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Gundam Wing: Battle in Between Part 2
(Note: If you haven't read Part 1, I suggest you do so before reading this or you won't
have a clue of what's going on!)
Heero Yuy, Duo Maxwell, Trowa Barton, Quatre Winner, and Chang Wufei rushed inside
the palace. Quatre located the assault rifles in the bunker and gave one to each
Gundam pilot. They all had their own 10mm pistols except for Trowa, who had a larger
.44 caliber pistol.
Weapons issued, they hurried back outside. The sandstorm was raging now. The five
pilots climbed into their Gundams. They rocketed off towards Antarctica at top speeds.
Duo finished braiding his hair inside the DeathScythe Hell. He found himself nervous
about the upcoming battle. He was never nervous. There was something about this
battle. Something bad was going to happen-he knew it.
Wufei relaxed as much as he could and put on his "game face". He breathed in deeply
and let it out slowly. It was time to fight.
Heero felt no emotion towards this battle, as he did towards almost everything. He
wasn't nervous, he wasn't excited. He was normal.
Trowa had some bad vibes about the mission, too, but he didn't let it bother him. He had
to concentrate on the task at hand.
Quatre hoped his friends would all survive the battle. He also hoped that there wouldn't
be too many casualties on the other side.
It got considerably colder inside the cockpits of the Gundams. Duo looked down and
saw the barren wasteland of Antartica. His stomach knotted when he saw the base on
the horizon.
" Alright, let's land here." Came Heero's voice in the com-link.
General Tasker was sitting in the core of the base, the control room. The surveillance
cameras on the coast had spotted the Gundams coming. Tasker activated the mobile
dolls and sent them to their posts. He sat back and readied for war.
" Here's how it goes." Heero was saying into the com-link. " We're charging the front
gates with as much force as we can muster. Duo, Wufei, you take the east walls. Trowa
and Quatre will take the West walls. I'll go down the middle. I want all mobile dolls
destroyed. Use your ammo sparingly-we don't know what's waiting behind those gates.
Let's move it!"
The Gundams hovered off in their assigned directions simultaneously.
The young officer approached General Tasker. " Sir! The DeathScythe Hell and the
Altron Gundams are coming in from the east. The HeavyArms Kai and the Sand Rock
Kai are coming from the west, and the Wing Zero is heading in from the south."
" How close are they?"
" About one kilometer away from the base, sir."
" Go ahead and give the orders to attack. I want the most firepower concentrated on the
Wing Zero."
" Yes sir."
Duo glanced at his radar. Enemies started appearing on it left and right. He looked out
the view-port, saw dimly through the snow literally hundreds of mobile dolls exploding out
of the ground.
" Oh my God." He muttered.
He turned to the left, saw the Wing Zero flying for the gates at full speed. Nearly all of the
mobile dolls turned to Heero's Gundam and opened fire.
Trowa was the first to realize they were in trouble and actually do something about it. He
raised the Heavy Arms Kai's massive weapons and began unloading.
The dark Antarctic sky lit up brilliantly with the muzzle flash of the Gundam's guns. The
mobile dolls paid no attention to Trowa, though, and continued firing at Heero.
The Altron Gundam burst into action with its twin beam trident, flying up to the mobile
dolls and slashing them brutally. Only a few of the mobile dolls were aimed at the other
four Gundam pilots.
Duo looked back at his radar. A full field of dots surrounded him and the others. They
were trapped.
The Heavy Arms had taken down a good amount of the mobile dolls. The Wing Zero
was still making its charge for the front gates, dodging the blasts of the enemy.
The Altron Gundam jammed the beam trident into the torso of a mobile doll, lifting it and
tossing it into another. The Sand Rock came in on the West Side of the base, heat
shorters swinging wildly. Duo finally came to his senses and sliced a couple mobile dolls
in half. The Heavy Arms stayed at the back of the battlefield, guns blazing.
A large sized beam blast hit the Wing Zero in the head, stopping its flight abruptly. Two
mobile dolls flew at it on either side. Heero removed its beam sabers, shoving them into
the torsos of the mobile suits.
The DeathScythe Hell cut a mobile doll in half vertically. It spun around, jabbing a
second with the twin-beam scythe. The vulcan cannons on its shoulders opened up,
destroying a third.
The Sand Rock Kai swiftly cut two mobile dolls into eight mobile doll scrap parts. It
crisscrossed the heat shorters over a doll's neck, the head flying off. It moved on to
another doll.
The Altron Gundam slammed one of the Dragon Fangs into a mobile doll flying at it. The
extended arm went through the doll. Wufei switched on the flame-throwers, torching one
mobile suit. Without looking he shattered a third's head and chest with the other Dragon
Fang.
The beam gatling of the Heavy Arms turned three mobile dolls into Swiss cheese. Trowa
fired three missiles into a grouping of the dolls, instantly destroying all of them.
The Wing Zero pulled out its twin buster rifle. It separated it into two buster rifles, holding
down the trigger and spinning around the battlefield like a tornado.
The amounts of mobile dolls were seemingly endless. They had never faced this many
before, and yet it was so easy destroying them. Was this General Tasker fooling them
when he said that he had an entire army of upgraded mobile dolls like the one they'd
fought in the desert? No, he wasn't.
All was suddenly quiet. Various parts of mobile dolls lay scattered before the base gates.
Every doll was gone. The Heavy Arms stopped firing, as did the Wing Zero.
Duo looked at his radar screen. Not a blip was on it. They'd done it! They'd made it past
the first line of defense without any problems.
He took one last look at the radar before stepping forward. The smile was wiped clean
off of his face. Even more blips started coming onto the screen.
He looked at the gates. A cloud of mobile dolls was flying over the wall towards them.
Towards Heero.
" Protect the Wing Zero!" Duo cried into the com-link. He hovered his Gundam over to
the Zero along with the four others.
" What are you doing?" Heero demanded.
" Look, all the bogies are heading for you. And although I'd hate to admit it, you have the
most powerful Gundam. We need you for this mission." Wufei answered.
" Here they come." Trowa declared calmly.
The DeathScythe Hell and Sand Rock Kai attacked the cloud first. Duo raced for the
mobile dolls, vulcans firing rapidly. He made it to the cloud and was quickly engulfed by
dolls. He swung the twin-beam scythe around, heart sinking as he watched them avoid
his moves. These were Tasker's advanced mobile dolls.
Quatre was also desperately trying to destroy the dolls. It was almost impossible, for
they were so fast.
Duo got frustrated. " Nobody's faster than the God of Death!" The DeathSycthe Hell
disappeared from sight. A few mobile dolls split in half and exploded.
The Heavy Arms Kai fired into the cloud. It took down a couple dolls, but not many.
Wufei brought the Altron up to fight with Duo and Quatre.
" C'mon Nataku!" Wufei cried. He impaled a mobile doll on his beam trident and spun it
around, using it as a shield against the other dolls. It exploded after a few seconds,
knocking the Altron Gundam back. It stabbed another doll, twisting the trident rapidly so
the doll was tossed off like a toy into its robotic companions. Wufei caught a blip on his
radar sneaking up behind him. He shot a Dragon Fang backwards, snatching the mobile
suit and crushing it. He swung the doll over the Altron's shoulder straight on top of
another.
The DeathScythe Hell became invisible again, jamming the twin-beam scythe into the
back of a mobile doll. Duo rotated the Gundam in a tight circle, gathering momentum
until he finally let go, sending the doll into a group of others. They all exploded in a great
show of fireworks. It was like bowling, Duo thought, reminding him of his bowling
challenge to Heero. The DeathScythe Hell cut a second doll into four parts, flying
through the explosion. The whole time it was invisible to the eye. It came out of the
flames and Duo let loose with the vulcans.
The Sand Rock Kai ripped and slashed along a line of mobile dolls. Quatre flipped the
Sand Rock over the head of one doll, piercing a heat shorter into its back.
Back in the control room, Tasker observed the fighting intently. " Increase the mobile
dolls' power to 75%. They're doing too good."
" Yes sir." The young officer replied.
The army of advanced mobile dolls stopped for a brief moment. They seemed to shut
down. When they came back on line, they fired more shots and moved even faster than
before.
Heero was getting tired of watching. He thundered into the cloud, leaving Trowa alone
on the ground. The Wing Zero took aim on one section of the group with the twin buster
rifle. Being constantly pummeled by beam blasts, Heero found it difficult to aim. He
pulled the trigger when the sights were lined up for a split second. The gigantic wave hit
the left side of the cloud, creating a blinding flash.
When he could see again, Heero's eyes widened. Not a scratch was on the dolls. They
had their shields deployed, forming one huge barrier. A barrier that could block the twin
buster rifle.
Not yet discouraged, he pulled the trigger once more and heard the most frightening
thing a soldier could ever hear: Click.
" Damnitt!" Heero made the Gundam pull the trigger several times in frustration. He
threw the gun at the dolls, saying a few choice words. He turned on the two beam
sabers.
The mobile dolls started doing something interesting. They left the barrier on and held
the trigger down on their weapons. Balls of plasma began to form on the barrels of their
guns. The balls traveled into the center of the barrier and collected there until there was
a looming bright energy blast waiting to be fired. It was aimed at the Wing Zero.
Heero Yuy's eyes only got bigger (if that's humanly possible). He stared at the giant
glowing orb like it was the light at the end of the tunnel.
" Heeerrooo!" Quatre shouted. The Sand Rock flew for the dolls. Quatre was too late.
The blast launched away in a beam three times bigger than that of the buster rifle. Night
was turned to day.
Heero only stared at it. He didn't bother to move the Wing Zero, he knew that he was
finally going to die.
The Wing Zero took on its famous pose, wings at their largest wingspan, legs slightly
crossed at the ankles. Its arms were straight out on either side.
The beam collided with the Gundam. The explosion that followed temporarily shorted out
the power in the base and blew all mobile suits within a 200-meter radius back a few
meters.
" Heeerrooo! Nooo!" Quatre cried.
Duo gawked.
Wufei cursed to himself.
Trowa stayed silent, looking on sadly as the charred remains of the Wing Gundam Zero
crashed to the ground. All that was really left was the torso and part of the head, lying
chest-down in the snow. The limbs and beautiful wings had been completely vaporized
or blown apart.
General Tasker almost fell over in his chair laughing madly. " Yes! Yes! One down, four
to go!"
The Gundam pilots struck back with a vengeance.
The DeathScythe Hell swung and tore the scythe at a furious speed, a trail of exploding
mobile dolls in its wake. The Altron Gundam wedged the beam trident into the face of a
mobile doll, leaping over it and kicking a second in the head, extending a Dragon Fang,
flame-throwers spitting fire like the gates of hell onto the surrounding dolls. The Sand
Rock Kai threw its heat shorters so hard that they cut through six dolls each before
stopping in the chests of two. The Heavy Arms Kai rocketed into the cloud, all weapons
firing. It stuck the barrels of its gatlings in the gut and face of many mobile dolls, littering
them with holes.
" Full power, damnitt! I said full power!" Tasker barked to his men in the control room.
The DeathScythe Hell sliced mobile dolls into three, sometimes four pieces before
moving on. Though it was fast, taking the time to hack a doll to pieces really made it
cannon fodder. Five mobile dolls gathered around it, shooting rapidly. The DeathScythe
was going to be destroyed soon if it didn't go after them.
Wufei saw Duo's problem and came to his aid. He took out four of the dolls with the two
Dragon Fangs. The last one was aiming for the DeathScythe's cockpit.
Wufei shoved the trident into the barrel of the doll's gun just as it pulled the trigger. The
blast was absorbed into the trident, causing it to explode. The Altron Gundam's beam
trident may have been obliterated, but Duo's life was saved.
" Thanks, Wufei." Duo said.
" Anytime." Wufei replied.
The HeavyArms Kai was shooting every weapon possible. Most of its missile launchers
had run dry long ago and the beam gatlings and vulcans were running between 25-50%
of their ammo. The advanced mobile dolls didn't stand a chance.
The Sand Rock Kai lashed out at the dolls with both heat shorters. Most of them didn't
even fire their guns.
The mobile dolls became even faster. Tasker ordered them to all fire on the HeavyArms
Kai, for it was doing the best.
The dolls dodged Trowa's fire, large amounts of energy growing on the barrels of their
guns. The right-side of his double barreled beam gatling went dry. A few seconds later,
the left was out too.
The HeavyArms dropped its guns and began slicing away with the curved blade in its
forearm. It took two or three cuts to destroy one mobile doll, and it constantly had to
avoid the collected beams of energy from each one.
The HeavyArms chopped the head of a doll in half, which was not enough to destroy it.
The doll fired its beam straight into an area right below the cockpit. All engines on the
Gundam died and it started its murderous descent to the ground.
" Trowa!" The Sand Rock Kai finished the doll off and bolted after the free-falling
HeavyArms.
It landed hard on the snow, shaking the earth.
Trowa glanced at the gauges and monitors on the control panel of the Gundam. It was
dead. All engines were out, the ammo was completely used up, and the internals had
taken a pretty good bang-up with the landing. He grabbed the assault rifle, checked to
make sure his pistol was still holstered on his side, and exited, not before telling the
three other pilots.
Trowa ran for the front gates.
Quatre stopped flying for the HeavyArms when he saw Trowa heading for the base. He
whipped the Sand Rock around, racing back into the cloud.
The Sand Rock cut at a mobile doll's arm. The doll jumped out of the way, firing and
blowing the left arm of the Gundam off. Quatre saw the arm, heat shorter in hand, break
away and drop to the ground. One heat shorter probably wouldn't do him much good, so
he dropped it and took out his back up weapon, a beam machine gun.
" This mission's falling apart fast." Wufei stated. " We have to do something."
" What are we going to do?" Duo pondered. " There's no way we can win. There's still at
least fifty of these mobile dolls left."
" I say we make a mad dash for the base."
" Sounds good to me. We probably won't make it, but we'd eventually die out here
anyway."
Duo told Quatre what was going on. " You and me will rush for the base while Wufei will
cover us until we can cover him. Got it?"
" Uh-huh."
" One…two…three…go!"
Wufei opened up with every weapon in his armament as the DeathScythe Hell and the
Sand Rock Kai flew out of the cloud towards the base, guns blazing.
Trowa had jumped the wall and was now gazing at the massive AA guns tucked just
behind it. There were three main buildings in the base: the barracks, the war factory/
control room, and the hangar The self-destruct mechanism would most likely be in the
control room…
The AA guns suddenly burst out with several large shells into the sky. Trowa looked up,
saw the DeathScythe Hell being pumped full of bullets. He sprinted for one of the guns
to see if there was a way to shut it down from the inside.
The armor on the DeathScythe was already low enough. Duo fired the vulcans at the
Anti-Aircraft guns, at the same time nervously checking the Gundam's systems. He
wouldn't last much longer.
The Sand Rock fired the machine gun into the crowd of mobile dolls, waiting for Wufei to
come out. The Altron Gundam emerged after a couple seconds, flamethrower valves
smoking.
Trowa had managed to shut down one AA gun, but the DeathScythe was still getting
pounded. He hurried for the next one, stopping abruptly when he heard an explosion.
Alarms were sounding inside the cockpit. An explosion nearly threw Duo out of his chair.
He felt his stomach wrenching as the DeathScythe started to fall out of the sky.
Duo snatched the rifle and his pistol, sliding the cockpit door open. He was about fifty
feet from the ground. 40. 30. 20. Duo leapt from the door, landing and rolling.
The Gundam smashed down on top of the barracks, crushing everything under it,
including General Tasker's ground troops.
" Duo!" Trowa called. " Are you alright?"
" I guess, but my beautiful DeathScythe is gone!"
Trowa took a moment to wipe the tears out of his eyes. It always made him sad to see a
Gundam destroyed." I'm sorry Duo, but we've got to continue our mission. Help me shut
down the rest of these AA guns before they blow the Sand Rock and Altron out of the
sky."
Duo nodded.
Wufei thought they were clear of the mobile dolls. He was wrong. He turned his Gundam
and saw the remaining dolls preparing another giant beam blast.
There was only one way out of this. He deployed the Dragon Fang directly into the
center of the beam blast just as it fired.
" You have served me well, Nataku."
As with the beam trident, the blast absorbed into the Dragon Fang, rippling up the arm to
the chest in an unstoppable wave of fire. As soon as it hit the chest, the Gundam
exploded, blowing in half. One half was vaporized and the other half sailed downwards.
Wufei took his weapons and jumped out of the Altron Gundam a split second before it hit
the ground and blew into oblivion.
The reaction force of the Dragon Fang hitting the blast had also sent a shock wave back
wards into the mobile dolls. They all detonated in a great fireball that lit up the night.
The Sand Rock Kai was the only mobile suit left in the air. Quatre landed it and hopped
out, meeting his friends near the AA guns.
" Heh, who would've ever thought it…some old coot destroys all of the Gundams except
for one. Even the Wing Zero." Duo commented angrily.
" Only the Wing Zero and the Altron Gundam are completely destroyed beyond repair."
Quatre added.
" Let's finish this." Wufei said. " That bastard Tasker did our Gundams in and killed
Heero." He cocked an assault rifle.
Tasker had went into a rage when he helplessly watched the Altron backfire the mobile
dolls' blast. He ordered all of his men spread out into groups across the war factory and
a large concentration in front of the control room door.
" Wufei and I will go in first. Duo, Quatre, cover us from behind." Trowa said. They were
getting ready to storm the war factory. They had already checked the hangar, which was
silent and empty.
" Ready? Go!"
Wufei kicked in the door, rushing inside and clearing the area with his rifle. Trowa
followed nearby, Duo and Quatre last.
The war factory was huge. Parts of mobile dolls covered the building. There were many
good places for an ambush. Right in front of the door were many smaller parts like
hands and feet.
Trowa spotted a rifle barrel aiming around the corner of a foot. He fired at the foot and all
at once they were being shot at from every direction.
Duo and Quatre backed up, taking cover behind the doorframe. Trowa dove behind a
pillar. Wufei had just disappeared.
Trowa leaned out, squeezing off a few rounds from his assault rifle. He ducked back to
his cover when the enemy fired back, bullets digging into the metal pillar and creating
sparks.
Duo fired from around the doorframe when the group of soldiers at the door went after
Trowa. He took out a few of them.
They turned to Duo and opened up. Trowa shot a couple men.
They turned to Trowa. Duo shot some.
The two used this method to wipe out the rest.
They split up, going across the war factory, sneaking up on the groups of soldiers in wait
and killing them with a few well aimed shots.
Duo crept along the side of a shin piece. He came to the end and peeked around the
corner.
" Hey!"
The group saw him and fired. Duo jumped back, bullets missing him by an inch. He
turned the corner and shot back. He got one man.
He took cover again when the troop opened up. The shooting halted all of the sudden.
Duo glanced over nervously where the soldiers had been. They were gone.
He heard the automatic rounds being shot, felt them pierce into his thigh twice, once in
his hip, and three times up his back. Duo cried out in pain and collapsed.
Quatre came running with the first cries. He saw the men, advancing towards Duo's
form on the floor from behind.
" Noooo!" Quatre pumped every one of them full of lead, dropping his rifle when it was
empty. He sprinted to Duo and knelt down next to him.
There was a trail of bullet holes starting on his leg and ending on his mid-back.
" Duo!" Quatre said. " How badly are you injured?"
" Pretty bad." Duo replied weakly. " Looks like I might not be coming back from this
mission."
" Don't say that, Duo. You're gonna make it. You have to make it."
On the other side of the war factory, Trowa was pinned down. He had already used up
all of his rifle bullets. All he had was his fifteen round .44 pistol.
There were four men left. He was behind a mobile doll head. He popped out, giving each
one a prompt shot to the head.
All of the soldiers in the war factory were dead.
Quatre called Trowa over to him.
" Duo's been hit. It looks pretty bad."
Trowa knelt next to Duo. He was slowly drifting to sleep as he lost more and more blood.
" I don't know what we can do." Trowa whispered to Quatre. " We have to complete the
mission before doing anything at all though. You stay here with him. I'll see if I can find
Wufei and we'll locate this Tasker man."
" Okay."
Wufei had noticed it was strange how a vent system led into the floor. At the minute of
the firefight, he had crawled into this vent and followed it until it dropped and came out
into the ceiling of the control room. He didn't go in yet. He only looked down, planning his
raid.
When the fighting inside the war factory stopped, Wufei jumped out of the vents, landing
in the control room perfectly on his feet. He was in the very center of the room. The door
from the war factory was guarded by about ten men. Wufei blew them all away with his
rifle, turning around the room, shooting all of the monitors and TVs.
Wufei dropped the gun, removing his 10mm pistol and looking around the room. Every
man was dead. All of the equipment was scrapped. Where was this General Tasker?
As if to answer his question, an older man stood from behind a desk.
" General Tasker." Wufei said.
The man nodded, smiled. " Are you the only one left?"
" I don't know. I broke apart from the party."
" I promised I would fight the first one in here, didn't I?"
" Yes. And I'm the first one here."
" Nice job with the guards, by the way. I won't be that easy."
" We'll see."
Wufei tossed his pistol aside. He took a fighting stance. The general did too.
Tasker rushed for Wufei, catching him off guard. His fist hit Wufei in the stomach. Wufei
kneed the General under the chin. The General retaliated with a series of punches.
Wufei blocked them all easily. The punches gradually became faster. Suddenly Tasker
kicked him in the side, knocking him to the ground.
Yet Wufei was back on his feet in a second. He punched the general in the face hard
many times. The kicked and Wufei grabbed his leg, yanking him off his feet.
Tasker fought back angrily, head butting the Gundam pilot and elbowing him in the face.
Wufei sent his fist for the general's stomach and he grabbed it, twisting his arm. Wufei
cried out and fell to his knees. He wasn't as good as he thought.
" That's right. Scream all you want. None of your friends will hear you. In a minute your
arm's going to snap. Then I'm going to break your other arm." Tasker said, secretly
drawing his pistol.
" Wrong." Came Trowa's voice from the doorway.
Tasker looked up, bewildered.
Trowa held out his .44, firing once. The bullet zipped through Tasker's forehead, killing
him instantly.
Wufei pried himself free. " Thanks, Trowa."
" I came when I heard a bunch of gun fire. Is this all your work?"
" Yeah. Where's everyone else?"
" Quatre and Duo are out in the war factory. Duo's been shot up pretty badly."
Wufei and Trowa walked back to their fellow pilots. Duo had drifted off to sleep due to
loss of blood.
" How are we going to get out of here?" Quatre asked.
" I don't know." Trowa replied.
" Maybe we should try the radio." Wufei suggested. " We could call Relena! That's it.
We'll call her and get some soldiers down here and a transport."
" Sounds good to me." Trowa agreed.
" Oh shit!" Wufei cursed. " I probably destroyed the base's radio down in the control
room."
" The Sand Rock has a radio."
" Good. Quatre, go out there and give Relena a call. Do you know her frequency?"
" Remember, she gave all of us her radio frequency."
Quatre left, leaving Wufei and Trowa with Duo. The one armed Sand Rock was just
where Quatre had left it. He climbed into the cockpit and radioed Relena.
" Quatre, is that you?!" She had squealed.
" Good to hear you, Relena."
" So why'd you call?"
" We need some help. Me, Trowa, Wufei, and Duo are all stuck at an old Romefeller
base in Antarctica. All of our Gundams are destroyed except for mine and Duo's been
wounded."
" What about Heero?"
" I'm sorry-He was downed early on in the battle. His Gundam took a really bad hit. I
don't think he survived."
Relena was silent for a long time.
Quatre happened to glance at his video screen. Outside, someone was approaching the
base gates. He zoomed in and saw that it was Heero!
" He's not dead Relena! I see him right now! He survived, hooray!"
" I'll be there in a minute with some men to pick you guys up, okay?" Relena said
hurriedly.
" Okay."
Heero was not injured too badly. He would have some burns and bruises. Quatre
walked him back inside. Heero told the others that he had been unconscious the whole
time.
Relena and about fifty soldiers too many arrived at the base a few hours later. Medics
put Duo on a gurney and rushed him inside the transport immediately. Relena met with
all the Gundam pilots, keeping her eyes on Heero most of the time. They got in the
transport, which was big enough to take the Sand Rock and rocketed off. The world was
safe…for now.
End
Gundam Wing is a copyright of Sotsu Agency, Sunrise, and TV Asahi. This fanfic is
written purely for entertainment-I'm not trying to steal any ideas!
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Gundam Wing: Battle in Between Part 2
(Note: If you haven't read Part 1, I suggest you do so before reading this or you won't
have a clue of what's going on!)
Heero Yuy, Duo Maxwell, Trowa Barton, Quatre Winner, and Chang Wufei rushed inside
the palace. Quatre located the assault rifles in the bunker and gave one to each
Gundam pilot. They all had their own 10mm pistols except for Trowa, who had a larger
.44 caliber pistol.
Weapons issued, they hurried back outside. The sandstorm was raging now. The five
pilots climbed into their Gundams. They rocketed off towards Antarctica at top speeds.
Duo finished braiding his hair inside the DeathScythe Hell. He found himself nervous
about the upcoming battle. He was never nervous. There was something about this
battle. Something bad was going to happen-he knew it.
Wufei relaxed as much as he could and put on his "game face". He breathed in deeply
and let it out slowly. It was time to fight.
Heero felt no emotion towards this battle, as he did towards almost everything. He
wasn't nervous, he wasn't excited. He was normal.
Trowa had some bad vibes about the mission, too, but he didn't let it bother him. He had
to concentrate on the task at hand.
Quatre hoped his friends would all survive the battle. He also hoped that there wouldn't
be too many casualties on the other side.
It got considerably colder inside the cockpits of the Gundams. Duo looked down and
saw the barren wasteland of Antartica. His stomach knotted when he saw the base on
the horizon.
" Alright, let's land here." Came Heero's voice in the com-link.
General Tasker was sitting in the core of the base, the control room. The surveillance
cameras on the coast had spotted the Gundams coming. Tasker activated the mobile
dolls and sent them to their posts. He sat back and readied for war.
" Here's how it goes." Heero was saying into the com-link. " We're charging the front
gates with as much force as we can muster. Duo, Wufei, you take the east walls. Trowa
and Quatre will take the West walls. I'll go down the middle. I want all mobile dolls
destroyed. Use your ammo sparingly-we don't know what's waiting behind those gates.
Let's move it!"
The Gundams hovered off in their assigned directions simultaneously.
The young officer approached General Tasker. " Sir! The DeathScythe Hell and the
Altron Gundams are coming in from the east. The HeavyArms Kai and the Sand Rock
Kai are coming from the west, and the Wing Zero is heading in from the south."
" How close are they?"
" About one kilometer away from the base, sir."
" Go ahead and give the orders to attack. I want the most firepower concentrated on the
Wing Zero."
" Yes sir."
Duo glanced at his radar. Enemies started appearing on it left and right. He looked out
the view-port, saw dimly through the snow literally hundreds of mobile dolls exploding out
of the ground.
" Oh my God." He muttered.
He turned to the left, saw the Wing Zero flying for the gates at full speed. Nearly all of the
mobile dolls turned to Heero's Gundam and opened fire.
Trowa was the first to realize they were in trouble and actually do something about it. He
raised the Heavy Arms Kai's massive weapons and began unloading.
The dark Antarctic sky lit up brilliantly with the muzzle flash of the Gundam's guns. The
mobile dolls paid no attention to Trowa, though, and continued firing at Heero.
The Altron Gundam burst into action with its twin beam trident, flying up to the mobile
dolls and slashing them brutally. Only a few of the mobile dolls were aimed at the other
four Gundam pilots.
Duo looked back at his radar. A full field of dots surrounded him and the others. They
were trapped.
The Heavy Arms had taken down a good amount of the mobile dolls. The Wing Zero
was still making its charge for the front gates, dodging the blasts of the enemy.
The Altron Gundam jammed the beam trident into the torso of a mobile doll, lifting it and
tossing it into another. The Sand Rock came in on the West Side of the base, heat
shorters swinging wildly. Duo finally came to his senses and sliced a couple mobile dolls
in half. The Heavy Arms stayed at the back of the battlefield, guns blazing.
A large sized beam blast hit the Wing Zero in the head, stopping its flight abruptly. Two
mobile dolls flew at it on either side. Heero removed its beam sabers, shoving them into
the torsos of the mobile suits.
The DeathScythe Hell cut a mobile doll in half vertically. It spun around, jabbing a
second with the twin-beam scythe. The vulcan cannons on its shoulders opened up,
destroying a third.
The Sand Rock Kai swiftly cut two mobile dolls into eight mobile doll scrap parts. It
crisscrossed the heat shorters over a doll's neck, the head flying off. It moved on to
another doll.
The Altron Gundam slammed one of the Dragon Fangs into a mobile doll flying at it. The
extended arm went through the doll. Wufei switched on the flame-throwers, torching one
mobile suit. Without looking he shattered a third's head and chest with the other Dragon
Fang.
The beam gatling of the Heavy Arms turned three mobile dolls into Swiss cheese. Trowa
fired three missiles into a grouping of the dolls, instantly destroying all of them.
The Wing Zero pulled out its twin buster rifle. It separated it into two buster rifles, holding
down the trigger and spinning around the battlefield like a tornado.
The amounts of mobile dolls were seemingly endless. They had never faced this many
before, and yet it was so easy destroying them. Was this General Tasker fooling them
when he said that he had an entire army of upgraded mobile dolls like the one they'd
fought in the desert? No, he wasn't.
All was suddenly quiet. Various parts of mobile dolls lay scattered before the base gates.
Every doll was gone. The Heavy Arms stopped firing, as did the Wing Zero.
Duo looked at his radar screen. Not a blip was on it. They'd done it! They'd made it past
the first line of defense without any problems.
He took one last look at the radar before stepping forward. The smile was wiped clean
off of his face. Even more blips started coming onto the screen.
He looked at the gates. A cloud of mobile dolls was flying over the wall towards them.
Towards Heero.
" Protect the Wing Zero!" Duo cried into the com-link. He hovered his Gundam over to
the Zero along with the four others.
" What are you doing?" Heero demanded.
" Look, all the bogies are heading for you. And although I'd hate to admit it, you have the
most powerful Gundam. We need you for this mission." Wufei answered.
" Here they come." Trowa declared calmly.
The DeathScythe Hell and Sand Rock Kai attacked the cloud first. Duo raced for the
mobile dolls, vulcans firing rapidly. He made it to the cloud and was quickly engulfed by
dolls. He swung the twin-beam scythe around, heart sinking as he watched them avoid
his moves. These were Tasker's advanced mobile dolls.
Quatre was also desperately trying to destroy the dolls. It was almost impossible, for
they were so fast.
Duo got frustrated. " Nobody's faster than the God of Death!" The DeathSycthe Hell
disappeared from sight. A few mobile dolls split in half and exploded.
The Heavy Arms Kai fired into the cloud. It took down a couple dolls, but not many.
Wufei brought the Altron up to fight with Duo and Quatre.
" C'mon Nataku!" Wufei cried. He impaled a mobile doll on his beam trident and spun it
around, using it as a shield against the other dolls. It exploded after a few seconds,
knocking the Altron Gundam back. It stabbed another doll, twisting the trident rapidly so
the doll was tossed off like a toy into its robotic companions. Wufei caught a blip on his
radar sneaking up behind him. He shot a Dragon Fang backwards, snatching the mobile
suit and crushing it. He swung the doll over the Altron's shoulder straight on top of
another.
The DeathScythe Hell became invisible again, jamming the twin-beam scythe into the
back of a mobile doll. Duo rotated the Gundam in a tight circle, gathering momentum
until he finally let go, sending the doll into a group of others. They all exploded in a great
show of fireworks. It was like bowling, Duo thought, reminding him of his bowling
challenge to Heero. The DeathScythe Hell cut a second doll into four parts, flying
through the explosion. The whole time it was invisible to the eye. It came out of the
flames and Duo let loose with the vulcans.
The Sand Rock Kai ripped and slashed along a line of mobile dolls. Quatre flipped the
Sand Rock over the head of one doll, piercing a heat shorter into its back.
Back in the control room, Tasker observed the fighting intently. " Increase the mobile
dolls' power to 75%. They're doing too good."
" Yes sir." The young officer replied.
The army of advanced mobile dolls stopped for a brief moment. They seemed to shut
down. When they came back on line, they fired more shots and moved even faster than
before.
Heero was getting tired of watching. He thundered into the cloud, leaving Trowa alone
on the ground. The Wing Zero took aim on one section of the group with the twin buster
rifle. Being constantly pummeled by beam blasts, Heero found it difficult to aim. He
pulled the trigger when the sights were lined up for a split second. The gigantic wave hit
the left side of the cloud, creating a blinding flash.
When he could see again, Heero's eyes widened. Not a scratch was on the dolls. They
had their shields deployed, forming one huge barrier. A barrier that could block the twin
buster rifle.
Not yet discouraged, he pulled the trigger once more and heard the most frightening
thing a soldier could ever hear: Click.
" Damnitt!" Heero made the Gundam pull the trigger several times in frustration. He
threw the gun at the dolls, saying a few choice words. He turned on the two beam
sabers.
The mobile dolls started doing something interesting. They left the barrier on and held
the trigger down on their weapons. Balls of plasma began to form on the barrels of their
guns. The balls traveled into the center of the barrier and collected there until there was
a looming bright energy blast waiting to be fired. It was aimed at the Wing Zero.
Heero Yuy's eyes only got bigger (if that's humanly possible). He stared at the giant
glowing orb like it was the light at the end of the tunnel.
" Heeerrooo!" Quatre shouted. The Sand Rock flew for the dolls. Quatre was too late.
The blast launched away in a beam three times bigger than that of the buster rifle. Night
was turned to day.
Heero only stared at it. He didn't bother to move the Wing Zero, he knew that he was
finally going to die.
The Wing Zero took on its famous pose, wings at their largest wingspan, legs slightly
crossed at the ankles. Its arms were straight out on either side.
The beam collided with the Gundam. The explosion that followed temporarily shorted out
the power in the base and blew all mobile suits within a 200-meter radius back a few
meters.
" Heeerrooo! Nooo!" Quatre cried.
Duo gawked.
Wufei cursed to himself.
Trowa stayed silent, looking on sadly as the charred remains of the Wing Gundam Zero
crashed to the ground. All that was really left was the torso and part of the head, lying
chest-down in the snow. The limbs and beautiful wings had been completely vaporized
or blown apart.
General Tasker almost fell over in his chair laughing madly. " Yes! Yes! One down, four
to go!"
The Gundam pilots struck back with a vengeance.
The DeathScythe Hell swung and tore the scythe at a furious speed, a trail of exploding
mobile dolls in its wake. The Altron Gundam wedged the beam trident into the face of a
mobile doll, leaping over it and kicking a second in the head, extending a Dragon Fang,
flame-throwers spitting fire like the gates of hell onto the surrounding dolls. The Sand
Rock Kai threw its heat shorters so hard that they cut through six dolls each before
stopping in the chests of two. The Heavy Arms Kai rocketed into the cloud, all weapons
firing. It stuck the barrels of its gatlings in the gut and face of many mobile dolls, littering
them with holes.
" Full power, damnitt! I said full power!" Tasker barked to his men in the control room.
The DeathScythe Hell sliced mobile dolls into three, sometimes four pieces before
moving on. Though it was fast, taking the time to hack a doll to pieces really made it
cannon fodder. Five mobile dolls gathered around it, shooting rapidly. The DeathScythe
was going to be destroyed soon if it didn't go after them.
Wufei saw Duo's problem and came to his aid. He took out four of the dolls with the two
Dragon Fangs. The last one was aiming for the DeathScythe's cockpit.
Wufei shoved the trident into the barrel of the doll's gun just as it pulled the trigger. The
blast was absorbed into the trident, causing it to explode. The Altron Gundam's beam
trident may have been obliterated, but Duo's life was saved.
" Thanks, Wufei." Duo said.
" Anytime." Wufei replied.
The HeavyArms Kai was shooting every weapon possible. Most of its missile launchers
had run dry long ago and the beam gatlings and vulcans were running between 25-50%
of their ammo. The advanced mobile dolls didn't stand a chance.
The Sand Rock Kai lashed out at the dolls with both heat shorters. Most of them didn't
even fire their guns.
The mobile dolls became even faster. Tasker ordered them to all fire on the HeavyArms
Kai, for it was doing the best.
The dolls dodged Trowa's fire, large amounts of energy growing on the barrels of their
guns. The right-side of his double barreled beam gatling went dry. A few seconds later,
the left was out too.
The HeavyArms dropped its guns and began slicing away with the curved blade in its
forearm. It took two or three cuts to destroy one mobile doll, and it constantly had to
avoid the collected beams of energy from each one.
The HeavyArms chopped the head of a doll in half, which was not enough to destroy it.
The doll fired its beam straight into an area right below the cockpit. All engines on the
Gundam died and it started its murderous descent to the ground.
" Trowa!" The Sand Rock Kai finished the doll off and bolted after the free-falling
HeavyArms.
It landed hard on the snow, shaking the earth.
Trowa glanced at the gauges and monitors on the control panel of the Gundam. It was
dead. All engines were out, the ammo was completely used up, and the internals had
taken a pretty good bang-up with the landing. He grabbed the assault rifle, checked to
make sure his pistol was still holstered on his side, and exited, not before telling the
three other pilots.
Trowa ran for the front gates.
Quatre stopped flying for the HeavyArms when he saw Trowa heading for the base. He
whipped the Sand Rock around, racing back into the cloud.
The Sand Rock cut at a mobile doll's arm. The doll jumped out of the way, firing and
blowing the left arm of the Gundam off. Quatre saw the arm, heat shorter in hand, break
away and drop to the ground. One heat shorter probably wouldn't do him much good, so
he dropped it and took out his back up weapon, a beam machine gun.
" This mission's falling apart fast." Wufei stated. " We have to do something."
" What are we going to do?" Duo pondered. " There's no way we can win. There's still at
least fifty of these mobile dolls left."
" I say we make a mad dash for the base."
" Sounds good to me. We probably won't make it, but we'd eventually die out here
anyway."
Duo told Quatre what was going on. " You and me will rush for the base while Wufei will
cover us until we can cover him. Got it?"
" Uh-huh."
" One…two…three…go!"
Wufei opened up with every weapon in his armament as the DeathScythe Hell and the
Sand Rock Kai flew out of the cloud towards the base, guns blazing.
Trowa had jumped the wall and was now gazing at the massive AA guns tucked just
behind it. There were three main buildings in the base: the barracks, the war factory/
control room, and the hangar The self-destruct mechanism would most likely be in the
control room…
The AA guns suddenly burst out with several large shells into the sky. Trowa looked up,
saw the DeathScythe Hell being pumped full of bullets. He sprinted for one of the guns
to see if there was a way to shut it down from the inside.
The armor on the DeathScythe was already low enough. Duo fired the vulcans at the
Anti-Aircraft guns, at the same time nervously checking the Gundam's systems. He
wouldn't last much longer.
The Sand Rock fired the machine gun into the crowd of mobile dolls, waiting for Wufei to
come out. The Altron Gundam emerged after a couple seconds, flamethrower valves
smoking.
Trowa had managed to shut down one AA gun, but the DeathScythe was still getting
pounded. He hurried for the next one, stopping abruptly when he heard an explosion.
Alarms were sounding inside the cockpit. An explosion nearly threw Duo out of his chair.
He felt his stomach wrenching as the DeathScythe started to fall out of the sky.
Duo snatched the rifle and his pistol, sliding the cockpit door open. He was about fifty
feet from the ground. 40. 30. 20. Duo leapt from the door, landing and rolling.
The Gundam smashed down on top of the barracks, crushing everything under it,
including General Tasker's ground troops.
" Duo!" Trowa called. " Are you alright?"
" I guess, but my beautiful DeathScythe is gone!"
Trowa took a moment to wipe the tears out of his eyes. It always made him sad to see a
Gundam destroyed." I'm sorry Duo, but we've got to continue our mission. Help me shut
down the rest of these AA guns before they blow the Sand Rock and Altron out of the
sky."
Duo nodded.
Wufei thought they were clear of the mobile dolls. He was wrong. He turned his Gundam
and saw the remaining dolls preparing another giant beam blast.
There was only one way out of this. He deployed the Dragon Fang directly into the
center of the beam blast just as it fired.
" You have served me well, Nataku."
As with the beam trident, the blast absorbed into the Dragon Fang, rippling up the arm to
the chest in an unstoppable wave of fire. As soon as it hit the chest, the Gundam
exploded, blowing in half. One half was vaporized and the other half sailed downwards.
Wufei took his weapons and jumped out of the Altron Gundam a split second before it hit
the ground and blew into oblivion.
The reaction force of the Dragon Fang hitting the blast had also sent a shock wave back
wards into the mobile dolls. They all detonated in a great fireball that lit up the night.
The Sand Rock Kai was the only mobile suit left in the air. Quatre landed it and hopped
out, meeting his friends near the AA guns.
" Heh, who would've ever thought it…some old coot destroys all of the Gundams except
for one. Even the Wing Zero." Duo commented angrily.
" Only the Wing Zero and the Altron Gundam are completely destroyed beyond repair."
Quatre added.
" Let's finish this." Wufei said. " That bastard Tasker did our Gundams in and killed
Heero." He cocked an assault rifle.
Tasker had went into a rage when he helplessly watched the Altron backfire the mobile
dolls' blast. He ordered all of his men spread out into groups across the war factory and
a large concentration in front of the control room door.
" Wufei and I will go in first. Duo, Quatre, cover us from behind." Trowa said. They were
getting ready to storm the war factory. They had already checked the hangar, which was
silent and empty.
" Ready? Go!"
Wufei kicked in the door, rushing inside and clearing the area with his rifle. Trowa
followed nearby, Duo and Quatre last.
The war factory was huge. Parts of mobile dolls covered the building. There were many
good places for an ambush. Right in front of the door were many smaller parts like
hands and feet.
Trowa spotted a rifle barrel aiming around the corner of a foot. He fired at the foot and all
at once they were being shot at from every direction.
Duo and Quatre backed up, taking cover behind the doorframe. Trowa dove behind a
pillar. Wufei had just disappeared.
Trowa leaned out, squeezing off a few rounds from his assault rifle. He ducked back to
his cover when the enemy fired back, bullets digging into the metal pillar and creating
sparks.
Duo fired from around the doorframe when the group of soldiers at the door went after
Trowa. He took out a few of them.
They turned to Duo and opened up. Trowa shot a couple men.
They turned to Trowa. Duo shot some.
The two used this method to wipe out the rest.
They split up, going across the war factory, sneaking up on the groups of soldiers in wait
and killing them with a few well aimed shots.
Duo crept along the side of a shin piece. He came to the end and peeked around the
corner.
" Hey!"
The group saw him and fired. Duo jumped back, bullets missing him by an inch. He
turned the corner and shot back. He got one man.
He took cover again when the troop opened up. The shooting halted all of the sudden.
Duo glanced over nervously where the soldiers had been. They were gone.
He heard the automatic rounds being shot, felt them pierce into his thigh twice, once in
his hip, and three times up his back. Duo cried out in pain and collapsed.
Quatre came running with the first cries. He saw the men, advancing towards Duo's
form on the floor from behind.
" Noooo!" Quatre pumped every one of them full of lead, dropping his rifle when it was
empty. He sprinted to Duo and knelt down next to him.
There was a trail of bullet holes starting on his leg and ending on his mid-back.
" Duo!" Quatre said. " How badly are you injured?"
" Pretty bad." Duo replied weakly. " Looks like I might not be coming back from this
mission."
" Don't say that, Duo. You're gonna make it. You have to make it."
On the other side of the war factory, Trowa was pinned down. He had already used up
all of his rifle bullets. All he had was his fifteen round .44 pistol.
There were four men left. He was behind a mobile doll head. He popped out, giving each
one a prompt shot to the head.
All of the soldiers in the war factory were dead.
Quatre called Trowa over to him.
" Duo's been hit. It looks pretty bad."
Trowa knelt next to Duo. He was slowly drifting to sleep as he lost more and more blood.
" I don't know what we can do." Trowa whispered to Quatre. " We have to complete the
mission before doing anything at all though. You stay here with him. I'll see if I can find
Wufei and we'll locate this Tasker man."
" Okay."
Wufei had noticed it was strange how a vent system led into the floor. At the minute of
the firefight, he had crawled into this vent and followed it until it dropped and came out
into the ceiling of the control room. He didn't go in yet. He only looked down, planning his
raid.
When the fighting inside the war factory stopped, Wufei jumped out of the vents, landing
in the control room perfectly on his feet. He was in the very center of the room. The door
from the war factory was guarded by about ten men. Wufei blew them all away with his
rifle, turning around the room, shooting all of the monitors and TVs.
Wufei dropped the gun, removing his 10mm pistol and looking around the room. Every
man was dead. All of the equipment was scrapped. Where was this General Tasker?
As if to answer his question, an older man stood from behind a desk.
" General Tasker." Wufei said.
The man nodded, smiled. " Are you the only one left?"
" I don't know. I broke apart from the party."
" I promised I would fight the first one in here, didn't I?"
" Yes. And I'm the first one here."
" Nice job with the guards, by the way. I won't be that easy."
" We'll see."
Wufei tossed his pistol aside. He took a fighting stance. The general did too.
Tasker rushed for Wufei, catching him off guard. His fist hit Wufei in the stomach. Wufei
kneed the General under the chin. The General retaliated with a series of punches.
Wufei blocked them all easily. The punches gradually became faster. Suddenly Tasker
kicked him in the side, knocking him to the ground.
Yet Wufei was back on his feet in a second. He punched the general in the face hard
many times. The kicked and Wufei grabbed his leg, yanking him off his feet.
Tasker fought back angrily, head butting the Gundam pilot and elbowing him in the face.
Wufei sent his fist for the general's stomach and he grabbed it, twisting his arm. Wufei
cried out and fell to his knees. He wasn't as good as he thought.
" That's right. Scream all you want. None of your friends will hear you. In a minute your
arm's going to snap. Then I'm going to break your other arm." Tasker said, secretly
drawing his pistol.
" Wrong." Came Trowa's voice from the doorway.
Tasker looked up, bewildered.
Trowa held out his .44, firing once. The bullet zipped through Tasker's forehead, killing
him instantly.
Wufei pried himself free. " Thanks, Trowa."
" I came when I heard a bunch of gun fire. Is this all your work?"
" Yeah. Where's everyone else?"
" Quatre and Duo are out in the war factory. Duo's been shot up pretty badly."
Wufei and Trowa walked back to their fellow pilots. Duo had drifted off to sleep due to
loss of blood.
" How are we going to get out of here?" Quatre asked.
" I don't know." Trowa replied.
" Maybe we should try the radio." Wufei suggested. " We could call Relena! That's it.
We'll call her and get some soldiers down here and a transport."
" Sounds good to me." Trowa agreed.
" Oh shit!" Wufei cursed. " I probably destroyed the base's radio down in the control
room."
" The Sand Rock has a radio."
" Good. Quatre, go out there and give Relena a call. Do you know her frequency?"
" Remember, she gave all of us her radio frequency."
Quatre left, leaving Wufei and Trowa with Duo. The one armed Sand Rock was just
where Quatre had left it. He climbed into the cockpit and radioed Relena.
" Quatre, is that you?!" She had squealed.
" Good to hear you, Relena."
" So why'd you call?"
" We need some help. Me, Trowa, Wufei, and Duo are all stuck at an old Romefeller
base in Antarctica. All of our Gundams are destroyed except for mine and Duo's been
wounded."
" What about Heero?"
" I'm sorry-He was downed early on in the battle. His Gundam took a really bad hit. I
don't think he survived."
Relena was silent for a long time.
Quatre happened to glance at his video screen. Outside, someone was approaching the
base gates. He zoomed in and saw that it was Heero!
" He's not dead Relena! I see him right now! He survived, hooray!"
" I'll be there in a minute with some men to pick you guys up, okay?" Relena said
hurriedly.
" Okay."
Heero was not injured too badly. He would have some burns and bruises. Quatre
walked him back inside. Heero told the others that he had been unconscious the whole
time.
Relena and about fifty soldiers too many arrived at the base a few hours later. Medics
put Duo on a gurney and rushed him inside the transport immediately. Relena met with
all the Gundam pilots, keeping her eyes on Heero most of the time. They got in the
transport, which was big enough to take the Sand Rock and rocketed off. The world was
safe…for now.
End