A/N: I hope I got the names of Char's former wingmates right :)

Chapter 55

Angels and Devils

Trowa was flying towards the large object that had suddenly appeared a long distance behind the enemy fleet as his concerns were becoming even more justified as he recognized the object from the technical specs Nicholas had acquired.

"Attention on Axis Forces…the Genesis has appeared a distance behind the enemy fleet; Axis and the Earth are in the line of fire. Begin moving Axis out of Genesis's line of fire immediately I repeat Genesis has appeared behind the enemy fleet and could fire at any time. I repeat Move Axis out of the line of fire immediately." Trowa ordered as the Axis mobile suit forces were quickly trying to move out of the line of fire.

Suddenly Trowa came under attack from a giant object that suddenly appeared from below as he shot down a wave of missiles fired at him. The Heavyarms also evaded a large claw arm that was almost as big as a mobile suit as a giant object was deactivating its Mirage Colloid cloaking system revealing Trowa's foe was a gigantic mobile armor that was four times bigger than the Regenerate Gundam.

"I'll destroy you all!" Rondo shouted frantically as the chest plate on the machine opened up and a barrage of beam cannons fired at the mobile suit. Thankfully because of his small size the Heavyarms Gundam managed to avoid getting hit, but the mobile armor moved up and revealed itself completely to the Heavyarms Gundam.

It was thirty nine meters in height with giant pod-like shoulders and a long legless body almost similar to a mobile armor kept at Axis called the Zero Ze Aru. Although their general frame design was almost the same, except it had a pair of four-razor sharp claw-like talons for grabbing enemy machines and it had a tail binder containing extra missiles and boosters with propellant tanks.

The machine had a head similar to a Gundam with a mouth mounted beam cannon and a pair of beam guns on its forehead in place of the traditional CWIS guns while it had a tall visual eye on the top of its head with a golden V shaped crown on the center of its head. Its Phase Shift Armor gave it a black and red color scheme while its body had an assortment of weapons.

On its shoulders were micro-missile pods with moving beam gun turrets for defense while on its chest was a compartment concealing a series of beam cannons with extra missile pods on the sides of the chest and a moveable beam gun turret on its back while its claw arms boasted a beam cannon and a powerful beam sword.

Trowa was on the defensive as he avoided the numerous missiles and beam shots fired at him while Rondo was indiscriminately destroying any ship unfortunate enough to be caught in his path, which regrettably were in fact the ZAFT and Orb ships while the vessels belonging to Axis and White Fang were a safe distance away moving both their forces and the asteroid itself out of the line of fire.

Rondo activated the Morpheus Gundam's beam swords as he hacked his way through a Nazca class ship that was blocking his path.

"Run coward you can't win against the Morpheus Gundam…the new mobile suit designer at ZAFT created this beauty of a weapon and I will use it so Orb can conquer the world."

"I think not!" A voice called out as a Buster Rifle shot took off a part of the Morpheus Gundam's left shoulder right before the Hikure Gundam arrived on the scene with Freedom, Justice, Deathscythe, Altron, Sandrock and the Strike Gundams right behind it.

"Hey Trowa, it looks to us you're biting off more than you can chew…need a hand?"

"Your assistance is appreciated" Trowa replied as he looked off to the distance he saw the Eternal, Kusanagi and the Archangel approaching. "What brings all of you to this part of space?"

"Noin ran off with Howard, then Heero and then Char so we all kinda figure they were going to find Nicholas so we kinda followed them." Duo answered with a coy smile.

"It's great to be together again." Quatre commented.

"Alright men we got no time for trips down memory lane we got a job to do." Zechs ordered as the Gundam pilots moved to engage the giant mobile armor.


Around the same time Char was almost to Axis when inside the cockpit of the motionless Tallgeese IV as Nicholas laid comatose in the cockpit with his eyes open showing he had invoked the SEED mode before passing out from the overload of mentality he suffered when he felt the pain and cries of anguish from those Rau had killed.

His mind passed from thought and time as he awoke lying in the middle of a grassy field looking up at a blue sky. He was wondering what he was at, but suddenly a middle-aged woman with long brown hair tied into a long ponytail with a blue bow and blue eyes was looking down at him. She was wearing an elegant strapless white dress with diamonds around the collar.

"You seem more like your mother as far as appearance goes, but you defiantly have your father's traits. I think he even has a few of yours?"

Then another man stepped over the young man looking down at him, he was around the same age wearing a blue and white uniform that Nicholas had recognized belonging to members of the Organization of the Zodiac. He had gelled back brown hair and blue eyes as he gazed down at the boy.

"So he is the one who inherited my blessing."

"Who are you two? Where I am?"

"You're still in the cockpit of the Tallgeese IV, but your mind was unable to handle more of the pain Rau was putting you through when he killed your men to inhibit you. You would be dead right now if it were not for Haman."

"Haman saved my neck…I am not going to hear the end of that one." Nicholas replied with a laugh.

"Right now Haman and Heero are fighting Rau at the Genesis Alpha, which has appeared behind the ships that brought their forces here. It's pointing at Axis and the Earth…Rau is going to fire it soon if he is not stopped. Your mind has recovered and it has been strengthening so you'll never suffer such pain again. You'll awaken in a minute, but Treize is going to assist you." Relena Peacecraft pointed out.

"Treize…Treize Kushrenada!" A surprised Nicholas declared.

"That would be me and I am pleased to see that you have taken excellent care of my creation Epyon. But I must tell you that it will soon be time for it to undergo a metamorphous."

"What?"

"On the day of the final battle of the war you will fight against the one who is opposite of you. When the battle reaches it end you will instruct the Gundam creators to build Epyon anew…stronger and mightier than before. They are even discussing design specifications for a new Epyon. Tell them to build a model for the young lady who took your machine into battle and then after your destined battle your machine will be upgraded with an identical armament, but fitted for your fighting style."

"But how do I know this isn't a hallucination caused by the Zero System?"

Treize and Relena laughed at the remark. "That is for you to determine if this is real or an illusion created by your mind and the Zero System, but we are merely offering our advice. I must leave to help Heero…I am going to help him stop that manic and buy you some time. Treize will help you regain enough strength to fight once again so you can get to Genesis Alpha and stop it from the inside. Please take care my nephew and I pray you and Lacus Clyne will be successful."

"Nephew!" A surprised Nicholas said as he realized who the woman was.

"Time to wake up warrior!" Treize said as Nicholas awoke inside the cockpit of his machine.

"Let go of me!" Nicholas demanded as he began moving the Tallgeese IV around trying to free himself.

"You're awake!" Char asked.

"Obliviously…now release me!"

"You're not planning to go out into battle again are you? Your mind has already suffered enough strain you need rest."

"After I take care of the Genesis Alpha, but get my mom to safety." Nicholas said as Char reluctantly released him before flying towards the superweapon as fast as his mobile suit could travel. As he flew off he transmitted a message to Axis to acknowledge the Testament Gundam as a friendly unit while Noin was shouting for him to return.

"Captain Char is that you?" A voice from an approaching Gelgoog called out.

"Andy and I assume that is you Ricardo." Char said as he greeted his two old wing mates.

"Hey Captain long time no see." Ricardo greeted as he pulled up along aside his old commanding officer in a Gelgoog unit.

"Your new machine looks great."

"As much as I would enjoy a friendly conversation, but not isn't the time we got work to do."

"Just give us our orders sir."

"Technically I am no longer your commanding officer when I left Axis."

"We don't care you're still Captain Char and our superior to us and I already said it once before…I'll be willing to plunge into the depths of hell for you captain." Andy pointed out.

"I feel the same way."

"I recall I told you not to mention going to hell." Char replied with a chuckle. "Anyway…alright, but first we need someone to take Mrs. Peacecraft to Axis for medical attention and repairs to her machine."

"We're on it sir!" Andy replied as he called over a fellow Zeon pilot to take the damaged Taurus. Two Zaku mobile suits took the Taurus and carried it into the asteroid. "Alright sir…what is your plan?"

"Follow me and I'll explain on the way." Char replied as he and his wing mates hurried towards the Genesis Alpha.


Meanwhile the Wing Zero and the Qubeley were fighting off the Providence Gundam and the GuAIZ mobile dolls that had deployed from Genesis to attack them. Normally they would have no trouble fighting off the enemy machines, but with Rau harassing them with beam fire from his DRAGOON controlled beam guns flying around the battle wasn't working in their favor as Haman impaled her second GuAIZ mobile doll on her beam saber while one of her bits shot off an right arm and a head from a third.

Although Rau had targeted the Qubeley's beam bits with his machine's own, but they managed to narrowly evade them avoiding destruction. Drawing his Buster rifles, Haman covered Heero long enough for him to separate them and fire them while he spun around in a circle striking down four more GuAIZ mobile dolls while damaging a few others.

Rau moved closer to attack Heero as Haman got behind him to attack, but Rau rolled to the side to evade the shots from her bits and her beam launchers while Heero fired off another shot from his Buster rifles trying to shoot down the Providence Gundam.

"The end of the world, is this what you wanted Le Creuset! Is this what you were hoping for?" Heero shouted.

"You really shouldn't blame me!" Rau replied as he charged at Heero firing his beam rifle at him before shooting a charged buster-shot at the angelic Gundam, which Heero barely managed to evade, but his Buster rifles were shot and destroyed by Rau's DRAGOON controlled bits. "This is mankind's dream! Mankind's desire! Mankind's destiny!"

"You're full of it!" Heero shouted as his blood began to boil.

"Even you of all people should have realized it; to die and kill one another is their dream."

"What do you know?"

"To be the strongest, to go the farthest and to climb the highest!" Rau declared as Wing Zero and the Providence Gundam exchanged beam saber strikes before meeting in a deadlock. "To compete, to envy, to hate and devour one another!" Rau said as he broke the deadlock between his machine and Wing Zero as the Qubeley closed in trying to cleave the enemy Gundam in two.

"I won't let your twisted sense of logic make things worse!" Heero shouted.

"But you are too Heero, you are all too late, because I am the product of all this and that is how I know! I know humanity will be swallowed by the darkness it had created." Rau declared as he unleashed his machine's remote guided beam weapons and rained down more beam fire as the two machines tried to defeat Rau and fight off the remaining GuAIZ mobile dolls.


Meanwhile as the battle dragged on the Tallgeese IV reached the lightwave barrier surrounding the Genesis Alpha, engaging both of its beam shields before pressing them against the lightwave barrier. A few moments later the mobile suit passed through the barrier. Instead of joining the battle the Tallgeese IV made its way to the control center aboard the superweapon while trying to conceal himself from Rau.

After flying across the surface the Tallgeese IV arrived an access hatch, once it opened the Tallgeese IV flew inside where it reached a small hanger deck where Nicholas disembarked from the mobile suit and entered the main shaft leading to the control room. Armed with a handgun Nicholas cautiously entered the control room expecting guards and technicians inside, but he found their corpses floating around the room.

Nicholas quietly entered the room and reached the control panel, Rau had probably killed these men to ensure that none of them could stop him from firing the Genesis Alpha at Earth or the PLANTs. It worked to his favor since there was no one to stop him from reprogramming the superweapon. His first order of business was to cut off Rau's command link to the weapon so he couldn't control it remotely from the Providence Gundam.

Knowing his own secret codes would no longer, Nicholas used Patrick Zala's codes hoping those hadn't been changed. He slammed his hand on the console when an error reading access denied popped up on the screen. Trying to figure out what other access codes could work a man approached from behind and entered in a serious of access codes which opened up the computer to the current user. Nicholas turned and pointed his gun at the unexpected visitor.

"Don't be so jumpy Commander Peacecraft…I have no desire for the Earth to be destroyed." Paptimus Scirocco said as he spread out his arms gesturing that he was unarmed. "I am here on behalf of your friend and political mentor Gilbert Dullindal I came to stop Genesis, but I am planning on using it to destroy Vulkanus."

"Why Vulkanus?" Nicholas asked.

"Because that is where Patrick has been producing the bulk of the mobile doll armies he's been building. Also as we speak shuttles and transport ships are preparing to move a shipment of mobile dolls to Earth to conquer the planet. If Genesis is fired at Vulkanus with a precision shot, you can avoid the PLANTs and wipe out Vulkanus and Patrick's new mobile doll army before they can leave the asteroid. If you don't trust me then use Genesis Alpha's computer to confirm my information." Paptimus suggested as Nicholas wanted to dismiss what the Newtype was saying, but the potential danger a mobile doll army of such size couldn't be ignored.

As he kept one eye on Scirocco he accessed the Genesis Alpha's computer banks looking up the information. Using long range scanners and hacking off a line from the PLANT homeland on a long range communication line he was able to use the external cameras on the PLANT colonies near Vulkanus to check on the asteroid.

As he feared and had hoped Paptimus was lying, Nicholas saw transport ships and carriers heading into Vulkanus as saw hundreds of mobile dolls being loaded on the vessels. Thanks to the access he had gained into ZAFT's military network he confirmed the piece of freighting information Paptimus Scirocco had given him.

"As you can see I am telling the truth."

"I had wished you weren't!" Nicholas admitted as he began sweating worrying about what to do. Patrick had already created a small legion of mobile dolls, but if an army of that kind of size leaves for Earth, ZAFT will conquer the planet in a matter of months and eventually turn their attention to them. Despite all of the weapons and mobile suits Axis and White Fang had…Nicholas knew that as long as Patrick Zala had the factories and parts on Vulkanus as a means to mass produce mobile dolls their fight would end badly for them by the end of the year. If the chairman was capable of producing that many mobile dolls with the resources and factories on Vulkanus, then ZAFT could produce that many more in a month's time.

"So what do you intend to do?"

"First I need to reprogram the mobile dolls defending this place, and then I'll need to lock down the Genesis Alpha so no one can barrage in and stop me. I am going to use the Genesis Alpha and destroy Vulkanus and that mobile doll army along with it before it can leave the PLANTs."

"You know this will not go over well with Lacus Clyne and her allies."

"True, but that is why I do what I do…I do what no one else has the guts or the resolve to do. I am not afraid of getting my hands dirty." Nicholas answered as he quickly with a sad expression on his face while he finished reprogramming the mobile dolls to attack the Providence Gundam. At the same time Genesis began turning around as Nicholas was beginning to aim it at Vulkanus, fortunately for him there were no PLANT colonies in the line of fire.


Outside the superweapon; Rau, Haman and Heero stopped fighting for a moment as they noticed the massive weapon was moving as it was doing an about-face. At that same moment Rau noticed the surviving GuAIZ mobile suits turn around and began attacking him.

"What's going on…I have lost control of Genesis and its mobile doll defense force?" Rau shouted as he was shocked by the sudden change of events. Forced to fight off his own mobile dolls, Heero and Haman now; the battle has quickly turned in the two pilot's favor as the Providence Gundam was shooting down the approaching swarm of mobile dolls.

"Sorry Rau, but you will not be ending the world today!"

"Nicholas?" Haman and Nicholas exclaimed as they recognized the young man's voice.

"How did you gain access of the Genesis Alpha's control systems your codes should have been revoked from the system?"

"He had a little help…after all Rau firing the Genesis Alpha at Earth goes against HIS wishes." Paptimus Scirocco answered. "That is something I cannot not allow."

"You bastard you betrayed me?" Rau spat as he hacked the last of the GuAIZ mobile dolls in half.

"Betrayed…not really, but as I said I am not going to stand by idly while you destroy the earth along with setting the stage for humanity's end."

"But what are you doing with Genesis?" Lacus demanded.

"I am going to use it to deal Patrick a crippling blow…take a look!" Nicholas said as he broadcast the images of the new mobile doll army about to leave Vulkanus. "As long as Patrick has Vulkanus he can produce as many mobile dolls as he wants within a month. I am going take that army and the factory he has set up on Vulkanus out. Beam trajectory and target acquisition is prefect…the shot will avoid the PLANT colonies hitting only the asteroid."

"Are you crazy?" Kira shouted in protest.

"It those mobile dolls aren't destroyed now, Patrick will defeat the Alliance and conquer the Earth in a few months; and even if we did defeat that army Patrick can make hundreds more just as quickly. According to the data here Vulkanus is the primary location where all of the mobile dolls ZAFT have been producing have been constructed." Nicholas said as he finished turning the Genesis Alpha around and began powering up the weapon.

"Nicholas, please don't!" Lacus pleaded.

"This must be done for the sake of the future!" Nicholas said as the generators within Genesis hummed to life as the weapon's barrel was charging up to fire a shot.

The Gundam pilots were the only ones who didn't offer any objections since they knew how dangerous a mobile doll army of that kind of size could do, and if they were deployed to Earth to conquer it then the death toll those machines could create from the number of expected civilian deaths alone would be catastrophic.

Rau was evading attacks from Haman and Heero was he was trying to hurry to the Genesis Alpha's control room to stop Nicholas before the weapon fires, but he was too late as a coherent beam of crimson energy shot out from the weapon bouncing off the mirror block causing the energy to charge the center dish with gamma radiation of increasing intensity. Like increasing pressure in a balloon, the Genesis weapon continued to build up the energy that was being generated until it burst forth sending a monstrous beam of gamma radiation to its target.

Lacus, Kira, Athrun, Murrue, Andrew were horrified by the weapon's power while Haman on the other hand was surprised with by the pure devastating power Genesis possessed as the beam cut its way through space heading straight for the PLANT homeland. The beam missed the PLANT colonies hitting its mark and Lacus and the others watched as Vulkanus was vaporized by the intense beam of energy. The beam tore through the asteroid killing all forms of life inside and completely destroying the ships and mobile dolls before the asteroid broke apart.

Nicholas had a look of distasteful satisfaction on his face…he wasn't proud of what he did, but he knew it had to be done for the sake of ending the war the way it should be ended.

"Damn you Peacecraft!" Rau howled as Haman slammed into the Providence Gundam before the Qubeley managed to get in a beam saber slice and take the Gundam's right left off from the knee down before it was pushed away.

"You're not leaving the debris belt alive!" Heero shouted as he attacked.

"Even if Genesis Alpha won't be used against the Earth there is still the final production model in Patrick's possession. Once the Alliance attacks the PLANTs he'll use it on the Earth in any case."

"That won't happen?"

"You don't get it you fool…no matter what happened I have already won. Even if I die today my shadow still lingers and she will fulfill my desires on my behalf from beyond the grave. The Earth will burn! And the cries of the victims will ignite battle anew!" Rau declared as he fired his rifle at the Wing Zero as it approached while Haman's bits were hammering away at the enemy Gundam, but its combined Phase Shift and Gundanium alloy armor left it with a strong resilience against her bits since the strength of her shots weren't strong enough to pierce its armor.

"You don't understand anything at all!" Heero roared.

"Of course, people only understand what they experienced." Rau answered as he shot off the Wing Zero's left leg with the Buster Rifle feature on his rifle.

"Humans will never change fool. Ignorance and Escapism, they hurt each other all the time and claim they had no intention to, but that is what humanity truly is…violent and deceitful creatures that enjoy murdering and killing each other throughout the ages although they don't want to admit it." Rau declared darkly as he fought against the two machines with even greater viciousness.

Haman barely evaded Rau's beam rifle from his floating bits as she evaded one shot before destroying one DRAGOON beam gun with a shot from her hand-mounted beam launcher.

"You're wrong! People aren't like that at all!"

"Kira Yamato and Nicholas Peacecraft are beings who shouldn't be allowed to exist! They are both monsters created as a result of mankind's greed and lust to reach greater heights at the cost of countless children who had their lives robbed from them before they were even born!"

"Shut up!" Heero snapped as he evaded a series of beams from the DRAGOON units swarming around the two machines before he managed to slash one in two.

"If people learned of their existence, they would want to become just as they are! They would want to become like them! That's the reason why…their existence cannot be allowed! They are nothing more than monster made by science!"

"You're wrong!" Haman snapped as destroyed another beam gun attacking her. "Nicholas Peacecraft is not a monster. He may have been born different and was gifted with talents and abilities a lot of people may not have, but he is still a human being who deserves ever right to live. The only monster here is YOU! He never asked to be coordinator just like I had never asked to be born a Newtype! Even if that is true…Newtypes and coordinators are not defined by their abilities alone!"

"And who's going to believe that line? Will they understand that? Of course they won't! Nobody will!" Rau shouted as he continued his attack as he fired on the two mobile suits with everything his Gundam could dish out. Wing Zero closed in and attempted to attack Rau directly, but the Providence Gundam's beam weapons returned as two of them above his shoulders flipped over pointing at the charging Wing Zero before firing taking out the angelic mobile suit's machine cannons stunning it long enough for Rau to unleash a vicious beam assault as he took off the Wing Zero's right arm as he moved in to stab the cockpit with his beam sword.

But thanks to Haman's intervention she saved Heero's life as she hacked off the Providence Gundam's left arm with her beam saber.


Meanwhile inside the cockpit, the damage Rau inflicted caused some of the consoles and monitors to spark and flare as small electronic explosions erupted throughout the cockpit. Although Heero was still alive, but the Wing Zero was barely operational at this point thanks to the serve damage it took.

"Move Wing Zero!" Heero demanded as he tried moving his machine, but it wasn't responding.

After struggling with the machine for a few moments Heero gave up as he slammed on the damaged Wing Zero's console. As hope faded from Heero's eyes something happened that the Gundam pilot didn't expect. The cockpit in the Wing Zero started glowing yellow as the machine came back online while he felt someone taking his hands and bracing them around the control sticks.

"What's happening…are you doing this Zero?"

"Don't tell me you are giving up on me now Heero. You had always protected me and now it's my turn to protect you." A voice said as Relena Peacecraft's ghostly form appeared next to Heero as she giving the Gundam pilot renewed strength.

"Relena?" A surprised Heero said.

"We can defeat him together…I am granting you my strength so you can defeat this monster before his actions kill any more people. We will fight him together…you gave me strength Heero and now I'll give you mine!" Relena said as her sprit sat down in the pilot seat joining with Heero. As Relena entered his body his eyes began to change as Heero saw a blue seed bounce off an invisible pool of water before shattering into light.

"RAU!" Heero shouted as he entered SEED mode thanks to Relena helping him, but aboard the Archangel, Miriallia who had been monitoring the Wing Zero noticed a drastic change in the machine.

"The Wing Zero has regained power, but the combat motivation from the Zero System is skyrocketing. Its climbed pass 150...no now it's over 400 and still climbing the Zero System is on the verge of overload."

"What? Is that even possible?" Murrue asked as a white aura began to appear around the Wing Zero as held its last beam saber in hand while the white aura surrounding it began to glow with an even brighter intensity.

As Heero rushed back to take Rau down, Haman was struggling fighting the Providence Gundam on her own as she lost the Qubeley's right arm, but she managed to take down two more of Rau's beam guns while she got close to destroying the Gundam. But she and Rau noticed the glowing Wing Zero as it was charging straight at the Providence Gundam.

"IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT; YOU'RE THE ONE TO BLAME!" Heero and Relena roared together in unison as the Wing Zero cut through another of Rau's beam guns leaving him with only four left. "DIE!" Heero destroyed the second large beam gun before chasing after Rau who was terrified at the sight of the Wing Zero as his beam guns were bouncing off the Wing Zero.

"Why continue fighting me…why torment yourself saying. Eventually, someday? How long have you been fighting with your thoughts clouded by that brand of sweet poison? You know humanity will never change" A frightened Rau said as he tried to distance himself from the Wing Zero.

"Those who died at Alaska and the assassination of Siegel Clyne and his followers were all your doing. When people wanted peace you sabotaged their efforts allowing the radical factions to gain control…their blood is on your hands and their desire for vengeance against you is what is powering Wing Zero. This is the wraith of all of humanity! The power of one I cared for is making this possible for me!" Heero and Relena answered as charged straight for the Providence Gundam, which had surprisingly stopped moving.

"What's wrong…the Providence…it isn't moving!"

Rau looked off to the distance and saw the Qubeley standing motionless while a pinkish aura was surrounding the machine as Haman was tapping her Newtype powers to hold down Rau.

"Hurry and finish him Heero Yuy…I can't hold him for much longer!" Haman said as she was fighting to keep Rau immobilized.

"Humanity may be stubborn, but this world is still worth protecting!"

Wing Zero charged straight at the Providence Gundam as Rau had the remaining beam guns fire at the Gundam in a last ditch effort to stop it from reaching him, but his weapons had no effect. However Rau managed to force the Providence Gundam to aim its rifle at the Wing Zero. Haman tried to stop him, but Rau pulled the trigger sending a fully charged buster rifle shot at the Wing Zero. Heero didn't dodge it as the beam engulfed the Wing Zero creating a giant explosion.

Assuming the Wing Zero was destroyed Rau breathed a sigh of relief.

"You're efforts are useless!"

"You fool…it's not over yet!" Haman said with a smile on her face.

"What!" Rau said as from the smoke Wing Zero emerged unharmed by the shot as it impaled the Providence Gundam through the cockpit with its beam saber for ramming the machine onto the surface of the Genesis Alpha where the blade of the beam saber increased all the way down to the nuclear reactor at the core of the superweapon causing to become volatile from the damage. Heero continued to push the Providence Gundam against the superweapon as if it was trying to push him through the weapon itself while the Genesis Alpha was about to explode from the internal damage it suffered.

"You fool get away from that thing it's about to explode!" Haman shouted as she realized the danger before flying away from the superweapon as the lightwave barrier went down.

Heero stayed for a moment before flying away from the Genesis Alpha leaving the remains of the Providence Gundam before they exploded trigging a nuclear explosion in his wake followed by the Genesis Alpha itself blowing up engulfing the Wing Zero.

The Tallgeese IV escaped the inevitable destruction of the superweapon where he joined up with Haman before deploying his machine's beam guns using them to form a beam barrier around them to shield themselves from any debris sent flying in their direction.


Meanwhile the other Gundams were fighting against the Morpheus Gundam as the gigantic mobile armor tried to shoot them down with missiles and every weapon in its arsenal. The battle was going well for the most part, but the Gundams piloted by Wufei, Duo, Quatre and Mwu noticed their mobile suits were rapidly losing energy before they suddenly began shutting down leaving them adrift in space.

The only ones not affected by the power loss were the Heavyarms, Freedom, Hikure and Justice were the only Gundams still active as they fought not only to defeat the mobile armor, but to protect their friends who were drifting helplessly before the giant machine's fury.

"This is the secret weapon of the Morpheus Gundam…any mobile suit powered by a battery that is within range of its energy absorption field will be rendered helpless within minutes, but that is if I don't kill you first." Gina announced happily as fired missiles at the helplessly machines. Without wasting a moment, Zechs deployed the Hikaru's DRAGOON units and spread them out before they generated a beam shield around his machine and others protecting them from the missiles.

Suddenly a Gelgoog armed with an Excalibur anti-ship sword flew pass the Morpheus Gundam taking off its arm before a second Gelgoog armed with the same type of sword sliced off the other arm. The giant Gundam moved as it moved forward to avoid Char who came down nearly splitting the Gundam's head in two, but instead hacked off a large portion of the machine's tail binder with the Schwert Gewehr anti-ship sword he had in his hands.

"Not bad, but the arms when separated from the body can still operate remotely." Gina shouted as the arms began flying around shooting energy beams at the Gelgoog units, but the pilots evaded them before cutting the arms in two. As Zechs, Athrun, Trowa and Kira got Duo, Mwu, Wufei and Quatre to safety…Char and his men kept the Morpheus Gundam preoccupied.

Although Zechs and the others were successful in destroying most of the weapons on the giant mobile armor, but their problem lies in not penetrating its thick Gundanium and Phase Shift armor. Regular beam rifles won't work leaving only beam sabers and anti-ship swords as the only useable weapons against such a monster machine.

As Andy and Ricardo were craving into the giant mobile armor using their anti-ship swords with Char helping them the machine fired whatever missiles it had left trying to stop them as the damages the Morpheus Gundam was suffering were mounting.

"For a bulky mobile armor it's pretty tough." Andy commented.

"But that thing is just about out of weapons!" Char noted, but suddenly four smaller arms with crab-like hands emerge from the shoulders along with another pair from around the waist area.

"Oh you got to be kidding me?" Ricardo said as the arms began shooting plasma beams at them.

"Somehow I am not surprised…this battle was almost too easy." Char replied as he evaded the beams, but a charged buster rifle shot struck the shoulder of the giant mobile armor blowing it off before a second shot took off the other shoulder right before a third shot clipped off the bottom half of the machine. Although intended for the cockpit it missed and hit the bottom half of the machine when it tried to evade it.

The Hikure, Justice, Freedom and Heavyarms Gundams returned to the battlefield marking their return with the three Gundams using their buster rifles on the giant mobile armor crippling it.

"Nice shooting you three." Char complimented.

"Thanks…that troublesome machine had a thick hide, even with all of us we had a hard time cracking it. Not to mention we had a hard time evading all of those blasted missiles and beam shots it threw at us." Athrun noted as the machine began rumbling before it exploded. Suddenly Kira detached danger as he shouted.

"Everyone look out!"

Everyone was on their guard as four large triangle-shaped attack pods flew out from the cloud of debris firing missiles and high-powered beam shots before a thin-mobile suit with reserve joint legs rushed out at the Hikure Gundam. Zechs drew and activated his dual ended beam saber to parry the unexpected mobile suit attacker.

"You overconfident fools…what you destroyed was the support unit, this machine is the true form of the Morpheus Gundam." Gina declared as he engaged the beam blades on the legs and arms of the mobile suit before kicking and swinging its arms at Zechs trying to decapitate his machine. The Hikure Gundam was barely fending off the deadly machine's kicks and swings of its beam blade arms and legs.

While Athrun and Char dealt with the mobile attack pods, seizing the opportunity to quickly finish the mobile suit off Kira went into HiMAT mode and fired his beam rifle and his plasma cannons at the Hikure knowing full well his shots would bounce off and hit the enemy machine. The shots bounced off the Hikure's head and shoulders bouncing off taking the head and arms of the Morpheus Gundam off leaving it wide open for Zechs to deliver the final blow as he cleaved the mobile suit's legs off.

"It's over Gina…you have lost! Even with the Zero System helping you can't win." Zechs declared as he pointed his rifle at the disabled mobile suit's cockpit.

"No, no, no, no, no! I can't lose I am the right heir to Orb…I am the rightful ruler of this planet I cannot lose." Gina said as he slipped further and further into madness under the influence of the Zero System. Instead of exactly helping the Zero System had only caused Gina's crumbling sanity to deteriorate even further. "I can still win!" Gina said as he began laughing like a lunatic.

Having been completely driven mad by the Zero System of the Morpheus Gundam he opened up a slid-open panel on the right arm rest of his chair, Gina was intending to activate the self-destruct mechanism of the Gundam and take everyone down with him in the resulting nuclear explosion. Zechs and Char sensed the danger.

"Damn…that lunatic!" Zechs commented while Char shouted.

"Everyone move away from the Morpheus Gundam its going to self-destruct!" Char and his wing mates moved away trying to put as much distance between them and the Morpheus Gundam, but the Archangel, Eternal and the Kusanagi were in danger of getting caught in the blast. But a sudden enveloping blast from the Mega Cannon of the Tallgeese III engulfed and vaporized the Gundam before its reactor could go critical.

All eyes turned to the Tallgeese III that had launched from the Kusanagi a few moments ago.

"Who's piloting it?" Kira asked.

"I thought I could help out?" Cagalli said as she tried to move the machine.

"Cagalli!" Athrun exclaimed.

"How did you get out of your room?" Zechs asked.

"I broke out obviously!" Cagalli answered while hiding the fact that her friends had sprung her from her room during the battle allowing her to make her way to the mobile suit deck and take the Tallgeese III.


Meanwhile the battle around Axis was beginning to settle down as Shiho and Mikhail had won against their opponents with Shiho holding her heavy laser sword horizontally and taking the legs of the Long Dagger she had been fighting clean off with a quick pass by. Mikhail had done his doctor's duty and amputated the limbs off of the Long Dagger before finishing off the pilot.

Heine defeated his foe by leap-forging over his foe right before he shot off his arms with the rail cannons on his machine's hips mid-way over his enemy before shootings the Raider Full Spec's head off with his beam rifle before using his beam sabers to cleave off the enemy machine's legs capturing the pilot.

Last and certainty not least… Courtney's opponent surrendered when it was clear that there was no chance for victory or retreat since he was surrounded by Zaku, Gaza and Serpent mobile suits.

The Battle for Axis ended in a landslide victory for the combined forces of White Fang and Zeon.

Near the three ships of the Clyne Faction a blinding flash lit up the area in the distance marking where the Genesis Alpha exploded leaving a blinding flash where the superweapon was once at. A couple minutes later the Qubeley and the Tallgeese IV arrived on the scene with no sign of the Wing Zero.

"I guess you guys don't need a hand." Nicholas Peacecraft said as he and Haman drifted nearby inspecting the site of the battle.

"Nicholas you got a lot of nerve showing up! I can't believe you fired that thing at the PLANT homeland!"

"I didn't hit any of the PLANT colonies…I only destroyed the mobile doll army ZAFT was building at Vulkanus. Even if we got together and destroyed the army, Patrick still had the means to produce a whole new army in a short time thanks to the facilities on Vulkanus. I have killed two birds with one stone." Nicholas replied to Athrun's accusation.

"What would have happened if there was a PLANT colony in the way?" Kira demanded.

"I would have repositioned the Genesis weapon until I had a clear shot, it's that simple."

"Nothing is simple with you." Kira spat.

"You people are an ungrateful bunch…how about a thank you for eliminating a dangerous threat." Haman suggested with a coy smile.

Athrun and Kira were furious with Nicholas that he had used such a dangerous weapon along with the fact that he had fired it into the PLANT homeland added to their reasons of dislike for the young Peacecraft's methods.

Suddenly from behind the battered remains of Wing Zero arrived as everyone saw the damage the Gundam had sustained. After narrowly surviving the nuclear explosion from Genesis's destruction the Wing Zero, for a lack of a better word, was completely trashed. Its head had been taken over in the blast when a piece of its Phase Shift Armor plating knocked the damage head clean off while the Gundam lost one of its wings in the ensuring explosion along with its remaining arm.

"Heero what the hell happened to you?" Zechs asked.

"The Wing Zero was caught in the blast from the Genesis Alpha's destruction…my machine is still fifteen percent operational. However I can report that the renegade ZAFT commander Rau Le Crescent has been slain."

"Well that's good news." Nicholas commented.

"I had some help." Heero noted as he looked at Haman.


Around the same time, Paptimus Scirocco was flying alone through the debris belt aboard his Tallgeese mobile suit heading back to his ship, but inside his cockpit he was having a private video conversation with his friend and the man who supplied him with the information regarding the mobile doll army and where they were being produced at, as well as the access codes to override Rau's control of the superweapon.

"As you have probably heard the mobile doll factory on Vulkanus along with the new army of mobile doll units has been completely wiped out. I can imagine ZAFT is in a total panic, but I am certain they will be calmed with Genesis's destruction. When Genesis exploded the few survivors of the men Rau and Gina had brought surrendered to White Fang forces."

"Yes…Patrick was…besides himself when he heard what had happened. There has been no word from the fleet that went into the debris belt to deal with White Fang so a Recon GINN is being dispatched to confirm what had happened. The official story will be that you tried to arrive to assist Commander Le Creuset and our allies, but you arrived too late to stop the Genesis Alpha from being used…however you were able to destroy it before it could be used again against the homeland. White Fang and Lacus Clyne will be blamed for it."

"That'll work nicely." Paptimus replied. "But aren't you in the least bit troubled by Rau's death. He was your friend?"

Gilbert paused at the question before he calmly replied. "Regrettable as it may be, but I have my own vision for the future of humanity and I shall save it from self-destruction. I couldn't allow Rau to go through with his own plans, but a part of him still lives on in Rey."

"I see Le Creuset's younger brother."

"We'll speak again soon."

"Of course" Paptimus said as he ended communications with Dullindal before continuing on his way back to his ship.

A/N: I am hopeful the battle between Heero and Rau was really something, not exactly what I had orginally planned and it happened sooner than I orginally intended, but I felt it was the right time. :)