Hmmmm so close to the end with so many unresolved issues. Hahaha Gundam pilots are all screwed up and Relena's acting like a whore. Could I make this any more off the story line? I don't know let's find out shall we. I don't own anyone but Chris, Danielle, Wolf and assorted people you never heard of in the original series.
" You all know your mission I'm sure." Wolf's voice snapped through the cold morning air. " We are to take over the Veiniche military base steal all weapons possible and then destroy it and the miserable colony."
Relena's eyes widened in shock. Wolf had said nothing of destroying an entire colony. He was the leader though and she must follow his orders to bring justice and peace for all.
" As all of you know turning back is no longer an option." The night before in bed he had told her he'd let her stay behind if she liked but she had declined the offer. " Now go out there and show them who we are." A cheer went around the mass of men and women and Relena noticed her brother was the only one who didn't appear to be cheering. Why couldn't he believe in what Wolf was trying to do as well? This was for the good of everyone. If Wolf hadn't had her kidnapped she would still be sitting at meetings with Quatre and many other powerful people doing nothing. She liked the way she had changed. For once she was doing something for herself, breaking away from what everyone expected her to. For once she really was fighting for something. For once also someone loved her. She and her brother were close now and she didn't feel quite so alone besides that she had Wolf there to protect her and he did love her. Relena got a bitter taste in her mouth as she once again imagined Heero killing himself. Sometimes she imagined it with a knife or a gun or even self destructing himself and gundam together. He really had cared and she had doubted him. There was nothing she could do now though and crying just made her weak. One thing she had promised herself was that she would never be weak again if she could help it.
Now here she was running to her gundam while Danielle ran to the artilery carrier on her left with about fifty others. Everyone in the mobile suit squad was getting into their mechas except for herself and Zechs. Where could he be at a time like this?! Then she glanced over and saw him passionately kiss Chris. What was going on here? Relena worriedly looked around for Wolf and saw him standing where he had been, talking with one of the commanders. If he noticed what was going on he didn't show it.
" Whoohoo! If this mission succeeds someone's gettin' some tonight!" yelled a member of Relena's unit. Zechs and Chris simply ignored him and went on kissing. Relena couldn't help feeling glad that the artilory craft had already left. Danielle had a temper along with this obsession with Zechs. Now a days she looked ravenously at Zechs as a hungry dog does a piece of meat. Relena could not get over the change in her friend and was somewhat glad that Zechs didn't encourage her in this. Everyone around her was whooping and cheering at the couple standing over there. Wolf turned his head in the direction of the cheering and started turning it mildly back and then his head snapped back and he gazed in shock then fury at her brother and best friend. Relena saw Wolf's hand going for his gun and immediately ran over to her brother pretending to be the eager little sister and pulled Zechs over to their group. She would have to talk to Wolf later. His temper had gotten a lot worse since the incident at the cave. She suspected something had gone on between him and Chris why else would he act so jealously. None the less it sort of pissed her off to see him getting angry about Chris and Zechs when he had a perfectly able lover right there in front of him. Besides she was older than Chris and more mature. She knew this last was probably not true considering she had never known Chris to act the way she was at the moment. Now was not the time to be worrying about this though. What mattered was getting their mission done. Wolf started stalking over to Chris who pretended she didn't see him and ran full speed to her aircraft where the other snipers stood cheering her on. Relena glanced at her brother standing beside her and saw the smile that lit his face. At the moment she couldn't help being pissed off at him and with as much force as she could muster smacked him across the face.
" What the hel-" Zechs started before she had smacked him again. She reached back to smack him again but he grabbed her wrist and twisted it behind her back so that she cried out in pain.
" You mind telling me what the hell you're peeved about before smacking me?" hissed Zechs in her ear and tightening his hold.
" You asshole." she said through clenched teeth.
" What the hell?" Zechs sounded shocked at what she was saying.
Click
Suddenly Relena was face down on the ground with Zechs on top of her still holding that irritating grip on her arm. She had just heard a loud bang and didn't want to think of who had just shot that gun.
"Stay down." the feel of his breath in her ear tickled and despite her anger she nearly giggled. No she couldn't laugh not after all that he was doing.
" Fuck you!" she said angrily only to be rewarded with terrible pain running up her arm and shoulder blade.
" If I could I'd spank you right here in front of everyone just like father would have now watch your mouth.
" You're not my father!"
" No, no I'm not but I am your older brother and whether or not you're being totally bitchy at the moment I do love you and am not gonna let you get killed just because you're pissed off at me. Now watch your mouth as well because there are a bunch of people here who wouldn't mind seeing you act out that bit about fucking me." At that moment Relena hated him so much but she also hated herself for the way she was acting. Smacking her brother there in front of their squadron was bad enough but the way she had to be subdued was humiliating. She didn't want to think of these people's....what did she mean these they were her people weren't they? Still she was only prolonging what had to be done. Reluctantly Relena relaxed and felt Zechs' gripdo the same.
" Put down the gun Wolf," came her brother's husky voice.
" Let Relena go you sick bastard!" Even when angry Wolf's voice sounded so young.
" I'm not the one screwing her silly all over this base" came the clear, cold reply. If her hands had been free Relena would have punched Zechs a million times over for saying that. But wasn't it sort of true?
" No, you go for younger girls don't you?" came the smug retort. Wolf felt he had won and personally so did Relena.
" If not for my sister's remaining dignity and the dignity of someone else I would tell stories that would disgust even this randy bunch of pervs." Zechs was starting to stand up and as he did he pulled Relena with him. Wolf's face looked very white despite his obvious attempt to hide it. There was dead silence all around them and Relena noticed that her squadron was all that was left on the base. Slowly Wolf dropped the gun and his face looked infuriated. As Wolf started to turn Zechs began talking again. " Oh, and Wolf?" Wolf merely shifted his head in Zechs' area. " If you ever touch my sister or someone else we both know I swear that your dirty little secret will reach everyone before sundown on that day." Wolf merely kept walking but Relena could tell by the way that he walked that he was disturbed. What had he been hiding from her? Relena felt hurt about all of this.
" Now as for you," Zechs shifted his attention to her " Can we talk for a little without you making another feeble attempt at rearranging my face?"
" Your face is all you care about."
" Whoa, that one came out of no where. What's wrong with wanting my nose in the middle of my face rather than to the side?"
" Let me go!"
" Only when you start acting your age and quit trying to get your hands on me. My god and you're my sister too!" Zechs was trying to joke with her but it only made her more mad. " I'll let you go but if you try swinging at me again I promise you that the reprimanding I dish out will be far worse than before. Don't give me any of that feminist crap either. I'm bigger, stronger, faster, sexier if I do say so myself " the laughter was back in his voice " in other words whether or not your the female counter part of Rambo you are still not as strong as me and no you will not kick my ass." the laughter had disappeared so quickly that Relena could hardly remember it being there."
" I...I'll be good." said Relena grudgingly.
" That's a girl." and with that she was free and clutching her arm. " You lot go on ahead we'll catch up with you in a moment." he yelled at the squadron and then they were off leaving her alone with her brother. " Now what have I done to make you so...well to be honest bitchy?"
" You should know." the coldness was returning to her voice.
" Is this about Chris?"
" Oooh wow blondes can figure stuff out."
" You said you'd be good and besides you're pretty close to blonde yourself."
" I'm not a frickin albino at least!"
" No but you don't have half the base drooling over your hot ass either."
" There you go again! It's all a game to you isn't it?!!"
" Game?"
" You and your stupid teasing the whole base and Danielle and...."
" Teasing? I only have to stand there and Danielle starts raping me with her eyes."
" Not just her everyone loves you so much. I thought you at least had the decency to ignore it. You're taken! What about Noin?!!" Zechs' face got very sad and he seemed to gain years in that one moment.
" What about Noin? Have you forgotten that easily? She's married and in love with someone else. She gave up on me that easily. I wouldn't have even been cold in my grave yet at the time she got married." bitterness filled his voice and Relena felt like a fool. How could she have forgotten? Zechs didn't know the truth about Noin if he did he wouldn't have done this.
" Still Chris is younger than me! How can you take advantage of her feelings like this I...I thought you had some decency!"
" And I thought you had the decency to be true to that damn Yuy or at least wait a little while before going out with that faggot. I mean god the stupid son of a bitch isn't dead a month and you're screwing the guy he probably hated most before he died!"
" But...but Chris her feelings-"
" Mean nothing to you or if they do you have a strange way of showing it. My God Relena you knew she loved the guy but it didn't stop you from jumping under the covers with Wolf. Oh wait a cave floor doesn't have covers does it? Now here you are stuck as a whore to that asshole because you couldn't stand to live without that stupid bastard Heero!"
" Don't call him that!"
" Which one?" This question caught her off guard. Which one did she mean? Tears were starting to form in her eyes and she brushed them away. " Look Relena," his voice was gentle now " I know you loved and hopefully still do love Heero. I can't believe I just said that. I still love Noin a lot even if she got married less than five minutes after hearing I was dead. The thing is Chris needs me and I realize that I need her as well. I'm not taking advantage of her nor could I but after a while you have to move on."
" Why won't you let me do the same with Wolf?"
" I know I've been a jackass about him but please just remember this. A guy considered life worthless without you in it. Before you go with someone else make sure he at least adds up to half of Yuy."
" What about Noin and Chris?" Zechs sighed a moment.
" Noin didn't give her life for me, I'm glad she didn't but I'm also glad to have Chris and I promise you that I will protect her at all costs." His voice and eyes were so solemn like Heero's had been and Relena couldn't help feeling jealous of Chris and Noin because Wolf was never like that. All the gundam pilots seemed to have that look about them though in different ways. Quatre was all kindness and sincerity. Trowa nothing but solemnity but looking at his eyes you could sometimes catch a glimpse of the person he really was. Wufei was...well how could you describe him? Whether or not she liked his views he was always bound to honor and would sacrifice his life for it. Duo was a complete idiot but like all the others would become serious when he needed to. Zechs was just like Heero, though these past months had made him open up and seem really cool. Relena wondered if maybe Heero was the same way. She didn't care what others said, Heero had to have some humanity in him. Why couldn't she simply forget about him? Why?
Zechs seemed to know how messed up she felt because he came over to her and hugged her. Actually it was the first hug she could remember getting from her brother." I just want you to know that whatever happens I will protect you too. You're my sister and although I haven't agreed with all your choices so far I'm still proud of the way you've turned out. " Relena couldn't believe what she was hearing. Zechs was kind to her of course but he had never been brotherly like this. " Just remember we're siblings and I...I love you so take care of yourself all right?" He loved her. Since her father's death no one had told her that and it sort of felt weird but good to her.
" I love you too and I will be careful but you better be careful too ok?"
" Deal." Zechs said.
" You know for an asshole you make a pretty good brother." with that she gave him a nice large smooch on the cheek.
" Aaah gross and I can't take a shower now either. I know you love me...hell everyone does but please keep it to yourself." he said this in mock disgust while wiping his cheek." Anyway," he said pulling out of the hug " let's go loot and plunder now shall we?"
" Sure." said Relena and started walking to the Maiden with Zechs beside her. Zechs turned to get to Epyon....after planting a nice slightly painful smack on her ass. Relena was so surprised she could only stand there staring at him.
" Go get 'em Tiger." she heard him yell over his shoulder before the hatch was down and he was starting up his gundam. Relena made a mental note to kick his ass later and then climbed into her mobile suit.
~
The base was hardly protected and the rebel infantry and artilary had made short work of whatever soldiers had been guarding the base. Relena's squad was already fighting with the enemy's mobile suits.
" Ok, Relena go for the Taurus over there while I take the one coming at Brett's back." Zechs voice crackled in her ear piece.
" I'm on it." and with that the Maiden was running hard for the Taurus and with a few quick swipes she had destroyed it with the large gundamian daggers that served as her weapons. Relena didn't have much time to feel triumphant before another mobile suit was charging her and she had to block then slice and jump back as it exploded. Looking down from up where she was Relena could just barely pick out some of the snipers shooting down soldiers as they attacked. She had to be sure not to go to the other side of the base unless she wanted to be hit by one of the explosives artilary were throwing at that side.
Clash
Zechs cut through a mobile suit that had been coming at her from behind.
" What are you doing?!! Fight them don't just stand there!"
" Sorry." said Relena hastily and then cut down yet another mobile suit. It wouldn't be long now already they had gone through more than half the mobile suits the enemy wouldn't hold up much longer.
" Keep going at them men!" that was a different voice. Relena glanced and saw Wolf's mobile suit taking down a libra. Not much longer. Suddenly Chad's mobile suit blew up in a blaze of light and then Brett's.
" It's a gundam!" she heard one of the men yelled before he screamed and then there was nothing but silence. Relena looked up in time to see Nataku's staff take the leg off a mobile suit close by her. It was Wufei it had to be but how- Just then Sandrock and Heavy arms landed on top of gundams on either side of her. They were surrounding her she realized just as Death Scythe came plummeting down with the scythe swinging back, getting ready to cut her in half. There was a crash as Epyon slammed her out of the way bashing her into Sandrock. Relena only had time to see Duo swinging that scythe at Zechs before she was having to protect herself against Quatre's own attacks.
" Please don't make me kill such a fine soldier." Quatre pleaded with her.
" You never were one for action were you?" said Relena as she remembered all those stupid conferences where he had had nothing productive to say.
" Excuse me? How do you- No Trowa I'll handle this on my own go after that one that's escaping."
" Personally I never understood why Dorothy liked you so much when you never had the balls to fight." Relena continued bitterly as Quatre blocked her thrust.
" What? How do you know who Dorothy is?"
" Don't recognize me do you?"
" Frankly no."
" You'll be lucky if you find out." said Relena with little to no compassion in her voice as she brought the dagger down and buried it in Sandrock's chest.
" Noooo!!!" she heard him yell just before he jumped out and landed hard on the ground. Before he could run away Relena had picked him up and they were flying carefully to the sniper area. The snipers were out in the open now that they had finished off the commanders and medics in the base's infantry. Relena saw Danielle standing next to Chris there as she landed. Turning on the microphone Relena began talking to them.
" Why aren't you in artillery? " she addressed Danielle.
" Gundams took down our cannons so we took all the ammo we had and headed to the sniper section.
" Damn it." Relena breathed to herself.
" Hey what the hell you fuckin traitor! I swear to god Merquise you will wish you were never born when the God of Death is at your door!"
" God of Death?" The contempt was easy to spot in Zechs voice " All I see is a little boy whose toy has been broken." gently he set down Duo next to Danielle who immediately had a gun to his head. " Don't kill him just make sure he doesn't get away." Zechs turned the gundam in the Maiden's direction as she set down Quatre next to Chris. " You took out Sandrock?" it was obvious that he was at least a little surprised.
" What's it look like? Let's try and just break the gundams. These pilots are worth more alive though none are worth what Yuy was."
" Don't be so cocky cuz we'll send you down to hell where he'll kick your ass for all eternity whoever you are!" yelled Duo and then recieved a smack in the back of the head from the butt of Danielle's gun. " f..uck y-you." was all that Duo could mumble before he went unconcious.
" I said that they were not to be-"
" Watch out!" screamed Chris and Zechs whirled around hacking off the guns on Heavy Arms. The next moment an arm had been slashed off and Wolf had thrust his spear through the head of Heavy Arms. Zechs grabbed the arm of Wolf's mobile suit giving Trowa just enough time to escape his gundam before being completely destroyed.
" Oh Trowa." said Quatre trying to help the green eyed boy stand.
Just then gunshots came from the trees behind the snipers and suddenly two of them were dead. The next moment Lucrezia Noin herself was running out of the trees dodging the shots being fired at her.
" Zechs!" she screamed.
" You're...you're..." Zechs stammered.
" Dead." Danielle finished for him and shot Noin through the chest.
" Lucrezia!!!" the scream was gut wrenching and in the next moment he had tumbled out of his gundam and running at full speed somehow managing not to be hit by bullets as he rushed to his Lucrezia.
~
" Oh Lucrezia." said Zechs as he cradled her in his arms.
" Zechs, I knew you were alive I never gave up." blood was starting to run out her mouth and she coughed up more.
" Then why did you get married?" Zechs said trying to fight back the tears starting to run down his cheeks.
" Married? No, Zechs you-" she coughed up more blood at that point " you're the only one I could be with. Never anyone else." The tears were running down his face at having doubted her all these months " Zechs?" he looked down at her, already her blue eyes were dilating. God this couldn't be happening.
" Yah Lucrezia?" he asked, taking her hand in his own.
" I love you." she said and then suddenly her body was heavy and limp in his arms.
" Lucrezia, no!" he said letting the tears flow freely and then pulled her closer and buried his face in her hair.
~
Relena was having trouble holding back the tears herself. She couldn't tell what they were saying but understood pretty quickly that Noin was dead. After a few moments Zechs got up and gently lay Noin down then started walking back to his gundam. No one shot at him, everyone just watched wondering what his next move would be. Danielle pretended to be mournful though the smirk on her face showed that she felt quite pleased with herself. After all she had gotten rid of the only competition she knew of for Zechs. This didn't really matter for the next moment Zechs pulled out his gun and shot her through the forehead and she was dead instantly. Without even glancing in the direction of the corpse Zechs kept on walking over to Epyon. When he was only 50 feet from it there was a great explosion and then another.
Suddenly Wolf was running on the ground with his mobile suit smoldering behind him and Epyon being destroyed by Nataku. Relena had to hurry before Wufei killed everyone. Feeling rather unchivalrous she planted a dagger in the back of Nataku's robotic neck cutting off most of it's circuitry. The next moment Nataku was crumpled on the ground while it's pilot was dragged over to his friends.
Relena drew out her dagger and turned swinging it when it caught in something. Before she could see anything her vid screen went black and nothing would function in her gundam. Everything was cut off she couldn't see anything except for a small red light. In a panic Relena started unstrapping herself from her gundam and banging on the hatch trying to make it budge before her gundam exploded. Her shoulders were bruised but she continued shoving against the door until it suddenly slipped away as she was charging and she went flying out into the air just as two huge explosions erupted.
" Relena! Relena wake up!" Relena woke up and saw Quatre's face.
" wha?" she said drowsily.
" Relena if you fall back asleep you could die keep your eyes open." but her eyelids were so heavy all she needed were a few minutes of sleep.
Slap
" Ahhhh" she cried out at the stinging feeling going through her cheek from where she'd just been hit.
" I'm sorry but you at least deserve that for breaking Sandrock." God would Quatre ever quit the kindness shit? Then Relena heard the sounds of a scuffle and turned her head to see her brother rush at Wolf who had a knife in his hand.
" Zechs no!!" she screamed at her brother as the knife planted near his collar bone. The knife had already been wrenched out and was coming up again. Zechs caught Wolf's wrist just in time.
" That is for lying to me and getting the woman I loved killed!" shouted Zechs as he punched Wolf in the stomach with his free hand. " That is for using my sister like a whore!" with a sickening crunch he broke Wolf's wrist and the knife dropped. " And this is for Chris." he said catching the knife and then ramming it into Wolf's heart. With that Wolf fell dead.
" Wolf! Oh my God no!!" screamed Relena.
" Don't do that."
" No! Wolf he can't be dead I need to help him!!" Relena frantically tried to run to Wolf's body but found that she couldn't.
" Let me go!"
" No." Relena looked up into those cold blue eyes and then started crying into Heero's green tank top.
" It's ok Relena." came that monotone voice she had missed so much.
" No," she snuffled, " You were dead. I-I..."
" You fell in love with him." Heero finished for her " I know and it's my fault that any of this has happened."
" Huh?" everyone said looking at him.
" I knew Wolf," Heero began " We never liked each other and almost a year ago I got a message saying that he would take what I loved most. I figured out what he meant pretty quickly but he had already taken you by the time I reached your hotel. After that I faked my death so that he wouldn't be on his guard and since then I've been tracking you down."
" Oh Heero." Relena couldn't stop crying she was relieved Heero was alive, sad about Wolf's death and above all pissed off at Zechs for what he had done.
"I have to go help the preventors, Trowa, Quatre, and Wufei clean up the rest of those people on that suicide mission of yours." with that he put her in Duo's arms and began walking away.
" Heero." he turned and looked at her. " Please. Spare as many as you can." she pleaded.
" I promise." said Heero and with that he and the three other pilots walked away. Suddenly she remembered what her asshole brother had done.
" You son of a bitch! You killed him!" she screamed at Zechs who was loading Noin's body onto a gerny.
" Wasn't that bitch your mamma too?" asked Duo in puzzlement. " Man you sure didn't like your mamma did you?" Relena gave him a feeble smack across the face and started kicking trying to get at Zechs. " Hey cowgirl easy." said Duo " I've already been knocked out once today and believe me I'm not in the mood for two times."
Zechs walked quietly passed them now that Noin's body was being brought to a mortuary. He bent down and gently lifted Chris into his arms and started walking away. " I'm sorry Relena" he said as he did this.
" I hate you!" she screamed through her tears as he walked off into the sunset.
So do I got you interested again? Or were you never interested and can't find anything else on this site (yah right) I've got an epilogue to write so you guys aren't completely left in the dark as to what happens. Whether or not I get reviews I'm gonna write this because to be truthful it was really fun for me.