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Gundam Wing

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Chapter 4:

Too Many Defeats

After the defeat, the Gundam's knew that a new course of action was to be made; Trowa and Wufei decided that they would go after Treize. They went on their way to the mobile suit carrier hangar, leaving Duo, Quatre Heero and Johan behind in the shock after what has happened.

"So," Duo said out loud, "Oz used us like a bunch of puppets, let's go after them. We can still get Treize."

"That wouldn't be wise." Quatre advised

"Hey stay out of my way, do you want me to shoot you?" Duo threatened

"He's right Duo," Johan stated, "we are supposed to attack when they don't expect it, but the enemy now has the upper hand."

"I see what you're saying." Duo said as he disarmed his DeathScythe

Suddenly out of nowhere a whole troop of enemy mobile suits appeared and began to attack the remaining Gundam's. The DeathScythe, the Sandrock and the Dragon took cover and fought back. But the Wing stood still as if it had lost all of its controls over itself and couldn't move.

"DON'T JUST STAND THERE!" Duo shouted

But with this loud warning Heero didn't move the Wing, he just stayed there still thinking about this failure.

The DeathScythe and Dragon came to its "rescue" it warded off the attacks.

"How long do you expect us to keep fighting like this?" Duo asked Heero, but Heero didn't answer him. He couldn't believe that a proud warrior like himself could loose, or be tricked. HE realized that Johan's was right, that his total loyalty of following orders would be his downfall. Now he's suffering as a result of it.

"I think your friends been through too much." Quatre guessed

Just then a small tank mobile suit fired a shot at the Wing. The Tank mobile suit is just like the others that Oz used, except this one just had treads for legs, and cannons on it's shoulders. It fired both cannons at the Wing and it fell on its chest. Inside Heero was bruiting over this defeat, but not on this outside, it was on the inside.

"Heero." A familiar voice called out, it was Major Sally Po, "I know you can hear me Heero. Listen the missiles detention devices have been set to explode, please deactivate them Heero."

"I understand." Heero said as he got up and headed to the missile complex.

"Confirmed that," Quatre complied, "if those missiles explode it will destroy everything within 300 kilometers, and we can't get away safely."

"I got it." Heero said as he headed into the missile complex.

Under Quatre's direction he made his way to deactivate the missiles. He discovered that it was only one missile that he had to deactivate. And he pulled the cables to it and the blaring alarm within the missile silo stopped. Meanwhile Quatre, Duo and Johan had secured four mobile suit carriers and all of them made their way to where ever they wanted or needed to go.

"I feel sorry for you, Heero." Johan whispered while piloting his mobile suit carrier

"You are quite the guy Heero." Duo complemented

Heero came out of the ground where the missile-silo and looked at the mess he's created.

"What a miserable mission," he said, "I totally screwed up. I TOTALLY SCREWED UP!"

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Sometime later…

In a school some distance away there was a school basketball game going on, and it seemed that Duo was taking the lead. The score board read that the visiting team had 100 points while the home team had 99, and Duo was playing for the home team. He was wearing white shorts and a red tank top as with the other players of his home team. While the opposing team were wearing white shorts and white tank tops. Along with Duo on this red shirt team, Heero was there standing like a statue in the middle of the court, and Johan was there as well, getting around the players, he was moving almost like if he was strategically planning where the ball would go.

"Johan!" Duo called as he shoved the ball to him.

Johan caught the ball and saw the people coming after him, he was only a few yards away from the basket. He took the ball and held onto it tightly and crouched down and jumped as high as he could towards the basket. The players of the opposing team tried to catch him but it was no use, Johan had jumped out of their reach. He reached the basket and dunked the ball down the basket while holding onto the rim and yelling.

"AHHHH!" he yelled as he fell down to the court on his back.

Believing him to be hurt Duo came up to him, "Are you alright?" he asked

Johan looked up at him, "I love this game." He whispered as he got to his feet.

The buzzer for the end of the game called out and the score came out to 101 to 100, the home team won, thanks to Johan.

"Great job Duo!" one girl called out, the audience was made mostly of women from the school probably cheering the men they admired on.

"Excellent play Johan."

Duo was waving to them, almost like a pro basketball player taking his bow to his fans.

"Hey, wave Johan," Duo coaxed, "They're cheering for us superstar."

Johan waved and it seemed to excite the crowd further as it came to a standing ovation for Johan and Duo. It felt good that there were people cheering them on, at that moment Johan bowed to the crowed.

Duo looked over at Heero and saw him leave the court, Duo smiled at him thinking that if he had passed the ball to Heero he would have done it but Johan was closer.

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Duo and Johan found Heero sitting on a bench near a railing that was over looking the ocean. But there was something out on the bay that was an eye sore to Johan, it was an Oz base. It disgusted him to look at it, he was thinking that Oz was not only oppressing people but they are also taking away wonderful views.

"So, this is where you went to." Duo said, "You know that's pretty smart; changing schools when you're moving on, it's natural for people our age to be in school."

"What's the deal?" Heero asked

"I'm just trying to act normal." Duo answered

"You stand out a little too much." Heero commented

"You know you wouldn't be so suspicious if you act all secretive. Try to act normally and have some fun being a student."

"Leave me alone." Heero commanded standing up

"And stay out of your way." Johan added while leaning against the railing staring at the base, "I told you Duo, don't waste your breath with Heero."

"It seems the three of us are probably after the same thing." Duo said speaking generally then speaking to Heero, "You can't hide it from me, I can see it as clear as day on your face pal."

"Will you ever listen, Duo?" Johan thought, "Heero's a warrior he doesn't have time for trivial things that we do."

"Hey, what do you say the first one of us to destroy that ship wins." Duo suggested

"Good Idea." Johan thought, "Of course I'll be the one to get there first."

All three of them heard a car pull up, all three of them looked to see a long white and pink stretched limousine, and out stepped none other then Relena Dorlin.

"What's her deal?" Johan asked, "She always find you Heero."

"Relena." Heero whispered

Relena walked up closer to Heero, while crowds of students were watching,

"Heero," she said, "I wanted to see you again."

"Well, she's not your average chick," Duo insinuated, "wanting to find the guy whose trying to kill her."

"She's not your average woman either Duo." Johan stated

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Later that evening Johan had already headed to the base in Dragon or Ryu as he came to call it. Which is sort of ironic, instead of calling his Gundam as Dragon in English he's calling it by the same word in a different language. But it was a sort of romantic idea that he had, and figured, "Why not, Wufei calls his Nataku."

He sat in Ryu above the shipyard in active cloak waiting for Duo and Heero to show up. He had it all planned out, when they arrived he would let them in close enough to get a good look at the tower and then he would de-cloak and some straight down and blow the tower to bits. This shipyard did belong to Oz and he also knew that the virus that he implanted a few days ago would probably infect a lot of mobile suits. He couldn't wait to see their looks when the mobile suit controls fail.

BEEP! BEEP! He heard and looked at one of the screens and saw DeathScythe and Wing come closer to the tower.

"Ready." Johan said as he started up the music of Rage against the Machine's Wake Up.

As the music started he piloted Ryu straight down and down until the cannon nose of Ryu was aligned with the tower. He could feel the G-forces starting to take their toll on his body, but he had to keep his concentration. As the music got further and further to its peak he had his finger on the trigger. HE pulled it and the beam hit the tower head on right before Heero or Duo even got there. He pulled up clearing the way of the explosion, as the G-forces leveled out he opened a channel to the DeathScythe and Wing.

"I win." He said as to rub in his victory.

At that moment both Duo and Heero were looking at the tower and were absolutely shocked that Johan got there first.

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Later in the week a new mission came in; Oz was transporting its new Taurus mobile suits. However these mobile suits do have a small problem, it learns and can ignore the pilots' commands. If Oz uses these it can be a real nuisance, however with the virus that Johan planted the Taurus suits will be inoperable. Duo had already received the mission specs and so did Heero and Johan. The suits are going to be transported either by land or by air. The question is, which is the decoy? Johan through that if the mobile suits are air born then they could deploy them much easier then if they were transported by land.

"The land one is the decoy." He thought, as he followed Duo to Heero's room.

Duo opened Heero's door, "Hey Heero. I have a bad feeling about this mission, so could you take the air route?"

Heero didn't say anything. Duo knew that his silence was his way of saying yes.

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On the way, only five of the six Gundam's were on their way to this mission. The only one that wasn't going was Wufei Chang, who earlier had a duel with Treize Kushrinada, and lost. Now he feels weak, confused, he would look up at his Nataku and say, "I have no right to fight with you Nataku, please denounce me."

Three Gundam's were on their way to the land route for the Taurus suits, but only two were on their way to the air route. The ones that were taking the land route were Sandrock, DeathScythe and Dragon. When they arrived at the land route they found out immediately that it was a trap, the land route was a train that carried Leo mobile suits and they were met with significant forces.

While the ones that were taking the air route were Wing and Heavyarms they found that it was a trap as well as the Taurus suits deployed on them and counterattacked them. But the five remaining Gundam pilots fought back with great force. They fought continuously as the enemy kept coming at them.

Meanwhile one of the superior officers of the Oz army decided to take drastic steps. Her name was Lady Une. She knew that the Gundam's would be too much for her forces, so she took her own kind of drastic measures. She took control of the space weapon called "Barge", which was a weapon in space that had enough power to wipe out a large asteroid.

"A warning to the Gundam's," she said, "I have ordered Space Fortress Barge to aim it's weapons at the colonies. But I will cancel the order if and only if the pilots give up and surrender your Gundam's."

All the Gundam's knew that they were defeated, but then a ray of hope came through. A transmission from the colonies, it was Dr. J, the one who built and maintained the Wing Gundam and also who was giving the orders to Heero Yuy. He said that he would surrender himself to Oz, but he won't give up the Gundam's. At that moment of surrender, Heero Yuy, landed the Wing and stepped out with the self-detonation device in his right hand. He held it and said quietly, "Mission Accepted" and pushed the button. He blew the Wing Gundam to almost scrap metal, all the important pieces were destroyed and he was thrown clear away from it in a state of catatonia as Heavyarms picked him up and carried him away. While DeathScythe and Sandrock retreated together, but as DeathScythe was walking away with Sandrock he turned to Dragon.

"Are you coming with us, Johan?" Duo asked

"No," Johan answered, "I'm going my own way."

He transformed Ryu into bird mode and flew straight away into the sky.

"He is like Heero Yuy," Duo thought

"I will find my own place," Johan said to Duo through the com, "I will find refuge and gather my strength, only then I will resurface to fight again, now I have faced to many defeats."

"I understand, see ya around buddy." Duo said as he followed Sandrock into the desert horizon.

To be continued…

Author's Notes: In this chapter we've seen the Gundams start to crumble under the cruelty of Oz. Especially in this latest attack where Lady Une had threatened to attack the colonies unless the Gundams would surrender. Originally I was going to have Johan sacrifice himself to Oz, however I felt that wasn't Johan's style plus he has bigger problems on his mind. Which will be seen in the next chapter. In that next chapter Johan will find refuge and sanctuary. So, I decided to leave the sacrifice to Heero, since it was a classic scene of his. In this defeat the Gundams go their own separate ways, Trowa takes care of Heero, Duo and Quatre head off to the Middle East, Wufei rests in Southern China still wallowing in his defeat by Treize, and Johan? That will be seen in the next chapter.

Come back soon for more chapters.