Gundam Wing: Vengeance
Part III
By Shawn Gealow (wing_zero_pilot)
son_of_vegeta@hotmail.com
Hello again. This is the third chapter in the Gundam
Wing: Vengeance saga. This is my first ever fanfic, in anything,
but I think it's turned out pretty well so far. Sorry this one took so long!! I just got back to school and homework's been a real bee-yatch! Hopefully, at the end of this fic, I'll have
pictures attached to show you the Tallgeese IV and the Wing Gundam Vengeance
(unless Fanfiction.net doesn't let it go through, which would royally suck!).
In any event, this tells a little
about the Gundam pilots finalizing the reclamation of their long-lost suits,
and a battle between Heero and his nemesis, Two. Hopefully, I'll be able to come up with Two's 'true' name by the
time I finish the whole saga, but no ideas have come up yet. Be assured--I intend it to be very surprising!
So far, I have only had a grand
total of 5 reviews on my past two chapters, and two people had reviewed each of
my chapters (so only three people have reviewed any of my work!). Let one thing be known: I WANT YOU TO REVIEW MY WORK! I need to know what other GW and EW fans
think of my story. Unfortunately,
that's only been happening very rarely (though I probably should wait a little
longer than three days for the reviews to start pouring in). If I
get enough reviews, I'll go ahead and write a sequel or two (no pun intended)
once I'm done with this storyline.
I'm writing this chapter listening
to "Rhythm Emotion" from my CD-R disc, so it's guaranteed to have
more action than the past two chapters!
Anyhow, on with the story!
P.S.--Sorry if I offended anyone
with the response to the review I got. I'm kind of defensive when it comes to stuff I pour my heart and soul
into. I'm working on it, and will thus
see all criticism as purely constructive, and not offensive. Sorry!
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A.C. 189
Colony L1
Secret Gundam Pilot
Training Site
Finally
being able to get some rest, Doctor J slowly laid himself on the cot in his
personal quarters. It had been a long
day--made even longer from the loss of three of his trainees' lives.
"May
we never have another day like this one . . ." Doctor J whispered to
himself as he slowly detached the various cybernetic implants that could cause
serious harm if he did something as simple as slept with them still on. Never
have been one to stay still, even when unconcious! he thought to himself
with a gradual smile.
Within
fifteen minutes, he was sound asleep.
"Sir! We have a problem!" The shave-tailed lieutenant shouted as he
swung open the door to Doctor J's quarters.
Startled,
the good doctor flew out of bed, grabbing the gun that was hidden under the
table. Only after he had forcibly
stopped himself from shooting the twenty-year-old--That would serve him right!--did he realize what was going on.
"What
is the problem, other than the one everyone has about me getting a good night's
rest?!"
"Sir,
it's Two! He's stolen a mobile suit and
escaped!"
"Which
suit? It wasn't the Wing Gundam, was
it?" Bewildered, the doctor slowly
put the pistol back into its hiding place.
"No,
sir! It was one of the unarmed
prototypes used in the piloting drills."
"Good,
good . . ."
"Sir? How can this be a good thing?"
"Simple,
my dear boy. It makes choosing between
One and Two on who would pilot the Wing Gundam that much easier. As much as I hate to say it, but today has
made that choice much easier."
"Sir,
I know we were supposed to pick one candidate and allow him to pilot the suit,
but what would happen to the others?"
"I'm
going to be blunt with you, son." Somehow, the doctor's usual casualness and playfulness drained out of
him faster than lead-filled coolant. "We could not afford to
have an experienced soldier that we
rejected running around with such detailed information on the Gundam. Each of the candidates knew this, so I
believe that's why Two went and did what he did."
"I'm
sorry, sir. I didn't know."
"I
did, and I'm afraid that I would have never forgiven myself if I followed
through with those orders." That's why that gun has room enough for only
five shots: four for the kids, and one
for me.
"Sir,
what should we do about the escaped candidate?"
"Deploy
the mobile suits with stealth armoring." Thanks for leaving a little bit of
your research with me, Professor G! "Capture him and bring him back, if you can. If not, the use of deadly force is
authorized." Looking down at his
floor, Doctor J somehow looked even more grim. Perhaps only two shots will be
needed, after all . . .
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Space
A Small Distance Away
From L1
"You'll
never take me alive!" Two's
blood-chilling oath bellowed across the comm systems on as many frequencies as
his suit could do. "I know what
you have planned for me! You'll never
be able to do it!"
"You
must cease and desist your escape, now!" Doctor J responded. "I've changed my mind. You won't die, but only if you come back
with us now!"
Sweeping
back and forth, avoiding the so-called "warning shots", Two swore at
them. "You bastards think I'm
gonna go back with you? You're fools!"
"You
must believe me! I don't wish to have
you destroyed, but I will in order to prevent a pilot's endangerment on the
field! You must understand!"
"I
understand euthanasia! That's all I need to understand! And now I've got to fight for my life, because I was second-best! Well, never again! I'm going to take my rightful position at the top, by any means neccessary!"
Arching
his suit's flight back to the line of stealth-plated Leo suits in once-hot
pursuit behind him, he used his engine backwash to melt the "head" of
one of the pursuing suits. Grabbing its
beam rifle, he opened fire on his enemies.
One
suit after another blew to so much vapor and debris, proving to Doctor J that
he should have trained the other pilots better, and not just the Gundam pilot
candidates. No, I just trained Two too
well.
Turning
to the nearest officer behind him, Doctor J smiled.
"Get
me One. Now."
Because
the final modifications on the Wing Gundam weren't complete yet, One sighed as
he had to clamber up into the cockpit of one of the spare stealth Leos. He had always believed that the Earth Sphere
Alliance had taken too much power away from the Tallgeese's plans when they had
designed this suit. This weak, pathetic piece of shit for a
suit.
Mentally
going through the pre-flight checklist, he cut it short as he lifted off,
clearing out the hangar bay.
My suit may have the ability to sneak
around, but his is based on the Wing Gundam's body and engines. While it doesn't have any weapons, it will
be hard as hell to beat him.
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A.C. 204
Earth
"The
Graveyard"
My enemy! Where is he?!
Between
the madness and the Zero System, Two's conciousness screamed out for revenge,
for retribution.
For vengeance!
A
single day had gone by since he had wiped out the city that had once stood
where he was. Nobody had stood a
chance, though a few idiotic citizens thought it would be honorable if they did
as much as they could to prevent the Gundam he piloted from killing those they
held dearly. Many had simply driven
their vehicles straight into the suit's leg assemblies, though the gundanium
alloy didn't even allow a single scratch from those fools.
Unworthy opponents. Not even worth thinking to be true
enemies. I have only one enemy, one
equal. He calls himself Heero Yuy, but
I know him only as One.
Kicking
up dirt from nearby destroyed buildings, Two ignited his Vernier thrusters on
the wings he had transferred from the Epyon to his Wing Vengeance. With a mad scream of sheer lunacy, he headed
towards his next target.
You once took everything from me, One. Now it's my turn.
I just hope Newport City is as busy
as possible today.
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Preventers
Headquarters
Location: Classified
"What
do you mean, a Plan B?" Wufei was
certainly surprised at Une's use of words. Though his eyes gazed accusingly at her, she never flinched.
I wonder just how many OZ soldiers were met
with this kind of cold, unadulterated fury at injustice?
"What
I mean is, there isn't exactly 'no opposition' planned for this Two
character. I know for a fact that at
least four of the Gundams have been rebuilt, other than the Gundam this man is
piloting."
"I
know Heero Yuy's Wing Zero had been rebuilt, but whose are the other
three's?"
"Simple. Quatre's . . ." Motioning at a nearby video screen, she
pressed a few buttons on a remote control. The Gundam Sandrock appeared on the monitor. "Duo's . . ." Again, a press of a button, and the Deathscythe Hell appeared. "And yours."
"Nataku
. . . When do I get my Gundam
back?"
"As
soon as possible. We've already cleared
up the red tape, so it's yours whenever you want it."
"I
understand. Where is Sally?"
"I'm
surprised you held yourself for so long from asking that. The last time she checked in with her
superiors was around twenty hours ago. Four more hours and another report should come in. Wait until then, and we'll tell you her
location."
The
color drained back into Wufei's face. At least she's all right.
For now. If anything should happen to her, those responsible will find
that all the divine intervention in space won't help them in the least.
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Colony L3
Secret Launching Bay
Good thing I always kept the plans to this
suit, Trowa thought to himself as he double-checked the diagnostic display
panel. It had taken him a long time to
rebuild the Heavyarms suit that he had used at the end of the Mariemaia
Kushrenada incident. Luckily, though,
the ringleader had some favors owed to him, and even Duo Maxwell's friend,
Howard, had helped out. Now, four years after finishing it and
putting it into storage, it's being called back into action. Seems
like I'm always hiding or losing this suit.
"Trowa!" Catherine's voice cried out as Trowa was
about to close the hatch to his Gundam. "Trowa, wait!"
"What
is it, Cathy?" Trowa's innocent
voice betraying the years of combat he had seen.
"Trowa,
I want you to promise me something."
"What
is it?"
"Promise
me you'll come back. And don't try to self-detonate your suit
again! I won't be there to snap you out
of whatever mood you're in." If you have any moods, that is, her mind
added.
Trowa
looked at her for a long time. Then, as
though he were coming out of a hypnotic trance, he turned back to his diagnostic
panels.
"Please Trowa!"
"I
promise," he finally said as he started his suit up. Catherine jumped back as the Vernier engines
on the suit's back kicked up dust from all corners of the old hangar.
As
she walked back to the hangar doors, she looked back at the mobile suit that
was about to leave. What she saw
brought a smile to her face.
The
suit was in the pose that Trowa had always used whenever he left somewhere and
intended to return. The suit was still
facing away from her, but the torso was craned back, with the right arm in a
salute over the face that was looking at her.
With
tears in her eyes, she put her hands over her mouth. Then, she waved at the suit.
"Good
luck, Trowa. I know you won't need it,
but just know it's there for you if you do."
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Mars
Earth Sphere Unified
Nation Terraforming Site
"All
right, let's test out the primary engines," Noin said to the nearest
technician as she seated herself at her white Taurus suit's main controls.
"Understood,"
the female tech replied. Leaping off of
the suit's waist, she softly landed on the hangar's floor. Since Mars has less gravity than Earth, the
technicians were more free to "float about", making repairs in places
that Earth's gravity would have made difficult.
Keying
on her primary control circuit, Noin smiled to herself. The last time she had been at these
controls, she was fighting side-by-side with her future husband, Zechs
Marquise. After the Mariemaia incident
on Earth, the two had decided to personally oversee the Mars terraforming site
sponsored by the Earth Sphere Unified Nation. He had proposed to her at the ceremony in the terraforming headquarters,
in front of every single person that was participating in the smallest way with
the terraforming project. Eight years
later, she was told by her doctors that she was pregnant with twins--a son and
a daughter.
Still
smiling to herself, she pulled back on the controls, lifting her suit up off of
the deck. Seems to be working better than ever! I'm surprised they could rebuild it, after what I put it through during
the fight with those Serpent mobile suits! She frowned at that thought. I thought I would stand a chance in that
little Taurus. What I forgot was that
it wasn't made out of gundanium or neo-titanium!
Keying
her primary viewscreen to show Zechs' test run that was occuring as she
fine-tuned the engines on her suit, she smiled. He was busy blasting away at the targets for the tests of his
weapons and maneuvering systems. Each
of his targets was a scaled-down version of the Virgo and Taurus mobile dolls,
offering a harder target to hit while still retaining the mobile dolls'
reputation for being just a few levels below the capabilites of the best pilots
in known space. Including Zechs.
His
suit, the Tallgeese IV, seemed to be working without a hitch. The Tallgeese III he had piloted had taken
serious damage a few years ago in one of his Preventers missions. He had to abandon and self-detonate it. Since then, he had been working on a new
Tallgeese, one he had helped design himself. Like the Tallgeese III, it still retained the basic look of all the
Tallgeese models. Instead of a large
yellow headcrest of the last two models, this one brought back the red color,
though it was just as large as the Tallgeese III's. Instead of the blue color that Treize had selected for the
Tallgeese II's color scheme, Zechs had chosen a glossy grey color.
The
Tallgeese III had a large beam cannon, similar in most respects to the buster
rifles Heero Yuy had made use of. The
Tallgeese IV, however, had a gun more like the first two, only it had almost
the same destructive capability as the beam cannon.
Welded
onto its left forearm was a large, triangular shield similar to the Tallgeese
III's. Like its predecessor, an
improved heat whip was hidden in it, visible only when extended. The shield, like the rest of the suit, was
made out of gundanium alloy. After the
destruction of the Tallgeese III, Zechs didn't want anything less durable or
resistant.
The last thing I need is to abandon you on
the account of my own sense of invunerability, he had said to her when she
asked why he was going to such an extent over a single mobile suit. She had believed him, but she also thought
there was more to it than that.
He loves that suit so much it has taken up
much of his time, she thought, though not with a single pang of
jealousy. She understood how he
felt. She had felt that way about each
suit she piloted, beginning with the green Aries she had when she was with OZ.
Once
all the techs had left the hangar bay, she turned back to her controls, she
pressed a few buttons, opening the hangar doors. Pressing a few more buttons, she keyed on the comm system.
"Zechs,
once you're done playing around over there, we've got a shuttle to catch."
"Understood,"
came his reply. He knew as well as she
did what they were up against. Both of
them had seen what a Gundam was capable of, and neither one wanted to see the
results of a psychotic pilot at the helm of a suit with the ZERO system
installed. Pilots with their sanity
were hard enough to predict when they were under ZERO's influence, but the
whole situation was made even worse by the simple fact that this pilot had lost
his mind.
Please, by whatever gods may exist, let us
return home safely to be able to raise our family in peace.
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The Graveyard
"There
you are, Heero Yuy!" Two screamed at the radar screen in front of
him. "You've certainly taken your
dear, sweet time!"
"Listen
to me, Two. You must surrender. Otherwise, I'll have to destroy you,"
Heero said in his mix of flat and annoyed tones.
Ah, his time with that Relena Peacecraft
woman must have softened him up quite a bit. Otherwise, he'd have just opened fire on me!
"Surrender?! If I didn't know any better, I'd say that you were the insane one in this
situation!" Laughing as loudly as
he could, he targeted the approaching Wing Zero.
Hah! It's still in its Neo Bird Mode! His weapons systems are powered down whenever the suit's like that! What a fool!
It
wasn't but a split-second later that Two had to eat his words. As the suit approached the Wing Vengeance's
weapons' range, it changed into its familiar Combat Mode.
Aiming
the Wing Vengeance's improved buster rifle at Heero's suit, Two took extra
pleasure as he pressed the FIRE button. The blast lanced out, but the Wing Zero dodged it effortlessly.
Inserting
its own buster rifle into its shield, the Wing Zero took out one of its beam
sabres. Shooting ahead as the twin
hyper-Vernier engines on its back erupted in a blast of speed, the Wing Zero
lifted its beam sabre high, attempting a vertical cut that would split Two's
Vengeance down the middle, gundanium alloy or not.
Luckily
for him, his own hyper-Verniers that he had taken from the Epyon saved Two from
being cut in half. Taking out one of
his own beam sabres, he parried blow after blow effortlessly.
Gundam
against Gundam, the pair seemed an even match for one another. Cut after cut, slice after slice, block
after endless block, the suits appeared to be perfectly even in all fighting
categories. Until, that is, the Wing
Zero's right hand got cut off at the wrist, sending the hand and the beam sabre
spinning away. After the two parts
exploded, the Wing Vengeance slowly approached the Wing Zero, as though the
suit also were gloating that it had won.
"It's
over, One. You've lost." Laughing maniacally over the comm system,
Two's face was absolutely beaming with glee.
Grumbling
under his breath, Heero punched his hand onto the side of his cockpit. Then, four blips came on his radar
display. Actually smiling, Heero keyed
on the video transmission and said, "I think not."
"Oh,
and what makes you think you've won?"
"We
do." Duo's voice came over the
comm system in a triumphant tone.
"It's
over for you, Two," came Wufei's voice.
"It's
pointless to fight any further. We
outnumber you five to one," Quatre said in his typically diplomatic tone.
"Quatre's
right. Resistance is futile,"
Trowa's voice chimed in.
"So,
One, you have to hide behind your friends in order to stop me. What a coward you have become."
"Coward
or not, you've lost. Surrender and we
won't kill you outright for what you've done," Heero replied to Two's
taunt. Two responded with purely insane
laughter.
Stymied
at his eccentric behavior, each Gundam pilot had a confused look on their
faces.
"You
still think I'm going to surrender? Hah! You're even bigger fools
than I thought!" Still laughing,
Two hauled back on the lever to his right hand side. Switching the Wing Vengeance into its own version of the original
Bird Mode, the suit blasted away faster than even the Wing Zero could pull off.
"Where's
he going?" Quatre asked over the comm system.
"I
don't know, but we had better find out," Heero replied.
"Whatever
he has planned, it can't be anything good," Trowa said.
"Duo,
see if you can nail his suit with one of those tracking devices you showed me
earlier," Quatre said. One of the
few additional modifications to Duo's original Deathscythe Hell suit was a
barely-visible tracking-beacon launcher mounted on his buster shield.
"I
copy that, Quatre," Duo replied. Raising his suit's left arm, Duo launched his buster shield. Speeding along after the fleeing Wing
Vengeance, it suddenly arced back, remounting itself on the Deathscythe Hell's
left arm.
"Did
it make it?" Trowa asked.
"Yep. I'm getting the data now." Good
thing I had Howard install that thing. It fit the profile of this suit perfectly as a hit-and-run accessory! "You guys aren't going to believe
this."
"What
is it, Duo?" Heero asked in a very serious tone.
"He's
headed for the moon."
"Understood. I'm going to go back to Newport City for
repairs," Heero said in his no-nonsense tone of voice. "Quatre, you and the others come up
with a plan on how to best approach the Lunar Base. That's where he's most likely to have set up camp. It's highly likely that he has the base's
complement of Virgo mobile dolls up and running again."
"Understood. We'll rendezvous back at Newport at 0600
hours tomorrow," Quatre replied.
"Agreed. See you then."
Here's those pictures I promised you! The first is a picture of the Wing Gundam Vengeance in its Bird Mode. The second is W.V. in its mobile suit mode. The third is of the Tallgeese IV. Sorry for the quality of the pictures. My sister keeps putting her hands all over the scanner!

