Disclaimer: I do not own G-Gundam
This chapter was collaborated on with CuddlyChristina. I haven't really watched anything Gundam recently, mostly live action horror series on Netflix. This chapter is pretty long so hope it isn't too much of a drag.
Caro stood silent while she got in her Gundam and took off. Now Caro was left to find Domon and show him around. He had hoped that despite his blindness, he would taking the right direction to locate him.
Caro heard someone calling his name only the sound of this person wasn't Domon. He walked until he came across a man. Although he couldn't see the man's face and attire in full view due to his blindness, he could see a smudge of someone who looked like a ronin.
"I hear you calling the man of Domon. Mind if I come with you looking for him?"
Caro didn't know why but everything about this man made his hair stand on all ends.
"Who are you?" was all that he could ask.
"Just someone as interested in finding Domon as you. How I know him isn't any concern of yours."
Caro initially frowned, as he was unable to get a reasonable answer out of the mysterious man.
"What I can say is I saw you with Domon through three shops. I doubt strangers walk that long together."
"Good. Then just stay seven feet away from me and watch me locate Domon. Then, I'll tell him about you. Good-bye."
He really was an intrusive man. Caro was glad when he just walked away...and vanished in a flash. With that, he continued on his way; eventually, he would soon find Domon some time later.
Funny enough he was with Rain and Lisette having tea at a café.
"Oh, hey, Caro!" Domon turned to see him with a smile. However, Caro seemed a little hesitant in bringing up the strange man.
"Hello Domon. When did Rain and Lisette get here?"
"Not long ago. Seems Rain got scared being in that ship and came to look for me." Domon said.
"I see..." Caro replied, nodding with a smile.
"Lisette she says is also really really trying to be a friend to her except it comes more as an earful of yammering and gabbiness. Rain doesn't have the heart to tell her to go away over how corralled she's been in that ship."
"That's nice. May I talk to your wife, sir?" He nodded. Caro took that chance to walk up to her, hesitated because Lisette was with her, and then continued remembering how his question had nothing to do with her. "Do you know anyone who dresses like a samurai?"
"A...samurai?" he asked, blinking in confusion.
"Yes. Someone who watches way too much history drama's and decided that would be how they would look. Know anyone like that?"
"Unless he had violet hair who traded his boxing gloves for a gi I don't think so. But whoever it was, if they were asking for Domon they can't be trusted."
This also perplexed the others, too.
That following evening the four returned back to base. Domon and Rain shared a room together three doors down from where Caro was sleeping.
Caro hated being in a hotel room. It was all just objects put in places he could barely make out and unlike back at the base he couldn't just call for help when he needed it—the fact the hotel has a phone being no help at all.
Things also didn't help that Lisette was sharing the same room as Caro. She had just came back from a shower and was already dried off and clothed.
"Caro, I have something very important I have to tell you!" Even if Caro was blind, he could tell she was running at him like a dog looking for a bone. But she had something important to say: "I found a way you could help another Gundam Fighter with your Gift."
"Really? What for?" he asked.
"Well, it just happens Gundams use a lot of resources just to use but being inside one could save energy. And—"
Suddenly, there was a loud noise outside.
"What was that?!" Lisette asked. This, too, prompted Domon, Rain and Caro to notice.
"It sounded like a Level Five Earthquake!" Rain said darting her eyes trying to pinpoint the source.
"No...this is the arrival of a Gundam." Said Domon.
Caro and Lisette were quickly alarmed at his words, before Caro asked, "Is it possible we need to confront them with our Gundams?"
Domon was way ahead of them raising his right hand in the air in a snapping position.
"Rise up, Burning Gundam!"
All of his clothes exploded, followed by him suiting up. The same went for Caro, Rain and Lisette; and in Lisette's case, when her clothes exploded, she nearly let out a shrill shriek of embarrassment and attempting to cover up.
Soon Burning Gundam was flying until he was a big shadow eclipsing the moon soon coming to face with the Gundam that awoke them. The Gundam has a brown and black color palette, having some sort of samurai motif.
The first thing the old Domon would do was charge and hit him as fast as he could, but in the city that would be the same as causing genocide. Unfortunately, the samurai Gundam beat him charging at him.
It was armed with a katana-esque sword, which Lisette pointed out, "Looks like a Far East-inspired guy. Wonder if he's really that tough?"
"Domon and Caro will figure that out. You and I-"
Rain was interrupted by Lisette dashing in with her Gundam: A Gundam with a slender metallic figure also has a blue and white color palette. She crossed her left leg over her right shin before leaping at him. The samurai Gundam crouched down, hand on his scabbard-esque appendage, and then swung his sword in an arc!
Lisette used her weapon, a giant metallic hammer with a yellow heart insignia on the hammer side, to do a pole twirl out of the swords way. Once her Gundam was airborne for a few seconds, Domon and Caro charged together at the samurai Gundam.
"Beam Sword!" Domon yelled.
A glowing sword of pure energy materialized in his nonexistent pommel before he swung downward on the samurai who easily blocked it with one hand.
Samurai Gundam was able to counter the attack, and from inside, it yelled, "Lightning Slash Combo!"
He moved his sword in a W formation: first he struck vertically down, then up, and down again Domon was able to block. Instead of slashing his sword up again he jumped back but charged forward ready to strike as a T; moving his sword in a thrust before he swung it in an arc...his move was intercepted by Caro who pushed Domon away only to be slashed instead.
Caro's Gundam, named Fearless Gundam, was not only hit, but it also damaged Caro himself a bit, too.
The tubes keeping him positioned dislodged as Caro collapsed on the ground. Being blind and never moving around his Gundam, he couldn't refit himself back in even if he tried.
'All I can do it give up,' he thought to himself.
His Fearless Gundam was nothing but a top without a bottom and hemorrhaging bolts from its severed midsection before the Samurai Gundam raised its katana over its metal chin and sliced down with mighty force!
However, a large yo-yo extended towards Caro and lassoed him away. His Gundams' legs were still shattered into metal plates and bolts by the sword.
"Huh? Where did that yo-yo come from?" Rain asked.
It of course came from the mechanic with a bubbly personality Lisette. She pried Caro away from the battle and grabbed him by his severed upper body.
"You okay?" she asked.
"Kind of...I can't help but express my gratitude that you've come to help me, though." he replied with a smile.
"No problem. You make a better shield than a fighter and I make a better friend than a mechanic."
This also prompted Domon to briefly think, 'Sort of like me and Rain...'
Caro's sacrifice gave Domon an opportune moment to throttle his Burning Gundam into the Samurai Gundam.
"Burning Finger!" he exclaimed out loud.
The Samurai Gundam could only look on as a hand radiating with the heat of a volcano reached out and punctured a hole in his chest!
And with that, Samurai Gundam was defeated by Domon and his allies.
Now Domon had to check the wreckage of the Gundam to see who was piloting it.
Indeed, when the pilot was discovered, it was a rather youthful looking man, apparently from the same country as Domon and Rain.
"Neo Japan citizen?" Domon stated.
The man glared at Domon and Rain before fluttering his hand.
"Can you give me a lift to the nearest police station?"
"Sure...if that's what you want." Rain replied.
The man just nodded with a faint smile, prompting Domon to nod his head in agreement with the other pilots.
While he was taken to the police station to admit to his unorthodox nightly attack, Caro was being flown with only the upper torso still intact in his Gundam back into space.
At the station, the police chief had asked him, "So, who're you? And what brought you here to attack them?"
The man took a deep breath, before replying, "I am Jinpachi Sasaki; you might be thinking that I'm a descendant of sorts."
"No, I'm thinking about what I'm going to have for dinner: pizza or leftover teriyaki steak with broccoli. As for you, I'll ask you one question you only have two answers for—yes or no—and depending on your answer I'll either have you tell me the facts in an interrogation room or I'll throw you in a cell until morning where you'll be taken to court the next day with the possibility of parole or not. Do you understand?"
Jinpachi nodded, and replied a simple "Yes."
The man in the heretofore was someone who could crush buildings with one hand or slice through towers like paper, and now he was handcuffed and pushed along a hallway so small he was encompassing it.
When he finally reached the office, he quietly sat down and maintained a calm composure.
While he was being a model prisoner he was being leered at by the prison guard standing in the corner while the actual warden stuck his finger again and again looking for a file on him.
"So are you going to tell me who you are or would you like me to refer to you as John Doe? Either way your going to rot in prison for all the destruction you caused out there."
"Jinpachi Sasaki." Sasaki replied.
"Sasaki..." The warden's head lolled while he pulled out more files from a cabinet and skimmed his fingers through the files starting with S. He found one and opened it, then, he looked sorrowful. "The same Sasaki from the Neo Hong Kong Graft Camps?"
"Yes." was all that Sasaki responded, nodding his head once more.
The warden was conflicted. He shed a tear for all those who had to endure the harsh labors there, but as a warden he had to make sure justice was served.
"Is there anyone you wish to call?" He asked. The samurai shook his head. "Okay, best I can do is keep you in holding away from other inmates for two days before we take you to trial."
Meanwhile, Domon and the others were outside the station, hoping to get word about Sasaki's condition.
"You've changed," Rain said. "When was he last time you wanted to check in on an assassin?"
"The final round of the Gundam Games when I fought that clone of my brother." He replied.
"A clone? Does that mean the real one is dead?" Lisette asked.
Sasaki didn't even know why Domon and his friends are still present at the station. Regardless, her question made his eyes water.
"Yeah...he did die."
The news was very sad and Lisette felt horrible for asking it. The usually upbeat blonde cast her eyes downward, to which Rain placed a hand on her shoulder reassuringly.
"Did you build that Gundam by hand or did someone make it for you?" The detective asked the Asian fighter.
"Well first I stole the Gundam from a prison camp but after stealing it...I modified it."
"Modifications? I've heard something like that before." Domon replied.
"Is it like with the Shining Gundam and the Burning Gundam where you transferred all the fighting information into that Gundam from an old Gundam you used to have?"
"No...this was my very first Gundam."
"Your first Gundam...that's an accomplishment!" Caro exclaimed.
Even Domon would agree...too bad he saw what he used it for:
"The accomplishment for him would be getting to kill me."
Sasaki was silent, brooding...he worked adamantly trying to finish Domon and now he was going to prison for at least a life sentence.
Yawing through the sky with four metallic wings and a red tinted cockpit was a fast jet.
"Hey...did you hear something?" a civilian asked.
"I didn't at first...but now that you mention it..."
They looked up to the dark sky filled with stars.
They saw a chariot with four dais protruding around it being pulled by what looked to be a metal horse, and it wasn't Santa Clause.
Many assumed it to be a Gundam taking the appearance of such, while others believed it to be fake. But instead of a Gundam they got a metal flitter with a man in ninja garbs steering the vassal.
He briefly looked down at them, before turning his attention to his horse.
His horse was hard to read but that could be the same to say as the female passenger in the back scaffold of the flitter.
She behaved similarly to an AI, in charge of giving him commands and such.