the war ended with a draw."

"But what about those Jenice's that were attacking you and the base?" The green eyed Gundam asked as he looked at the older Gundam X, "If the enemy forces were so devastated, then how could the mount an attack on the base?"

"They got into the base the same way that we did, we just walked right in since it was abandoned." Sam said, working on repairing some of the damage done to Lieutenants body as he sat in a chair. "I think that the people that were stationed at this base left when they heard of the colony drop, and just figured that it was destroyed so they never returned. The Jenice's that were here are survivors just like the rest of us, only they make their living as bandits now and aren't a part of a military force."

The young Gundam sighed as he shook his head, "What has happened to our world… I though that once the war was over, and the forces of the Dark Cirrus destroyed, that the world would be at peace. But now, just look at it… from what you two have told me there is just as much chaos and death now as there was during the war. What am I suppose to do now Lieutenant? I was made to fight and join you in battle against the Dark Cirrus, but with no war or them to fight against, I don't have a purpose to function do I?"

Lieutenant closed his eyes for a moment, "I have been roaming this planet for fifteen years trying to find an answer to that question, cutting off my contact with others. I am not sure that I have found an answer yet, but something inside of me told me to protect Sam. I can not fully explain it, but for some reason, I felt a need to protect her."

"Thank you… Lieutenant." The young human blushed as she continued to repair the Gundam, not sure what else to say to him.

"Then… I guess that will be my function as well." The younger Gundam X nodded, turning to look at the young girl and the older Gundam. "I shall follow your orders Lieutenant."

The one armed Gundam stared at the younger robot carefully, his eyes examining him as he looked him over. Lieutenant paused as he looked into the green eyes of the Gundam, remembering back to a time when he was first activated and watching the activation of two other Gundams being assigned to a pair of NewTypes. His eyes widened as he looked at Sam, seeing the same color green eyes as the newly activated unit, a shudder running through his system.

"It can't be… could it?" Lieutenant thought silently to himself as he looked at the human repairing some of the damage done to him, the girl as skilled as any adult mechanic he has come across, or even more so.

"Tell me," The blue eyed Gundam looked at the other unit slowly, "What is your name."

"My name?" The younger Gundam looked confused as he blinked at the battle damaged Gundam X. "I… I don't have one. I don't even have a rank yet. I was to be given one and assigned a human partner once I was transferred to Jaburo, and then sent to reinforce the line in space."

"Well, we can't just be going around calling you 'no name', now can we?" Sam smiled, standing up after finishing the repairs that the older Gundam allowed her to do. "How about we call you X."

"X?" Lieutenant stared at the girl for a moment, puzzled by the choice of name. "Why X?"

"It is something that I learned in school" The young human smiled, "In math when you have something that is unknown you define its variable as X. Also, he is a Gundam X unit, so why not call him X?"

"That makes sense to me." The younger Gundam nodded as he smiled. Putting his feet together and saluting the older unit, "X, reporting for duty Lieutenant, sir! Uhm… permission to ask you a question, sir."

Lieutenant sighed as he addressed as an officer for the first time in many year, not really liking it one bit. "Permission granted. What is your question?"

"Yes, Lieutenant. Since you are the highest ranking officer at this base now, wouldn't it require you to take a field promotion to the rank of Commander or Captain?" X asked as he stared at the one armed robot.

The scarred Gundam stared at X for a moment before he let out an exasperated sigh, "That is a good question."

"I think that the Lieutenant would rather keep his current rank." Sam chuckled as she looked at the younger Gundam X, "But if it makes you feel better, you can think of him as a Lieutenant Commander, I think. Well, at least until we find someone of higher rank that is capable of taking command."

"Understood." The bright eyed X replied, seeming to smile behind his facemask. "I shall go find some quarters for us to use Lieutenant, please excuse me."

Lieutenant waited for the younger Gundam to leave the room before he let out another sigh, and hung his head. "I never expected to run into another Gundam, let alone another one like me."

"You mean that you didn't know that there was another Gundam X unit?" Sam asked as she sat down beside the Gundam. "I think that it is very neat, two Gundam X's in one place, and no one even knew about there being one in this place. This is so incredibly awesome, and I am friends with you both!"

"Friends?" The blue eyed Lieutenant looked at the young human curiously, "We are friends?"

"Well… I thought that we were." Sam blushed, looking at the scarred face of the Gundam for a moment before looking down at the floor. "I never really had any friend before, or someone that stood up for me like you did… well, except for my father. I wouldn't mind being your friend Lieutenant, if you don't mind being mine."

The battle hardened Gundam looked down at the young human's hands for a moment, placing his hand over hers and squeezed them ever so gently. "I am not sure if you would really want me for a friend, I have done a great many things in the past that would give anyone reason to hate me."

"What do you mean?" Sam asked, stared at the Gundam puzzled. "I know that Gundams are fighters, so that means that you have killed in order to protect others. What else could you have done that would make someone hate you?"

"This…" The optics of the blue eyed Gundam changed as he shuts them off, something that he learned from observing humans. "I caused all of this. I was the one that fired the shot that brought the colonies dropping down onto the planet. I am the reason that so many humans died on Gaia. I was the first Gundam to be made, and everyone called me a "Hero" for the things that I did and they had planned for me. But, when the time came, I ended up being nothing but the destroyer of worlds… I destroyed so many lives, and I couldn't protect others. That is why people have more then enough reason to hate me, and why you would hate me as well, and why I kept myself away from others for so long."

Sam swallowed a lump in her throat as she looked at the old Gundam, his armored body racked with scars from battles from the past and the one just moments ago. A feeling of anger at the Gundam rises inside her for a moment before she remembered some of the things that he endured over the years. The long three years of nuclear winter that covered the planet, killing off almost as much as the population as the explosions from the colony drop. The sickness that spread amongst the survivors called "colony sickness" that even claimed her own mother, the one armed Gundam living through all of it along side the humans, even if he was not physically with them. The young human studied the face of the Gundam, feeling the sadness inside of him and the remorse for his actions, her anger melted away quickly.

"We… we have to let what happened in the past, stay in the past." The young teen said, squeezed the metal hand of the Gundam back. "We have to learn from the past so that we don't make the same mistakes, but as long as we continue to live in the past, we will never be able to see the future."

"What?" The scarred Gundam looked at the girl confused by her words, and the shaking in her voice.

"It's something that my father told me, it is one of his favorite saying." Sam explained, looking away sadly for a moment, "He said it was something that he learned from my mother."

"Those are very wise words…"Lieutenant said as he looked at the young human, reading the sadness in her face as she mentions her mother. "Something… happened to your mother didn't it?"

The young teen closed her eyes as she nodded, "She got sick after I was born. The doctors couldn't do anything for her because it was something she was sick with since before she had me."

"I see…" The Gundam looked down at the girls hands, seeing that they have small cuts on them from the years of hard work that she has been doing to survive on the planet.

The one armed warrior thought for a moment before he stood up, the move shocked the girl for a brief second before she rose up and helped to steady him. "Your mother's words are correct… and, I am tired of living this way. I think that I have decided."

"Decided what?" Sam asked, looking at the Gundam, puzzled by his statement.

Lieutenant turned to face the girl, looking up slightly at her. "I can't run away from my past, but for the past decade and a half I have lived in it for too long and carried the burden of it on my back. That is why I need your help now Sam, I want you to help me remove this weapon from me. It has been with me for many years, and if I am to live in this world, then I will have to leave this in the past along with the things that I have done."

The girl stared at him for a moment before she shook her head to clear it, "Wait, you mean you are going to get yourself repaired? I thought that you didn't want to be."

"I do not think that I can get myself fully repaired." The Gundam replied, looking at his missing arm. "There are humans in this world that live with the scars of their past, as well as old wounds. They have learned to overcome them and go on with their lives. Why shouldn't I be the same…? Besides, you are going to need some way to tell X and I apart aren't you?"

Sam chuckled as she thought of the fact that there are now two Gundam X's around, "Yes, I guess you have a point. Let's get you someplace where I have more tools to work with and where we can put that cannon in a safe place. I don't think that you want anyone to get a hold of your weapon."

"Yes, that would be a good idea." The Gundam nodded, "The weapon system might be part of my system, but there is a possibility someone could find a way to get it to work without the use of the program. Now then, should we get to work?"

"Let's see now… that should do it." The dark green haired man smiled, closing the side panel of his small biplane and locking it into place before climbing into the cockpit. "Here it goes."

He opened up a panel in the cockpit and loaded a shotgun like cartridge into the chamber before locking it down and firing, the prop started to spin and pop as he pushes the throttle up on the plane. The engine coughed a bit more as he loaded another cartridge into the chamber, firing it off again till the engine roared to life fully. The pilot cheered as he banged on the side of the open cockpit, victorious over the troublesome engine once more as he slowly powered it down to a stop.

"Well now, it looks like you are still as hyper as ever Ran." A woman's voice said behind him, forcing the man to turn his head around to look at her.

"Ennil? What are you doing here?" He asked as he slowly climbed out of the cockpit and hopped down onto the ground, wiping some of the oil form his hands with a rag from his back pocket.

"Aw, now is that anyway to great an old friend?" Ennil smiled, walking up to the man. "I just came by to see how you and Sam are doing since I heard that she was close to that fight that broke out in town."

"There was a fight in town?" Ran looked at the woman confused, "I don't remember hearing anything about that."

"Let me guess… you were so wrapped up in your work that you didn't even hear the explosions right?" The woman sighed as she ran her fingers through her hair, "You are always getting lost in your work now it seems."

Ran shrugged as he shook his head, "Yeah, but it pays the bills doesn't it? So, what are you really here for Ennil? Come to see if you can snag me away from my daughter for some time to go on a date with you? If I told you once, then I have told you a thousand times, I will never go out with you or anyone else. There are only two women in my life, and you aren't one of them."

"I didn't come here to get you to go out on a date with me Ran, as tempting as it is. I came here to tell you about what happened in town." Ennil said, poking a finger into Ran's chest, "The fight in town involved your daughter, and something that was very disturbing to hear. The bandits that attacked were driven back by a Gundam."

Ran's eyes widened as he stared at the woman, "Gun… dam."

"Yes, a Gundam." Ennil nodded, folding her arms over her chest. "From what the witnesses report, it only had one arm and a scar on its face, but it carried a large cannon on its back with X shaped fins. You and I both know exactly what kind of Gundam that is, even if it might not be publicly known to everyone else here."

The man backed away to one of his worktables in shock, his hands held himself up as he felt his legs grow weaker with the news. "Gundam X… are you absolutely sure that it was Sam that they saw with it?"

Ennil nodded as she sighed and walked over to the man, seeing the concern in his face. "I am, the people were too much in shock to pay enough attention to the fact that it was her with it. They gave vague descriptions of who they saw, but were very clear in detail on the Gundam. I was the able to piece together that it was Sam from all the reports and I had them sealed. One of the benefits of being mayor and having access to defense reports for the town. I came here to tell you about it because you know how much I care for you and Sam. Your wife and I helped to rebuild this town after the war, and we all became such close friends. That is why I sealed the reports and came here to see you."

"Do you know if Sam has been displaying any of the abilities that your wife had?" Ennil asked, looking at the girls' father.

Ran shook his head, recovering a bit from the shock. "No, I haven't seen anything that would suggest that she would."

"It might still be a good idea to keep an eye on her though." Ennil said, nodding slowly. "Do you know where she is?"

"No, I haven't seen her since this morning when she said she was going to scavenge some parts." Ran said slowly, his mouth feeling dry.

"Well, when she gets home try and find out where she is hiding the Gundam." She instructed him, "We know how dangerous that type of Gundam is, and it would be in her best interests if she wasn't close to him."

Ran nodded as he turned around and looked at a picture of his family hanging from a peg in the wall, himself standing beside a brown haired woman with blue eyes holding onto a young baby girl. "I'll ask her if she knows anything, and if she doesn't then you will let this drop. Do you understand Ennil?"

"Ran…" Ennil looked at him in shock, the tone of his voice more serious then she has ever heard come from the lighthearted man.

"Tiffa was used during the war because of her abilities, and if Sam does have similar ones, I refuse to allow anyone use her in the same way. If I ask her if she knows where the Gundam is and she tells me that she doesn't know, then that will be that." Ran said firmly, "Not I or you, or anyone else is to ask her about it after that. You understand don't you Ennil?"

Ennil nodded as she closed her eyes, "I understand Ran. I'll make sure that nothing happens to you or Sam, I owe that much to Tiffa and you for what you both did for me."

"Thank you Ennil." Ran said softly as he heard the woman leave, his hand going to his chest to wrap around the military identification tags under it and the necklace with a dolphin. "Tiffa… what am I going to do if she is exactly like you?"

* * *

"C-C-C-COMMANDER!" X stuttered and shouted as he pointed at a finger at the battle scarred warrior. "What have you done to yourself!?"

Lieutenant blinked as he stared at the younger Gundam, "What do you mean? Haven't you seen another Gundam X without his cannon and backpack before?"

X shook his head from side to side as he looked at his commanding officer, the other Gundam a strange sight to see without the fins on his back or the cannon. "No, I've never seen another Gundam without one; you are the only one that I have seen sir. Why did you remove your cannon commander? Was it damaged in the attack?"

"No, it wasn't damaged." The young human chuckled as she pushed a wheeled cart with an A frame on it, the frame holding the satellite cannon of the older Gundam. "He just asked me to remove it for him and I did."

"But… but why Commander, sir?" X asked, still in shock.

"I thought that it was time that I start to put my past behind me, and part of my past is that cannon." Lieutenant replied, "That is something that I would like to talk to you about as well. I do not want you to fire your cannon."

"Sir?" X looked at the other Gundam puzzled, "You don't want me to fire my cannon? Why?"

The older robot closed his eyes as he let out a sigh, "There are things in my past that I do not want you to go through, do you understand X?"

"No… I don't sir. But if you don't want me to use my cannon, then I can do that Commander, sir." The younger Gundam saluted him, standing before Lieutenant proudly. "But… what are you going to do with your cannon now?"

Sam smiled, as she continued to push the cart along, "I'm going to put it in a safe place so that only we can get at it."

"Instead of talking about my cannon being gone, how about we help Sam put it in a safe place so that she can get ready to return back to her home." Lieutenant said, walking over to the young girl and helping her.

X blinked as he tried to understand everything, "What do you mean by her returning home? I thought that she would want to stay here at the base with us. I have a room ready for her."

"I don't think that I should stay here for the night." Sam explained, "My father might be use to me being out late, but I don't think that he would like that I have been out exploring the mountains this late at night. He might throw a fit if he finds out that I have been here, he always tells me how dangerous these mountains are."

"I see…" The younger Gundam nodded, walking over and helping to steer the cart down the hall into one of the weapons vaults of the base. "In that case, would you like for us to escort you home?"

"No, that is alright X." The young girl smiled, slinging her backpack over her shoulder and making her way towards the main entrance of the base. "Besides, it might be better for you to stay here with Lieutenant. He can tell you more about this world so that you can understand it more. A lot has happened since you were last up and running around."

"If that is what you would like me to do, then I shall stay here at Freeden Base with the Lieutenant." X nodded as he looked at the girl, following her along with the older Gundam.

"Freeden base?" Sam looked behind her at the green eyed robot, puzzled slightly.

"That is the name of this base." The young Gundam informed her, "I was active for a short time when I got here so that the crew could do some maintenance to me and I was informed about my location."

"It is an odd name, but I guess it must have been named that for a reason. Most likely named after someone, or someone just misspelled the name and it stuck." Sam chuckled, looking at the expression on the younger Gundams face.

"How can a name get stuck?" X asked, very puzzled by the statement.

Lieutenant sighed as he shook his head, "It is a human expression X, something else that I am going to have to teach you about I see."

Sam dug around in her backpack for a moment as they stopped at the front door to the base, making sure that she has everything for her trip back home, including a few bits and pieces of small electronics as an excuse for her father. Satisfied she closed the bag up once more and looked at the two Gundams with a smile.

"Well, it has been fun guys, but I should start heading for home now so that it won't be that dark when I get there." The young teen smiled, "Try not to cause any trouble for the Lieutenant, okay X? I'll try and see if I can get back here tomorrow with some more supplies for you both. I'm not sure how good some of the things here might be after sitting for so long."

"I shall be on my best behavior Sam." X replied, giving her a salute. "I shall follow all the orders of my commanding officer."

Sam chuckled as she sees the expression in the older Gundams eyes, Lieutenant not seeming to care much for the formality of the other Gundam. "I'm sure that you will do just that X, and you have fun teaching him as well Lieutenant."

"I shall try to." The older Gundam nodded, "Thank you for repairing my damage, and for talking with me Sam."

"It was my pleasure." The young human smiled, "To be honest, it was my first time working on a Gundam, and I am just glad that you are alright. I'll see you two later, take care now."

The young girl reached for one of the doors to the base and opened it easily, the heavy metal door making a rusty creak as it swung open. She stepped out into the fading daylight only to stop in her tracks as she felt something come over her, her eyes moved over to see a small green armored Jenice pop out from the bushes with a gun aimed at her. Sam shouted as she slammed the door close only to have it blasted off of its hinges, and send her to the floor. The two Gundams rushed to her quickly, her ears ringing so loudly that she couldn't make out a thing they were saying. The younger Gundam nodded as he pulled out his beam rifle and started to fire through the hole in the wall at the unknown number of attackers in the forest and rocks around the base, the one armed Gundam helping her to a more safer location as her hearing started to come back to her.

"SAM!" Lieutenant shouted as he looked at her with concern, "Are you alright? Answer me!"

"I… I'm alright, just a little shook up." The young teen replied, holding her head. "There was a Jenice out there."

X peeked out from around the corner of the door frame, firing his beam rifle, "Lieutenant, there are multiple units out there… they are a mix of Dark Cirrus and Gaia Force's!"

"Bandits." Lieutenant growled, dashing over to the door quickly to look out at the mixed group of units with different weapons configurations.

"They look like cannibals, Lieutenant." X replied with a nod and continued to fire his beam rife at several of the other robots, noticing how they turn on each other once one of them gets injured.

The older Gundam scanned the large army of robots, "You can call them that. They take what ever they can from who ever they can, even their own allies are not safe from them once they smell blood or see them damaged. They will scrap their own kind just to get a part that they have. They don't care about humans either, as long as they get what they want… and right now what they want is what we have… the satellite system."

"If that is what they want, then I shall give it to them." X said as he started to bring his cannon around, only to be stopped by the hand of the other Gundam and remembering his order. "What are we going to do then?"

"The only thing that we can do," Lieutenant pulled the beam saber from the back of the younger Gundam and held it tightly in his hand. "We are going to have to go out there and fight them. They don't care about human lives as long as they get what they want, and if we are going to protect Sam, then we have to go out there and stop them before they can get into this base."

"Yes, Sir, Lieutenant!" The younger Gundam shouted, following Lieutenant out the door and firing his beam rifle as the other Gundam used the beam saber to smack bullets and other projectiles from the air with ease.

The two battle against the hordes of attacking machines, all of them unleashing everything they have at them till their white armor of the Gundams is stained with the marks left by their weapons. Kroc Ace chuckled as he waved on the attackers, watching them from the rear lines of the battle.

"That's right boys and girls, let them have it!" Kroc shouted, "Turn those Gundams into scrap if you have to! We shall divide the spoils of that base together and return to space where we belong!"

Sam peered out of the door way to see the battle unfolding, both of the Gundams holding off as many attacks as they can while taking hit after hit, their own attacks only slowing the advance of the large group. She turned away as she reached up and clutches her chest, feeling her heart pounding as she closes her eyes at the sounds of the gunfire and explosions grow in volume. She opened her eyes in a flash as ran into the storage hanger near by and looked at all of the deactivated units, part of her wishing that she could wake the sleeping G-bit units. The young teen shook her head as she goes over to one of the robots and pulled at a beam rifle on its backpack, the weapon finally giving way as the aged clips fail, sending her back onto her rear. Sam lifted the gun up and looks around her to see something sitting in the corner with a tarp over it, the girl ran quickly over to it, the gun growing heavy in her arms as she does.

She tears the tarp off of the object to reveal a hover bike, the small craft used to help transport things like the bed that X was resting on, the green eyed girl nodded as she hopped onto the bike and set the gun up on the handlebars. Sam flipped a switch to bring the bike to life after its long slumber, the hover jets coughing dust before they start working fully and she pushed it forward, guiding it out of the hanger bay and toward the doors the Gundams exited out of.

"Alright Sam, this is it… you have never been afraid of anything before, so don't you start now." The girl said to herself as she guns the engine of the bike and fires the rifle, its beam blasting the other door off its hinges and allowing her to scream out on the bike.

The explosion behind him caused Lieutenant to stagger forward in shock, turning to see the young human coming out firing a beam rifle. "SAM!? What do you think you are doing!?"

"What does it look like, I'm helping!" The young girl shouted as she steered the bike, dodging the fire from the different robots and returning fire with uncanny skill.

Lieutenant stared at the girl in disbelief for a moment before returning to fight off the attacks of the other robots, his mind trying to figure out how she could possibly be doing what she is. The attack by the army of bandits grew more dangerous as they start to fire artillery weapons and missiles, not caring if they even hit their own people as long as they get their hands on the Gundam. The one armed Gundam growled as he stepped up his own attack, swinging his saber hard enough that it left a large trail of energy behind it. The saber attack knocked several missiles back at their senders, causing the robots to panic and distracting them from locking onto Sam, the young human darting about still on her bike and holding her own against the skilled soldiers.

"She can't be… she just can't be." Lieutenant said, shutting his eyes for a moment as he shook the thought from his mind, continuing his defensive attacks.

A large blast caused X to fall to his knees, the young Gundam struggled up to his feet as he is assaulted by a barrage of gunfire. He cringed as he looked over to see Lieutenant fighting off the others around him, the Jenice and Daughtress' getting close enough for the older Gundam to kick them. The young human riding around on the hover bike continued to fire her beam rifle as she dodged attacks with amazing skill. X forced himself to remain standing as he saw everything unfolding around him, the large army growing closer with each second and slowly driving them back towards the base. The cannon on his back swung up into position and locked itself onto his shoulder as he took hold of the handle, his fins opening wide.

Sam felt her bike jar a bit as she narrowly missed one of the shots fired at her, "Please, let this work! Just hold on a little more longer…"

"Please… let this work." The younger Gundam echoed the words of the human as he holds his cannon ready, closing his eyes.

"Please… give me more power!" Both the human and Gundam said at the same time, the effect causing the gem in X's helmet and chest to flash.

High above the planet on the surface of the moon, the computers in an abandoned lunar base activate, the screens showed the ruined landscape of the planet as it searched for its target. A pair of crosshairs locked onto a location in the northern hemisphere of the planet, causing the screen to change to display the registration number of a Gundam X unit. The bases satellite dish powered up its stored solar energy and fired a microwave beam at its target, the beam moving clouds out of the way to form a halo. It strikes the gem located in the chest of X fully, completing the connection and starting the transfer of power over to him. The fins on the back of the Gundam as well as the blue plates of armor on his shoulders, arms, and legs glow with power as he aimed his cannon.

Lieutenant paused what he is doing as he felt the energy coming from the other Gundam, turning around to look at what he is doing. The one armed Gundam started to move towards him, but stopped as he realized that it is too late and instead rushed over to the young teen age girl. He tossed the beam saber aside as he got close to Sam, wrapping his arm around her quickly before using the hover bike as a spring board to jump back over X and land behind him as the other Gundam fires. The sound of the cannon firing triggered memories in the older Gundam as he shielded the young human, feeling he heat of the blast against his armored hide.

"Lieutenant?" Sam shouted over the roar of the cannon as she clung to the Gundam, "What is going on?"

"A nightmare… a fifteen year old nightmare." The Gundam said simply as he continued to shield the girl.

X shouted as he struggled to keep his footing, the ground under his feet shaking with the power of his cannon. He swept the large beam of energy over the advancing army of robots, their armor and bodies vanishing as it moved past them to leave no trace of their existence. X saw that he is nearing the direction of the town and screamed louder as he pulled up, lifting the cannon so it points at the sky to send its deadly beam into the empty void of space. He let go of the trigger finally as the energy meter for the cannon read zero, panting as he stood there and looked at the destruction before him. The few surviving members of the attacking army of bandits turn and ran quickly away, fleeing for their lives from the nightmarish weapon of the Gundam.

Lieutenant looked at the younger Gundam sadly for a moment before looking down at Sam, the girl holding onto him tightly as she looked at the destruction, a side of the mountain completely blown away by the single shot. "X… Sam, I'm sorry."