by Honor Harrington
"Systems check running. Tee minus 30 seconds to lift-off." The computer's smooth voice confirmed Heero's calculations.
"Zero, I need this. Please understand..." Heero rested his hands on the controls of his gundam. The gundam's computer screens flashed a bright green in response.
A map zapped to life on one of the screens. Red triangles bleeped in a spherical formation.
"...My enemy..." Heero narrowed his eyes as he concentrated on the targets. Pure rage filled him as he grasped the flight stick.
"Tee minus five, four, three, two, one. Lift-off in progress," Zero lifted loudly off the ground and boosters carried it out of the Sanc Kingdom as the gundam flew over the ocean, headed towards the bogies at 12 o'clock.
Heero felt the old sensation of the battles he once fought. He was a true soldier. He loved the rush of adrenaline as you fought your guts out to survive. He lived for that feeling. Or at least, that's what he had lived for before Relena.
The comm-link bleeped on the right screen, "Attention unidentified vessel. Change course or be fired upon. This is a warning," The enemy soldier stated.
Heero punched the comm button and the soldier's face showed his surprise as he saw Heero staring at him through his comm screen. The soldier repeated, "I don't know who you are, but you are tresspassing on OZ territory. Leave immediately."
Heero's cold eyes drove through the soldier, "This is the Sanc Kingdom's territory. You remove yourselves and your scrap metal or be destroyed."
The soldier replied angrily, "Prepare to be fired upon!"
"I've been prepared for the last five minutes," Heero jammed the buster rifle control and it started to charge, gathering stored solar energy from the main supply.
The Zero charged the two dozen mobile suits before it. The spherical formation broke suddenly and booster jets came alive as the mobile dolls formed a wall in front of the Zero. Yellow beams flashed across the Zero's display as Heero sat in the cockpit, a deep growl of hate rose in his throat.
Two mobile dolls charged at once, zipping straight for the gundam. Heero watched them come and jetted between them suddenly, narrowly missing one. They fired in sync, and the Zero boosted out of the way as the two blew each other into smitherines.
"Kablooey." Heero's cold voice sounded in the cockpit as he smiled insanely. Turning to the other mobile suits, he exclaimed, "Let's Dance."
Five mobile suit dolls came to life and surrounded the Zero. They circled around and shot their space lasers at the gundam. Zero's hands both grabbed the buster rifle. A brilliant glow formed between the double barrels of the rifle as Heero punched in the command. The buster rifle split in two.
Zero ignored the five dolls that circled around it, firing aimlessly. It charged the group of 17 mobile dolls ahead of it. In the center of the wall formation, it stretched out its arms as a deep hovering light blasted in a beam towards the mobile dolls. Zero rotated.
Heero fired until he heard the squelch of technology being destroyed...Ahhh, music to my ears...now for the five.
Zero pulled out his beam sabre and flew at the dodging mobile dolls. His instincts kicked in and he went with his knowledge of experience. He knew exactly where every mobile doll was at every moment in the battle, and where it was going to be.
White explosions showed over the ocean, littering the deep blue with steaming metal and burnt spare parts.
"Simple existences, simply destroyed," Heero muttered. The comm link bleeped once more. The soldier appeared, "bet you can't be that successful in finding the 'Princess'."
Heero's eyes widened as his heart filled with rage, "WHERE IS SHE?!"
"She likes it in our country better. No stress, no pressure, no YOU," the soldier smirked.
"Talk all you like...everyone deserves to have last words..." Heero slammed the comm link button off. He breathed a sigh of relief. At least she was alive. He didn't even need to consider Relena's loyalty to the Sanc Kingdom being disrupted. He knew her far better than that.