GUNDAM W
OVA SERIES 2
Episode 6 THE FINAL BATTLEHeero awoke. He tried to get up, but failed. His sides were wrapped with bloodstained bandages, as well as his right arm. He had a patch of gauze taped above his left eye, and he could hardly see. He felt the cool breeze blow through the window, and heard the sound of someone sleeping. He moved his head over to his left and opened his eyes, and there was Relena.
She was dressed in her usual clothing. She had on her red dress with the blue belt sachet around her waist, and her hair was down with two little strands tied behind her head. To Heero, it didn't matter how she looked. She was always beautiful. He tried to sit up again, but failed once more. This time, the pain in his sides got the better of him. He flopped back down onto his pillows, groaning just a little.
"…you have to get up…" he thought. "…you must go after Lady Une…you have to stop the OZ Federation from gaining any footholds in the political arena…" Heero tried for the last time to get up, and this time he succeeded. Despite his pain, he walked over to his dresser and put on his normal clothes. Careful not to disturb her, Heero wrote Relena a note and placed it on her lap. Slowly he walked out the door and took the walk over to the garage where his Gundam awaited.
Relena was stirred awake by one of her usual nightmares. She opened her eyes and blinked a few times, expecting to see Heero. But he wasn't there! She looked around for him everywhere, but she couldn't find him. She heard something fall on the floor as she got up. It was a note! "Heero must have written this…" she thought as she opened it. She started reading the note:
" My dearest Relena,
I'm sorry I have to leave you, but I must complete my mission. You understand my duty as your bodyguard and as a soldier for peace. Lady Une has rebuilt the OZ Federation, and I must stop her. I have contacted all of the other pilots for help, considering my condition. I knew that's what you would have wanted.
Aishiteru, Heero"Heero, Duo, Trowa, and Quatre all met at the same place. It was almost a comforting feeling for Heero to be with his fellow pilots again. Duo quickly radioed in.
"Hey guys…." He said, "seems kinda' quiet." "Yeah…too quiet" replied Quatre. Almost at that instant, a barrage of Serpent, Leo, and Taurus mobile dolls surrounded them, firing in every direction. "Damn! They hit with full force don't they!" shouted Duo as he began slicing through suit after suit with his beam scythe. Heero pulled out his two beam sabres and began to attack. Quatre relied on his twin heat blades for offensive maneuvers. Trowa began his barrage of bullets and missiles.
"We have to find Lady Une's secret base" yelled Heero through the com-link, "We need to find out where she is operating from. The calculations I had were correct, but it can't be here."
"Where would is the good Lady hiding?" Duo asked himself aloud. "If I had a secret base, where would I put it?" He took his beam scythe and began slicing at an opening in the ground. "I think right about here!" he yelled.
Heero had been deep in the ZERO System now for almost an hour. His body was not taking the affects of the ZERO System very well in its condition. He was weaving in and out of mobile suits, destroying them as he passed. He saw the other Gundams, his friends, fighting as well. It didn't matter how many suits they destroyed, they just kept on coming. Quatre and Trowa took on the job of covering Duo as he tried to open the secret base. Heero knew the outcome of this battle already. He knew he wasn't going to make it. His body began to tire, and his movements slowed. He saw that the other pilots were feeling the same way, but they all continued to fight.
There was a loud explosion from somewhere. Heero turned to see the Sandrock Gundam and the Heavyarms on their knees. The Deathscythe Hell had apparently been hit. Deathscythe stood up. Duo was fed up. He had had enough of this endless battle.
"You can never kill me!", he shouted, "I am the god of Death. I can never be destroyed!" He sliced his double bladed beam scythe at four mobile suits in front of him. "And I won't be overpowered by dolls" he finished. Duo's tremendous attack gave all the other pilots renewed hope. Quatre and Trowa stood back up and resumed fighting.
Heero saw that as pointless. He began to see that there wasn't any way they could destroy the base. He looked over at his comrades; all of them fighting for peace and justice between earth and the colonies. But he was fighting for so much more. Heero was fighting for Queen Relena, the leader of the Earth Sphere and his future wife. He was not going to let this mission fail. He would die before any harm would come to Relena Peaccraft, and that was exactly his plan.
Heero opened the com-link and sent a transmission to all of the Gundam pilots. "You all need to clear out now" he shouted. The fighting stopped, all the Gundams turned to regard the Wing Zero Custom. "Good-bye my friends" Heero continued, "Duo…tell Relena I love her."
Duo nodded in approval. They all backed off away from the large Gundam, knowing their friend and what he had to do. They knew it was his duty as a Gundam pilot. Wing Zero started walking towards the opening of the base Duo was trying to open. The Gundam stopped and turned to face its fellow machines. Slowly the hatch to the cockpit opened and Heero stepped outside. He was holding a remote detonation trigger.
He held out his hand in front of him. "Relena…please forgive me" he said. "Mission…Accomplished." He closed his eyes and pushed the button.
A limousine pulled up to the ridge overlooking the area just in time. Relena Peaccraft stepped out of the door. She witnessed a large explosion next to a building. She knew exactly what had happened. Relena knew Heero and what he was capable of doing. Slowly, tears formed in her eyes as she saw the other Gundams bathed in a brilliant flash of light. She stepped back in the car.
" Pagan" she said to her driver, "take me to that area down there." The older man turned to look at her then nodded in approval. "Yes Miss Relena" he said in reply, and the car started off.
Duo watched as his best friend sacrificed his life for peace and justice. He turned his head away as the light bathed him. Quatre sat there, staring in horror, as his fellow pilot died a fiery death. "Oh my God…" he said to himself. Trowa just sat there, reacting to Heero's act of bravery the only way he knew how. When the explosion was gone and all the dust had cleared, the three Gundam pilots got out of their mobile suits and began looking for their friend.
"He survived a self-destruct once, maybe he could do it again" said Trowa, the first to speak after what had just happened. They had been searching for almost an hour, but they didn't find anything. Duo slammed his fist into a pile of rocks. "Damn it!" he said, almost on the verge of a breakdown. Relena's limousine suddenly pulled up. Duo looked as the car door opened and Relena stepped out. "Relena…" he said under his breath. Relena walked over and looked at all the other pilots. Duo stepped over and Relena hugged him, crying softly.
"I'm sorry Relena" Duo said quietly. "We tried looking for his body, but we didn't find anything." Relena looked up at him. "Thank you" she said quietly to all of the pilots. Duo turned to look at the others. Quatre nodded, understanding his silent command.
"I'll stay here for awhile longer" Trowa said in reply. Duo nodded and they all walked away, leaving Trowa behind.
TO BE CONTINUED…