Gundam Wing: Revolution
Session Six
Owari...?
By Katsumi Tonicha
Normal disclaimers apply.
//...//
-Two Weeks Later-
"Lady Une, hello," Noin greeted.
"Hello, Noin. I heard what happened. This is not good."
"I know, I know, everyone is very worried right now. Trowa woke up yesterday, and he had a look on his face that could kill. I would feel sorry for Marie, but, you know."
"I have some information for you."
"Really?" Noin leaned into to the screen.
"All right. I believe that they are holding her hostage at the old OZ base over the Yangtzee River. It is also been shown through satellite images that she added her own additions to the base, and that it is stocked full of Pegasus, Sagittarius, and the new Gemini suits. I also hear that they developed a new water suit called the Hydra that is supposed to be much stronger than the Aquarius. It has not been confirmed as of whether or not Ashley is up yet, but I would assume so, since Trowa is."
"All right."
"Do you understand what needs to be done right now, Noin?"
"Yes ma'am."
Lady Une smiled at her. "Good luck."
"Here. Stay in here, girl. Your more trouble than your worth," the big guard said, tossing Ashley into the cell. She grimaced at the pain in her side. She wasn't completely better yet. But they didn't care. :Beauty always had it's downside,: she thought grimly. Oh well. At least Quatre did teach her one thing useful. That guard wasn't gonna be comfortable for quite some time. She curled into a little ball in the corner shadows. Thoughts were swimming in her head. She was caught. It was that simple. Trowa wouldn't surrender, not right now. But if they used her against him... A tear made it's way down her cheek. "Please don't give up. I'll be okay," she whispered to the dark. :Take care of them, please, God, don't let them get hurt. Please watch over Trowa for me. Please,: she prayed.
-A Week Later-
Trowa was on the video phone. He was better, more or less, and was gathering together the remainder of OZ's forces. Lady Une was putting together everything from space and bringing it all down. The space suits, Scorpio, weren't going to be too useful, but it was better than nothing. Lady Une's Unisys suit would be of great help.
"They got Baron Young..." Trowa muttered. "Wonderful. Well, the rest of you, you know the Sea Breeze's coordinates. Bring all suit carriers here, and then we will head on towards the Yangtzee River base.
-The Next Day-
Duo gave Hilde a long hug, and kissed her on the ear. "Duo, please, please, please be careful," she told him.
He smirked. "Shinigami can handle any situation. Don't worry." He kissed her again, this time on the lips, and she held onto him for as long as possible. "You be carefully piloting in Aphrodite. Can't let anything happen to you or it."
"I will, I will, this mission is simply hide and not be secede. I can handle it." Aphrodite was the upgraded version of Goddess, you see. As soon as they got Ashley in it, they would need her help to finish off all the rest of Marie's forces.
Quatre and Dorothy were walking, hand in hand, towards their suits, which had conveniently been parked together, the repaired and upgraded Bulletproof, now known as Gunpowder. Of course. As they approached Sandrock II and Epyon II, Quatre took her other hand in his, turning her to face him. "Ready?" he asked her.
"You bet," Dorothy replied, grinning. She had proved herself to be quite the pilot.
"Be careful, all right?"
Dorothy lowered her grin to a small smile. "I will. You be careful as well."
"I will."
Quatre hugged her in a tight embrace, swaying gently to soundless music. "I'll see you at the end, Dorothy. Aishiteru," he whispered into her ear.
"Aishiteru, Quatre. See you then," she replied softly.
Relena stood at the bottom of Angel, looking up at Heero. "Heero!!" she shouted. He turned at looked back down at her. "Heero, be careful!" she called.
Heero jumped down, landing with the grace of a cat right in front of Relena. She didn't move, being used to Heero's stunts. He took her hand and kissed her gently on the lips. "Don't worry, my Angel."
Relena smiled softly, reached up to touch Heero's cheek. "I'm only so much of an angel because I have one watching over me. Come back to me, Heero. I know very well how much you love the words 'self-destruct'."
He ran his hand through her hair, such a gentle touch. "I will. I promise."
Wufei walked up to Nataku, Sally behind him. As he began to rise himself into it, Sally put a hand on his shoulder. "Wufei." He looked at her.
"What?"
She smiled softly. "I love you, you bastard."
Wufei allowed himself a smile. "I love you, too, woman. But don't go telling everyone," he said softly, just loud enough for Sally to hear.
Wufei smiled as he sat in Nataku's cockpit. "My Nataku, rest in peace. I have found someone to fight for."
Zechs brushed some of Noin's hair out of her face so her could get a good lasting view of it. "Okay then." He turned and climbed into Titan.
Noin stood confused, but soon followed suit, climbing into her Vayeate. She turned the comlink on. "Zechs?"
"Yeah?" he replied, as he adjusted his helmet.
"What were you doing out there?"
He smiled. "Putting your face on my memory. If I fight thinking about it, I'm sure to win."
Noin looked skeptic. "Why?"
"Well, with a face such as yours, looking at it, I'll fight by what I see, and I see beauty," he replied grinning.
"Oh, Zechs..." Noin replied, smiling.
"Well, actually, looking at it makes me so frustrated..."
She fumed. "Ugh! You are so bad."
And so they took off, joining the OZ carriers, and headed for the Yangtzee Base.
The battle began. Lady Une was right. There were tons of suits there. "This must be why they haven't attacked since that day!" Duo said. "They've been storing and getting ready!"
"Yeah, this is insane," Heero agreed.
Trowa hid Gunpowder, hiding in the trees, wearing a black trench coat with machine guns, pistols, all sorts of guns ready and handy. His mission was to sneak in and get Ashley. He had a small set of explosives to blow the door open if need be.
The perimeter of Marie's fortress was well protected. Trowa sneaked up, quiet and silent, then shot the guard quickly with a pistol that had a silencer on it. Above the guard was a window, that if he could just...
Trowa jumped, and, of course, made it. He kicked the window in during his landing. He was in a briefing room. Empty. Good. He walked into the hallway, his hands on two machine guns, ready to pull them out and start shooting.
He rounded a corned, pulled the pistol and shot the one guard walking down. He got into the elevator, and, remembering the map of the fortress than Lady Une had supplied, pressed the button for the cellar, where the cells were.
Where Ashley was.
He waited, pulling out the huge guns, ready for everything. He knew it would be heavily guarded down here.
The elevator beeped. Ground level.
Basement.
Cellar.
The doors opened, Trowa jumped out.
Sure enough, there were guards. But they had a leader.
The leader saluted Trowa. "You Excellency. I have always served you before, and now will be no different. How can we help?"
Trowa smiled. "Well. Looks like I have earned my respect, Baron Young." Trowa got very serious. "Do you have any suits to use?"
The Baron nodded.
"Good. I need your help."
Outside, the battle raged. Quatre was being attacked from all sides. He couldn't get them fast enough. Dorothy took notice, and swerved her heat rod in his direction, slicing through a number of suits. Duo had his bladed-wings out stretched and was low to the ground with his scythe out, spinning and slicing everything that got in his way. Heero was using his beam saber to slice through a number of suits, as well ans his beam cannon to shoot away a whole line, for it only to be replaced by more. Zechs and Noin were back to back, Zechs firing his Mega Cannon using the heat rod, while Noin used the Vayeate's beam cannon. Lady Une was doing the same things as Heero, using the heat cannon to blast out many different suits who didn't even see it coming. Wufei's suit was the only one useful in the water, so he was taking care of the Scorpio suits there. Sally, in the Mercurius, was using it's new stronger crash shield to ward off enemies while attacking through it with a beam saber. Soon, Wufei jumped out of the water and began to help. The OZ forces were trying hard, but still weren't having too easy a time because of the shear number.
Suddenly, from out of nowhere, a huge fleet of new suits that resembled the Gemini came out of no where. A young man appeared over every Gundam pilot's cockpit screen. "My name is Baron Matt Young, leader of OZ's Red Fleet. We are hear with back up, the Gemini II."
Suddenly the pilots chances weren't so slim.
//....//
Trowa looked through the bars of each cell, looking, looking, looking, not calling or anything to avoid sound. Looking, looking, looking...
There.
In the corner, curled far against the wall, was the small figure of what Trowa hoped was a woman. "Ashley?" he called softly.
The figure's head shot up and looked towards the cell's bars. Her eyes grew wide and she ran over. "Trowa! Oh my God! Trowa, Trowa, Trowa," she repeated his name over and over again, crying, reaching her hands through the bars to touch his face.
Trowa reached through and took her face in his hands. A tear rolled down his cheek. "It's you." He traced along her lips, her jawline, touched her soft hair and her soft cheek. Then he remembered what still had to be done. "Back away, I'm gonna blow the door opened."
She complied, still crying.
Trowa had just blown the door open when it flew open and Ashley threw herself to him, wrapping her arms around him and kissing him like there was no tomorrow. He kissed right back, running his hands along her back, holding her so close to him, never wanting to let her go ever again.
"Isn't this sweet?"
They broke apart.
Standing across from them was the face of a devil. A young, maybe seventeen years old?, African-American girl was standing there. Her hair was long and she had some hanging over her shoulders. She was wearing the khaki pants, white button down shirt, and the black tie with the maroon emblem of the Scarlet Order on it.
Duchess Marie Acht. Daughter of Inspector Acht.
She smiled at the couple's scowls.
"You see, I could not ignore the fact that the window to briefing room number six had been broken into. I'm not as stupid as some people think me to be." She smiled. "Right now, I would like to settle this while the battle continues outside. If you beat me, you win. Of course, I doubt my followers will take it lightly, but just kill them. I'm sure you all can handle it just like your comrades are."
"What kind of challenge do you want?" Trowa barked, annoyed with her.
"Follow me, Mr. Barton. I assume you know how to fence?"
Trowa took the fencing sword in hand and took the stance of crossing swords. Ashley was sitting in a big plush chair in the corner as Trowa had directed her to. She was too weak from hunger to really do any good. He promised her he would win, and the first thing he would do would be to take her out to eat.
"All right, Mr. Barton. I assume you know who I am?" Marie lowered her mask.
"I do," Trowa replied, doing the same.
"Fine then. And then, let us begin and let me avenge what you did to my father!!"
And as outside, the forces of the Gundams and OZ were slowly being beaten out of it, the deciding match between Duke Trowa Barton of OZ and Duchess Marie Acht of the Scarlet Order began.
"Damn it! There are too many of them!" Duo cursed. "I hope they don't find Hilde..."
"Maxwell! Focus!" Wufei barked, seeing his comrade lose his concentration.
"They just keep coming," Noin muttered as she blew a hole in their forces, only for it to be quickly filled back up.
Heero was concentrating very hard on his duty, trying to demolish as much of Marie's forces as possible.
"This is just incredible! I had no idea there were this many!" Quatre exclaimed as he sliced up a few suits with his heat shorters.
"There are an amazing amount, that's for sure," Dorothy agreed, using her heat rod and speed to get as many suits as possible.
Wufei and Sally were not back to back, using the crash shield to protect them both as Wufei used his dragon fangs and Sally used the vulcan gun that Lady Une had installed on the suit.
Ashley sat helpless as Marie and Trowa began their duel to decide the victor of the war. The whole time, they talked back and forth.
"All you promote is a peace you won unjustly!! If you had played fair, my father would have still been alive and then the world would be at true peace!"
"Peace?! True peace would never have been achieved if they had remained in control! If it weren't for Relena Peacecraft, they would never have became unified in the first place!"
"But that doesn't change the fact that you murdered my father!"
"I did what was correct!"
"Correct?!" Marie stopped and stood where she was. "You call unjust murder correct?!"
"What do you know about what's just and unjust, Marie?" Trowa lunged at her, she dodged and the duel continued.
Hilde lowered to suit down into the trees, then got out to net it. She had to hide it well so that when Ashley got back out, she could get out and lead her to it. But, until she got notice, she climbed back into the cockpit and connected her monitors to Duo's so that she could see what was going on. She wasn't going to bother him, it was the last thing he needed for the time being. That much was obvious. They were seriously outnumbered and in need of Trowa and Ashley big time! :What in the world could be taking them so long?: Hilde thought to herself.
"My father only tried to do what he believed was just! Justice is the only thing that is right! There is no other way around it! And what you did was not right!"
"I have a friend. And my friend fights for justice. He fights for what he believes is right! There is no black or white when it comes to justice! No wrong, no right! Only what you think is right! Me, along with the rest of the world, think that your father was WRONG!" With that last powerful word, Trowa lunged at Marie, flinging her fencing sword of her hand and sending it flying. His pulled his arm back and shot ahead, stabbing Marie through the chest with the sharp point(all they had on as far as the protection went was the helmet). He pulled out the sword, dropped it, threw off his helmet, and stood straight. "The world, Marie, thinks your father was wrong. They also think you were wrong. And now that has been proven."
Marie smiled at him weakly, struggling to stand. "You think so? All right. You win. But that doesn't change how I feel." She collapsed with that.
Ashley ran to him. "Now what?" she asked.
"Follow me." He offered her a smile. "We rebuilt Goddess."
"Oh my God, this is it," Duo muttered as he was hit from behind by a blast from a Pegasus's beam cannon. He spun and sliced, hoping beyond hope for something to happen.
"Don't give up, not yet. We have to win this," Heero offered words of comfort, thinking about his promise to Relena.
"Win? Win this? How?? Obviously Trowa's dead, where else would he be? Having tea with Marie?"
"Oh, quite the opposite. Marie's dead. Now we just have to finish off her legacy."
"Trowa?" Quatre asked, his hopes returning.
"Damn right! The calvary has arrived!" Duo hooted.
"Calvary? Are you all right?" Ashley flew in over head, landing behind him. Trowa's Gundam cleared itself a walkway by firing it's beam gatlings the whole time it walked. "Come on, guys! No use in stopping now. We won. We just have to finish it."
"Right!" Dorothy said enthusiastically, quite ready for this to end.
And so, using their famous methods, the pilots continued to fight, against all hope, to defeat the last of Marie's forces...
Tiki torches and Chinese lanterns lit the deck of Sea Breeze. Music wafted in the background. Wufei, Sally, Zechs, Noin, and Lady Une were sitting around a table, engaging in talking and a game of cards. Heero, Relena, Duo, Hilde, Quatre, and Dorothy were sitting on the ground, following along with Duo's idea to play Spin the Bottle. Of course, for some reason, the bottle like Relena and Duo ended up with a black eye, but that is besides the point. Trowa and Ashley... they disappeared inside, no one really cared to disturb them. Well, Duo wanted to do that instead of playing Spin the Bottle, but Quatre threatened him(in which Dorothy backed him up). Figuring it was more trouble than worth, Duo settled for a blakc eye in a game of Spin the Bottle.
"Please go to Hilde, please go to Hilde, please... OH MY GOD! HEERO?!? NO WAY!! AH!!! Lemme spin again, lemme spin again! Okay... Please be Hilde, please be Hilde... HILDE!!! YAH!!!" Duo grabbed her and kissed her, she happily complied by laying over into his lap(the bottle they were playing with didn't start empty.
"Quatre, your turn," Heero said.
"Okay..." Quatre spun the bottle, watching it as it came to a stop on... Dorothy. Quatre turned bright pink.
"Go on! Hurry up so Relena can go," Duo said, in which Heero shot him a look.
Quatre turned a little more pink, but leaned in and kissed her, Dorothy taking matters into her own hands and deepening the kiss. They pulled apart and Dorothy now had a little blush of her own.
"YEAH!! That is what I'm talking about!! Okay, go Relena."
Quatre leaned over next to Dorothy and whispered. "Did you acctually have to.. out.. you know?"
"Yeah," she whispered back softly, close to his ear, leaving with a little nip at it.
"Oh my God... High king." Noin laughed at her awful hand.
"Pair," Wufei said.
"Three of a kind," Sally continued.
"High jack," Zechs said with a chuckle. "Sorry Noin."
"Grr..."
"Straight! I win!" Lady Une declared.
"She has incredible luck. I know."
"Okay, now, you have to do what I tell you to do. Kiss the person next to you."
So Sally kissed Zechs, Zechs kissed Noin, Noin giggled and kissed Une, Une laughed at Wufei's expense and kissed the scowling man, Wufei got a horrified look on his face and stared at Sally. "In brad daylight?!" he exclaimed.
"In broad...night light," Une confirmed.
"Uh..." Wufei leaned over and reluctantly kissed his wife in front of people, in which Sally grabbed him and held him in the kiss while the rest of the table burst out laughing.
Wufei struggled free. "THAT WAS NOT FUNNY!!"
"Yes...it...was!!" Noin gasped.
Heero stared at Quatre. "I think I'll spin again." Heero stared at Hilde. Duo stared at Heero. Hilde stared at the both of them.
"YAAAAAAAAAH!" Duo lunged at Heero. "DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT!"
"I WASN'T!" Heero tried to get out from under Duo. "GET OFF ME!"
"Duo, get up off him, I wasn't gonna let him kiss me anyway. No offense, Heero."
"None taken."
Duo sat up and straightened his shirt. "Sorry 'bout that, man."
"No problem."
"Okay. Relena, your go?"
"Yeah."
"Okay then."
Trowa kissed the top of Ashley's head. She looked up at him, smiled, and rested her head back on his chest. He stroked her hair. "Ash-chan?"
"Hum, Ti-Bi?" she replied, tired.
"Aishiteru."
"Aw, my Ti-Bi. Aishiteru as well. But right now, I'm tired."
"I am too," Trowa agreed, kissing her again.
Ashley traced an invisible pattern along his chest with her index finger. Trowa lifted her chin to look up at him. "Hum?" she asked.
"Can I tell you something?"
"Of course."
"Promise you won't think it corny, or stupid, and laugh?"
"I promise."
"Okay." Trowa breathed in. "You are a goddess. Did you know that?"
"What do you mean?"
"I mean that you are a goddess. Only a goddess can be beautiful, talented, smart, and everyhting else wonderful and sacred." Ashley looked at him. He kissed her nose and brushed some of her hair from her face. "If you are going to go to sleep, just wait a minute. Right now you are more beautiful than ever, and I never want to forget what it looks like to see a goddess."
Ashley's face flushed. "Trowa, that...That wasn't even close to corny. That was the most beautiful thing anyone's ever told me."
Trowa smiled. "You're welcome."
Ashley rested her head back down and kissed his chest. "Goodnight, Trowa."
"HEERO!!! I SWEAR I AM NOT GOING TO KISS HER!!"
"You want me to WHAT?!"
"Goodnight, Ashley, my goddess."
//..Owari..//
\\...?...//
Session Six
Owari...?
By Katsumi Tonicha
Normal disclaimers apply.
//...//
-Two Weeks Later-
"Lady Une, hello," Noin greeted.
"Hello, Noin. I heard what happened. This is not good."
"I know, I know, everyone is very worried right now. Trowa woke up yesterday, and he had a look on his face that could kill. I would feel sorry for Marie, but, you know."
"I have some information for you."
"Really?" Noin leaned into to the screen.
"All right. I believe that they are holding her hostage at the old OZ base over the Yangtzee River. It is also been shown through satellite images that she added her own additions to the base, and that it is stocked full of Pegasus, Sagittarius, and the new Gemini suits. I also hear that they developed a new water suit called the Hydra that is supposed to be much stronger than the Aquarius. It has not been confirmed as of whether or not Ashley is up yet, but I would assume so, since Trowa is."
"All right."
"Do you understand what needs to be done right now, Noin?"
"Yes ma'am."
Lady Une smiled at her. "Good luck."
"Here. Stay in here, girl. Your more trouble than your worth," the big guard said, tossing Ashley into the cell. She grimaced at the pain in her side. She wasn't completely better yet. But they didn't care. :Beauty always had it's downside,: she thought grimly. Oh well. At least Quatre did teach her one thing useful. That guard wasn't gonna be comfortable for quite some time. She curled into a little ball in the corner shadows. Thoughts were swimming in her head. She was caught. It was that simple. Trowa wouldn't surrender, not right now. But if they used her against him... A tear made it's way down her cheek. "Please don't give up. I'll be okay," she whispered to the dark. :Take care of them, please, God, don't let them get hurt. Please watch over Trowa for me. Please,: she prayed.
-A Week Later-
Trowa was on the video phone. He was better, more or less, and was gathering together the remainder of OZ's forces. Lady Une was putting together everything from space and bringing it all down. The space suits, Scorpio, weren't going to be too useful, but it was better than nothing. Lady Une's Unisys suit would be of great help.
"They got Baron Young..." Trowa muttered. "Wonderful. Well, the rest of you, you know the Sea Breeze's coordinates. Bring all suit carriers here, and then we will head on towards the Yangtzee River base.
-The Next Day-
Duo gave Hilde a long hug, and kissed her on the ear. "Duo, please, please, please be careful," she told him.
He smirked. "Shinigami can handle any situation. Don't worry." He kissed her again, this time on the lips, and she held onto him for as long as possible. "You be carefully piloting in Aphrodite. Can't let anything happen to you or it."
"I will, I will, this mission is simply hide and not be secede. I can handle it." Aphrodite was the upgraded version of Goddess, you see. As soon as they got Ashley in it, they would need her help to finish off all the rest of Marie's forces.
Quatre and Dorothy were walking, hand in hand, towards their suits, which had conveniently been parked together, the repaired and upgraded Bulletproof, now known as Gunpowder. Of course. As they approached Sandrock II and Epyon II, Quatre took her other hand in his, turning her to face him. "Ready?" he asked her.
"You bet," Dorothy replied, grinning. She had proved herself to be quite the pilot.
"Be careful, all right?"
Dorothy lowered her grin to a small smile. "I will. You be careful as well."
"I will."
Quatre hugged her in a tight embrace, swaying gently to soundless music. "I'll see you at the end, Dorothy. Aishiteru," he whispered into her ear.
"Aishiteru, Quatre. See you then," she replied softly.
Relena stood at the bottom of Angel, looking up at Heero. "Heero!!" she shouted. He turned at looked back down at her. "Heero, be careful!" she called.
Heero jumped down, landing with the grace of a cat right in front of Relena. She didn't move, being used to Heero's stunts. He took her hand and kissed her gently on the lips. "Don't worry, my Angel."
Relena smiled softly, reached up to touch Heero's cheek. "I'm only so much of an angel because I have one watching over me. Come back to me, Heero. I know very well how much you love the words 'self-destruct'."
He ran his hand through her hair, such a gentle touch. "I will. I promise."
Wufei walked up to Nataku, Sally behind him. As he began to rise himself into it, Sally put a hand on his shoulder. "Wufei." He looked at her.
"What?"
She smiled softly. "I love you, you bastard."
Wufei allowed himself a smile. "I love you, too, woman. But don't go telling everyone," he said softly, just loud enough for Sally to hear.
Wufei smiled as he sat in Nataku's cockpit. "My Nataku, rest in peace. I have found someone to fight for."
Zechs brushed some of Noin's hair out of her face so her could get a good lasting view of it. "Okay then." He turned and climbed into Titan.
Noin stood confused, but soon followed suit, climbing into her Vayeate. She turned the comlink on. "Zechs?"
"Yeah?" he replied, as he adjusted his helmet.
"What were you doing out there?"
He smiled. "Putting your face on my memory. If I fight thinking about it, I'm sure to win."
Noin looked skeptic. "Why?"
"Well, with a face such as yours, looking at it, I'll fight by what I see, and I see beauty," he replied grinning.
"Oh, Zechs..." Noin replied, smiling.
"Well, actually, looking at it makes me so frustrated..."
She fumed. "Ugh! You are so bad."
And so they took off, joining the OZ carriers, and headed for the Yangtzee Base.
The battle began. Lady Une was right. There were tons of suits there. "This must be why they haven't attacked since that day!" Duo said. "They've been storing and getting ready!"
"Yeah, this is insane," Heero agreed.
Trowa hid Gunpowder, hiding in the trees, wearing a black trench coat with machine guns, pistols, all sorts of guns ready and handy. His mission was to sneak in and get Ashley. He had a small set of explosives to blow the door open if need be.
The perimeter of Marie's fortress was well protected. Trowa sneaked up, quiet and silent, then shot the guard quickly with a pistol that had a silencer on it. Above the guard was a window, that if he could just...
Trowa jumped, and, of course, made it. He kicked the window in during his landing. He was in a briefing room. Empty. Good. He walked into the hallway, his hands on two machine guns, ready to pull them out and start shooting.
He rounded a corned, pulled the pistol and shot the one guard walking down. He got into the elevator, and, remembering the map of the fortress than Lady Une had supplied, pressed the button for the cellar, where the cells were.
Where Ashley was.
He waited, pulling out the huge guns, ready for everything. He knew it would be heavily guarded down here.
The elevator beeped. Ground level.
Basement.
Cellar.
The doors opened, Trowa jumped out.
Sure enough, there were guards. But they had a leader.
The leader saluted Trowa. "You Excellency. I have always served you before, and now will be no different. How can we help?"
Trowa smiled. "Well. Looks like I have earned my respect, Baron Young." Trowa got very serious. "Do you have any suits to use?"
The Baron nodded.
"Good. I need your help."
Outside, the battle raged. Quatre was being attacked from all sides. He couldn't get them fast enough. Dorothy took notice, and swerved her heat rod in his direction, slicing through a number of suits. Duo had his bladed-wings out stretched and was low to the ground with his scythe out, spinning and slicing everything that got in his way. Heero was using his beam saber to slice through a number of suits, as well ans his beam cannon to shoot away a whole line, for it only to be replaced by more. Zechs and Noin were back to back, Zechs firing his Mega Cannon using the heat rod, while Noin used the Vayeate's beam cannon. Lady Une was doing the same things as Heero, using the heat cannon to blast out many different suits who didn't even see it coming. Wufei's suit was the only one useful in the water, so he was taking care of the Scorpio suits there. Sally, in the Mercurius, was using it's new stronger crash shield to ward off enemies while attacking through it with a beam saber. Soon, Wufei jumped out of the water and began to help. The OZ forces were trying hard, but still weren't having too easy a time because of the shear number.
Suddenly, from out of nowhere, a huge fleet of new suits that resembled the Gemini came out of no where. A young man appeared over every Gundam pilot's cockpit screen. "My name is Baron Matt Young, leader of OZ's Red Fleet. We are hear with back up, the Gemini II."
Suddenly the pilots chances weren't so slim.
//....//
Trowa looked through the bars of each cell, looking, looking, looking, not calling or anything to avoid sound. Looking, looking, looking...
There.
In the corner, curled far against the wall, was the small figure of what Trowa hoped was a woman. "Ashley?" he called softly.
The figure's head shot up and looked towards the cell's bars. Her eyes grew wide and she ran over. "Trowa! Oh my God! Trowa, Trowa, Trowa," she repeated his name over and over again, crying, reaching her hands through the bars to touch his face.
Trowa reached through and took her face in his hands. A tear rolled down his cheek. "It's you." He traced along her lips, her jawline, touched her soft hair and her soft cheek. Then he remembered what still had to be done. "Back away, I'm gonna blow the door opened."
She complied, still crying.
Trowa had just blown the door open when it flew open and Ashley threw herself to him, wrapping her arms around him and kissing him like there was no tomorrow. He kissed right back, running his hands along her back, holding her so close to him, never wanting to let her go ever again.
"Isn't this sweet?"
They broke apart.
Standing across from them was the face of a devil. A young, maybe seventeen years old?, African-American girl was standing there. Her hair was long and she had some hanging over her shoulders. She was wearing the khaki pants, white button down shirt, and the black tie with the maroon emblem of the Scarlet Order on it.
Duchess Marie Acht. Daughter of Inspector Acht.
She smiled at the couple's scowls.
"You see, I could not ignore the fact that the window to briefing room number six had been broken into. I'm not as stupid as some people think me to be." She smiled. "Right now, I would like to settle this while the battle continues outside. If you beat me, you win. Of course, I doubt my followers will take it lightly, but just kill them. I'm sure you all can handle it just like your comrades are."
"What kind of challenge do you want?" Trowa barked, annoyed with her.
"Follow me, Mr. Barton. I assume you know how to fence?"
Trowa took the fencing sword in hand and took the stance of crossing swords. Ashley was sitting in a big plush chair in the corner as Trowa had directed her to. She was too weak from hunger to really do any good. He promised her he would win, and the first thing he would do would be to take her out to eat.
"All right, Mr. Barton. I assume you know who I am?" Marie lowered her mask.
"I do," Trowa replied, doing the same.
"Fine then. And then, let us begin and let me avenge what you did to my father!!"
And as outside, the forces of the Gundams and OZ were slowly being beaten out of it, the deciding match between Duke Trowa Barton of OZ and Duchess Marie Acht of the Scarlet Order began.
"Damn it! There are too many of them!" Duo cursed. "I hope they don't find Hilde..."
"Maxwell! Focus!" Wufei barked, seeing his comrade lose his concentration.
"They just keep coming," Noin muttered as she blew a hole in their forces, only for it to be quickly filled back up.
Heero was concentrating very hard on his duty, trying to demolish as much of Marie's forces as possible.
"This is just incredible! I had no idea there were this many!" Quatre exclaimed as he sliced up a few suits with his heat shorters.
"There are an amazing amount, that's for sure," Dorothy agreed, using her heat rod and speed to get as many suits as possible.
Wufei and Sally were not back to back, using the crash shield to protect them both as Wufei used his dragon fangs and Sally used the vulcan gun that Lady Une had installed on the suit.
Ashley sat helpless as Marie and Trowa began their duel to decide the victor of the war. The whole time, they talked back and forth.
"All you promote is a peace you won unjustly!! If you had played fair, my father would have still been alive and then the world would be at true peace!"
"Peace?! True peace would never have been achieved if they had remained in control! If it weren't for Relena Peacecraft, they would never have became unified in the first place!"
"But that doesn't change the fact that you murdered my father!"
"I did what was correct!"
"Correct?!" Marie stopped and stood where she was. "You call unjust murder correct?!"
"What do you know about what's just and unjust, Marie?" Trowa lunged at her, she dodged and the duel continued.
Hilde lowered to suit down into the trees, then got out to net it. She had to hide it well so that when Ashley got back out, she could get out and lead her to it. But, until she got notice, she climbed back into the cockpit and connected her monitors to Duo's so that she could see what was going on. She wasn't going to bother him, it was the last thing he needed for the time being. That much was obvious. They were seriously outnumbered and in need of Trowa and Ashley big time! :What in the world could be taking them so long?: Hilde thought to herself.
"My father only tried to do what he believed was just! Justice is the only thing that is right! There is no other way around it! And what you did was not right!"
"I have a friend. And my friend fights for justice. He fights for what he believes is right! There is no black or white when it comes to justice! No wrong, no right! Only what you think is right! Me, along with the rest of the world, think that your father was WRONG!" With that last powerful word, Trowa lunged at Marie, flinging her fencing sword of her hand and sending it flying. His pulled his arm back and shot ahead, stabbing Marie through the chest with the sharp point(all they had on as far as the protection went was the helmet). He pulled out the sword, dropped it, threw off his helmet, and stood straight. "The world, Marie, thinks your father was wrong. They also think you were wrong. And now that has been proven."
Marie smiled at him weakly, struggling to stand. "You think so? All right. You win. But that doesn't change how I feel." She collapsed with that.
Ashley ran to him. "Now what?" she asked.
"Follow me." He offered her a smile. "We rebuilt Goddess."
"Oh my God, this is it," Duo muttered as he was hit from behind by a blast from a Pegasus's beam cannon. He spun and sliced, hoping beyond hope for something to happen.
"Don't give up, not yet. We have to win this," Heero offered words of comfort, thinking about his promise to Relena.
"Win? Win this? How?? Obviously Trowa's dead, where else would he be? Having tea with Marie?"
"Oh, quite the opposite. Marie's dead. Now we just have to finish off her legacy."
"Trowa?" Quatre asked, his hopes returning.
"Damn right! The calvary has arrived!" Duo hooted.
"Calvary? Are you all right?" Ashley flew in over head, landing behind him. Trowa's Gundam cleared itself a walkway by firing it's beam gatlings the whole time it walked. "Come on, guys! No use in stopping now. We won. We just have to finish it."
"Right!" Dorothy said enthusiastically, quite ready for this to end.
And so, using their famous methods, the pilots continued to fight, against all hope, to defeat the last of Marie's forces...
Tiki torches and Chinese lanterns lit the deck of Sea Breeze. Music wafted in the background. Wufei, Sally, Zechs, Noin, and Lady Une were sitting around a table, engaging in talking and a game of cards. Heero, Relena, Duo, Hilde, Quatre, and Dorothy were sitting on the ground, following along with Duo's idea to play Spin the Bottle. Of course, for some reason, the bottle like Relena and Duo ended up with a black eye, but that is besides the point. Trowa and Ashley... they disappeared inside, no one really cared to disturb them. Well, Duo wanted to do that instead of playing Spin the Bottle, but Quatre threatened him(in which Dorothy backed him up). Figuring it was more trouble than worth, Duo settled for a blakc eye in a game of Spin the Bottle.
"Please go to Hilde, please go to Hilde, please... OH MY GOD! HEERO?!? NO WAY!! AH!!! Lemme spin again, lemme spin again! Okay... Please be Hilde, please be Hilde... HILDE!!! YAH!!!" Duo grabbed her and kissed her, she happily complied by laying over into his lap(the bottle they were playing with didn't start empty.
"Quatre, your turn," Heero said.
"Okay..." Quatre spun the bottle, watching it as it came to a stop on... Dorothy. Quatre turned bright pink.
"Go on! Hurry up so Relena can go," Duo said, in which Heero shot him a look.
Quatre turned a little more pink, but leaned in and kissed her, Dorothy taking matters into her own hands and deepening the kiss. They pulled apart and Dorothy now had a little blush of her own.
"YEAH!! That is what I'm talking about!! Okay, go Relena."
Quatre leaned over next to Dorothy and whispered. "Did you acctually have to.. out.. you know?"
"Yeah," she whispered back softly, close to his ear, leaving with a little nip at it.
"Oh my God... High king." Noin laughed at her awful hand.
"Pair," Wufei said.
"Three of a kind," Sally continued.
"High jack," Zechs said with a chuckle. "Sorry Noin."
"Grr..."
"Straight! I win!" Lady Une declared.
"She has incredible luck. I know."
"Okay, now, you have to do what I tell you to do. Kiss the person next to you."
So Sally kissed Zechs, Zechs kissed Noin, Noin giggled and kissed Une, Une laughed at Wufei's expense and kissed the scowling man, Wufei got a horrified look on his face and stared at Sally. "In brad daylight?!" he exclaimed.
"In broad...night light," Une confirmed.
"Uh..." Wufei leaned over and reluctantly kissed his wife in front of people, in which Sally grabbed him and held him in the kiss while the rest of the table burst out laughing.
Wufei struggled free. "THAT WAS NOT FUNNY!!"
"Yes...it...was!!" Noin gasped.
Heero stared at Quatre. "I think I'll spin again." Heero stared at Hilde. Duo stared at Heero. Hilde stared at the both of them.
"YAAAAAAAAAH!" Duo lunged at Heero. "DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT!"
"I WASN'T!" Heero tried to get out from under Duo. "GET OFF ME!"
"Duo, get up off him, I wasn't gonna let him kiss me anyway. No offense, Heero."
"None taken."
Duo sat up and straightened his shirt. "Sorry 'bout that, man."
"No problem."
"Okay. Relena, your go?"
"Yeah."
"Okay then."
Trowa kissed the top of Ashley's head. She looked up at him, smiled, and rested her head back on his chest. He stroked her hair. "Ash-chan?"
"Hum, Ti-Bi?" she replied, tired.
"Aishiteru."
"Aw, my Ti-Bi. Aishiteru as well. But right now, I'm tired."
"I am too," Trowa agreed, kissing her again.
Ashley traced an invisible pattern along his chest with her index finger. Trowa lifted her chin to look up at him. "Hum?" she asked.
"Can I tell you something?"
"Of course."
"Promise you won't think it corny, or stupid, and laugh?"
"I promise."
"Okay." Trowa breathed in. "You are a goddess. Did you know that?"
"What do you mean?"
"I mean that you are a goddess. Only a goddess can be beautiful, talented, smart, and everyhting else wonderful and sacred." Ashley looked at him. He kissed her nose and brushed some of her hair from her face. "If you are going to go to sleep, just wait a minute. Right now you are more beautiful than ever, and I never want to forget what it looks like to see a goddess."
Ashley's face flushed. "Trowa, that...That wasn't even close to corny. That was the most beautiful thing anyone's ever told me."
Trowa smiled. "You're welcome."
Ashley rested her head back down and kissed his chest. "Goodnight, Trowa."
"HEERO!!! I SWEAR I AM NOT GOING TO KISS HER!!"
"You want me to WHAT?!"
"Goodnight, Ashley, my goddess."
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